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Yvonne Tasker - Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers

Yvonne Tasker - Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers
(Fifty Key Thinkers)
Routledge | ISBN: 978 0415189736 | 08/03/2002 | English | 464 pages | PDF | 2 MB

Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers examines the work of some of today's most popular, original and influential cinematic voices from around the world. The subjects of these fifty essays are drawn from such diverse cinematic traditions as Europe cinema, mainstream Hollywood movies, independent American film, Chinese and Japanese cinema. Among those featured in this lively reference are: Luc Besson Joel and Ethan Coen David Cronenberg Julie Dash Hal Hartley David Lynch Martin Scorsese Lars Von Trier Wim WendersThese essays outlines its subject's career, discussing the major films, the genres in which he or she works, references and relationships to other films and filmmakers, and concluding with an assessment of his or her status as an auteur. With each entry supplemented by a filmography, references and suggestions for further reading, this is a guide to modern cinema which students of, or anyone interested in, contemporary film will find indispensable.

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Deleuze and Cinema: The Aesthetics of Sensation

Barbara Kennedy, "Deleuze and Cinema: The Aesthetics of Sensation"
Edinburgh University Press | 2003-07-30 | ISBN: 0748617264 | 224 pages | PDF | 13,5 MB

Film theory has for so long focused on sociological, empirical, and psychoanalytic approaches that aesthetic sensibilities seem to have been forgotten. This book puts the emphasis back on film as an art form. Through discussions of Orlando, The English Patient, Romeo and Juliet, Strange Days, and Leon, the book offers a new and creative collusion between Deleuzian philosophy -- specifically Deleuze's ideas about desire, pleasure, sensation, affect, and "becoming-woman" -- and contemporary film studies.

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A Companion to Film Theory

Toby Miller, Robert Stam, "A Companion to Film Theory (Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies)"
Wiley-Blackwell | ISBN: 0631206450 | May 28, 2004 | 440 Pages | PDF | 19.1MB

“ This volume of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies provides a comprehensive overview of the field. Its international and interdisciplinary approach will have a broad appeal to those interested in this multifaceted subject.

* Provides a major collection of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies.
* Represents material under a variety of headings, including class, race, gender, queer theory, nation, stars, ethnography, authorship, and spectatorship.
* Offers an international approach to the subject, including coverage of topics such as genre, image, sound, editing, culture industries, early cinema, classical Hollywood, and TV relations and technology.
* Includes concise chapter-by-chapter accounts of the background and current approaches to each topic, followed by a prognostication on the future.
* Considers cinema studies in relation to other forms of knowledge, such as critical studies, anthropology, and literature.

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$30 Film School : How to write, direct, produce, shoot, edit, distribute, tour with, and sell your own no-budget DIGITAL movie

ISBN: 1592000673 | Title: $30 Film School | Author: Michael W. Dean | Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade | Publication Date: 2003-05-13 | Number Of Pages: 528 | PDF | 12 MB

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Closely Watched Films: An Introduction to the Art of Narrative Film Technique

Closely Watched Films: An Introduction to the Art of Narrative Film Technique
University of California Press; 1 edition (August 2, 2004) | ISBN: 0520238915 | PDF | 299 Pages | 6.36 MB

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Why exactly was Citizen Kane such a revolutionary film? What are the hallmarks of Italian Neorealism? How do directors sew together a smooth scene from five or six different shots? Fabe answers these questions and more in this primer on the narrative structure of filmmaking, which analyzes 14 benchmark movies from D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation to Mike Figgis’s Timecode. (Since each film was selected to represent a significant cinematic movement—expressionism, postmodernism, French New Wave, etc.—the book also doubles as a concise history of film’s most innovative storytellers.) Fabe teaches film theory at the University of California, Berkeley, and her chapters maintain the conversational feel of lecture notes: each one gives some background on and a plot synopsis of the film discussed then provides a close analysis of a particular sequence. Antonio Ricci’s decision to steal in De Sica’s The Bicycle Thief, for example, is broken down to show how moral conflict can be encapsulated in a split second. Fabe’s analysis proves most engaging when it shows how each cinematic element works to add subtext and depth to story and character. Her explication of Hitchcock’s camera work in Notorious, for example, shows how his use of space in a frame could evoke either freedom or claustrophobia.

How do films work? How do they tell a story? How do they move us and make us think? 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.

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Studying Film

Nathan Abrams, Ian Bell, Jan Udris "Studying Film (Studying the Media)"
Publisher: A Hodder Arnold Publication (September 6, 2001) | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0340761342 | PDF | 20 MB

This accessible introduction to the study of film aims to stimulate students' enjoyment and understanding of a wide range of different types of film, and to give them an awareness of the nature of cinema as a medium, as an art form, and as a social and economic institution. Contemporary film is seen in context by tracing its development from 1895 to the present, exploring film production in a variety of countries in a range of styles, and placing film next to other media.

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Key Film Texts

Key Film Texts by Graham Roberts, Heather Wallis
Publisher: A Hodder Arnold Publication (April 4, 2002) | 266 pages | ISBN: 0340762276 | PDF | 10.2 MB

Key Film Texts offers students a stimulating introduction to 50 films which they are likely to encounter during their studies. An introductory chapter outlines the core concepts involved in film study. Each entry then provides a guide to production details, information on the film-makers and the institutional context of the film. It explores issues of genre and stardom, the social and historical context, and questions of form and content. The discussion is followed by questions designed to develop students' analytical skills and awareness of the key issues raised by the film. Each entry ends with a list of other similar films to encourage students to broaden their viewing and knowledge of film culture.

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