A Critical Companion To Robert Zemeckis
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A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis
Author | : Adam Barkman,Antonio Sanna |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2020-10-15 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781793623461 |
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A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis offers a comprehensive, academic and detailed study of the works of Robert Zemeckis, whose films include successful productions such as the Back to the Future trilogy (1985-90), Forrest Gump (1994), Contact (1997), Cast Away (2000) and The Polar Express (2004), but also lesser known films such as I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), Used Cars (1980), and Allied (2015). Most of Zemeckis’ major productions were not only successful when they were first released but continue to enjoy popularity—with critics and fans alike—even today. This volume investigates several distinct areas of Zemeckisʼ works and addresses the different approaches: the philosophical, the artistic, the socio-cultural, and the personal. The methodologies adopted by the contributors differ significantly from each other, thus offering the reader a variegated and compelling picture of Zemeckisʼ oeuvre, which includes nineteen films. Contrary to the few volumes published in the past on the subject, the chapters in this volume offer specific case studies that have been previously ignored (or only partially mentioned) by other scholars. A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis offers a great variety of interdisciplinary approaches to Zemeckis’ films, illuminating, re-reading and/or interpreting for the first time the entire career of the director, from his first films to the most recent ones.
A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan
Author | : Claire Parkinson,Isabelle Labrouillère |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2023-01-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781793652522 |
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A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan provides a wide-ranging exploration of Christopher Nolan's films, practices, and collaborations. From a range of critical perspectives, this volume examines Nolan's body of work, explores its industrial and economic contexts, and interrogates the director's auteur status. This volume contributes to the scholarly debates on Nolan and includes original essays that examine all his films including his short films. It is structured into three sections that deal broadly with themes of narrative and time; collaborations and relationships; and ideology, politics, and genre. The authors of the sixteen chapters include established Nolan scholars as well as academics with expertise in approaches and perspectives germane to the study of Nolan's body of work. To these ends, the chapters employ intersectional, feminist, political, ideological, narrative, economic, aesthetic, genre, and auteur analysis in addition to perspectives from star theory, short film theory, performance studies, fan studies, adaptation studies, musicology, and media industry studies.
A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam
Author | : Sabine Planka,Philip van der Merwe,Ian Bekker |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2022-11-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781666912265 |
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A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam provides a fresh, up-to-date exploration of the director’s films and artistic practices, ranging from his first film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) to his recently released and latest film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018). This volume presents Gilliam as a director whose films weave together an avant-garde cinematic style, imaginative exaggeration, and social critique. Consequently, while his films can seem artistically chaotic and thus have the effect of frustrating and upsetting the viewer, the essays in this volume show that this is part of a very disciplined creative plan to achieve the defamiliarization of various accepted notions of human and social life.
A Critical Companion to Sofia Coppola
Author | : Naaman Wood,Christopher Booth |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2022-08-31 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781793636805 |
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This volume offers eight interdisciplinary readings to the films of Sofia Coppola, analyzing her oeuvre with a focus on her treatment of masculinity, sexual politics, bodies, and love.
A Critical Companion to David Fincher
Author | : Francis Mickus |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2024-07-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781666939576 |
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The thirteen chapters in this collection analyze David Fincher’s development as a filmmaker, from television commercials and music videos to serving as front runner on the series Mindhunter. The contributors explore a variety of characteristics, including Fincher’s attitudes toward his audiences, his attention to detail, his Gothic sense of evil, his modernization of film noir, and his reinvention of the serial killer. The diversity of approaches highlights the paradoxes of Fincher’s films and style, accentuating the tensions between his innovative methods and storytelling and unpacking the perennial questions of love, life, and death that his films raise. Scholars of film, television, and media will find this book especially salient.
100 Spiritual Movies to See before You Die
Author | : John A. Zukowski |
Publsiher | : The Pilgrim Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2023-11-15 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780829800449 |
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Spiritual themes are common in movies: The unconventional savior. The hero’s journey. The redemption tale. The balance of creation. Journalist John A. Zukowski reflects on twelve major spiritual themes in the world of cinema, discussing films from Dead Man Walking to Bruce Almighty, from Groundhog Day to Chariots of Fire, and many more. See them all—read them all—before you die!
A Critical Companion to Julie Taymor
Author | : Matthew Hodge,Adam Barkman,Antonio Sanna |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2023-12-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781666936698 |
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Contributors to this collection examine issues of creativity, gender, sexuality, and adaptation by focusing on themes from Julie Taymor's oeuvre including martyrdom, musicality, fidelity, postmodern representations, feminism and queerness, identity, desire, trauma, revenge, hybridity, and obscenity.
A Critical Companion to Mel Gibson
Author | : Adam Barkman,Antonio Sanna |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Motion picture producers and directors |
ISBN | : 9781666937749 |
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"The thirteen essays in this book offer various interpretations of Mel Gibson's work, treating this brilliant but controversial figure not only as a filmmaker but as a historian, religious thinker, and social philosopher"--