One of the world's most erudite and entertaining film critics on the state of cinema in the post-digital—and post-9/11—age. This witty and allusive book, in the style of classic film theorists/critics like Andre Bazin and Siegfried Kracauer, includes considerations of global cinema's most important figures and films, from Lars von Trier and Jia Zhangke to WALL-E, Avatar and Inception. ...
The metamorphosis of the spectator and the arts in the age of YouTube. From plasma screens to smartphones, today moving images are everywhere. How have films adapted to this new environment? And how has the experience of the spectator changed because of this proliferation? In Broad Daylight investigates one of the decisive shifts in the history of Western aesthetics, exploring the metamorphosis of films in the age of individual media, when th ...
How to Film Truth explores the history of documentary film as a search for truth by filmmakers, and a journey of discovery for subjects and audiences. This process, the act of documenting, exploring, and reflecting on our reality in all its created beauty, wonder, and mystery can itself be a devotional practice. The history can be seen as moving from actuality to ecstasy, from propaganda to empathy, and finally to confessional, emotional, person ...
A motion picture chronicling the last adventures of bank robber John Dillinger (Johnny Depp), Public Enemies was met with much bafflement upon its 2009 release. Director Michael Mann's terse storytelling and unorthodox use of high-definition digital cameras challenged viewers' familiarity with Hollywood's historical gangland elegance while highlighting Public Enemies' own place in a medium–and culture–undergoing sweeping tech ...
“Derek McCormack has written a mini-masterpiece that keeps swelling with invention long after you’ve put it down.”—Guy Maddin, filmmaker class="MsoNormal">“A hilarious, strange and altogether ghoulish little freak show of a book . . . A book like The Show that Smells…demonstrates that innovative literature, if such a thing still exists, can be accessible and even fun, especially for tho ...
High Treason and Low Comedy is the first in-depth treatment in English of E. E. Kisch’s work as a playwright, a phase of his life to which he devoted considerable effort during the years 1920–1925.The translations of his two most successful works for the cabaret stages of Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia form the basis of discussions that fit them into several intersecting streams: biographical, historical, and cultural. The plays are Die He ...
Эта книга об одиннадцати самых известных людях самого известного, можно даже сказать скандально известного советского Театра на Таганке. Среди отечественных творческих коллективов Таганка, пожалуй, единственный в стране, у которого три взаимоисключающие биографии.
С момента образования в 1946 году он был Московским театром драмы и комедии. Потом стал Московским театром драмы и комедии на Таганке. А затем и вовсе разделился на две труппы.
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The Art of Dialogue The actor’s profession is, first and foremost, an open system of communication in an endless dialogue with his character, with his partner, with the director, with the spectators, with the playwright, with the role – but at the end of this list we should say – the actor also has an infi nite dialogue with himself. When the actor himself is open, then he knows how to open others, and then they open up to him. The opening of a ...
Сборник откровенных рассказов. Эти истории возникли не на пустом месте, а после личных встреч, съёмок и интервью с великими актёрами советского кино, театра и телевидения. А это: Александр Демьяненко, Наталья Андрейченко, Армен Джигарханян, Владимир Высоцкий, Михаил Боярский, Леонид Якубович, Геннадий Хазанов, Олег Стриженов, Сергей Иванов. Для оформления обложки использована иллюстрация автора.
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