Film Directors

Author : Andy Tuohy
Publisher : Cassell Illustrated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1788404017

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A-Z Great Film Directors by Andy Tuohy Pdf

A fun introduction to 52 of the greatest film directors, from Almodovar to Ozu, Fellini to Tarantino, and many more. A striking, design-led reference book. A-Z Great Film Directors features Andy Tuohy's portraits of 52 directors significant for their contribution to cinema including kings of world cinema Wong Kar-Wai and Akira Kurosawa, arthouse pioneers Fritz Lang and David Lynch as well as the often under-appreciated female directors Kathryn Bigelow and Jane Campion. With text by film journalist Matt Glasby, each director's entry will also have a summary of the essential things you need to know about them, why they're important, a list of their must-see films, and a surprising fact or two about them, as well as images of their key films throughout. So whether you're already a film aficionado, or looking for a helpful cheat to pass convincingly as an arthouse fan, you'll love this guide to international directors, past and present.

Author : Darragh Greene,Graham Price
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : John A. Gallagher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1989-05-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780313390289

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Film Directors on Directing by John A. Gallagher Pdf

Independent director and screenwriter John Andrew Gallagher, interviews 21 filmmakers on the craft of motion picture directing. Francois Truffaut, the late great French director, as well as Michael Cimino, Ulu Grosbard, Dennis Hopper, Alan Parker, Susan Seidelman, Joan Micklin Silver and many others reveal behind-the-scenes anecdotes about well known films and stars. The big gamblers who spend millions per film as well as the colorful low-budget kings provide an intriguing look at the mechanics of filmmaking. Choosing and preparing the screenplay, working with actors and crew, dealing with the distributor, and advice to young filmmakers--all are covered in this book's illuminating interviews. Serious students of cinema, filmmakers, movie buffs, and people fascinated by film will find Film Directors on in this book's illuminating interviews.

Author : Danny Shipka,Ralph Beliveau
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Horror films
ISBN : 1783206535

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International Horror Film Directors by Danny Shipka,Ralph Beliveau Pdf

Horror films have for decades commanded major global audiences, tapping into deep-rooted fears that cross national and cultural boundaries in their ability to spark terror. This book brings together a group of scholars to explore the ways that this fear is utilized and played upon by a wide range of filmmakers. Contributors take up such major figures as Guillermo del Toro, Lars Von Trier, and David Cronenberg, and they also offer introductions to lesser-known talents such as Richard Franklin, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Juan López Moctezuma, and Alexandre Aja. Scholars and fans alike dipping into this collection will discover plenty of insight into what chills us.

Author : David Thomson
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780593318157

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A Light in the Dark by David Thomson Pdf

From the celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film--an essential work on the preeminent, indispensable movie directors and the ways in which their work has forged, and continues to forge, the landscape of modern film. Directors operate behind the scenes, managing actors, establishing a cohesive creative vision, at times literally guiding our eyes with the eye of the camera. But we are often so dazzled by the visions on-screen that it is easy to forget the individual who is off-screen orchestrating the entire production--to say nothing of their having marshaled a script, a studio, and other people's money. David Thomson, in his usual brilliantly insightful way, shines a light on the visionary directors who have shaped modern cinema and, through their work, studies the very nature of film direction. With his customary candor about his own delights and disappointments, Thomson analyzes both landmark works and forgotten films from classic directors such as Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Renoir, and Jean-Luc Godard, as well as contemporary powerhouses such as Jane Campion, Spike Lee, and Quentin Tarantino. He shrewdly interrogates their professional legacies and influence in the industry, while simultaneously assessing the critical impact of an artist's personal life on his or her work. He explores the male directors' dominance of the past, and describes how diversity can change the landscape. Judicious, vivid, and witty, A Light in the Dark is yet another required Thomson text for every movie lover's shelf.

Author : Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh,Darrell William Davis
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231502993

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Taiwan Film Directors by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh,Darrell William Davis Pdf

Focusing on the work of four contemporary filmmakers—Ang Lee, Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Tsai Ming-liang—the authors explore how these filmmakers broke from tradition, creating a cinema that is both personal and insistent on examining Taiwan's complex history. Featuring stills, anecdotes, and close readings of films, the authors consider the influence of Hong Kong and martial arts films, directors' experiments with autobiography, the shifting fortunes of the Taiwanese film industry, and Taiwan cinema in the context of international cinema's aesthetics and business practices.

Author : Yoram Allon,Del Cullen,Hannah Patterson
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : David T. Johnson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : Audie Bock
Publisher : Kodansha
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : UVA:X001122220

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Japanese Film Directors by Audie Bock Pdf

Taking ten filmmakers, such as Oshima and Kurosawa, and following their caree chronologically has resulted in a history of Japanese film as well as a stud of each master.

Author : George Melnyk
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780888644794

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Great Canadian Film Directors by George Melnyk Pdf

Film directors articulate creative visions that provide insights into national cultures. 18 essays highlight Canada's prominent Anglophone and Francophone filmmakers.

Author : Eric Sherman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:49015001311472

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Directing the Film by Eric Sherman Pdf

Film-making wisdom and a fascinating mine of film lore make this a priceless resource for students, aspiring film professionals, and film fans.

Author : Robert K. Elder
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781569768280

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The Film That Changed My Life by Robert K. Elder Pdf

The movie that inspired filmmakers to direct is like the atomic bomb that went off before their eyes. The Film That Changed My Life captures that epiphany. It explores 30 directors' love of a film they saw at a particularly formative moment, how it influenced their own works, and how it made them think differently. Rebel Without a Cause inspired John Woo to comb his hair and talk like James Dean. For Richard Linklater, “something was simmering in me, but Raging Bull brought it to a boil.” Apocalypse Now inspired Danny Boyle to make larger-than-life films. A single line from The Wizard of Oz--“Who could ever have thought a good little girl like you could destroy all my beautiful wickedness?”--had a direct impact on John Waters. “That line inspired my life,” Waters says. “I sometimes say it to myself before I go to sleep, like a prayer.” In this volume, directors as diverse as John Woo, Peter Bogdanovich, Michel Gondry, and Kevin Smith examine classic movies that inspired them to tell stories. Here are 30 inspired and inspiring discussions of classic films that shaped the careers of today's directors and, in turn, cinema history.

Author : Maureen Lambray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006467687

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The American Film Directors by Maureen Lambray Pdf

Author : Karl French
Publisher : Miller/Mitchell Beazley
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781840007701

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Art by Film Directors by Karl French Pdf

Many of the greatest film directors began their careers as graphic designers, painters, or illustrators, but aside from the few established artist-directors such as Derek Jarman and Jean Cocteau, little is known of their creative work outside the medium of film. For the first time, film writer Karl French presents the exciting, diverse artwork of over 20 international directors, offering a fascinating new perspective on their work. Recent exhibitions on the subject prove that the time is ripe for a book that explores this exciting crossover of film and art. Includes gems like Alfred Hitchcock's atmospheric storyboards for The 39 Steps, Charlie Chaplin's sketches, and John Huston's luminous paintings. An iconic film still accompanies the artwork of each director.

Author : L. Andrew Cooper
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 50,7 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.