Reading The Silver Screen

Author : Thomas C. Foster
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780062113405

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Reading the Silver Screen by Thomas C. Foster Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes an indispensable analysis of our most celebrated medium, film. No art form is as instantly and continuously gratifying as film. When the house lights go down and the lion roars, we settle in to be shocked, frightened, elated, moved, and thrilled. We expect magic. While we’re being exhilarated and terrified, our minds are also processing data of all sorts—visual, linguistic, auditory, spatial—to collaborate in the construction of meaning. Thomas C. Foster’s Reading the Silver Screen will show movie buffs, students of film, and even aspiring screenwriters and directors how to transition from merely being viewers to becoming accomplished readers of this great medium. Beginning with the grammar of film, Foster demonstrates how every art form has a grammar, a set of practices and if-then propositions that amount to rules. He goes on to explain how the language of film enables movies to communicate the purpose behind their stories and the messages they are striving to convey to audiences by following and occasionally breaking these rules. Using the investigative approach readers love in How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Foster examines this grammar of film through various classic and current movies both foreign and domestic, with special recourse to the “AFI 100 Years-100 Movies” lists. The categories are idiosyncratic yet revealing. In Reading the Silver Screen, readers will gain the expertise and confidence to glean all they can from the movies they love.

Author : Patton Oswalt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451673227

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Silver Screen Fiend by Patton Oswalt Pdf

"Between 1995 and 1999, Patton Oswalt lived with an unshakable addiction. It wasn't drugs, alcohol or sex: it was film. After moving to L.A., Oswalt became a huge film buff (or as he calls it, a sprocket fiend), absorbing classics, cult hits, and new releases at the New Beverly Cinema. Silver screen celluloid became Patton's life schoolbook, informing his notion of acting, writing, comedy, and relationships. Set in the nascent days of L.A.'s alternative comedy scene, Oswalt's memoir chronicles his journey from fledgling stand-up comedian to self-assured sitcom actor, with the colorful New Beverly collective and a cast of now-notable young comedians supporting him all along the way"--

Author : Christopher Edge
Publisher : Nosy Crow
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780857630537

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Shadows of the Silver Screen by Christopher Edge Pdf

Step into the past in this spine-tingling historical adventure from award-winning author Christopher Edge. Penelope Tredwell is the feisty thirteen-year-old orphan heiress of the bestselling magazine, The Penny Dreadful . Her masterly tales of the macabre are gripping Victorian Britain, even if no one knows she's the author. One day a mysterious filmmaker approaches The Penny Dreadful with a proposal to turn their sinister stories into motion pictures. Filming begins but is plagued by a series of strange and frightening events. As Penelope is drawn into the mysteries surrounding the filming she soon finds herself trapped in a nightmare penned by her own hand... Can Penny uncover the filmmaker's dark secret before it's too late? Spine-tingling historical adventure series with a supernatural twist! From the acclaimed author of The Many Worlds of Albie Bright and The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day . Related discussion notes and activity ideas available on the Nosy Crow website.

Author : Richard C. Stern,Clayton N. Jefford,Guerric DeBona
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0809138557

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Savior on the Silver Screen by Richard C. Stern,Clayton N. Jefford,Guerric DeBona Pdf

Savior on the Silver Screen examines nine movies about the life of Jesus - ranging from the traditional to the provocativeand explores how the image of Jesus in each reflects the time and culture in which the film was produced. The selections encompass silent, foreign, epic, and musical films. Both entertaining and insightful, Savior on the Silver Screen is structured for easy use in classroom, small group, and individual settings and includes rental information and practical tips for using the book. For each film there is an introduction, pre-viewing and post-viewing questions, and a discussion of its major features. -- Provided by publisher.

Author : Zhang Zhen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0226982378

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An Amorous History of the Silver Screen by Zhang Zhen Pdf

Illustrating the cultural significance of film and its power as a vehicle for social change, this book reveals the intricacies of the cultural movement and explores its connections to other art forms such as photography, drama, and literature.

Author : Justina Robson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : 0333754379

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Silver Screen by Justina Robson Pdf

Author : Paul Clee
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Cinematography
ISBN : 9780618445332

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Before Hollywood by Paul Clee Pdf

Offers a fascinating look a the world of entertainment before Hollywood, and explains how today's movies came to be.

