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Author
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Akira Kurosawa's films evolved as Japan redefined and reinvented itself, from films made for Japan's wartime regime to those made amid the trials of American occupation. This book explores how Kurosawa's classics depict the political, economic, cultural, sexual and environmental upheavals of a nation at the centre of a turbulent century.
Author
Language
English
Description
As a romance channel screenwriter, Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than anyone. When her too-good-to work husband leaves her and their two kids, Nora turns her marriage's collapse into cash and writes the best script of her life; it's picked up for the big screen and set to film on location at her 100-year-old-home. The morning after shooting wraps and the crew leaves, Nora finds actor Leo Vance, who played her husband, on her porch...
4) Double down
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The pressure's really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mom thinks video games are turning his brain to mush, so she wants her son to put down the controller and explore his creative side. As if that's not scary enough, Halloween's just around the corner and the frights are coming at Greg from every angle. When Greg discovers a bag of gummy worms, it sparks an idea. Can he get his mom off his back by making a movie... and will he become rich and famous...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
Whether we are trying to impress a date after an art-house film screening or discussing Oscar nominations with friends, we all need ways to watch and talk about movies. But with so much variety between an Alfred Hitchcock thriller and a Nora Ephron romantic comedy, how can everyday viewers determine what makes a good movie? In Talking Pictures, veteran film critic Ann Hornaday walks us through the production of a typical movie-from writing the script...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Language
English
Description
Revealing a festival of guilty pleasures, almost-masterpieces, and undeniable classics in need of revival, 35 directors champion their favorite overlooked or critically savaged gems in this guide. The list includes unsung noir films The Chase and Murder by Contract, famous flops Can't Stop the Music and Joe Versus the Volcano, art films L'ange and WR: Mysteries of the Organism, theatrical adaptations
...Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The author of The Butler and Showdown examines 100 years of Black movies--using the struggles and triumphs of the artists, and the films themselves, as a prism to explore Black culture and the civil rights movement in America. Beginning in 1915 with D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation--which glorified the Ku Klux Klan and became Hollywood's first blockbuster--Wil Haygood gives us an incisive, fascinating, little-known history, spanning more than...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This book offers a comprehensive view of the 100 most significant films ever produced in Bollywood. Each entry includes cast and crew information, language, date of release, a short description of the film's plot, and most significantly, the importance of the film in the Indian canon"--
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Film scholar David Thomson focuses in on a series of moments--which his readers will also experience in beautifully reproduced imagery--from 72 films across a 100-year-plus span. Moments takes readers on an unprecedented visual tour, where the specifics of the imagery the reader is seeing are inextricably tied to the text. Thomson's moments range from a set of Eadweard Muybridge's pioneering photographs to sequences in films from the classic--Citizen...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"As a child in 1950s Brooklyn, Kenneth Turan often turned to television programs like "Million Dollar Movie" on WOR-TV. Featuring a much-loved theme song from Gone with the Wind, "Million Dollar Movie" would run one feature film twice a day, every day, all week. It was there that he developed a life-long love of the world of the movies. One of the most discerning critics writing today, Kenneth Turan offers insights that are sure to delight and inspire...
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From critical indie darlings like Chan is Missing to epic Hollywood favorites like Marvel's Shang-Chi to beloved works from overseas like Parasite, The Golden Screen is a look back at big-screen works featuring Asian images that inspired, inflamed, and enraptured audiences across a century of cinema, beginning with 1915's silent classic The Cheat and continuing through to the Daniels' 2022 breakout Everything Everywhere All at Once. Packed with vintage...
16) Ghostlight
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A summer film project turns spooky when the setting turns out to actually be haunted.
Author
Publisher
Focal Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Through seventeen exclusive interviews with some of the world's top film editors, this book explores the art of film editing; its complex processes, the relationship with other film practitioners, and the impact of developments in modern editing techniques."--P. [4] of cover.
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