wyszukanych pozycji: 62
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A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American Film
ISBN: 9780813550602 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Think about some commercially successful film masterpieces--The Manchurian Candidate. Seven Days in May. Seconds. Then consider some lesser known, yet equally compelling cinematic achievements--The Fixer. The Gypsy Moths. Path to War. These triumphs are the work of the best known and most highly regarded Hollywood director to emerge from live TV drama in the 1950s--five-time Emmy-award-winner John Frankenheimer. Although Frankenheimer was a pioneer in the genre of political thrillers who embraced the antimodernist critique of contemporary society, some of his... Think about some commercially successful film masterpieces--The Manchurian Candidate. Seven Days in May. Seconds. Then consider some ... |
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165,57 zł |
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An Eye for Hitchcock
ISBN: 9798855800371 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A series of fascinating and groundbreaking meditations on six films directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock. Film scholar Murray Pomerance presents a series of fascinating and groundbreaking meditations on six films directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock, a master of the cinema. Two of the films, North by Northwest and Vertigo, are extraordinarily famous and have been seen––and misunderstood––countless times. Two others, Marnie and Torn Curtain, have been mostly disregarded by viewers and critics or considered to be colossal mistakes, while the remaining two, Spellbound and I...
A series of fascinating and groundbreaking meditations on six films directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock. Film scholar Murray Pomerance present...
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142,60 zł |
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Uncanny Cinema: Agonies of the Viewing Experience
ISBN: 9781501398742 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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501,74 zł |
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A Voyage with Hitchcock
ISBN: 9781438485256 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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382,91 zł |
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Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue: Eight Reflections on Cinema
ISBN: 9780520266865 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Michelangelo Antonioni, who died in 2007, was one of cinema s greatest modernist filmmakers. The films in his black and white trilogy of the early 1960sL avventura, La Notte, Leclisseare justly celebrated for their influential, gorgeously austere style. But in this book, Murray Pomerance demonstrates why the color films that followed are, in fact, Antonioni s greatest works. Writing in an accessible style that evokes Antonioni s expansive use of space, Pomerance discusses The Red Desert, Blow-Up, Professione: Reporter (The Passenger), Zabriskie Point, Identification of a Woman, The...
Michelangelo Antonioni, who died in 2007, was one of cinema s greatest modernist filmmakers. The films in his black and white trilogy of the early 196...
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158,45 zł |
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Enfant Terrible!: Jerry Lewis in American Film
ISBN: 9780814767054 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The one thing everybody knows about Jerry Lewis is that he is beloved by the French, those incomprehensible hedonistic strangers across the sea. The French understand him, while in the U.S. he is at best a riddle, not one of us. Lewis is someone we take profound pleasure in excluding, if not ridiculing. Enfant Terrible Jerry Lewis in American Film is the first comprehensive collection devoted to one of the most controversial and accomplished figures in twentieth-century American cinema. A veteran of virtually every form of show business, Lewis's performances onscreen and the... The one thing everybody knows about Jerry Lewis is that he is beloved by the French, those incomprehensible hedonistic strangers across the sea. Th... |
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371,29 zł |
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Johnny Depp Starts Here
ISBN: 9780813535661 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From beloved bad-boy to cool and captivating maverick, Johnny Depp has inspired media intrigue and has been the source of international acclaim since the early 1990s. He has attracted attention for his eccentric image, his accidental acting career, his beguiling good looks, and his quirky charm. In Johnny Depp Starts Here, film scholar Murray Pomerance explores our fascination with Depp, his riddling complexity, and his meaning for our culture. Moving beyond the actor's engaging and inscrutable private life, Pomerance focuses on his enigmatic screen performances from A Nightmare on Elm Street...
From beloved bad-boy to cool and captivating maverick, Johnny Depp has inspired media intrigue and has been the source of international acclaim since ...
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155,54 zł |
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Virtuoso: Film Performance and the Actor's Magic
ISBN: 9781501350689 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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602,09 zł |
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Moment of Action: Riddles of Cinematic Performance
ISBN: 9780813564951 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. There are hundreds of biographies of filmstars and dozens of scholarly works on acting in general. But what about the ephemeral yet indelible moments when, for a brief scene or even just a single shot, an actor's performance triggers a visceral response in the viewer? Moment of Action delves into the mysteries of screen performance, revealing both the acting techniques and the technical apparatuses that coalesce in an instant of cinematic alchemy to create movie gold. Considering a range of acting styles while examining films as varied as Bringing Up Baby, Psycho, The...
There are hundreds of biographies of filmstars and dozens of scholarly works on acting in general. But what about the ephemeral yet indelible moments ...
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170,59 zł |
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American Cinema of the 1950s
ISBN: 9781845204372 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. America in the 1950s was a place of sensational commercial possibility coupled with dark nuclear fears and conformist politics. Cold war hysteria and anti-communist witch hunts influenced a culture already falling under the spell of suburbia, television and a brave new world of luxury goods.Throughout the decade Hollywood was under siege: from the Justice Department pressing for big film companies to divest themselves of their theatre holdings; from the middle classes, whose retreat to family entertainment inside the home drastically decreased the film-going audience; and from the House...
