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Directors
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Kitano Takeshi
Aaron Gerow
In this illuminating study of Kitano Takeshi's films, Aaron Gerow explores the issues of auteurship and stardom as they relate to problems of personal and national identity in Japan confronting an age of globalisation. Gerow, a renowned expert on Japanese cinema who has himself participated in the debates about Kitano in Japan, provides a nuanced account of the work of this intriguing and unpredictable film-maker. Softcover, 264 pp. $28.95.
Tarantino
Jim Smith
Reservoir Dogs launched Quentin Tarantino as a pioneering young filmmaker. Since then, his hip-talking, ultraviolent, hypnotically shot films have reinvigorated American moviemaking and spawned a host of imitators. Jim Smith's acclaimed guide examines the iconic films Tarantino has directed as well as the Tarantino scripts that have been filmed by other directors. Softcover, 295 pp. $11.95.
Quentin Tarantino: The Man, The Myths and His Movies
Wensley Clarkson
Bold, pioneering and always unpredictable, Quentin Tarantino is the ultimate movie director with a fascinating story. With more than a hundred interviews with colleagues, close friends and family, author Wensley Clarkson explores the enigmatic cinematic legend in depth. Discover it all with this gripping account of his life and times. Hardcover, 310 pp. $31.95.
Raised by Wolves: The Turbulent Art and Times of Quentin Tarantino
Jerome Charyn
A high-school dropout who never attended film school, Quentin Tarantino got all
the education he needed while working the register at Los Angeles's fabled Video
Archives. His enthusiasms -- for pop culture (foreign and domestic), eye-popping
aesthetics, and genre films -- would become notorious and infectious, and the
outrageous success of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and the Kill
Bill films have nearly killed off Tarantino the man and signaled the
birth of Tarantino the myth. Raised by Wolves is a portrait of both the man and
the myth -- and the mind behind them both. Softcover, 195 pp. $19.50.
Quintessential Tarantino
Edwin Page
Author Edwin Page discusses each of the eight films that Quentin Tarantino has
written, directed, or both -- in an attempt to find out how the former video
store clerk has realised his ultimate fantasy and become one of the most powerful
players in Hollywood. Includes analyses of Reservoir Dogs, True
Romance, Natural Born Killers, Pulp Fiction, Four
Rooms, From Dusk Till Dawn, Jackie Brown, Kill
Bill Volumes 1 & 2, and the Tarantino-directed episodes of TV drama
series ER and CSI. Softcover, 263 pp. $25.95.
Quentin Tarantino: The Film Geek Films
Paul A. Woods
Trascending his reputation as a maker of violent movies, Quentin Tarantino is
recognised by his fans and admirers as a spokesman for the obsessions of a media-literate
generation. Movies, TV shows, comic strips and old Top Ten records all merge
to form the Tarantino pop-culture aesthetic. In charting his career, Quentin
Tarantino: The Film Geek Files provides a colourful guide to the brash, image
saturated world that spawned the premier filmmaker of his generation. Softcover,
190 pp. $26.95.
Tarkovsky
Edited by Nathan Dunne
The work of Russian director, Andrei Tarkovsky, is among the most significant in the istory of the moving image. In Tarkovsky, leading writers and filmmakers assess the relevance of Tarkovsky's work now and the impact of the visual arts on his films. Hardcover, 463 pp. $60.00.
Jacques Tati
David Bellows
A biography of the great French filmmaker whose singular vision was to have focused
on the ordinary and transformed it into the surreal; he turned cinema into an
arena in which to display the paradoxical business of daily life. Illustrated.
Hardcover, $62.50; Paperback, $22.95.
Julie Taymor: Playing With Fire
Third Edition
Eileen Blumenthal & Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor is one of the most imaginative and provocative directors and designers working in the performing arts. Throughout her award-winning body of work she has created some of the most arresting images ever seen on the stage and screen. What better way to pay tribute to her career than with this highly visual biography, illustrated, cover-to-cover, with eye-popping images. This new edition of this classic volume has been updated to include all new sections on her Oscar-winning film Frida, the movie-musical Across the Universe, and the opera Grendel. Hardcover, 274 pp. $34.99.
Francois Truffaut Interviews
Edited by Ronald Bergan
The French New Wave was one of the most seismic events in cinema's history, and among the movement's contributors Francois Truffaut was a key figure. As this collection of interviews progresses, we follow Truffaut's creative evolution almost as much as we follow his alter-ego Antoine Doinel through Truffaut's semi-autobiographical film series. Always concerned with the process as well as the product of his profession, Truffaut maintained his role as critic and commentator throughout his career and was equally as good an interviewer. Softcover, 150 pp. $25.50.
Francois Truffaut: The Complete Films
Robert Ingram & Paul Duncan
Beginning his career as a film critic, Francois Truffaut graduated
to film director and is today remembered as one of the most brilliant
figures in postwar French
film. This beautiful book from Taschen celebrates the great director's career
with a chronological discussion of his life and work, and a glorious collection
of colour and black & white stills. Softcover, 192 pp. $29.95.
Truffaut
Antoine de Baecque & Serge Toubiana
A new biography of one of the masters of the French New Wave. With access to
Truffaut's papers the authors have written a richly detailed book which is an
authoritative revelation of a singular genius. Hardcover, $42.00; Softcover,
$30.95.
The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan
John Lahr
Irreverent, indiscreet, wildly funny, sad, shocking, and inspiring,
the legendary diaries of Kenneth Tynan are above all compelling literature.
