Remaking Horror: Hollywood's New Reliance on Scares of Old
by James Francis
"Trump knew from early on that he who controls the story controls the world." Writer/director Robert Orlando, locked down during the Covid-19 pandemic, learned Citizen Kane was Trump's favorite film, and the parallels were astonishing. Both Kane and Trump are swaggering masters of media, and both claim to stand for the working man. "Orson Welles, the boy genius of Kane, was possessing me from the grave," states Orlando. In Orlando's acclaimed documentary Citizen Trump, we witness Trump, like...
From her idyllic childhood in the American midwest, to her Oscar-nominated performance in Sunset Boulevard (1950) and the social circles of New York and Los Angeles, actress Nancy Olson Livingston has lived abundantly. In her memoir, A Front Row Seat, Livingston treats readers to an intimate, charming chronicle of her life as an actress, wife, and mother, and her memories of many of the most notable figures and moments of her time. Livingston shares reminiscences of her marriages to lyricist an...
This is a unique study of the film musical, a global cinema tradition. The musical is one of cinema's few genuinely international genres but it has never been studied as a global sensation. This book fills this critical gap in film studies as it brings together musicals from 15 nations in order to highlight running themes. Musicals are often studied as part of distinct national traditions that are interpreted as native. However this anthology will dispute previous approaches to reveal the influe...
Finanzierung studentischer Kurzfilme. Moeglichkeiten und Rahmenbedingungen
by Johannes Kraller
* You have an idea you want to pitch to a production company; how do you safeguard your concept? * There's a painting in the background of your independent film; is it necessary to clear the rights? * The screenplay you and a friend wrote gets optioned; how do you split the proceeds fairly? * How do you get a script to popular Hollywood actors or deal with their agents? Find quick answers to these and hundreds of other questions in The Pocket Lawyer for Film and Video, the next best thing to ha...
Der politische Dokumentarfilm als postmodernes Guerilla-Marketing
by Clemens Grun
Roman Catholicism in Fantastic Film: Essays on Belief, Spectacle, Ritual and Imagery
The second instalment of Michael Sheard's autobiography which give unique insights into the world of show business, television and film. His experiences as an actor in the "Star Wars Trilogy" takes the reader behind the scenes with the leading stars of our time.