Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master, Sragow Michael

Автор: Watermeier Daniel J.
Название: American Tragedian: The Life of Edwin Booth
ISBN: 0826220487 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826220486
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: When John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, his older brother Edwin was devastated. A leading stage star, Edwin Booth thought his career had ended. But with the support of countless theatergoers, over the next thirty years Booth would overcome the shadow of John Wilkes’s infamy and steadily advance a reputation as America’s greatest-ever Shakespearean actor, the American tragedian par excellence.Daniel J. Watermeier has, through decades of tireless research paired with his own sharp insight, put together the most complete Edwin Booth biography to date. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials and contemporary theatrical scholarship, American Tragedian: The Life of Edwin Booth gives more attention than previous biographies to Booth’s apprentice and journeyman years; his rise in antebellum America to stardom with a new, acclaimed style of acting; his work as an innovative theater builder and theatrical producer; his several foreign tours; and his nationwide tours in the late 1880s. It also addresses Booth’s critical reception in dozens of cities in America and abroad and situates his professional activities within the events and trends of the time.As interesting as it is informative, Watermeier’s book offers an in-depth look at the triumphal career and tumultuous life of one of the American stage’s most celebrated figures.

Автор: Mekas Jonas
Название: Movie Journal: The Rise of New American Cinema, 1959-1971
ISBN: 0231175574 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231175579
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: A new edition of the classic work that defined the aesthetics, techniques, and identity of American avant-garde film.

Автор: Humphries, Reynold
Название: Fritz Lang : Genre and Representation in His American Films
ISBN: 0801878209 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801878206
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Challenging the myth that Fritz Lang`s best work ended when he reached Hollywood, this text explores his American films. Made between 1936 and 1956, these films validate the insights of auteur theory while emphasizing the importance of the narrative and representational codes of a given genre.

Автор: Combs C. Scott
Название: Deathwatch: American Film, Technology, and the End of Life
ISBN: 0231163479 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231163477
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Описание: The first book to analyze American cinema`s long history of representing death on screen, Deathwatch considers movie sequences in which the process of dying becomes an exercise in legibility and exploration for the camera. Through readings of attractions-based cinema, narrative films, early sound cinema, and films using voice-over or images of medical technology, C. Scott Combs connects the slow or static process of dying to formal film innovation throughout the twentieth century. He looks at Thomas Edison`s Electrocuting an Elephant (1903), D. W. Griffith`s The Country Doctor (1909), John Ford`s How Green Was My Valley (1941), Billy Wilder`s Sunset Boulevard (1950), Stanley Kubrick`s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and Clint Eastwood`s Million Dollar Baby (2004), among other films, to argue against the notion that film cannot capture the end of life. Instead, he shows how the act of dying in film occurs more than once and in more than one place, understanding death in cinema as constantly in flux, wedged between technological precision and embodied perception.