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Book Synopsis The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow by : Deborah Jermyn
Download or read book The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow written by Deborah Jermyn and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kathryn Bigelow is one of Hollywood's most significant female film-makers, well known in popular terms for films such as 'Near dark', 'Blue steel' and 'Point break', yet remaining relatively unexplored in academia... Placing particular emphasis on 'Strange days', her most ambitious and controversial picture to date, this collection explores Bigelow's role within New Hollywood as a film-maker that blurs genre conventions, reinscribes gender identities and produces a breathless cinema of attractions." -- Back cover.
Book Synopsis Kathryn Bigelow by : Kathryn Bigelow
Download or read book Kathryn Bigelow written by Kathryn Bigelow and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-07-29 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with the Oscar-winning director of The Hurt Locker and many other films
Book Synopsis Kathryn Bigelow by : Susan Dudley Gold
Download or read book Kathryn Bigelow written by Susan Dudley Gold and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Director of Zero Dark Thirty, The Hurt Locker, and other films, Bigelow was the first female to win the Academy Award for Best Director.
Book Synopsis Kathryn Bigelow by : Ilaria A. De Pascalis
Download or read book Kathryn Bigelow written by Ilaria A. De Pascalis and published by Marsilio Editori spa. This book was released on 2023-11-03T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathryn Bigelow si colloca fin dall’inizio della sua carriera al centro di una serie di questioni particolarmente importanti per la cultura statunitense, come la riflessione sul rapporto fra l’individualità, il potere e la violenza. Sguardi, corpi e dispositivi di rappresentazione, assieme ai contesti culturali e ai generi di riferimento, divengono strumenti imprescindibili per una configurazione estetica che usa consapevolmente azione e spettacolarità per produrre una riflessione anche teorica e filosofica. Ripercorrere la carriera di Bigelow permette così di affrontare la trasformazione avvenuta nelle relazioni fra soggettività, società, media audiovisivi e potere negli Stati Uniti a fronte del consolidarsi delle forme della globalizzazione. Il rapporto con l’estetica e la teoria del cinema, la messa in scena e l’ibridazione dei generi narrativi, la produzione del gender e della razza sono solo alcune delle questioni affrontate nelle analisi dei film (Near Dark - Il buio si avvicina, Point Break, Strange Days, The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty, Detroit).
Download or read book Kathryn Bigelow written by Sean Redmond and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sean Redmond's work fills an important gap in the scholarship on the European-inspired auteur working within the Hollywood cinema machine, Kathryn Bigelow. Structured to meet the needs of both the student and scholar, Redmond's volume situates Bigelow within her historical and critical context, exploring key collaborative relationships and new ways of watching her films. Beginning with Bigelow's biography, Redmond surveys the evolution of Kathryn's career as a Hollywood outsider with movies such as The Set-up (1978) and Near Dark (1987) to Hollywood blockbusters like Point Break (1991), The Hurt Locker (2010) and Zero Dark Thirty (2012).One of the key determinants of this volume is to locate Bigelow as a filmmaking artist who is able to transcend the collective, industrial, and commercial constraints of the Hollywood cinema machine to individually author her films in innovative and transgressive ways. Bigelow is contextualised as a contemporary auteur, with a distinct visual style who returns to the same themes and obsessions, and as a filmmaker who pushes cinematic boundaries, both in terms of film form and the representation of gender and sexuality.
Book Synopsis The Kathryn Bigelow Handbook - Everything You Need to Know about Kathryn Bigelow by : Emily Smith
Download or read book The Kathryn Bigelow Handbook - Everything You Need to Know about Kathryn Bigelow written by Emily Smith and published by Tebbo. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathryn Ann Bigelow (born November 27, 1951) is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and television director. Her films include Near Dark (1987), Point Break (1991), Strange Days (1995), The Weight of Water (2000), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), The Hurt Locker (2008) and Zero Dark Thirty (2012). The Hurt Locker won the 2009 Academy Award for Best Picture, won the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and was nominated for the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Drama. With The Hurt Locker, Bigelow became the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director, the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing, the BAFTA Award for Best Direction, and the Critics' Choice Award for Best Director. She also became the first woman to win the Saturn Award for Best Director in 1995 for Strange Days. In April 2010, Bigelow was named to the Time 100 list of most influential people of the year. This book is your ultimate resource for Kathryn Bigelow. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Kathryn Bigelow's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Contents, Kathryn Bigelow, 63rd British Academy Film Awards, 82nd Academy Awards, AACTA International Award for Best Direction, AACTA International Award for Best Film, Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Award for Best Picture, Austin Film Critics Association, BAFTA Award for Best Direction, BAFTA Award for Best Film, Blue Steel (1989 film), Born in Flames, Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director, Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Director, Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Director, Columbia University, Denver Film Critics Society, Film director, Golden Globe Award for Best Director, Homicide: Life on the Street (season 6), Homicide: Life on the Street (season 7), James Cameron, Jeremy Renner, K-19: The Widowmaker, Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director, Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Director, Liam Neeson, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Director, Martini Ranch, National Board of Review Award for Best Director, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director, Near Dark, New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director, Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director, Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Director, Point Break and more pages! Contains selected content from the highest rated entries, typeset, printed and shipped, combining the advantages of up-to-date and in-depth knowledge with the convenience of printed books. A portion of the proceeds of each book will be donated to the Wikimedia Foundation to support their mission.
