In Search Of Lost Films

Author : Phil Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1593939388

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In Search of Lost Films by Phil Hall Pdf

It is one of the most astonishing facts of cinema history: an extraordinary number of important films are believed to be lost forever. Spanning from the early days of the silent movies to as late as the 1970s and touching all corners of the global film experience, groundbreaking works of significant historical and artistic importance are gone. Cinema icons including Orson Welles, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Oscar Micheaux and Vincente Minnelli are among those impacted by this tragedy, and pioneering technological achievements in color cinematography, sound film technology, animation and widescreen projection are among the lost treasures. How could this happen? And is it possible to recover these missing gems? In this book, noted film critic and journalist Phil Hall details circumstances that resulted in these productions being erased from view. For anyone with a passion for the big screen, In Search of Lost Films provides an unforgettable consideration of a cultural tragedy.

Author : Frank T. Thompson
Publisher : Carol Publishing Corporation
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018350657

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Lost Films by Frank T. Thompson Pdf

In Lost Films, Frank Thompson examines twenty-seven classic movies made between 1911 and the end of the silent era, including such works of genius as Ernst Lubitsch's The Patriot, Raoul Walsh's The Conquerer, Victor Seastrom's Garbo vehicle The Divine Woman, and F.W. Murnau's Four Devils.

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307781444

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In Search of Lost Time Volume I Swann's Way by Marcel Proust Pdf

In Swann’s Way, the themes of Proust’s masterpiece are introduced, and the narrator’s childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss. The recollection of the narrator’s love for Swann’s daughter Gilberte leads to an account of Swann’s passion for Odette and the rise of the nouveaux riches Verdurins. For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989). From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 4832 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679645689

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The Modern Library In Search of Lost Time, Complete and Unabridged 6-Book Bundle by Marcel Proust Pdf

Now in a convenient eBook bundle, this Modern Library edition provides the most authoritative, critically acclaimed translation of Marcel Proust’s masterpiece in six volumes, In Search of Lost Time, which includes Swann’s Way, Within a Budding Grove, The Guermantes Way, Sodom and Gomorrah, The Captive, The Fugitive, and Time Regained. Graham Greene considered Marcel Proust “the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.” Edmund Wilson proposed that he was “perhaps the last great historian of the loves.” And Virginia Woolf celebrated Proust for “his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity.” The prolific French master dazzled many of the most cherished authors of our time, and now his signature work comes alive in this practical and completely accessible eBook bundle. For these Modern Library volumes, D. J. Enright revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworkings of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s and Andreas Mayor’s translations to match the definitive French editions published in recent decades. Expertly and lovingly crafted to rival Marcel Proust’s original in elegance, precision, and emotional resonance, here is In Search of Lost Time as it was meant to be read.

Author : Harry Waldman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015050293300

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Missing Reels by Harry Waldman Pdf

During the first half of this century, motion pictures were often considered disposable once their circulations were over. The recycling of used film and the use of components for war efforts contributed to the loss of many movies, as did the unstable nature of the nitrate film itself. The loss of extant works has created gaps in the national cinematic history of the United States and most European countries. Eighty percent of all Western-made films produced before World War I are considered lost, while 15 percent of the films made from 1930 to 1950 are also missing. Here are descriptions of nearly 1,000 of the lost American and European films produced between 1900 and 1950, featuring the talents of the still famous as well as the now obscure. The films are arranged by country and reveal the remarkably prolific early filmmaking in countries like the Netherlands and Sweden. Each entry includes production information, cast, synopsis, history, and insights from reviews when available. Photographs from these films provide glimpses of what once was. An extensive index is included.

