De la mano del crítico Oti Rodríguez Marchante, el director Alejandro Amenábar repasa en una larga y rica conversación su biografía, su formación y su trayectoria comprendida desde los primeros cortos al gran exito que supuso su tercer largometraje, Los Otros. El dialogo entre critico y cineasta discurre entre los recuerdos de la infancia, los esfuerzos y la rebeldia en sus años de aprendizaje y una reflexion sobre su universo cinematografico. Asimismo, se profundiza en las influencias que ejercen distintos directores, en las opiniones que le merecen diferentes formas de entender el cine y, en fin, en todo lo que tiene que ver con el mundo del celuloide.
El autor se introduce en los vericuetos de Hollywood, y describe la vida y la obra de William Wyler, uno de los grandes cineastas de todos los tiempos, director de películas tan destacadas como Ben H
Samuel Fuller (1912-1997) dejó tras de sí veintitrés largometrajes y una decena de telefilmes como director, una veintena de guiones y argumentos acreditados o sin acreditar, doce novelas y más de veinte apariciones como actor. La correccion, entendida como sumision a las normas, nunca le intereso lo mas minimo en ninguna de sus facetas profesionales, como periodista (empezo desde muy joven a trabajar en The New York Journal), novelista, realizador o guionista; y, en este sentido, todas las peliculas de Fuller son eminentemente inconformistas, fisicas y virulentas, libres de ataduras, independientes en el mejor sentido de la palabra, practicas y a la vez enloquecidas, irrespetuosas con los codigos genericos, turbadoras y arrolladoras. El cine de Fuller continua proponiendo muchos interrogantes como obra viva que es, y de esa sensacion de encontrarse ante un caso unico en los anales cinematograficos proviene la definicion de Godard: "El cine esta en Samuel Fuller".
In this book a range of international scholars integrates her work into a cohesive study of all aspects of her oeuvre filmic activist and artistic representing the global significance of Saab s work and the ongoing resonance of her ideals and activism in a worldwide perspective
As the first book length study about Dolan with case studies of key films like Mommy 2014 Tom at the Farm 2013 and It s Only the End of the World 2016 this volume explores the global reach o
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 to its formal complexity and rich allegory Pleading the Blood is the first full length study of this cult classic Ganja & Hess was withdrawn almost immediately after its New York premiere by its distributor because Gunn s poetic re fashioning of the vampire genre allegedly failed to satisfy the firm s desire for a by the numbers blaxploitation horror flick for quick sell off in the urban market Its current status as one of the classic works of African American cinema has recently been confirmed by the Blu ray release of its restored version by its continued success in screenings at repertory houses museums and universities and by an official remake Da Sweet Blood of Jesus 2014 directed by Spike Lee one of the original picture s longtime champions Pleading the Blood draws on Gunn s archived papers screenplay drafts and storyboards as well as interviews with the living major creative participants to offer a comprehensive absorbing account of the influential movie and its highly
This insightful biography takes a balanced and thoughtful look at the creative and enigmatic man who has had a greater influence on American culture than almost any other individual Walt Disney
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
Throughout films and television series like The Piano Bright Star In the Cut and Top of the Lake Jane Campion has constantly explored gender subjectivity and narrative representation In an intensive engagement with her cross medium career Bernadette Wegenstein examines how Campion gives a tangible and visible form to the female gaze in her exploration deployment and ultimately her subversion of highly formalized genres such as the period piece the thriller and the procedural drama Keeping a strict focus on her directorial practice and specifically on the capacity of her cinematography to induce both empathy and estrangement this vital new book shows how Campion is engaged in a permanent artistic and intuitive exposition of a profoundly feminist philosophical vision Wegenstein s work will be invaluable to scholars and students in gender and women s studies film studies and those on philosophy and film courses
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