Contemporary North American Film Directors

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"Encompassing the careers of up to 600 directors - over 60 new to this edition - working in the US and Canada today, this volume is an invaluable reference for students, researchers and enthusiasts of film and popular culture. Each entry provides biographical information as well as insightful textual and thematic analysis of the director's work. In comprehensively covering a wide range of film-makers - from more established mainstream luminaries such as Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott and Kathryn Bigelow, through independent mavericks like Hal Hartley, Atom Egoyan, Jim Jarmusch and the Coen brothers, to innovative emerging talents including Marc Forster (Monster's Ball), Todd Field (In the Bedroom) and David Gordon Green (George Washington) - the shifting landscape of contemporary film-making is brought into sharp focus." Sur la 4e de couv.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Yoram Allon
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Release : 2002
File : 644 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1903364523


Contemporary British And Irish Film Directors

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The guide encompasses the careers of over 350 directors from the last 20 years. A must for any film studies library, it is a unique reference to the changing dynamics of these cinemas.

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Genre : Performing Arts
Author : Yoram Allon
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Release : 2001
File : 422 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1903364213


Fifty Contemporary Film Directors

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This book provides an accessible overview of each director’s contribution to cinema, incorporating a discussion of their career, major works and impact.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Yvonne Tasker
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2010-10-04
File : 494 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781136919466


The Wallflower Critical Guide To Contemporary North American Directors

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A guide to North American film directors arranged in alphabetical order.

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Genre : Performing Arts
Author : Yoram Allon
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Release : 2000
File : 556 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1903364108


The Hollywood Story

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This fully revised and updated edition of an award-winning classic traces the history of Hollywood from the silent era to the present day. The Hollywood Storycomprehensively covers every aspect of movie-making in America, taking in nickelodeans, drive-ins and multiplexes; the transition from silent to sound, black and white to color; the relationships of producers, directors, stars and technicians; and the function and output of the studios - their major hits and most expensive flops.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Joel Waldo Finler
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Release : 2003
File : 436 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1903364663


The Cinema Of Terrence Malick

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This updated book continues its explorations of identity, place and existence in his films, with three new essays by Adrian Martin, Mark Cousins and James Morrison on his latest film The New World (2005), as well as analysis of Badlands (1973), Days of Heaven (1978) and The Thin Red Line (1998).

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Genre : Performing Arts
Author : Hannah Patterson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Release : 2007
File : 246 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781905674268


The Cinema Of Kathryn Bigelow

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"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.

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Genre : Performing Arts
Author : Deborah Jermyn
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Release : 2003
File : 248 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1903364426


The Cinema Of Robert Lepage

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The Cinema of Robert Lepage is the first critical study of one of the most striking artists of Quebecois and Canadian independent filmmaking. The book examines Lepage's creative methods of filmmaking in their cultural and social context and argues that his work cannot be seen separately from his oeuvre as a multidisciplinary artist and challenges the notions that Lepage should be considered only in the terms of Quebecois film tradition. The author explores such themes with Lepage in a new exclusive and detailed interview.

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Genre : Performing Arts
Author : Aleksandar Dundjerovich
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Release : 2003
File : 196 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1903364337


The Cinema Of France

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An in-depth look at some of the best and most influential French films of all time, The Cinema of France contains 24 essays, each on an individual film. The book features works from the silent period and poetic realism, through the stylistic developments of the New Wave, and up to more contemporary challenging films, from directors such as Abel Gance, Jean Renoir, Marcel Carné, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda and Luc Besson. Set in chronological order, The Cinema of France provides an illuminating history of this essential national cinema and includes in-depth studies of films such as Un Chien Andalou (1929), Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953), Le Samouraï (1967), Shoah (1985), Jean de Florette (1986), Les Visiteurs (1993) and La Haine (1995).

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Genre : Performing Arts
Author : Phil Powrie
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Release : 2006
File : 314 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1904764460


Women Directors And Their Films

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Although women may have found greater film success in the areas of screenwriting, editing, design, and producing, there have been many women whose contributions as directors have been quite significant. In this guide to their careers and films, author Mary Hurd profiles the most noteworthy—from Barbara Kopple and her classic work in the documentary form, to Nora Ephron's insightful retellings of Hollywood's classic stories, to Sophia Coppola's current success in Hollywood. Women Directors and Their Films fills an important gap in the literature on the subject, offering a combination of biographical material and film analysis that effectively summarizes and encapsulates the life's work of these very different, very talented women. The selection includes women of the studio age (Ida Lupino, Dorothy Arzner), contemporary mainstream directors (Amy Heckerling, Nora Ephron), independents (Mary Harron, Nancy Savoca), documentarians (Barbara Kopple), experimental filmmakers (Maya Deren), and an assortment of acclaimed international filmmakers (Jane Campion, Agnes Varda). Profiles of the directors contain both biographical and critical segments. The first, biographical section provides a basic outline of the subject's life and career; the second offers a discussion of the director's films, featuring comments on the narrative, themes, visual techniques and style, and possible critical approaches to the work. Each chapter also includes a complete filmography and brief bibliography.

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Genre : Performing Arts
Author : Mary G. Hurd
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release : 2006-11-30
File : 188 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780313049163