Author : Max Booth (III),Lori Michelle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Horror films
ISBN : 1943720290

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Lost Films by Max Booth (III),Lori Michelle Pdf

Booth and Michelle (Lost Signals) deliver a collection of 19 technological horror shorts that are rich in imagination but woefully inconsistent in quality. Bookended by two bland head-scratchers, "Lather of Flies" by Brian Evenson and "The Fantastic Flying Eraser Heads" by David James Keaton, this anthology features all manner of descents into madness, horror, and mayhem, aided by the largely inhuman hand of technology. Entries include the intensely, weirdly atmospheric ("I Hate All That Is Mine" by Leigh Harlen) and the frustratingly, mind-bendingly experimental ("Daddy's in a Snuff Film" by Kelby Losack). John C. Foster's "Archibald Leech, The Many-Storied Man," Brian Asman's "A Festival of Fiends," and Eugenia M. Triantafyllou's "Ghost Mapping" are exceptional offerings that sacrifice neither storytelling nor style in realizing their thought-provoking concepts.

Author : Farran Smith Nehme
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468310788

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Missing Reels by Farran Smith Nehme Pdf

New York in the late 1980s. Ceinwen Reilly has just moved from Yazoo City, Mississippi, and she’s never going back, minimum wage job (vintage store salesgirl) and shabby apartment (Avenue C walkup) be damned. Who cares about earthly matters when Ceinwen can spend her days and her nights at fading movie houses—and most of the time that’s left trying to look like Jean Harlow? One day, Ceinwen discovers that her downstairs neighbor may have—just possibly—starred in a forgotten silent film that hasn’t been seen for ages. So naturally, it’s time for a quest. She will track down the film, she will impress her neighbor, and she will become a part of movie history: the archivist as ingénue. As she embarks on her grand mission, Ceinwen meets a somewhat bumbling, very charming, 100% English math professor named Matthew, who is as rational as she is dreamy. Together, they will or will not discover the missing reels, will or will not fall in love, and will or will not encounter the obsessives that make up the New York silent film nut underworld. A novel as winning and energetic as the grand Hollywood films that inspired it, Missing Reels is an irresistible, alchemical mix of Nora Ephron and David Nicholls that will charm and delight.

Author : Olivia Cosentino,Brian Price
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781683403395

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The Lost Cinema of Mexico by Olivia Cosentino,Brian Price Pdf

The Lost Cinema of Mexico is the first volume to challenge the dismissal of Mexican filmmaking during the 1960s through 1980s, an era long considered a low-budget departure from the artistic quality and international acclaim of the nation’s earlier Golden Age. This pivotal collection examines the critical implications of discovering, uncovering, and recovering forgotten or ignored films. This largely unexamined era of film reveals shifts in Mexican culture, economics, and societal norms as state-sponsored revolutionary nationalism faltered. During this time, movies were widely embraced by the public as a way to make sense of the rapidly changing realities and values connected to Mexico’s modernization. These essays shine a light on many genres that thrived in these decades: rock churros, campy luchador movies, countercultural superocheros, Black melodramas, family films, and Chili Westerns. Redefining a time usually seen as a cinematic “crisis,” this volume offers a new model of the film auteur shaped by productive tension between highbrow aesthetics, industry shortages, and national audiences. It also traces connections from these Mexican films to Latinx, Latin American, and Hollywood cinema at large. A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez Contributors: Brian Price | Carolyn Fornoff | David S. Dalton | Christopher B. Conway | Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou | Ignacio Sánchez Prado | Dolores Tierney | Dr. Olivia Cosentino Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Author : Daniel Ford
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1478178183

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Incident at Muc Wa by Daniel Ford Pdf

"In April 1964, Daniel Ford opened his mail to find a check for $1,250-- an advance against royalties on Now Comes Theodora, his first novel, which Doubleday published the following year. Meanwhile the money bought a ticket to Saigon, where he spent three months with American advisors, helicopter crews, Seals, and Special Forces teams on their rounds of South Vietnam. There were 25,000 American military personnel and only fifty reporters in the country that summer. Almost all were volunteers, very few bothered with body armor, and nobody wore a steel helmet. The experience inspired Incident at Muc Wa and the Burt Lancaster film Go Tell the Spartans. 'Sad, bawdy, and compelling, ' wrote the reviewer from the Detroit Free Press."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Pauline Kael
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:803149753

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I Lost it at the Movies by Pauline Kael Pdf

