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Fifty Contemporary Film Directors

Yvonne Tasker
Fifty Contemporary Film Directors Book PDF

Author : Yvonne Tasker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136919459

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Fifty Contemporary Film Directors by Yvonne Tasker Pdf

Fifty Contemporary Film Directors examines the work of some of today’s most popular and influential cinematic figures. It provides an accessible overview of each director’s contribution to cinema, incorporating a discussion of their career, major works and impact. Revised throughout and with twelve new entries, this second edition is an up-to-date introduction to some of the most prominent film makers of the present day. The directors, from differing backgrounds and working across a range of genres, include: Martin Scorsese Steven Spielberg Sofia Coppola Julie Dash Shane Meadow Michael Moore Peter Jackson Guillermo Del Toro Tim Burton Jackie Chan Ang Lee Pedro Almodóvar. With further reading and a filmography accompanying each entry, this comprehensive guide is indispensable to all those studying contemporary film and will appeal to anyone interested in the key individuals behind modern cinema’s greatest achievements.

Richard Linklater

David T. Johnson
Richard Linklater Book PDF

Author : David T. Johnson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252094040

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Richard Linklater by David T. Johnson Pdf

Richard Linklater's filmmaking choices seem to defy basic patterns of authorship. From his debut with the inventive independent narrative Slacker, the Austin-based director's divergent films have included the sci-fi noir A Scanner Darkly, the socially conscious Fast Food Nation, the kid-friendly The School of Rock, the teen ensemble Dazed and Confused, and the twin romances Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. Yet throughout his varied career spanning two decades, Linklater has maintained a sense of integrity while working within a broad range of budgets, genres, and subject matters. Identifying a critical commonality among so much variation, David T. Johnson analyzes Linklater's preoccupation with the concept of time in many of his films, focusing on its many forms and aspects: the subjective experience of time and the often explicit, self-aware ways that characters discuss that experience; time and memory, and the ways that characters negotiate memory in the present; the moments of adolescence and early adulthood as crucial moments in time; the relationship between time and narrative in film; and how cinema, itself, may be becoming antiquated. While Linklater's focus on temporality often involves a celebration of the present that is not divorced from the past and future, Johnson argues that this attendance to the present also includes an ongoing critique of modern American culture. Crucially filling a gap in critical studies of this American director, the volume concludes with an interview with Linklater discussing his career.

Dario Argento

L. Andrew Cooper
Dario Argento Book PDF

Author : L. Andrew Cooper
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252094385

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Dario Argento by L. Andrew Cooper Pdf

Commanding a cult following among horror fans, Italian film director Dario Argento is best known for his work in two closely related genres, the crime thriller and supernatural horror, as well as his influence on modern horror and slasher movies. In his four decades of filmmaking, Argento has displayed a commitment to innovation, from his directorial debut with 1970's suspense thriller The Bird with the Crystal Plumage to 2009's Giallo. His films, like the lurid yellow-covered murder-mystery novels they are inspired by, follow the suspense tradition of hard-boiled American detective fiction while incorporating baroque scenes of violence and excess. While considerations of Argento's films often describe them as irrational nightmares, L. Andrew Cooper uses controversies and theories about the films' reflections on sadism, gender, sexuality, psychoanalysis, aestheticism, and genre to declare the anti-rational logic of Argento's oeuvre. Approaching the films as rhetorical statements made through extremes of sound and vision, Cooper places Argento in a tradition of aestheticized horror that includes De Sade, De Quincey, Poe, and Hitchcock. Analyzing individual images and sequences as well as larger narrative structures, he reveals how the director's stylistic excesses, often condemned for glorifying misogyny and other forms of violence, offer productive resistance to the cinema's visual, narrative, and political norms.

