Bresson ou L'acte pur des métamorphoses

Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo

“Hypnotic…. it truly is ever tempting to attempt to fathom his stressed spirit and his choice to problem destiny. ”—Janet Maslin, ny Times Werner Herzog (Grizzly guy) is likely one of the such a lot respected and enigmatic filmmakers of our time, and Fitzcarraldo is considered one of his such a lot venerated and renowned films. More than just Herzog’s magazine of the making of the huge, complicated movie, which concerned, between different issues, significant solid adjustments and reshoots, and the hauling (without using lighting tricks) of a 360-ton steamship over a mountain , Conquest of the lifeless is  a piece of artwork unto itself, an Amazonian fever dream that emerged from the delirium of the jungle.

Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey: New Essays

Just about all scholars have visible 2001, yet almost none comprehend its inheritance, its complexities, and positively now not its ironies. The essays during this assortment, commissioned from a wide selection of students, research intimately a variety of attainable readings of the movie and its historic context. additionally they research the movie as a style piece--as the summa of technological know-how fiction that concurrently seems to be again at the technology fiction conventions of the earlier (Kubrick begun considering creating a technology fiction movie in the course of the genre's heyday within the fifties), rethinks the conference in mild of the time of the film's construction, and in flip adjustments the glance and which means of the style that it revived--which now continues to be as renowned because it used to be virtually 4 a long time in the past.

Silencing Cinema: Film Censorship around the World (Global Cinema)

Oppression through censorship impacts the movie way more often than the other mass media. together with essays through best movie historians, the publication bargains groundbreaking historic examine on movie censorship in significant movie construction nations and discover such cutting edge subject matters as movie censorship and authorship, faith, and colonialism.

The Columbia Companion to American History on Film

American background has consistently been an impossible to resist resource of suggestion for filmmakers, and at the present time, for sturdy or sick, such a lot Americans'sense of the prior most probably comes extra from Hollywood than from the works of historians. In vital movies comparable to The beginning of a country (1915), Roots (1977), Apocalypse Now (1979), and Saving deepest Ryan (1998), how a lot is leisure and what kind of is rooted in historic truth?