Catálogo de libros: Directores de cine y cineastas

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  • Hancock On Hancock
    Michael Doyle
    For more than sixty years John Hancock has pursued a remarkable and often tumultuous career as a writer/director/producer. From the hallucinatory horrors of Let’s Scare Jessica to Death and the gritty fantasy of Prancer to the unshakable humanity of Bang the Drum Slowly, Weeds and The Looking Glass, he has cultivated a deeply personal yet accessible cinema; one that yields a te...
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    34,34 €

  • Charles Urban
    Luke McKernan
    Based on original research from Charles Urban’s own papers, this is the first biography of this influential film maker and innovator. A historical study of the development of the non-fiction film in Britain and America in the early years of cinema. Winner of the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award 2014. 24 b&w illus. First time in paperback. ...
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    39,43 €

  • Jess Franco
    Kristofer Todd Upjohn
    JESS FRANCO: THE WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS FILMMAKERJess Franco was a director, cinematographer, writer, composer, editor, producer and actor in more than 150 fiercely independent films he made from 1959 to 2013. Born in Madrid, Spain, he was declared one of the most dangerous filmmakers by the Spanish Catholic Church. He was also one of the most prolific directors of Spanish cine...
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    12,62 €

  • Political Fellini
    Andrea Minuz
    Federico Fellini is often considered a disengaged filmmaker, interested in self-referential dreams and grotesquerie rather than contemporary politics. This book challenges that myth by examining the filmmaker's reception in Italy, and by exploring his films in the context of significant political debates. By conceiving Fellini's cinema as an individual expression of the...
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    44,70 €

  • A Critical Companion to Tim Burton
    A Critical Companion to Tim Burton is a comprehensive examination of Tim Burton's entire artistic career and film oeuvre. Each chapter in this book is scholarly yet accessible and the perspectives come from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. ...
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    142,81 €

  • The Bressonians
    Codruţa Morari
    How should we understand film authorship in an era when the idea of the solitary and sovereign auteur has come under attack, with critics proclaiming the death of the author and the end of cinema? The Bressonians provides an answer in the form of a strikingly original study of Bresson and his influence on the work of filmmakers Jean Eustache and Maurice Pialat. Extending the ...
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    149,91 €

  • Chantal Akerman
    Marion Schmid
    This book on internationally acclaimed film director Chantal Akerman provides an illuminating overview of her filmmaking and an in-depth analysis of her multi-faceted film style. ...
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    28,53 €

  • Charlie Chaplin’s Red Letter Days
    Fred Goodwins
    This is a behind-the-scenes look at film comedian Charlie Chaplin by an actor in Chaplin's stock company. In 1916 Fred Goodwins wrote more than thirty-five articles for Red Letter magazine that provide fascinating insights about Chaplin at work and play—articles that few have seen since they were written a century ago. ...
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    52,64 €

  • Riccardo Freda
    Roberto Curti
    In an eclectic career spanning four decades, Italian director Riccardo Freda (1909-1999) produced films of remarkable technical skill and powerful visual style, including the swashbuckler Black Eagle (1946), an adaptation of Les Miserables (1947), the peplum Theodora, Slave Empress (1954) and a number of cult-favorite Gothic and horror films such as I Vampiri (1957), The Hor...
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    59,05 €

  • Did Walt Disney Have His Happily Ever After? Biography for Kids 9-12 | Children’s United States Biographies
    Baby Professor
    You know Walt Disney as the company that creates your favorite fairytales. But did you know that Walt Disney was first a person? He was a man who made many dreams come true in films. He even built the happiest place on Earth. So it’s natural for you to wonder if he ever got his happily ever after. We’ll know in just a few pages! ...
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    18,19 €

  • The Life and Music of Elvis Presley - Biography for Children | Children’s Musical Biographies
    Baby Professor
    You know Elvis Presley as the 'King of Rock and Roll', but what else do you know about him? In this book, we’re going to discuss his life as a child as well as the inspirations that made him a legend. Reading about the biography of famous people will help you understand what it takes to be successful in your chosen field of interested. ...
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    18,19 €

  • Bodies in Pain
    Tarja Laine
    The films of Darren Aronofsky invite emotional engagement by means of affective resonance between the film and the spectator's lived body. Aronofsky's films, which include a rich range of production from Requiem for a Dream to Black Swan, are often considered "cerebral" because they explore topics like mathematics, madness, hallucinations, obsessions, social anxiety, ad...
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    38,26 €

  • Jacques Demy
    Darren Waldron / Waldron Darren
    The first full-length book devoted to Jacques Demy in the English language. ...
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    24,81 €

  • Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie
    Tony Lee Moral
    Alfred Hitchcock's style, motivation, and fears regarding his 1964 film Marnie, are well-documented in this probing look at one of his most undervalued efforts. Featuring four additional chapters that draw on newly obtained access to the film’s production archives, files of the novel’s author Winston Graham and screenwriter Jay Presson Allen—along with new interviews of the...
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    42,71 €

  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy
    Raymond Foery
    In Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece, Raymond Foery recounts the history—writing, pre-production, casting, shooting, post-production, and promotion—of this great work, and combines the history of the production process with an ongoing account of how this particular film relates to Hitchcock’s other works. Foery also discusses the reactions to Frenzy by critics and...
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    36,44 €

