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For more than three decades, Joel and Ethan Coen have produced some of the most unique and thought-provoking works in modern cinema. In broad comedies such as Raising Arizona, violent thrillers like No Country for Old Men, and black comedies such as Fargo, the filmmakers have offered brilliant takes on a variety of film genres. One of the most distinctive features of their movies is their skewed view of America itself.
In The Coen Brothers' America,...
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Greg Olson, author of David Lynch: Beautiful Dark, the essential book on Lynch' s life and art, has resided in the Twin Peaks region of the Northwest for decades, and David Lynch spent youthful years in the Northwest; both of their fathers were woodsmen. Lynch believes that the world hums with spirituality, and over a thirty-year span Lynch and Mark Frost created forty-eight hours of Twin Peaks TV and film, hypnotic cinematic music immersed...
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Este es el registro de la batalla que libró Armando Robles Godoy por el buen cine entre 1961 y 1963 desde las páginas del diario La Prensa y el suplemento dominical 7 Días del Perú y del Mundo, la primera de las varias que sostuvo por la misma causa durante el resto de su vida.
En estos textos defendió la concepción del cine como arte antes que como negocio o espectáculo, demandó un acercamiento a los filmes a partir del lenguaje cinematográfico...
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«Comment Mae West a-t-elle influencé un hit de la Motown? Quelle chanson thème a rapporté des millions et des millions à l'auteur? Pourquoi en apprenant l'histoire d'Eartha Kitt fait que vous n'entendrez plus jamais sa musique de la même façon. Les lecteurs trouveront plein de surprises et d'informations dans ces pages..."The Saturday Morning Song Chronicles: Memoires, Motown, et Musique" Est plus qu'un livre. Paul Allen III a écrit une encyclopédie...
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“From Karaoke to the Platters" is the inspirational tale of how Paul B Allen III went from singing in karaoke establishments, to become the lead singer of one of the greatest vocal groups of all time, The Platters (Only You, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, The Great Pretender, etc.). Allen was not allowed entry into his elementary school chorus because "he just wasn't good enough." So, the trip from "reject' to lead vocalist was an incredible journey....
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The career of acclaimed filmmaker Akira Kurosawa spanned more than five decades, during which he directed more than thirty movies, many of them indisputable classics: Rashomon, Ikiru, Seven Samurai, The Hidden Fortress, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo, among others. During the height of his creative output, Kurosawa became one of the most influential and well-known directors in the world, inspiring filmmakers like Steven Spielberg and George Lucas and...
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Academy Award-winning screenwriter Quentin Tarantino returns with his most infamous, most brilliant, most masterful screenplay yet...
At the end of the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. Bounty hunter John Ruth and his fugitive captive Daisy Domergue race toward the town of Red Rock, where Ruth will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter Major Marquis Warren, a former Union soldier turned infamous...
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Out of all the many stars and celebrities Hollywood has produced, only a handful have achieved the fame and, some would say, infamy, of Orson Welles, the creator and star of what is arguably the greatest American film, “Citizen Kane”. Many books have been written about him, detailing his achievements as an artist as well his foibles as a human being. None of them, however, has gotten so close to the real man as does Chris Welles Feder's beautifully...
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La obra de Pier Paolo Pasolini conforma un archipiélago de poesías, relatos, ensayos, intervenciones, films y documentos que invitan a una constante indagación. Para quien quiera emprender un viaje de exploración así pueden ser de ayuda, al menos, un mapa y una brújula.En forma de alfabeto (que su autor entiende como un «instrumento ágil, sintético, esencial»), este libro ofrece conceptos y lemas (un mapa) y orientaciones críticas (una...
30) Hidden Hitchcock
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"A way to rethink the ways we watch and engage with all films, not just the Hitchcockian ones."—Popmatters
No filmmaker has more successfully courted mass-audience understanding than Alfred Hitchcock, and none has been studied more intensively by scholars. In Hidden Hitchcock, D. A. Miller does what seems impossible: he discovers what has remained unseen in Hitchcock's movies, a secret style that imbues his...
