The Ironic Filmmaking Of Stephen Frears

Author : Lesley Brill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501320347

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The Ironic Filmmaking of Stephen Frears by Lesley Brill Pdf

Stephen Frears has a career approaching over half-a-century, directing films of astonishing variety, beauty, and daring, and yet many often have trouble remembering his name. The Ironic Filmmaking of Stephen Frears celebrates this great filmmaker, beginning with a short biography of Frears, general observations on unifying themes and styles in his oeuvre, and the characterization of his manner of directing. By focusing on 10 key films, Lesley Brill finds coherence in Frears' characteristic irony and in his concentration on many kinds of love. In movies such as My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liaisons, High Fidelity, The Queen, Philomena, and many others, Frears portrays widely varied situations and characters with a combination of insight, skepticism, and sympathy. He has the passionate, unjudgmental focus of an artist who stands simultaneously at a distance from his subjects and within their worlds. Through Frears' work is widely admired, Brill argues that he has attracted little scholarly writing because of a combination of the diffidence of his self-presentation and the difficulty of explicating the complex ideas and characters of his films. The Ironic Filmmaking of Stephen Frears is meant to inspire others to further examine his films individually and his career as a whole.

Author : Lesley Brill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501320354

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The Ironic Filmmaking of Stephen Frears by Lesley Brill Pdf

Stephen Frears has a career approaching over half-a-century, directing films of astonishing variety, beauty, and daring, and yet many often have trouble remembering his name. The Ironic Filmmaking of Stephen Frears celebrates this great filmmaker, beginning with a short biography of Frears, general observations on unifying themes and styles in his oeuvre, and the characterization of his manner of directing. By focusing on 10 key films, Lesley Brill finds coherence in Frears' characteristic irony and in his concentration on many kinds of love. In movies such as My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liaisons, High Fidelity, The Queen, Philomena, and many others, Frears portrays widely varied situations and characters with a combination of insight, skepticism, and sympathy. He has the passionate, unjudgmental focus of an artist who stands simultaneously at a distance from his subjects and within their worlds. Through Frears' work is widely admired, Brill argues that he has attracted little scholarly writing because of a combination of the diffidence of his self-presentation and the difficulty of explicating the complex ideas and characters of his films. The Ironic Filmmaking of Stephen Frears is meant to inspire others to further examine his films individually and his career as a whole.

Author : James Cook,Alexander Kolassa,Adam Whittaker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351975513

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Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen by James Cook,Alexander Kolassa,Adam Whittaker Pdf

Recomposing the Past is a book concerned with the complex but important ways in which we engage with the past in modern times. Contributors examine how media on stage and screen uses music, and in particular early music, to evoke and recompose a distant past. Culture, popular and otherwise, is awash with a stylise - sometimes contradictory - musical history. And yet for all its complexities, these representations of the past through music are integral to how our contemporary and collective imaginations understand history. More importantly, they offer a valuable insight into how we understand our musical present. Such representative strategies, the book argues, cross generic boundaries, and as such it brings together a range of multimedia discussion on the subjects of film (Lord of the Rings, Dangerous Liasions), television (Game of Thrones, The Borgias), videogame (Dragon Warrior, Gauntlet), and opera (Written on Skin, Taverner, English ‘dramatick opera’). This collection constitutes a significant, and interdisciplinary, contribution to a growing literature which is unpacking our ongoing creative dialogue with the past. Divided into three complementary sections, grouped not by genre or media but by theme, it considers: ‘Authenticity, Appropriateness, and Recomposing the Past’, ‘Music, Space, and Place: Geography as History’, and ‘Presentness and the Past: Dialogues between Old and New’. Like the musical collage that is our shared multimedia historical soundscape, it is hoped that this collection is, in its eclecticism, more than the sum of its parts.

