Contemporary North American Film Directors

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:318036509

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Contemporary North American film directors by Anonim Pdf

Author : Yoram Allon,Del Cullen,Hannah Patterson
Publisher : London : Wallflower
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015053045202

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The Wallflower Critical Guide to Contemporary North American Directors by Yoram Allon,Del Cullen,Hannah Patterson Pdf

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

Author : Yoram Allon,Del Cullen,Hannah Patterson
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 43,5 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.

Author : Celestino Deleyto,Maria del Mar Azcona
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,7 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.

Author : Yvonne Tasker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,8 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.

Author : David T. Johnson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,5 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.

Author : Yoram Allon,Del Cullen,Hannah Patterson
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1903364108

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The Wallflower Critical Guide to Contemporary North American Directors by Yoram Allon,Del Cullen,Hannah Patterson Pdf

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

Author : Hannah Patterson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231850117

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The Cinema of Terrence Malick by Hannah Patterson Pdf

With 2005's acclaimed and controversial The New World, one of cinema's most enigmatic filmmakers returned to the screen with only his fourth feature film in a career spanning thirty years. While Terrence Malick's work has always divided opinion, his poetic, transcendent filmic language has unquestionably redefined modern cinema, and with a new feature scheduled for 2008, contemporary cinema is finally catching up with his vision. This updated second edition of The Cinema of Terrence Malick: Poetic Visions of America charts the continuing growth of Malick's oeuvre, exploring identity, place, and existence in his films. Featuring two new original essays on his latest career landmark and extensive analysis of The Thin Red Line-Malick's haunting screen treatment of World War II-this is an essential study of a visionary poet of American cinema.

Author : Darragh Greene,Graham Price
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476668895

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Film Directors and Emotion by Darragh Greene,Graham Price Pdf

Cinema is an affective medium. Films move us to feel wonder, joy, and love as well as fear, anger, and hatred. Today, we are living through a new age of sensibility when emotion is given priority over reason. Yet, there is a counter-cultural current in contemporary American cinema that offers a more nuanced treatment of emotion. Both aesthetically and eidetically, this new cinema of affect allows viewers to make up their own minds about what they feel and think. This book focuses on key films by important auteur-directors--David Fincher, Bryan Singer, Christopher Nolan, Kathryn Bigelow, Richard Linklater, Barry Jenkins, Greta Gerwig, and Pete Docter--who are to the forefront of this new cinema. It explores how they anatomize affect and how it functions in the creation or degradation of character and society.

Author : Mary K. Mannix,Fred Burchsted
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838912959

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Guide to Reference in Genealogy and Biography by Mary K. Mannix,Fred Burchsted Pdf

Profiling more than 1400 print and electronic sources, this book helps connect librarians and researchers to the most relevant sources of information in genealogy and biography.

Author : Deborah Jermyn,Sean Redmond
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1903364426

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The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow by Deborah Jermyn,Sean Redmond Pdf

"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.

Author : Aleksandar Dundjerovich
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1903364337

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The Cinema of Robert Lepage by Aleksandar Dundjerovich Pdf

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.

Author : Phil Powrie
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1904764460

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The Cinema of France by Phil Powrie Pdf

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).

Author : Peter Krämer
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1904764584

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The New Hollywood by Peter Krämer Pdf

In 1967, Time Magazine's cover featured 'Bonnie and Clyde' (1967) and announced a renaissance in American cinema. The author looks at the influence this generation had on Hollywood at the time, not only in the aesthetics and politics of the films, but also the changes in the studio system.