Contemporary Film Directors

Celestino Deleyto,Maria del Mar Azcona
Contemporary Film Directors Book PDF

Author : Celestino Deleyto,Maria del Mar Azcona
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252035692

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Contemporary Film Directors by Celestino Deleyto,Maria del Mar Azcona Pdf

This study of Mexican film director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu explores his role in moving Mexican filmmaking from a traditional nationalist agenda toward a more global focus. In studying the international scope of Iñárritu's influential films Amores Perros, 21 Grams, and Babel, the authors trace common themes such as human suffering and redemption, chance, and accidental encounters. The authors also analyze the director's visual style and his use of multiple characters and a fragmented narrative structure. The book concludes with an interview of Iñárritu that touches on the themes and subject matter of his chief works.

Manoel de Oliveira

Randal Johnson
Manoel de Oliveira Book PDF

Author : Randal Johnson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252047268

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Manoel de Oliveira by Randal Johnson Pdf

Understanding the iconoclastic work of a lifelong cinematic pioneer Manoel de Oliveira's eighty-five year career made him a filmmaking icon and a cultural giant in his native Portugal. A lifelong cinematic pioneer, Oliveira merged distinctive formal techniques with philosophical treatments of universal themes--frustrated love, aging, nationhood, evil, and divine grace--in films that always moved against mainstream currents. Randal Johnson navigates Oliveira's massive feature film oeuvre. Locating the director's work within the broader context of Portuguese and European cinema, Johnson discusses historical and political influences on Oliveira's work, particularly Portugal's transformation from dictatorship to social democracy. He ranges from Oliveira's early concerns with cinematic specificity to hybrid discourses that suggest a tenuous line between film and theater on the one hand, and between fiction and documentary on the other. A rare English-language portrait of the director, Manoel de Oliveira invites students and scholars alike to explore the work of one of the cinema's greatest and most prolific artists.

Contemporary North American Film Directors

Yoram Allon,Del Cullen,Hannah Patterson
Contemporary North American Film Directors Book PDF

Author : Yoram Allon,Del Cullen,Hannah Patterson
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1903364523

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Contemporary North American Film Directors by Yoram Allon,Del Cullen,Hannah Patterson Pdf

"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.

Pedro Almodóvar

Marvin D'Lugo
Pedro Almod var Book PDF

Author : Marvin D'Lugo
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252054716

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Pedro Almodóvar by Marvin D'Lugo Pdf

Perhaps the best-known Spanish filmmaker to international audiences, Pedro Almodóvar gained the widespread attention of English-speaking critics and fans with the Oscar-nominated Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and the celebrated dark comedy Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!. Marvin D'Lugo offers a concise, informed, and insightful commentary on a preeminent force in modern cinema. D'Lugo follows Almodóvar's career chronologically, tracing the director's works and their increasing complexity in terms of theme and the Spanish film tradition. Drawing on a wide range of critical sources, D'Lugo explores Almodóvar's use of melodrama and Hollywood genre film, his self-invention as a filmmaker, and his on-screen sexual politics. D'Lugo also discusses what he calls "geocultural positioning," that is, Almodóvar's paradoxical ability to use his marginal positions—in terms of his class, geographical origin, and identity—to develop an expressive language that is emotionally recognizable by audiences worldwide. Two fascinating interviews with the director round out the volume. An exciting consideration of an arthouse giant, Pedro Almodóvar mixes original interpretations into an analysis sure to reward film students and specialists alike.

Edward Yang

John Anderson
Edward Yang Book PDF

Author : John Anderson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 0252029933

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Edward Yang by John Anderson Pdf

Edward Yang is an influential filmmaker and founder of the Taiwanese New Wave of the 1980s. Film critic John Anderson offers an overview of the work of the writer-director, which is heavily influenced by his Taiwanese roots.

Contemporary British and Irish Film Directors

Yoram Allon,Del Cullen,Hannah Patterson
Contemporary British and Irish Film Directors Book PDF

Author : Yoram Allon,Del Cullen,Hannah Patterson
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1903364213

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Contemporary British and Irish Film Directors by Yoram Allon,Del Cullen,Hannah Patterson Pdf

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.

