John Sayles

Author : John Sayles
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781642590784

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Yellow Earth by John Sayles Pdf

In Yellow Earth, John Sayles introduces an epic cast of characters, weaving together narratives of competing agendas and worldviews with lyrical dexterity, insight, and wit. When rich layers of shale oil are discovered beneath the town of Yellow Earth, all hell breaks loose. Locals, oil workers, service workers, politicians, law enforcement, and get-rich-quick opportunists—along with an earnest wildlife biologist—commingle and collide as the population of the town triples overnight. Harleigh Killdeer, chairman of the tribal business council of the neighboring Three Nations reservation, entertains visions of "sovereignty by the barrel" and joins forces with a fast-talking entrepreneur. From casino dealers to activists and high school kids, everyone in the region is swept up in the unsparing wave of an oil boom. Sayles’s masterful storytelling draws an arc from the earliest exploitation of this land and its people all the way to twenty-first-century privatization schemes. Through the intertwining lives of its characters, Yellow Earth lays bare how the profit motive erodes human relationships, as well as our living planet. The fate of Yellow Earth serves as a parable for our times.

Author : David R. Shumway
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,8 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.

Author : John Sayles
Publisher : McSweeney's
Page : 1054 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781936365708

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A Moment in the Sun by John Sayles Pdf

It’s 1897. Gold has been discovered in the Yukon. New York is under the sway of Hearst and Pulitzer. And in a few months, an American battleship will explode in a Cuban harbor, plunging the U.S. into war. Spanning five years and half a dozen countries, this is the unforgettable story of that extraordinary moment: the turn of the twentieth century, as seen by one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Shot through with a lyrical intensity and stunning detail that recall Doctorow and Deadwood both, A Moment in the Sun takes the whole era in its sights—from the white-racist coup in Wilmington, North Carolina to the bloody dawn of U.S. interventionism in the Philippines. Beginning with Hod Brackenridge searching for his fortune in the North, and hurtling forward on the voices of a breathtaking range of men and women—Royal Scott, an African American infantryman whose life outside the military has been destroyed; Diosdado Concepcíon, a Filipino insurgent fighting against his country’s new colonizers; and more than a dozen others, Mark Twain and President McKinley’s assassin among them—this is a story as big as its subject: history rediscovered through the lives of the people who made it happen.

Author : John Sayles
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1578061385

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John Sayles by John Sayles Pdf

Part of the "Conversations with Filmmakers" series, these interviews span Sayles's 20-year career as a writer, director, and sometimes actor. Photos. Filmography.

Author : John Sayles,Gavin Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0571192807

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Sayles on Sayles by John Sayles,Gavin Smith Pdf

Interviews with John Sayles who worked on such widely varied projects as The return of the Secaucus seven; Baby, it's you; Brother from another planet; Matewan; Passion fish; Piranha; Alligator; The howling; Apollo 13; City of hope, Lone star; Shannon's deal.

Author : Jack Ryan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786456826

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John Sayles, Filmmaker by Jack Ryan Pdf

In 1980, art house audience word of mouth about an unusual new movie, Return of the Secaucus Seven, launched the career of director John Sayles and with him the era of the independent filmmaker. Sayles has remained a maverick, writing, directing, editing and even acting in his own films. This fully updated revision of the author's 1998 first edition chronicles Sayles' entire career--including the story of his inauspicious beginning as a second-string actor and his work in fiction, theatre, music videos and television. A chapter is devoted to each of Sayles' feature films, offering background material on production funding, a plot sketch, an analysis of important characters, and a look at the language, setting, and politics. Each chapter also traces Sayles' technical development--his camera work, editing, musical arrangement and mise-en-scene. The book includes a complete filmography and a bibliography.

Author : Diane Carson,Heidi Kenaga
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814331556

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Sayles Talk by Diane Carson,Heidi Kenaga Pdf

His name is synonymous with "independent film," and for more than twenty-five years, filmmaker John Sayles has tackled issues ranging from race and sexuality to the abuses of capitalism and American culture, aspiring to a type of realism that Hollywood can rarely portray. This collection offers unprecedented coverage of Sayles's craft and content, as it deploys a rich variety of critical methods to explore the full scope of his work. Together the essays afford a deeper understanding not only of the individual films-including his 1980 The Return of the Secaucus Seven (named to the National Registry) and the recent Limbo and Men with Guns-but also of Sayles's unusual place in American cinema and his influence worldwide. The focus of Sayles's films is frequently on peoples' lives, not on stories with tidy endings, and often a main goal is to alert viewers of their complicity in the problems at hand. One might assume his style to be content driven, but closer inspection reveals a mix of styles from documentary to postmodern. In this anthology, a set of international scholars addresses these and many other aspects of Sayles's filmmaking as they explore individual works. Their methodological approaches include historical and industry analysis as well as psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory, to name a few. Sayles Talk is both an in-depth and wide-ranging tribute to the "father" of independent film. In one volume, readers can find discussions of most of Sayles's films together with a comprehensive introduction to his film practice, an annotated list of existing literature on Sayles, and information on resources for further inquiry into his fiction, film, and television work. Film students as well as seasoned critics will turn to this book time and again to enrich their understanding of one of America's great cinematic innovators and his legacy.

