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The Ethnographic Optic traces the surprising role of ethnography in French cinema in the 1960s and examines its place in several New Wave fictions and cinéma vérité documentaries during the final years of the French colonial empire Focusing on prominent French filmmakers Jean Rouch Chris Marker and Alain Resnais author Laure Astourian elucidates their striking pivot from centering their work on distant lands to scrutinizing their own French urban culture As awareness of the ramifications of the shrinking empire grew within metropolitan France these filmmakers turned inward what their similarly white urban bourgeois predecessors had long turned outward toward the colonies the ethnographic gaze Featuring some of the most canonical and best loved films of the French tradition such as Moi un Noir La jetee and Muriel this is an essential book for readers interested in national identity and cinema

One of the most original and successful filmmakers Oscar Micheaux was born into a rural working class African American family in mid America in 1884 Micheaux s work was founded upon the concern for class mobility or uplift for African Americans This book is a critical assessment of Micheaux s accomplishment in the art of cinema

David Lynch maverick Hollywood director has pursued his contrasting obsessions more than most moviemakers would dare In a wildly varying career he has experienced cult adulation mainstream success virtual rejection by the film industry and a renaissance that has seen him established as the brand name of Weird Americana Taking into account Lynch s latest projects including the upcoming Twin Peaks revival to be broadcast in 2017 this new edition of Paul A Woods exhaustive text is a combined biography and filmography following the surprising course of a genuine obsessive

This is the first English language study of internationally acclaimed Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa examining the cultural production and exhibition contexts of his feature films shorts and vid

Carcanet s Graham Greene Film Reader reissued as a Carcanet Classic the only book to collect his written contributions to the world of cinema

Fresh critical analysis interviews behind the scenes revelations and biographical detail this is a King completist s dream and a must for all movie fans

As the Walt Disney Studio entered its first decade and embarked on some of the most ambitious animated films of the time Disney hired a group of concept artists whose sole mission was to explore ideas and inspire their fellow animators They Drew as They Pleased showcases four of these early pioneers and features artwork developed by them for the Disney shorts from the 1930s including many unproduced projects as well as for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Pinocchio and some early work for later features such as Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan Introducing new biographical material about the artists and including largely unpublished artwork from the depths of the Walt Disney Archives and the Disney Animation Research Library this volume offers a window into the most inspiring work created by the best Disney artists during the studio s early golden age They Drew as They Pleased is the first in what promises to be a revealing and fascinating series of books about Disney s largely unexamined concept artists with six volumes spanning the decades between the 1930s and 1990s Copyright 2015 Disney Enterprises Inc All rights reserved

Collects critical essays on the influential Argentine director Lucrecia Martel

The British Film Industry in 25 Careers tells the history of the British film industry from an unusual perspective that of various mavericks visionaries and outsiders who often against considerable odds have become successful producers distributors writers directors editors props masters publicists special effects technicians talent scouts stars and sometimes even moguls Some such as Richard Attenborough and David Puttnam are well known names Others such as the screenwriter and editor Alma Reville also known as Mrs Alfred Hitchcock Constance Smith the lost star of British cinema or the producer Betty Box and her director sister Muriel are far less well known What they all have in common though is that they found their own pathways into the British film business overcoming barriers of nationality race class and gender to do so Counterpointing the essays on historical figures are interviews with contemporaries including the director Amma Asante the writer and filmmaker Julian Fellowes artist and director Isaac Julien novelist and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi and media entrepreneur Efe Cakarel founder of the online film platform MUBI who ve come into today s industry adjusting to an era in which production and releasing models are

Michael Allen s insightful study explores the long and diverse career of the actor and director Robert Redford from his early work in theatre and TV to his contemporary status as an iconic and enduring star Allen assesses Redford s importance to the American film industry during a period of great transformation as an influential industry player an award winning director and a committed political activist Allen considers Redford s individual achievements in the context of shifts and changes in the industry as a whole some of which benefited Redford s own progress and development some which he engineered himself as well as discussing Redford s star persona in relation to ageing and masculinity

Examines the work of Hindi film director screenwriter and producer Zoya Akhtar

In One Man Band the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles life and work Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating detail into one of the most complex artists of the twentieth century looking closely at the triumphs and failures of an ambitious one man assault on one medium after another theatre radio film television even at one point ballet in each of which his radical and original approach opened up new directions and hitherto unglimpsed possibilities The book begins with Welles self exile from America and his realisation that he could only function happily as an independent film maker a one man band by 1964 he had filmed Othello which took three years to complete Mr Arkadin the biggest conundrum in his output and his masterpiece Chimes at Midnight as well as Touch of Evil his sole return to Hollywood and like all too many of his films wrested from his grasp and re edited Along the way he made inroads into the fledgling medium of television and a number of stage plays including Moby Dick considered by theatre historians to be one of the seminal productions of the century Meanwhile his private life was as dramatic as his professional life The book shows what it was like to be around Welles and with a precis

This illustrated critical survey of the Academy Award winning writer and director s career covering everything from her groundbreaking music videos through her latest films is a must have for fans Sofia Coppola offers a rich and intimate look at the overarching stylistic and thematic components of Coppola s work It engages with her creative output while celebrating her talent as an image maker and storyteller In addition to critical essays about Coppola s filmography the book includes interviews with some of her closest collaborators including musician Jean Benoit Dunckel and costume designer Nancy Steiner along with a foreword by Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher Along the way readers meet again a cast of characters mired in the ennui of missed connections loneliness frustrated creativity rebellious adolescence and the double edged knife of celebrity all captured by the emotional intimate power of the female gaze In the two decades since her first feature film was released Sofia Coppola has created a tonally diverse meticulously crafted and unapologetically hyperfeminine aesthetic across a wide range of multimedia work Her films explore untenable relationships and the euphoria and heartbreak these entail and Coppola develops these themes deftly a

Many critics have approached Terrence Malick s work from a philosophical perspective arguing that his films express philosophy through cinema With their remarkable images of nature poetic voiceovers and meditative reflections Malick s cinema certainly invites philosophical engagement In Terrence Malick Filmmaker and Philosopher Robert Sinnerbrink takes a different approach exploring Malick s work as a case of cinematic ethics films that evoke varieties of ethical experience encompassing existential metaphysical and religious perspectives Malick s films are not reducible to a particular moral position or philosophical doctrine rather they solicit ethically significant forms of experience encompassing anxiety and doubt wonder and awe to questioning and acknowledgment through aesthetic engagement and poetic reflection Drawing on a range of thinkers and approaches from Heidegger and Cavell Nietzsche and Kierkegaard to phenomenology and moral psychology Sinnerbrink explores how Malick s films respond to the problem of nihilism the loss of conviction or belief in prevailing forms of value and meaning and the possibility of ethical transformation through cinema from self transformation in our relations with others to cultural transformation via our att

An evaluation of one of the most important yet overlooked of Hollywood auteurs Budd Boetticher who was responsible for a number of classic films including his famous Ranown series of westerns star

This book looks at Spike Jonze s ground breaking work in both features and short forms exploring the impact of his filmmaking across a range of philosophical and cultural discussions

Showcases the most contemporary scholarly and archival research into Ken Russell s career and work

The first edited collection of critical essays on American filmmaker Richard Linklater

The first critical work to emphasize Richard Brook s literariness

This book gives even longtime Bergman fans a new understanding of his sensitivity to nuance his versatility and his dedication to craftsmanship