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100 Bollywood Films Rachel Dwyer
Roli Books 8174364331 / 9788174364333 Paperback New
"100 Bollywood Films" is about the national cinema of India, describing movies made in Mumbai, distributed nationally across India and with their own production, distribution and exhibition networks worldwide. This informative screen guide reflects the work of key directors, major stars and important music directors and screenplay writers. Historically important films have been included along with certain cult movies and top box office successes.
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A Violent Professional: The Films Of Luciano Rossi Kier-la Janisse
FAB Press 1903254485 / 9781903254486 Paperback New
Luciano Rossi is one of the most identifiable and yet little known faces in Italian genre cinema. Kier-La Janisse's book is invaluable both for its focus on Rossi and for the fascinating journey it takes us through the changing landscape of Italian popular cinema. --Pete Tombs Mondo Macabro Kier-La Janisse the first lady of euro-trash has put together THE definitive work on Luciano Rossi. Ms. Janisse captures his mercurial oddness in text and pictures as only someone devoted to art and trash could. BUY THIS BOOK. --Craig Ledbetter European Trash Cinema
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Abel Ferrara: The Moral Vision Brad Stevens, Abel Ferrara (Foreword)
Pocket Essentiials 190325406X / 9781903254066 Paperback New
From The Driller Killer - a victim of the original ‘video nasty’ panic - to Bad Lieutenant Abel Ferrara’s films have attracted controversy for their extreme subject matter and admiration for their fine acting: Harvey Keitel Christopher Walken Madonna Willem Dafoe Matthew Modine and Ice-T all gave their finest performances under Ferrara’s direction. Now Brad Stevens has subjected Ferrara’s output to exhaustive analysis and discovered a tender heart beating beneath the excessive imagery.
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Anarchy And Alchemy Ben Cobb, Alan Jones (Foreword), Stephen Barber (Introduction)
Creation Books 1840681454 / 9781840681451 Paperback New
Chilean-born Jodorowsky is best known for his violent surreal movies but has also been a protege of legendary mime Marcel Marceau a writer of graphic novels a performance artist even a tarot reader. Most directors make films with their eyes. I make films with my cojones he once claimed. His psychedelic spaghetti western El Topogave birth to the Midnight Movie movement and cemented his place as one of cinema's most maddening significant auteurs. Cobb's Persistence of Vision series entry contains rare photos and illustrations (a chapter on the abandoned Duneproject with Salvador Dali Orson Welles and Pink Floyd will have his fans foaming at the mouth); new interviews with Jodorowsky; and thorough coverage of all his films including The Rainbow Thief The Holy Mountain and his debut Fando Y Lis the 1968 Acapulco film festival premiere of which was met by a full-scale riot. Scholarly enough to satisfy cineast owners of his films on grainy bootleg VHS tapes accessible for budding film students this is a fine introduction to Jodorowsky's strange oeuvre. This is the sixth book in Creation's highly-acclaimed Persistence of Vision film book series. Alejandro Jodorowsky remains one of cinema’s most controversial and influential film-makers. In 1968 his scandalous debut Fando & Lis caused a riot in Mexico forcing the Chilean-born director into exile in France. The following year his ultra-violent underground smash hit El Topo inagurated the Midnight Movie phenomenon transforming its creator into a counter-culture icon championed by John Lennon and latterly Marilyn Manson. Anarchy and Alchemy features • Exclusive interviews • Rare images • Exhaustive chapters on all Jodorowsky’s films including the mesmerising cine-trip The Holy Mountain the award-winning Oedipal circus show Santa Sangre • The aborted Dune project with Salvador Dali Pink Floyd and H R Giger • Texts on Jodorowsky’s 60s terror-theatre outfit The Panic Movement • His world mime tour with Marcel Marceau • His graphic novel collaborations with Moebius
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Arena: On Anarchist Cinema Richard Porton (Editor), Russell Campbell (Contributor), Pietro Ferrua (Contributor), Dan Georgakas (Contributor),Andrew Hedden (Contributor), Eric Jarry (Contributor)
PM Press 1604860502 / 9781604860504 Paperback New
In the wake of the end of the Cold War and worldwide protests against corporate globalization, anarchism continues to attract new adherents among both aging leftists and new generations of young radicals. ARENA aims to tap into this revived interest in libertarian ideas, culture and practice by providing a dynamic focal point: a journal that brings together good, stimulating and provocative writing and scholarship on libertarian culture of all kinds. Designed for a general, intelligent, popular readership as well as for scholars and aficionados working in the area, the first issue of ARENA focuses on film and video--historical and modern--and future issues will cover the entire spectrum of the arts: film, theatre, and art criticism as well as political theory and practice, reportage, letters, reviews, and unpublished fiction and nonfiction.