Download or read book Jane Campion written by Kathleen McHugh and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Book Synopsis American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 by : Terence McSweeney
Download or read book American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 written by Terence McSweeney and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 is a ground-breaking collection of essays by some of the foremost scholars writing in the field of contemporary American film. Through a dynamic critical analysis of the defining films of the turbulent post-9/11 decade, the volume explores and interrogates the impact of 9/11 and the 'War on Terror' on American cinema and culture. In a vibrant discussion of films like American Sniper (2014), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Spectre (2015), The Hateful Eight (2015), Lincoln (2012), The Mist (2007), Children of Men (2006), Edge of Tomorrow (2014) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), noted authors Geoff King, Guy Westwell, John Shelton Lawrence, Ian Scott, Andrew Schopp, James Kendrick, Sean Redmond, Steffen Hantke and many others consider the power of popular film to function as a potent cultural artefact, able to both reflect the defining fears and anxieties of the tumultuous era, but also shape them in compelling and resonant ways.
Download or read book Screening the Past written by Pam Cook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Mildred Pierce and Brief Encounter to Raging Bull and In the Mood for Love, this lively and accessible collection explores film culture's obsession with the past, offering searching and provocative analyses of a wide range of titles. Screening the Past engages with current debates about the role of cinema in mediating history through memory and nostalgia, suggesting that many films use strategies of memory to produce diverse forms of knowledge which challenge established ideas of history, and the traditional role of historians. Classic essays sit side by side with new research, contextualized by introductions which bring them up to date, and provide suggestions for further reading as the work of contemporary directors such as Martin Scorsese, Kathryn Bigelow, Todd Haynes and Wong Kar-wai is used to examine the different ways they deploy creative processes of memory. Pam Cook also investigates the recent history of film studies, reviewing the developments that have culminated in the exciting, if daunting, present moment. The result is a rich and stimulating volume that will appeal to anyone with an interest in cinema, memory and identity.
Book Synopsis The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano by : Sean Redmond
Download or read book The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano written by Sean Redmond and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood is a detailed aesthetic, Deleuzian, and phenomenological exploration of Japan’s finest currently-working film director, performer, and celebrity. The volume uniquely explores Kitano’s oeuvre through the tropes of stillness and movement, becoming animal, melancholy and loss, intensity, schizophrenia, and radical alterity; and through the aesthetic temperatures of color, light, camera movement, performance and urban and oceanic space. In this highly original monograph, all of Kitano’s films are given due consideration, including A Scene at the Sea (1991), Sonatine (1993), Dolls (2002), and Outrage (2010).
Book Synopsis Feminist Hollywood by : Christina Lane
Download or read book Feminist Hollywood written by Christina Lane and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist Hollywood examines the differences between commercial cinema and counter cinema by focusing on the work of contemporary women directors who have entered Hollywood from the realm of independent filmmaking. Christina Lane compares their early documentaries or avant-garde films with their more mainstream endeavors as she explores the possibilities and limits of feminist expression within the male-dominated industry of commercial filmmaking. Feminist Hollywood incorporates interviews with directors Susan Seidelman, Martha Coolidge, Kathryn Bigelow, Lizzie Borden, Darnell Martin, and Tamra Davis in an attempt to bridge the "theory gap" that often excludes women's professional experiences and makes false assumptions about how the industry operates. Lane balances these firsthand accounts with cultural theory and an understanding of the current film industry, in which the line between commercial and independent filmmaking has become blurred. The timely and comprehensive nature of this volume will make it a welcome addition to the bookshelves of film scholars and amateur movie buffs alike.
