The Crime Films Of Anthony Mann

Author : Max Alvarez
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781617039249

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The Crime Films of Anthony Mann by Max Alvarez Pdf

Anthony Mann (1906-1967) is renowned for his outstanding 1950s westerns starring James Stewart (Winchester '73, The Naked Spur, The Man from Laramie). But there is more to Mann's cinematic universe than those tough Wild West action dramas featuring conflicted and secretive heroes. This brilliant Hollywood craftsman also directed fourteen electrifying crime thrillers between 1942 and 1951, among them such towering achievements in film noir as T-Men, Raw Deal, and Side Street. Mann was as much at home filming dark urban alleys in black-and-white as he was the prairies and mountains in Technicolor, and his protagonists were no less conflicted and secretive than his 1950s cowboys. In these Mann crime thrillers we find powerful stories of sexual obsession (The Great Flamarion), the transforming images of women in wartime and postwar America (Strangers in the Night, Strange Impersonation), exploitation of Mexican immigrants (Border Incident), studies of the criminal mind (He Walked by Night), and Civil War bigotry (The Tall Target). Mann's forceful camera captured such memorable and diverse stars as Erich von Stroheim, Farley Granger, Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor, Richard Basehart, Ricardo Montalbán, Ruby Dee, and Raymond Burr. The Crime Films of Anthony Mann features analysis of rare documents, screenplays, story treatments, and studio memoranda and reveals detailed behind-the-scenes information on preproduction and production on the Mann thrillers. Author Max Alvarez uses rare and newly available sources to explore the creation of these noir masterworks. Along the way, the book exposes secrets and solves mysteries surrounding the mercurial director and his remarkable career, which also included Broadway and early live television.

Author : Andrew Spicer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317875024

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Film Noir by Andrew Spicer Pdf

Film Noir is an overview of an often celebrated, but also contested, body of films. It discusses film noir as a cultural phenomenon whose history is more extensive and diverse than American black and white crime thrillers of the forties. An extended Background Chapter situates film noir within its cultural context, describing its origin in German Expressionism, French Poetic Realism and in developments within American genres, the gangster/crime thriller, horror and the Gothic romance and its possible relationship to changes in American society. Five chapters are devoted to ‘classic’ film noir (1940-59): chapters explore its contexts of production and reception, its visual style, and its narrative patterns and themes chapters on character types and star performances elucidate noir’s complex construction of gender with its weak, ambivalent males and predatory femmes fatales and also provide a detailed analysis of three noir auteurs, - Anthony Mann, Robert Siodmak and Fritz Lang Three chapters investigate ‘neo-noir’ and British film noir: chapters trace the complex evolution of ‘neo-noir’ in American cinema, from the modernist critiques of Night Moves and Taxi Driver, to the postmodern hybridity of contemporary noir including Seven, Pulp Fiction and Memento the final chapter surveys the development of British film noir, a significant and virtually unknown cinema, stretching from the thirties to Mike Hodges’ Croupier Films discussed include both little known examples and seminal works such as Double Indemnity, Scarlet Street, Kiss Me Deadly and Touch of Evil. A final section provides a guide to further reading, an extensive bibliography and a list of over 500 films referred to in the text. Lucidly written, Film Noir is an accessible, informative and stimulating introduction that will have a broad appeal to undergraduates, cinéastes, film teachers and researchers.

Author : Jeanine Basinger
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0819568457

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Anthony Mann by Jeanine Basinger Pdf

Classic study of a filmmaker's career, now including every Mann film. Back in print—new and expanded edition. Director of such often-revived films as Winchester '73, The Glenn Miller Story, and El Cid, Anthony Mann enjoyed a lasting and important career as one of Hollywood's premier filmmakers. Mann's Westerns, noir pictures, and epics are admired and studied by fans and scholars alike, and he was an expert in the fundamental elements of cinema (movement and placement of the camera, composition in the frame, and careful editing). Jeanine Basinger's Anthony Mann, which places the director's visual style at the center of its analysis, was among the first formal studies of any filmmaker, and it set a standard in the field over twenty-five years ago. Long out of print and much in demand, this pioneering book is now available again, featuring complete coverage of those Mann films not discussed in the original work, as well as over fifty rare film stills. Wesleyan is proud to issue this expanded edition of an essential text, making it available to new generations of filmgoers and readers.

Author : Geoff Mayer
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810867697

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Historical Dictionary of Crime Films by Geoff Mayer Pdf

The crime film genre consists of detective films, gangster films, suspense thrillers, film noir, and caper films and is produced throughout the world. Crime film was there at the birth of cinema, and it has accompanied cinema over more than a century of history, passing from silent films to talkies, from black-and-white to color. The genre includes such classics as The Maltese Falcon, The Godfather, Gaslight, The French Connection, and Serpico, as well as more recent successes like Seven, Drive, and L.A. Confidential. The Historical Dictionary of Crime Films covers the history of this genre through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on key films, directors, performers, and studios. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about crime cinema. -- from Amazon.com.

