Download or read book Peter Greenaway s Postmodern Poststructuralist Cinema written by Paula Willoquet-Maricondi and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1960s, British multi-media artist Peter Greenaway has shocked and intrigued audiences with his avant-garde approach to filmmaking and other artistic ventures. From early experimental films to provocative features, Greenaway has deployed strategies associated with structuralist cinema, only to challenge or critique the very limits of that cinema and of film in general. In this collection of essays, scholars from a variety of disciplines explore various postmodern and poststructuralist aspects of Greenaway's films, starting with his early shorts and delving into his feature-length works, including The Draughtman's Contract, The Belly of an Architect, A Zed and Two Noughts, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, The Baby of M%con, and The Pillow Book. Other artistic productions, including his paintings and installations are also discussed. These essays examine the filmmaker's position within British and avant-garde cinema and his interest in constructing and deconstructing representational systems. In the years since the first edition of this book, Greenaway has enjoyed continued success in creating hybridized media projects for the stage and screen, as evidenced by additional essays for this revised edition. A new chapter addresses how Dutch political events and Dutch art have been crucial in shaping Greenaway's aesthetic, focusing on The Draughtsman's Contract, the 1991 opera Writing to Vermeer, and Nightwatching, the audio-visual installation and 2007 film of the same name, which were inspired by Rembrandt's Night Watch. Also new to this collection is an essay that examines Greenaway's most ambitious endeavor to date, The Tulse Luper Suitcases, which exists as four feature films, multiple websites, an online game, several books and installations, and a number of theatrical events. Peter Greenaway's Postmodern/Poststructuralist Cinema, Revised Edition explores the cultural, historical, and philosophical implications of this hybrid artist whose paintings, drawings, exhibitions, installations, and operatic productions are an intrinsic part of his work in film. This collection of diverse essays, which includes two texts by Greenaway, two interviews with the director, and a revised filmography, will interest students, teachers, critics and lovers of both postmodern art and cinema.
Download or read book Peter Greenaway written by Paul Melia and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morality plays were the main form of theatre in England between about 1400 and 1600. They usually portrayed a representative Christian figure locked in spiritual conflict. They have recently been revived as early examples of living theatre.
Download or read book Peter Greenaway Lucca Mortis written by and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The script for Peter Greenaway's highly anticipated 2022 film starring Morgan Freeman British director Peter Greenaway (born 1942) teams up with the great actor Morgan Freeman for Lucca Mortis, a new film releasing in 2022, set in Lucca, Italy, and New York City. Lucca Mortis tells the story of an aging man living in Little Italy who feels compelled to reconnect with his roots and travels to Lucca, Italy, to do so. Known for his elaborate mise-en-scènes inspired by Italian and Dutch paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries, Greenaway has made such acclaimed films as The Draughtsman's Contract, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover and Drowning by Numbers. Lucca Mortis is his 15th movie. As with previous Greenaway books, this compact and affordable companion volume contains the film's script and stills, as well as Greenaway's drawings.
Download or read book Being Naked Playing Dead written by Alan Woods and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Greenaway has an international reputation as one of the most innovative, stylish and intelligent of contemporary film-makers. His eight feature films, from The Draughtsman's Contract to The Pillow Book, have variously, and sometimes simultaneously, prompted controversy, infamy, acclaim and delight. However, Greenaway is an artist whose work also includes painting; collage; experimental TV; the novel/opera Rosa; and numerous exhibitions/installations, including The Stairs, a continuing series of ten projects in ten cities exploring the basic components of cinema. Being Naked Playing Dead explores the complete oeuvre, but centres firmly on Greenaway's insistence that his is 'a cinema of ideas not plots'. Each film is discussed within a thematic analysis of the full range of Greenaway's output and the wider contexts within which it is conceived. In conclusion there are two extended interviews, making this book essential reading for all Greenaway enthusiasts.
Download or read book The World of Peter Greenaway written by Leon Steinmetz and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The World of Peter Greenaway, Leon Steinmetz introduces general audiences to the artwork of Peter Greenaway. Long admired for his films, Greenaway is also a celebrated artist, with his drawings, photography, and paintings appearing in galleries worldwide. Presented in the same format as his personal journals, this book allows us a rare glimpse into the images and vision that give rise to Greenaway's films. Using actual frames from his films, and studies for those films, this volume provides us a unique opportunity to see the bridge that connects the worlds of painting and cinema.
Download or read book The Pillow Book written by Peter Greenaway and published by Dis Voir Editions. This book was released on 1996 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Script of Greenaway's 1995 film, The pillow book, which was made as an homage to the 10th century story by Sei Shōnagon entitled Makura no sōshi, on which it is loosely based.
Download or read book The Films of Peter Greenaway written by Amy Lawrence and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1997-10-13 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth study of Peter Greenaway's films.
