Authors:Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast,
Publisher: St. James Pre
Keywords: filmmakers, international, dictionary, vol, films, film
Number of Pages: 5000
Published: 2000-12-12
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 155862449X
ISBN-13: 9781558624498

This comprehensive resource provides thorough coverage of films and filmmakers through the spring of 2000. Entrants include legendary films, actors and actresses, directors, writers and other production artists. Entries include a detailed essay written by an expert; biographies; filmographies; comprehensive credits; major awards; and updated bibliographies. This 4th edition includes more than 260 new entries and more than 200 updated entries. Includes more than 1,600 photographs.

Author: Liz Stubbs
Publisher: Allworth Press
Keywords: speak, filmmakers, documentary
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2002-08-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1581152361
ISBN-13: 9781581152364

Some of the most influential filmmakers of modern times-D. A. Pennebaker, Albert Maysles, Susan Froemke, Liz Garbus, Nick Broomfield, and many more-share their experiences in Documentary Filmmakers Speak, a fascinating behind-the-lens look at the contemporary documentary. Film professionals, film students, and fans of pop culture will enjoy learning more about the ins and outs of documentary filmmaking from people who have made some of the best-known documentaries of recent years. You’ll discover intriguing, one-on-one interviews on topics such as storytelling techniques, funding, ethi

Author: Roy Armes
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: filmmakers, african, dictionary
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2008-06-20
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0253351162
ISBN-13: 9780253351166

Compiled by eminent Africanist film scholar Roy Armes, Dictionary of African Filmmakers is an inclusive, comprehensive treatment of films and filmmaking on the African continent. The dictionary covers African feature filmmaking from the first locally produced films to today’s thriving film industry, listing 5,415 films made by 1,253 filmmakers in 37 countries. Part 1 includes information on filmmakers and provides date and place of birth, training or film experience, other creative activities, and a list of feature films produced. Part 2 presents a national chronology, filmography, and b

Author: Robert Buchar
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: interviews, filmmakers, wave, new, czech
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2003-11
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 078641720X
ISBN-13: 9780786417209

In Czechoslovakia, in the 1960s, artists began to realize that the aesthetics of social realism contrasted with the realities of daily life; a movement of film arose in response to the politics and history of the nation. This work collects candid interviews with the creators of the Czech New Wave film movement (1960-2000). Their work put Czech film on the map of world cinema, generating two Oscars for Best Foreign Film, but the official critique marked them as decadent, pessimistic, and reactionary. The work contains sixteen uncensored interviews with filmmakers such as Jan Nemec, Jirí

Author: Roy Armes
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: dictionary, east, middle, filmmakers, arab
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2010-08-18
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0253355184
ISBN-13: 9780253355188

In this landmark dictionary, Roy Armes details the scope and diversity of filmmaking across the Arab Middle East. Listing more than 550 feature films by more than 250 filmmakers, and short and documentary films by another 900 filmmakers, this volume covers the film production in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and the Gulf States. An introduction by Armes locates film and filmmaking traditions in the region from early efforts in the silent era to state-funded productions by isolated filmmakers and politically engaged documentarians. Part 1 lists biographical information about the film

Author: Scott MacDonald
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: filmmakers, independent, interviews, cinema, critical
Number of Pages: 452
Published: 1998-03-30
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0520209435
ISBN-13: 9780520209435

A Critical Cinema 3 continues Scott MacDonald’s compilation of personal interviews and public discussions with major contributors to independent filmmaking and film awareness. An informative exchange with Amos Vogel, whose Cinema 16 Society drew American filmgoers into a broader sense of film history, is followed by interviews reflecting a wide range of approaches to filmmaking. Sally Potter discusses her popular feature, Orlando, in relation to the experimental work that preceded it, and Canadian independent John Porter argues compellingly for small-gauge, Super-8mm filmmaking. Ken Jaco

Author: Kristian Fraga
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Keywords: filmmakers, series, conversations, interviews, burton, tim
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 2005-04-29
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 1578067596
ISBN-13: 9781578067596

Starting his career as an animator for Disney, Tim Burton made his feature film directorial debut with the visually dazzling, low-budget Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure. When it became a surprise blockbuster, studios began to trust him with larger budgets and the whims of his expansive imagination. Mixing gothic horror, black comedy, and oddball whimsy, Burton’s movies veer from childlike enchantment to morbid melancholy, often with the same frame. His beautifully designed and highly stylized films-including Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Big Fish, Sleepy Hollow, and Ed Wood-ar