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Art Of Destruction : The Films Of The Vienna Action Group Stephen Barber
Creation Books 1840680970 / 9781840680973 Paperback New
The Vienna Action Group formed the most provocative, insurgent, and challenging of all the worldwide art movements of the 1960s. Their sexually charged and antisocial actions exacted a profound and irreparable upheaval in the way in which art was conceived. Using their own bodies as raw material, the Action Group undertook experiments in cruelty that disassembled the human body and its acts into compacted gestures of blood, semen, and meat.
The films of the Vienna Action Group form the essential residue, debris, and evidence of their performances. For the first time, this book focuses on those films as fully revealing the obsessions, ambitions, and outrages of the Action Group. Fully illustrated and annotated, this is a book of compelling interest to all students of film, art, and performance, and for all readers engaged with questioning social and corporate cultures.
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Big Bosoms And Square Jaws Jimmy McDonough
Three Rivers Press 0307338444 / 9780307338440 Paperback New
Russ Meyer, cult hero, creator of the sexploitation film, and the man the "Wall Street Journal" called the King Leer of Hollywood, made movies that filled the big screen with "big bosoms and square jaws." In the first candid and fiendishly researched account of the late cinematic instigator's life, Jimmy McDonough shows us how Russ Meyer used that formula to turn his own crazed fantasies into movies that made him a millionaire and changed the face of American film forever.
This former WWII combat photographer immortalized his personal sexual obsession upon the silver screen, creating box-office gold with "The Immoral Mr. Teas" in 1959. The modest little film pushed all preexisting limits of on-screen nudity, and with its success, the floodgates of what was permitted to be shown on film were thrust open, never to be closed again. Russ Meyer ignited a true revolution in filmmaking, breaking all sex, nudity, and violence taboos. In a career that spanned more than forty years, Meyer created a body of work that has influenced a legion of filmmakers, fashionistas, comic book artists, rock bands, and even the occasional feminist.
Bringing his anecdote- and action-packed biographical style to another renegade of popular culture, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Shakey" Jimmy McDonough offers a wild, warts-and-all portrait of Russ Meyer, the director, writer, producer, and commando moviemaking force behind the sexploitation classics "Vixen," "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls," "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" and many others. "Big Bosoms and Square Jaws" blows the lid off the story of Russ Meyer, from the beginning to his recent tragic demise, creating in the process a vivid portrait of a past America.
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Book Of The Dead: Complete History Of Zombie Cinema Jamie Russell
FAB Press 1903254337 / 9781903254332 Paperback New
The dead walk in this exhaustive look at the cinematic history of the zombie! One of cinema’s most enduring monsters the zombie has been terrifying audiences around the world for decades. Book of the Dead charts the ghoulish history of zombie cinema from the creature’s origins in Haitian voodoo to its cinematic debut in 1932’s White Zombie George A. Romero’s trilogy (which includes the two acknowledged classics of the genre Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead) and recent blockbuster hits like 28 Days Later Shaun of the Dead and Land of the Dead. Covering hundreds of movies from America Europe and Asia this exhaustive history chronicles the zombie’s on-screen evolution from Caribbean bogeyman to flesh-eating corpse. Along the way Book of the Dead takes in Bela Lugosi B-movies Italian gore films Asian zombies British zombies blind monk zombies shot-on-video backyard epics and the videogame phenomenon of Resident Evil. Spanning seven decades of horror movie history with hundreds of stills artwork and a comprehensive filmography Book of the Dead explains why we continue to be so fascinated by these fugitives from the undertaker.
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Charlie Kaufman And Hollywood's Merry Band Of Pranksters, Fabulists And Dreamers Derek Hill
Oldcastle Books 1842432532 / 9781842432532 Paperback New
Since the late 1990s a subtle subversive element has been at work within the staid confines of the Hollywood dream factory. Young filmmakers like Spike Jonze Wes Anderson Michel Gondry David O. Russell Richard Linklater and Sofia Coppola rode in on the coattails of the independent film movement that blossomed in the early 1990s and have managed to wage an aesthetic campaign against cowardice of the imagination much like their artistic forebears the so-called Movie Brats—Coppola Scorsese De Palma Altman and Ashby among others—did in the 1970s. But their true pedigree can be traced back to the cinematic provocateurs of the Nouvelle Vague—such as Truffaut Goddard Chabrol Rohmer and Rivette—who in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s liberated screens around the world with a series of films that challenged our assumptions of what the medium could offer and how stories could be told—all of them snapping with style as much as they delivered on ideas. Highly idiosyncratic yet intricately realized accessible yet willing to overthrow the constraints of formal storytelling surreal yet always grounded in human emotions this new film movement captures the angst of its characters and the times in which we live but with a wryness imagination earnestness irony and stylish wit that makes the slide into existential despair a little more amusing than it should be.
