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Introduction -- Beyond the clouds -- Identification of a woman -- The Red Desert -- The dangerous thread of things -- The mystery of Oberwald -- Zabriskie Point -- The passenger -- Blow-up.
"Film lovers all over the world are familiar with the masterpieces of Eisenstein and Tarkovsky. These directors' unique achievements were part of a powerful process that began under Russia's last tsar and underwent several periods of blossoming: the bourgeois cinema in the 1910s…
Most Tim Burton films are huge box-office successes, and several are already classics. The director's mysterious and eccentric public persona attracts a lot of attention, while the films themselves have been somewhat overlooked. Here, Alison McMahan redresses this imbalance thro…
Alison McMahan offers a close analysis of Tim Burton's key films - Beetlejuice, Ed Wood, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow - and their industrial context. She argues that he has been a crucial figure behind many of the transformations taking place in horror, fantasy and…
Most Tim Burton films are huge box-office successes, and several are already classics. The director's mysterious and eccentric public persona attracts a lot of attention, while the films themselves have been somewhat overlooked. Here, Alison McMahan redresses this imbalance thro…
A study of Spielberg's film career, this text analyses the components of Spielberg's worldview, the issues which animate his most significant works, the roots of his immense acceptance, and the influence his vast spectrum of imaginative products exerts on the public consciousnes…
A study of Spielberg's film career, this text analyses the components of Spielberg's worldview, the issues which animate his most significant works, the roots of his immense acceptance, and the influence his vast spectrum of imaginative products exerts on the public consciousnes…
A study of Spielberg's film career, this text analyses the components of Spielberg's worldview, the issues which animate his most significant works, the roots of his immense acceptance, and the influence his vast spectrum of imaginative products exerts on the public consciousnes…
An examination of the works of six contemporary black and Asian women filmmakers, including Zeinabue Irene Davis, Ngozi Onwurah, Julie Dash, Pratibha Parmar, Minh-ha and Mira Nair. It also includes a detailed introduction and a chapter entitled "Other Voices", documenting the wo…
Black women filmmakers not only deserve an audience, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster asserts, but it is also imperative that their voices be heard as they struggle against Hollywood's constructions of spectatorship, ownership, and the creative and distribution aspects of filmmaking. Fos…
A comprehensive look at the work of Britain's independent and controversial director. Best known as an iconoclastic, wildly inventive filmmaker, Derek Jarman was also an author, painter, and landscape designer. Author Ellis considers Jarman's works to present a study of the life…
Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub collaborated on films together from the mid-1960s through the mid-2000s, making formally radical adaptations in several languages of major works of European literature by authors including Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, Friedrich Hölderlin, Pi…
"Know for their repeating motifs and signature tropes, the films of Ingmar Bergman also contain extensive variations and development. In these reflections on Bergman's artistry and thought, Irving Singer discerns distinctive themes in Bergman's filmmaking, from first intimations…
The development of themes, motifs, and techniques in Bergman's films, from the first intimations in the early work to the consummate resolutions in the final movies.