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The Cinema Makers
Intellect 2013; US$ 20.00The Cinema Makers investigates how cinema spectators in south-eastern and central European cities became cinema makers through such practices as squatting in existing cinema spaces, organizing cinema events, writing about film and making films themselves. Drawing on a corpus of interviews with cinema activists in Germany, Austria and the... more...
So You Want to Be a Producer
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 14.95Few jobs in Hollywood are as shrouded in mystery as the role of the producer. What does it take to be a producer, how does one get started, and what on earth does one actually do? In So You Want to Be a Producer Lawrence Turman, the producer of more than forty films, including The Graduate , The River Wild , Short Circuit , and American History... more...
World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 37.95SCMS Award Winner "Best Edited Collection" The standard analytical category of "national cinema" has increasingly been called into question by the category of the "transnational." This anthology examines the premises and consequences of the coexistence of these two categories and the parameters of historiographical approaches that cross the borders... more...
Clint Eastwood
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 19.00Through extensive, exclusive interviews with Eastwood (and the friends and colleagues of a lifetime), Time magazine film critic Richard Schickel has penetrated a complex character who has always been understood too quickly, too superficially. Schickel pierces Eastwood's monumental reserve to reveal the anger and the shyness, the shrewdness and frankness,... more...
The Battleship Potemkin
I.B.Tauris 2007; US$ 26.00The KINO Russian Cinema series has been expanding to provide students and general readers with readable, companion handbooks to important and interesting films of Russian cinema from its beginnings to the late 1990s. This volume investigates the production, context and reception of the film "Battleship Potemkin", the people who made it, and... more...
Religion and Drama in Early Modern England
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 104.95Reassessing the relationship between religion and drama in early modern England, this collection explores the commercial theater's reframing of religious culture. Essays foreground the material conditions of performance, the resonances between theatrical and religious rituals, and the multiple valences of religious allusions on the stage. Discussions... more...
La Mise en Scene Contemporaine
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 45.95?We have good reason to be wary of mise en scčne, but that is all the more reason to question this wariness ... it seems that images from a performance come back to haunt us, as if to prolong and transform our experience as spectators, as if to force us to rethink the event, to return to our pleasure or our terror.? ? Patrice Pavis, from the... more...
The Expressive Actor
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 29.95"The study of acting should not begin with an exploration of feeling, perception, imagination, memories, intention, personalization, self-identification... or even performance?but physical action." Michael Lugering's The Expressive Actor presents a foundational, preparatory training method, using movement to unlock the entire acting process.... more...
Neil Jordan
University Press of Mississippi 2013; US$ 100.00These interviews cover the career to date of Neil Jordan (b. 1950), easily the most renowned filmmaker working in contemporary Irish cinema. Jordan began as a fiction writer, winning the distinguished Guardian Fiction Prize for his very first book of short stories, Night in Tunisia , in 1976. His film debut was made during the peak of the Troubles... more...
Read My Lips
Weinstein Publishing 2013; US$ 26.00Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Sally Kellerman pulls back the curtain on the legendary Hollywood decades of the 60s and 70s, with no paparazzi, no traffic, and no 24-hour entertainment news. more...









