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Book The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow

Download or read book The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow written by Deborah Jermyn and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kathryn Bigelow is one of Hollywood's most significant female film-makers, well known in popular terms for films such as 'Near dark', 'Blue steel' and 'Point break', yet remaining relatively unexplored in academia... Placing particular emphasis on 'Strange days', her most ambitious and controversial picture to date, this collection explores Bigelow's role within New Hollywood as a film-maker that blurs genre conventions, reinscribes gender identities and produces a breathless cinema of attractions." -- Back cover.

Book Kathryn Bigelow

Download or read book Kathryn Bigelow written by Kathryn Bigelow and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-07-29 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with the Oscar-winning director of The Hurt Locker and many other films

Book The True American  Murder and Mercy in Texas

Download or read book The True American Murder and Mercy in Texas written by Anand Giridharadas and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how a Bangladeshi immigrant, shot in the Dallas mini mart where he worked in the days after September 11 in a revenge crime, forgave his assailant and petitioned the state of Texas to spare his attacker the death penalty.

Book Kathryn Bigelow

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan Dudley Gold
  • Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
  • Release : 2014-08-01
  • ISBN : 1627129413
  • Pages : 80 pages

Download or read book Kathryn Bigelow written by Susan Dudley Gold and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Director of Zero Dark Thirty, The Hurt Locker, and other films, Bigelow was the first female to win the Academy Award for Best Director.

Book Kathryn Bigelow

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan Dudley Gold
  • Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
  • Release : 2014-08-01
  • ISBN : 1627129391
  • Pages : 82 pages

Download or read book Kathryn Bigelow written by Susan Dudley Gold and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Director of Zero Dark Thirty, The Hurt Locker, and other films, Bigelow was the first female to win the Academy Award for Best Director.

Book The Hurt Locker

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Boal
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2013-08-13
  • ISBN : 0062303759
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book The Hurt Locker written by Mark Boal and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most critically acclaimed war films in recent memory, The Hurt Locker is a riveting, extraordinary tale of courage and survival on the Baghdad bomb squad, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, from a script by Mark Boal, who researched the material by traveling to the war in Iraq. Boal's screenplay follows the layered, complex relationship between three soldiers who are thrown together in the crucible of combat—with only 38 days left in their tour. Starring Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, and Evangeline Lilly, with Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes, and David Morse. This Newmarket Shooting Script® Book includes: Exclusive Introduction by Kathyrn Bigelow Complete shooting script 16-page color insert with 23 color photos Production Notes Storyboards Complete cast and crew credits

Book Zero Dark Thirty

Download or read book Zero Dark Thirty written by Mark Boal and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hunt for Osama bin Laden preoccupied the world and two American presidential administrations for more than a decade. But in the end, it took a small, dedicated team of CIA operatives to track him down. Every aspect of their mission was shrouded in secrecy. Though some of the details have since been made public, many of the most significant parts of the intelligence operation—including the central role played by that team—are brought to the screen for the first time in a nuanced and gripping new film by the Oscar®-winning creative duo of Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal, starring Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Ehle, Mark Strong, Kyle Chandler, and Edgar Ramirez. The Newmarket Shooting Script Book includes: Introduction by Kathryn Bigelow Complete shooting script Q&A with Mark Boal by Rob Feld Production notes Storyboards Complete cast and crew credits

Book The Kathryn Bigelow Handbook   Everything You Need to Know about Kathryn Bigelow

