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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

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such as Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan Introducing new biographical material about the artists and including largely unpublished artwork from the depths of the Walt Disney Archives and the Disney Animation Research Library this volume offers a window into the most inspiring work created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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Who s your favourite character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe Whether you like Super Heroes or villains the movies or TV series learn all about them in this updated edition Now including more than 200 characters from Black Panther and Ms Marvel to Iron Man and Shang Chi The Marvel Studios Character Encyclopedia Updated Edition is any young fan s go to guide to find out all about the heroes villains spies school kids scientists aliens inventors and others in the Marvel Cinematic Universe MCU Discover their strengths super powers friends allies weapons epic battles and much more Dive into the action with 90 new pages covering characters from recent movies and Disney series including Black Panther Wakanda Forever Shang Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness Black Widow Thor Love and Thunder Ms Marvel WandaVision Loki The Falcon and The Winter Soldier Hawkeye Ant Man and The Wasp Quantumania and Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 2024 MARVEL

Otto Preminger was one of Hollywood s first truly independent producer directors Blazing a trail in the examination of controversial issues such as drug addiction The Man with the Golden Arm and homosexuality Advise and Consent Preminger broke the censorship of the Hollywood Production Code and the blacklist while creating some of Hollywood s most enduring film noir classics Chris Fujiwara s critical biography the first in more than thirty years follows Preminger throughout his varied career penetrating his carefully constructed public persona and revealing the many layers of his work

Exploring Mamardashvili s extensive philosophical output as well as a range of recent Russian films Alyssa DeBlasio reveals the intellectual affinities amongst directors of the Mamardashvili generation including Alexander Sokurov Andrey Zvyagintsev and Alexei Balabanov

In The Phenomenology of Religious Belief the renowned philosopher Michael J Shapiro investigates how art and in particular literature and film can impact upon both traditional interpretations and critical studies of religious beliefs and experiences In doing so he examines the work of prolific and award winning writers such as Toni Morrison Philip K Dick and Robert Coover By placing their work in conjunction with critical analyses of media by the likes of Ingmar Bergman and Pier Paolo Pasolini and combining it with the work of groundbreaking thinkers such as George Canguilhem Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj iek Shapiro takes a truly interdisciplinary approach to the question of how life should be lived His assessment of phenomenological subjectivity also leads him to question the nature of political theology and extend the criticism of Pauline theology

La asociación de Applehead Team con el legendario cineasta Tom Holland sigue adelante con la publicación de un libro muy especial: la edicion conjunta, en un solo volumen y por primera vez traducidos al castellano, de los titulos "Oh Mother, What Have You Done? The Making of Psycho II" (escrito por Holland junto a Richard Franklin y Andrew London y con epilogo de Anthony S. Cipriano) y "Child s Play: A Visual Memoir" (escrito por Holland junto a Jack A. Ulrich, con prologo de Chris Sarandon y epilogo de Alex Vincent).En la primera parte del libro podra husmear detras de la espeluznante fachada del iconico Motel Bates, adentrandose en la fascinante historia entre bastidores del rodaje de "Psicosis 2ª parte". Desde su concepcion hasta su estreno, descubra la historia jamas contada del rodaje de "la secuela que nunca debio hacerse", con fotografias exclusivas entre bastidores, storyboards detallados y sinceros recuerdos de los que estuvieron alli.La segunda mitad le ofrecera una mirada nunca antes vista a la pelicula de terror de 1988 "Muñeco diabolico", a traves de imagenes ineditas detras de las camaras y de la narracion del guionista y director de la pelicula, Tom Holland, quien nos muestra fotos personales y del rodaje de este clasico del cine de terror de los 80. Ademas, in

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This volume sets out a new paradigm in intersemiotic translation research drawing on the films of Ang Lee to problematize the notion of films as the simple binary of transmission between the verbal a

A minute by minute analysis of Gus Van Sant film Gerry 2002 Blending film criticism with creative nonfiction each book in the Timecodes series focuses on one film exploring it minute by minute beginning with minute one and ending with the final minute before the closing credits In the canon of director Gus Van Sant s films Gerry 2002 stands out as a singular work a boldly experimental film that nonetheless is accessible darkly humorous and profound Gerry Minute by Minute is a non traditional critical study of this film a bold impressionistic series of vignettes that circle around questions which are highly specific to Gerry itself but which are also universal what is it about certain works of art films books paintings music that attach themselves to us so that we carry them with us on our journey through life What does it mean to walk with these works inside us as if they are a part of us The book s structure unfolds chronologically along with the film with one moment from each of the film s 100 minutes serving as the basis for the chapters Each of the 100 vignette chapters takes on topics ranging from the particulars of the film itself including the inventive use of camera movement and sound the productive nature of collaboration the dri

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