In this 20th anniversary edition, Kolker continues and expands his inquiry into the phenomenon of cinematic representation of culture by updating and revising the chapters on Kubrick, Scorsese, Altman and Spielberg.
Ed. Ian Cameron. New York: Praeger, 1969. Horton, Andrew S., and Joan Magretta, eds. Modern European Filmmakers and the Art of Adaptation. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1981. Some interesting essays on films and their literary sources.
A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Coppola, Scorsese, Altman
The "New Wave" style of American film of the 1960s and 70s--characterized by exciting, narrative innovation and sometimes adventurous reworkings of older film genres, as well as images of solitude...
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This new book provides a critical apparatus for "reading" the media students take for granted: clarifying the form and structure, history, production, reception, and the ways the media relate to one another and the audience that attends to ...
Stanley Kubrick is one of our most brilliant, innovative and difficult filmmakers. Norman Kagan's analysis cuts a lucid path through those difficulties.
And finally, there is the meeting with Ziegler in the billiard room of his stately home, next to the orgy the most important non-submersible unit. The scene summarizes the color scheme of the entire film: the deep blue of night outside ...
But to the men it's all “Mickey Mouse.” “What is this Mickey Mouse shit?” Hartman yells as he enters the latrine where Pyle has gone homicidal, suicidal. A Mickey Mouse doll is seen in the Stars and Stripes office in Vietnam where Joker ...
Examining Wim Wenders' career from his early film school productions through his mature works of the 1970s, this book also analyses the most recent works, as well as the themes and preoccupations that unite his oeuvre.
Film, Form, and Culture