PERFORMING ARTS -- Individual Director

Jean Epstein

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Filmmaker and theoretician Jean Epstein profoundly influenced film practice, criticism and reception in France during the 1920s and well beyond. His work not only forms the crux of the debates of his time, but also remains key to understanding later developments in film practice…

Clint Eastwood: interviews

by Eastwood, Clint, Kapsis, Robert E., Coblentz, Kathie

fromConversations with filmmakers series

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Clint Eastwood (b. 1930) is the only popular American dramatic star to have shaped his own career almost entirely through films of his own producing, frequently under his own direction; no other dramatic star has directed himself so often. He is also one of the most prolific act…

Pleading the blood: Bill Gunn's Ganja & Hess

by Sieving, Christopher

fromStudies in the cinema of the black diaspora

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"The definitive look at one of the most important Black art films and original filmmakers of the 1970s. Bill Gunn's Ganja & Hess (1973) has across the decades attained a sizable cult following among African American cinema devotees, art house aficionados, and horror fans, thanks…

Anything you can imagine: Peter Jackson and the making of Middle-earth

by Nathan, Ian, Serkis, Andy

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"The definitive history of Peter Jackson's Middle-earth saga, Anything You Can Imagine takes us on a cinematic journey across all six films, featuring brand-new interviews with Peter, his cast & crew. From the early days of daring to dream it could be done, through the highs and…

Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub: objectivists in cinema

by Turquety, Benoît

fromFilm culture in transition

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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…

Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the…

by Stratton, W. K.

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"For the fiftieth anniversary of the film, W.K. Stratton's definitive history of the making of The Wild Bunch, named one of the greatest Westerns of all time by the American Film Institute. Sam Peckinpah's film The Wild Bunch is the story of a gang of outlaws who are one big ste…

The Woody Allen encyclopedia

by Hischak, Thomas S.

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"This reference work consists of entries on every film, television, stage, and literary work by Woody Allen. The volume also includes entries on people (actors, producers, writers, etc.) who have worked with Allen as well as various topics (acting roles, awards, themes, film loc…

Peter Weir: interviews

fromConversations with filmmakers series

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Peter Weir: Interviews is the first volume of interviews to be published on the esteemed Australian director. Although Weir (b. 1944) has acquired a reputation of being guarded about his life and work, these interviews by archivists, journalists, historians, and colleagues revea…

Stan Brakhage: interviews

by Brakhage, Stan

fromConversations with Filmmakers Ser

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Collected interviews with the director of such iconic films as Anticipation of the Night, Dog Star Man, Scenes from Under Childhood, Mothlight, and Text of Light.

Cinematic encounters: interviews and dialogues

by Rosenbaum, Jonathan

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"Godard. Fuller. Rivette. Endfield. Tarr. In his celebrated career as a film critic, Jonathan Rosenbaum has undertaken wide-ranging dialogues with many of the most daring and important auteurs of our time. [This book] collects more than forty years of interviews that embrace Ros…

Polanski and Perception: the Psychology of Seeing and the Cinema of Roman …

by Caputo, Davide

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Derek Jarman's angelic conversations

by Ellis, Jim

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Best known as an iconoclastic, wildly inventive filmmaker, Derek Jarman was also an accomplished author, painter, and landscape artist. In Derek Jarman's Angelic Conversations, Jim Ellis considers Jarman's wide-ranging oeuvre to present a broad perspective on the career and life…

Movement, action, image, montage: Sergei Eisenstein and the cinema in crisis

by Arsenjuk, Luka

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"Luka Arsenjuk considers Sergei Eisenstein as a filmmaker and a theorist, drawing on philosophers such as G.W.F. Hegel and Gilles Deleuze--as well as Eisenstein's untranslated texts--to reframe how we think about the great director and his legacy."--Page 4 of cover.

The thought of Stanley Cavell and cinema: turning anew to the ontology of film a half-centu…

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"Stanley Cavell, just recently deceased, was, by many accounts America's greatest philosophical thinker of film. Like Bazin in France and Perkins in England, Cavell did not just transform the American capacity to take film seriously as a subject for philosophical criticism, he h…

The thought of Stanley Cavell and cinema: turning anew to the ontology of film a half-centu…

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"Stanley Cavell, just recently deceased, was, by many accounts America's greatest philosophical thinker of film. Like Bazin in France and Perkins in England, Cavell did not just transform the American capacity to take film seriously as a subject for philosophical criticism, he h…

The cinema of Manoel De Oliveira: modernity, intermediality and the uncanny

by Király, Hajnal

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"Organized by tropes and topics, rather than chronological order, this volume creates a unique lens with which to focus on the links between cinema, literature, painting, and other art forms in Manoel de Oliveira's work. Hajnal Király reads the films in relation to 20th-century …

Dennis Hopper: interviews

by Hopper, Dennis, Dawson, Nick

fromConversations with filmmakers series

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The legendary Dennis Hopper (1936-2010) had many identities. He first broke into Hollywood as a fresh-faced young actor in the 1950s, redefined himself as a rebel director with Easy Rider in the late 1960s, and became a bad boy outcast for much of the 1970s. He returned in the 1…