  • The San Francisco of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo
    This collection of essays examines the relationship that Vertigo enjoys with the histories and cultural imaginations of California and, more specifically, the San Francisco Bay Area. Contributors to this collection explore the specificities of place and the role such specificities play in our comprehensive efforts to understand Hitchcock's most critically acclaimed film. ...
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    42,63 €

  • The Ambivalent Legacy of Elia Kazan
    Briley / Ron Briley
    In 1952, Elia Kazan testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigating alleged communist infiltration of the entertainment industry. The cloud of this cooperation, which assured that the filmmaker would avoid the blacklist, plagued Kazan throughout the remainder of his life and career. This book presents a close analysis of Kazan’s cinema following...
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    59,82 €

  • The Process of Play Directing
    Bob May
    Are you directing your first show? Do you find yourself directing after years of acting? Are you a seasoned director looking for a refresher course? Or are you just pursuing some new, fresh, proven techniques? In The Process of Directing: From Concept to Curtain, Bob May, director of over 450 plays, and forty-eight years of theatrical experience, shares his winning directorial ...
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    12,53 €

  • THE MAN FROM THE THIRD ROW
    Fredrik Gustafsson
    Until his early retirement at age 50, Hasse Ekman was one of the leading lights of Swedish cinema, an actor, writer, and director of prodigious talents. Yet today his work is virtually unknown outside of Sweden, eclipsed by the filmography of his occasional collaborator (and frequent rival) Ingmar Bergman. This comprehensive introduction—the first ever in English—follows Ekman’...
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    184,61 €

  • THE MAN FROM THE THIRD ROW
    Fredrik Gustafsson
    Until his early retirement at age 50, Hasse Ekman was one of the leading lights of Swedish cinema, an actor, writer, and director of prodigious talents. Yet today his work is virtually unknown outside of Sweden, eclipsed by the filmography of his occasional collaborator (and frequent rival) Ingmar Bergman. This comprehensive introduction—the first ever in English—follows Ekman’...
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    38,34 €

  • Conversations on Quentin Tarantino (hardback)
    Andrew J. Rausch / Andrew JRausch
    Visionary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino burst onto the cinematic scene in 1992 with the bloody actioner Reservoir Dogs. He has since become the cinema's most recognizable film director since Alfred Hitchcock. He has gone on to write and direct some of the greatest films ever made, including Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds, and Django Unchained. Each of his films...
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    27,71 €

  • Conversations on Quentin Tarantino
    Andrew J. Rausch / Andrew JRausch
    Visionary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino burst onto the cinematic scene in 1992 with the bloody actioner Reservoir Dogs. He has since become the cinema's most recognizable film director since Alfred Hitchcock. He has gone on to write and direct some of the greatest films ever made, including Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds, and Django Unchained. Each of his films...
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    22,09 €

  • The cinema of Oliver Stone
    Henry Thompson / Ian Scott
    An insightful study of the master filmmaker’s work, enriched by unprecedented access to the director himself. ...
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    144,75 €

  • Steven Spielberg and Duel
    Awalt / Steven Awalt
    This is an account of Steven Spielberg’s first stand-alone film, Duel, a made for TV movie that first aired in 1971. This book chronicles the film’s history, from the original short story by acclaimed writer Richard Matheson (16 Twilight Zone episodes, Somewhere in Time, I Am Legend) to its development as a teleplay, to its production under the direction of Spielberg. Spielberg...
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    37,33 €

  • The Alfred Hitchcock Encyclopedia
    Stephen Whitty
    Encompassing the entire range of the director’s career—from early influences and silent films to his decade-long television show and cameos in nearly every feature—this is a comprehensive overview of cinema’s ultimate showman. A detailed and lively look at the director’s work, The Alfred Hitchcock Encyclopedia will be of interest to cinema-studies professors and undergraduates,...
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    126,33 €

  • Palaces of Memory
    Diane Thome
    Palaces of Memory is the story of a pioneer in the music world - the first woman to graduate from Princeton University with a PhD in Music and the first woman to compose computer-synthesized music. Much has been written about Dr. Thome, now professor emerita and former chair of the composition program at the University of Washington School of Music. But this is Diane Thome’s hi...
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    36,80 €

  • Palaces of Memory
    Diane Thome
    Palaces of Memory is the story of a pioneer in the music world - the first woman to graduate from Princeton University with a PhD in Music and the first woman to compose computer-synthesized music. Much has been written about Dr. Thome, now professor emerita and former chair of the composition program at the University of Washington School of Music. But this is Diane Thome’s hi...
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    20,94 €

  • Buccaneer
    Dewey / Donald Dewey
    This is an in-depth look at the life and career of James Stuart Blackton (1875-1941), the first great commercial vendor of cinema who grasped that motion pictures were not merely a technical innovation, but a popular entertainment form for the masses. Blackton was a man of many firsts in the film industry: the first combination actor-director-producer in the United States, t...
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    55,53 €

  • Gendered Frames, Embodied Cameras
    Cybelle H. McFadden / Cybelle HMcFadden
    Using the framework of self-representation, this book rethinks problems of representation of the female body in French cinema and contemporary French culture. By filming themselves, these filmmakers visually claim their roles, establish their authority in the field, and expose new ways to configure representation, gender, and cinema. ...
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    56,97 €

  • Children in the Films of Steven Spielberg
    This collection, representing the work of scholars from a range of theoretical frameworks and disciplines, examines aspects of the preoccupation with children and childhood in Steven Spielberg’s films. It includes essays on such films as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Empire of the Sun, andmore. ...
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    157,94 €


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