No filmmaker has more successfully courted mass-audience understanding than Alfred Hitchcock, and none has been studied more intensively by scholars. In Hidden Hitchcock, D. A. Miller does what seems impossible: he discovers what has remained unseen in Hitchcock's movies, a secret style that imbues his...
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"Historian J.R. Jordan takes us on a fascinating film-by-film journey behind the scenes into the genesis and creative process of one of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, chronicling Billy Wilder's unique blend of cynicism, wit, and emotional depth that made his movies so memorable. As a researcher and fan, Jordan's concise summaries and thoughtful insights into Wilder's vision will inspire readers to rewatch his incredible body of work with even
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From the trolley scene in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers's last dance on the silver screen (The Barkleys of Broadway, 1949) to Judy Garland's timeless, tuxedo-clad performance of "Get Happy" (Summer Stock, 1950), Charles Walters staged the iconic musical sequences of Hollywood's golden age. During his career, this Academy Award-nominated director and choreographer showcased the talents of stars such as Gene Kelly, Doris...
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Paul Anderer looks back at Kurosawa before he became famous, taking us into the turbulent world that made him. We encounter Tokyo, Kurosawa's birthplace, which would be destroyed twice before his eyes; explore early twentieth-century Japan amid sweeping cross-cultural changes; and confront profound family tragedy alongside the horror of war. With fresh insights and vivid prose, Anderer discusses the Great Earthquake of 1923, the dynamic energy that...
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Pedro Almodóvar ha filmado la mayoría de sus películas en Madrid o, mejor dicho, en los muchos Madrid que hay en Madrid, y así lo ha reconocido: "Siempre he encontrado en esta urbe un paisaje perfecto y una fauna incorrecta para cada una de mis películas". Es la ciudad a la que llegó en 1966, cuando aún no había cumplido los diez y siete años, y, a pesar de estar inmersa en plena dictadura franquista, para él representaba los deseados valores...
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Written and directed by two white men and performed by an all-black cast, Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, 1964) tells the story of a drifter turned family man who struggles with the pressures of small-town life and the limitations placed on him and his community in the Deep South, an area long fraught with racism. Though unmistakably about race and civil rights, the film makes no direct reference to the civil rights movement. Despite this intentional...
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The films of Alfred Hitchcock are appreciated for a variety of reasons, including the many memorable villains who menace the protagonists. Unlike so many of cinema's wrongdoers, the Hitchcock villain was often a complex individual with a nuanced personality and neuroses the common person might not be able to relate to but could at least understand. If such figures did not always elicit sympathy from the audience, they still possessed characteristics...
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Between 1959 and 1984, French film director François Truffaut was interviewed over three hundred times. Each interview offers critical insight into the genesis of Truffaut's films as he shares the sources of his inspiration, the choice of his themes, and the development of his screenplays. In addition, Truffaut discusses his relationships with collaborators, actors, and the circumstances surrounding the shooting of each film. These texts, originally...
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Challenging the prevailing notion among cinephiles that the auteur is an isolated genius interested primarily in individualism, Colin Burnett positions Robert Bresson as one whose life's work confronts the cultural forces that helped shape it. Regarded as one of film history's most elusive figures, Bresson (1901-1999) carried himself as an auteur long before cultural magazines, like the famed Cahiers du cinéma, advanced the term to describe such...
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Originally released as a videographic experiment in film history, Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma has pioneered how we think about and narrate cinema history, and in how history is taught through cinema. In this stunningly illustrated volume, Michael Witt explores Godard's landmark work as both a specimen of an artist's vision and a philosophical statement on the history of film. Witt contextualizes Godard's theories and approaches to historiography...
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Through in-depth and informative text written by film journalist Ian Nathan, The Coen Brothers Archive re-examines the brothers' most famous work including Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, No Country for Old Men and True Grit. Plus, some of their cult films, like The Evil Dead, Paris je t'aime, and A Serious Man. Packed with stunning images from the Kobal archives, this book will also highlight their surprising...
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