Download or read book The Kathryn Bigelow Handbook Everything You Need to Know about Kathryn Bigelow written by Emily Smith and published by Tebbo. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathryn Ann Bigelow (born November 27, 1951) is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and television director. Her films include Near Dark (1987), Point Break (1991), Strange Days (1995), The Weight of Water (2000), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), The Hurt Locker (2008) and Zero Dark Thirty (2012). The Hurt Locker won the 2009 Academy Award for Best Picture, won the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and was nominated for the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Drama. With The Hurt Locker, Bigelow became the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director, the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing, the BAFTA Award for Best Direction, and the Critics' Choice Award for Best Director. She also became the first woman to win the Saturn Award for Best Director in 1995 for Strange Days. In April 2010, Bigelow was named to the Time 100 list of most influential people of the year. This book is your ultimate resource for Kathryn Bigelow. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Kathryn Bigelow's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Contents, Kathryn Bigelow, 63rd British Academy Film Awards, 82nd Academy Awards, AACTA International Award for Best Direction, AACTA International Award for Best Film, Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Award for Best Picture, Austin Film Critics Association, BAFTA Award for Best Direction, BAFTA Award for Best Film, Blue Steel (1989 film), Born in Flames, Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director, Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Director, Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Director, Columbia University, Denver Film Critics Society, Film director, Golden Globe Award for Best Director, Homicide: Life on the Street (season 6), Homicide: Life on the Street (season 7), James Cameron, Jeremy Renner, K-19: The Widowmaker, Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director, Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Director, Liam Neeson, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Director, Martini Ranch, National Board of Review Award for Best Director, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director, Near Dark, New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director, Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director, Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Director, Point Break and more pages! Contains selected content from the highest rated entries, typeset, printed and shipped, combining the advantages of up-to-date and in-depth knowledge with the convenience of printed books. A portion of the proceeds of each book will be donated to the Wikimedia Foundation to support their mission.

Book Jane Campion

Download or read book Jane Campion written by Kathleen McHugh and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Book Near Dark

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stacey Abbott
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2020-10-29
  • ISBN : 1911239287
  • Pages : 113 pages

Download or read book Near Dark written by Stacey Abbott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First released in 1987, Near Dark is a vampire film set in the contemporary American Midwest that tells the story of Caleb, a half-vampire trying to decide whether to embrace his vampire nature or return to his human family. The film, an early work of the now-established director Kathryn Bigelow, skilfully mixes genre conventions, combining gothic tropes with those of the Western, road movie and film noir, while also introducing elements of the outlaw romance genre. Stacey Abbott's study of the film addresses it as a genre hybrid that also challenges conventions of the vampire film. The vampires are morally ambiguous and undermine the class structures that have historically defined stories of the undead. These are not aristocrats but instead they capture the allure and horror of the disenfranchised and the underclass. As Abbott describes, Near Dark was crucial in consolidating Bigelow's standing as a director of significance at an early point in her career, not simply because of her visual art background, but because of the way in which she would from Near Dark onward re-envision other traditionally mainstream genres of filmmaking.

Book Focus On  100 Most Popular English language Film Directors

Download or read book Focus On 100 Most Popular English language Film Directors written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 1455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Keywords

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Patrick Leary
  • Publisher : Haymarket Books
  • Release : 2019-01-08
  • ISBN : 1608469638
  • Pages : 185 pages

Download or read book Keywords written by John Patrick Leary and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A clever, even witty examination of the manipulation of language in these days of neoliberal or late stage capitalism” (Counterpunch). From Silicon Valley to the White House, from kindergarten to college, and from the factory floor to the church pulpit, we are all called to be innovators and entrepreneurs, to be curators of an ever-expanding roster of competencies, and to become resilient and flexible in the face of the insults and injuries we confront at work. In the midst of increasing inequality, these keywords teach us to thrive by applying the lessons of a competitive marketplace to every sphere of life. What’s more, by celebrating the values of grit, creativity, and passion at school and at work, they assure us that economic success is nothing less than a moral virtue. Organized alphabetically as a lexicon, Keywords explores the history and common usage of major terms in the everyday language of capitalism. Because these words have infiltrated everyday life, their meanings may seem self-evident, even benign. Who could be against empowerment, after all? Keywords uncovers the histories of words like innovation, which was once synonymous with “false prophecy” before it became the prevailing faith of Silicon Valley. Other words, like best practices and human capital, are relatively new coinages that subtly shape our way of thinking. As this book makes clear, the new language of capitalism burnishes hierarchy, competition, and exploitation as leadership, collaboration, and sharing, modeling for us the habits of the economically successful person: be visionary, be self-reliant—and never, ever stop working.

