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Author : Valerie Sutherland
Publisher : Pascal Press
ISBN 13 : 9781740201254
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Truman Show Directed by Peter Weir written by Valerie Sutherland and published by Pascal Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nadine Klemens
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638641457
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (386 download)
Download or read book Peter Weir's "The Truman Show": The Ultimate Hidden Camera Special written by Nadine Klemens and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-07-16 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: 1,0 (A), Technical University of Braunschweig (English Seminar), course: HS Documentary Film, 16 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Through a spy hole in a bathroom cabinet we see a man in pajamas talking to himself in the mirror. Or is he talking to us? After a while, we hear a voice of a woman, telling him that he will be late. With a sigh, the man turns around and leaves the bathroom. On a black screen, we read "Day 10, 909"- then we see the man through another spy hole, dressed in a business suit, leaving his house for work. He greets his neighbors with a wide grin, and the neighbors enthusiastically greet back. As he adds "Oh, and in case I don′t see ye: Good afternoon, good evening and good night ", they react as though they think this was extremely funny. When the dog of his next-door neighbor comes to greet him, the man freezes, on his face an expression of terror. He waits till the dog moves back and is about to get in his car when the camera suddenly pans and we see a theatrical light falling out of the sunny sky. Suspiciously, the man goes to examine what has crashed down on the street in front of his house. He does not know what to think of the light, which has a tag on it, designating it as "Sirius". In disbelief, he gazes into the sky- is this how stars look like? The man is called Truman Burbank, and we are watching Peter Weir′s movie The Truman Show (1998). The movie is not a typical feature film as it mixes feature film elements and docu-soap elements. By confronting his audience with elements of its daily TV-programming, the docu-soap, Peter Weir establishes a satire of the media that leaves its viewers with the uneasy feeling that reality is not always what it appears to be. This work gives a short summary of the movie, as well as it depicts its style and structure. Furthermore, Peter Weir′s thematic concerns are explained. The
Author : John C. Tibbetts
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617038989
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Peter Weir written by John C. Tibbetts and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Weir: Interviews is the first volume of interviews to be published on the esteemed Australian director. Although Weir (b. 1944) has acquired a reputation of being guarded about his life and work, these interviews by archivists, journalists, historians, and colleagues reveal him to be a most amiable and forthcoming subject. He talks about “the precious desperation of the art, the madness, the willingness to experiment” in all his films; the adaptation process from novel to film, when he tells a scriptwriter, “I'm going to eat your script; it's going to be part of my blood!”; and his self-assessment as “merely a jester, with cap and bells, going from court to court.” He is encouraged, even provoked to tell his own story, from his childhood in a Sydney suburb in the 1950s, to his apprenticeship in the Australian television industry in the 1960s, his preparations to shoot his first features in the early 1970s, his international celebrity in Australia and Hollywood. An extensive new interview details his current plans for a new film. Interviews discuss Weir's diverse and impressive range of work—his earlier films Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave, Gallipoli, and The Year of Living Dangerously, as well as Academy Award-nominated Witness, Dead Poets Society, Green Card, The Truman Show, and Master and Commander. This book confirms that the trajectory of Weir's life and work parallels and embodies Australia's own quest to define and express a historical and cultural identity.
Author : Andrew Niccol
Publisher : Newmarket Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557043672
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (436 download)
Download or read book The Truman Show written by Andrew Niccol and published by Newmarket Press. This book was released on 1998-06-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Carrey is Truman Burbank, the most famous face on television, only he doesn't know it. He is the unwitting star of a nonstop, 24-hour-a-day documentary soap opera called The Truman Show, with every moment of his life broadcast to a worldwide audience. Everyone around him is an actor. He is a prisoner in a made-for-TV paradise. This is the story of his escape. Rarely has a first-time collaboration between a writer and director produced such a stunning result. In this book, both Niccol and Weir's lively talents and creative force come to light, as each contributes some highly original material to amplify the brilliant 107-page shooting script, reproduced here in facsimile. Niccol has given us another version of The Truman Show, in photos and captions—in effect, our very own photo album. For his contribution, Peter Weir chose to let us in on the intricately detailed, often hilarious "backstory," which he wrote as part of his preparation, and eventually shared with the cast and crew during production. Also included are complete cast and crew credits.
