Tashlinesque

Author : Ethan de Seife
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780819572417

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Tashlinesque by Ethan de Seife Pdf

Frank Tashlin (1913–1972) was a supremely gifted satirist and visual stylist who made an indelible mark on 1950s Hollywood and American popular culture—first as a talented animator working on Looney Tunes cartoons, then as muse to film stars Jerry Lewis, Bob Hope, and Jayne Mansfield. Yet his name is not especially well known today. Long regarded as an anomaly or curiosity, Tashlin is finally given his due in this career-spanning survey. Tashlinesque considers the director’s films in the contexts of Hollywood censorship, animation history, and the development of the genre of comedy in American film, with particular emphasis on the sex, satire, and visual flair that comprised Tashlin’s distinctive artistic and comedic style. Through close readings and pointed analyses of Tashlin’s large and fascinating body of work, Ethan de Seife offers fresh insights into such classic films as Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, The Girl Can’t Help It, Artists and Models, The Disorderly Orderly, and Son of Paleface, as well as numerous Warner Bros. cartoons starring Porky Pig, among others. This is an important rediscovery of a highly unusual and truly hilarious American artist. Includes a complete filmography.

Author : Jonathan Rosenbaum
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780801895142

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Essential Cinema by Jonathan Rosenbaum Pdf

In his astute and deeply informed film reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum regularly provides new and brilliant insights into the cinema as art, entertainment, and commerce. Guided by a personal canon of great films, Rosenbaum sees, in the ongoing hostility toward the idea of a canon shared by many within the field of film studies, a missed opportunity both to shape the discussion about cinema and to help inform and guide casual and serious filmgoers alike. In Essential Cinema, Rosenbaum forcefully argues that canons of great films are more necessary than ever, given that film culture today is dominated by advertising executives, sixty-second film reviewers, and other players in the Hollywood publicity machine who champion mediocre films at the expense of genuinely imaginative and challenging works. He proposes specific definitions of excellence in film art through the creation a personal canon of both well-known and obscure movies from around the world and suggests ways in which other canons might be similarly constructed. Essential Cinema offers in-depth assessments of an astonishing range of films: established classics such as Rear Window, M, and Greed; ambitious but flawed works like The Thin Red Line and Breaking the Waves; eccentric masterpieces from around the world, including Irma Vep and Archangel; and recent films that have bitterly divided critics and viewers, among them Eyes Wide Shut and A.I. He also explores the careers of such diverse filmmakers as Robert Altman, Raúl Ruiz, Frank Tashlin, Elaine May, Sam Fuller, Terrence Davies, Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Orson Welles. In conclusion, Rosenbaum offers his own film canon of 1,000 key works from the beginning of cinema to the present day. A cogent and provocative argument about the art of film, Essential Cinema is also a fiercely independent reference book of must-see movies for film lovers everywhere.

Author : Jonathan Rosenbaum
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780801878404

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Essential Cinema by Jonathan Rosenbaum Pdf

A cogent and provocative argument about the art of film, Essential Cinema is a fiercely independent reference book of must-see movies for film lovers everywhere.

Author : David Pinho Barros
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9789462703209

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The Clear Line in Comics and Cinema by David Pinho Barros Pdf

Historical and theoretical analysis of the “clear line” style in comics and cinema The “clear line”, a term coined in 1977 by Dutch essayist and artist Joost Swarte, has become shorthand in the field of comics studies for the style originally developed by Hergé and the École de Bruxelles. It refers to certain storytelling strategies that generate a deceptively simple, lucid, and hygienic narration: in Philippe Marion’s words, it is a style “made out of light, fluidity and limpid clarity”. By cataloguing and critically analysing clear line comics from historical and theoretical perspectives, this book offers a new outlook on the development of the style in the 20th and 21st centuries, especially focused on the context of the European bande dessinée. In addition, it pioneeringly expands the concept of “clear line” to other artistic domains by introducing and defending its transmedial use, which is particularly relevant for the understanding of the oeuvres of certain filmmakers of the 20th century working in the postwar period, such as Yasujirô Ozu in Japan, Jacques Tati in France and Frank Tashlin in the United States. The Clear Line in Comics and Cinema is therefore a key theoretical work for both bande dessinée enthusiasts and comics scholars, as well as a fundamental contribution to present-day film studies and transmedial narratology.

Author : Suzanne Leonard,Yvonne Tasker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317593935

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Fifty Hollywood Directors by Suzanne Leonard,Yvonne Tasker Pdf

Fifty Hollywood Directors introduces the most important, iconic and influential filmmakers who worked in Hollywood between the end of the silent period and the birth of the blockbuster. By exploring the historical, cultural and technological contexts in which each director was working, this book traces the formative period in commercial cinema when directors went from pioneers to industry heavyweights. Each entry discusses a director’s practices and body of work and features a brief biography and suggestions for further reading. Entries include: Frank Capra Cecil B DeMille John Ford Alfred Hitchcock Fritz Lang Orson Welles DW Griffith King Vidor This is an indispensible guide for anyone interested in film history, Hollywood and the development of the role of the director.