Download or read book Peter Greenaway written by David Pascoe and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 1997-11-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extensively illustrated book examines Greenaway's vision from a number of perspectives and traces a shift of sensibility in his work. David Pascoe examines not only Greenaway's films, but also his paintings, exhibitions and installations. "[Pascoe] tirelessly explicates the numerology and mytho-mania that are the film-maker's organising principles"—The Guardian "A supremely intelligent, utterly tuned-in, definitive exploration of the ultimate British auteur's back catalogue, helpfully illustrated at every opportunity. . . illuminating"—Empire
Download or read book Flying Out of this World written by Peter Greenaway and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-09 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chock-full of beautiful full-color photos and illustrations, Tough Plants for Texas is as beautiful a book as it is informative! From annuals to vines, each plant is noted for its ability to not just survive, but thrive with minimal care! This easy-to use guide for Texas gardens gives you step-by-step instructions on choosing and caring for more than 150 low-maintenance plants and shrubs that thrive in Texas, including annuals, perennials, vines, shrubs, and trees. Other important gardening basics for maximum results are:
Download or read book Peter Greenaway written by Bridget Elliot and published by Academy Press. This book was released on 1997-08-11 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Greenaway Architecture and Allegory Bridget Elliott and Anthony Purdy A painter by training, Peter Greenaway is undoubtedly one of the most interesting and controversial of contemporary British film-makers. He is also a much sought-after curator of exhibitions and installations internationally. Greenaway's fascination for architecture is well known and this monograph emphasises his use of architecture as a structuring device as well as a metaphor and vehicle for the exploration of artistic practice in general. Looking at all his best known movies - The Draughtsman's Contract, A Zed and Two Noughts, The Belly of an Architect, Drowning by Numbers, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, Prospero's Books, The Baby of Mâcon and The Pillow Book - the study discusses both curatorial work and films in relation to current debates in architecture, art history and cultural theory. Lavishly illustrated with his own art work and numerous stunning film stills, this is a highly visual as well as critical examination of the many issues surrounding Greenaway's idiosyncratic work. Art & Design Monographs are a series of publications concentrating on artists and designers of lasting interest and importance. Fully illustrated in colour, the Monographs contain expertly written commentaries on the careers and works of the individuals represented, providing a richly visual and comprehensive critical study. Other Art & Design Monographs include: Christopher Dresser Allen Jones Arthur Boyd at Bundanon Alessi: The Design Factory Brian Clarke: Architectural Artist Arakawa and Madeline Gins Cecil Beaton: Stage and Film Designs Marina Abramovic: Cleaning the House Archibald Knox David Mach David Nash: Forms into Time Nancy Wolf: Hidden Cities, Hidden Longings
Download or read book Peter Greenaway written by Peter Greenaway and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eisenstein in Guanajuato written by Peter Greenaway and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This script by British director Peter Greenaway (born 1942) follows Russian director Eisenstein to Guanajuato, Mexico, in 1930, where he worked for ten days on a never-completed film called Que Viva Mexico.
Download or read book Goltzius the Pelican Company written by Peter Greenaway and published by Dis voir. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: technologies, the new and often experimental equipment involved was expensive, and the makers had to be persuade, coerce, beg, plead, bribe and fight to find the funding to support it." "Goltzius & the Pelican Company is the story of the Dutch engraver Hendrik Goltzius persuading one of the petty German princelings of Europe to pay for an expensive printing press to make a limited deluxe edition of a boldly illustrated Old Testament. And like a good advertising executive hoping to clinch a deal Goltzius is prepared to sweeten his offer by getting his Pelican Printing Company from The Hague to fulsomely dramatise six erotic biblical tales that demonstrate the six sexual taboos - voyeurism, incest, adultery, pederasty, prostitution and necrophilia. They start with the very first copulation tutored by Saton on Adam and Eve, and continue with the story of Lot and his daughters, the adultery of David and Bathsheba, the seduction of the under-aged Joseph by Potiphar's Wife, the --
Download or read book Nightwatching written by Peter Greenaway and published by Veenman Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2007, the internationally renowned filmmaker Peter Greenaway ("The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover; The Draughtsman's Contract") will release "Nightwatching," a feature-length study of the life and loves of the eighteenth-century Dutch painter, Rembrandt, via his controversial masterpiece, "The Night Watch," an ensemble painting which depicts the identification of a murderer. According to Greenaway, the painting is "Rembrandt's "J'accuse."" There is a conspiracy painted in Rembrandt's "The Night Watch." The sinister title of the painting alone suggests we should look for it . Is this a painting, or an act of theater, or a still from a film?" In this accompanying artist's book, Greenaway offers fans a glimpse into his own artistic process, with written analyses of each of the characters in the painting followed by a wealth of enlarged, close-up details in which brush marks practically jump from the page.
Download or read book Gold written by Peter Greenaway and published by Dis Voir Editions. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 7, 1945, 92 gold bars are discovered in a crashed car at Bolzano, where it is said that no-one can cook a good spaghetti. The watch on the dead driver's wrist stopped at 2:41 a.m., the precise time of the end of the Second World War in Europe. Every gold bar in the crash is made from gold confiscated from the victims of the Third Reich and its allies across Europe, from prisoners of war, gypsies, political enemies, and the mentally and physically handicapped, but mainly from Jews. Each gold bar has a history. Gold relates those 92 histories, along with a postscript of the histories of nine more gold bars that should have been in that crash.
Download or read book The OK Doll written by Peter Greenaway and published by Dis Voir Editions. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka's love for Alma Mahler was so great that he had a life-sized model of her made. The OK Doll, by Peter Greenaway (born 1942), is the script for an unrealized film about the doll that Kokoschka lived with for three years.
Download or read book The Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover written by Peter Greenaway and published by Dis Voir Editions. This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A screenplay
