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Backstory 4 : interviews with screenwriters of the 1970s and 1980s / edited and with an introduction by Patrick McGilligan Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.
Call No: 802.24(73) BACAuthor: McGilligan, Patrick Source: USPlace: BerkeleyPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: 2006PhysDes: x, 423 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: SCRIPTWRITERS ; SCRIPTWRITERS. USA ; BENTON, ROBERT ; COHEN, LARRY ; EDWARDS, BLAKE ; HILL, WALTER ; JHABVALA, RUTH PRAWER ; KASDAN, LAWRENCE ; LEONARD, ELMORE ; MAZURSKY, PAUL ; MEYERS, NANCY ; MILIUS, JOHN ; RAPHAEL, FREDERIC ; WESTLAKE, DONALD ; SARGENT, ALVIN Summary: "Continuing Patrick McGuilligan's highly acclaimed series on Hollywood screenwriters, these engrossing, informative, provocative interviews give wonderfull detailed and personal stories from veteran writers of the seventies and eighties focusing on their craft, their lives, and their profession. Backstory 4 is a riveting insider's look at how movies get made; a rich perspective on many of the great films, directors, and actors of the seventies and eighties; and an articulate, forthright commentary on the art and business of screenwriting."-- Back coverNotes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-396) and indexISBN: 9780520245181; 0520245180 (pbk. : alk. paper)Contents: -- acknowlegments -- introduction -- Robert Benton : the new traditionalist / interview by Christian Keathley -- Larry Cohen : manic energy / interview by Patrick McGilligan -- Blake Edwards : jumping around / interview by Bill Krohn --
Walter Hill : last man standing / interview by Patrick McGilligan -- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala : out of India / interview by Vincent LoBrutto -- Lawrence Kasdan : a humanist in Hollywood / interview by Graham Fuller -- Elmore Leonard : the hot kid / interview by Patrick McGilligan -- Paul Mazursky : a map of the heart / interview by Nat Segaloff -- Nancy Meyers : late bloomer / interview by Fred Topel -- John Milius : the good fights / interview by Nat Segaloff -- Frederic Raphael : renaissance man / interview by John Baxter -- Alvin Sargent : pursuit and destination / interview by Patrick McGilligan -- Donald E. Westlake : the worst that could happen / interview by Patrick McGilligan -- bibliographic notes -- about the contributors -- general index -- index of films, plays, and books --
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Remapping cinema, remaking history : XIVth Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand: Refereed Abstracts / edited by Catherine Fowler and Rochelle Simmons Dunedin, NZ: University of Otago - Department of Media, Film & Communication, 2008.
Call No: 45:93HISAuthor: Film and History Associationof Australia and New Zealand Conference (14th : 2008 : Dunedin, NZ) Source: NZPlace: Dunedin, NZPublisher: University of Otago - Department of Media, Film & CommunicationPubDate: 2008PhysDes: v, 223 p. ; 21 cmSubject: CONFERENCES. AUSTRALIA. FILM AND HISTORY ; HOLLYWOOD MEMORY IN FILMS ; MOTION PICTURES EUROPEAN ; MOTION PICTURES - HISTORY ; NEW ZEALAND ; ASHBY, HAL ; SCHLESINGER, JOHN ; HALL, CONRAD ; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD ; NICHOLS, MIKE ; CIMINO, MICHAEL ; ALTMAN, ROBERT ; KUBRICK, STANLEY ; HILL, WALTER ; SPIELBERG, STEVEN ; KAURISMAKI, AKI ; MILLER, GEORGE ; FRENCH CONNECTION, THE (US, William Friedkin, 1971) ; ONE FROM THE HEART (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1982) ; DAY OF THE LOCUST, THE (US, John Schlesinger, 1975) ; WITCHES OF EASTWICK, THE (US, George Miller, 1987) ; GODFATHER [...], THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1972-) ; GRADUATE, THE (US, Mike Nichols, 1967) ; STREETS OF FIRE (US, Walter Hill, 1984) ; LONG GOODBYE, THE (US, Robert Altman, 1973) ; MCCABE AND MRS MILLER (US, Robert Altman, 1971) ; SHINING, THE (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1980) ; SUGARLAND EXPRESS, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1974) ; KENNY (AT, Clayton Jacobson, 2006) ; SYLVIA (NZ, Michael Firth, 1985) ; RED ROAD (UK/DK, Andrea Arnold, 2006) ; THIS IS ENGLAND (UK, Shane Meadows, 2006) ; STALINGRAD (GG, Joseph Vilsmaier, 1992) ; BAND OF BROTHERS (US, David Frannel & Tom Hanks & David Leland & Richard Loncraine & David Nutter & Phil Alden Robinson & Mikael Salomon & Tony To, 2001) Summary: The film and history conference is held every two years and is an opportunity for international scholars, archivists and filmmakers to present their thoughts on recent debates and events in the fields of film history, history and film, national and transnational cinemas, film theory, film practice, and the importance of cinema to specific communitiesNotes: "27-30 November 2008"- cover includes bibliographical reference and indexISBN: 9780473138899; 9780473148867Contents: v.1 refereed abstracts/ edited by Catherine Fowler and Rochelle Simmons- v. 2 select refereed papers/ edited by Hilary Radner and Pam fosser; Part 1: Re-thinking Film History. 1. What's new about New Cinema History/ Kate Bowles and Richard Maltby--Part 2: Memory and History 2. Fixing visual memories and history: film and the Chinese Cultural Revolution/ Paul Clark-- 3. Folding History back on itself / Dirk de Bruyn -- 4. Testimony and Memory : rewriteable video memoirs / Stephen Goddard -- Part 3: Australia and New Zealand. 5. this land speaks for " Us" : the price of milk and the articulation of New Zealand's "Difficult" history/ Scott Wilson -- the location of referents: double time, atemporality and colonial heritage cinema/ Olivia Macassey -- Part 4: European Narratives. 7. Still in the shadows : reconsidering history through intertextual references in Aki Kaurismaki's European films/ Sanna Peden-- 8. Imaging/imagining a history of violence: Red Road and This is England/ Steven Allen--9. " I am not a Nazi": The past as present in portrayals of wartime German forces in Stalingrad and Band of Brothers/ Stephanie Cousineau--10. Neoliberalism and the fate of the collective in recent German cinema/ Simon Ryan-- Part 5: Music and Historical Representation-- 11. The representation of Rapanui 9 Easter Island) in feature film/ Dan Bendrups-- 12. Beating the East german blues: musical representations of freedom in Leander Haussmann's Sonnenallee and Michael Schorr's Schultze gets the Blues/ Andrew Wright Hurley--Part 6 : Historical Fictions? Documentary, Mockumentary and the Biopic--13. Getting the story crooked: Errol Morris and Narrativist Historiography/ Pam Fossen -- Kenny and Australian cinema in the Howard era/ Lisa Milner -- 15. The life of Lady Lazarus? An analysis of the film Sylvia as historical document/Bronwyn Polaschek-- Part 7: Considering Hollywood -- 16. Battling Hollywood: The 1930 Trade War between the New Zealand government and Hollywood/ David Newman -- 17. Reality and pictoriality : Hollywood style from the 1970s to the 1980s/ Paul Ramaeker
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