Author : Roger Garcia,Bernard Eisenschitz
Publisher : British Film Institute
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UOM:39015032718747

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Frank Tashlin by Roger Garcia,Bernard Eisenschitz Pdf

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Author : Joceline Andersen
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814346921

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Stars and Silhouettes by Joceline Andersen Pdf

Stars and Silhouettes: The History of the Cameo Role in Hollywood traces the history of the cameo as it emerged in twentieth-century cinema. Although the cameo has existed in film culture for over a century, Joceline Andersen explains that this role cannot be strictly defined because it exists as a constellation of interactions between duration and recognition, dependent on who is watching and when. Even audiences of the twenty-first century who are inundated by the lives of movie stars and habituated to images of their personal friends on screens continue to find cameos surprising and engaging. Cameos reveal the links between our obsession with celebrity and our desire to participate in the powerful cultural industries within contemporary society. Chapter 1 begins with the cameo’s precedents in visual culture and the portrait in particular—from the Vitagraph executives in the 1910s to the emergence of actors as movie stars shortly after. Chapter 2 explores the fan-centric desire for behind-the-scenes visions of Hollywood that accounted for the success of cameo-laden, Hollywood-set films that autocratic studios used to make their glamorous line-up of stars as visible as possible. Chapter 3 traces the development of the cameo in comedy, where cameos began to show not only glimpses of celebrities at their best but also of celebrities at their worst. Chapter 4 examines how the television guest spot became an important way for stars and studios to market both their films and stars from other media in trades that reflected an increasingly integrated mediascape. In Chapter 5, Andersen examines auteur cameos and the cameo as a sign of authorship. Director cameos reaffirm the fan’s interest in the film not just as a stage for actors but as a forum for the visibility of the director. Cameos create a participatory space for viewers, where recognizing those singled out among extras and small roles allows fans to demonstrate their knowledge. Stars and Silhouettes belongs on the shelf of every scholar, student, and reader interested in film history and star studies.

Author : UCLA Film and Television Archive
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCR:31210015898198

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Archive by UCLA Film and Television Archive Pdf

Author : Tim Palmer
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0819570001

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Brutal Intimacy by Tim Palmer Pdf

Brutal Intimacy is the first book to explore the fascinating films of contemporary France, ranging from mainstream genre spectaculars to arthouse experiments, and from wildly popular hits to films that deliberately alienate the viewer. Twenty-first-century France is a major source of international cinema—diverse and dynamic, embattled yet prosperous—a national cinema offering something for everyone. Tim Palmer investigates France’s growing population of women filmmakers, its buoyant vanguard of first-time filmmakers, the rise of the controversial cinema du corps, and France’s cinema icons: auteurs like Olivier Assayas, Claire Denis, Bruno Dumont, Gaspar Noé, and stars such as Vincent Cassel and Jean Dujardin. Analyzing dozens of breakthrough films, Brutal Intimacy situates infamous titles alongside many yet to be studied in the English language. Drawing on interviews and the testimony of leading film artists, Brutal Intimacy promises to be an influential treatment of French cinema today, its evolving rivalry with Hollywood, and its ambitious pursuits of audiences in Europe, North America, and around the world.

Author : R. Barton Palmer
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813547664

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Larger Than Life by R. Barton Palmer Pdf

A Volume in the Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema series, edited by Adrienne L. McLean and Murray Pomerance --Book Jacket.

Author : Ethan de Seife
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Animated films
ISBN : WISC:89090406141

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Cheerful Nihilism by Ethan de Seife Pdf

Author : George Axelrod
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573617953

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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? by George Axelrod Pdf

Farcical version of the Faust legend, satirizing the theater and motion pictures.

Author : Frank Tashlin
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486800806

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The Possum That Didn't by Frank Tashlin Pdf

A contented little possum is discovered by a group of picknickers who, mistaking his upside-down smile for a frown, resolve to rescue him.

Author : J. Hoberman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0877228647

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Vulgar Modernism by J. Hoberman Pdf

For the past dozen years, J. Hoberman has been publishing witty, impassioned, vivid film criticism in the pages of New York's alternative weekly, The Village Voice. His first collection includes a variety of these (mostly) movie reviews, as well as a number of longer essays and film-festival reports, all written during the 1980s. For Hoberman, film criticism is a form of social commentary, and his articles reflect a decade when an actor was president, the Vietnam War was refought on the nation's movie screens, and soundbites determined elections. The variety of Hoberman's interests and the intellectual depth of his critiques are remarkable. Writing from the perspective of Lower Manhattan, he places movies in the context of the other visual arts--painting, photography, comics, video, and TV--as well as that of postmodem theorists such as Leslie Fiedler and Jean Baudrillard. Demonstrating the widest range of any American film critic writing today, Hoberman is equally at home discussing the work of Steven Spielberg and Andrei Tarkovsky, films by cutting-edge artists Raul Ruiz and Yvonne Rainer, and historical figures as disparate as Charles Chaplin and Andy Warhol. Vulgar Modernism offers an entertaining, trenchant, informed, and informative view of the past decade's popular culture.

Author : Jean-Luc Godard
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034845052

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Godard on Godard; Critical Writings by Jean-Luc Godard Pdf

"Jean-Luc Godard, like many of his European contemporaries, came to filmmaking through film criticism. This collection of essays and interviews, ranging from his early efforts for La Gazette du Cinema"