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Screen Classics eBook Series

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  • Carl Theodor Dreyer and Ordet

    My Summer with the Danish Filmmaker

    by Jan Wahl ...
    Series series Screen Classics
    This illustrated memoir shares a rare inside look at the legendary director's process and vision during the filming of his award-winning masterpiece.Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer is considered one of the most influential filmmakers in cinematic history. His 1955 film Ordet (The World) won numerous prizes, including the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion. In 1954, Dreyer invited young film ... Read more

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  • George Lucas

    A Biography (Text Only Edition)

    by John Baxter ...
    The first major biography (since 1983) of the great movie mogul George Lucas, whose marketing techniques have transformed the film business. His fourth Star Wars film, The Phantom Menace, released in 1999, was perhaps the most eagerly awaited cinematic event of all time.George Lucas is one of the most innovative bigtime players on the movie scene. His three Star Wars films and the trio featuring ... Read more

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  • Eric Rohmer

    Interviews

    Edited by Fiona Handyside ...
    Series series Conversations with Filmmakers Series
    The 1969 film Ma Nuit chez Maud catapulted its shy academic film director Eric Rohmer (1920-2010) into the limelight, selling over a million tickets in France and earning a nomination for an Academy Award. Ma Nuit chez Maud remains his most famous film, the highlight of an impressive range of films examining the sexual, romantic, and artistic mores of contemporary France, the temptations of desire ... Read more

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  • Charlie Chaplin's Red Letter Days

    At Work with the Comic Genius

    by Fred Goodwins ...
    By the end of 1914, Charlie Chaplin had become the most popular actor in films, and reporters were clamoring for interviews with the comedy sensation. But no reporter had more access than Fred Goodwins. A British actor who joined Chaplin’s stock company in early 1915, Goodwins began writing short accounts of life at the studio and submitted them to publications. In February 1916 the British ... Read more

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  • Raoul Walsh

    The True Adventures of Hollywood's Legendary Director

    by Marilyn Ann Moss ...
    Series series Screen Classics
    Raoul Walsh (1887–1980) was known as one of Hollywood's most adventurous, iconoclastic, and creative directors. He carved out an illustrious career and made films that transformed the Hollywood studio yarn into a thrilling art form. Walsh belonged to that early generation of directors—along with John Ford and Howard Hawks—who worked in the fledgling film industry of the early twentieth century, ... Read more

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  • Baz Luhrmann

    Interviews

    Edited by Tom Ryan ...
    Series series Conversations with Filmmakers Series
    Though he has made only five films in two decades—Strictly Ballroom, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, and the Oscar-nominated films Moulin Rouge!, Australia, and The Great Gatsby—Australian writer-director Baz Luhrmann is an internationally known brand name. His name has even entered the English language as a verb, as in “to Baz things up,” meaning “to decorate them with an exuberant flourish ... Read more

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  • Hitchcock Lost & Found

    The Forgotten Films

    by Alain Kerzoncuf, Charles Barr ...
    Series series Screen Classics
    "It seems there is still plenty to discover and to say about Alfred Hitchcock . . . a host of impressive new research." — Journal of Film PreservationAudiences worldwide know him for Psycho, The Birds, Vertigo, and other classics—but in Hitchcock Lost and Found, fans and film students alike can explore forgotten, incomplete, lost, and recovered productions from all stages of Alfred Hitchcock's ... Read more

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  • The World in an Orange

    Creating Theatre with Barney Simon

    by Irene Stephanou, Leila Henriques ...
    Barney Simon (1932–1995) was the legendary artistic director, writer, and co-creator ofthe Market Theatre in Johannesburg, one of the most influential and distinguished theatres in South Africa and the world. He workshopped, wrote, and directed unforgettable and pertinent plays in his quest to "hold a mirror up high to society." These works stand as a testament to South Africa’s recent history ... Read more

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  • Devised and Directed by Mike Leigh

    Edited by Bryan Cardinale-Powell, Prof Marc DiPaolo ...
    Renowned for making films that are at once sly domestic satires and heartbreaking 'social realist' dramas, British writer-director Mike Leigh confronts his viewers with an un-romanticized dramatization of modern-day society in the hopes of inspiring them to strive for greater self-awareness and compassion for others. This collection features new, interdisciplinary essays that cover all phases of ... Read more

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  • Joan's Book

    The Autobiography of Joan Littlewood

    by Joan Littlewood ...
    Series series Theatre Makers
    'Once upon a time, the London theatre was a charming mirror held up to cosiness. Then came Joan Littlewood, smashing the glass, blasting the walls, letting the wind of life blow in a rough, but ready, world. Today, we remember this irresistible force with love and gratitude.' (Peter Brook)Along with Peter Brook, Joan Littlewood, affectionately termed 'The Mother of Modern Theatre', has come to be ... Read more

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  • Directing Films

    by Ken Russell ...
    In this ground-breaking book, acclaimed film director Ken Russell unpacks the creative insights, technique, know-how and sheer determination that have enabled him to realise on screen more than fifty diverse and yet intensely personal films. Drawing on his parallel experiences of producing, screenwriting and editing - as well as his favourite (and some unfavoured) movies by other directors - ... Read more

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  • Lorca, Buñuel, Dalí

    Forbidden Pleasures and Connected Lives

    by Prof Gwynne Edwards ...
    Lorca, Bunuel and Dali were, in their respective fields of poetry and theatre, cinema, and painting, three of the most imaginative creative artists of the twentieth century; their impact was felt far beyond the boundaries of their native Spain. But if individually they have been examined by many, their connected lives have rarely been considered. It is these, the ties that bind them, that ... Read more

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