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  • Ozu International

    Essays on the Global Influences of a Japanese Auteur

    Edited by Wayne Stein, Prof Marc DiPaolo ...
    In Japan and much of Europe, Ozu is widely considered to be one of the finest film directors who ever lived. While Ozu has a strong reputation in the West, his films are not as well-known or widely appreciated in the U.S. as they are elsewhere. A notable exception to this trend is film critic Roger Ebert, who recently wrote that Ozu is one of his “three or four” favorite directors. Also, moving ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Devised and Directed by Mike Leigh

    Edited by Bryan Cardinale-Powell, Prof Marc DiPaolo ...
    Renowned for making films that are at once sly domestic satires and heartbreaking 'social realist' dramas, British writer-director Mike Leigh confronts his viewers with an un-romanticized dramatization of modern-day society in the hopes of inspiring them to strive for greater self-awareness and compassion for others. This collection features new, interdisciplinary essays that cover all phases of ... Read more

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  • John Carpenter

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    From his hands-on filmmaking style to his writing and his composing—an indispensable guide to the ultimate cult auteurOne of the most iconic directors of American cinema, John Carpenter has astonished audiences the world over with his tightly crafted horror, thriller, and science-fiction films. Not just a director, Carpenter's talents also extend to writing the screenplays and soundtracks to many ... Read more

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  • Andrei Tarkovsky: The Collector of Dreams

    by Layla Alexander-Garrett ...
    The Sacrifice is Andrei Tarkovsky’s final masterpiece. The film was shot in Sweden, in summer 1985 while Tarkovsky was in exile; it turned out to be his final testament, urging each individual to take personal responsibility for everything that happens in the world.Day after day, while the film was being made, Layla Alexander-Garrett – Tarkovsky’s on-site interpreter - kept a diary which forms the ... Read more

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  • The Body and the Screen

    Female Subjectivities in Contemporary Women’s Cinema

    by Kate Ince ...
    Series series Thinking Cinema
    Winner of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Best Book Prize 2018Since the 1980s the number of women regularly directing films has increased significantly in most Western countries; in France, Claire Denis and Catherine Breillat have joined Agnès Varda in gaining international renown, while British directors Lynne Ramsay and Andrea Arnold have forged award-winning ... Read more

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  • The Crime Films of Anthony Mann

    by Max Alvarez ...
    Anthony Mann (1906–1967) is renowned for his outstanding 1950s Westerns starring James Stewart (Winchester '73, The Naked Spur, The Man from Laramie). But there is more to Mann's cinematic universe than those tough Wild West action dramas featuring conflicted and secretive heroes. This brilliant Hollywood craftsman also directed fourteen electrifying crime thrillers between 1942 and 1951, among ... Read more

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  • Werner Herzog – A Guide for the Perplexed

    Conversations with Paul Cronin

    by Paul Cronin ...
    This edition of Herzog on Herzog presents a completely new set of interviews in which Werner Herzog discusses his career from its very beginnings to his most recent productions.Herzog was once hailed by Francois Truffaut as the most important director alive. Famous for his frequentcollaborations with mercurial actor Klaus Kinski - including the epics, Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo, ... Read more

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  • Demystifying Disney

    A History of Disney Feature Animation

    by Chris Pallant ...
    Demystifying Disney: A History of Disney Feature Animation provides a comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date examination of the Disney studio's evolution through its animated films. In addition to challenging certain misconceptions concerning the studio's development, the study also brings scholarly definition to hitherto neglected aspects of contemporary Disney.Through a combination of economic, ... Read more

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  • Burton on Burton

    by Tim Burton ...
    Tim Burton is one of the great modern-day visionaries of cinema, a director who has fabricated his own deliciously nightmarish universe in movies as extraordinary as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Mars Attacks! and The Nightmare before Christmas - not to mention his twisted takes on the tales of Batman, Sleepy Hollow and Planet of the Apes.Following the release ... ... Read more

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  • Darren Aronofsky’s Films and the Fragility of Hope

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    Darren Aronofsky's Films and the Fragility of Hope offers the first sustained analysis of the current oeuvre of the film director, screenwriter, and producer Darren Aronofsky. Including Pi (1998), Requiem for a Dream (2000), The Fountain (2006), The Wrestler (2008), Black Swan (2010), and Noah (2014), Aronofsky's filmography is discussed with respect to his style and the themes of his films, ... Read more

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  • The Directors: The Playboy Interview

    50 Years of the Playboy Interview

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