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"In The Films of Robert Wise, Richard C. Keenan examines the nearly forty features that represent the director's career, from The Curse of the Cat People (1944) to A Storm in Summer (2001), the only television production Wise ever directed. Keenan argues that if there were a fla…
"This book investigates Wells's interest in cinema and related media technologies, by placing it back into the contemporary cultural and scientific contexts giving rise to them. Previous studies have concentrated on adaptations: this study accounts for the specifically (proto)ci…
Film studies authority Basinger gives us an entertaining look into the "star machine," examining how, at the height of the studio system, from the 1930s to the 1950s, the studios manufactured star actors and actresses. She shows us how the machine worked when it worked, how it f…
Film studies authority Basinger gives us an entertaining look into the "star machine," examining how, at the height of the studio system, from the 1930s to the 1950s, the studios manufactured star actors and actresses. She shows us how the machine worked when it worked, how it f…
With actress Pam Grier's breakthroughs in Coffy and Foxy Brown, women entered action, science fiction, war, westerns and martial arts films--genres that had previously been considered the domain of male protagonists. This ground-breaking cinema is still viewed with ambivalence. …
"With actress Pam Grier's breakthroughs in Coffy and Foxy Brown, women entered action, science fiction, war, westerns and martial arts films--genres that had previously been considered the domain of male protagonists. This ground-breaking cinema is still viewed with ambivalence.…
"With actress Pam Grier's breakthroughs in Coffy and Foxy Brown, women entered action, science fiction, war, westerns and martial arts films--genres that had previously been considered the domain of male protagonists. This ground-breaking cinema is still viewed with ambivalence.…
"With actress Pam Grier's breakthrough in Coffy and Foxy Brown, women entered action, science fiction, war, westerns and martial arts films, genres that had previously been considered the male domain. This cinema, however, is still viewed with ambivalence. This in-depth critical…
Otto Preminger: the man who would be king
by Hirsch, Foster, Preminger, Otto
fromA Borzoi book
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Type: Book
A portrait of the controversial director/producer details his long and productive career, examining his reputation as a dictator, battles with the Hollywood studios, and his work with such screen legends as Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, and Marilyn Monroe.
A portrait of the controversial director/producer details his long and productive career, examining his reputation as a dictator, battles with the Hollywood studios, and his work with such screen legends as Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, and Marilyn Monroe.
"Ken Russell has made some of the most daring, disturbing, and beautifully photographed films of all time. Drawing from a wealth of historic and literary references, Russell's subjects are astounding: deranged Ursuline nuns in a 17th-century French province, the inner demons of …
A biography of director Ken Russell that details the wild ideas, surreal moments, personal faith, and cavalcade of colorful personalities surrounding this eccentric filmmaker-on and off the set. Best known for the acclaimed movies Altered States, The Devils, Gothic, The Music Lo…