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Cinema India Lauire Benson
National Gallery of Victoria 0724102809 / 9780724102808 Paperback New
An exuberant history of Bollywood posters. Today, its movies delight movie-goers everywhere, and India makes more films than any nation.
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Cinema Sewer Vol 2 Robin Bougie (Editor)
FAB Press 1903254566 / 9781903254561 Paperback New
The celebrated underground smash that is Cinema Sewer the magazine has been transformed and mutated into CINEMA SEWER: THE BOOK - and following the runaway success of the first volume we're delighted to be unleashing VOLUME TWO onto a now slightly-less-unsuspecting world! A mind-melting compilation of gonzo writing illustration and comics about the most insane sexy awkward cheesy hilarious upsetting and jaw-dropping movies in the history of film Cinema Sewer joyously celebrates the sleaziest aspects of the moviegoing experience whilst delving deep into bizarre cinematic history. Author and comic artist Robin Bougie takes a dive to the bottom of the cesspool of sexploitation doing so in a distinctive manner that has made him famous amongst a loyal following of cult film fans.
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Criminal Desires: Jean Genet & Cinema Jane Giles
Creation Books 1840680687 / 9781840680683 Paperback New
Jean Genet the French author notorious for his overt cele-bration of criminality and homosexuality was also fascinated with cinema. His only film Un Chant d'amour made in 1950 was a poetic and sexually explicit visual paean to homosexual desire the criminal impulse and the power of the imagination. Banned on the grounds of obscenity the film has since become a cause celebre of gay rights and freedom of expression as well as being recognized as a masterpiece of underground cinema. Criminal Desires contains complete documentation of the making of Un Chant d'amour including an illustrated shot-by-shot description thematic analysis and exhibition history. The book also documents: Genet's many other unfilmed screenplays. Film appearances by Genet himself. Screen adaptations of Genet's work made by other directors including Deathwatch The Maids Todd Haynes' 1 and Fassbinder's extraordinary and apocalyptic vision of Querelle. Illustrated throughout and featuring an introduction by acclaimed novelist and Genet biographer Edmund White Criminal Desires is a compelling induction into Jean Genet's underworld of prisons voyeurism and homosexual lust which starkly illuminates a fascinating zone of forbidden cinema. Jean Genet is a world-famous author and gay hero: This is the only book dealing specifically with his involvement with and relationship to cinema. Volume 2 in new quality Film Studies series: Persistence of Vision. Cover quotes from Edmund White Derek Jarman and Marc Almond. Cross-over between cinema and gay markets. National press coverage and full online promotion.
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David Lynch Decoded Mark Allyn Stewart
AuthorHouse 1434349853 / 9781434349859 Paperback New
What does it all mean? Surely all of those red curtains strobe lights and dancing dwarfs we keep seeing in David Lynch's films must mean something right? Well actually they do. In fact not only do they mean something they're all interconnected. Reading these symbols is the key to understanding not just David Lynch's films individually but his body of work as a whole. Journey with author Mark Allyn Stewart as he travels film by film to let you in on the larger tapestry that Lynch is weaving and shows you how works such as Twin Peaks Blue Velvet and Mulholland Dr. are all pieces of a larger picture.
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Deathtripping: Underground Trash Cinema Jack Sargeant
Soft Skull Press 1933368950 / 9781933368955 Paperback New
This exhaustive study focuses on the New York filmmakers that coalesced around the radical manifesto espoused by downtown filmmaker Nick Zedd: none shall emerge unscathed. Placing their work within the wider alternative film and downtown post-punk scenes Deathtripping offers detailed analyses of the movement’s films alongside interviews with the filmmakers and their collaborators including Richard Kern Nick Zedd Tommy Turner Beth B Joe Coleman and Lydia Lunch. Also discussed are seminal influences such as the Kuchar brothers Jack Smith and Andy Warhol as well as the history of underground and trash cinema.
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Dolemite : The Story Of Rudy Ray Moore David L. Shabazz
Awesome Records 1575021927 / 9781575021928 Paperback New
Rudy Ray Moore also known as Dolemite was a musician actor and comedian famous for his explicit crude sense of humor. In his most famous role Moore portrayed the pimp Dolemite in the eponymous blaxploitation film. The name of the protagonist stuck to the actor and became his moniker.IB Times: 'Dolemite' Comedian Rudy Ray Moore Dies at 71 (October 20 2008) During his stand-up routines in the 1960s and 1970s Moore often spoke in rhyme effectively foreshadowing modern rap music. Moore died from diabetes complications at the age of 81 in Akorn Ohio.
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Donnie Darko Book Richard Kelly, foreword by Jake Gyllenhaal
Faber & Faber 0571221246 / 9780571221240 Paperback New
The critical and audience response made Donnie Darko the cult film of the year - one whose dark ambiguities caused audiences to go back to the film again and again trying to fathom its mysteries. This book brings its readers further into the world of Donnie Darko and its creator Richard Kelly. Contained within these pages are an in-depth interview with Richard Kelly who recounts the gestation of the film; the screenplay; photos and drawings from the film and artwork inspired by it. Donnie Darko will never surrender up all its mysteries but this book will be an indispensable guide into its intriguing world.
