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Everybody loves the movies. But a movie about the colour blue, or an isolated mountain range, or a man grown so thin the world floats through his perfect transparency? Welcome to the strange and wonderful universe of fringe cinema. Twenty-three interviews with Canada's finest underdogs. Includes a foreword by Atom Egoyan.
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Master magicians of their time, Hatton and Plate recorded in this book — which they wrote in 1910 — solutions to problems that seemed unsolvable. Indispensible to today's amateur and professional magicians, the how-to manual explains 140 tricks performed with cards, coins, balls, eggs, handkerchiefs, and other common household items. 194 black-and-white illustrations.
| Автор | Henry Hatton |
Published on Earth Day, Friday, April 22nd, 2016 to maximize publicity.Book differs from his previous titles on consumerism & shopping as he focuses here on the earth/environmentalism/conservation.Reverend Billy is a constant and vital presence on the streets of New York, and other cities, taking part in political actions, including a coordinated effort to ban sales of Monsanto's pesticides. He's opening for Neil Young's NYC show in July 2015, in support of Young's latest...
| Автор | Reverend Billy Talen |
In nineteenth-century Europe the ruling elites viewed the theater as a form of communication which had enormous importance. The theater provided the most significant form of mass entertainment and was the only arena aside from the church in which regular mass gatherings were possible. Therefore, drama censorship occupied a great deal of the ruling class’s time and energy, with a particularly focus on proposed scripts that potentially threatened the existing political, legal, and social order....
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Fred Astaire: one of the great jazz artists of the twentieth century? Astaire is best known for his brilliant dancing in the movie musicals of the 1930s, but in <i>Music Makes Me</i>, Todd Decker argues that Astaire’s work as a dancer and choreographer —particularly in the realm of tap dancing—made a significant contribution to the art of jazz. Decker examines the full range of Astaire’s work in filmed and recorded media, from a 1926 recording with George Gershwin to his 1970 blues...
| Автор | Todd Decker |
Although revered as one of the world’s great filmmakers, the Indian director Satyajit Ray is described either in narrowly nationalistic terms or as an artist whose critique of modernity is largely derived from European ideas. Rarely is he seen as an influential modernist in his own right whose contributions to world cinema remain unsurpassed. In this benchmark study, Keya Ganguly situates Ray’s work within the internationalist spirit of the twentieth century, arguing that his film experiments...
| Автор | Keya Ganguly |
Japan has done marvelous things with cinema, giving the world the likes of Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu. But cinema did not arrive in Japan fully formed at the end of the nineteenth century, nor was it simply adopted into an ages-old culture. Aaron Gerow explores the processes by which film was defined, transformed, and adapted during its first three decades in Japan. He focuses in particular on how one trend in criticism, the Pure Film Movement, changed not only the way films were made, but...
| Автор | Aaron Gerow |
Chaikin, who directed the celebrated Open Theater in the '60s, kindled an emphasis on communal playmaking whose impact is still evident today. This conversational review of his efforts details his methods and reveals the struggles involved in the creation of some of the most exciting theatre of our time.
| Автор | Joseph Chaikin |
– Also published by TCG: Plays, 1996-2000, a volume of Maxwell’s work- Attended Illinois State University- Artistic Director of New York City Players- Recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Obie Award (for House) and Foundation for Contemporary Arts- Co-founder of the Cook County Theater Department in Chicago- His work has been presented in over sixteen countries, including Germany, France, the U.K., Italy, Argentina and Australia.
| Автор | Richard Maxwell |
Drawing on state-of-the art-research within cognitive science the book provides new perspectives on the much debated work of Stanley Kubrick.The book fulfills the need for providing the reader with an alternative to the dominant linguistic approach to meaning in cinema.The book illustrates its theoretical ideas in a clear and accessible fashion through an analysis of various rich examples drawn from Kubrick’s oeuvre.
| Автор | Maarten Coëgnarts |
This collection of essays explores the link between comedy and animation in studio-era cartoons, from filmdom’s earliest days through the twentieth century. Written by a who’s who of animation authorities, <i>Funny Pictures</i> offers a stimulating range of views on why animation became associated with comedy so early and so indelibly, and illustrates how animation and humor came together at a pivotal stage in the development of the motion picture industry. To examine some of the...
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Sunset Boulevard (1950) is one of the most famous films in the history of Hollywood, and perhaps no film better represents Hollywood's vision of itself. Billy Wilder collaborated on the screenplay with the very able Charles Brackett, and with D. M. Marshman Jr., who later joined the team. Together they created a film both allusive and literate, with Hollywood's worst excesses and neuroses laid out for all to see. After viewing Sunset Boulevard Louis B. Mayer exclaimed: «We should...
| Автор | Billy Wilder |
With <i>Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema</i>, Daniel Morgan makes a significant contribution to scholarship on Jean-Luc Godard, especially his films and videos since the late 1980s, some of the most notoriously difficult works in contemporary cinema. Through detailed analyses of extended sequences, technical innovations, and formal experiments, Morgan provides an original interpretation of a series of several internally related films—<i>Soigne ta droite...
| Автор | Daniel Morgan |
What does it mean for film and video to be experimental? In this collection of essays framed by the concept «ex-»—meaning <i>from, outside,</i> and <i>no longer</i>—Akira Mizuta Lippit explores the aesthetic, technical, and theoretical reverberations of avant-garde film and video. <i>Ex-Cinema</i> is a sustained reflection on the ways in which experimental media artists move outside the conventions of mainstream cinema and initiate a dialogue on the meaning of...
| Автор | Akira Lippit |
This is a major new assessment of the American movie industry in the 1990's, focusing on the development of new communication technologies such as cable and home video and examining their impact on the production and distribution of motion pictures.
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The Fantasy Film provides a clear and compelling overview of this revitalized and explosively popular film genre. Includes analyses of a wide range of films, from early classics such as The Wizard of Oz and Harvey to Spiderman and Shrek, and blockbuster series such as The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Harry Potter films Provides in-depth historical and critical overviews of the genre Fully illustrated with screen shots from key films
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Twilight of the Idols revisits some of the sensational scandals of early Hollywood to evaluate their importance for our contemporary understanding of human deviance. By analyzing changes in the star system and by exploring the careers of individual stars—Wallace Reid, Rudolph Valentino, and Mabel Normand among them—Mark Lynn Anderson shows how the era’s celebrity culture shaped public ideas about personality and human conduct and played a pivotal role in the emergent human sciences of...
| Автор | Mark Lynn Anderson |
"Film noir" evokes memories of stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and '50s—melodramas about private eyes, femmes fatales, criminal gangs, and lovers on the run. James Naremore's prize-winning book discusses these pictures, but also shows that the central term is more complex and paradoxical than we realize. It treats noir as a term in criticism, as an expression of artistic modernism, as a symptom of Hollywood censorship and politics, as a market strategy, as...
| Автор | James Naremore |
André Bazin's <i>What Is Cinema?</i> (volumes I and II) have been classics of film studies for as long as they've been available and are considered the gold standard in the field of film criticism. Although Bazin made no films, his name has been one of the most important in French cinema since World War II. He was co-founder of the influential <I>Cahiers du Cinéma, </I>which under his leadership became one of the world's most distinguished publications....
| Автор | Andre Bazin |
André Bazin's <i>What Is Cinema?</i> (volumes I and II) have been classics of film studies for as long as they've been available and are considered the gold standard in the field of film criticism. Although Bazin made no films, his name has been one of the most important in French cinema since World War II. He was co-founder of the influential <I>Cahiers du Cinéma, </I>which under his leadership became one of the world's most distinguished publications....
| Автор | Andre Bazin |