John Sayles

David R. Shumway
John Sayles Book PDF

Author : David R. Shumway
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252094088

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John Sayles by David R. Shumway Pdf

John Sayles is the very paradigm of the contemporary independent filmmaker. By raising much of the funding for his films himself, Sayles functions more independently than most directors, and he has used his freedom to write and produce films with a distinctive personal style and often clearly expressed political positions. From The Return of the Secaucus Seven to Sunshine State, his films have consistently expressed progressive political positions on issues including race, gender, sexuality, class, and disability. In this study, David R. Shumway examines the defining characteristic of Sayles's cinema: its realism. Positing the filmmaker as a critical realist, Shumway explores Sayles's attention to narrative in critically acclaimed and popular films such as Matewan, Eight Men Out, Passion Fish, and Lone Star. The study also details the conditions under which Sayles's films have been produced, distributed, and exhibited, affecting the way in which these films have been understood and appreciated. In the process, Shumway presents Sayles as a teacher who tells historically accurate stories that invite audiences to consider the human world they all inhabit.

Spike Lee

Todd McGowan
Spike Lee Book PDF

Author : Todd McGowan
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252095405

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Spike Lee by Todd McGowan Pdf

Since the release of Do the Right Thing in 1989, Spike Lee has established himself as a cinematic icon. Lee's mostly independent films garner popular audiences while at the same time engaging in substantial political and social commentary. He is arguably the most accomplished African American filmmaker in cinematic history, and his breakthrough paved the way for the success of many other African Americans in film. In this first single-author scholarly examination of Spike Lee's oeuvre, Todd McGowan shows how Lee's films, from She's Gotta Have It through Red Hook Summer, address crucial social issues such as racism, paranoia, and economic exploitation in a formally inventive manner. McGowan argues that Lee uses excess in his films to intervene in issues of philosophy, politics, and art. McGowan contends that it is impossible to watch a Spike Lee film in the way that one watches a typical Hollywood film. By forcing observers to recognize their unconscious enjoyment of violence, paranoia, racism, sexism, and oppression, Lee's films prod spectators to see differently and to confront their own excess. In the process, his films reveal what is at stake in desire, interpersonal relations, work, and artistic creation itself.

Todd Haynes

Rob White
Todd Haynes Book PDF

Author : Rob White
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252037566

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Todd Haynes by Rob White Pdf

Rob Whites highly readable book, which includes a major new interview with Haynes, is the first comprehensive study of the directors work.

Steven Soderbergh

Aaron Baker
Steven Soderbergh Book PDF

Author : Aaron Baker
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0252077962

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Steven Soderbergh by Aaron Baker Pdf

Steven Soderbergh's feature films present a diverse range of subject matter and formal styles: from the self-absorption of his breakthrough hit Sex, Lies, and Videotape to populist social problem films such as Erin Brockovich, and from the modernist discontinuity of Full Frontal and filmed performance art of Gray's Anatomy to a glossy, star-studded action blockbuster such as Ocean's Eleven. Using a combination of realism and expressive stylization of character subjectivity, Soderbergh's films diverge from the contemporary Hollywood mainstream through the statements they offer on issues including political repression, illegal drugs, violence, environmental degradation, the empowering and controlling potential of digital technology, and economic inequality. Arguing that Soderbergh practices an eclectic type of moviemaking indebted both to the European art cinema and the Hollywood genre film, Aaron Baker charts the common thematic and formal patterns present across Soderbergh's oeuvre. Almost every movie centers on an alienated main character, and Soderbergh has repeatedly emphasized place as a major factor in his narratives. Formally, he represents the unconventional thinking of his outsider protagonists through a discontinuous editing style. Including detailed analyses of major films as well as two interviews with the director, this volume illustrates Soderbergh's hybrid flexibility in bringing an independent aesthetic to wide audiences.

Personal Visions

Mario Falsetto
Personal Visions Book PDF

Author : Mario Falsetto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015050115123

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Personal Visions by Mario Falsetto Pdf

Falsetto (film studies, Concordia U., Montreal, Canada) deftly interviews 17 independent filmmakers about the films they created, emphasizing the more interesting aspects of how they conceived of the films, how they negotiated their way through the process of creation, and how they view their work i

Jane Campion

Kathleen McHugh
Jane Campion Book PDF

Author : Kathleen McHugh
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252074479

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Jane Campion by Kathleen McHugh Pdf

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