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Book The M  nter House in Murnau

Download or read book The M nter House in Murnau written by Annegret Hoberg and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a museum guide to Gabriele Munter and the blue Rider artists in their original location in Murnau, Germany.

Book House Beautiful

Download or read book House Beautiful written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Living and the Undead

Download or read book The Living and the Undead written by Gregory A. Waller and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a legacy stretching back into legend and folklore, the vampire in all its guises haunts the film and fiction of the twentieth century and remains the most enduring of all the monstrous threats that roam the landscapes of horror. In The Living and the Undead, Gregory A. Waller shows why this creature continues to fascinate us and why every generation reshapes the story of the violent confrontation between the living and the undead to fit new times. Examining a broad range of novels, stories, plays, films, and made-for-television movies, Waller focuses upon a series of interrelated texts: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897); several film adaptations of Stoker's novel; F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror (1922); Richard Matheson's I Am Legend (1954); Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot (1975); Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979); and George Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Dawn of the Dead (1979). All of these works, Waller argues, speak to our understanding and fear of evil and chaos, of desire and egotism, of slavish dependence and masterful control. This paperback edition of The Living and the Undead features a new preface in which Waller positions his analysis in relation to the explosion of vampire and zombie films, fiction, and criticism in the past twenty-five years.

Book Conrad Veidt  Demon of the Silver Screen

Download or read book Conrad Veidt Demon of the Silver Screen written by Sabine Schwientek and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book depicts the life of Conrad Veidt (1893-1943), the defining German actor of Expressionist cinema in the 1920s. His legendary performance in Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1919/20) earned him the epithet "Demon of the Screen" and made Veidt an international star. To this day, Veidt is considered an icon of early horror film. He showed his acting range in more than a hundred films, among them masterpieces such as The Indian Tomb (1921), Orlac's Hands (1924), The Man Who Laughs (1928), The Thief of Bagdad (1940), and Casablanca (1942). Conrad Veidt used his acting career to become socially and politically involved, starting with the film Anders als die Anderen, the first film to advocate homosexual rights, in 1919. After the Nazis came to power, he left Germany to protest anti-Semitism and Nazi rule. Along with his biography, this book provides insights into the development of filmmaking from its beginnings through the 1940s, an epoch of cinematic art marked by technical innovations like sound and color film and by world-shaking events, including two world wars.

Book The Wrong House

Download or read book The Wrong House written by Steven Jacobs and published by 010 Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture plays an important role In the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Steven Jacobs devotes lengthy discussion to a series of domestic buildings with the help of a number of reconstructed floor plans made specially for this book.

Book Southern Germany  Wurtemberg and Bavaria

Download or read book Southern Germany Wurtemberg and Bavaria written by Karl Baedeker (Firm) and published by Leipzig : Karl Baedeker. This book was released on 1914 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Night of the Hunter

Download or read book The Night of the Hunter written by Jeffrey Couchman and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-12 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reaching simultaneously into the realms of film and literature, "The Night of the Hunter": A Biography of a Film details the transformation of Davis Grubb's 1953 novel into a motion picture. A popular and critical success, the novel spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list, and Hollywood responded to its atmospheric lyricism. In the hands of first-time director Charles Laughton, the story became equal parts thriller, allegory, and fever dream, filled with slow, inexorable suspense. Yet the film initially failed at the box office. In the first major study of the long-lost first-draft screenplay by James Agee, Jeffrey Couchman confronts a fifty-year controversy about the authorship of the film. He explores many levels of artistic convergence-between novelist and director, director and actor, and cinematic form and audience expectations. The talents that clashed or came together along the road from book to movie created a film of rich stylistic contradiction. Combining biographical and historical analysis with a critical study of both the novel and the film, Couchman makes the case that this initially overlooked cinematic gem is a prismatic work that continually reveals new aspects of itself. Book jacket.

Book Gabriele M  nter

Download or read book Gabriele M nter written by Reinhold Heller and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The work of Gabriele Munter (1877-1962) shines like a jewel in the male-dominated avant-garde Expressionist movement. Most accounts of the frenetically creative years in Munich and Murnau fail to recognize the uniqueness of Munter's vision: her work is unjustly eclipsed by that of her colleagues, not least Vassily Kandinsky's. This book redresses the balance." "Some one hundred of the artist's most seminal works are reproduced in this lavishly illustrated volume; they include several from private collections that have never before been published." "Gabriele Munter: The Years of Expressionism, 1903-1920 is an exploration of Munter's crucial contribution to German Expressionism in the genres of landscape, portrait and still-life painting. Her place and significance in the development of this movement are critically examined, with particular attention paid to the iconography of her paintings and the lyrical strength of her work."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book Post Script

Download or read book Post Script written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays in film and the humanities.

Book Munich and Bavaria Adventure Guide

Download or read book Munich and Bavaria Adventure Guide written by Henk Bekker and published by Hunter Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bavaria is by far the most popular destination in Germany for both international and domestic tourists. This is no real surprise since it includes such a wide range of attractions, from historical sights to natural beauty, high culture, relaxation in world-class spas, and hiking, cycling, mountain climbing, and skiing. Castles, palaces, monasteries, churches, and historical towns abound. Its rivers offer great opportunities for watersports as well as easy cycling and hiking routes. The Alps are famous for winter sports while forested mountain ranges are scattered through Bavaria. Munich is the central attraction, with an astonishing range of excellent museums, pleasant beer gardens and beer halls, as well as numerous restaurants ranging from international fast-food chains to haute cuisine. There are classical music concerts and the original Oktoberfest is held here. Nuremberg, with its Nazi history, is also in Bavaria, as are the idyllic Alpine villages of Berchtesgaden and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, not to mention the Romantic Road, with Dinkelsbühl, Augsburg and Rothenburg ob der Tauber. We visit all the best castles (including Neuschwanstein, home of Mad King Ludwig), the museums, churches and historic sites. Cruises, concerts, town and country walks, kayaking, cycling – it's all detailed here.

Book The Billboard

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1927
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1016 pages

Download or read book The Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Encyclopedia of Film

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Film written by James Monaco and published by Perigee Trade. This book was released on 1991 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alphabetical reference on the major film figures (stars, producers, directors, writers, et al.), past and present. Each entry provides a substantial career biography and a complete listing of all films the individual has been involved with. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book At the Center of the Frame

Download or read book At the Center of the Frame written by William M. Drew and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the oral histories of ten prominent actresses, William Drew takes the reader on a behind-the-scenes tour of Hollywood's Golden Age.

Book Mattis Teutsch and Der Blaue Reiter

Download or read book Mattis Teutsch and Der Blaue Reiter written by János Máttis Teutsch and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hitchcock

    Book Details:
  • Author : Francois Truffaut
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2015-12-04
  • ISBN : 1501143220
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Hitchcock written by Francois Truffaut and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iconic, groundbreaking interviews of Alfred Hitchcock by film critic François Truffaut—providing insight into the cinematic method, the history of film, and one of the greatest directors of all time. In Hitchcock, film critic François Truffaut presents fifty hours of interviews with Alfred Hitchcock about the whole of his vast directorial career, from his silent movies in Great Britain to his color films in Hollywood. The result is a portrait of one of the greatest directors the world has ever known, an all-round specialist who masterminded everything, from the screenplay and the photography to the editing and the soundtrack. Hitchcock discusses the inspiration behind his films and the art of creating fear and suspense, as well as giving strikingly honest assessments of his achievements and failures, his doubts and hopes. This peek into the brain of one of cinema’s greats is a must-read for all film aficionados.

Book Hearings  Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Armed Services

Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Armed Services written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: