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Top Books (Performing Arts)
1984
| Presents Bergman's creative adaptations of three stage works - "Nora," "Julie" and "Scenes From a Marriage" - in which women come to grips with the possibilities of sexual and social emancipation. The book allows Bergman devotees to compare the director's cinematic and theatrical techniques. |
1997
| The renowned Academy Award-winning director Elia Kazan reveals his unique insights on acting, directing & producing, & exposes his brilliant work methodology on the 18 films he directed, drawn from conversations with writer/producer Jeff Young. |
1991
| This book is a revised and expanded edition of Ingmar Bergman: Four Decades in the Theatre, published in 1982. The developments that have occurred in the interim, clustered around Bergman's triumphant return to the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm after years of self-imposed exile, have profoundly altered the course of this extraordinary career. Still the only book of its kind in English, this amply illustrated study uses detailed and comprehensive analyses of a range of Bergman's production....[more] |
1999
| In this volume some of today's most acclaimed film directors revealehind-the-scenes details of their most influential work and their approacheso their art. Between this volume and volume 1, there are in-depth interviewsith 26 directors, including James Cameron, Robert Wise, Spike Lee, Ronoward, Sydney Pollack, Rob Reiner, Joel Schumacher, Alan Pakula, Garryarshall and Robert Zemeckis. There are details on films such as "Thexorcist", "Forrest Gump", "The Princess Bride", "Fiddler on the Roof" and....[more] |
1994
| Gathered here for the first time are Alfred Hitchcock's reflections on his own life and work. In this ample selection of largely unknown and formerly inaccessible interviews and essays, Hitchcock provides an enlivening commentary on a career that spanned decades and transformed the history of the cinema. Bringing the same exuberance and originality to his writing as he did to his films, he ranges from accounts of his own life and experiences to techniques of filmmaking and ideas about cinema in ....[more] |
2008
| This is the first book-length study of the most prolific and most critically acclaimed director working in British cinema today. Michael Winterbottom has also established himself, and his company, Revolution Films, as a dynamic force in world cinema. No other British director has done such impressive work in such a variety of genres, from road movie to literary adaptation, from musical to sex film, to stories of contemporary political significance. The authors of this book use a range of c....[more] |
2006
| This is a comprehensive, original and accessible account of all aspects of Jean Cocteau's work in the cinema. It is the first major study in English to appear for over forty years and casts new light on Cocteau's most celebrated films as well as those often neglected or little known. |
2004
| Tim Adler's revealing book looks at the skill, showmanship, and money needed to flourish in the world's toughest business through candid interviews with producers Michael Douglas, Dino De Laurentiis, Duncan Kenworthy, Andrew McDonald, Jeremy Thomas, Marin Karmitz, and Christine Vachon. Tim Adler writes on film for the Financial Times, The Independent, and the Daily Telegraph. He lives in London . |
2009
| In this comprehensive guidebook, three experienced entertainment lawyers tell you everything you need to know to produce and market an independent film—from the development process to deal making, financing, setting up the production, hiring directors and actors, securing location rights, acquiring music, calculating profits, digital moving making, distribution, and marketing your movie. This all-new second edition has been completed updated. |
2005
| This is the first authoritative English-language collection of interviews with the respected filmmaker who reinvented the modern action movie and helped open the door for fellow Asian filmmakers to the Western world. His popular and critically acclaimed films include Hard Boiled, Broken Arrow, Face/Off, and Mission: Impossible II. |
1999
| In this volume some of today's most acclaimed film directors revealehind-the-scenes details of their most influential work and their approacheso their art. Between this volume and volume 2, there are in-depth interviewsith 26 directors, including James Cameron, Robert Wise, Spike Lee, Ronoward, Sydney Pollack, Rob Reiner, Joel Schumacher, Alan Pakula, Garryarshall and Robert Zemeckis. There are details on films such as "Thexorcist", "Forrest Gump", "The Princess Bride", "Fiddler on the Roof" and....[more] |
2006
| Documentary Film: Contexts and Criticismis designed to complement Rollyson’sDocumentary Film: A Primer. The films discussed in this volume includeZelig, the Lumiere brothers documentaries, Nanook of the North, The Man With a Movie Camera, Triumph of the Will, Olympia, The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, Why We Fight, Fires Were Started, and several Jill Craigie films, including an extended discussion ofTwo Hours From London, her controversial examination of the Balkan wars and the s....[more] |
2008
| Willard Van Dyke worked his way through the twentieth century chasing two illusive muses--photography and film. They were illusive because their powers, reality, and abstraction, are morphic extremes that both exalt and mislead artists who believe that harnessing one will overcome the other. The setting for Van Dyke's life story is thus connected to the story of how these two muses changed the way the world was perceived. Willard Van Dyke stepped into the early twentieth century clamor asking fo....[more] |
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