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Seven Masterpieces of 1940s Cinema

Author : Inga Karetnikova
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Seven Masterpieces of 1940s Cinema written by Inga Karetnikova and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven Masterpieces of 1940s Cinema is the rare book about the cinema, which teaches you to love and understand films. - Agnieszka Holland, director and screenwriter, Oliver, Olivier Enormously important...outstanding. It expanded my horizons as a writer, scholar, and viewer of film. - Richard Walter, screenwriting Chairman, University of California, Los Angeles The most remarkable, tragic, and heroic decade of the twentieth century, the 1940s were defined by both the horrors of fighting World War II and the exhilaration and complexity of waging the subsequent peace. Filmmakers reacted to the tumult by creating films that reflected the disturbances of their time-enduring motion pictures that still serve as models of perfection for directors today. Seven Masterpieces of 1940s Cinema guides you through influential international movies that remain favorites to this day. Bringing together Bicycle Thieves, The Great Dictator, Notorious, It's a Wonderful Life, Rashmon, Ivan the Terrible, and Children of Paradise, Inga Karetnikova shows you how, in spite of their cultural and stylistic differences, these films have thematic and philosophical commonalities that complement one another and together re-create the spirit of their time. Each chapter of the book is dedicated to a specific film, describing how it was made, discussing its narrative scene by scene, tracing how the plot and the characters are developed, and revealing which cinematic devices are used and why. In addition the creative biography of each director and a cinematic history of each country are woven seamlessly into the text to help you understand the personal and cultural forces behind the movie. Whether you&rsqup;re a movie-house regular, a DVD hound, or just someone who likes to watch a good story, with a roster of films that combines foreign gems and well-known Hollywood classics, Seven Masterpieces of 1940s Cinema brings you closer to the vibrant, groundbreaking films of yesteryear that continue to resonate with directors and film watchers today.

This Thing of Darkness

Author : Joan Neuberger
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501732781
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book This Thing of Darkness written by Joan Neuberger and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Thing of Darkness, Joan Neuberger's engrossing production history of Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible, is a major contribution to the study of Eisenstein and thus informs the history and theory of cinema and the study of Soviet culture and politics. Neuberger's ability to mine, interpret, and connect Eisenstein's voluminous, intriguingly digressive writings makes this book exceptional.— Karla Oeler, Stanford University Sergei Eisenstein's unfinished masterpiece, Ivan the Terrible, was no ordinary movie. Commissioned by Joseph Stalin in 1941 to justify state terror in the sixteenth century and in the twentieth, the film's politics, style, and epic scope aroused controversy even before it was released. In This Thing of Darkness, Joan Neuberger offers a sweeping account of the conception, making, and reception of Ivan the Terrible that weaves together Eisenstein's expansive thinking and experimental practice with a groundbreaking new view of artistic production under Stalin. Drawing on Eisenstein's unpublished production notebooks, diaries, and manuscripts, Neuberger's riveting narrative chronicles Eisenstein's personal, creative, and political challenges and reveals the ways cinematic invention, artistic theory, political critique, and historical and psychological analysis went hand in hand in this famously complex film. Neuberger's bold arguments and daring insights into every aspect of Eisenstein's work during this period, together with her ability to lucidly connect his wide-ranging late theory with his work on Ivan, show the director exploiting the institutions of Soviet artistic production not only to expose the cruelties of Stalin and his circle but to challenge the fundamental principles of Soviet ideology itself. Ivan the Terrible, she argues, shows us one of the world's greatest filmmakers and one of the 20th century's greatest artists observing the world around him and experimenting with every element of film art to explore the psychology of political ambition, uncover the history of recurring cycles of violence and lay bare the tragedy of absolute power.

I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History

Author : Walter Mirisch
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299226433
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History written by Walter Mirisch and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2008-04-10 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a moving, star-filled account of one of Hollywood’s true golden ages as told by a man in the middle of it all. Walter Mirisch’s company has produced some of the most entertaining and enduring classics in film history, including West Side Story, Some Like It Hot, In the Heat of the Night, and The Magnificent Seven. His work has led to 87 Academy Award nominations and 28 Oscars. Richly illustrated with rare photographs from his personal collection, I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History reveals Mirisch’s own experience of Hollywood and tells the stories of the stars—emerging and established—who appeared in his films, including Natalie Wood, John Wayne, Peter Sellers, Sidney Poitier, Steve McQueen, Marilyn Monroe, and many others. With hard-won insight and gentle humor, Mirisch recounts how he witnessed the end of the studio system, the development of independent production, and the rise and fall of some of Hollywood’s most gifted (and notorious) cultural icons. A producer with a passion for creative excellence, he offers insights into his innovative filmmaking process, revealing a rare ingenuity for placating the demands of auteur directors, weak-kneed studio executives, and troubled screen sirens. From his early start as a movie theater usher to the presentation of such masterpieces as The Apartment, Fiddler on the Roof, and The Great Escape, Mirisch tells the inspiring life story of his climb to the highest echelon of the American film industry. This book assures Mirisch’s legacy—as Elmore Leonard puts it—as “one of the good guys.” Best Books for Special Interests, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Association

American Book Publishing Record

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Heritage Vintage Movie Posters Signature Auction #603

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Publisher : Heritage Capital Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781932899153
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book Heritage Vintage Movie Posters Signature Auction #603 written by and published by Heritage Capital Corporation. This book was released on with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

City of Nets

Author : Otto Friedrich
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520209497
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book City of Nets written by Otto Friedrich and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-05-02 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Hollywood in the 1940's

The Dark Galleries

Author : Steven Jacobs
Publisher : Aramer
ISBN 13 : 9789491775192
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Dark Galleries written by Steven Jacobs and published by Aramer. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... The Dark Galleries deals with American (and some British) films of the 1940s and 1950s, in which a painted portrait plays an important part in the plot or the mise-en-scène. Particularly noir crime thrillers, gothic melodramas, and ghost stories feature painted portraits that seem to hold magical power over their beholders. In addition to an extensive introductory essay, this museum guide presents about one hundred entries on the artistic and cinematic aspects of noir and gothic painted portraits."--Page 4 of cover.