Author : Jeanine Basinger
Publisher : Boston : Twayne Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015003845933

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Anthony Mann by Jeanine Basinger Pdf

Author : Sue Matheson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476646107

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The Good, the Bad and the Ancient by Sue Matheson Pdf

Although Americans are no longer compelled to learn Greek and Latin, classical ideals remain embedded in American law and politics, philosophy, oratory, history and especially popular culture. In the Western genre, many film and television directors (such as John Ford, Raoul Walsh, Howard Hawks, Anthony Mann and Sam Peckinpah) have drawn inspiration from antiquity, and the classical values and influences in their work have shaped our conceptions of the West for years. This thought-provoking, first-of-its-kind collection of essays celebrates, affirms and critiques the West's relationship with the classical world. Explored are films like Cheyenne Autumn, The Wild Bunch, The Track of the Cat, Trooper Hook, The Furies, Heaven's Gate, and Slow West, as well as serials like Gunsmoke and Lonesome Dove.

Author : John Alton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520275843

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Painting With Light by John Alton Pdf

"A wonderful introduction to the workings of the Hollywood system. We learn in rich and yet accessible detail about special effects, technical wizardry and gadgetry, lighting, make-up, the breakdown of crews, and filming strategies. The book is legendary and its reprint is a major event for film study."—Dana Polan, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Author : Wheeler Winston Dixon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993-02-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253113431

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Early Film Criticism of Francois Truffaut by Wheeler Winston Dixon Pdf

Before turning to filmmaking, Francois Truffaut was a film critic writing for Cahiers du Cinema during the 1950s. The Early film Criticism of Francois Truffaut makes available, for the first time in English, articles that originally appeared in French journals such as Cahiers du Cinema and Arts. Truffaut discusses films by such acknowledged masters as Hitchcock, Huston, Dymytryk, and Lang, but also examines the work of such lesser-known directors as Robert Wise, Don Weis, and Roger Vadim.

Author : Alain Silver,ElizabethM Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:49015002920198

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Film Noir by Alain Silver,ElizabethM Ward Pdf

An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style This is a completely revised third edition of one of the great works on film noir.

Author : Mark Bould
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1904764509

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Film Noir by Mark Bould Pdf

"Film Noir explores the murky world of a genre responsible for many of film's most enduring images. Mark Bould discusses problems of definition and the often ambiguous nature of film noir and looks at contemporary 'neo-noir' films. Iconic and enduring, film noir attracted great stars (Bogart, Bacall, Mitchum, Lancaster), many of the best directors of the postwar period (Wilder, Lang, Preminger, Hawks, Siodmak, Welles) and in considering the history and continuing importance of noir, from Weimar Cinema to Sin City, this book is an indispensible guide to this still popular genre."--

Author : Greg Olson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810863712

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David Lynch by Greg Olson Pdf

For nearly 40 years, David Lynch's works have enthralled, mystified, and provoked viewers. Lynch's films delve into the subjective consciousness of his characters to reveal both the depraved darkness and luminous spirituality of human nature. From his experimental shorts of the 1960s to feature films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and INLAND EMPIRE, Lynch has pushed the boundaries of cinematic storytelling. In David Lynch: Beautiful Dark, author Greg Olson explores the surreal intricacies of the director's unique visual and visceral style not only in his full-length films but also his early forays into painting and short films, as well as his television landmark, Twin Peaks. This in-depth exploration is the first full-length work to analyze the intimate symbiosis between Lynch's life experience and artistic expressions: from the small-town child to the teenage painter to the 60-year-old Internet and digital media experimenter. To fully delineate the director's life and art, Olson received unprecedented participation from Lynch, his parents, siblings, old school friends, romantic partners, children, and decades of professional colleagues, as well as on-set access to the director during the production of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. Throughout this study, Olson provides thorough analyses of the filmmaker's works as Lynch conceived, crafted, and completed them. Consequently, David Lynch: Beautiful Dark is the definitive study of one of the most influential and idiosyncratic directors of the last four decades.

Author : UCLA Film and Television Archive
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCR:31210023575010

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Archive by UCLA Film and Television Archive Pdf

Author : Dwayne Epstein
Publisher : IPG
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781936182411

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Lee Marvin by Dwayne Epstein Pdf

The first full-length, authoritative, and detailed story of the iconic actor's life to go beyond the Hollywood scandal-sheet reporting of earlier books, this account offers an appreciation for the man and his acting career and the classic films he starred in, painting a portrait of an individual who took great risks in his acting and career. Although Lee Marvin is best known for his icy tough guy roles—such as his chilling titular villain in The ManWho Shot Liberty Valance or the paternal yet brutally realistic platoon leader in The Big Red One—very little is known of his personal life; his family background; his experiences in WWII; his relationship with his father, family, friends, wives; and his ongoing battles with alcoholism, rage, and depression, occasioned by his postwar PTSD. Now, after years of researching and compiling interviews with family members, friends, and colleagues; rare photographs; and illustrative material, Hollywood writer Dwayne Epstein provides a full understanding and appreciation of this acting titan's place in the Hollywood pantheon in spite of his very real and human struggles.

Author : Robert Ottoson
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036283120

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A Reference Guide to the American Film Noir, 1940-1958 by Robert Ottoson Pdf

Author : Alexander Ballinger,Danny Graydon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Film noir
ISBN : UCAL:B5423226

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The Rough Guide to Film Noir by Alexander Ballinger,Danny Graydon Pdf

This book presents over one hundred crime and gangster movies highlighting fifty groundbreaking movies and offering profiles of legendary performers, directors, and other contributors.