Double De Palma
Author | : Susan Dworkin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Susan Dworkin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Douglas Keesey |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2015-05-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1628466987 |
Over the last five decades, the films of director Brian De Palma (b. 1940) have been among the biggest successes (The Untouchables, Mission: Impossible) and the most high-profile failures (The Bonfire of the Vanities) in Hollywood history. De Palma helped launch the careers of such prominent actors as Robert De Niro, John Travolta, and Sissy Spacek (who was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actress in Carrie). Indeed Quentin Tarantino named Blow Out as one of his top three favorite films, praising De Palma as the best living American director. Picketed by feminists protesting its depictions of violence against women, Dressed to Kill helped to create the erotic thriller genre. Scarface, with its over-the-top performance by Al Pacino, remains a cult favorite. In the twenty-first century, De Palma has continued to experiment, incorporating elements from videogames (Femme Fatale), tabloid journalism (The Black Dahlia), YouTube, and Skype (Redacted and Passion) into his latest works. What makes De Palma such a maverick even when he is making Hollywood genre films? Why do his movies often feature megalomaniacs and failed heroes? Is he merely a misogynist and an imitator of Alfred Hitchcock? To answer these questions, author Douglas Keesey takes a biographical approach to De Palma's cinema, showing how De Palma reworks events from his own life into his films. Written in an accessible style, and including a chapter on every one of his films to date, this book is for anyone who wants to know more about De Palma's controversial films or who wants to better understand the man who made them.
Author | : Brian De Palma |
Publisher | : Titan Books (US, CA) |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2020-03-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1789091217 |
"It's like having a new Brian De Palma picture." - Martin Scorsese, Academy Award-winning director FROM THE DIRECTOR OF SCARFACE AND DRESSED TO KILL -- A FEMALE REVENGE STORY When the beautiful young videographer offered to join his campaign, Senator Lee Rogers should've known better. But saying no would have taken a stronger man than Rogers, with his ailing wife and his robust libido. Enter Barton Brock, the senator's fixer. He's already gotten rid of one troublesome young woman -- how hard could this new one turn out to be? Pursued from Washington D.C. to the streets of Paris, 18-year-old Fanny Cours knows her reputation and budding career are on the line. But what she doesn't realize is that her life might be as well...
Author | : Laurent Bouzereau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
Bouzereau follows De Palma's career, from his initial association with the exuberant independent filmmaking wave in New York in the early '70s, through his combative affiliation with the studios as he developed his seminal themes--voyeurism, guilt as a motivator, and the double.
Author | : Michael Glover Smith |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2015-01-20 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0231850794 |
Flickering Empire tells the fascinating yet little-known story of how Chicago served as the unlikely capital of American film production in the years before the rise of Hollywood (1907–1913). As entertaining as it is informative, Flickering Empire straddles the worlds of academic and popular nonfiction in its vivid illustration of the rise and fall of the major Chicago movie studios in the mid-silent era (principally Essanay and Selig Polyscope). Colorful, larger-than-life historical figures, including Thomas Edison, Charlie Chaplin, Oscar Micheaux, and Orson Welles, are major players in the narrative—in addition to important though forgotten industry titans, such as "Colonel" William Selig, George Spoor, and Gilbert "Broncho Billy" Anderson.
Author | : David Greven |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2013-01-02 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0292742045 |
Bridging landmark territory in film studies, Psycho-Sexual is the first book to apply Alfred Hitchcock’s legacy to three key directors of 1970s Hollywood—Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese, and William Friedkin—whose work suggests the pornographic male gaze that emerged in Hitchcock’s depiction of the voyeuristic, homoerotically inclined American man. Combining queer theory with a psychoanalytic perspective, David Greven begins with a reconsideration of Psycho and the 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much to introduce the filmmaker’s evolutionary development of American masculinity. Psycho-Sexual probes De Palma’s early Vietnam War draft-dodger comedies as well as his film Dressed to Kill, along with Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and Friedkin’s Cruising as reactions to and inventive elaborations upon Hitchcock’s gendered themes and aesthetic approaches. Greven demonstrates how the significant political achievement of these films arises from a deeply disturbing, violent, even sorrowful psychological and social context. Engaging with contemporary theories of pornography while establishing pornography’s emergence during the classical Hollywood era, Greven argues that New Hollywood filmmakers seized upon Hitchcock’s radical decentering of heterosexual male dominance. The resulting images of heterosexual male ambivalence allowed for an investment in same-sex desire; an aura of homophobia became informed by a fascination with the homoerotic. Psycho-Sexual also explores the broader gender crisis and disorganization that permeated the Cold War and New Hollywood eras, reimagining the defining premises of Hitchcock criticism.
Author | : Brian De Palma |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Detective and mystery stories |
ISBN | : 9780553129779 |
Author | : Eyal Peretz |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780804756846 |
How is one to think the significance of the art of film for philosophy? What would it mean to introduce film as a question into the heart of the philosophical enterprise? This book develops a matrix for thinking the relations between philosophy and film and, by extension, between philosophy and the arts.
Author | : André de Palma |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 929 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0857930877 |
'This Handbook is a stellar compilation of up-to-date knowledge about the important topics in transport economics. Authors include the very best in the field, and they cover the most important topics for today's research and policy applications. Individual chapters contain sound, readable, well referenced explanations of each topic's history and current status. I cannot think of a better place to start for anyone wanting to become current in the field or in any of its parts.' – Kenneth Small, University of California-Irvine, US Bringing together insights and perspectives from close to 70 of the world's leading experts in the field, this timely Handbook provides an up-to-date guide to the most recent and state-of-the-art advances in transport economics. The comprehensive coverage includes topics such as the relationship between transport and the spatial economy, recent advances in travel demand analysis, the external costs of transport, investment appraisal, pricing, equity issues, competition and regulation, the role of public–private partnerships and the development of policy in local bus services, rail, air and maritime transport. This Handbook is designed both for use on postgraduate and advanced undergraduate courses and as a reference for anyone working in the field. It also complements the textbook Principles of Transport Economics.
Author | : Ralph De Palma |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2015-11-24 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780692352458 |