Catálogo de libros: Directores de cine y cineastas

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  • Michael Mann
    Steven Rybin
    In Michael Mann: Crime Auteur, Steven Rybin looks at the television programs and films that Michael Mann has stamped with his personal signature. This book closely examines the themes and techniques used in films such as Manhunter, Heat, The Insider, and Collateral and connects these elements to his work on the non-genre films The Last of the Mohicans and Ali. A revised and sig...
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    135,73 €

  • Walerian Borowczyk
    Jeremy Mark Robinson
    WALERIAN BOROWCZYK: THE BEAST Walerian Borowczyk (known as ’Boro’) is one of cinema’s one-offs. Quite simply, there is no filmmaker quite like Borowczyk. Borowczyk’s films have an astonishing, magical quality. They reach a place very rare in contemporary cinema, and are quite unlike the films of any other auteur. Borowczyk’s movies create their own space, with imagery, sounds ...
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    18,96 €

  • John Frankenheimer
    In John Frankenheimer: Interviews, Essays, and Profiles, Stephen B. Armstrong has collected the most interesting and insightful articles and features published on this underrated director. In this volume, the director and others look back on a career that included such films as Seven Days in May, The Train, Grand Prix, The Iceman Cometh, Black Sunday, and Ronin. The first colle...
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    141,27 €

  • Almodóvar en la prensa de Estados Unidos
    Cristina Martínez-Carazo
    Este libro analiza la respuesta de la prensa estadounidense al cine de Pedro Almodóvar y su impacto a la hora de reflejar y construir su recepción en este país. Por medio del análisis de reseñas, artículos, entrevistas y demás apariciones en el espacio público, se aquilata la dialéctica entre el director español y los medios de comunicación en Estados Unidos, y se rastrea la co...
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    18,00 €

  • Directors Close Up 2
    Jeremy Kagan
    Since 1992, The Directors Guild of America has hosted annual seminars featuring its nominees for outstanding feature film directing. In this all-new sequel to Directors Close Up, film and television director Jeremy Kagan culled the most insightful and entertaining responses from these acclaimed directors from the 2006 to 2012 seminars. From script development through pre-produc...
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    65,86 €

  • The Jarmusch Way
    Julian Rice
    Since the early 1980s, Jim Jarmusch has produced a handful of idiosyncratic films that have established him as one of the most imaginatively allusive directors in the history of American cinema. Three of his films—Dead Man (1995), Ghost Dog (1999), and The Limits of Control (2009)—demonstrate the director’s unique take on Eastern and Aboriginal spirituality. In The Jarmusch Way...
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    141,19 €

  • The Cinema of John Boorman
    Brian Hoyle
    John Boorman has written and directed more than 25 television and feature films, including such classics as Deliverance, Point Blank, Hope and Glory, and Excalibur. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards, including twice for best Director (Deliverance and Hope and Glory). In the first full-length critical study of the director in more than two decades, author Brian Hoyle...
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    113,72 €

  • The Films of Joseph H. Lewis
    Gary D. Rhodes
    Joseph H. Lewis enjoyed a monumental career in many genres, including film noir and B-movies (with the East Side Kids) as well as an extensive and often overlooked TV career. In The Films of Joseph H. Lewis, editor Gary D. Rhodes, PhD. gathers notable scholars from around the globe to examine the full range of Lewis's career. While some studies analyze Lewis's work in d...
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    46,81 €

  • Julio Medem
    Rob Stone / Robert Stone
    This, the first book-length study of the Spanish-Basque filmmaker Julio Medem in English, contains profound analysis of his life and films in the context of contemporary Spain and World cinema and is based on original interviews with Medem and many of his collaborators by the author, an establish expert on Spanish cinema. ...
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    29,54 €

  • The cinema of Álex de la Iglesia
    Andrew Willis / Andy Willis / N. Ria Triana-Toribio / NRia Triana-Toribio / Nuria Triana-Toribio / Peter Buse
    The first book in English about Álex de la Iglesia, critically acclaimed former protégé of Pedro Almodóvar, and one of the highest grossing directors in Spain and Latin America. De la Iglesia’s cinema is representative of a new generation of Spanish and European directors who combine avant-garde strategies with forms such as comedy and horror. ...
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    29,67 €

  • Emilio Fernández
    Dolores Tierney
    This book is an authoritative account of the career of Emilio Fernández, (1906-1986), one of Mexico’s and Latin America’s most successful and significant directors. It challenges assumptions about classical Mexican cinema and offers new, detailed textual analyses of Fernández’ most significant films (Enamorada, Rio Escondido, María Candelaria). ...
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    29,72 €

  • Walerian Borowczyk
    Jeremy Mark Robinson
    WALERIAN BOROWCZYK by JEREMY MARK ROBINSON Walerian Borowczyk (known as ’Boro’) is one of cinema’s one-offs. Quite simply, there is no filmmaker quite like Borowczyk. Borowczyk’s films have an astonishing, magical quality. They reach a place very rare in contemporary cinema, and are quite unlike the films of any other auteur. Borowczyk’s films create their own space, with imag...
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    42,99 €

  • Robert Rodriguez
    Zachary Ingle
    Rogue filmmaker Robert Rodriguez (b. 1968) rocketed to fame with his ultra-low-budget film El Mariachi (1992). The Spanish-language action film, and the making-of book that accompanied it, were inspirational to filmmakers trying to work with the most meager of resources. Rodriguez embodies the postmodern auteur, maintaining a firm control of his projects by not only writing and...
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    43,06 €