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Dude Abides: The Gospel According to the Coen Brothers Cathleen Falsani
Zondervan 0310292468 / 9780310292463 Paperback New
Whether you've seen only a couple or every single one of their fourteen films enough times to quote them by heart, you know Joel and Ethan Coen make movies like no one else in cinema. The Oscar-winning Coen brothers' quirky and enduring films are rich with meaning---much of it hidden just beneath the surface, gems of spiritual and existential insight waiting to be excavated. Join award-winning religion columnist Cathleen Falsani as she explores the deeper truths found in these engrossing movies. Falsani examines each of the Coen brothers' films, from their debut, Blood Simple, to their latest, A Serious Man. Ranging from iconoclastic comedies such as Raising Arizona and The Big Lebowski to an unblinking treatise on the nature of evil in No Country for Old Men, the Coen brothers have created moral universes in which some of life's essential questions are asked---if not always answered. These queries run the gamut from the meaning of life and enlightenment, to the fundamental nature of truth and love. There is seemingly no question the Coen brothers are afraid to tackle, either with a wink and a smile or brutal honesty (and sometimes both). As Falsani examines the soul of the movies, she weaves her own experiences, impressions, and cultural and spiritual analysis with a journalist's keen eye for investigation and a film lover's passion for the cultural medium. By turns thought-provoking and entertaining, you'll come away with a new admiration for these sometimes bizarre, always clever, and unmistakably virtuoso filmmakers and their films.
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Fall Out: The Unofficial And Unauthorised Guide To The Prisoner Alan Stevens, Fiona Moore
Titan Books 1845830180 / 9781845830182 Hardcover New
The impact of The Prisoner upon society was explosive transforming art storytelling and popular culture like no other television programme before or since. Patrick McGoohan spearheaded the project in his role as an unnamed man held against his will in a strange isolated Italianate village tormented by a succession of individuals each calling themselves Number 2 whose true motivations and intentions towards him remained a constant mystery. The man known only as Number 6 attempted escape was befriended and betrayed underwent hallucinogenic journeys and experienced many strange revelations before the series achieved its cathartic climax. The Prisoner was ahead of its time and in this book Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore take on the task of debriefing the programme and attempting to make sense of the many interpretations and readings which have been placed on it. This is not the book with all the answers but it may help you ask the right questions.
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Forbidden Films Dawn B. Sova, Foreword by Marjorie Heins
Facts On File Inc 0816043361 / 9780816043361 Paperback New
The notion that the best way to insure an artwork's popularity and enduring fame is to declare it forbidden is amply demonstrated by many of the motion pictures featured in this engrossing compilation including Frankenstein A Streetcar Named Desire and The Great Dictator. Along with the familiar array of films suppressed for sexual political social and religious reasons are some X-rated movies including Emmanuelle and Deep Throat that reached mainstream audiences. For each film profiled the cast and production credits are provided along with a Plot Summary Censorship History and Further Reading a handy format identical to that used by Sova (English Montclair State Univ.) in her well-received contributions to Facts On File's Banned Books series. The entry for Damaged Goods a largely forgotten 1919 British silent film about the tragic consequences of syphilis is typical of the careful research throughout. After tracing the film's history from an earlier now lost version produced for the U.S. Army as a training film about the dangers of promiscuity Sova explores the history of censorship from the perspective of redeeming artistic qualities; the Further Reading includes valuable citations to three contemporaneous articles from obscure long-defunct movie magazines.
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Hairspray, Female Trouble And Multiple Maniacs John Waters
Thunders Mouth Press 1560257024 / 9781560257028 Paperback New
Here are three more of John Waters's most popular screenplays for the first time in print including an original introduction by Waters and dozens of fun film stills. John Waters the writer and director of these movies is a legendary filmmaker whose films occupy their own niche in cinema history. His muse and leading lady was Divine - a 300-pound transvestite who could eat dog shit in one scene and break your heart in the next. In Hairspray a plump teenager played by Ricki Lake and her big-hearted hairdresser mother played by Divine teach 1962 Baltimore about race relations by integrating a local TV dance show. Female Trouble is a coming-of-age story gone terribly awry: Dawn Davenport progresses from loving schoolgirl to crazed mass murderer destined for the electric chair - all because her parents wouldn't buy her cha-cha heels for Christmas. In Multiple Maniacs dubbed by Waters a celluloid atrocity the travelling sideshow Lady Divine's Cavalcade of Perversions is actually a front for a group of psychotic kidnappers with Lady Divine herself the most vicious and depraved of all but her life changes after she gets raped by a fifteen-foot lobster.
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