I Hate Being Sexy But I'm A Director
by Pb Directors Journals Publishing
When writer and director Joss Whedon created the character Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he could hardly have expected the resulting academic interest in his work. Yet almost six years after the end of Buffy on television, Buffy studies-and academic work on Whedon's expanding oeuvre-continue to grow. Now with three hugely popular television shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly, and the film Serenity all available on DVD, scholars are evaluating countless aspects of the Whedon universe...
Michael Mann first made his mark as a writer for such television programs as Starsky and Hutch, Police Story, and Vegas. In 1981 he made his feature film directing debut with the James Caan thriller Thief, and in the 1980s he served as a writer and executive producer for the groundbreaking programs Miami Vice and Crime Story. Though he has delved into other genres, Mann's career as a writer, producer, and director has consistently focused on criminal activity, from small-time hoods and professio...
Liberal Directions
You're An Awesome Music Director Keep That Shit Up
by Swapchops Profession Humor
Anne Frank on the Postwar Dutch Stage (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)
by Remco Ensel
This book is a case study into the affective history of Holocaust drama offering a new perspective on the impact of The Diary of Anne Frank, the pivotal 1950s play that was a turning point in Holocaust consciousness. Despite its overwhelming success, criticism of the Broadway makeover has been harsh, suggesting that the alleged Americanization would not do justice to the violence of the Holocaust or Anne Frank’s budding Jewishness. This study revisits these issues by focusing on the play’s Eur...
A collection of wit and wisdom from Nora Ephron. The perfect Christmas gift for all the important women in your life - it will have you laughing into the New Year . . . * Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from. * If the shoe doesn't fit in the shoe store, it's never going to fit. * When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you. * If only one third of your clothes are mistakes, you're ahead of the game. * Anyt...
Arms and the Man; An Anti-Romantic Comedy in Three Acts
by Bernard Shaw
Talk's Cheap, Action's Expensive - The Films of Robert L. Lippert (hardback)
by Mark Thomas McGee
You're An Awesome Choir Director Keep That Shit Up
by Swapchops Profession Humor
Ten Arab Filmmakers provides an up-to-date overview of the best of Arab cinema, offering studies of leading directors and in-depth analyses of their most important films. The filmmakers profiled here represent principal national cinemas of the Arab world-Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, and Syria. Although they have produced many of the region's most-renowned films and gained recognition at major international festivals, with few exceptions these filmmakers have received little criti...
Marguerite Duras (Faux Titre, #420)
Marguerite Duras. Un theatre de voix / A Theatre of Voices propose une relecture originale du theatre de Marguerite Duras. Les travaux ici reunis temoignent des dernieres avancees de la recherche, particulierement dans les domaines de la voix et du son, et demontrent que le theatre durassien est parmi les plus novateurs du vingtieme siecle. Marguerite Duras. Un theatre de voix / A Theatre of Voices presents a radical reappraisal of the plays of Marguerite Duras. Cutting-edge research, particula...
Czech animator Jan Svankmajer is one of the most distinctive and influential of contemporary filmmakers. As a leading member of the Prague Surrealist Group, his work is linked to a rich avant-garde tradition and an uncompromising moral stance that brought frequent tensions with the authorities in the normalization years following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Svankmajer's formative influences have been the pre-war surrealists, the Prague of Rudolf II, experimental theatre, folk...
Gao Xingjian's Idea of Theatre (Sinica Leidensia)
by Izabella Labędzka
The Philosophy of Tim Burton (The Philosophy of Popular Culture)
Director and producer Tim Burton impresses audiences with stunning visuals, sinister fantasy worlds, and characters whose personalities are strange and yet familiar. Drawing inspiration from sources as varied as Lewis Carroll, Salvador Dali, Washington Irving, and Dr. Seuss, Burton's creations frequently elicit both alarm and wonder. Whether crafting an offbeat animated feature, a box-office hit, a collection of short fiction, or an art exhibition, Burton pushes the envelope, and he has emerged...
This book proposes an interpretive strategy by which religious film-analysts can develop the kind of analysis that engages with and critiques both cultural and religious practice. In their study of religion and film, religious film-analysts have tended to privilege religion. Uniquely, this study treats the two disciplines as genuine equals, by regarding both liturgy and film as representational media. Steve Nolan argues that, in each case, subjects identify with a represented 'other' which joins...