The Carry Ons and Films of Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas
Carrying On documents the complete history of the Carry On films, with comedy legends such as Sid James, Kenneth Williams, and Barbara Windsor, plus the Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas production team who made Britain carry on laughing.
The Intersection of Geography, Ecology, and Slow Cinema
This book explores Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr's approach to creating geographies of indifference through slow cinema techniques. Author Clara Orban utilizes close readings of the films, relevant poems, a thorough filmography, and an interview with Tarr in her analysis.
This book focuses on revolutionary filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami's opposition to war, his eclectic spirituality, and the symbolic texture of his cinema which is more attuned to poetic than philosophical interpretation. It covers the most-up-to-date films, with a focus on thematic continuity within and between individual films.
This book is an academic study of the work of an important American director working primarily in the action genre. The book explores the ways in which Hill's filmography reveals his point of view and intensifies classical approaches to storytelling.
This volume offers eight interdisciplinary readings to the films of Sophia Ford Coppola, analyzing her oeuvre with a focus on her treatment of masculinity, sexual politics, bodies, and love.
Werner Herzog's protean imagination has produced a filmography that is nothing less than a sustained meditation on the modern human condition. Though Herzog takes his topics from around the world, the Americas have provided the setting and subject matter for iconic works ranging from Aquirre, The Wrath of God, and Fitzcarraldo to Grizzly Man. ......
Werner Herzog's protean imagination has produced a filmography that is nothing less than a sustained meditation on the modern human condition. Though Herzog takes his topics from around the world, the Americas have provided the setting and subject matter for iconic works ranging from Aquirre, The Wrath of God, and Fitzcarraldo to Grizzly Man. ......
From Blood Simple and Raising Arizona to Inside Llewyn Davis and Hail, Caesar!, the films of Joel and Ethan Coen represent a sort of alternate reality of America. The author explores how the settings-geographical, cultural, and historical-of their films provide viewers with slightly skewed, though no less true, perspectives of life American life.
