Authors:Deborah Cartmell, Imelda Wheleha,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: screen, text, adaptations
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1999-08-03
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0415167388
ISBN-13: 9780415167383
Adaptations considers the theoretical and practical difficulties surrounding the translation of a text into film, and the reverse process; the novelisation of films. Through three sets of case studies, the contributors examine the key debates surrounding adaptations: whether screen versions of literary classics can be faithful to the text; if something as capsulated as Jane Austens irony can even be captured on film; whether costume dramas always of their own time and do adaptations remake their parent text to reflect contemporary ideas and concerns.Tracing the complex alterations which texts
Author: Andr Gaudreault
Publisher: Rutgers University Pre
Keywords: decades, series, screen, variations, cinema, themes, american
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-02-28
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0813544432
ISBN-13: 9780813544434
At the turn of the twentieth century, cinema was quickly establishing itself as a legitimate form of popular entertainment.The essays in American Cinema 1890-1909 explore and define how the making of motion pictures flowered into an industry that would finally become the central entertainment institution of the world. Beginning with all the early types of pictures that moved, this volume tells the story of the invention and consolidation of the various processes that gave rise to what we now call cinema. By examining the battles over patents, production, exhibition, and the reception of film,
Author: Lucy Fischer
Publisher: Rutgers University Pre
Keywords: american, screen, cinema, decades, culture, themes, 1920s, variations
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-05-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0813544858
ISBN-13: 9780813544854
During the 1920s, sound revolutionized the motion picture: film studios transformed into major corporations, hiring a host of craftsmen and technicians and it signaled the birth of the star system for many like Charlie Chaplin, Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo among others while black performers (relegated to "race films") appeared infrequently in mainstream movies. The classic Hollywood film style was perfected and significant film genres were established: the melodrama, western, historical epic, and romantic comedy, along with slapstick, science fiction, and fantasy.
Author: Martie Cook
Publisher: Focal Pre
Keywords: screen, onto, head, write
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-12-29
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0240808762
ISBN-13: 9780240808765
Learn to craft smart, original scripts and teleplays for a variety of television formats, including comedy, animation, drama, movies of the week, pilots, reality television, TV news magazine, and children’s programming. Using the tools the author provides: checklists, sample outlines and treatments for each format, sample script pages, war stories from writers and executives, and a sample query letter to introduce finished script pages to agents, you’ll avoid common pitfalls and come across as an industry veteran. Benefit from the experience of pros: 45 luminaries contribute their
Author: Oliver Impey
Publisher: Ashmolean Museum
Keywords: screen, folding, japanese, art
Number of Pages: 111
Published: 2007-01-25
List price: $31.50
ISBN-10: 1854440810
ISBN-13: 9781854440815
The design of the Japanese folding screen is one of the great art devices in decorative arts. Its history, schools of painting, the artists are explored in this elegant publication wherein the golds, reds and greens reflect as accurately as possible on the printed page the actual screens.
Author: William Goldma
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Keywords: trade, screen, adventures
Number of Pages: 594
Published: 1989-03-10
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0446391174
ISBN-13: 9780446391177
As befits more than twenty years in Hollywood, Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman’s sparkling memoir is as entertaining as many of the films he has helped to create. From the writer of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President’s Men and Marathon Man, Adventures in the Screen Trade is an intimate view of movie-making, of acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman and Hoffman, and of the trials and rewards of working inside the most exciting business in the world.
Author: Monica Silveira Cyrino
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: rome, screen
Number of Pages: 274
Published: 2005-12-09
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 1405116846
ISBN-13: 9781405116848
Big Screen Rome is the first systematic survey of the most important and popular films from the past half century that reconstruct the image of Roman antiquity.The first systematic survey of the most important and popular recent films about Roman antiquity. Shows how cinema explores, reinvents and celebrates the spectacle of ancient Rome. Films discussed in depth include Stanley Kubricks Spartacus, Ridley Scotts Gladiator and Terry Joness Monty Pythons Life of Brian. Contributes to discussions about the ongoing relevance of the classical world. Shows how contemporary film-makers use recrea
