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Frederick Wiseman has made films that together form a monumental chronicle of late twentieth-century institutional and cultural life. This title provides a comprehensive overview of Wiseman's work (including projects for theatre and opera), featuring original essays by a variety of writers, critics, filmmakers and actors, and by Wiseman himself.

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Offers unparalleled insight into Gus Van Sants world his films, his collaborations and inspirations on the occasion of Cinmathque Franaises 2016 retrospective of the filmmakers work and life.

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Exploring a number of themes that form the foundation of villainy in Hitchcocks long and acclaimed career, Hitchcocks Villains also provides a detailed look at some of the directors most noteworthy villains and examine how these characters were often central to the enjoyment of the director's best films.

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Suitable for those interested in how words and imagery can work together to create fresh forms of understanding.

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In this book, Jonathan Scott Lee argues that Jean-Luc Godard is best seen as a philosopher using cinema and video as his media to develop provocative interventions into contemporary political situations and dilemmas, both explicitly and aesthetically.

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A comprehensive survey of Jean-Luc Godard's vast body of unrealised projects in film, video and television as well as plays, exhibitions and architectural works from the late 1940s to the 2020s.

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'Animals who know they will die, beings lost on earth, forever caught between two species, not animal enough, not cerebral enough.' In a supplementary chapter Chion argues that Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999), is a return to 2001, a final statement of its concerns.

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A groundbreaking investigation into the early life of the iconic Akira Kurosawa in connection to his most famous film-taking us deeper into Kurosawa and his world.

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David Lynch erupted onto the cinema landscape with Eraserhead, establishing himself as one of the most original, imaginative, and truly personal directors at work in contemporary film. In this career-length interview book, he speaks openly about the full breadth of his creative work.

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Studded with cameos of Waters's stars, from Divine and Mink Stole to Johnny Depp, Kathleen Turner, Patricia Hearst, and Tracey Ullman, and illustrated with unseen photos from Waters's personal collection, Mr. Know-It-All is Waters's most hypnotically readable, upsetting, revelatory book - another instant Waters classic.

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Studded with cameos of Waters's stars, from Divine and Mink Stole to Johnny Depp, Kathleen Turner, Patricia Hearst, and Tracey Ullman, and illustrated with unseen photos from Waters's personal collection, Mr. Know-It-All is Waters's most hypnotically readable, upsetting, revelatory book - another instant Waters classic.

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A minute-by-minute analysis of Anisia Uzeymans and Saul Williams film, Neptune Frost (2021) to explore its themes of resource exploitation and extraction and gender oppression.

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The visionary filmmaker Nicholas Ray spent his lifetime creating films that were dark, emotionally charged, and haunted by social misfits and bruised young people consumed by private anguish. This title presents portrait of Nicholas Ray - a man whose troubled life was punctuated by moments of creative genius.

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Organized in six parts ("The Taste Machine," "Young Kubrick," "Kubrick, Harris, Douglas," "Stanley Kubrick Presents," "Late Kubrick," and "Epilogue"), it offers provocative analysis of each of Kubrick's films together with new information about their production histories and cultural contexts.

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Follows six top-level film directors, from the origins of their careers through the making and release of their signature films. This book uses the development, writing, shooting, editing, and release of each director's major film, and also explores the lives and struggles each of them faced.

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Enter the mind of Jodo and follow his initiatory saga from Zen disciple to revolutionary filmmaker to spiritual teacher.

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This brilliant and essential guide to the award-winning director of Days of Heaven and Badlands is now available in paperback.

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Twelve years ago, Amores Perros erupted in the cinemas across the world and announced the arrival of Mexican film-makers. The film-makers profiled in that book have now come of age and have made a decisive impact on the international cinema scene.

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From the legendary producer and author of The Kid Stays in the Pictureone of the greatest Hollywood memoirs ever writtencomes a long-awaited second work with all the elements of a star-studded blockbuster: glamour and conflict, giddy highs and near-fatal lows, struggle and perseverance, tragedy and triumph.

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Renowned film critic David Thomson plumbs the horror and inspiration of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest film.