Author : Jonathan Rayner
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826415356
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (153 download)
Download or read book The Films of Peter Weir written by Jonathan Rayner and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Weir is, without doubt, one of the most important Australian film directors of all time. His films have had a major impact, both in terms of the Australian film industry (Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Cars That Ate Paris, and Gallipoli) and as the work of an innovative auteur working within the confines of the Hollywood system (Witness, Dead Poets Society, Fearless, and The Truman Show). This fully revised and updated edition of Jonathan Rayner's acclaimed study takes an in-depth look at the career of a filmmaker who has, over the course of 30 years, put together a substantial and much-loved body of work. Rayner illustrates how Peter Weir brings a consistent vision to his films, no matter how disparate their subject matter - and how he uses his 'outsider' status in the American film industry to his advantage. The release of Weir's new movie, a sea-faring epic starring Russell Crowe, in ??? 2003, will likely heighten his status as a great director still further.
Author : Peter Bruck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783125774612
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (746 download)
Download or read book The Truman Show written by Peter Bruck and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Bliss
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809322848
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (228 download)
Download or read book Dreams Within a Dream written by Michael Bliss and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What we see, and what we seem, are but a dream, a dream within a dream." Michael Bliss views Miranda's voice-over at the beginning of Picnic at Hanging Rock as so pivotal in explaining the films of Peter Weir that he borrows her words to create the title of his own study of the Australian filmmaker's work. Bliss views Weir as an artist whose values are rooted in the realm of the dream, of the unconscious. Surrealistic in technique, Weir avoids the pedestrian assurances of a material realm in favor of an irresolution that, while potentially frustrating, is nonetheless for him a more truthful representation of what he considers reality. For Weir, as for Plato, Bliss demonstrates, "empirical reality is nothing more than a shadow of what is real." Bliss also considers Weir's heritage. Australian cinema, Bliss explains, is characterized by melodramatic narratives born of a desire to see good and evil portrayed in striking opposition. Weir, for example, dramatizes the contradictory forces of light versus darkness, reason versus mystery, and rationality versus magic in such films as Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Last Wave. This melodramatic emphasis is evident as well in the polarized characterizations in such films as Witness, Dead Poets Society, and The Truman Show. Bliss also discusses Weir's use of another staple of Australian cinema-- "mateship," the celebration of the bond between male companions. But by making self-knowledge dependent on action involving one's friends, Weir gives mateship a new meaning. Moreover, like other Australian filmmakers, Weir emphasizes the starkness of the Australian landscape, which functions either as a hazard or a deadly challenge, at least until American mythology caused him to see nature in a more positive light. Also prominent in Weir's films is an Australian spirit of rebellion coupled with the Aussie ambivalence toward all aspects of British culture. To help explain Weir's films, Bliss looks to Freud and Jung, whom Weir has studied, and also to two other prominent purveyors of myth and archetype, Northrop Frye and Joseph Campbell. Virtually all Weir characters struggle toward a new mode of awareness, a psychological awareness based on archetypal truths. Many of his films involve archetypal journeys heading through conflict to spiritual unity. Weir's quest is to find out what we really know and how we know what we know.
Author : Marcia Pope
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521546157
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (461 download)
Download or read book Cambridge Wizard Student Guide The Truman Show written by Marcia Pope and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-16 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Truman Show is a major film by Australian director Peter Weir. It sets up the conceit of a 'reality TV' show about an innocent called Truman Burbank, who doesn't even know that his whole life is a carefully scripted fiction, beamed out to millions of viewers around the world. When the truth dawns on Truman, he challenges the god-like creator of 'The Truman Show', and makes his escape into the real world. This fascinating satire on media manipulation is both engrossing and relevant to contemporary trends. Study of the film is set within the context of the NSW syllabus English Elective module 'Image'. The guide provides background material on the 'Image' theme, as well as contextual information about the 'grammar' of film, before offering a summary and detailed explication of the movie. It concludes with linking notes (the movie as an example of 'Image') and a model answer.
Author : Jean-Pierre Boulé
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857457306
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)
Download or read book Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema written by Jean-Pierre Boulé and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simone de Beauvoir’s work has not often been associated with film studies, which appears paradoxical when it is recognized that she was the first feminist thinker to inaugurate the concept of the gendered ‘othering’ gaze. This book is an attempt to redress this balance and reopen the dialogue between Beauvoir’s writings and film studies. The authors analyse a range of films, from directors including Claire Denis, Michael Haneke, Lucille Hadzihalilovic, Sam Mendes, and Sally Potter, by drawing from Beauvoir’s key works such as The Second Sex (1949), The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947) and Old Age (1970).
Author : Jennifer Egan
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307386619
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Keep written by Jennifer Egan and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-07-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "Part horror tale, part mystery, part romance ... utterly fantastic.”—O, The Oprah Magazine • The bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep—the tower, the last stand—is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive. Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results. And as the full horror of their predicament unfolds, a prisoner, in jail for an unnamed crime, recounts an unforgettable story that seamlessly brings the crimes of the past and present into piercing relation.