Author : Marc C. Conner,Julie Grossman,R. Barton Palmer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031045684

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Screening Contemporary Irish Fiction and Drama by Marc C. Conner,Julie Grossman,R. Barton Palmer Pdf

In this book, each chapter explores significant Irish texts in their literary, cultural, and historical contexts. With an introduction that establishes the multiple critical contexts for Irish cinema, literature, and their adaptive textual worlds, the volume addresses some of the most popular and important late 20th-Century and 21st Century works that have had an impact on the Irish and global cinema and literary landscape. A remarkable series of acclaimed and profitable domestic productions during the past three decades has accompanied, while chronicling, Ireland’s struggle with self-identity, national consciousness, and cultural expression, such that the story of contemporary Irish cinema is in many ways the story of the young nation’s growth pains and travails. Whereas Irish literature had long stood as the nation’s foremost artistic achievement, it is not too much to say that film now rivals literature as Ireland’s key form of cultural expression. The proliferation of successful screen versionings of Irish fiction and drama shows how intimately the contemporary Irish cinema is tied to the project of both understanding and complicating (even denying) a national identity that has undergone radical change during the past three decades. This present volume is the first to present a collective accounting of that productive synergy, which has seen so much of contemporary Irish literature transferred to the screen.

Author : Geoffrey Macnab
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350140714

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The British Film Industry in 25 Careers by Geoffrey Macnab Pdf

The British Film Industry in 25 Careers tells the history of the British film industry from an unusual perspective - that of various mavericks, visionaries and outsiders who, often against considerable odds, have become successful producers, distributors, writers, directors, editors, props masters, publicists, special effects technicians, talent scouts, stars and, sometimes, even moguls. Some, such as Richard Attenborough and David Puttnam, are well-known names. Others, such as the screenwriter and editor Alma Reville, also known as Mrs Alfred Hitchcock; Constance Smith, the 'lost star' of British cinema, or the producer Betty Box and her director sister Muriel, are far less well known. What they all have in common, though, is that they found their own pathways into the British film business, overcoming barriers of nationality, race, class and gender to do so. Counterpointing the essays on historical figures are interviews with contemporaries including the director Amma Asante, the writer and filmmaker Julian Fellowes, artist and director Isaac Julien, novelist and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi, and media entrepreneur Efe Cakarel, founder of the online film platform MUBI, who've come into today's industry, adjusting to an era in which production and releasing models are changing – and in which films are distributed digitally as well as theatrically.

Author : New Mexico Magazine (Firm)
Publisher : New Mexico Magazine
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015046484757

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100 Years of Filmmaking in New Mexico 1898-1998 by New Mexico Magazine (Firm) Pdf

A well-illustrated history of movies made in New Mexico, the actors, directors, and producers involved; the dramatic scenery, and even the architecture of historic movie theatres.

Author : Kenneth W. Harrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015064949012

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Postcolonial African Cinema by Kenneth W. Harrow Pdf

A new critical approach to African cinema

Author : Pam Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-05
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124011755

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The Cinema Book by Pam Cook Pdf

It comprises seven main sections: Hollywood Cinema and Beyond; The Star System; Technologies; World Cinemas; Genre; Authorship and Cinema; and Developments in Theory,

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132667846

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Film International by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Leggott
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015077642745

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Contemporary British Cinema by James Leggott Pdf

Using a wide range of film from the Blair era as case studies, this book examines ways in which recent British filmmaking might be regarded as distinctive, relevant and successful.

Author : Alexie Tcheuyap
Publisher : Bayreuth African Studies
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015060594713

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Cinema and Social Discourse in Cameroon by Alexie Tcheuyap Pdf

Cinema and Social Discourse in Cameroon analyzes a cinema, that has been inaugurating some major thematic and aesthetic innovations for the last twenty years. The essays in this volume use film semiotics, postcolonial enquieries, as well as cultural theories to stimulate alternative, innovative, and radical analyses that interrogate and disrupt official discourses and preoccupations about national culture. They also reveal the diverse and creative voices in Cameroon film, deepening our understanding of the language and social discourse of a vibrant national cinema.

