Antonioni and the Aesthetics of Impurity (Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality)
by Matilde Nardelli
Influential, innovative and aesthetically experimental, the films of Michelangelo Antonioni are widely recognized as both exemplars of cinema and key in ushering in its 'new' or 'modern' incarnation around 1960. Antonioni and the Aesthetics of Impurity offers a radical rethinking of the director's work. It argues against prevalent understandings of it in terms of both cinematic purity and indebtedness to painting. Reconnecting Antonioni's aesthetically audacious films of the 1960s and 1970s to t...
Refocus: the Films of Pablo Larrain (Refocus: The International Directors)
Pablo Larrain is among the most prominent filmmakers in contemporary Chilean cinema. Having created a highly original cinematic language and established a focused critical dialogue about Chile's troubled contemporary history, his work presents an unflinching portrait of one of the most notorious regimes of modern Latin America (indeed, the world) and its problematic aftermath. In a straightforward, often surprising, and reliably controversial series of films, Larrain never retreats in the face o...
No Power without an Image (Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality)
by Libby Saxton
The first detailed study of what filmic images can tell us about iconic photographs, No Power Without an Image reveals the multifaceted connections between seven celebrated photographs of political struggles, taken between 1936 and 1968, and cinema in all its forms. Moving from the 'paper cinema' of magazines via newsreels and film journals, to documentary, fiction and experimental films, this fascinating book draws on original archival research and multidisciplinary icon theory to explore new w...
Pablo Larran is among the most prominent filmmakers in contemporary Chilean cinema. Having created a highly original cinematic language and established a focused critical dialogue about Chile's troubled contemporary history, his work presents an unflinching portrait of one of the most notorious regimes of modern Latin America (indeed, the world) and its problematic aftermath. In a straightforward, often surprising, and reliably controversial series of films, Larran never retreats in the face of...
A fascinating guide which tells you what you need to know to bring more bluebirds into your life In this detailed how-to book, bluebird expert Wayne H. Davis tells how to attract and care for this beautiful and gentle bird and offers solutions to the most common bluebird problems. Since bluebirds are almost entirely dependent on people for providing nesting sites, the book contains plans for erecting a structure that will attract bluebirds to a safe habitat. Instructions for building and maintai...
The first book in English exclusively devoted to an analysis of the films of one of Spain's most important film directors, Victor Erice. Drawing on original essays, reprints, and new translations from an international group of writers, this anthology will help open a window into a deeper appreciation of Erice's three haunting feature-length films.
Charlie Chaplin was considered a radical by both his friends and his enemies as he took left wing positions on everything from the New Deal and Spain, to the USSR and the Cold War, and McCarthyism. This book examines his life in a sociohistorical context and to foreground the radicalism in both his politics and his art. Heather A. Kiernan brings to light Chaplin's experience as Hollywood's lone radical in the early part of this century, and how he influenced other left wing artists in the middle...
El miedo y el suspenso desde la perspectiva del cine de Alfred Hitchcock.
by Rafael J Salin-Pascual
First I Drink The Coffee Then I Do The Director Things
by Pb Directors Journals Publishing
Only The Strongest Women Become Directors
by Pb Directors Journals Publishing
Revised and updated edition of this pocket-guide which tells readers everything they need to know about Woody Allen but were afraid to ask. Includes an introductory essay on Allen and reviews and analyses each of his films.
In this "unexpected delight,"* filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation. Now in a beautiful paperback edition, David Lynch's Catching the Big Fish provides a rare window into the internationally acclaimed filmmaker's methods as an artist, his personal working style, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation. Catching...
Tarkovsky pays tribute to the substantial legacy of Andrei Tarkovsky, the most important Soviet filmmaker of the post-war era, and one of the world's most renowned cinematic geniuses. His reputation has grown significantly since his death twenty years ago in Paris. Tarkovsky created spiritual, existential films of incredible beauty, repeatedly returning to themes of memory, dreams, childhood and Christianity. Hugely influential on directors such as David Lynch, Steven Soderburgh, David Lynch and...