Cinema Speculation

Author : Quentin Tarantino
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780063112599

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Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino Pdf

Instant New York Times bestseller The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: a deliriously entertaining, wickedly intelligent cinema book as unique and creative as anything by Quentin Tarantino. In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. Now, with Cinema Speculation, the time has come, and the results are everything his passionate fans—and all movie lovers—could have hoped for. Organized around key American films from the 1970s, all of which he first saw as a young moviegoer at the time, this book is as intellectually rigorous and insightful as it is rollicking and entertaining. At once film criticism, film theory, a feat of reporting, and wonderful personal history, it is all written in the singular voice recognizable immediately as QT’s and with the rare perspective about cinema possible only from one of the greatest practitioners of the artform ever.

Author : Milkyway Media
Publisher : Milkyway Media
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Summary of Quentin Tarantino's Cinema Speculation by Milkyway Media Pdf

Get the Summary of Quentin Tarantino's Cinema Speculation in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Cinema Speculation" by Quentin Tarantino delves into the American film industry of the 1960s, focusing on iconic male stars like Steve McQueen, whose film choices were influenced by his first wife, Neile McQueen. The book examines "Bullitt," a film that redefined the cop genre with its stylish protagonist and emphasis on coolness and action over complex narrative. McQueen's portrayal of Frank Bullitt is celebrated for its minimalistic yet magnetic screen presence...

Author : Quentin Tarantino
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063112537

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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino Pdf

Quentin Tarantino’s long-awaited first work of fiction—at once hilarious, delicious and brutal—is the always surprising, sometimes shocking, novelization of his Academy Award winning film. RICK DALTON—Once he had his own TV series, but now Rick’s a washed-up villain-of-the week drowning his sorrows in whiskey sours. Will a phone call from Rome save his fate or seal it? CLIFF BOOTH—Rick’s stunt double, and the most infamous man on any movie set because he’s the only one there who might have got away with murder. . . . SHARON TATE—She left Texas to chase a movie-star dream, and found it. Sharon’s salad days are now spent on Cielo Drive, high in the Hollywood Hills. CHARLES MANSON—The ex-con’s got a bunch of zonked-out hippies thinking he’s their spiritual leader, but he’d trade it all to be a rock ‘n’ roll star.

Author : James Leo Cahill,Luca Caminati
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780429890321

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Cinema of Exploration by James Leo Cahill,Luca Caminati Pdf

Drawing together 18 contributions from leading international scholars, this book conceptualizes the history and theory of cinema’s century-long relationship to modes of exploration in its many forms, from colonialist expeditions to decolonial radical cinemas to the perceptual voyage of the senses made possible by the cinematic apparatus. This is the first anthology dedicated to analysing cinema’s relationship to exploration from a global, decolonial, and ecological perspective. Featuring leading scholars working with pathbreaking interdisciplinary methodologies (drawing on insights from science and technology studies, postcolonial theory, indigenous ways of knowing, and film theory and history), it theorizes not only cinema’s implication in imperial conquest but also its cutting-edge role in empirical expansion and experiments in sensual and critical perception. The collected essays consider filmmaking in cross-cultural contexts and films made in or about peoples in South America, Asia, Africa, Indigenous North America, as well as polar, outer space, and underwater exploration, with famous figures such as Jacques Yves Cousteau alongside amateur and scientific filmmakers. The essays in this collection are ideal for a broad range of scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students in cinema and media studies, cultural studies, and cognate fields.

Author : Mark Harris
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1594201528

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Pictures at a Revolution by Mark Harris Pdf

Documents the cultural revolution behind the making of 1967's five Best Picture-nominated films, including Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Graduate, Doctor Doolittle, In the Heat of the Night, and Bonnie and Clyde, in an account that discusses how the movies reflected period beliefs about race, violence, and identity. 40,000 first printing.

