Giger's Alien

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 selection to problem destiny. ”—Janet Maslin, manhattan Times Werner Herzog (Grizzly guy) is without doubt one of the such a lot respected and enigmatic filmmakers of our time, and Fitzcarraldo is one in every of his so much commemorated and favorite films. More than just Herzog’s magazine of the making of the huge, troublesome movie, which concerned, between different issues, significant forged alterations 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 paintings 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 obvious 2001, yet almost none comprehend its inheritance, its complexities, and positively no longer its ironies. The essays during this assortment, commissioned from a wide selection of students, study intimately a number of attainable readings of the movie and its historic context. additionally they learn the movie as a style piece--as the summa of technological know-how fiction that concurrently seems again at the technological know-how fiction conventions of the prior (Kubrick begun contemplating creating a technological know-how fiction movie through the genre's heyday within the fifties), rethinks the conference in mild of the time of the film's production, and in flip adjustments the glance and which means of the style that it revived--which now continues to be as trendy because it used to be virtually 4 a long time in the past.

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

Oppression by way of censorship impacts the movie way more often than the other mass media. together with essays through best movie historians, the e-book bargains groundbreaking ancient learn on movie censorship in significant movie creation nations and discover such cutting edge issues as movie censorship and authorship, faith, and colonialism.

The Columbia Companion to American History on Film

American heritage has consistently been an impossible to resist resource of idea for filmmakers, and this day, for strong or ailing, so much Americans'sense of the previous most probably comes extra from Hollywood than from the works of historians. In vital movies similar to The start of a kingdom (1915), Roots (1977), Apocalypse Now (1979), and Saving deepest Ryan (1998), how a lot is leisure and what kind of is rooted in old truth?