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1 online resource (xxi, 449 pages) |
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Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. CLASSICS -- Fables of the Reconstruction: The Four-Hour Greed -- Fascinating Rhythms: M -- The Color of Paradise: Jour de fîte -- Backyard Ethics: Hitchcock�s Rear Window -- Songs in the Key of Everyday Life: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg -- A Tale of the Wind: Joris Ivens�s Last Testament -- Kira Muratova�s Home Truths: The Asthenic Syndrome -- The Importance of Being Sarcastic: Sátántangó -- Blush -- The Ceremony -- Thieves -- True Grit: Rosetta -- II. SPECIAL PROBLEMS -- Malick�s Progress |
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Improvisations and Interactions in Altmanville, with an Afterword: NashvilleMixed Emotions: Breaking the Waves -- Fast, Cheap & Out of Control -- The Sweet Cheat: Time Regained -- James Benning�s Four Corners -- Overrated Solutions: L�humanité -- The Sound of German: Straub-Huillet�s The Death of Empedocles -- Beyond the Clouds: Return to Beauty -- Reality and History as the Apotheosis of Southern Sleaze: Phil Karlson�s The Phenix City Story -- Is Ozu Slow? -- The Human Touch: Decalogue and Fargo -- III. OTHER CANONS, OTHER CANONIZERS |
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Life Intimidates Art: Irma VepStanley Kwan�s Actress: Writing History in Quicksand -- Critical Distance: Godard�s Contempt -- Remember Amnesia? (Guy Maddin�s Archangel), with an Afterword: Ten Years Later (Please Watch Carefully: The Heart of the World) -- Ragged but Right: Rivette�s Up Down Fragile -- Critic with a Camera: Marker on Tarkovsky -- Riddles of a Sphinx: From the Journals of Jean Seberg -- International Harvest: National Film Histories on Video -- International Sampler: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai |
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Not the Same Old Song and Dance: The Young Girls of RochefortFlaming Creatures and Scotch Tape -- Ruiz Hopping and Buried Treasures: Twelve Selected Global Sites -- IV. DISPUTABLE CONTENDERS -- Back in Style: Bertolucciâ€?s Besieged -- The Young One: BuÃ"uelâ€?s Neglected Masterpiece -- In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: Kubrickâ€?s Eyes Wide Shut -- The Best of Both Worlds: A.I. Artificial Intelligence -- Under the Chador: The Day I Became a Woman -- Chains of Ignorance: Charles Burnettâ€?s Nightjohn -- Good Vibrations: Waking Life -- Hell on Wheels: Taxi Driver |
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Meat, John, Dough: Pretty WomanTashlinesque -- Weird and Wonderful: Takeshi Kitano�s Kikujiro -- *Corpus Callosum -- V. FILMMAKERS -- Mann of the West -- Otto Preminger -- Nicholas Ray -- Exiles in Modernity: Films by Edward Yang -- Hou Hsiao-hsien: Becoming Taiwanese -- The Countercultural Histories of Rudy Wurlitzer -- Samuel Fuller: The Words of an Innocent Warrior -- The Mysterious Elaine May: Hiding in Plain Sight -- Visionary Agitprop: I Am Cuba -- The Battle over Orson Welles -- License to Feel: Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Neon Bible |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion pictures.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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Motion pictures
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| Genre/Form |
Motion pictures
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Motion pictures.
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Films.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009290848 |
| ISBN |
9780801895142 |
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0801895146 |
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