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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

An exploration of the films of Joao Pedro Rodrigues and Joao Rui Guerra da Mata

The definitive study of the great filmmaker set in the context of Russian cultural history

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

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

This extraordinary tale of rivalry and celluloid has fascinated cinéastes for years Kathryn Hughes Sunday Times Illuminating and thrilling The Spectator Absorbing forensic and jaw dropping Total Film In 1888 Louis Le Prince shot the world s first motion picture in Leeds England In 1890 weeks before the planned public unveiling of his camera and projector Le Prince boarded a train in France and disappeared without a trace His body was never found In 1891 Thomas Edison inventor of the lightbulb and the phonograph announced that he had developed a motion picture camera Le Prince s family convinced that Edison had stolen Louis s work proceeded to sue the most famous inventor in the world The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures excavates one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Victorian age and offers a revelatory rewriting of the birth of modern pictures

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

Kendra Marston interrogates representations of melancholic white femininity in contemporary Hollywood cinema arguing that the melancholic white woman serves as a vehicle through which to explore the excesses of late capitalism and a crisis of faith in the American dream

Reassesses the work of the influential Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky

Proposing a relationship between Levinasian ethics and film style and bringing it into a productive dialogue with theories of performativity this book explores this influence through three directorial bodies of work those of Barbet Schroeder Paul Schrader and the Dardenne Brothers

The first English language book on the Greek Experimental Cinema director Antoinetta Angelidi

Examines how the music in Val Lewton s horror films enhanced the films aesthetics and visual style

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

Contextualizing and closely reading each of Christopher Nolan s films this collection examines the director s play with memory time trauma masculinity and identity

Over one hundred years since it premiered on cinema screens D W Griffith s controversial photoplay The Birth of a Nation continues to influence American film production and to have relevance for race relations in the United States While lauded at the time of its release for its visual and narrative innovations and a box office hit with film audiences it provoked African American protest in 1915 for racially offensive content In this collection of essays contributors explore Griffith s film as text artifact and cultural legacy and place it into both the historical and transnational contexts of the first half of the 1900s and its resonances with current events in America such as BlackLivesMatter HollywoodSoWhite and OscarsSoWhite movements Through studies of the film s reception formal innovations in visual storytelling and comparisons with contemporary movies this work challenges the idea the United States has moved beyond racial problems and highlights the role of film and representation in the continued struggle for equality This title is also available as an Open Access edition online at https iu pressbooks pub thebirthofanation

A rare intimate portrait of Hollywood s reigning blockbuster auteur whose deeply personal billion dollar movies have established him as the most successful director to come out of the British Isles since Alfred Hitchcock Updated with a chapter on Oppenheimer A masterclass brilliant Immersive detailed meticulous privileged inside dope Craig Raine More than just the tinkerings of a glass watchmaker Christopher Nolan s films have an unerring grasp of the way time makes us feel Time steals people away in his films and he takes careful note of the theft Time is Nolan s great antagonist his lifelong nemesis He seems almost to take it personally Written with the full cooperation of Nolan himself who granted Tom Shone access to never before seen photographs storyboards and sketches the book is a deep dive into the director s films influences methods and obsessions Here for the first time is Nolan on his dislocated transatlantic childhood how he dreamed up the plot of Inception lying awake one night in his dorm at school his colour blindness and its effect on Memento his obsession with puzzles and optical illusions and much much more Written by one of our most penetrating critics The Nolan Variations is a landmark study of one of the tw