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In the biggest edition yet, Paul Donnelley has once again added more than 100 new entries and revised numerous existing ones.
Sam Wasson traces Fosse's numberless reinventions of himself over a career that spawns The Pajama Game, Cabaret, Pippin, Chicago, All That Jazz, and other iconic works of art, earning him Tonys, Emmys, and an Oscar. Wasson traces not only Fosse's prodigious professional life, bu…
A look at various science fiction, fantasy, and horror films directed by Steven Spielberg, one of the contemporary filmmakers.
Students and Lecturers in British film, television and cultural history.
The cinema of Terry Gilliam: it's a mad world
by Randell, Karen, Froula, Anna
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Terry Gilliam has been making movies for more than forty years, and this volume analyzes a selection of his thrilling directorial work, from his early films with Monty Python to 'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnussus' (2009). The frenetic genius, auteur, and social critic continue…
Edward Said's first book of literary criticism since 1993.
Fifty Contemporary Film Directors' examines the work of some of today's most popular and influential cinematic figures. It provides an accessible overview of each director's contribution to cinema, incorporating a discussion of their career, major works and impact. Revised throu…
A collection of twelve articles and one interview that explains the achievements of cinema from Nordic countries
What 1970s Hollywood filmmaker influenced Quentin Tarantino? How have contemporary Japanese horror films inspired Takashi Shimizu, director of the huge box office hit "The Grudge"? This title offers answers to these questions, along with a behind-the-scenes look at filmmaking.
Why are we drawn to the work of Alfred Hitchcock so long after his final film appeared? What is the source of Hitchcock's magic? This book answers these questions by focussing upon the fabric of the films themselves, upon the way in which they enlist and sustain our desire, hold…
Billy Wilder, hailed as a great filmmaker, often considered himself primarily as a writer. This book offers academic but non hermetic readings of nine of his significant films, informed by literary criticism, Gender Studies, semiotics, Film Studies, and the "artistic sensibility…
Organized chronologically to encompass various of Wes Anderson's films, from 1996's "Bottle Rocket to Rushmore", "The Royal Tenenbaums", and the 2009 release, "The Fantastic Mr Fox". This study includes analysis of Anderson's work in commercials, his representation of race and c…
Considered by many to be the best book on the interpretation of Truffaut's films