Book Synopsis An Investigative Cinema by : Fabrizio Cilento
Download or read book An Investigative Cinema written by Fabrizio Cilento and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the development of investigative cinema, whose main characteristic lies in reconstructing actual events, political crises, and conspiracies. These documentary-like films refrain from a simplistic reconstruction of historical events and are mainly concerned with what does not immediately appear on the surface of events. Consequently, they raise questions about the nature of the “truth” promoted by institutions, newspapers, and media reports. By highlighting unanswered questions, they leave us with a lack of clarity, and the questioning of documentation becomes the actual narrative. Investigative cinema is examined in relation to the historical conjunctures of the “economic miracle” in Italy, the simultaneous decolonization and reordering of culture in France, the waves of globalization and neoliberalism in post-dictatorial Latin America, and the post-Watergate, post-9/11 climate in US society. Investigative cinema is exemplified by the films Salvatore Giuliano, The Battle of Algiers, The Parallax View, Gomorrah, Zero Dark Thirty, and Citizenfour.
Book Synopsis Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers by : Katarzyna Paszkiewicz
Download or read book Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers written by Katarzyna Paszkiewicz and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the significance of women's work in popular film genres, this test sheds light on women's contribution to genre cinema through an exploration of filmmakers like Kathryn Bigelow, Diablo Cody, Sofia Coppola, and Kelly Reichard.
Download or read book Parallel Lines written by Guy Westwell and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parallel Lines describes how post-9/11 cinema, from Spike Lee's 25th Hour (2002) to Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty (2012), relates to different, and competing, versions of US national identity in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks. The book combines readings of individual films (World Trade Center, United 93, Fahrenheit 9/11, Loose Change) and cycles of films (depicting revenge, conspiracy, torture and war) with extended commentary on recurring themes, including the relationship between the US and the rest of the world, narratives of therapeutic recovery, questions of ethical obligation. The volume argues that post-9/11 cinema is varied and dynamic, registering shock and upheaval in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, displaying capacity for critique following the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal mid-decade, and seeking to reestablish consensus during Obama's troubled second term of office.
Book Synopsis Heroism and Gender in War Films by : Karen A. Ritzenhoff
Download or read book Heroism and Gender in War Films written by Karen A. Ritzenhoff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filmic constructions of war heroism have a profound impact on public perceptions of conflicts. Here, contributors examine the ways motifs of gender and heroism in war films are used to justify ideological positions, shape the understanding of the military conflicts, support political agendas and institutions, and influence collective memory.
Download or read book Near Dark written by Stacey Abbott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First released in 1987, Near Dark is a vampire film set in the contemporary American Midwest that tells the story of Caleb, a half-vampire trying to decide whether to embrace his vampire nature or return to his human family. The film, an early work of the now-established director Kathryn Bigelow, skilfully mixes genre conventions, combining gothic tropes with those of the Western, road movie and film noir, while also introducing elements of the outlaw romance genre. Stacey Abbott's study of the film addresses it as a genre hybrid that also challenges conventions of the vampire film. The vampires are morally ambiguous and undermine the class structures that have historically defined stories of the undead. These are not aristocrats but instead they capture the allure and horror of the disenfranchised and the underclass. As Abbott describes, Near Dark was crucial in consolidating Bigelow's standing as a director of significance at an early point in her career, not simply because of her visual art background, but because of the way in which she would from Near Dark onward re-envision other traditionally mainstream genres of filmmaking.
Book Synopsis A-Z Great Film Directors by : Andy Tuohy
Download or read book A-Z Great Film Directors written by Andy Tuohy and published by Cassell Illustrated. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun introduction to 52 of the greatest film directors, from Almodovar to Ozu, Fellini to Tarantino, and many more. A striking, design-led reference book. A-Z Great Film Directors features Andy Tuohy's portraits of 52 directors significant for their contribution to cinema including kings of world cinema Wong Kar-Wai and Akira Kurosawa, arthouse pioneers Fritz Lang and David Lynch as well as the often under-appreciated female directors Kathryn Bigelow and Jane Campion. With text by film journalist Matt Glasby, each director's entry will also have a summary of the essential things you need to know about them, why they're important, a list of their must-see films, and a surprising fact or two about them, as well as images of their key films throughout. So whether you're already a film aficionado, or looking for a helpful cheat to pass convincingly as an arthouse fan, you'll love this guide to international directors, past and present.
