The complete guide to everyone’s favourite films… saucy!This book presents a detailed journey through Britain's best-loved comedies. It contains information on each of the feature films, including moments to watch out for, little-known facts, dialogue gems (Infamy! Infamy! They've All Got It In For Me!), full cast lists, production details and an informed critique on each of the films.There will be over 250 colour and b/w stills integrated in the book, including rare behind-the-scenes shots....
В этой книге знаковые фигуры русского революционного авангарда предстают в необычном ракурсе: кинорежиссер Дзига Вертов – как литератор, поэт Владимир Маяковский – как киноактер, сценарист и организатор кинопроизводства. Пользуясь методом «параллельного монтажа», автор монографии обнаруживает многочисленные, порой неожиданные пересечения в жизни и творчестве своих героев: сходства судеб и эстетических программ, взаимное цитирование, попытки друг у друга учиться. Перед читателем разворачивается...
Это пособие о сценарном мастерстве, которое дает ответы на большинство вопросов, возникающих при создании сценария. Автор описывает приемы, которые помогут создать сценарий с хорошим коммерческим потенциалом, яркими героями и запоминающимся названием. Кроме того, известный сценарист делится своими авторскими идеями: классификацией жанров, отличной от общепринятой (в которой фильм всегда принадлежит одному жанру и не бывает боевиков с элементами триллера, драмы и приключений) и Blake Snyder Beat...
First published in 1953, “To the Actor: On the Technique of Acting” is the famous and influential guide to acting by Russian-American actor, director, and teacher Michael Chekhov. Born in Saint Petersburg in 1891 and the nephew of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Michael Chekhov studied acting from the famed theater director Konstantin Stanislavski at the First Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre and was considered by Stanislavski to be his most brilliant student. While Chekhov was at first a...
The best jokes, gags and scenes from a true British comedy classic.‘They don't like it up 'em!’'People shout the «Don't tell him, Pike!» line at me regularly – and I didn't even say it!’ Philip Madoc.In the annals of British television, no finer example of classic comedy exists than in the shape of Dad's Army, the Home Guard-based sitcom written by veteran writers Jimmy Perry and David Croft. Although they penned many other sterling programmes, including Hi-De-Hi! and the underrated You Rang,...
The easy way to craft, polish, and get your play on stage Getting a play written and produced is a daunting process. From crystallizing story ideas, formatting the script, understanding the roles of the director stagecraft people, to marketing and financing your project, and incorporating professional insights on writing, there are plenty of ins and outs that every aspiring playwright needs to know. But where can you turn for guidance? Playwriting For Dummies helps any writer at any stage of the...
American Identities is a dazzling array of primary documents and critical essays culled from American history, literature, memoir, and popular culture that explore major currents and trends in American history from 1945 to the present. Charts the rich multiplicity of American identities through the different lenses of race, class, and gender, and shaped by common historical social processes such as migration, families, work, and war. Includes editorial introductions for the volume and for each...
Learn how skilled editors can turn raw footage into polished art for film, television, or web. With practical project guidelines and advice on organizing digital and film cutting rooms, and much more.
Over the years, in a variety of venues, Lawrence Watt-Evans has turned his sharp, analytical, and slightly crazed mind to everything from weaponized poetry to why the Enterprise doesn't have seatbelts, and everyone from Jane Austen to Buffy Summers. Collected for the first time are twenty-three of these essays, discussing icons of comic books, television, novels, movies, and much more!
Книга, написанная автором уникального курса «Психология для сценаристов» Татьяной Салахиевой-Талал, знакомит с концепциями некоторых психологических школ и направлений, переосмысленными с точки зрения кинодраматургии. Среди них теории Фрейда и Юнга, оказавшие громадное влияние на киноискусство, гештальт-подход, которому в книге уделено особое внимание, а также новейшие мировые исследования в области социокультурных феноменов, знание которых позволит создавать актуальные для современного зрителя...
Learn how skilled editors can turn raw footage into polished art for film, television, or web. With practical project guidelines and advice on organizing digital and film cutting rooms, and much more.