Towards a Heroic Cinema
| Author | : Utpal Datta |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 126 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Motion pictures |
| ISBN | : |
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The Cinema of James Cameron
| Author | : James Clarke |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 186 |
| Release | : 2014-05-14 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0231169779 |
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This timely volume explores the massively popular cinema of writer-director James Cameron. It couches Cameron's films within the evolving generic traditions of science fiction, melodrama, and the cinema of spectacle. The book also considers Cameron's engagement with the aesthetic of visual effects and the 'now' technology of performance-capture which is arguably moving a certain kind of event-movie cinema from photography to something more akin to painting. This book is explicit in presenting Cameron as an authentic auteur, and each chapter is dedicated to a single film in his body of work. Space is also given to discussion of Strange Days as well as his documentary works.
Some Kind of Hero
| Author | : Matthew Field |
| Publisher | : The History Press |
| Total Pages | : 756 |
| Release | : 2015-10-12 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0750966505 |
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For over 50 years, Albert R. Broccoli's Eon Productions has navigated the ups and downs of the volatile British film industry, enduring both critical wrath and acclaim in equal measure for its now legendary James Bond series. Latterly, this family run business has been crowned with box office gold and recognised by motion picture academies around the world. However, it has not always been plain sailing. Changing financial regimes forced 007 to relocate to France and Mexico; changing fashions and politics led to box office disappointments; and changing studio regimes and business disputes all but killed the franchise. And the rise of competing action heroes has constantly questioned Bond's place in popular culture. But against all odds the filmmakers continue to wring new life from the series, and 2012's Skyfall saw both huge critical and commercial success, crowning 007 as the undisputed king of the action genre. Some Kind of Hero recounts this remarkable story, from its origins in the early '60s right through to the present day, and draws on hundreds of unpublished interviews with the cast and crew of this iconic series.
Myth and Masculinity in the Japanese Cinema
| Author | : Isolde Standish |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 255 |
| Release | : 2013-11-05 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1136837612 |
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This study argues that in Japanese popular cinema the 'tragic hero' narrative is an archetypal plot-structure upon which male genres, such as the war-retro and yakuza films are based. Two central questions in relation to these post-war Japanese film genres and historical consciousness are addressed: What is the relationship between history, myth and memory? And how are individual subjectivities defined in relation to the past? The book examines the role of the 'tragic hero' narrative as a figurative structure through which the Japanese people could interpret the events of World War II and defeat, offering spectators an avenue of exculpation from a foreign-imposed sense of guilt. Also considered is the fantasy world of the nagare-mono (drifter) or yakuza film. It is suggested that one of the reasons for the great popularity of these films in the 1960s and 1970s lay in their ability to offer men meanings that could help them understand the contradictions between the reality of their everyday experiences and the ideological construction of masculinity.
Global Chinese Cinema
| Author | : Gary D. Rawnsley |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 471 |
| Release | : 2011-09-01 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1135281483 |
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The film Hero, directed by Zhang Yimou and released in 2002, is widely regarded as the first globally successful indigenous Chinese blockbuster. A big expensive film with multiple stars, spectacular scenery, and astonishing action sequences, it touched on key questions of Chinese culture, nation and politics, and was both a domestic sensation and an international hit. This book explores the reasons for the film’s popularity with its audiences, discussing the factors which so resonated with those who watched the film. It examines questions such as Chinese national unity, the search for cultural identity and role models from China’s illustrious pre-communist past, and the portrayal of political and aesthetic values, and attitudes to gender, sex, love, and violence which are relatively new to China. The book demonstrates how the film, and China’s growing film industry more generally, have in fact very strong international connections, with Western as well as Chinese financing, stars recruited from the East Asian region more widely, and extensive interactions between Hollywood and Asian artists and technicians. Overall, the book provides fascinating insights into recent developments in Chinese society, popular culture and cultural production.
What If I Had Been the Hero?
| Author | : Sue Thornham |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2019-07-25 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1839021160 |
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Sue Thornham's study explores issues in feminist filmmaking through an examination of a wide range of films by women filmmakers, ranging from the avant-garde to mainstream Hollywood, and from the 1970s to the present day, discussing directors including Sally Potter, Jane Campion, Julie Dash, Patricia Rozema and Lynne Ramsay.
Sports Cinema 100 Movies
| Author | : Randy Williams |
| Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 452 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9780879103316 |
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This in-depth companion guide celebrates movies centered on sports-oriented stories, characters, events, or backdrops, complete with more than 200 black-and-white movie stills.
A Mother's Tale
| Author | : Phillip Lopate |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780814274873 |
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Journalists in Film
| Author | : Brian McNair |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2009-12-14 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0748634487 |
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A study of the representation of journalists on film and what this tells us about society's relationship with journalism and news media.
Nobody's Perfect
| Author | : Anthony Lane |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 784 |
| Release | : 2009-08-19 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 030748887X |
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Anthony Lane on Con Air— “Advance word on Con Air said that it was all about an airplane with an unusually dangerous and potentially lethal load. Big deal. You should try the lunches they serve out of Newark. Compared with the chicken napalm I ate on my last flight, the men in Con Air are about as dangerous as balloons.” Anthony Lane on The Bridges of Madison County— “I got my copy at the airport, behind a guy who was buying Playboy’s Book of Lingerie, and I think he had the better deal. He certainly looked happy with his purchase, whereas I had to ask for a paper bag.” Anthony Lane on Martha Stewart— “Super-skilled, free of fear, the last word in human efficiency, Martha Stewart is the woman who convinced a million Americans that they have the time, the means, the right, and—damn it—the duty to pipe a little squirt of soft cheese into the middle of a snow pea, and to continue piping until there are ‘fifty to sixty’ stuffed peas raring to go.” For ten years, Anthony Lane has delighted New Yorker readers with his film reviews, book reviews, and profiles that range from Buster Keaton to Vladimir Nabokov to Ernest Shackleton. Nobody’s Perfect is an unforgettable collection of Lane’s trademark wit, satire, and insight that will satisfy both the long addicted and the not so familiar.