  • Georges Franju
    Kate Ince
    The fullest study of Georges Franju to date, and the first book on him in English since 1967 ...
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    29,82 €

  • Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film
    Steven Rybin
    Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film explores how the experience of viewing Terrence Malick’s films enables imaginative acts of philosophical interpretation. Useful for both professional philosophers interested in film and scholars of cinema intrigued by philosophy, this book shows the ways Malick’s films cast philosophy in new cinematic light. ...
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    141,60 €

  • A Year of Hitchcock
    Eric San Juan / Jim McDevitt
    This book analyzes 68 works directed by Hitchcock—including notable silents, all of his films from the early 1930s on, the two French propaganda shorts from WWII, and episodes of his television program—assessing his development as an artist. Each analysis is supplemented by key film facts, trivia, awards, a guide to his cameos, and a listing of available DVD releases. ...
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    16,40 €

  • Images Out of Africa
    Virginia Garner
    In 1938, Virginia and Ray Garner began making films in the Belgian Congo and French Cameroons. This book features Virginia Garner’s diaries, which highlight the challenges of making films in Africa in the 1930s and include rich descriptions of cross-cultural interactions and micro-negotiations with chiefs, headmen, and villagers. ...
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    61,16 €

  • Images Out of Africa
    Virginia Garner
    In 1938, Virginia and Ray Garner began making films in the Belgian Congo and French Cameroons. This book features Virginia Garner’s diaries, which highlight the challenges of making films in Africa in the 1930s and include rich descriptions of cross-cultural interactions and micro-negotiations with chiefs, headmen, and villagers. ...
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    123,46 €

  • Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing
    Kendra Preston Leonard
    This contributed volume explores the significant role that music plays in the works of Joss Whedon, investigating the uses and meaning of music and sound in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Serenity, and the Internet musical Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. ...
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    70,65 €

  • Chris Marker
    Sarah Cooper
    Since the early 1950s, Chris Marker has embraced different filmmaking styles as readily as he has new technologies, and has broadened conceptions of the documentary in distinctly personal ways. He has travelled around the world, tracking political upheavals and historic events, as well as unearthing the stories buried under official reporting. This globetrotting filmmaker testi...
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    29,70 €

  • I Go Hard
    Vanessa Morgan
    My son had dreams of becoming a rapper and was living a lifestyle not reflective of his upbringing. He was shot on March 6, 2009. As a parent, I was consumed with guilt. I questioned my parental worth. I Go Hard is a story of a young man in search of a dream and found a nightmare. 3 ...
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    16,44 €

  • The Francis Ford Coppola Encyclopedia
    Gene D Phillips / Gene D. Phillips / Gene DPhillips / James M Welsh / James M. Welsh / James MWelsh / Rodney F. Hill / Rodney FHill / Rodney Hill
    Containing material on all of the films Coppola has played a role in, the entries in this encyclopedia focus on all aspects of Coppola’s work and each entry is followed by a bibliography of published sources, both in print and online. ...
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    132,57 €

  • The Films of Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro
    Andrew J Rausch / Andrew J. Rausch / Andrew JRausch
    In this book, Andrew J. Rausch examines the creative output of director Martin Scorsese and actor Robert De Niro: from their initial offering, Mean Streets, to their most recent film together, Casino. Rausch looks at their relationship as individual artists who combined their talents to create cinematic magic, including the recognized classics Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and GoodF...
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    70,91 €

  • Jean Cocteau
    James S. Williams / James SWilliams
    A comprehensive, original and accessible account of all aspects of Jean Cocteau’s work in the cinema. The first major study in English for over forty years. Casts new light on Cocteau’s most celebrated films as well as the lesser known ones. ...
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    29,60 €

  • The Louis James Acting Version Of Peer Gynt (1908)
    Henrik Ibsen
    The Louis James Acting Version of Peer Gynt is a play written by Henrik Ibsen and adapted by Louis James. It was first published in 1908. The play is a dramatic representation of the life of Peer Gynt, a Norwegian folk hero who embarks on a series of adventures and encounters various characters along the way. The play explores themes of identity, personal growth, and the search...
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    26,92 €

  • Edgar G. Ulmer
    Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row examines the full scope of the career of this often overlooked film auteur, with essays exploring individual films, groups of films (such as his important work in film noir), repetitive themes appearing across the spectrum of his work, and a case study of three essays analyzing The Black Cat (1934). ...
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    65,00 €

  • In My Father’s Shadow
    Chris Welles Feder
    Out of all the many stars and celebrities Hollywood has produced, only a handful have achieved the fame--and, some would say, infamy--of Orson Welles, the creator and star of what is arguably the greatest American film, Citizen Kane. Many books have been written about him, detailing his achievements as an artist as well his foibles as a human being. None of them, however, has g...
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    27,41 €

  • Ghosts And Two Other Plays (1917)
    Henrik Ibsen
    Ghosts And Two Other Plays is a collection of three plays by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The first play, Ghosts, is a drama that deals with the taboo topic of venereal disease and its impact on a family. The second play, An Enemy of the People, is a political drama that explores the conflict between the individual and the community. The third play, The Wild Duck, is ...
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    33,34 €

  • Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder (1907)
    Henrik Ibsen
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    23,96 €

  • The Films of Hal Ashby
    Christopher Beach
    Hal Ashby directed eleven feature films over the course of his career and was an important figure in the Hollywood Renaissance of the late 1960s and 1970s. Though he was a member of the same generation of filmmakers as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Robert Altman, Ashby has received comparatively little critical or scholarly validation for his work.  Author Christop...
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    41,41 €


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