The Citizen Kane Crash Course in Cinematography

The Citizen Kane Crash Course in Cinematography
Author: David Worth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Cinematography
ISBN: 9781932907469

A graphic textbook that provides a fictional account of how legendary filmmakers, Orson Welles and Gregg Toland, learned the art of cinematography.

Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane
Author: Nick Cooper
Publisher:
Total Pages: 16
Release: 1999
Genre: Motion pictures
ISBN:

Zen & the Art of Independent Filmmaking

Zen & the Art of Independent Filmmaking
Author: David Worth
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781496055781

Zen & The Art Of Independent Filmmaking is full of: Lessons, Insights & Enlightenments from the professional life of David Worth a filmmaker, author and film professor, who spent nearly 40 years making over 35 feature films as a Cinematographer, Editor and Director, before transitioning into Academia. He discusses the thrills and challenges of working as an International Filmmaker as well as with talents like: Clint Eastwood, Shelley Winters, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Sondra Locke, Seymour Cassel, Stephanie Zimbalist, Roy Scheider, Dennis Hopper & Bruce Campbell. You'll experience the Highs & Lows of working on films all over the planet from: Hollywood, to Hong Kong, Bangkok, Macau and Indonesia. As well as Italy, Israel, South America, South Africa, Bulgaria, Romania and back again. If you want the hard core facts about Independent filmmaking... This book is the; No Nonsense, In The Trenches, Hands On, Way to go...

The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh

The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh
Author: R. Barton Palmer
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2011-01-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0813126630

Widely regarded as a turning point in American independent cinema, Steven Soderbergh's sex, lies, and videotape (1989) launched the career of its twenty-six-year-old director, whose debut film was nominated for an Academy Award and went on to win the Cannes Film Festival's top award, the Palme d'Or. The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh breaks new ground by investigating salient philosophical themes through the unique story lines and innovative approaches to filmmaking that distinguish this celebrated artist. Editors R. Barton Palmer and Steven M. Sanders have brought together leading scholars in philosophy and film studies for the first systematic analysis of Soderbergh's entire body of work, offering the first in-depth exploration of the philosophical ideas that form the basis of the work of one of the most commercially successful and consistently inventive filmmakers of our time.

Thinking about Movies

Thinking about Movies
Author: Peter Lehman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2018-10-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1118337565

A complete introduction to analyzing and enjoying a wide variety of movies, for film students and movie lovers alike Thinking About Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying, Fourth Edition is a thorough overview of movie analysis designed to enlighten both students and enthusiasts, and heighten their enjoyment of films. Readers will delve into the process of thinking about movies critically and analytically, and find how doing so can greatly enhance the pleasure of watching movies. Divided roughly into two parts, the book addresses film studies within the context of the dynamics of cinema, before moving on to a broader analysis of the relationship of films to the larger social, cultural, and industrial issues informing them. This updated fourth edition includes an entirely new section devoted to a complete analysis of the film adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, along with many in-depth discussions of important films such as Citizen Kane and Silence of the Lambs. The chapter on television integrates a major expansion distinguishing between television in the digital era of the convergence of the entertainment and technology industries in comparison to the era of broadcast analogue television. The final chapter places film within the current context of digital culture, globalization, and the powerful rise of China in film production and exhibition. The authors clearly present various methodologies for analyzing movies and illustrate them with detailed examples and images from a wide range of films from cult classics to big-budget, award-winning movies. This helps viewers see new things in movies and also better understand and explain why they like some better than others. Thinking About Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying, Fourth Edition is ideal for film students immersed in the study of this important, contemporary medium and art form as well as students and readers who have never taken a class on cinema before.

Orson Welles's Last Movie

Orson Welles's Last Movie
Author: Josh Karp
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2015-04-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1250007089

In the summer of 1970 legendary but self-destructive director Orson Welles returned to Hollywood from years of self-imposed exile in Europe and decided it was time to make a comeback movie. Coincidentally it was the story of a legendary self-destructive director who returns to Hollywood from years of self-imposed exile in Europe. Welles swore it wasn't autobiographical. The Other Side of the Wind was supposed to take place during a single day, and Welles planned to shoot it in eight weeks. It took twelve years and remains unreleased and largely unseen. Orson Welles' Last Movie is a fast-paced, behind-the-scenes account of the bizarre, hilarious and remarkable making of what has been called "the greatest home movie that no one has ever seen."

