Have you ever wondered what a Hollywood movie producer actually does? In A Pound of Flesh, producer Art Linson takes us behind closed doors on a rare backstage tour through America's cruelest, most glamorous industry. Here at last is a dishy and informative guide to the entire moviemaking process -- from acquiring scripts to negotiating with studio executives to shmoozing with agents and actors to facing the horror of opening night. With amusing stories about his encounters with such players as...
Honed by the author's 35 years of teaching, this advanced book offers different warm-up exercises concentrating on the actor's sense of smell, sound, sight, and touch; sensory tools for conveying the climate and environment of the text; tips for suggesting a character's physical conditions; and much more. Individual exercises will help actors to free the voice and body, create a character, find the action and condition of scenes, and explore the subconscious for effective emotional recall. Reade...
This book analyses the relationships between music and contemporary media, both via the mediation of music, and music as mediator. It does so through a series of original interviews with key practitioners: musicians, writers, magazine editors, radio presenters and major and independent label bosses. Through these interviews, theory and practice are measured against each other and the book considers their experiences and observations in order to explore the ways popular music is produced, markete...
The Oxford Companion to Film
Provides descriptions of seven hundred important films, biographies of actors, directors, producers, writers, and others, histories of national industries and production companies, and explanations of technical processes
Gramophone Film Music Good CD Guide 2nd (Good CD Guide)
by Omnibus Press
This trivia and information book for Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi will keep even the most knowledgeable Wookie interested. This science fiction film trilogy continues to fascinate old and new fans alike.In an easy-to-use format, here's everything about all the actors, including Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher and Star Wars' best-loved characters, like Chewbacca and Yoda. Readers can go behind the scenes and explore the making of the films -- find out wha...
Cinema plays a major role in contemporary art, yet the deeper influence of its diverse historical forms on artistic practice has received little attention. Screen Presence explores the intersections of film, popular media, and art since the 1950s through the examples of four pivotal figures – Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Mona Hatoum and Douglas Gordon. While their film-related works may appear primarily as challenges to conventional cinema, these artists draw on overlooked forms of popular...
Horror films have always reflected their contemporary audiences' fears and anxieties. In the United States, the 2000s were a decade full of change in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the contested presidential election of 2000, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. These social and political changes, as well as the influences of Japanese Horror and New French Extremism, had a profound effect on American horror filmmaking during the 2000s. This filmography covers more than 300 horror films...
Originally published in 1994, this important book traces the rise of film propaganda in the 20th Century, discussing specifically how film can be used to manipulate public perception and opinions. Two distinct areas are covered: war propaganda, including feature and documentary films regarding warfare; and civilian propaganda, including films that address a variety of political subjects. Although the focus is American film and American politics, this book offers insights for all those interested...
Also Starring... Forty Biographical Essays on the Greatest Character Actors of Hollywood's Golden Era, 1930-1965
by Cynthia Brideson
Broadcasting Debate (Broadcasting debate monographs, #1)
The Films of Werner Herzog (Routledge Library Editions: Cinema)
A challenging range of films is covered offering the readers ways of understanding why, whatever the controversies surrounding Herzog and his films, he remains a major and popular international film-maker.
George Brent - Ireland's Gift to Hollywood and its Leading Ladies (hardback)
by Scott O'Brien
HARDCOVER EDITION. This is the novelization of the 15-chapter serial, Adventures of Tarzan, starring Elmo Lincoln and Louise Lorraine as Tarzan and Jane. The novelization appeared in newspapers across the country in 1921 and 1922, during the initial run of the serial.
The Polish Brothers' Declaration of Independent Filmmaking
by Mark Polish, Michael Polish, and Jonathan Sheldon
Less than a decade since they began working in the movies, Mark and Michael Polish have established themselves as critically acclaimed, award-winning independent filmmakers. Their innovative approach to art direction, use of digital photography, and ability to attract stellar talent to their modestly budgeted films sprang from necessity; now these aesthetics have become admired trademarks of their work. Infused with this same balance of artistic integrity and popular appeal, The Declaration of I...
The Hand That Holds the Camera (Routledge Library Editions: Cinema)
by Lynn Fieldman Miller
Images of girls and women in books, ads, films and on television influence the way that girls and women see themselves. This book, considering it important that women control the images in these powerful media, interviews seven female film and video makers and questions their thoughts on their subject and theme choices and the role that they play in presenting women differently. It presents an overview of the lives of these women and discusses how they developed their careers. The interviews wer...
The Auditory Setting introduces and investigates how narrative and a sense of place are constructed in film and media arts through the reproduction and mediation of site-specific environmental sounds, or 'ambience'. Although this sonic backdrop acts as the acoustically mediated space where a story or event can take place, there has been little academic study of sound's undervalued role in cinematic setting and production. Drawing on theories of narrative, diegesis, mimesis and presence, and fol...
The Art of the Film: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
by Dermot Power
Step inside the world of the talented art departments who, led by Academy Award (R)-winning production designer Stuart Craig, were responsible for the creation of the unforgettable characters, locations and beasts in J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The Art of the Film, edited by concept artist Dermot Power, takes you on a magical journey through a design process every bit as wonderful as Newt Scamander's adventure in the wizarding world. Bursting with...