Cinema '62

Author : Stephen Farber
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978808828
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book Cinema '62 written by Stephen Farber and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-13 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the common assumption that the early 1960s were a drab time for American film, this book makes the bold case that 1962 was a peak year for the movies, giving audiences a prime mix of adult, artistic, and uncompromising work from Hollywood veterans, hot young directors, and international auteurs.

Reality and Fantasy in American Independent Cinema

Author : Rick Zinman
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031702077
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (317 download)

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Download or read book Reality and Fantasy in American Independent Cinema written by Rick Zinman and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Film Encyclopedia 7th Edition

Author : Ephraim Katz
Publisher : Collins Reference
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1620 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Film Encyclopedia 7th Edition written by Ephraim Katz and published by Collins Reference. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 1620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ephraim Katz's The Film Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive single-volume encyclopedia on film and is considered the undisputed bible of the film industry. Completely revised and updated, this seventh edition features more than 7,500 A–Z entries on the artistic, technical, and commercial aspects of moviemaking, including: Directors, producers, actors, screenwriters, and cinematographers; Styles, genres, and schools of filmmaking; Motion picture studios and film centers; Film-related organizations and events; Industry jargon and technical terms; Inventions, inventors, and equipment; Plus comprehensive listings of academy award–winning films And artists, top-grossing films, and much more!

Fitzgerald and Hemingway on Film

Author : Candace Ursula Grissom
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786478314
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Fitzgerald and Hemingway on Film written by Candace Ursula Grissom and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to all major film adaptations based on the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, this is essential for scholars of American modernism and film studies. The author takes the approach that all visual and printed literature is born from a cycle of celebrity culture, in which authors continually create new works and reconstruct their personal images based on audience reception. The text includes two dozen reviews of individual films, from the silent era to present-day hits, such as Baz Luhrman's The Great Gatsby, as well as critical commentary from leading scholars of both modernist literature and film studies.

The Movie Stars Story

Author : Robyn Karney
Publisher : Crescent
ISBN 13 : 9780517437360
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book The Movie Stars Story written by Robyn Karney and published by Crescent. This book was released on 1984 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical profiles of five hundred of Hollywood's stars, from the 1920s to the 1980s, include career retrospectives and assessment of major film performances -- Provided by publisher.

Art Directors in Cinema

Author : Michael L. Stephens
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476611289
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Art Directors in Cinema written by Michael L. Stephens and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often forgotten among the actors, directors, producers and others associated with filmmaking, art directors are responsible for making movies visually appealing to audiences. As such they sometimes make the difference between a hit and a bomb. This biographical dictionary includes not only the world's great and almost-great artists, but the unjustly neglected film designers of the past and present. Among the more than 300 art directors and designers are pioneers from silent films, designers from Hollywood and Europe's Golden Ages, Asian figures, post-Golden Age personalities, leaders of the European and American New Waves, and many contemporary designers. Each entry consists of biographical information, an analysis of the director's career and important films, and an extensive filmography including mentions of Academy Award nominations and winners.

Mnemosyne and Mars

Author : Manuel Bragança
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443855863
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Mnemosyne and Mars written by Manuel Bragança and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume will be of interest to everyone seeking to understand the relationship between war as an historical narrative and its representation in the arts and in culture, notably in literature, film, theatre and music. More specifically, it will be of the greatest interest to undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers and academics in a wide range of disciplines, including literary studies, film and drama studies, music, and history. The Introduction, by Jay Winter, sets the context, particularly with reference to the First World War, while the Conclusion summarises the significance of the research undertaken and its value for future research. This book will also have an impact on writers, publishers and organizers of exhibitions, museums, memorial sites and monuments whose influence in the field of war and memory has been increasing steadily in recent years. The imminent celebrations and commemorations pertaining to the Great War, beginning in 2014, together with the imminence of the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War in 2015, will provide additional stimuli to public attention in this area over the next few years.

Focus On: 100 Most Popular Vaudeville Performers

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1438 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Focus On: 100 Most Popular Vaudeville Performers written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 1438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

30-Second Cinema

Author : Nikki Baughan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1782405496
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book 30-Second Cinema written by Nikki Baughan and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you an art-movie buff or a blockbuster enthusiast? Can you reel off a list of New Wave masterpieces, or are you more interested in classic Westerns? Most of us love the movies in one form or another, but very few of us have the all-round knowledge we'd like. 30-Second Cinema offers an immersion course, served up in neat, entertaining shorts. These 50 topics deal with cinema's beginnings, with its growth as an industry, with key stars and producers, with global movements--from German Expressionism to New Hollywood--and with the movies as a business. By the time you've worked your way through, you'll be able to identify the work of George Melies, define auteur theory or mumblecore in a couple of pithy phrases, and you'll have broadened your knowledge of global cinema to embrace not only Bollywood but Nollywood, too. All in the time it takes to watch a couple of trailers.

Directors in British and Irish Cinema

Author : Robert Murphy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838715320
Total Pages : 1560 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Directors in British and Irish Cinema written by Robert Murphy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 1560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to directors who have worked in the British and Irish film industries between 1895 and 2005. Each of its 980 entries on individuals directors gives a resume of the director's career, evaluates their achievements and provides a complete filmography. It is useful for those interested in film-making in Britain and Ireland.