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A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam

Author : Sabine Planka
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666912263
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam written by Sabine Planka and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam provides a fresh, up-to-date exploration of the director’s films and artistic practices, ranging from his first film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) to his recently released and latest film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018). This volume presents Gilliam as a director whose films weave together an avant-garde cinematic style, imaginative exaggeration, and social critique. Consequently, while his films can seem artistically chaotic and thus have the effect of frustrating and upsetting the viewer, the essays in this volume show that this is part of a very disciplined creative plan to achieve the defamiliarization of various accepted notions of human and social life.

A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan

Author : Claire Parkinson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 179365252X
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan written by Claire Parkinson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan provides a wide-ranging exploration of Christopher Nolan's films, practices, and collaborations. From a range of critical perspectives, this volume examines Nolan's body of work, explores its industrial and economic contexts, and interrogates the director's auteur status. This volume contributes to the scholarly debates on Nolan and includes original essays that examine all his films including his short films. It is structured into three sections that deal broadly with themes of narrative and time; collaborations and relationships; and ideology, politics, and genre. The authors of the sixteen chapters include established Nolan scholars as well as academics with expertise in approaches and perspectives germane to the study of Nolan's body of work. To these ends, the chapters employ intersectional, feminist, political, ideological, narrative, economic, aesthetic, genre, and auteur analysis in addition to perspectives from star theory, short film theory, performance studies, fan studies, adaptation studies, musicology, and media industry studies.

A Critical Companion to Julie Taymor

Author : Matthew Hodge
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1666936693
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book A Critical Companion to Julie Taymor written by Matthew Hodge and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Critical Companion to Julie Taymor is the most updated and holistic volume on the director currently published. Situating Taymor’s work within the intersections of story and spectacle, contributors to this collection examine issues of creativity, gender, sexuality, and adaptation by focusing on themes from Taymor’s oeuvre including martyrdom, musicality, fidelity, postmodern representations, feminism and queerness, identity, desire, trauma, revenge, hybridity, and obscenity. The result reveals Julie Taymor to be a globally-influenced American director who exhibits and exemplifies the authentic artistry of ingenious storytelling and deserves scholarly attention. This work will be of particular interest to scholars of film, philosophy, popular culture, gender, feminisms, and queer identities.

Terry McMillan

Author : Paulette Richards
Publisher : Gem Online
ISBN 13 : 9780313326509
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Terry McMillan written by Paulette Richards and published by Gem Online. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful analysis explores the tremendous cross-over appeal of Terry McMillan's novels and movie adaptations.

Terry McMillan

Author : Paulette Richards
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Terry McMillan written by Paulette Richards and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1999-11-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents critical analyses of each of Terry McMillan's novels, including "Mama," "Disappearing Acts," "Waiting to Exhale," and "How Stella Got Her Groove Back"; and includes biographical information about the author.

A Critical Companion to Tim Burton

Author : Adam Barkman
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498552730
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book A Critical Companion to Tim Burton written by Adam Barkman and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike anything currently available, A Critical Companion to Tim Burton is a comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of all the works of one of the world's most renowned directors and artists. Written by some of the top scholars working in fields as diverse as philosophy, film and media studies, and literature, all chapters of this book illuminate for both scholars and fans alike the entire artistic career of Burton, giving attention to both his early works and his global blockbusters.

Larry McMurtry

Author : John Reilly
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Larry McMurtry written by John Reilly and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2000-05-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Larry McMurtry's award winning novels have redefined not only the literature of the west, but also the essential myths with which the west is associated. Readers were initiated into the world of the modern cowboy with McMurtry's first novel Horseman Pass By. Nearly 35 years later McMurtry revisits his hometown project with his latest update on the characters who populated The Last Picture Show and Texasville in his most recent novel Duane's Depressed. This Critical Companion examines all 22 of McMurtry's works. By considering individual literary elements and overall construction of the novels, this analysis probes how McMurtry has given contemporary relevance to traditional elements of the Western story.

Critical Companion to Kurt Vonnegut

Author : Susan Farrell
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143810023X
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Critical Companion to Kurt Vonnegut written by Susan Farrell and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kurt Vonnegut is one of the most popular and admired authors of post-war American literaturefamous both for his playful and deceptively simple style as well as for his scathing critiques of social injustice and war. Criti.

Kurt Vonnegut

Author : Thomas Marvin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313006792
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Kurt Vonnegut written by Thomas Marvin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a career spanning 50 years, Kurt Vonnegut is one of the most prolific and popular American writers of the 20th century. Though his works have often met with mixed reviews, and have been difficult to categorize, his status of cultural icon and one of the most important contemporary novelists is well established. This critical companion, perfect for students, skillfully guides readers through seven of Vonnegut's most important novels including Player Piano (1952), Mother Night (1961), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Slaughterhouse Five (1969). A full chapter is devoted to each work, with clear analysis of plot, character development, thematic concerns, symbolism, and a close critical reading. A chapter on the life of Kurt Vonnegut gives an up-to-date biography, with interesting details relating the facts of his life to his writings. The Literary Contexts section, devoted to examining issues of genre, influences and themes in Vonnegut's writing, adds to a fuller understanding of the man and his literary works. This exceptionally well-written Critical Companion will help students and interested readers appreciate Vonnegut's most important and popular novels. Close critical readings offer feminist, Marxist, and new historicist perspectives on these works. A bibliography helps students undertaking research identify additional sources for biographical and critical information, and provides reviews and a comprehensive list of Vonnegut's publications to date.

