| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 447 pages) |
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Routledge key guides |
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Routledge key guides.
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| Contents |
Introduction : authorship and contemporary film culture / Yvonne Tasker -- Allison Anders / Yvonne Tasker -- Aoyama Shinji / Aaron Gerow -- Gregg Araki / Glyn Davis -- Jean-Jacques Beineix / Phil Powrie -- Bernardo Bertolucci in context / Mary Wood -- Luc Besson : bard and filmmaker / Susan Hayward -- Kathryn Bigelow / Yvonne Tasker -- Charles Burnett / Chuck Kleinhaus -- Tim Burton / Yvonne Tasker -- James Cameron / Alexandra Keller -- Jane Campion / Justine Ashby -- Jackie Chan / Leon Hunt -- The Coen brothers / Jon Lewis -- Francis Ford Coppola / Scott MacKenzie -- David Cronenberg / Marc O'Day -- Julie Dash / Terry Moore -- Homeless : Atom Egoyan in Canada / Geoff Pevere -- David Fincher / Devin Orgeron -- Hal Hartley / Lesley Deer -- Todd Haynes : to act with grandeur / Justin Wyatt -- Stranger than fiction : the rise and fall of Jim Jarmusch / Mark Peranson -- Neil Jordan / Fidelma Farley -- The face of a sad rat : the cinematic universe of the Kaurismäki brothers / Tytti Soila -- New waves, authorship, and the politics of the festival circuit : Abbas Kiarostami and the new Iranian cinema / Sharon Tay -- Krzysztof Kieślowski : why Kieślowski? / Paul Coates -- Diane Kurys / Carrie Tarr -- Ang Lee / Ian Haydn Smith -- Spike Lee / Yvonne Tasker -- David Lynch / Marc O'Day -- Michael Mann : elegies on the post-industrial landscape / Christopher Sharrett -- Mira Nair / Gwendolyn Audrey Foster -- Sally Potter : the making of a British women filmmaker / Anne Ciecko -- John Sayles : integrity and borders / Marc Jancovich and James Lyons -- Martin Scorsese : movies and religion / George S. Larke -- Coline Serreau / Brigitte Rollet -- Steven Soderbergh / Jennifer Holt -- Todd Solondz / Dean DeFino -- Steven Spielberg / Peter Krämer -- Oliver Stone / Martin Fradley -- Quentin Tarantino / Glyn White -- Tsui Hark / Julian Stringer -- Making movies that matter : Christine Vachon, independent film producer / Ros Jennings -- Lars von Trier / Mette Hjort -- Wayne Wang / Scott MacKenzie -- Peter Weir : Australian auteur/Hollywood director -- Wim Wenders / Stan Jones -- Wong Kar-Wai / Julian Stringer -- John Woo / Tony Williams -- Zhang Yimou / Sheldon H. Lu -- Zhang Yuan / Zhang Zhen |
| Summary |
This is a study of the work of some of today's most popular and influential cinematic voices. Each entry offers a critique of its subject's career and works, looking at the genres in which they work and their relationship to other filmmakers |
| Analysis |
CULTURE AND THE CINEMA |
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DIRECTORS |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Includes filmographies |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion picture producers and directors -- Biography -- Dictionaries
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Motion picture producers and directors -- Biography -- Dictionaries
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Direction & Production.
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Motion picture producers and directors
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Filmschaffender
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Filmregisseurs.
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| Genre/Form |
dictionaries.
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Biographies
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Dictionaries
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Dictionaries.
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Dictionnaires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tasker, Yvonne, 1964-
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| LC no. |
2001048281 |
| ISBN |
0203452224 |
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9780203452226 |
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0203760468 |
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9780203760468 |
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9780415189743 |
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0415189748 |
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