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Recounts the life of twotime Academy Award winner Ralph E Winters whose career spanned twothirds of the 20th century Drawing from his own ascent through MGM studio system Winters guides the reader through a history of American film editing beginning with its earliest days when film was torn by handAn essential entertaining nutsandbolts look at the mechanics of editing as well as Hollywood life alongside such luminaries as Billy Wilder Sam Zimbalist and Blake Edwardsa must have for film buffs and moviegoers alike
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A close look at the maverick filmmakers of the seventiesfrom Scorsese and Coppola to Spielberg and Lucaswho forever altered the landscape of cinemaThe 1970s were a landmark era in American film during which a cadre of young directors emerged who would effectively slay the old Hollywood and become royalty in the new It Dont Worry Me celebrates the enduring genius of the time by scrutinizing the work of ten directors who were prominentor promisingin that uniquely creative decade and their contributions to this cinematic uprising While Francis Ford Coppola was taking Hollywood by the horns George Lucas and Steven Spielberg were fashioning the first blockbusters and Martin Scorsese was marrying oldschool movie glamour to a savvy street edginess Woody Allen forged an irreverent vocabulary for film comedy Brian De Palma shot delirious horror comedies that trapped audiences between laughter and terror Stanley Kubrick and Terrence Malick labored over austere dramas that challenged viewers expectations and Robert Altman rattled off fourteen movies in the space of ten years several of them masterpieces most of them a miniature revolution in their own right Meanwhile on the sidelines a young buck named Jonathan Demme kick started his career with a series of snappy comedies and thrillersMore than just a tribute to past glory though It Dont Worry Me takes a close look at the work of these filmmakers with a contemporary eye discovering an urgency and innovation still resonant today
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During the 1960s many models Playboy centerfolds beauty queens and Las Vegas showgirls went on to become decorative actresses appearing scantily clad on film and television This well illustrated homage to 75 of these glamour girls reveals their unique stories through individual biographical profiles photographs lists of major credits and frequently indepth personal interviews Included are Carol Wayne Edy Williams Inga Neilsen Thordis Brandt Jo Collins Phyllis Davis Melodie Johnson and many equally unforgettable faces of sixties Hollywood
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Following on from Hollywood England The British Film Industry in the Sixties Alexander Walker here focuses on British social change and mass entertainment From the hangover years of the early Seventies to the renaissance era of the midEighties he reveals the multiplicity of human motives and talents underpinning the push for profit and power Walker looks at the violent cinema of Get Carter and The Long Good Friday the taxation that drove directors producers and actors out of Britain and the venture of the British Film Year In tracing the story Walker also offers astute critical assessments of British talents including Ken Russell Derek Jarman John Hurt and Monty Python
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During the 1960s many models Playboy centerfolds beauty queens and Las Vegas showgirls went on to become decorative actresses appearing scantily clad on film and television This well illustrated homage to 75 of these glamour girls reveals their unique stories through individual biographical profiles photographs lists of major credits and frequently indepth personal interviews Included are Carol Wayne Edy Williams Inga Neilsen Thordis Brandt Jo Collins Phyllis Davis Melodie Johnson and many equally unforgettable faces of sixties Hollywood
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In the 1970s Hollywood experienced a creative surge opening a new era in American cinema with films that challenged traditional modes of storytelling Inspired by European and Asian art cinema as well as Hollywoods own history of narrative ingenuity directors such as Martin Scorsese Robert Altman William Friedkin Stanley Kubrick Woody Allen and Francis Ford Coppola undermined the harmony of traditional Hollywood cinema and created some of the best movies ever to come out of the American film industry Critics have previously viewed these films as a response to the cultural and political upheavals of the 1970s but until now no one has explored how the periods inventive narrative design represents one of the great artistic accomplishments of American cinemaIn Hollywood Incoherent Todd Berliner offers the first thorough analysis of the narrative and stylistic innovations of seventies cinema and its influence on contemporary American filmmaking He examines not just formally eccentric filmsNashville Taxi Driver A Clockwork Orange The Godfather Part II and the films of John Cassavetesbut also mainstream commercial films including The Exorcist The Godfather The French Connection Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Dog Day Afternoon Chinatown The Bad News Bears Patton All the Presidents Men Annie Hall and many others With persuasive revisionist analyses Berliner demonstrates the centrality of this period to the history of Hollywoods formal development showing how seventies films represent the key turning point between the storytelling modes of the studio era and those of modern American cinema
