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A great gift for any Coen fan boy or fan girl in your life NPR s Pop Culture Happy Hour Combining critical text biography close film analysis and enlightening interviews with key Coen collaborators with a visual aesthetic that honors the Coens singular mix of darkness and levity The Coen Brothers This Book Really Ties the Films Together is film critic Adam Nayman s carefully crafted effort to plot as he puts it some Grand Unified Theory of Coen ness Ethan and Joel Coen have cultivated a bleakly comical instantly recognizable voice in modern American cinema They have given movie fans classics of all types comedy history drama romance Their movies have a distinctive style and point of view hilarious sad thoughtful musical sometimes all at once When someone says a movie is Coen Brothers like every serious movie lover knows exactly what they mean Adam Nayman carefully sifts through their complex cinematic universe and covers their popular award winning and unforgettable creations The Big Lebowski Raising Arizona Fargo Inside Llewyn Davis O Brother Where Art Thou Barton Fink Miller s Crossing Blood Simple The Hudsucker Proxy And more Featuring film stills beautiful and evocative illustrations punchy infographics and hard insight this is t

Fargo is the most commercially and critically successful film of Ethan and Joel Coen. Immediately recognized as an important work, it was nominated for five Academy Awards and received two, an exceptional achievement for a low budget, independently produced film without major stars. Fargo is also a film that explores middle-American themes and settings from an original and unsettling perspective, challenging traditional genre structures. This volume explores Fargo from a variety of methodological perspectives. Providing a detailed account of the films production, reception and place within the career of the Coen brothers, it explores issues and themes that are important to current film discourse, including genre, gender and sexuality, race, history, culture and myth.

The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano Flowering Blood is a detailed aesthetic Deleuzian and phenomenological exploration of Japan s finest currently working film director performer and celebrity The volume uniquely explores Kitano s oeuvre through the tropes of stillness and movement becoming animal melancholy and loss intensity schizophrenia and radical alterity and through the aesthetic temperatures of color light camera movement performance and urban and oceanic space In this highly original monograph all of Kitano s films are given due consideration including A Scene at the Sea 1991 Sonatine 1993 Dolls 2002 and Outrage 2010

As the first book length study of the films of Mia Hansen Love this volume introduces her cinema to both an academic and a general readership

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

In An Animated Life (Aurum, 2003) Ray Harryhausen told the story of his career as the acknowledged grandmaster of special effects in the pre-computer era, the creator of classics such as One Million Years BC, Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of Titans. In this new book the focus is not on the movies themselves, but on the vast hoard of artwork which Harryhausen has carefully preserved in his London home. These include preliminary sketches, elaborate drawings of key scenes and carefully plotted storyboards, all produced as he sought backing for his next venture and prepared to undertake the laborious task of animating the prehistoric creatures, aliens and mythical monsters which stole scene after scene from the human actors. There are also the tiny, elaborately articulated models which Harryhausen created to play these roles and the bronzes which he cast to preserve their forms in perpetuity. This stunning array of images is a tribute to the scope of Harryhausen's imagination and his artistic skills which no student of special effects or cinema history will want to be without.

Tex Avery sigue siendo, hoy en día, un cineasta relativamente poco conocido, y aún menos estudiado, como de hecho lo son, salvo algunos casos muy concretos, la mayoría de los realizadores cinematográficos que han escogido el arte de la animacion como medio de expresion. El cine de Avery jugaba con elementos de la cultura popular y contaba historias humoristicas dirigidas a un amplio y heterogeneo publico, no necesariamente infantil como erroneamente se tiende a creer. Avery fue un director de "cartoons", cortometrajes de animacion destinados a ser proyectados en la gran pantalla de una sala cinematografica como prologo a las peliculas de largometraje con actores reales. En definitiva, la de Tex Avery no es una obra aislada e intrascendente dentro del contexto de la historia del cine de animacion, sino que representa una de las influencias mas poderosas y significativas en la filmografia de un considerable numero de animadores y realizadores tanto contemporaneos como posteriores a el.

Olvidado hoy en día, incluso por los sectores más progresistas, Juan Antonio Bardem pasará a la historia como el cineasta social por excelencia. Fue uno de los directores más prestigiosos fuera de nuestras fronteras, más incluso que Berlanga, con el que se le emparentó frecuentemente aunque tenían poco en común. Comprometido políticamente con la izquierda, su empeño por hacer del cine un arma social, un reflejo de la sociedad llena de miserias y de grandezas, le emparentan con el neorrealismo italiano y el cine social francés de los años cincuenta.

Once ensayos que exploran las peculiaridades de las películas que integran su filmografía, identificadas por la exploración mitolólgica, el cuento, la narración de lo maravilloso y la recreación del arte como materialzacion del subconsciente.

Terrence Malick s debut film Badlands announced the arrival of a unique talent In the 40 years since that debut Malick has only made 5 films but they are distinctive in their beauty This book is not meant to be a biography of Terrence Malick The purpose behind the book is to introduce readers to the extraordinary universe of his film making and to aid them in understanding his work And to do this through the words of his closest collaborators cinematographers set designers costumers cameramen directors producers and actors such as Sean Penn Martin Sheen Sissy Spacek and Jessica Chastain As their words flow from one to another they form a fascinating kaleidoscopic vision of American film and specifically Malick s artistic world who make up a film This book is the fruit of a journey began years ago when Luciano Baracaroli Carlo Hintermann Gerardo Panichi and Daniele Villa made a documentary on the work of Terrence Malick which led to the making of this book as well

Terciopelo azul, la película de David Lynch que muchos consideran como una de las obras de arte cinematográficas de los años ochenta, representa una vertiginosa travesía del ser humano (encarnada en la figura del joven Jeffrey Beaumont) por los entresijos del bien y del mal que se desvelan bajo la tranquila y convencional apariencia de la ciudad americana de provincias. Estigmatizado en Venecia y ganador del Festival de Filmes Fantasticos de Avoriaz, Terciopelo azul sigue siendo el filme mas personal y caracteristico de Lynch y representa, de modo ejemplar, las obsesiones de un cineasta que acaba siendo el protagonista indiscutible de sus obras, asi como esa pasion por las composiciones expresionistas que convierten al director en esteta y a sus peliculas en dolorosos e inquietantes cuadros vivos. A traves de la mirada semiotica que la autora proyecta sobre la obra completa de Lynch, en el libro se van desentrañando las claves de sentido que sostienen ese retrato, tan subjetivo y, a la vez, representativo, que el director hace de una cierta America. La biografia de Lynch y su trayectoria profesional son los guias de un texto que, como la pelicula que analiza, se convierte en un apasionante viaje.