The Cinema Of John Sayles
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Author | : Mark Bould |
Publisher | : Wallflower Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
Through discussion of films such as 'Return of the Secaucus 7', 'The Brother from Another Planet' 'Matewan' and 'Sunshine State', this study uncovers themes of racial and sexual otherness, capitalist excess and the erosion of community in the work of John Sayles.
Author | : John Sayles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780571192809 |
Interviews with John Sayles who worked on such widely varied projects as The return of the Secaucus seven; Baby, it's you; Brother from another planet; Matewan; Passion fish; Piranha; Alligator; The howling; Apollo 13; City of hope, Lone star; Shannon's deal.
Author | : Jack Ryan |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780786405299 |
In 1980, art house audience word of mouth about an unusual new movie, Return of the Secaucus Seven, launched the career of director John Sayles and with him the era of the independent filmmaker. Sayles has remained a maverick, writing, directing, editing and even acting in his own films. He has directed such diverse films as The Brother from Another Planet, Matewan, Eight Men Out, Passion Fish, and Lone Star, and received two Academy Award nominations. Here is the chronicle of Sayles' career--including the story of his inauspicious beginning as a second-string actor, and his work in fiction, theatre, music videos and television. The author argues that the importance of Sayles' signature plain visual style has been overlooked. A chapter is devoted to each of Sayles' feature films, offering background material on production funding, a plot sketch, an analysis of important characters, and a look at the language, setting, and politics. Each chapter also traces Sayles' technical development--his camera work, editing, musical arrangement and mise-en-scene. The book includes a complete filmography and a bibliography.
Author | : John Sayles |
Publisher | : Haymarket Books |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2020-01-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1642590789 |
In Yellow Earth, John Sayles introduces an epic cast of characters, weaving together narratives of competing agendas and worldviews with lyrical dexterity, insight, and wit. When rich layers of shale oil are discovered beneath the town of Yellow Earth, all hell breaks loose. Locals, oil workers, service workers, politicians, law enforcement, and get-rich-quick opportunists—along with an earnest wildlife biologist—commingle and collide as the population of the town triples overnight. Harleigh Killdeer, chairman of the tribal business council of the neighboring Three Nations reservation, entertains visions of "sovereignty by the barrel" and joins forces with a fast-talking entrepreneur. From casino dealers to activists and high school kids, everyone in the region is swept up in the unsparing wave of an oil boom. Sayles’s masterful storytelling draws an arc from the earliest exploitation of this land and its people all the way to twenty-first-century privatization schemes. Through the intertwining lives of its characters, Yellow Earth lays bare how the profit motive erodes human relationships, as well as our living planet. The fate of Yellow Earth serves as a parable for our times.
Author | : John Sayles |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Motion picture producers and directors |
ISBN | : 9781578060832 |
Collected interviews with the New Zealand director of The Piano and Portrait of a Lady
Author | : Jon Lewis |
Publisher | : Pluto Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780745318790 |
In The End of Cinema As We Know It, contributors well known in the 'movie' field talk about the movie industry and look at the variety of new ways we are viewing films. They query whether or not we are getting different, better movies?
Author | : Mark C. Carnes |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1996-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780805037609 |
Essays that consider how classic movies have reflected history include the writings of such noted historians as Paul Fussell, Antonia Fraser, and Gore Vidal.
Author | : John Sayles |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2003-07-03 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780306812668 |
What choices--creative, practical, and technical--make a movie what it is? Here a gifted writer and filmmaker takes us behind the camera and provides a full description of the movie-making process.When John Sayles turned from writing fiction to making movies, he did so with little help from Hollywood: Return of the Secaucus Seven, Sayles's first movie as director and writer, was produced with 60,000 of his own money. Many films later, he still works outside the studio system and guides every phase of his productions.Now Sayles has written an illuminating book about the complex choices that lie at the heart of every movie. Using the making of his film Matewan as an example, he offers chapters on screenwriting, directing, editing, sound, and more. Photographs, sketches, and the complete shooting script illustrate this engaging account of how Sayles's curiosity about a coal miners' strike in the town of Matewan, West Virginia, became a screenplay--and then a movie.
Author | : Paul Grainge |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2003-09-06 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780719063756 |
Taking Hollywood as its focus, this timely book provides a sustained, interdisciplinary perspective on memory and film from early cinema to the present. Considering the relationship between official and popular memory, the politics of memory, and the technological and representational shifts that have come to effect memory's contemporary mediation, the book contributes to the growing debate on the status and function of the past in cultural life and discourse. By gathering key critics from film studies, American studies and cultural studies, Memory and Popular Film establishes a framework for discussing issues of memory in film and of film as memory. Together with essays on the remembered past in early film marketing, within popular reminiscence, and at film festivals, the book considers memory films such as Forrest Gump, Lone Star, Pleasantville, Rosewood and Jackie Brown.
Author | : Cynthia Baron |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780814330791 |
Insightful, focused case studies of screen performance from diverse directors with a range of contemporary styles and approaches.