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Extreme cinema
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ISBN: 0813576520 9780813576527 9780813576510 0813576512 9780813576503 0813576504 9780813576497 0813576490 Year: 2016 Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey

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Received an Honorable Mention for the 2017 British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) Best Monograph Award From Shortbus to Shame and from Oldboy to Irreversible, film festival premieres regularly make international headlines for their shockingly graphic depictions of sex and violence. Film critics and scholars alike often regard these movies as the work of visionary auteurs, hailing directors like Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier as heirs to a tradition of transgressive art. In this provocative new book, Mattias Frey offers a very different perspective on these films, exposing how they are also calculated products, designed to achieve global notoriety in a competitive marketplace. Paying close attention to the discourses employed by film critics, distributors, and filmmakers themselves, Extreme Cinema examines the various tightropes that must be walked when selling transgressive art films to discerning audiences, distinguishing them from generic horror, pornography, and Hollywood product while simultaneously hyping their salacious content. Deftly tracing the links between the local and the global, Frey also shows how the directors and distributors of extreme art house fare from both Europe and East Asia have significant incentives to exaggerate the exotic elements that would differentiate them from Anglo-American product. Extreme Cinema also includes original interviews with the programmers of several leading international film festivals and with niche distributors and exhibitors, giving readers a revealing look at how these institutions enjoy a symbiotic relationship with the "taboo-breakers" of art house cinema. Frey also demonstrates how these apparently transgressive films actually operate within a strict set of codes and conventions, carefully calibrated to perpetuate a media industry that fuels itself on provocation.


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Producing : behind the silver screen : a modern history of filmmaking
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ISBN: 9781784534349 178453434X 9781784534356 1784534358 Year: 2016 Publisher: London I.B. Tauris

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"Of all the job titles listed in the opening and closing screen credits, producer is certainly the most amorphous. There are businessmen and women producers, writer-director and movie-star-producers, producers who work for the studio, executive producers whose reputation and industry clout alone get a project financed. But what producers do (and what they don't or won't do) varies from project to project. Producing is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the parts that producers have played in Hollywood. It introduces readers to the remarkable figures who helped to define and re-imagine the producer's role, including inventors like Thomas Edison, moguls like Darryl F. Zanuck, entrepreneurs like Walt Disney, and mavericks like Roger Corman. The book also takes an inside look at the less glamorous jobs producers have often performed: shepherding projects through many years of development, securing financial backers, and supervising movie shoots."--


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Today's Sounds for Yesterday's Films : Making Music for Silent Cinema
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ISBN: 1137466359 1349579130 1137466367 Year: 2016 Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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In recent years, there has been something of an explosion in the performance of live music to silent films. There is a wide range of films with live and new scores that run from the historically accurate orchestral scores to contemporary sounds by groups such as Pet Shop Boys or by experimental composers and gothic heavy metal bands. It is no exaggeration to claim that music constitutes a bridge between the old silent film and the modern audience; music is also a channel for non-scholarly audiences to gain an appreciation of silent films. Music has become a means both for musicians and audiences to understand this bygone film art anew. This book is the first of its kind in that it aims to bring together writings and interviews to delineate the culture of providing music for silent films. It not only has the character of a scholarly work but is also something of a manual in that it discusses how to make music for silent films.


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Extreme cinema : the transgressive rhetoric of today's art film culture
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ISBN: 9780813576503 0813576504 9780813576497 0813576490 Year: 2016 Publisher: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press,


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Beyond the bottom line : the producer in film and television studies
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ISBN: 9781441172365 144117236X 9781501317774 9781441162885 9781441125125 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York Bloomsbury

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"This is the first collection of original critical essays devoted to exploring the misunderstood, neglected and frequently caricatured role played by the film producer. The editors' introduction provides a conceptual and methodological overview, arguing that the producer's complex and multifaceted role is crucial to a film's success or failure. The collection is divided into three sections where detailed individual essays explore a broad range of contrasting producers working in different historical, geographical, generic and industrial contexts. Rather than suggest there is a single type of producer, the collection analyses the rich variety of roles producers play, providing fascinating and informative insights into how the film industry actually works. This groundbreaking collection challenges several of the conventional orthodoxies of film studies, providing a new approach that will become required reading for scholars and students"--


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Hollywood is everywhere : global directors in the blockbuster era
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ISBN: 9048524970 9789048524976 9789089647399 9089647392 9789089647399 Year: 2016 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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Hollywood has a long tradition of bringing in emigre directors from around the world, dating back to the silent era. Today, as the film industry is ever more global, the people who make blockbuster movies seemingly reflect this tradition, hailing from many countries across the world. But that fact hides a fundamental difference, one that Melis Behlil examines in Hollywood is Everywhere: today's Hollywood studios are themselves transnational, with ownership structures and financial arrangements that stretch far beyond the borders of the United States. Seen in that context, today's international directors are less analogous to the emigre talent of the past than to ordinary transnational employees of other major global corporations.


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Violent Women in Contemporary Cinema
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ISBN: 1349707074 113752507X 1137525088 Year: 2016 Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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Violent Women in Contemporary Cinema explores the representation of homicidal women in six contemporary films: Antichrist (Lars von Trier, 2009), Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis, 2001), Baise-moi (Coralie Thinh Thi and Virginie Despentes, 2000), Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson, 1994), Monster (Patty Jenkins, 2003) and The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008). Violent women in cinema pose an exciting challenge to viewers—when women kill, they overturn cultural ideas of 'typical' feminine behaviour. Janice Loreck explores how cinema creatively depicts the violent woman in response to this challenge. Departing from earlier studies that focus on popular and exploitation cinema, the book takes a unique focus on violent women in art films and other critically-distinguished forms. It explores the appeal that the violent woman holds for spectators within this viewing context. Furthermore, the book also examines how cinema responds to the cultural construction of the violent woman as a conundrum and enigma.

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