Author : John Sayles
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0306812665

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Thinking In Pictures by John Sayles Pdf

What choices--creative, practical, and technical--make a movie what it is? Here a gifted writer and filmmaker takes us behind the camera and provides a full description of the movie-making process.When John Sayles turned from writing fiction to making movies, he did so with little help from Hollywood: Return of the Secaucus Seven, Sayles's first movie as director and writer, was produced with 60,000 of his own money. Many films later, he still works outside the studio system and guides every phase of his productions.Now Sayles has written an illuminating book about the complex choices that lie at the heart of every movie. Using the making of his film Matewan as an example, he offers chapters on screenwriting, directing, editing, sound, and more. Photographs, sketches, and the complete shooting script illustrate this engaging account of how Sayles's curiosity about a coal miners' strike in the town of Matewan, West Virginia, became a screenplay--and then a movie.

Author : Mark Bould
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Independent filmmakers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132259461

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The Cinema of John Sayles by Mark Bould Pdf

Through discussion of films such as 'Return of the Secaucus 7', 'The Brother from Another Planet' 'Matewan' and 'Sunshine State', this study uncovers themes of racial and sexual otherness, capitalist excess and the erosion of community in the work of John Sayles.

Author : John Sayles
Publisher : Nation Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 156025730X

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Union Dues by John Sayles Pdf

The setting is Boston, Fall 1969. Radical groups plot revolution, runaway kids prowl the streets, cops are at their wits end, and work is hard to get, even for hookers. Hobie McNutt, a seventeen year old runaway from West Virginia drifts into a commune of young revolutionaries. It's a warm, dry place, and the girls are very available. But Hobie becomes involved in an increasingly vicious struggle for power in the group, and in the mounting violence of their political actions. His father Hunter, who has been involved in a brave and dangerous campaign to unseat a corrupt union president in the coal miners union, leaves West Virginia to hunt for his runaway son. To make ends meet, he takes day-labor jobs in order to survive while searching for him. Living parallel lives, their destinies ultimately movingly collide in this sprawling classic of radicalism across the generations, in the vein of Pete Hamill, Jimmy Breslin, and Richard Price.

Author : John Sayles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992-08
Category : Cuban Americans
ISBN : 0140156658

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Los Gusanos by John Sayles Pdf

Author : Frank Herbert
Publisher : WordFire +ORM
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781614750437

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Soul Catcher by Frank Herbert Pdf

“Deeply felt and magical . . .” a novel about the bond between a Native American and his captive is “an eloquent evocation of the old earth-life religion”(Kirkus Reviews). Katsuk, a militant Native American student, kidnaps thirteen-year-old David Marshall—the son of the US Undersecretary of State. The two flee into the deepest wilds of the Pacific Northwest, where they must survive together as teams of hunters try to track them. David begins to feel a growing respect for his captor, even as he struggles to escape. What the boy does not know, however, is that he has been chosen as an innocent from the white world for an ancient sacrifice of vengeance. And Katsuk may be divinely inspired . . . or simply insane.

Author : John Sayles,Jane Campion
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 1578060834

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Jane Campion by John Sayles,Jane Campion Pdf

Collected interviews with the New Zealand director of The Piano and Portrait of a Lady

Author : Kiki Eldridge
Publisher : Rockport Publishers
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781610601481

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1,000 Bags, Tags, and Labels by Kiki Eldridge Pdf

When attempting to create a bag, tag, or label design that is strong in every respect, you are contending with some of the world's best designers. To compete in this league, you have to know your competition. Finally, here is a book in which you can find 1,000 examples of brilliant bags, tags, and labels. Fresh ideas from a variety of industries are offered in a format that is as easy to read as any catalog. This book gives you the information you need to know in a quick-hit format, allowing the visuals to speak for themselves. Jam-packed with exciting samples from around the world, this consummate style resource provides you with an abundance of inspired ideas that will help your clients get noticed-and remembered.

Author : John Sayles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1560257253

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Pride of the Bimbos by John Sayles Pdf

The Pride of the Bimbos is John Sayles's outrageous, poignant and hilarious first novel, about a circus sideshow softball team—The Brooklyn Bimbos—who play in drag at scraggly small towns across the South. The heart of the team—and the novel—is a midget and former private eye named Pogo Burns, who is pursued by Dred, an evil super-pimp whom Pogo had earlier shot in order to rescue a woman he loved. The Pride of the Bimbos is about Pogo's rise, fall and eventual immortality, a man who refuses to admit he's a freak.