Hitchcock - Greenaway - Tarantino (M & P Schriftenreihe Feur Wissenschaft Und Forschung)
by Lutz Nitsche
Der wichtigste "special effect" des Autorenkinos ist das Image seiner Regisseure. Filme werden vom Publikum leidenschaftlicher gesehen, in der Öffentlichkeit intensiver kritisiert, wenn neben der Leinwand die Imagination einer Künstlerpersönlichkeit aufscheint. Die Studie beschreibt die Verflechtung von filmischem Oeuvre und jenen Randzonen, die Gérard Genette als Paratexte bezeichnet: Interview, Werbeanzeigen und die filmische Selbstdarstellung. Mit welcher Rhetorik evozieren diese Paratexte da...
Opening the Doors to Hollywood
by Carlos De Abreu and Howard J. Smith
Finally! A step-by-step guide to the keys that unlock the doors to Hollywood. Opening the Doors to Hollywood has all the information you'll ever need in order to tap into the $500 million spent yearly in Hollywood on acquiring and developing projects. Discover how to: Find a story Rewrite it Option it Package it Pitch it Write it Sell it to film and television companies Complete with a reference section that includes guilds/unions, libraries, sample contracts, seminars and workshops, trade p...
From script analysis to post production, here is the all-inclusive guide to directing for film and television. Written by noted director-producer Myrl Schreibman, "The Film Director Prepares" offers practical insights on filmmaking, using real-life examples directors won't learn in school. With topics including working with actors, using the camera to tell a story, setting mood, staging, maintaining performance levels, covering shots, and directing for different mediums, "The Film Director Prepa...
Last Year at Marienbad (Calder Publications)
by Alain Robbe-Grillet
A man tells a woman that they have met before – that they became lovers but then agreed to separate for a year. The year is now up, and he has come back for her. At first, she remembers nothing, but as he relates their past together, real or imaginary, snapshots of memory appear – and she begins to believe him. As more details begin to re-emerge from the woman’s mind, the reader is shunted backwards and forwards between the past and the present, the actual and the illusory, that wh...
The classic, with 316,000 copies sold to date.
This is a simple story of love and loss told three times in three different cities. The first is New York, the subsequent two are Berlin and Tokyo. The crisis in each story is precipitated by the indecisiveness of the main character which leads him or her to flirt with disaster.
The screenplay of a Tim Burton film featuring the eccentric Ed Wood, who directs trashy films while dressed in women's clothes. The story communicates his struggle to express creativity in a harsh and uncomprehending world.
Young Eddie Adams' 'special thing' happens to be a stunning appendage which propels him to stardom in the world of 'adult entertainment'. Deprived of love and respect from his family, Eddie is renamed 'Dirk Diggler' and conquers the world of porn, but manages to retain his essential innocence. As the turbulent seventies shade into the hedonistic eighties, Dirk's career goes into a tailspin; but he is rescued by the safety net of the extended family fostered by hard-core movie director Jack Hor...
A tale of kidnapping and murder in snowbound Minnesota.
As the title suggests, One Night Stand centres round a bittersweet sexual encounter between two people and how that event triggers a crisis in both the marriage and the career of the male protagonaist, Max. With his best friend dying of AIDS, Max has to decide which path his life should take. As with Leaving Las Vegas, Mike Figgis looks on his characters in a non-judgemental way, seeking to create the complex texture of ordinary life.
Set in the midst of the bleak midwinter snow drifts of the American Midwest, "Fargo" is a story of murder and mayhem. Jerry Lundegaard plots the kidnapping of his wife to rescue his precarious financial situation, but events career out of control when one of the small-time criminals he has hired to do the job goes haywire. In a senseless universe, it falls to Marge Gunderson, chief of the Brainerd Police Department, to set things straight. Like the Coen brothers' auspicious debut feature "Blood...
Omar is a restless young Asian man, caring for his alcoholic father in the hustling London of the mid-1980s. His uncle, a keen Thatcherite, offers Omar an entrepreneurial opportunity to revamp a dingy laundrette, and ambitious Omar rolls up his sleeves, enlisting the assistance of his old school-friend Johnny, who has since fallen in with a gang of neo-fascists. Omar and Johnny soon form an unlikely alliance that leads to business success, as well as other, more intimate surprises.
From the writers, editors and compilers of the highly successful The Writer's Handbook comes the first edition of The Screenwriter's Handbook, an indispensible companion for everyone who commissions screenwriters, works with them or writes (or wants their chance to write) for the screen. Containing thousands of entries covering every aspect of scriptwriting, with provocative articles and useful advice from leading representatives of the trade, this practical, straightforward guide, with indexe...
Set in a time of immense change, Dancing on the Edge tells the story of a black jazz group, the Louis Lester Band, as they rise to fame, entertaining guests at exclusive high society gatherings in 1930s London. While many recoil at the presence of black musicians in polite society, the capital's more progressive socialites, including younger members of the Royal Family, take the band under their wing. In this explosive five-part series, Stephen Poliakoff returns to television with his most ambi...
The Palgrave Handbook of Script Development
The Palgrave Handbook of Script Development provides the first comprehensive overview of international script development practices. Across 40 unique chapters, readers are guided through the key challenges, roles and cultures of script development, from the perspectives of creators of original works, those in consultative roles and those giving broader contextual case studies. The authors take us inside the writers’ room, alongside the script editor, between development conversations, and outsid...
The English translation of the dialogue and the complete continuity script of this comic work, recognized as the most important expression of the director's views about himself and his art. The story of the director's efforts to make the film communicates to its viewers an understanding of the processes of filmmaking itself: it depicts the conditions of creativity, the struggle waged between the individual and the world, a struggle that finally make some sense out of life and art. Annotated, wit...
One of the twentieth century’s most significant artists, Cindy Sherman has quietly uprooted conventional understandings of portraiture and art, questioning everything from identity to feminism. Critics around the world have taken Sherman’s photographs and extensively examined what lies underneath. However, little critical ink has been spilled on Sherman’s only film, Office Killer, a piece that plays a significant role both in Sherman’s body of work and in American art in the late twentieth centu...
Nominated for 8 Academy Awards® including Best Picture and Best Adapted ScreenplayShe's everything. He's just Ken. The exclusive screenplay of the film phenomenon by Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach.*Featuring an exclusive introduction by Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach and 8 pages of full-colour photos from the film*'Greta Gerwig's bold and inventive Barbie breaks the mold.' BBC Culture'A near-miraculous achievement.' Independent'Brilliant, beautiful, and fun as hell.' The New YorkerFor the first ti...