Author : Kenneth W. Harrow
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Feminism and motion pictures
ISBN : UOM:39015047493781

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African Cinema by Kenneth W. Harrow Pdf

These essays speak directly and compellingly to contemporary issues in African cinema. They address key aspects of postcolonialism and feminism-the two major topics of interest in current criticism. Issues of spectatorship, national identity, ethnography, patriarchy, women's roles, and the creation of key film industries-issues that animate the discussion of film today, are central to this volume. Although there were filmmaking practices in Africa that date back to the colonial period, the films generally viewed and discussed here by students and critics of African film, those directed by Africans, and those made after independence in the early 1960s. The essays on the formation of three principal national film industries-those of Nigeria, Senegal and the lusophone countries-best exemplify the emergence of African cinema when viewed from the optic of language or nation. In addition, studies of genre, patriarchal structures, spectatorship, and representation, are central to the essays on women's films from Algeria, West Africa, and the Sahel. Stephen Zack's study of Reassemblage offers a brilliant meditation on difference, anthropology and Trinh's positioning in her seminal work. Postcolonial theory is employed and examined in Jonathan Haynes's study of one of Africa's most innovative filmmakers, Jean-Pierre Bekolo. The grounding of a new approach to cinematic art in a specifically African aesthetic is the subject of a study on orality in African cinema by Keyan Tomaselli, Arnold Shepperson and Maureen Eke. This is complemented by the studies of individual films, such as Wend Kunni, Yeelen, and Sankofa, films that have had a strong impact on how we think of the African-centeredaesthetic and vision of cinema, of history, of tradition. Emilie Ngo-Nguidjol's bibliographic essay provides invaluable information on sources dealing with African women directors.

Author : Robert Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015080870325

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The British Cinema Book by Robert Murphy Pdf

The new edition of The British Cinema Book has been thoroughly revised and updated to provide a comprehensive introduction to the major periods, genres, studios, film-makers and debates in British cinema from the 1890s to the present. The book has five sections, addressing debates and controversies; industry, genre and representation; British cinema 1895-1939; British cinema from World War II to the 1970s, and contemporary British cinema. Within these sections, leading scholars and critics address a wide range of issues and topics, including British cinema as a 'national' cinema; its complex relationship with Hollywood; film censorship; key British genres such as horror, comedy and costume film; the work of directors including Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Asquith, Alexander Mackendrick, Michael Powell, Lindsay Anderson, Ken Russell and Mike Leigh; studios such as Gainsborough, Ealing, Rank and Gaumont, and recent signs of hope for the British film industry, such as the rebirth of the low-budget British horror picture, and the emergence of a British Asian cinema. Discussions are illustrated with case studies of key films, many of which are new to this edition, including Piccadilly (1929) It Always Rains on Sunday (1947), The Ladykillers (1955), This Sporting Life (1963), The Devils (1971), Withnail and I (1986), Bend it Like Beckham (2002) and Control (2007), and with over 100 images from the BFI's collection. The Editor: Robert Murphy is Professor in Film Studies at De Montfort University and has written and edited a number of books on British cinema, including British Cinema and the Second World War (2000) and Directors in British and Irish Cinema (2006). The contributors: Ian Aitken, Charles Barr, Geoff Brown, William Brown, Stella Bruzzi, Jon Burrows, James Chapman, Steve Chibnall, Pamela Church Gibson, Ian Conrich, Richard Dacre, Raymond Durgnat, Allen Eyles, Christine Geraghty, Christine Gledhill, Kevin Gough-Yates, Sheldon Hall, Benjamin Halligan, Sue Harper, Erik Hedling, Andrew Hill, John Hill, Peter Hutchings, Nick James, Marcia Landy, Barbara Korte, Alan Lovell, Brian McFarlane, Martin McLoone, Andrew Moor, Robert Murphy, Lawrence Napper, Michael O'Pray, Jim Pines, Vincent Porter, Tim Pulleine, Jeffrey Richards, James C. Robertson, Tom Ryall, Justin Smith, Andrew Spicer, Claudia Sternberg, Sarah Street, Melanie Williams and Linda Wood.

Author : Francois Penz,Maureen Thomas
Publisher : British Film Institute
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015040061957

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Cinema and Architecture by Francois Penz,Maureen Thomas Pdf

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Author : John Caughie,Kevin Rockett
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UVA:X004066550

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The Companion to British and Irish Cinema by John Caughie,Kevin Rockett Pdf

Essential reading for students and followers of British and Irish film, The Companion to British and Irish Cinema is a concise and authorative work of reference offering comprehensive coverage of British and Irish cinema through the entire century of its development. Arranged in an accessible A-Z format, it offers key information and insights into the richness and variety of our cinematic heritage. An historical overview of British and Irish cinema is followed by over 200 entries on film actors, directors, producers, technicians, major institutions, critics, festivals, film forms, genres and movements.