Author : Nadia Higgins
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781467725026

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Nicholas Hoult by Nadia Higgins Pdf

You may know that Nicholas Hoult commands the big screen as Beast in X-Men. But did you know that he: • is a huge admirer of Muhammad Ali and sleeps underneath a poster of the boxing legend? • fell in love with acting at the age of three when he went to see his brother in a play? • calls reading his sisters' magazines his favorite guilty pleasure? Want to know more about the life of this talented actor? Read on to learn all about Nicholas's early years, parents and sibs, first acting job, love life, future films, and more!

Author : Adele Reinhartz
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664223591

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Scripture on the Silver Screen by Adele Reinhartz Pdf

Om amerikanske film som tolkes ud fra tekster i Bibelen

Author : Douglas E. Cowan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04
Category : Horror films
ISBN : 1481304909

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Sacred Terror by Douglas E. Cowan Pdf

Sacred Terror examines the religious elements lurking in horror films. It answers a simple but profound question: When there are so many other scary things around, why is religion so often used to tell a scary story? In this lucid, provocative book, Douglas Cowan argues that horror films are opportune vehicles for externalizing the fears that lie inside our religious selves: of evil; of the flesh; of sacred places; of a change in the sacred order; of the supernatural gone out of control; of death, dying badly, or not remaining dead; of fanaticism; and of the power--and the powerlessness--of religion.

Author : Candace Fleming
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780593708606

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Strongheart: Wonder Dog of the Silver Screen by Candace Fleming Pdf

For fans of Balto and other real-life dog stories, here's a heavily illustrated middle-grade novel about a canine movie star of the 1920s, dramatically told in both words and pictures by an acclaimed author and a Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator. When movie director Larry Trimble travels to Berlin searching for his next big star--a dog!--he finds Etzel, a fierce, highly trained three-year-old German shepherd police dog. Larry sees past the snarls and growls and brings Etzel back to Hollywood, where he is renamed Strongheart. Along with screenwriter Jane Murfin, Larry grooms his protégé to be a star of the silver screen--and he succeeds, starting with Strongheart's first film, The Love Master, which is released in 1921. Strongheart is soon joined by a leading lady, a German shepherd named Lady Julie, and becomes a sensation. Touching, charming, playful, and based on real events, this moving tale by Candace Fleming and illustrated by Eric Rohmann tells all about "the wonder dog" who took America by storm. A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF 2018 A CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF 2018

Author : Gemma Files
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504063630

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Experimental Film by Gemma Files Pdf

The award-winning author of the Hexslinger Series “explores the world of film and horror in a way that will leave you reeling” (Jeff VanderMeer, author of the Southern Reach Trilogy). Former film teacher Lois Cairns is struggling to raise her autistic son while freelancing as a critic when, at a screening, she happens upon a sampled piece of silver nitrate silent footage. She is able to connect it to the early work of Mrs. Iris Dunlopp Whitcomb, the spiritualist and collector of fairy tales who mysteriously disappeared from a train compartment in 1918. Hoping to make her own mark on the film world, Lois embarks on a project to prove that Whitcomb was Canada’s first female filmmaker. But her research takes her down a path not of darkness but of light—the blinding and searing light of a fairy tale made flesh, a noontime demon who demands that duty must be paid. As Lois discovers terrifying parallels between her own life and that of Mrs. Whitcomb, she begins to fear not just for herself, but for those closest to her heart. Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel “One of the standout horror novels of 2015 . . . From an author who has already established herself as one of the genre’s most original and innovative voices, Experimental Film is a remarkable achievement.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “Experimental Film represents the next, significant contribution to what is emerging as one of the most interesting and exciting bodies of work currently being produced in the horror field. Every film, Lois Cairns writes, is an experiment. The same might be said of every novel. This one succeeds, wildly.” —Locus “Experimental Film is sensational. When we speak of the best in contemporary horror and weird fiction, we must speak of Gemma Files.” —Laird Barron “[Experimental Film is] truly unnerving. This is a too-often overlooked postmodern gem.” —Esquire, “The 50 Best Horror Books of All Time”