Author : Jason Bailey
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781610589178

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Pulp Fiction by Jason Bailey Pdf

When Pulp Fiction was released in theaters in 1994, it was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. The New York Times called it a “triumphant, cleverly disorienting journey,” and thirty-one-year-old Quentin Tarantino, with just three feature films to his name, became a sensation: the next great American director. Nearly twenty years later, those who proclaimed Pulp Fiction an instant classic have been proven irrefutably right. In Pulp Fiction: The Complete Story of Quentin Tarantino’s Masterpiece, film expert Jason Bailey explores why Pulp Fiction is such a brilliant and influential film. He discusses how the movie was revolutionary in its use of dialogue (“You can get a steak here, daddy-o,” “Correct-amundo”), time structure, and cinematography—and how it completely transformed the industry and artistry of independent cinema. He examines Tarantino’s influences, illuminates the film’s pop culture references, and describes its phenomenal legacy. Unforgettable characters like Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson), Vincent Vega (John Travolta), Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis), and Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) are scrutinized from all-new angles, and memorable scenes—Christopher Walken’s gold watch monologue, Vince’s explanation of French cuisine—are analyzed and celebrated. Much like the contents of Marcellus Wallace’s briefcase, Pulp Fiction is mysterious and spectacular. This book explains why. Illustrated throughout with original art inspired by the film, with sidebars and special features on everything from casting close calls to deleted scenes, this is the most comprehensive, in-depth book on Pulp Fiction ever published.

Author : Scott Ryan
Publisher : Fayetteville Mafia Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781949024715

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The Last Decade of Cinema 25 films from the nineties by Scott Ryan Pdf

“ I feel like Scott Ryan could have written this directly to me and others in our generation who have basically &‘ given up' on movies. It is at once tribute and eulogy, so bittersweet.” &– Screenwriter Helen Childress (Reality Bites)“ The nineties are lucky to have Scott Ryan.” &– Actress Natasha Gregson Wagner (Two Girls and a Guy, Lost Highway)Ah, the nineties. Movies were something in those days. We' re talking about a decade that began with GoodFellas and ended with Magnolia, with such films as Malcolm X, Before Sunrise, and Clueless arriving somewhere in between. Stories, characters, and writing were king; IP, franchise movies, and supersaturated superhero flicks were still years away. Or so says Scott Ryan, the iconoclastic author of The Last Days of Letterman and Moonlighting: An Oral History, who here turns his attention to The Last Decade of Cinema— the prolific 1990s. Ryan, who watched just about every film released during the decade when he was a video store clerk in a small town in Ohio, identifies twenty-five unique and varied films from the decade, including Pretty Woman, Pulp Fiction, Menace II Society, and The Shawshank Redemption, focusing with his trademark humor and insight on what made them classics and why they could never be produced in today' s film culture. The book also includes interviews with writers, directors, and actors from the era. Go back to the time of VCR' s, DVD rentals, and movies that mattered. Turn off your streaming services, put down your phones, delete your Twitter account, and take a look back at the nineties with your Eyes Wide Shut, a White Russian in your hand, and yell “ Hasta la vista, baby” to today' s meaningless entertainment. Revel in the risk-taking brilliance of Quentin Tarantino, Amy Heckerling, Spike Lee, Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson, and others in Scott Ryan' s magnum opus, The Last Decade of Cinema.

Author : Ernest Mathijs,Jamie Sexton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781444396430

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Cult Cinema by Ernest Mathijs,Jamie Sexton Pdf

Cult Cinema: an Introduction presents the first in-depth academic examination of all aspects of the field of cult cinema, including audiences, genres, and theoretical perspectives. Represents the first exhaustive introduction to cult cinema Offers a scholarly treatment of a hotly contested topic at the center of current academic debate Covers audience reactions, aesthetics, genres, theories of cult cinema, as well as historical insights into the topic

Author : Ian Nathan
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781781318683

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Quentin Tarantino by Ian Nathan Pdf