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JeanLuc Godards early films revolutionized the language of cinema Hugely prolific in his first decadeBreathless Contempt Pierrot le Fou Alphaville and Made in USA are just a handful of the seminal works he directedGodard introduced filmgoers to the generation of stars associated with the trumpeted sexuality of postwar movies and culture Brigitte Bardot Jean Seberg JeanPaul Belmondo and Anna Karina As the sixties wore on however Godards life was transformed The Hollywood he had idolized began to disgust him and in the midst of the socialist ferment in France his second wife introduced him to the activist student left From 1968 to 1972 Europes greatest director worked in the service of Maoist politics and continued thereafter to experiment on the far peripheries of the medium he had transformed His extraordinary later works are little seen or appreciated yet he remains one of Europes most influential artistsDrawing on his own working experience with Godard and his coterie Colin MacCabe in this first biography of the director has written a thrilling account of the French cinemas transformation in the hands of Truffaut Rohmer Rivette and Chabrolcritics who toppled the old aesthetics by becoming legendarily directors themselvesand Godards determination to make cinema the greatest of the arts
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The Seventies is must reading for anyone who wants to revisit that glam decade and the contributions it made to our culture The contributors take you on a fascinating journey that looks at the Black Panthers Jonestown glam rock black action films and gay male subcultures as well as including queer rereadings of cultural phenomena examinations of clothing and seventies bodies and an essay on the meaning of sound in the seventies
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During the 1960s many models Playboy centerfolds beauty queens and Las Vegas showgirls went on to become decorative actresses appearing scantily clad on film and television This well illustrated homage to 75 of these glamour girls reveals their unique stories through individual biographical profiles photographs lists of major credits and frequently indepth personal interviews Included are Carol Wayne Edy Williams Inga Neilsen Thordis Brandt Jo Collins Phyllis Davis Melodie Johnson and many equally unforgettable faces of sixties Hollywood
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During the 1960s many models Playboy centerfolds beauty queens and Las Vegas showgirls went on to become decorative actresses appearing scantily clad on film and television This well illustrated homage to 75 of these glamour girls reveals their unique stories through individual biographical profiles photographs lists of major credits and frequently indepth personal interviews Included are Carol Wayne Edy Williams Inga Neilsen Thordis Brandt Jo Collins Phyllis Davis Melodie Johnson and many equally unforgettable faces of sixties Hollywood
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Offers profiles of important actors actresses directors and producers of the seventies and highlights influential films
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Filmmaker JeanPierre Gorin widely known for his earlyseventies collaborations including TOUT VA BIEN with JeanLuc Godard in the Dziga Vertov Group established his singular voice with this trio of accomplished fascinating and nontraditional documentaries made in Southern California after his relocation there POTO AND BABENGO 1978 is a compelling visit with two young San Diego twins who have invented their own language In ROUTINE PLEASURES 1986 Gorin conjoins the story of a group
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Over the past four decades Belgian director Chantal Akerman Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles has created one of cinemas most distinctive bodies of work formally daring often autobiographical films about people and places time and space In this collection we present the early films that put her on the map intensely personal modernist investigations of cities history family and sexuality made in the 1970s in the United States and Europe and strongly influenced by t
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In this remarkable sequel to his Films of the Seventies A Social History William J Palmer examines more than three hundred films as texts that represent revise parody comment upon and generate discussion about major events issues and social trends of the eightiesPalmer defines the dialectic between film art and social history taking as his theoretical model the holograph of history that originated from the New Historicist theories of Hayden White and Dominick LaCapra Combining the interests and methodologies of social history and film criticism Palmer contends that film is a socially conscious interpreter and commentator upon the issues of contemporary social history In the eighties such issues included the war in Vietnam the preservation of the American farm terrorism nuclear holocaust changes in SovietAmerican relations neoconservative feminism and yuppiesAmong the films Palmer examines are Platoon The Killing Fields The River Out of Africa Little Drummer Girl Kiss of the Spiderwoman Silkwood The Day After Red Dawn Moscow on the Hudson Troop Beverly Hills and Fatal Attraction Utilizing the principles of New Historicism Palmer demonstrates that film can analyze and critique history as well as present it
