Film Follies
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Film Follies
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Author : Stuart Klawans
language : en
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Release Date : 1999
Film Follies written by Stuart Klawans and has been published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Performing Arts categories.
Outlining a history of film going too far, of seeming madness and wasteful extravagance, this text examines films that are cinematic landmarks and monuments to directors' hubris, from Griffiths' Intolerance to Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Carax's Les Amants du Pont-Neuf. The text explores the changing conditons of the industry under which figures such as L'Herbier and Lang, von Sternberg and Ophuls got their hands on the full apparatus of studio production, while behaving as individual artists. It questions the shape of film history from the viewpoint of these pictures and relates the notion that a failed work of art may be more glorious than a success.
Five Films By Frederick Wiseman
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Author : Frederick Wiseman
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2006-03-13
Five Films By Frederick Wiseman written by Frederick Wiseman and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-13 with Performing Arts categories.
Frederick Wiseman is among America’s foremost documentary filmmakers. The recipient of many awards, including three Emmys, Wiseman has made more than thirty feature-length documentaries during a career that has spanned five decades. Together, these films provide a fascinating chronicle of American social and institutional life. This book makes available for the first time transcriptions of five of Wiseman’s most important films— Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing—providing all of the dialogue as well as annotations about other aspects of the soundtracks such as music and ambient noise, and notes about editing and camera movement. These scene-by-scene transcripts enable readers to scrutinize the films’ complex structural patterns, recurring motifs, editing regimes, and the unscripted dialogue that makes Wiseman’s cinema a rich repository of American speech. Editor Barry Keith Grant’s critical introduction discusses the importance of sound in Wiseman’s documentaries. Liberally illustrated with images from the films, these meticulous transcriptions are accompanied by a bibliography and filmography.
Keepers Of The Flame
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Author : Travis Vogan
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2014-03-15
Keepers Of The Flame written by Travis Vogan and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-15 with Performing Arts categories.
NFL Films changed the way Americans view football. Keepers of the Flame: NFL Films and the Rise of Sports Media traces the subsidiary's development from a small independent film production company to the marketing machine that Sports Illustrated named "perhaps the most effective propaganda organ in the history of corporate America." Drawing on research at the NFL Films Archive and the Pro Football Hall of Fame and interviews with media pioneer Steve Sabol and others, Travis Vogan shows how NFL Films has constructed a consistent, romanticized, and remarkably visible mythology for the National Football League. The company packages football as a visceral and dramatic sequence of violent, beautiful, graceful, and heroic gridiron battles. Historically proven formulas for presentation--such as the dramatic voiceovers once provided by John Facenda's baritone, the soaring scores of Sam Spence's rousing background music, and the epic poetry found in Steve Sabol's scripts--are still used today. From the Vincent Price-narrated Strange but True Football Stories to the currently running series Hard Knocks, NFL Films distinguishes the NFL from other sports organizations and from other media and entertainment. Vogan tells the larger story of the company's relationship with and vast influence on our culture's representations of sport, the expansion of sports television beyond live game broadcasts, and the emergence of cable television and Internet sports media. Keepers of the Flame: NFL Films and the Rise of Sports Media presents sports media as an integral facet of American popular culture and NFL Films as key to the transformation of professional football into the national obsession commonly known as America's Game.
Reality Fictions
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Author : Thomas W. Benson
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 1989
Reality Fictions written by Thomas W. Benson and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with categories.
Documentary Dilemmas
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Author : Carolyn Anderson
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 1991-04-25
Documentary Dilemmas written by Carolyn Anderson and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-04-25 with Performing Arts categories.
A case history of the only American film under court-imposed restrictions for reasons other than obscenity or national security. Titicut Follies is an excoriating depiction of conditions in the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Bridgewater, a prison-hospital for the criminally insane. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts took Wiseman to court, seeking to prevent the exhibition of Titicut Follies soon after its release in 1967. This account of the Titicut Follies case is based on ten years of research and relies on interviews, journalistic accounts, and especially on the legal record, including the Commonwealth v. Wiseman transcript, to describe the entire process of independent documentary filmmaking. The trials of Titicut Follies raise crucial questions about the relation of social documentary to its subjects and audiences.
Nonfiction Film
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Author : Richard Barsam
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1992-11-22
Nonfiction Film written by Richard Barsam and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-11-22 with Performing Arts categories.
"Richard Barsam has given us as comprehensive a study of the origins and development of the nonfiction mode in motion pictures as we are ever likely to have in one volume. He draws on all the major written sources and many which are little known, and he shares with us many eloquent descriptions of the films themselves, giving us a valuable textbook." --Richard Dyer MacCann "... superb work... " --Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television
Film Censorship In America
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Author : Jeremy Geltzer
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2017-10-26
Film Censorship In America written by Jeremy Geltzer and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-26 with Performing Arts categories.
Since the first films played in nickelodeons, controversial movies have been cut or banned across the United States. Far from Hollywood, regional productions such as Oscar Micheaux's provocative race films and Nell Shipman's wildlife adventures were censored by men like Major M.L.C. Funkhouser, the terror of Chicago's cinemas, and Myrtelle Snell, the Alabama administrator who made the slogan "Banned in Birmingham" famous. Censorship continues today, with Utah's case against Deadpool (2016) pending in federal court and Robert Rodriguez's Machete Kills (2013) versus the Texas Film Commission. This authoritative state-by-state account covers the history of film censorship and the battle for free speech in America.
The Musical
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Author : William Everett
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2011-06-02
The Musical written by William Everett and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-02 with Art categories.
The musical, whether on stage or screen, is undoubtedly one of the most recognizable musical genres, yet one of the most perplexing. What are its defining features? How does it negotiate multiple socio-cultural-economic spaces? Is it a popular tradition? Is it a commercial enterprise? Is it a sophisticated cultural product and signifier? This research guide includes more than 1,400 annotated entries related to the genre as it appears on stage and screen. It includes reference works, monographs, articles, anthologies, and websites related to the musical. Separate sections are devoted to sub-genres (such as operetta and megamusical), non-English language musical genres in the U.S., traditions outside the U.S., individual shows, creators, performers, and performance. The second edition reflects the notable increase in musical theater scholarship since 2000. In addition to printed materials, it includes multimedia and electronic resources.
Encyclopedia Of The Documentary Film 3 Volume Set
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Author : Ian Aitken
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-18
Encyclopedia Of The Documentary Film 3 Volume Set written by Ian Aitken and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-18 with Performing Arts categories.
The Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film is a fully international reference work on the history of the documentary film from the Lumière brothers' Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1885) to Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 (2004). This Encyclopedia provides a resource that critically analyzes that history in all its aspects. Not only does this Encyclopedia examine individual films and the careers of individual film makers, it also provides overview articles of national and regional documentary film history. It explains concepts and themes in the study of documentary film, the techniques used in making films, and the institutions that support their production, appreciation, and preservation.
I Read It At The Movies
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Author : Mark Axelrod
language : en
Publisher: Drama
Release Date : 2007
I Read It At The Movies written by Mark Axelrod and has been published by Drama this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Education categories.
"In I Read It at the Movies, Mark Axelrod, a veteran screenwriter, fiction writer, and literature professor, alerts you to the pitfalls that sink poorly written adaptations, describes which writing tools to hone for this kind of work, and tells you exactly how to use them. Axelrod leads you through a close reading of four films made from adapted screenplays - Bladerunner, Death in Venice, Lolita, and The Postman - examining in detail what choices the writer made and whether those choices succeeded. He ultimately leads you to understand why a script devoted to the letter of its source work is less desirable and less likely to be well received than one embodying the originating story's spirit."--BOOK JACKET.