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Adam Smith. The Rough Guide to 21st Century Cinema: 101 Movies That Made the Millennium

Publisher:Rough Guides
Year:2012

From Hollywood blockbusters like The Departed and The Hangover, to indie gems like Donnie Darko and Shaun of the Dead, to children's favorites, such as "Toy Story 3" and "Wall-E", the twenty-first century has already provided us with a wealth of amazing films. Packed with numerous film stills as well as features covering the Top 21 key actors and actresses, genres and their mash-ups, and more, "The Rough Guide to 21st Century Cinema" is a must-have for any movie buff and film aficionado.

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Stu Maschwitz. The DV Rebel's Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap

Publisher:Peachpit Press
Year:2007

Written by Stu Maschwitz, co-founder of the Orphanage (the legendary guerrilla visual effects studio responsible for amazing and award-winning effects in such movies as Sin City, The Day After Tomorrow, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), this book s a must-have for all those budding filmmakers and students who want to produce action movies with visual effects but don't have Hollywood budgets. The Orphanage was created by three twenty-something visual effects veterans who wanted to make their own feture films and discovered they could do this by utilizing home computers, off the shelf software, and approaching things artistically. This guide details exactly how to do this: from planning and selecting the necessary cameras, software, and equipment, t creating specific special effects (including gunfire, Kung Fu fighting, car chases, dismemberment, and more) to editing and mixing sound and music. Its mantra is that the best, low-budget action moviemakers must visualize the end...

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Cyrus Ghani. My Favorite Films

Publisher:
Year:2004

Book DescriptionIn this panoramic guide by one of the world?s most knowledgeable movie enthusiasts, Cyrus Ghani reviews more than six hundred and fifty of the big screen?s finest offerings. An international lawyer and eminent historian, Ghani has lived on three continents and is fluent in several languages, affording him a uniquely broad perspective on cinema. His love affair with movies began, he says, at the age of eight and has lasted a lifetime. My Favorite Films is the result?the workof an avid fan, keenly insightful, highly informative, and happily free of the arcane terminology and analysis of academic film criticism. In these pages, Ghani moves from early silent classics like Buster Keaton?s The General and Charlie Chaplin?s City Lights to the films of Billy Wilder and John Huston, the Ealing Studios capers, famed Ernst Lubitsch romantic comedies, the countless, finely-crafted films by Max Ophuls, and recent hits like The Silence of the Lambs and L.A....

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Stephen Prince. Classical Film Violence: Designing and Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1968

Publisher:
Year:2003

Book DescriptionStephen Prince has written the first book to examine the interplay between the aesthetics and the censorship of violence in classic Hollywood films from 1930 to 1968, the era of the Production Code, when filmmakers were required to have their scripts approved before they could start production. He explains how Hollywood?s filmmakers designed violence in response to the regulations of the Production Code and regional censors. Graphic violence in today?s movies actually has its roots in these early films. Hollywood?s filmmakers were drawn to violent scenes and "pushed the envelope" of what they could depict by manipulating the Production Code Administration (PCA). Prince shows that many choices about camera position, editing, and blocking of the action and sound were functional responses by filmmakers to regulatory constraints, necessary for approval from the PCA and then in surviving scrutiny by state and municipal censor boards. This book is...

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Hollywood Abroad: Audiences And Cultural Exchange

Publisher:
Year:2005

Book DescriptionHollywood Abroad is the first book to examine the reception of Hollywood movies by non-American audiences. Although numerous books on film history have analyzed the ways in which American films came to dominate world markets, there has sofar been very little published work on how audiences outside the United States have responded to Hollywood-produced films. Hollywood Abroad explores the reception of U.S. films in Britain, France, Belgium, Turkey, Australia, India, Japan, and Central Africa. The book covers topics from the first major penetration of American films into France, Britain, and Australia to the impact of such films as The Best Years of Our Lives to the response of Belgian young people in the age of the multiplex. It demonstrates that the story of the reception of American films overseas is less one of domination than of a complex adoption of Hollywood into various cultures. Illustrations: Illustrated