Author : Paolo Cherchi Usai
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781911239130

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Silent Cinema by Paolo Cherchi Usai Pdf

Paolo Cherchi Usai provides a comprehensive introduction to the study, research and preservation of silent cinema from its heyday in the early 20th century to its present day flourishing. He traces the history of the moving image in its formative years, from Edison's and Lumière's first experiments to the dawn of 'talkies'; provides a clear guide to the basics of silent film technology; introduces the technical and creative roles involved in its production, and presents silent cinema as a performance event, rather than a passive viewing experience. This new, greatly expanded edition takes the reader on a new journey, exploring silent cinema in the broader context of technology, culture, and society, from the invention of celluloid film and its related machinery to film studios, laboratories, theatres and audiences. Among the people involved in the creation of a new art form were filmmakers, actors and writers, but also engineers, entrepreneurs, and projectionists. Their collective efforts, and the struggle to preserve their creative work by archives and museums, are interwoven in a compelling story covering three centuries of media history, from the magic lantern to the reinvention of silent cinema in digital form. The new edition also includes comprehensive resource information for the study, research, preservation and exhibition of silent cinema.

Author : E. Dawn Hall
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474411134

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ReFocus: The Films of Kelly Reichardt by E. Dawn Hall Pdf

In this close reading of her films and production methods, E. Dawn Hall defines Reichardt's auteur characteristics, arguing that she offers a contemporary and sustainable model for independent filmmakers in America.

Author : John Bengtson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111014010

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Silent Echoes by John Bengtson Pdf

Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton is an epic look at a genius at work and at a Hollywood that no longer exists. Painstakingly researching the locations used in Buster Keaton's classic silent films, author John Bengtson combines images from Keaton's movies with archival photographs, historic maps, and scores of dramatic "then" and "now" photos. In the process, Bengtson reveals dozens of locations that lay undiscovered for nearly 80 years. Part time machine, part detective story, Silent Echoes presents a fresh look at the matchless Keaton at work, as well as a captivating glimpse of Hollywood's most romantic era. More than a book for film, comedy, or history buffs, Silent Echoes appeals to anyone fascinated with solving puzzles or witnessing the awesome passage of time.

Author : Michael Klossner
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476609140

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Prehistoric Humans in Film and Television by Michael Klossner Pdf

From the early days of the movies, “cavemen” have been a popular subject for filmmakers—not surprisingly, since the birth of cinema occurred only a few decades after the earliest scientific studies of prehistoric man. Filmmakers, however, were not constrained by the emerging science; instead they most often took a comedic look at prehistory, a trend that continued throughout the 20th century. Prehistoric humans also populated adventure-fantasy films, with the original One Million B.C. (1940) leading the charge. Documentaries were also made, but it was not until the 1970s that accurate film accounts of prehistoric humans finally emerged. This exhaustive work provides detailed accounts of 581 film and television productions that feature depictions of human prehistory. Included are dramas and comedies set in human prehistory; documentaries; and films and television shows in which prehistoric people somehow exist in historical periods—from the advent of civilization up to the present—or in extraterrestrial settings. Each entry includes full filmographic data, including year of release, running time, production personnel, cast information, and format. A description of each film provides background on the prehistoric elements. Contemporary critical commentary is included for many of the works.

Author : Robert K. Klepper
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476604848

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Silent Films, 1877Ð1996 by Robert K. Klepper Pdf

This film reference covers 646 silent motion pictures, starting with Eadweard Muybridge’s initial motion photography experiments in 1877 and even including The Taxi Dancer (1996). Among the genres included are classics, dramas, Westerns, light comedies, documentaries and even poorly produced early pornography. Masterpieces such as Joan the Woman (1916), Intolerance (1916) and Faust (1926) can be found, as well as rare titles that have not received critical attention since their original releases. Each entry provides the most complete credits possible, a full description, critical commentary, and an evaluation of the film’s unique place in motion picture history. Birth dates, death dates, and other facts are provided for the directors and players where available, with a selection of photographs of those individuals. The work is thoroughly indexed.