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Celebrates the height of Weimar cinema through images and commentaries on more than seventy of its finest films Between the First and Second World Wars Germany under the Weimar Republic was the scene of one of the most creative periods in film history Through the silent era to the early years of sound the visual flair and technical innovation of its filmmakers set an international standard for the powerful possibilities of cinema as an art form with movies such as The Cabinet of Dr Caligari Nosferatu Metropolis and M building a legacy that shaped the world of filmHere is a showcase of more than seventy films selected to give a wideranging overview of Weimar cinema at its finest Every genre is represented from escapist comedies and musicals to gritty depictions of contemporary city life from period dramas to fantastical visions of the future with themes such as sexuality and social issues tackled by iconic stars like Marlene Dietrich and Louise Brooks A wealth of film stills captures the bold vision of great directors like Fritz Lang and Ernst Lubitsch while the text sets the historical scene and gives intriguing insights into what the films meant to the society that created them This chapter in movie history was brought to a close by Hitlers rise to power in 1933 Directors screenwriters and actors found themselves obliged to leave Germany and brought their talents to Hollywood 443 illustrations 335 in duotone
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From Stan Brakhage and Andy Warhol to the underground cinema and political films David James gives a thorough account of the growth development and decay of nonstudio film practices in the United States between the late fifties and the midseventies Unlike other scholars who discuss these practices as totally separate from Hollywood James argues that they were developed in various kinds of dialogue or negotiation with the commercial film industry He also demonstrates that the formal properties of the films were determined not simply by aesthetic considerations but by the functions the films served in the various subcultures and dissident groups that produced them After an opening chapter on film hermeneutics the book gives detailed accounts of the contrary projects of two exemplary filmmakers Stan Brakhage who pioneered an artisanal domestic film practice and Andy Warhol who redirected such a practice toward the film industry James then discusses the beats and other idealist countercultures the social groups that formed around civil rights and the Vietnam War artists who shunned social involvement for pure film structural film and finally the womens movement
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Peter Cushing was an unforgettable presence in cult cinema of the fifties sixties and seventies and remains one of Britains bestloved film stars Cushing made a huge impact in the groundbreaking television adaptation of Nineteen EightyFour and went on to find international fame as Baron Frankenstein and Doctor Van Helsing in the most acclaimed films from the Hammer studio During his lengthy career Cushing also played Doctor Who Sherlock Holmes and Grand Moff Tarkin the villain of the original Star WarsAuthor David Miller has written a definitive guide to the stage and screen career of a legendary star drawing upon conversations with Cushings friends and colleagues archive material held by the BBC and Hammer Film Productions and previously unpublished correspondence with Cushing himself This indepth research forms the basis for a revealing reassessment of the career and achievements of this much admired and very private actor
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Whether theyre Old Dogs or Hotdogs theyre all good dogs Conceived by the Disney Animation Research Library Disney Dogs is a barking good look at the art created and produced for the more than seventyfive year history of the Disney dog Disney Dogs begins by highlighting dogs from the Walt Disney Animation Studios history including early images of Goofy and Pluto from the nineteenthirties and forties Then its on to all one hundred and one Dalmatians the hound part of The Fox and the Hound Oliver amp Company and Lady and the Tramp There are also sidekick dogs who have found a place in our hearts including Bruno from Cinderella Nana from Peter Pan Toby from The Great Mouse Detective Percy from Pocahontas Little Brother from Mulan and Max from The Little Mermaid Disney Dogs also showcases dogs that are not really traditional such as Stitch from Lilo amp Stitch the footstool in Beauty and the Beast the carpet from Aladdin Slinky Dog from Toy Story and Zero from Tim Burtons The Nightmare Before Christmas And finally Disneys newest dogBoltwill be featured The latest Walt Disney Animation Studios movie is lsated to premiere at the same time as this bookDisney Dogs has a flipbook section at the tail end of its compact 7 x 7 format From fullpage images to whimsical thumbnails the book includes conceptual artwork model sheets animation and final frame images of Disneys mangy mutts and cocky canines Accompanying text features stats on the characters and films You wont be able to keep your paws off this book
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