Closely Watched Films

Closely Watched Films
Author: Marilyn Fabe
Publsiher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2014-10-14
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780520279971

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"Through detailed examinations of passages from classic films, Marilyn Fabe supplies the analytic tools and background in film history and theory to enable us to see more in every film we watch"--Page [4] of cover.

Closely Watched Films Routledge Revivals

Closely Watched Films  Routledge Revivals
Author: Antonín J. Liehm
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 499
Release: 2016-04-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781317218500

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First published in 1974, this book collects interviews with leading Czechslovak filmmakers conducted mostly between 1967 and 1969. This was a period of immense upheaval beginning with the attack of the Czechoslovak establishment on the Union of Writers in 1967, continuing through the liberalisation of the Prague Spring in January 1968 and ended with the Soviet invasion in August and subsequent ‘Normalization’ process in April 1969. It records the testimony of several generations of filmmakers and their attempts to answer the questions about the purpose and meaning of film before and during this period. This book will be of interest to students of film and cultural history.

Closely Watched Films Routledge Revivals

Closely Watched Films  Routledge Revivals
Author: Antonín J. Liehm
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2016-04-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781317218494

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First published in 1974, this book collects interviews with leading Czechslovak filmmakers conducted mostly between 1967 and 1969. This was a period of immense upheaval beginning with the attack of the Czechoslovak establishment on the Union of Writers in 1967, continuing through the liberalisation of the Prague Spring in January 1968 and ended with the Soviet invasion in August and subsequent ‘Normalization’ process in April 1969. It records the testimony of several generations of filmmakers and their attempts to answer the questions about the purpose and meaning of film before and during this period. This book will be of interest to students of film and cultural history.

Closely Watched Films

Closely Watched Films
Author: Antonín J. Liehm
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 504
Release: 1974
Genre: Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN: UOM:49015000839945

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Looking at Movies

Looking at Movies
Author: Richard Meran Barsam,Dave Monahan
Publsiher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2009-09-23
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0393115402

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Disc 1 offers 25 short 'tutorials,' helping students see what the text describes. Disc 2 includes an anthology of 12 short films, from 5 to 30 minutes in length. Together, the DVDs offer nearly five hours of pedagogically useful moving-image content.

Argylle

Argylle
Author: Elly Conway
Publsiher: Bantam
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2024-01-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780593600016

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The globe-trotting spy thriller that inspired the upcoming action blockbuster Argylle (February 2024), featuring a star-studded cast including Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Samuel L. Jackson, and John Cena, and directed by Matthew Vaughn of Kingsman trilogy fame A luxury train speeding towards Moscow and a date with destiny. A CIA plane downed in the jungles of the Golden Triangle. A Nazi hoard entombed in the remote mountains of South-West Poland. A missing treasure, the eighth wonder of the world, lost for seven decades. One Russian magnate's dream of restoring a nation to greatness has set in motion a chain of events which will take the world to the brink of chaos. Only Frances Coffey, the CIA's most legendary spymaster, can prevent it. But to do so, she needs someone special. Enter Argylle, a troubled agent with a tarnished past who may just have the skills to take on one of the most powerful men in the world. If only he can save himself first...

Projecting the Holocaust into the Present

Projecting the Holocaust into the Present
Author: Lawrence Baron
Publsiher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2005-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781461641353

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Most Holocaust scholars and survivors contend that the event was so catastrophic and unprecedented that it defies authentic representation in feature films. Yet it is precisely the extremity of 'the Final Solution' and the issues it raised that have fueled the cinematic imagination since the end of World War II. Recognizing that movies reach a greater audience than eyewitness, historical, or literary accounts, Lawrence Baron argues that they mirror changing public perceptions of the Holocaust over time and place. After tracing the evolution of the most commonly employed genres and themes in earlier Holocaust motion pictures, he focuses on how films from the l990s made the Holocaust relevant for contemporary audiences. While genres like biographical films and love stories about doomed Jewish-Gentile couples remained popular, they now cast Jews or non-Jewish victims like homosexuals in lead roles more often than was the case in the past. Baron attributes the recent proliferation of Holocaust comedies and children's movies to the search for more figurative and age-appropriate genres for conveying the significance of the Holocaust to generations born after it happened. He contends that thematic shifts to stories about neo-Nazis, rescuers, survivors, and their children constitute an expression of the continuing impact the Holocaust exerts on the present. The book concludes with a survey of recent films like Nowhere in Africa and The Pianist.

Migrating to the Movies

Migrating to the Movies
Author: Jacqueline Najuma Stewart
Publsiher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2005-03-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 052093640X

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The rise of cinema as the predominant American entertainment around the turn of the last century coincided with the migration of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the South to the urban "land of hope" in the North. This richly illustrated book, discussing many early films and illuminating black urban life in this period, is the first detailed look at the numerous early relationships between African Americans and cinema. It investigates African American migrations onto the screen, into the audience, and behind the camera, showing that African American urban populations and cinema shaped each other in powerful ways. Focusing on Black film culture in Chicago during the silent era, Migrating to the Movies begins with the earliest cinematic representations of African Americans and concludes with the silent films of Oscar Micheaux and other early "race films" made for Black audiences, discussing some of the extraordinary ways in which African Americans staked their claim in cinema's development as an art and a cultural institution.