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Book The Films of Fred Zinnemann

Download or read book The Films of Fred Zinnemann written by Arthur Nolletti and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-07-16 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fred Zinnemann, celebrated director of such classic films as High Noon, From Here to Eternity, and A Man for All Seasons, is studied here in a book-length work for the first time. Zinnemann’s fifty-year career includes twenty-two feature films, which are characterized by an unshakable belief in human dignity, a preoccupation with moral and social issues, a warm and sympathetic treatment of character, and consummate technical artistry. In discussing such issues as the role of Zinnemann’s documentary aesthetic throughout his career, the relationship between his life and his art, his use and construction of history, and the central importance of women characters in his films, The Films of Fred Zinnemann lends new perspectives to the work of a major filmmaker and makes a significant contribution to the study of American cinema.

Book Fred Zinnemann

Download or read book Fred Zinnemann written by Fred Zinnemann and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over thirty years of interviews that provide a revealing glimpse into the director's vision as he discusses his varied experiences as a filmmaker

Book Fred Zinnemann

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  • Author : Neil Sinyard
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2010-06-28
  • ISBN : 9780786481729
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Fred Zinnemann written by Neil Sinyard and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Director Fred Zinnemann was one of the most honored and revered directors of Hollywood's golden age. Peter Ustinov said, "Working with him was a permanent lesson in integrity." Zinnemann will always be remembered for such award-winning classics as High Noon, From Here to Eternity and A Man for All Seasons, and for his direction of such stars as Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Rod Steiger, Spencer Tracy, Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Mitchum, Jane Fonda, Meryl Streep and Sean Connery. Above all, he deserves to be appreciated for raising the intelligence of popular cinema, making individualist dramas of conscience that could appeal to mass audiences without condescending to them and without compromising the director's vision. This book, the first single-author survey of Zinnemann's career, draws on the author's personal interviews with Zinnemann and reveals the coherence and subtlety of the director's work. The first part of the book deals with Zinnemann's struggle to make films of his own choosing in his own way, up to his breakthrough with The Search. The remainder of the text discusses Zinnemann's post-Search films according to major themes, including the ravages of war, the "sovereignty of selfhood," character as destiny, the outsider in society, and politics and the liberal conscience. A list of Zinnemann's awards is provided.

Book Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance

Download or read book Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance written by J. E. Smyth and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fred Zinnemann directed some of the most acclaimed and controversial films of the twentieth century, yet he has been a shadowy presence in Hollywood history. In Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance, J. E. Smyth reveals the intellectual passion behind some of the most powerful films ever made about the rise and resistance to fascism and the legacy of the Second World War, from The Seventh Cross and The Search to High Noon, From Here to Eternity, and Julia. Smyth’s book is the first to draw upon Zinnemann’s extensive papers at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and brings Fred Zinnemann’s vision, voice, and film practice to life. In his engagement with the defining historical struggles of the twentieth century, Zinnemann fought his own battles with the Hollywood studio system, the critics, and a public bent on forgetting. Zinnemann’s films explore the role of women and communists in the antifascist resistance, the West’s support of Franco after the Spanish Civil War, and the darker side of America’s national heritage. Smyth reconstructs a complex and conflicted portrait of Zinnemann’s cinema of resistance, examining his sketches, script annotations, editing and production notes, and personal letters. Illustrated with seventy black-and-white images from Zinnemann’s collection, Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance discusses the director’s professional and personal relationships with Spencer Tracy, Montgomery Clift, Audrey Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, and Gary Cooper; the critical reaction to his revisionist Western, High Noon; his battles over the censorship of From Here to Eternity, The Nun’s Story, and Behold a Pale Horse; his unrealized history of the communist Revolution in China, Man’s Fate; and the controversial study of political assassination, The Day of the Jackal. In this intense, richly textured narrative, Smyth enters the mind of one of Hollywood’s master directors, redefining our knowledge of his artistic vision and practice.

Book The Films of Fred Zinnemann

Download or read book The Films of Fred Zinnemann written by Arthur Nolletti Jr. and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1999-06-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fred Zinnemann, celebrated director of such classic films as High Noon, From Here to Eternity, and A Man for All Seasons, is studied here in a book-length work for the first time. Zinnemann's fifty-year career includes twenty-two feature films, which are characterized by an unshakable belief in human dignity, a preoccupation with moral and social issues, a warm and sympathetic treatment of character, and consummate technical artistry. In discussing such issues as the role of Zinnemann's documentary aesthetic throughout his career, the relationship between his life and his art, his use and construction of history, and the central importance of women characters in his films, The Films of Fred Zinnemann lends new perspectives to the work of a major filmmaker and makes a significant contribution to the study of American cinema.

Book Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance

Download or read book Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance written by J.E. Smyth and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling history of the director's films of war and resistance

Book The Films of Martin Ritt

Download or read book The Films of Martin Ritt written by Gabriel Miller and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fred Zinnemann

Download or read book Fred Zinnemann written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Enemies to Allies

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  • Author : Brian C. Etheridge
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2016-01-26
  • ISBN : 0813166411
  • Pages : 383 pages

Download or read book Enemies to Allies written by Brian C. Etheridge and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Front cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 "Tomorrow the World"--2 "Germany Belongs in the Western World" -- 3 "Your Post on the Frontier" -- 4 "The Anti-German Wave" -- 5 "We Refuse to Be'Good Germans' " -- 6 "The Hero Is Us" -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Book A Life in the Movies

Download or read book A Life in the Movies written by Fred Zinnemann and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autobiography of the film director Fred Zinnemann, whose career spans the 65-year history of the talking movie. Famous for giving Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift and Meryl Streep their first film parts, his credits include "High Noon", "From Here to Eternity" and "Oklahoma."

