Catálogo de libros: Directores de cine y cineastas

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  • 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 natio...
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    163,68 €

  • The Tim Burton Encyclopedia
    Samuel J. Umland / Samuel JUmland
    Tim Burton has been a major director for a quarter of a century, producing both cult classics and blockbuster films including Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Ed Wood, Batman, Mars Attacks!, Sweeney Todd, Alice in Wonderland, and Dark Shadows.An A-Z list of all things Burton, including his live action films, his animated features, his shorts, his non-film work, and the collabo...
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    132,40 €

  • The Cinematic Misadventures of Ed Wood
    Andrew J. Rausch / Andrew JRausch / Jr. Charles E. Pratt / JrCharles EPratt
    Edward D. Wood, Jr. has been called the 'Worst Filmmaker in History.' In this hilarious and reverential study, authors Andrew J. Rausch and Charles E. Pratt, Jr. investigate this claim while providing in-depth looks at the 29 existing films written and/or directed by Wood. In doing so, they manage to fully capture and translate the sensation of watching a Wood film in print.Wit...
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    27,39 €

  • The Supernatural Cinema of Guillermo del Toro
    Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro is one of the most prolific artists working in film. His directorial work includes Cronos (1993), Mimic (1997), The Devil’s Backbone (2001), Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004), Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), Hellboy II (2008) and Pacific Rim (2013). He has also worked extensively as a producer, with several screenwriting credits to his name. As a noveli...
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    42,90 €

  • The Cinematic Misadventures of Ed Wood (hardback)
    Andrew J. Rausch / Andrew JRausch / Jr. Charles E. Pratt / JrCharles EPratt
    This is the HARDBACK version. Edward D. Wood, Jr. has been called the 'Worst Filmmaker in History.' In this hilarious and reverential study, authors Andrew J. Rausch and Charles E. Pratt, Jr. investigate this claim while providing in-depth looks at the 29 existing films written and/or directed by Wood. In doing so, they manage to fully capture and translate the sensation of wat...
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    37,56 €

  • Conversations with Gus Van Sant
    Mario Falsetto
    Gus Van Sant is an award-winning film director who has also overseen some significant commercial features, such as Good Will Hunting, as well as the critically acclaimed independents, such as Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho. This book contains a critical overview of Van Sant’s work and interviews with Van Sant about all of his film projects, from his first film, Mala ...
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    68,26 €

  • Bodies in Pain
    Tarja Laine
    'Bodies in Pain offers nuanced and persuasive interpretations of Darren Aronofsky’s films, yet it is more than a study of an auteur director. Rather, Laine conceptualises film authorship as a co-creative process that involves the intentions and achievements of the filmmaker...[and] attributes to Aronofsky a distinctively corporeal audio-visual style that produces visceral, emot...
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    184,53 €

  • Catherine Breillat
    Douglas Keesey
    The first full-length monograph in English devoted to one of the most acclaimed and controversial directors in contemporary cinema ...
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    28,59 €

  • The Coen Brothers Encyclopedia
    Lynnea Chapman King
    This encyclopedia focuses on all aspects of the Coen Brothers’ work—from writing and directing Blood Simple (1983) to their involvement in the forthcoming television series, Fargo. This extensive reference contains material on all of the films the brothers have written, produced, and directed, as well as their sideline ventures. ...
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    132,16 €

  • Four by Truffaut
    Francois Truffaut
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    17,16 €

  • David Lean
    Melanie Williams
    Comprehensive overview of the director’s body of work which yields new insights on the established classics of Lean’s career as well as its lesser-known treasures ...
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    157,21 €

  • Showmanship
    Joe Jordan
    William Castle was cinema’s Abominable Showman - the marketing genius who thought 'outside the coffin' to dream up outrageous PR gimmicks like PERCEPTO! and EMERGO! He was also the talented director of 56 feature films, from the noir When Strangers Marry and the Whistler mysteries, to Westerns, swashbucklers and - his fearsome forte - celebrated shockers such as House on Haunte...
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    29,14 €

  • Robert Florey, the French Expressionist
    Brian Taves
    Discover the remarkable film career of Robert Florey, in Robert Florey: The French Expressionist by Brian Taves.During almost a half-century in the movies, from 1916 to 1963, Robert Florey directed sixty five features and 220 television films at most of the major studios. His greatest success came in thrillers, scripting the original Frankenstein and directing such horror class...
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    29,03 €

  • Showmanship (Hardback)
    Joe Jordan
    This is the hardback edition. William Castle was cinema’s Abominable Showman - the marketing genius who thought 'outside the coffin' to dream up outrageous PR gimmicks like PERCEPTO! and EMERGO! He was also the talented director of 56 feature films, from the noir When Strangers Marry and the Whistler mysteries, to Westerns, swashbucklers and - his fearsome forte - celebrated sh...
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    39,32 €

  • Cinema at the Edges
    Abigail Loxham
    The works of popular Spanish film directors Julio Medem, Juan José Bigas Luna, and José Luis Guerín are newly appraised in relation to their engagement with alternative national and cinematic subjectivities. Their films examine the limitations of the cinematic gaze, as the author shows, highlighting the ways in which these directors make recourse to hybridity, contact, and inte...
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    184,50 €

  • The Argento Syndrome
    Derek Botelho
    A retrospective of Italian auteur Dario Argento’s films; The Argento Syndrome is an examination of a career marked by such genre classics as Suspiria, Deep Red, Tenebrae, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and Opera.The Argento Syndrome is part academic study, with essays on every film, and part personal memoir, detailing the author’s time in Italy on a trip to visit the set of ...
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    31,39 €

  • The Argento Syndrome (hardback)
    Derek Botelho
    A retrospective of Italian auteur Dario Argento's films; The ArgentoSyndrome is an examination of a career marked by such genre classics as Suspiria, Deep Red, Tenebrae, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and Opera.The Argento Syndrome is part academic study, with essays on every film, andpart personal memoir, detailing the author's time in Italy on a trip tovisit the se...
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    43,44 €

  • 100 Years of Brodies with Hal Roach
    Craig Calman
    Little could the author have imagined, drawing a pencil sketch of The Boys as a mere teenager, that a few years later he’d actually be meeting Laurel & Hardy’s boss-that Genial Purveyor of Joy and Laughter-HAL ROACH-and even less could he have imagined all the adventures and Brodies that were yet to unspool.The author, a former comedy-crazed kid from San Diego, made a Laurel & ...
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    31,41 €

  • 100 Years of Brodies with Hal Roach
    Craig Calman
    When author Craig Calman was a mere teenager, he drew a pencil sketch of Laurel and Hardy. Little could he have imagined that a few years later he would actually meet Hal Roach, their boss, that genial purveyor of joy and laughter. Even less could he have imagined all the adventures and brodies that were yet to unspool. Calman, a former fifteen-year-old comedy-crazed kid from S...
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    39,51 €

  • D.W. Griffith’s 100th Anniversary The Birth of a Nation
    Ira H. Gallen / Ira HGallen / Seymour Stern
    A HISTORY OF THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL MOTION PICTURE EVER MADE A hundred years have passed since the masterpiece of David Wark Griffith, The Birth of a Nation, first appeared on the screens of America, in the winter of 1915. It demonstrated that the cinema, no less than literature and no less than the stage, could become a topic of serious critical, esthetic, intellectual, politi...
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    61,56 €

  • D.W. Griffith’s 100th Anniversary The Birth of a Nation
    Ira H. Gallen / Ira HGallen / Seymour Stern
    A HISTORY OF THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL MOTION PICTURE EVER MADE A hundred years have passed since the masterpiece of David Wark Griffith, The Birth of a Nation, first appeared on the screens of America, in the winter of 1915. It demonstrated that the cinema, no less than literature and no less than the stage, could become a topic of serious critical, esthetic, intellectual, politi...
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    57,80 €

  • The Demons of Modernity
    John Orr
    Ingmar Bergman’s films had a very broad and rich relationship with the rest of European cinema, contrary to the myth that Bergman was a peripheral figure, culturally and aesthetically isolated from the rest of Europe. This book contends that he should be put at the very center of European film history by chronologically comparing Bergman’s relationship to key European directors...
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    184,80 €

  • Steven Spielberg and Duel
    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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    80,26 €

  • Hitchcock and Adaptation
    Mark Osteen
    This collection of essays examines the various Hitchcock films that were adapted from other sources (short stories, play, and novels). Some of these essays focus on the director’s collaboration with such notable writers as John Steinbeck (Lifeboat), Thornton Wilder (Shadow of a Doubt), and Raymond Chandler (Strangers on a Train), proving not only that Hitchcock knew good writin...
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    96,86 €

  • Talk’s Cheap, Action’s Expensive - The Films of Robert L. Lippert
    Mark Thomas McGee
    When Spyros Skouras was forced to resign as commander in chief of 20th Century-Fox, Darryl F. Zanuck was persuaded to return to the studio to take charge. As the studio was on the brink of disaster, Zanuck put the brakes on every project in the works and fired just about everyone on the lot. Except for one man, the only one working for the studio who made their bread-and-butter...
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    30,85 €

  • Talk’s Cheap, Action’s Expensive - The Films of Robert L. Lippert (hardback)
    Mark Thomas McGee
    Superman and the Mole-Men (1951) with George Reeves. The Fly (1958) with Vincent Price. The Last Man on Earth (1964). These low-budget films earned big-profit bonanzas, and the man behind the yields was Robert L. Lippert. When Spyros Skouras was forced to resign as commander in chief of 20th Century Fox, Darryl F. Zanuck was persuaded to return to the studio to take charge. As ...
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    35,19 €

  • Glorious catastrophe
    Dominic Johnson
    Glorious catastrophe presents the first detailed critical analysis of the visual art, film, performance and writing of Jack Smith, an icon of the New York avant-garde, from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. It uses his personal papers, and unpublished interviews with friends and collaborators. ...
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    33,22 €

  • Elvis’ Favorite Director
    Michael a. Hoey / Michael AHoey
    Still the youngest director to ever win an Academy Award (Skippy, 1931); Norman Taurog’s career embraces the history of Hollywood, from silent comedies to the Elvis Presley era. During Taurog’s fifty-two years in the film business he directed seventy-eight feature films starring everyone from Maurice Chevalier and Carole Lombard, to W.C. Fields and Bing Crosby, to Mickey Rooney...
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    32,88 €

  • Refocusing Chaplin
    This is a collection of scholarly essays that focuses on particular phases of Chaplin’s career through various critical lenses, in order to highlight the understated, and often overlooked, complexity of Chaplin’s filmmaking, and to provide insight into both the extensive range and the limits of the critical leverage of a broad array of interpretive theories. ...
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    120,80 €

  • Freddie Francis
    Freddie Francis
    Freddie Francis was regarded as one of the great cinematographers of the last half of the 20th century. He won Academy awards for Sons and Lovers and Glory. This is Francis’ memoir in which he recalls working on such films as Room at the Top, Sons and Lovers, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Elephant Man, Glory, Cape Fear, and The Straight Story. ...
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    120,41 €


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