Get an intimate look at the cult filmmaker of our generation. Packaged in a handsome slipcase and loaded with stunning pictures from the Kobal archives, this biography explores the genesis of Tarantino's unique directorial style and provides insight into his inspirations and his frequent collaborations with favored actors. An 8-page foldout timeline presents Tarantino’s entire filmography in the heart of the book. Through in-depth and informative text written by renowned film journalist Ian Nathan, this book examines the entirety of Tarantino's work, including his early writing on screenplays such as True Romance and Natural Born Killers, his break-out directorial debut Reservoir Dogs and the career-defining Pulp Fiction, as well as his later iconic films, such as Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2, Inglourious Basterds, and Django Unchained. You'll also go behind the scenes of Tarantino's latest epic, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. As you make your way through Tarantino's incredible career, discover what inspired him, his working methods, and the breadth of his talent. With a visually arresting design that mimics Tarantino's approach to film-making and chapters organized by film, the pages are brimming with images taken on set and behind the scenes. This is the ultimate celebration for any Tarantino fan.

Author : Jorge Perez
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781487512453

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Confessional Cinema by Jorge Perez Pdf

In Confessional Cinema, Jorge Pérez analyzes how cinema engaged the shifting role of religion during the last fifteen years of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. Pérez interrogates the assumption that after 1957, when the Franco regime recast itself in a secular and modernizing fashion, religion vanished from the cultural field. Instead, Spanish cinema addressed the transformation within Spanish Catholicism following Vatican II and Spain’s modernization processes. Confessional Cinema offers the first analysis of a neglected body of Spanish films, "nun films," which focus on the active role of religious women in the transformation of Spanish Catholicism. Pérez argues that commercial films, despite being less aesthetically accomplished, delved more than oppositional, art-house films into the fluctuating zeitgeist of the development years regarding the transformations within Spanish Catholicism. Confessional Cinema offers a provocative and original analysis of the significance of religion not from a theological point of view, but rather as a socio-political force and cultural determinant in the Spanish public sphere of this period, known as desarrollismo (development years) from 1960-1975.

Author : Quentin Tarantino
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780316080651

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Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino Pdf

From the most original and beloved screenwriter of his generation, the complete Oscar-nominated screenplay of Quentin Tarantino's World War II epic Inglorious Basterds. From the brilliant writer/director behind the iconic films Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, comes Tarantino's most ambitious movie: a World War II epic starring Brad Pitt and filmed on location in Germany and France. The action tale follows the parallel story of a guerrilla-like squad of American soldiers called "The Basterds" and the French Jewish teenage girl Shosanna who find themselves behind enemy Nazi lines during the German occupation. When the Inglourious Basterds encounter Shosanna at a propaganda screening at the movie house she runs, they conspire to launch an unexpected plot to end the war. Pitt plays Lieutenant Aldo Raine -- the leader of the Basterds. Raine is an illiterate hillbilly from the mountains of Tennessee who puts together a team of eight Jewish-American soldiers to hunt down the Nazis. Filled with Tarantino's trademark electric dialogue and thrilling action sequences, Inglourious Basterds is one of the most celebrated films of the twenty-first century.

Author : Ian Nathan
Publisher : Iconic Filmmakers Series
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780711283657

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Clint Eastwood by Ian Nathan Pdf

Explore the works of one of Hollywood's most renowned filmakers - the iconic Clint Eastwood.

Author : Rosa Barba
Publisher : Hatje Cantz Verlag
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783775750288

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Rosa Barba by Rosa Barba Pdf

This publication engages with a futuristic progressive vision on the condition of cinema. By questioning and analyzing cinema's past and present industry with respect to various forms of staging from the perspective of artistic practice and research, a new space beyond is formulated. The author takes on a journey to reveal an imaginary—astronomical—political trope on and through what can be called the cinema of the present.

Author : Quentin Tarantino
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-08-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0063265958

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Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino Pdf

Author : P. Adams Sitney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199337026

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The Cinema of Poetry by P. Adams Sitney Pdf

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-270) and index.