Book Fred Zinnemann

Download or read book Fred Zinnemann written by Fred Zinnemann and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autobiography of the film director Fred Zinnemann, whose career spans the 65-year history of the talking movie. Famous for giving Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift and Meryl Streep their first film parts, his credits include "High Noon", "From Here to Eternity" and "Oklahoma".

Book From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors

Download or read book From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors written by Peter W.Y. Lee and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-12 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After World War II, studies examining youth culture on the silver screen start with James Dean. But the angst that Dean symbolized—anxieties over parents, the “Establishment,” and the expectations of future citizen-soldiers—long predated Rebels without a Cause. Historians have largely overlooked how the Great Depression and World War II impacted and shaped the Cold War, and youth contributed to the national ideologies of family and freedom. From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors explores this gap by connecting facets of boyhood as represented in American film from the 1930s to the postwar years. From the Andy Hardy series to pictures such as The Search, Intruder in the Dust, and The Gunfighter, boy characters addressed larger concerns over the dysfunctional family unit, militarism, the “race question,” and the international scene as the Korean War began. Navigating the political, social, and economic milieus inside and outside of Hollywood, Peter W.Y. Lee demonstrates that continuities from the 1930s influenced the unique postwar moment, coalescing into anticommunism and the Cold War.

Book From Here to Eternity

Download or read book From Here to Eternity written by J.E. Smyth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Here to Eternity (1953) is one of the most controversial films of its time. Adapted from James Jones's bestselling novel, the landmark blockbuster deals frankly with adultery, military corruption, physical abuse, racism and murder, and traces the unhappy lives of five American outsiders in the last days before Pearl Harbor. Made at the height of the Cold War and Hollywood's anticommunist purges, director Fred Zinnemann, writer Daniel Taradash and producer Buddy Adler defied military and industry pressure to censor the material. Exploring the film's full production history and drawing upon archival documents and rare interviews with cast and crew, J. E. Smyth provides a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the film many industry insiders thought couldn't be made. This special edition features original cover artwork by Eda Akaltun.

Book Fred Zinnemann

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  • Author : Richard Griffith
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
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  • Pages : 20 pages

Download or read book Fred Zinnemann written by Richard Griffith and published by . This book was released on with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Enchantment

Download or read book Enchantment written by Donald Spoto and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While her name is synonymous with elegance, style and grace, this poignant, funny and deeply moving biography, reveals the private Audrey Hepburn and invites readers to fall in love with her all over again. Over the course of her extraordinary life and career, Audrey captured hearts around the world and created a public image that stands as one of the most recognizable and beloved in recent memory. But despite her international fame and her tireless efforts on behalf of UNICEF, Audrey was also known for her intense privacy. With unprecedented access to studio archives, friends and colleagues who knew and loved Audrey, bestselling author Donald Spoto provides an intimate and moving account of this beautiful, elusive and talented woman. Tracing her astonishing rise to stardom, from her harrowing childhood in Nazi-controlled Holland during World War II to her years as a struggling ballet dancer in London and her Tony Award–winning Broadway debut in Gigi, Spoto illuminates the origins of Audrey’s tenacious spirit and fiercely passionate nature. She would go on to star in some of the most popular movies of the twentieth century, including Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Funny Face, The Nun’s Story, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and My Fair Lady. A friend and inspiration to renowned designer Hubert de Givenchy, Audrey also emerged as a fashion icon and her influence on women’s fashion virtually unparalleled to this day. Behind the glamorous public persona, Audrey was a different and deeper person and a woman who craved love and affection. Donald Spoto offers remarkable insights into her professional and personal relationships with her two husbands, and with celebrities such as Gregory Peck, William Holden, Fred Astaire, Gary Cooper, Robert Anderson, Cary Grant, Peter O’Toole, Albert Finney and Ben Gazzara. The turbulent romances of her youth, her profound sympathy for the plight of hungry children, and the thrills and terrors of motherhood prepared Audrey for the final chapter in her life, as she devoted herself entirely to the charity efforts of an organization that had once come to her rescue at the end of the war: UNICEF.

Book Projecting the Holocaust into the Present

Download or read book Projecting the Holocaust into the Present written by Lawrence Baron and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Holocaust scholars and survivors contend that the event was so catastrophic and unprecedented that it defies authentic representation in feature films. Yet it is precisely the extremity of 'the Final Solution' and the issues it raised that have fueled the cinematic imagination since the end of World War II. Recognizing that movies reach a greater audience than eyewitness, historical, or literary accounts, Lawrence Baron argues that they mirror changing public perceptions of the Holocaust over time and place. After tracing the evolution of the most commonly employed genres and themes in earlier Holocaust motion pictures, he focuses on how films from the l990s made the Holocaust relevant for contemporary audiences. While genres like biographical films and love stories about doomed Jewish-Gentile couples remained popular, they now cast Jews or non-Jewish victims like homosexuals in lead roles more often than was the case in the past. Baron attributes the recent proliferation of Holocaust comedies and children's movies to the search for more figurative and age-appropriate genres for conveying the significance of the Holocaust to generations born after it happened. He contends that thematic shifts to stories about neo-Nazis, rescuers, survivors, and their children constitute an expression of the continuing impact the Holocaust exerts on the present. The book concludes with a survey of recent films like Nowhere in Africa and The Pianist.

Book Hollywood on Location

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  • Author : Joshua Gleich
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2019-01-14
  • ISBN : 0813586259
  • Pages : 227 pages

Download or read book Hollywood on Location written by Joshua Gleich and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood on Location is the first comprehensive history of location shooting in the American film industry, showing how this mode of filmmaking changed Hollywood business practices, production strategies, and visual style from the silent era to the present. The contributors explore how major studios came to embrace location shooting as a standard procedure.