Book Kathryn Bigelow

Download or read book Kathryn Bigelow written by I. De Pascalis and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fall and Rise

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mitchell Zuckoff
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2019-04-30
  • ISBN : 0062275666
  • Pages : 624 pages

Download or read book Fall and Rise written by Mitchell Zuckoff and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Better and more comprehensive than any prior account. . . . Those of us who lived through those days will find the book cathartic; those rising generations who were too young to remember 9/11, or who weren’t yet born, will find it revelatory.” — John Farmer, senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission and author of The Ground Truth “With his rigorous research and moral clarity, Mitchell Zuckoff has provided us with an invaluable service. He has deepened our understanding of what happened on 9/11 and recorded the voices of the victims and the survivors. What’s more, he has ensured that we never forget.” —David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon Years in the making, this spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative is an unforgettable portrait of 9/11. This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerizing, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the days and months after 9/11, Mitchell Zuckoff, then a reporter for the Boston Globe, wrote about the attacks, the victims, and their families. After further years of meticulous reporting, Zuckoff has filled Fall and Rise with voices of the lost and the saved. The result is an utterly gripping book, filled with intimate stories of people most affected by the events of that sunny Tuesday in September: an out-of-work actor stuck in an elevator in the North Tower of the World Trade Center; the heroes aboard Flight 93 deciding to take action; a veteran trapped in the inferno in the Pentagon; the fire chief among the first on the scene in sleepy Shanksville; a team of firefighters racing to save an injured woman and themselves; and the men, women, and children flying across country to see loved ones or for work who suddenly faced terrorists bent on murder. Fall and Rise will open new avenues of understanding for everyone who thinks they know the story of 9/11, bringing to life—and in some cases, bringing back to life—the extraordinary ordinary people who experienced the worst day in modern American history. Destined to be a classic, Fall and Rise will move, shock, inspire, and fill hearts with love and admiration for the human spirit as it triumphs in the face of horrifying events.

Book Women in Popular Culture  2 volumes

Download or read book Women in Popular Culture 2 volumes written by Laura L. Finley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including more than 300 alphabetically listed entries, this 2-volume set presents a timely and detailed overview of some of the most significant contributions women have made to American popular culture from the silent film era to the present day. The lives and accomplishments of women from various aspects of popular culture are examined, including women from film, television, music, fashion, and literature. In addition to profiles, the encyclopedia also includes chapters that provide a historical review of gender, domesticity, marriage, work, and inclusivity in popular culture as well as a chronology of key achievements. This reference work is an ideal introduction to the roles women have played, both in the spotlight and behind it, throughout the history of popular culture in America. From the stars of Hollywood's Golden Age to the chart toppers of the 2020s, author Laura L. Finley documents how attitudes towards these icons have evolved and how their influence has shifted throughout time. The entries and essays also address such timely topics as feminism, the #MeToo movement, and the gender pay gap.

Book Feminist Hollywood

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christina Lane
  • Publisher : Wayne State University Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780814329221
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book Feminist Hollywood written by Christina Lane and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist Hollywood examines the differences between commercial cinema and counter cinema by focusing on the work of contemporary women directors who have entered Hollywood from the realm of independent filmmaking. Christina Lane compares their early documentaries or avant-garde films with their more mainstream endeavors as she explores the possibilities and limits of feminist expression within the male-dominated industry of commercial filmmaking. Feminist Hollywood incorporates interviews with directors Susan Seidelman, Martha Coolidge, Kathryn Bigelow, Lizzie Borden, Darnell Martin, and Tamra Davis in an attempt to bridge the "theory gap" that often excludes women's professional experiences and makes false assumptions about how the industry operates. Lane balances these firsthand accounts with cultural theory and an understanding of the current film industry, in which the line between commercial and independent filmmaking has become blurred. The timely and comprehensive nature of this volume will make it a welcome addition to the bookshelves of film scholars and amateur movie buffs alike.

Book The Wallflower Critical Guide to Contemporary North American Directors

Download or read book The Wallflower Critical Guide to Contemporary North American Directors written by Yoram Allon and published by London : Wallflower. This book was released on 2000 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to North American film directors arranged in alphabetical order.