Becoming Film Literate

Becoming Film Literate
Author: Vincent LoBrutto
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2005-03-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0313088683

Though movies have remained our foremost cultural pastime for over 100 years, many of us still know very little about the tools used to create them. In this groundbreaking new book, Vincent LoBrutto provides an enjoyable and accessible education in the art of cinema: using 50 landmark films spanning the history of the medium, LoBrutto illustrates such important concepts as editing, production design, cinematography, sound, screen acting, narrative structure, and various genres, nationalities, and film eras. Each concept is illustrated by the selection of a film that epitomizes its use, so that readers will learn about film authorship in Citizen Kane, multiplot narrative in Nashville, widescreen filmmaking in Rebel without a Cause, and screen violence in The Wild Bunch. Explaining the various tricks of the moviemaking trade, Becoming Film Literate offers a crash course in cinema, one designed to give even the novice reader a solid introduction to this complex and multifaceted medium. Though movies have remained our foremost cultural pastime for over 100 years, many of us still know very little about the tools used to create them. In this groundbreaking new book, Vincent LoBrutto provides an enjoyable and accessible education in the art of cinema: using 50 landmark films spanning the history of the medium, LoBrutto illustrates such important concepts as editing, production design, cinematography, sound, screen acting, narrative structure, and various genres, nationalities, and film eras. Each concept is illustrated by the selection of a film that epitomizes its use, so that readers will learn about film authorship in Citizen Kane, multiplot narrative in Nashville, widescreen filmmaking in Rebel without a Cause, and screen violence in The Wild Bunch. Providing a unique opportunity to become acquainted with important movies and the elements of their greatness, Becoming Film Literate offers a crash course in cinema, one designed to give even the novice reader a solid introduction to this complex and multifaceted medium.

Movies

Movies
Author: John Naughton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1998
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

With facts, gossip, pithy text, and a glossary of silver screen jargon, this compact course can turn readers into scintillating cinematic experts in no time. Everything readers need to know to hold forth knowledgeably on movies is here. 400 color illustrations.

A Short History of Film

A Short History of Film
Author: Wheeler Winston Dixon
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2008-03-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0813544750

The history of international cinema is now available in a concise, conveniently sized, and affordable volume. Succinct yet comprehensive, A Short History of Film provides an accessible overview of the major movements, directors, studios, and genres from the 1880s to the present. More than 250 rare stills and illustrations accompany the text, bringing readers face to face with many of the key players and films that have marked the industry. Beginning with precursors of what we call moving pictures, Wheeler Winston Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster lead a fast-paced tour through the invention of the kinetoscope, the introduction of sound and color between the two world wars, and ultimately the computer generated imagery of the present day. They detail significant periods in world cinema, including the early major industries in Europe, the dominance of the Hollywood studio system in the 1930s and 1940s, and the French New Wave of the 1960s. Special attention is also given to small independent efforts in developing nations and the corresponding more personal independent film movement that briefly flourished in the United States, the significant filmmakers of all nations, censorship and regulation and how they have affected production everywhere, and a wide range of studios and genres. Along the way, the authors take great care to incorporate the stories of women and other minority filmmakers who have often been overlooked in other texts. Compact and easily readable, this is the best one-stop source for the history of world film available to students, teachers, and general audiences alike.

Save the Cat! Goes to the Indies

Save the Cat! Goes to the Indies
Author: Salva Rubio
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-04-04
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780984157662

In his best-selling book, Save the Cat!(R) Goes to the Movies, Blake Snyder provided 50 "beat sheets" to 50 films, mostly studio-made. Now his student, screenwriter and novelist Salva Rubio, applies Blake's principles to 50 independent, European and cult films (again with 5 beat sheets for each of Blake's 10 genres). From international sensations like The Blair Witch Project to promising debuts like Pi, from small films that acquired cult status like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre to Euro-blockbusters like The Full Monty, from unexpected gems like Before Sunrise to auteur classics such as The 400 Blows, from Dogville to Drive and Boogie Nights to Cinema Paradiso, here are 50 movies that fit both the "indie" label and Blake Snyder's 15 beats. You'll find beat sheets for works from Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, David Lynch, Roman Polanski, Danny Boyle, David Mamet, Spike Jonze, Charlie Kaufman, Sofia Coppola, Lars Von Trier, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Wes Anderson, and the Coen Brothers, among other renowned writers and directors.