Cinema Stories

Author: Alexander Kluge
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811217354
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
The thirty-eight tales of Cinema Stories combine fact and fiction, and they all revolve around movie-making. The book compresses a lifetime of feeling, thought, and practice: Kluge -- considered the father of New German Cinema -- is an inventive wellspring of narrative notions. "The power of his prose," as Small Press noted, "exudes the sort of pregnant richness one might find in the brief scenarios of unknown films." Cinema Stories is a treasure box of cinematic lore and movie magic by "Alexander Kluge, that most enlightened of writers" (W. G. Sebald). Alexander Kluge, born in Germany in 1932, is a world-famous author and filmmaker (his 23 films include Yesterday Girl, The Female Patriot, The Candidate), a lawyer, and a media magnate. He has won Germany\'s highest literary award, the Georg Büchner Prize.

Cinema and History

Author: Mike Chopra-Gant
Publisher: Wallflower Press
ISBN: 9781905674596
Category : Historical films
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This volume examines some of the key historical issues raised by popular film, including what film might tell us about the past, the reliability of movies as sources of historical knowledge, and how the film might compare to more 'serious' works of history.

How Films Tell Stories

Author: Larry A. Brown
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781945527142
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
This book presents a concise introduction to the often complex study of narrative theory. In part one, Aspects of Story, major theories of plot structure, character, and fictional worlds are applied to cinema. Part two, Aspects of Discourse, discusses how the story is communicated, examining techniques of cinematic narration such as time manipulation, perspective, editing and sound. Each chapter concludes with questions encouraging students to produce their own analysis of the narrative strategies of films.

The Cinema of Aki Kaurismäki

Author: Andrew Nestingen
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231850417
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 185

Book Description
Aki Kaurismäki is an enigma, an eminent auteur who claims his films are a joke. Since 1983, Kaurismäki has produced classically-styled films filled with cinephilic references to film history. He has earned an international art-house audience and many prizes, influencing such directors as Jim Jarmusch, Quentin Tarantino, and Wes Anderson. Yet Kaurismäki is often depicted as the loneliest, most nostalgic of Finns (except when he promotes his films, makes political statements, and runs his many businesses). He is also depicted as a bohemian known for outlandish actions and statements. The Cinema of Aki Kaurismäki is the first comprehensive English-language study of this eccentric director. Drawing on revisionist approaches to film authorship, the text links the filmmaker and his films to the stories and issues animating film aesthetics and history, nostalgia, late modernity, politics, commerce, film festivals, and national cinema.

Quentin Tarantino

Author: Jeffrey Dawson
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557832276
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
Examines the personal life and the professional work and success of the director of "Pulp Fiction"

Marriage Story

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781614289043
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Each volume contains film stills, set photography, quotes from the cast and the filmmakers, Introductions, copies of handwritten notes by Adam Driver (Charlie) and Scarlett Johansson (pink) giving their perspectives on who the other character is. In envelopes adhered to front paste-downs of each other's volumes.

American Cinema

Author: Jeanine Basinger
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Book Description
This extraordinary book--published to commemorate the centennial celebration of the birth of American film and a 10-part PBS-TV series scheduled for the new year--surveys the phenomenon that is Hollywood, past and present. With more than 200 illustrations, 100 in full color, and including some never before published, this book celebrates the best of American films.

Soldiers' Stories

Author: Yvonne Tasker
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822348470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
A comprehensive analysis of the changing representations of military women in American and British movies and TV programs from the Second World War to the present.

Sell Your Story to Hollywood

Author: Kenneth Atchity
Publisher: Story Merchant Books
ISBN: 9780996990875
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
This little book aims to help you figure out how to get your story told on big screens or small. It offers nearly thirty years of observation of how things happen in the business of entertainment. Dr. Ken Atchity's Hollywood experience ranges from writing to managing to producing; he's seen Hollywood from nearly every angle.

The Cinema of Wim Wenders

Author: Roger F. Cook
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814325780
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
The Cinema of Wim Wenders, the first anthology of scholarly work on Wenders, is a unique anthropology of source materials and selected critical essays on the films of Wim Wenders, a major filmmaker in the so-called New German Cinema movement. His work, probably more than that of any other European director, reflects the tension between the European auteur tradition and the increasing dominance of the American media industry. In both his filmmaking and his critical writing, he explores how the relationship between image and narrative manifests the basic opposition between these two film traditions. This book serves as an introduction to the central concerns of his cinema while situation his work within German film history and the contemporary debates about postmodern film and media theory.