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The first book on the renowned and notorious cult filmmaker Roberta Findlay

Ther book investigates contemporary women directors who put a poetics of horror to new use in their work expanding the range of gendered and racialized perspectives in the horror genre

This book offers a new interpretation of Ozu Yasujiro s career from his earliest work in the 1920s up to his death in 1963 focusing on Ozu s depiction of the everyday life and experiences of ordinary Japanese people during a time of depression war and economic resurgence

Werner Herzog s protean imagination has produced a filmography that is nothing less than a sustained meditation on the modern human condition Though Herzog takes his topics from around the world the Americas have provided the setting and subject matter for iconic works ranging from Aquirre The Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo to Grizzly Man Joshua Lund offers the first systematic interpretation of Werner Herzog s Americas themed works illuminating the director s career as a political filmmaker a label Herzog himself rejects Lund draws on materialist and post colonial approaches to argue that Herzog s American work confronts us with the circulation distribution accumulation application and negotiation of power that resides quietly at the center of his films By operating beyond conventional ideological categories Herzog renders political ideas in radically unfamiliar ways while fearlessly confronting his viewers with questions of world historical significance His maddeningly opaque viewpoint challenges us to rethink discovery and conquest migration and exploitation resource extraction slavery and other foundational traumas of the contemporary human condition

The definitive study of the great filmmaker set in the context of Russian cultural history

The Ethnographic Optic traces the surprising role of ethnography in French cinema in the 1960s and examines its place in several New Wave fictions and cinéma vérité documentaries during the final years of the French colonial empire Focusing on prominent French filmmakers Jean Rouch Chris Marker and Alain Resnais author Laure Astourian elucidates their striking pivot from centering their work on distant lands to scrutinizing their own French urban culture As awareness of the ramifications of the shrinking empire grew within metropolitan France these filmmakers turned inward what their similarly white urban bourgeois predecessors had long turned outward toward the colonies the ethnographic gaze Featuring some of the most canonical and best loved films of the French tradition such as Moi un Noir La jetee and Muriel this is an essential book for readers interested in national identity and cinema

Carcanet s Graham Greene Film Reader reissued as a Carcanet Classic the only book to collect his written contributions to the world of cinema

Collects critical essays on the influential Argentine director Lucrecia Martel

Many critics have approached Terrence Malick s work from a philosophical perspective arguing that his films express philosophy through cinema With their remarkable images of nature poetic voiceovers and meditative reflections Malick s cinema certainly invites philosophical engagement In Terrence Malick Filmmaker and Philosopher Robert Sinnerbrink takes a different approach exploring Malick s work as a case of cinematic ethics films that evoke varieties of ethical experience encompassing existential metaphysical and religious perspectives Malick s films are not reducible to a particular moral position or philosophical doctrine rather they solicit ethically significant forms of experience encompassing anxiety and doubt wonder and awe to questioning and acknowledgment through aesthetic engagement and poetic reflection Drawing on a range of thinkers and approaches from Heidegger and Cavell Nietzsche and Kierkegaard to phenomenology and moral psychology Sinnerbrink explores how Malick s films respond to the problem of nihilism the loss of conviction or belief in prevailing forms of value and meaning and the possibility of ethical transformation through cinema from self transformation in our relations with others to cultural transformation via our att

An evaluation of one of the most important yet overlooked of Hollywood auteurs Budd Boetticher who was responsible for a number of classic films including his famous Ranown series of westerns star

This book looks at Spike Jonze s ground breaking work in both features and short forms exploring the impact of his filmmaking across a range of philosophical and cultural discussions

The first critical work to emphasize Richard Brook s literariness

The definitive account of the legendary Francis Ford Coppola s decades long dream to reinvent American film making if not the entire world Supremely entertaining New York Times Mouth watering Sizzingly vivid and compulsive Daily Telegraph Acclaimed writer Sam Wasson weaves together an extraordinary portrait of Coppola having conducted hundreds of interviews with the director and those who have worked closely with him A man who is charming brilliant but also plagued by restlessness recklessness and a desire to operate perpetually at the extremes It is a story inextricably bound up in the making of one of the greatest quixotic masterpieces ever attempted Apocalypse Now That story already the stuff of legend has never been fully told until this extraordinary book

The Grand Budapest Hotel and Moonrise Kingdom have made Wes Anderson a prestige force Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums have become quotable cult classics Yet every new Anderson release brings out droves of critics eager to charge him with stylistic excess and self indulgent eclecticism Donna Kornhaber approaches Anderson s style as the necessary product of the narrative and thematic concerns that define his body of work Using Anderson s focus on collecting Kornhaber situates the director as the curator of his filmic worlds a prime mover who artfully and conscientiously arranges diverse components into cohesive collections and taxonomies Anderson peoples each mise en scene in his ongoing Wesworld with characters orphaned lost and out of place amidst a riot of handmade clutter and relics Within they seek a wholeness and collective identity they manifestly lack with their pain expressed via an ordered emotional palette that despite being muted cries out for attention As Kornhaber shows Anderson s films offer nothing less than a fascinating study in the sensation of belonging told by characters who possess it the least

A film centric portrait of the extraordinarily gifted movie director whose decades long influence on American popular culture is unprecedented Everything about me is in my films Steven Spielberg has said Taking this as a key to understanding the hugely successful moviemaker Molly Haskell explores the full range of Spielberg s works for the light they shine upon the man himself Through such powerhouse hits as Close Encounters of the Third Kind E T Jurassic Park and Indiana Jones to lesser known masterworks like A I and Empire of the Sun to the haunting Schindler s List Haskell shows how Spielberg s uniquely evocative filmmaking and story telling reveal the many ways in which his life work and times are entwined Organizing chapters around specific films the distinguished critic discusses how Spielberg s childhood in non Jewish suburbs his parents traumatic divorce his return to Judaism upon his son s birth and other events echo in his work She offers a brilliant portrait of the extraordinary director a fearful boy living through his imagination who grew into a man whose openness generosity of spirit and creativity have enchanted audiences for more than 40 years

Explores American horror remakes produced since 2000 within key cultural industry and reception contexts

The first book on the renowned and notorious cult filmmaker Roberta Findlay

Modern European cinema and love examines nine European directors working from the 1950s onwards whose films contain stories about and reflections on romantic love and marriage

Wes Anderson is considered one of the most important directors of the post Baby Boom generation making films such as Rushmore 1998 and The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 in a style so distinctive that his films are often recognizable from a single frame Through the travelogue The Darjeeling Limited 2007 and the stop motion animation of Fantastic Mr Fox 2009 his films examine issues of gender race and class through dysfunctional family dynamics with particular focus on masculinity and male bonding Anderson s auteur status is enriched by his fascination with Truffaut and the French New Wave as well as his authorship of every one of his screenplays drawing on influences as diverse as Mark Twain J D Salinger Roald Dahl and Stefan Zweig Works such as Moonrise Kingdom 2012 and The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014 continue to fascinate with their postmodern hyper nostalgic attention to detail This book explores the filmic and literary influences that have helped make Anderson a major voice in 21st century indie culture and reveals why Wes Anderson is one of the most inventive filmmakers working in cinema today