Author : Eva Schwarz
Publisher : ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press
ISBN 13 : 3838258126
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)
Download or read book Visual Paranoia in Rear Window, Blow-Up and The Truman Show written by Eva Schwarz and published by ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press. This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of recent postmodern discourse on cultural theory, Eva Schwarz provides a gripping analysis of the concept of what she describes as visual paranoia. Her study is based on a detailed analysis of three films: Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (USA, 1954), Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-up (GB, 1966) and Peter Weir’s The Truman Show (USA, 1998). The starting point of all three analyses is the representation of the postmodern media and information age as an incisive culture of the visual, which coincides with the general socio-political trend of cultural paranoia, the roots of which are to be found in American politics and society of the late 1940s and which has since permeated Anglo-American culture.The discourse on the truthfulness of images, the reality of visual representations and the visual as such forms the context out of which the theory of the development of visual paranoia arises. While other paranoia films, usually thrillers or science fiction films, concern themselves with the sociopolitical manifestation of cultural paranoia, the three films chosen for Schwarz's study focus on the fundamental crisis of the visual as such, from scopophilic paranoia in Rear Window to photographic paranoia in Blow-Up, culminating in the scopophobic manifestation of visual paranoia in The Truman Show.The once valid saying, "seeing is believing", can no longer be taken for granted. In postmodern times, the visual cannot be trusted any more.
Author : Nicholas Proferes
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1136069429
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Film Directing Fundamentals written by Nicholas Proferes and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visualize your films before shooting!
Author : Philip Glass
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306806360
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Music By Philip Glass written by Philip Glass and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1995-03-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joel Gold
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143918156X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Suspicious Minds written by Joel Gold and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Truman Show delusion and other strange beliefs"--Cover.
Author : Joan Lindsay
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143132059
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Picnic at Hanging Rock written by Joan Lindsay and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Now a six-part TV series starring Natalie Dormer, from Amazon Prime* A 50th-anniversary edition of the landmark novel about three “gone girls” that inspired the acclaimed 1975 film, featuring a foreword by Maile Meloy, author of Do Not Become Alarmed It was a cloudless summer day in the year 1900. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of the secluded volcanic outcropping. Farther, higher, until at last they disappeared. They never returned. . . . Mysterious and subtly erotic, Picnic at Hanging Rock inspired the iconic 1975 film of the same name by Peter Weir. A beguiling landmark of Australian literature, it stands with Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, and Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides as a masterpiece of intrigue.
Author : Andrew Niccol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782277250418
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (54 download)
Download or read book The Truman show written by Andrew Niccol and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Truman Show, c'est l'histoire d'une évasion. L'évasion de Truman Burbank, prisonnier depuis sa naissance d'un show télévisé ! Truman est le visage le plus célèbre du petit écran. Seulement, il n'en sait rien : à son insu, il est la vedette du feuilleton The Truman Show diffusé 24 heures sur 24 dans le monde entier grâce à 5 000 caméras cachées dans le décor de Seahaven, petite ville paradisiaque recréée de toutes pièces pour les besoins du show. Ses voisins, ses collègues de travail et même sa femme ne sont que des acteurs payés pour lui donner la réplique, pour que le spectacle continue à tout prix. Le dieu de l'audimat, c'est Christof, un producteur génial qui joue avec son prisonnier pour insuffler drames, joies, rebondissements dans sa vie trop tranquille et donner en pâture à des millions de téléspectateurs voyeurs leur dose de jouissance quotidienne... Mais des grains de sable s'infiltrent dans cette machine trop parfaite. Truman n'est pas si innocent, les êtres humains ne sont pas forcément des marionnettes soumises aux caprices d'un producteur sans scrupules... Mais comment tout cela va-t-il finir ?
Author : William Joyce
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481489526
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)
Download or read book A Day with Wilbur Robinson written by William Joyce and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While spending the day in the Robinson household, Wilbur’s best friend Lewis helps search for Grandfather Robinson’s missing false teeth in this classic picture book from William Joyce that inspired the Disney animated sci-fi comedy, Meet the Robinsons! No need to knock, just step right in. You’re just in time to two-step with Grandfather Robinson and his dancing frog band. Cousin Laszlo is demonstrating his new antigravity device. And Uncle Art’s flying saucer is parked out back. It seems like all the Robinson relatives are here, so be prepared. And keep your head down…Uncle Gaston is testing out the family cannon. Oh, and watch where you sit, Grandpa’s lost his teeth again. Welcome to the Robinson’s.