America in the 1950s was a place of sensational commercial possibility coupled with dark nuclear fears and conformist politics. Cold war hysteria and ...
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130,40 zł |
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A Silence from Hitchcock
ISBN: 9781438491875 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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382,91 zł |
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The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect
ISBN: 9780813560588 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Eyes Have It explores those rarified screen moments when viewers are confronted by sights that seem at once impossible and present, artificial and stimulating, illusory and definitive. Beginning with a penetrating study of five cornfield sequences--including The Wizard of Oz, Arizona Dream, and Signs--Murray Pomerance journeys through a vast array of cinematic moments, technical methods, and laborious collaborations from the 1930s to the 2000s to show how the viewer's experience of "reality" is put in context, challenged, and willfully engaged. Four...
The Eyes Have It explores those rarified screen moments when viewers are confronted by sights that seem at once impossible and present, artific...
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165,57 zł |
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The Film Cheat: Screen Artifice and Viewing Pleasure
ISBN: 9781501364983 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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140,44 zł |
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A Family Affair: Cinema Calls Home
ISBN: 9781905674565 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The family unit has been a central theme in movies since the earliest days of the medium- whether as a locus of domestic bliss, a dysfunctional source of drama, a collection of comic personalities or an inferno of repressed feelings. This new anthology brings the subject into sharp focus, collecting a range of multidisciplinary perspectives that attempt to directly penetrate the questions raised by the role of the family onscreen. Discussing a wide range of contemporary and classic films, from House of Strangers (1949) and Mary Poppins (1964) to Superstar (1987), The...
The family unit has been a central theme in movies since the earliest days of the medium- whether as a locus of domestic bliss, a dysfunctional source...
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443,65 zł |
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Cinema and Modernity
ISBN: 9780813538167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The modern impulse gave us captivating technology and dark anxiety, rampant mobility and a world filled with strangers, the futuristic city and a fragmentation of experience. Motion pictures--the quintessence of modernism--entered into this cultural, technical, and philosophical richness with a vast public appeal and a jarring new vision of what life could be.In Cinema and Modernity, Murray Pomerance brings together new essays by seventeen leading scholars to explore the complexity of the essential connection between film and modernity. Among the many films considered are...
The modern impulse gave us captivating technology and dark anxiety, rampant mobility and a world filled with strangers, the futuristic city and a frag...
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175,61 zł |
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A Dream of Hitchcock
ISBN: 9781438472089 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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134,74 zł |
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
ISBN: 9781844579556 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Eminent Hitchcock specialist Murray Pomerance offers an illuminating account of one of Hitchcock's most successful films, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), starring James Stewart and Doris Day. Through a close reading of the film alongside analysis of its complex production history, Pomerance underlines its significance within Hitchcock's oeuvre. Eminent Hitchcock specialist Murray Pomerance offers an illuminating account of one of Hitchcock's most successful films, The Man Who Knew Too Much... |
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65,17 zł |
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George Cukor: Hollywood Master
ISBN: 9780748693566 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. George Cukor is one of the studio era's most famous and admired directors, with many of the American cinema's most beloved classics to his credit, including The Women, Gaslight, Adam's Rib, A Star is Born, and My Fair Lady to his credit. Not himself a scriptwriter, he was particularly adept at choosing which properties to adapt and then managing the adaptation process with verve and effectiveness. What makes for a good adapter, for a talented master of ceremonies who knows where to put everything and everybody (including the camera)? Who knows how to make a property his own even while...
George Cukor is one of the studio era's most famous and admired directors, with many of the American cinema's most beloved classics to his credit, inc...
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451,57 zł |
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An Eye for Hitchcock
ISBN: 9798855800364 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A series of fascinating and groundbreaking meditations on six films directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock. Film scholar Murray Pomerance presents a series of fascinating and groundbreaking meditations on six films directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock, a master of the cinema. Two of the films, North by Northwest and Vertigo, are extraordinarily famous and have been seen––and misunderstood––countless times. Two others, Marnie and Torn Curtain, have been mostly disregarded by viewers and critics or considered to be colossal mistakes, while the remaining two, Spellbound and I...
A series of fascinating and groundbreaking meditations on six films directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock. Film scholar Murray Pomerance present...
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382,91 zł |
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The Horse Who Drank the Sky: Film Experience Beyond Narrative and Theory
ISBN: 9780813543284 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What is most important about cinema is that we are alive with it. For all its dramatic, literary, political, sociological, and philosophical weight, film is ultimately an art that provokes, touches, and riddles the viewer through an image that transcends narrative and theory. In The Horse Who Drank the Sky, Murray Pomerance brings attention to the visceral dimension of movies and presents a new and unanticipated way of thinking about what happens when we watch them.
What is most important about cinema is that we are alive with it. For all its dramatic, literary, political, sociological, and philosophical weight, f...
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150,48 zł |