Legendary Assistant Directors are born in August
by Lovely Hearts Publishing
"A rich, thought-provoking study."-Godfrey Cheshire Tina Hassannia traces the career of Academy Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi from his origins as a scriptwriter to renowned director, providing contextual analyses for each of his films, including About Elly and A Separation. Also includes an exclusive, in-depth interview with the filmmaker.
Sensations proustiennes (Marcel Proust Aujourd'hui, #13)
This issue of Marcel Proust Aujourd'hui, 'Sensations proustiennes', brings together ten articles, in French, that approach the notion of 'sensation' from various perspectives; otherwise there are articles on genetic studies, the gothic tradition and translation studies as they are linked to the Recherche. Ce numero de Marcel Proust Aujourd'hui, 'Sensations proustiennes', regroupe une dizaine articles, en francais, traitant de de la notion de 'sensation' sous plusieurs perspectives : d'autre pa...
Sweet William: Twenty Thousand Hours With Shakespeare
by Michael Pennington
Michael Pennington's solo show about Shakespeare, Sweet William, has been acclaimed throughout Europe and in the US as a unique blend of showmanship and scholarship. In this book, he deepens his exploration of Shakespeare's life and work - and the connection between the two - that lies at its heart. It is illuminated throughout by the unrivalled insights into the plays that Pennington has gained from the twenty thousand hours he has spent working on them as a leading actor, an artistic director...
South Korea in the 1950s was home to a burgeoning film culture, one of the many "Golden Age cinemas" that flourished in Asia during the postwar years. Cold War Cosmopolitanism offers a transnational cultural history of South Korean film style in this period, focusing on the works of Han Hyung-mo, director of the era's most glamorous and popular women's pictures, including the blockbuster Madame Freedom (1956). Christina Klein provides a unique approach to the study of film style, illuminating ho...
Mike Leigh may well be Britain’s greatest living film director; his worldview has permeated our national consciousness. This book gives detailed readings of the nine feature films he has made for the cinema, as well as an overview of his work for television. Written with the co-operation of Leigh himself, this is the first study of his work to challenge the critical privileging of realism in histories of the British cinema, placing the emphasis instead on the importance of comedy and humour: o...
The interviews with the director Martin Scorsese which make up this book reveal a man with an unbridled passion for film. This revised edition contains material on GoodFellas, Cape Fear, The Age of Innocence, and other projects up to Casino.
Winner of the STR Theatre Book Prize 2014 The National Theatre Story is filled with artistic, financial and political battles, onstage triumphs – and the occasional disaster. This definitive account takes readers from the National Theatre’s 19th-century origins, through false dawns in the early 1900s, and on to its hard-fought inauguration in 1963. At the Old Vic, Laurence Olivier was for ten years the inspirational Director of the NT Company, before Peter Hall took over and, in 1976, led the...
Hal Ashby (1929-1988) was always an outsider, and as a director he brought an outsider's perspective to Hollywood cinema. After moving to California from a Mormon household in Utah, he created eccentric films that reflected the uncertain social climate of the 1970s. Whether it is his enduring cult classic Harold and Maude (1971) or the iconic Being There (1979), Ashby's artistry is unmistakable. His skill for blending intense drama with off-kilter comedy attracted A-list actors and elicited po...
Paul Verhoeven (Conversations with Filmmakers (Hardcover)) (Conversations with Filmmakers)
After a robust career in the Netherlands as the country's most successful director, Paul Verhoeven (b. 1938) built an impressive career in the United States with such controversial blockbusters as RoboCop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers, and Showgirls before returning home to direct 2006's Black Book. After a recent stint as a reality television judge in the Netherlands, Verhoeven returned to the big screen with his first feature film in a decade, a highly anticipated French-lan...