A Critical Companion to Mel Gibson

Author : Adam Barkman
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1666937746
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book A Critical Companion to Mel Gibson written by Adam Barkman and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelve essays in A Critical Companion to Mel Gibson offer various interpretations of Mel Gibson’s work, treating this prolific but controversial figure not only as a filmmaker but as a historian, religious thinker, and social philosopher. From The Man Without a Face and Braveheart to The Passion of the Christ, Apocalypto, and Hacksaw Ridge, this interdisciplinary collection mines Gibson’s life and oeuvre for insight into existential problems, Aristotelian virtues, the politics of film, interreligious dialogue, adaptation issues, and much more.

Gore Vidal

Author : Susan Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789798400650
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (6 download)

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Revisiting John Grisham

Author : Mary Beth Pringle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313344078
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Revisiting John Grisham written by Mary Beth Pringle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-05-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Grisham is one of the most prolific and beloved mystery writers today, still reaching the top of the bestseller lists with books like The Testament (1999) and King of Torts (2003). In recent times, he has also experimented with different genres, such as A Painted House (2001), a semi-autobiographical work, and Skipping Christmas (2001), a holiday narrative. This volume follows up the critical analysis of Grisham's work in John Grisham: A Critical Companion, examining his writing from 1997 to the present.

A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle

Author : Carol Dover
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859917834
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle written by Carol Dover and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2003 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle (or Vulgate Cycle) brings together the stories of Arthur with those of the Grail, a conjunction of materials that continues to fascinate the Western imagination today. Representing what is probably the earliest large-scale use of prose for fiction in the West, it also exemplifies the taste for big cyclic compositions that shaped much of European narrative fiction for three centuries. A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle is the first comprehensive volume devoted exclusively to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle and its medieval legacy. The twenty essays in this volume, all by internationally known scholars, locate the work in its social, historical, literary, and manuscript contexts. In addition to addressing critical issues in the five texts that make up the Cycle, the contributors convey to modern readers the appeal that the text must have had for its medieval audiences, and the richness of composition that made it compelling. This volume will become standard reading for scholars, students, and more general readers interested in the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, medieval romance, Malory studies, and the Arthurian legends. Contributors: RICHARD BARBER, EMMANUELE BAUMGARTNER, FANNI BOGDANOW, FRANK BRANDSMA, MATILDA T. BRUCKNER, CAROL J. CHASE, ANNIE COMBES, HELEN COOPER, CAROL R. DOVER, MICHAEL HARNEY, DONALD L. HOFFMAN, DOUGLAS KELLY, ELSPETH KENNEDY, NORRIS J. LACY, ROGER MIDDLETON, HAQUIRA OSAKABE, HANS-HUGO STEINHOFF, ALISON STONES, RICHARD TRACHSLER. CAROL DOVER is associate professor of French and director of undergraduate studies, Georgetown University, Washington DC.

Terry Gilliam

Author : Peter Marks
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152612551X
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Terry Gilliam written by Peter Marks and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the most sustained and comprehensive examination to date of one of cinema's most challenging and lauded auteur. It proposes new ways of seeing Gilliam and his films that go beyond reductive readings of him as a gifted but manic fantasist. It analyses Gilliam's work over nearly four decades, from Monty Python, to Brazil and Tideland.

Tim O'Brien

Author : Patrick A. Smith
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Tim O'Brien written by Patrick A. Smith and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After growing up in Minnesota and graduating from college, Tim O'Brien received a draft notice and joined the war effort in Vietnam. He chronicled his combat experiences in his memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home, and then went on to write the eight novels that are discussed in this volume. The novels reflect their characters' struggle with the effects of place, namely small-town America, in the Vietnam Era.

Terry Gilliam

Author : Terry Gilliam
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578066247
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (662 download)

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Download or read book Terry Gilliam written by Terry Gilliam and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the whole of his working life, this collection discusses Gilliam's formative years as an artist/cartoonist, his move from the US to UK, his entry into TV, and his success as resident animator for 'Monty Python's Flying Circus', before following his progression into motion pictures.

Pat Conroy

Author : Landon C. Burns
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Pat Conroy written by Landon C. Burns and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1996 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genre. Each novel is analyzed for plot structure, characterization, thematic elements, and Conroy's increasingly elaborate style and development as a master of the art of the novel. In addition, Burns defines and applies a variety of alternative approaches to the novels to widen the reader's perspective. A complete bibliography of Conroy's fiction as well as selected reviews and criticism complete the work. Because of Pat Conroy's popularity among adults and teenagers,