Author : Anthony Chase
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 1565847008

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Movies on Trial by Anthony Chase Pdf

The popular culture of American law has never played a larger role than it does today in shaping the way we think about lawyers and the legal system. Our very definition of justice is now inseparable from motion picture and television images and popular legal narratives, from Hollywood westerns and O. J. Simpson to Law and Order and John Grisham. In Movies on Trial, law professor and movie aficionado Anthony Chase sorts out some of the complex and often contradictory notions Americans have about the legal system. He uses movies to investigate and inventory many of our deepest beliefs about law and politics, and provides a strong historical and intellectual context throughout. Analyzing Dirty Harry and True Believer for their commentary on the Miranda ruling and criminal procedure, and explaining tort law via The Verdict and A Civil Action, Chase also employs Three Kings to reveal changes in international law and The Rise to Power of Louis XIV to explore the rise of the modern state. Through the lens of film, he is able to describe and analyze the symbiosis between the image of law and its actual practice in our cultural imagination, in a genuinely illuminating and entertaining book.

Author : Scott McGee
Publisher : Running Press Adult
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 076247484X

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Danger on the Silver Screen by Scott McGee Pdf

"An entertaining, action-packed addition to the TCM program that celebrates an essential, but often overlooked or disregarded part of the film industry: stunts. Offering readers a unique perspective as well as history of the impact and evolution of stunt work, and behind-the-scenes stories from the stunt professionals who risked life and limb to make the magic happen"--

Author : Robbie Graham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1910121118

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Silver Screen Saucers by Robbie Graham Pdf

More so than any other medium, cinema has shaped our expectations of potential alien life and visitation. From The Day the Earth Stood Still and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, to Battleship, Prometheus and beyond, our hopes and fears of alien contact have been fuelled by the silver screen. But what messages does Hollywood impart to us about our possible otherworldly neighbours, from where do UFO movies draw their inspiration, and what other factors - cultural or conspiratorial - might influence their production and content? Silver Screen Saucers is a timely and revealing examination of the interplay between Hollywood's UFO movies and the UFO phenomenon itself, from 1950 to present day. The book grants the reader a rare, close-up examination of the DNA that builds our perceptions of the UFO mystery: one strand of this DNA weaves real events, stories and people from the historical record of UFOlogy, while the other spins and twists with the film and TV products they have inspired. With our alien dreams and nightmares now more fully visualized onscreen than ever before, Silver Screen Saucers asks the question: what does it all mean? Are all UFO stories just fever dreams from LA screenwriters, or are they based in something else? Could any of them be real and are they part of a bigger message? From interviews with screenwriters and directors whose visions have been shaped by their lifelong UFO obsessions; to Presidents Carter and Reagan talking aliens with Spielberg at the White House; to CIA and Pentagon manipulation of UFO-themed productions; to movie stars and producers being stalked by real Men in Black, Silver Screen Saucers provides fresh perspective on the frequently debated but little understood subject of UFOs & Hollywood. The book addresses questions such as: Does Hollywood fuel the UFO mythos, or vice versa? In other words, are our beliefs about alien visitation shaped by UFO movies, or are UFO movies shaped by our beliefs about alien visitation? Do Hollywood's UFO movies fictionalize the UFO phenomenon in the public mind, actualize it, or both? If and when humanity makes full and open contact with an unearthly intelligence, would we, as cinemagoers, be able to divorce Hollywood's historical imaginings from the reality with which we are presented? Indeed... Should we? After all, a great deal of Hollywood's UFO movie content has been closely informed by supposedly factual UFOlogical literature, events and debates. Perhaps, then, there is more truth to be found in Hollywood's UFO movies than we might imagine - which raises the question: Just how has so much dense UFOlogical theory (by its very nature 'fringe' and subcultural) managed find its way into Hollywood's populist science fiction narratives? Is Hollywood's incorporation of UFO lore attributable to a "Hollywood UFO conspiracy" designed to acclimate us to a UFO/alien reality, or is it merely the result of a natural cultural process? Silver Screen Saucers is bursting with ideas and information that will excite and intrigue any reader with a passing or serious interest in UFOs and/or science-fiction cinema."