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Imagining reality : the Faber book of the documentary / [edited by] Kevin Macdonald and Mark Cousins London: Faber and Faber, 1996.
Call No: 761 MACAuthor: Macdonald, Kevin, 1967- ; Cousins, Mark Place: LondonPublisher: Faber and FaberPubDate: 1996PhysDes: xii, 400 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; CINEMA VERITE ; CINEMA-DIRECT ; GENOCIDE IN FILMS ; NEWSREELS ; PROPAGANDA FILMS ; SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS ; WAR IN FILMS ; VERTOV, DZIGA ; ROUCH, JEAN ; IMAMURA, SHOHEI ; KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF ; MALLE, LOUIS ; MARKER, CHRIS ; OPHULS, MARCEL ; Grierson, John ; HUSTON, JOHN ; ANDERSON, LINDSAY ; BUNUEL, LUIS ; ALVAREZ, SANTIAGO ; ANTONIO, EMILE DE ; BALAZS, BELA ; BLUE, JAMES ; BROOMFIELD, NICK ; CAVALCANTI, ALBERTO ; COLINA, JOSE DE LA ; COOPER, MERIAN C. ; DIETRICH, MARLENE ; FLAHERTY, ROBERT ; IVENS, JORIS ; IWASAKI, AKIRA ; JENNINGS, HUMPHREY ; KAUFMAN, MIKHAIL ; KAUL, MANI ; LANZMANN, CLAUDE ; LEACOCK, RICHARD ; MAYSLES, ALBERT & DAVID ; MORRIS, ERROL ; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI ; SCHELL, MAXIMILIAN ; SHUB, ESTHER ; TSUCHIMOTO, NORIAKI ; WISEMAN, FREDERICK ; WRIGHT, BASIL ; TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935) ; WITH LAWRENCE IN ARABIA (US, Lowell Thomas, 1919) ; PHANTOM INDIA [INDE FANTOME, L'] [TV] (FR, Louis Malle, 1969) ; LET THERE BE LIGHT (US, John Huston, 1946) ; MARLENE (GW, Maximilian Schell, 1984) ; NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922) ; NIGHT MAIL (UK, Harry Watt & Basil Wright, 1936) ; REGEN (NE, Joris Ivens, 1929) ; SONG OF CEYLON (UK, Basil Wright, 1934) ; SPANISH EARTH, THE (US, Joris Ivens, 1937) ; THIN BLUE LINE, THE (US, Errol Morris, 1988) ; SANS SOLEIL (FR, Chris Marker, 1983) ; SHOAH (FR/SZ, Claude Lanzmann, 1985) ; A PROPOS DE NICE (FR, Jean Vigo, 1930) ; CRUMB (US, Terry Zwigoff, 1994) ; HOUSING PROBLEMS (UK, Edgar Anstey & Arthur Elton, 1935) ; YUKI YUKITE SHINGUN (JA, Kazuo Hara, 1987) ; FIRST LOVE (US, Joan Darling, 1977) ; GIMME SHELTER (US, David Maysles & Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1970) ; HOOP DREAMS (US, Steve James, 1994) ; LAS HURDES (SP, Luis Bunuel, 1932) Summary: Imagining Reality takes the reader on a tour of the evolution of documentary film as an increasingly vibrant, polemical, experimental and entertaining form. It gathers a wide-ranging collection of writings by and about such groundbreaking documentary-makers as Vertov, Flaherty, Marcel Ophuls, Chris Marker, Kieslowski, Claude Lanzmann, and Nick Broomfield.
The story is carried up to date by attention to the success documentaries have had among mainstream movie audiences in recent years, including Michael Moore's Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11, The Buena Vista Social Club, Spellbound, Capturing The Friedmans, Être Et Avoir, and The Fog Of War. --TAKEN FROM PUBLISHER'S SITENotes: Includes bibliographical references and index; Faber book of the documentaryISBN: 0571177239LON: 13068333Contents: Part 1. -- 1.The Kingdom of Shadows -- 2. Going to Extremes -- 3. Kino Eyes and Agit Trains -- 4. Documentary and the Avante Guarde -- Part 2. -- 5. The British Movement -- 6. Battling for minds -- 7. Aspects of Asia -- Part 3. -- 8. The Essayists -- 9. The Grain of Truth -- Part 4. -- 10. The Cinema of Social Concern -- 11. Diversity -- 12. The Burning QuestionID2: 47
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The saga of special effects / Ron Fry and Pamela Fourzon London: Robert Hale & Company, 1978.
Call No: 236 FRYAuthor: Fry, Ron ; Fourzon, Pamela Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Robert Hale & CompanyPubDate: 1978PhysDes: 212 p. ; 29 cmSubject: ANIMATION ; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; MINIATURE WORK ; MODEL WORK ; MONSTERS IN FILMS ; ROBOTS IN FILMS ; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS ; SPECIAL EFFECTS ; SPECIAL EFFECTS DESIGNERS ; STOP-MOTION TECHNIQUE ; STORMS IN FILMS ; WORLD WAR II AND THE CINEMA ; COOPER, MERIAN C. ; FULTON, JOHN P. ; DEMILLE, CECIL B. ; DISNEY, WALT ; DUNN, LINWOOD ; GILLESPIE, A. ARNOLD ; O'BRIEN, WILLIS ; PAL, GEORGE ; EARTHQUAKE (US, Mark Robson, 1974) ; KING KONG (US, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933) ; [TWENTY THOUSAND] 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (US, Richard Fleischer, 1954) ISBN: 0709170738Contents: 1. A definition of "special effects" -- 2. The birth of an industry: Edison, Melies, Urban, Paul, and Porter -- 3. Epics without soundtracks: Griffith, Sennett, Keaton, and Lang -- 4. The entertainment decade: Warner's sound, Dunn's optical printer, and O'Brien's King Kong -- 5. Re-creating a world at war: Gillespie, Jennings, Edouart, Hitchcock, and Disney -- 6. The creature-ridden fifties: Pal, Corman, Howard, Japan's Toho studios, Harryhausen and De Mille -- 7. The spectacular sixties, from The time machine to 2001: Vogel, Cruickshank, Danforth, Lee, and Knoth -- 8. The "disastrous" seventies: Allen, Trumbull, Abbott, Mattey, Robinson, Whitlock, and Von Buelow -- Epilogue: De Laurentis' King Kong - the present (and future) of special effects
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