For over three decades, on both sides of the Atlantic, Tynan was
at the epicentre of the film worlds. These diaries bear superb witness
to the fame he courted and the price he paid for it. Softcover, 439
pp. $21.95.
Luchino Visconti
Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Luchino Visconti (1906-76) was without question one of the greatest European
film directors. This updated and expanded third edition, written by esteemed
film scholar Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, is the definitive critical examination
of his films. Softcover, 250 pp. $29.95.
Von Sternberg
John Baxter
Commanding and temperamental, there was something magnificent about Josef von Sternberg. Escaping poverty and an strict father in Vienna, he would eventually make his way to Hollywood. This biography unveils the rise of the elusive artist whose revolutionary representations of sexuality and trademark visual style made him one of the most distinctive directors in the golden age of cinema. Hardcover, 310 pp. $49.95.
The Cinema of Lars von Trier: Authenticity and Artifice
Caroline Bainbridge
Lars von Trier is one of the most controversial figures of contemporary European cinema. Since founding the bach-to-basics Dogme philosophy in 1995, von Trier's name has become a by-word for taboo-breaking cinema. This study forges a new understanding of the founder of Dogme 95 as a great democratiser of cinema in the digital age, presenting von Trier as one of the most daring cinematic exponents of postmodern politics and satire. Softcover, 210 pp. $31.95.
Lars Von Trier: Interviews
Lars Von Trier
Without question, Lar Von Trier is Denmark's most famous contemporary filmmaker.
These conversations trace his development from the structured, image-obsessed
formalism of his early career, through the Dogme 95 years, and up until his experimental
film/play Dogville. In these conversations, he is revealed to be impish, forthright,
witty, sometimes infuriating, and, above all, deeply committed to the possibilities
of cinema. Softcover, 218 pp. $26.95.
Lars Von Trier
Jack Stevenson
In this new study, Jack Stevenson explores the achievements
as well as the paradoxes of Lars von Trier, assessing his life,
work and critical reception. Utilising sources heretofore unavailable
in English, Stevenson's lively yet fact-filled narrative is accessible
to students and film enthusiasts. Softcover, 216 pp. $32.95.
Wong Kar-Wai
Peter Brunette
Wong Kar-Wai traces this immensely exciting director's perennial themes of time,
love, and loss. Most importantly, Peter Brunette describes the ways in which
Kar-Wai's supremely visual films attempt to create a new form of cinema by relying
on stunning, suggestive visual images and evocative audio tracks to tell their
story, rather than on traditional notions of character, dialogue and plot. The
question of Wong Kar-Wai's use of genre film techniques in art films in also
explored in depth. Softcover, 149 pp. $23.00.
The Cinema of Andrew Wajda: That Art of Irony and Defiance
John Orr & Elzbieta Ostrowska
A major reassessment of the great Polish director Andrzej Wajda,
who recieved a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award in 2000, this timely
collection covers all aspects
of his work. The Cinema of Andrew Wajda is a wide-ranging examination
of a prolific film-maker whose work over four decades reflects the changing nature
of
cinema itself. Softcover, 205 pp. $30.00.
Raoul Walsh: The True Adventures of Hollywood's Legendary Director
Marilyn Ann Moss
Raoul Walsh is the first full-length biography of a filmmaker with one of the most celebrated and prolific careers in American cinema. This is a long-overdue assessment of a true Hollywood original. Hardcover, 484 pp. $49.95.
Andy Warhol Screen Tests: The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne
Callie Angell
The films that Andy Warhol made in the 1960s are now reconized as among the most
important works of his career. One of the most ambitious projects of Warhol's
cinema is the Screen Tests, a series of 472 short, black-and-white portraits
of Warhol's friends, colleagues, and acquaintences filmed over a period of three
years, from 1964 through 1966. The 189 people in this series constitute a veritable
who's who of the 1960s avant-garde.
Since Warhol withdrew his films from public circulation in the early 1970s, much
of his cinema has been shrouded in myth. This book, the first installment of
a two-part catalogue raisonne of Warhol's cinema, is the result of more than
a dozen years of original research by Callie Angell, Adjunct Curator of the Andy
Warhol Film Project at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Hardcover, 316 pp.
$78.00.
Role Models
John Waters
John Waters' highly original self-portrait is told through intimate profiles of favourite personalities -- some famous, some unknown, some criminal, some surprisingly middle-of-the-road. This paen to the power of subversive inspiration is sure to delight, amuse, enrich -- and happily horrify readers everywhere. Hardcover, 304 pp. $28.95.
Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste
John Waters
John Waters is America's most successful trash filmmaker. In this extraordinary
diary/manifesto, the director of Pink Flamingos, Polyester, Cry-Baby,
and other tasteless masterpieces, proves that he is as gifted a memoirist as
he is a filmmaker. Tender, shocking, revealing, and humourous, Shock
Value is a true love letter from a legendary director to his friends,
family, and fans. Softcover, 244 pp. $22.95.
John Waters: Change of Life
Marvin Heiferman & Lisa Phillips
Dubbed "The Pope of Trash" by William Burroghs, John Waters is the
poet-laureate of bad taste cinema. A prolific artist, as well as a filmmaker,
he revels in the awkward details of everyday life that polite society would
much rather suppress. John Waters: Change of Life, published on the occasion
of his first major museum exhibition, presents a survey of his still photographic
works and stills from his earliest and seldom-seen no-budget films. Hardcover,
144 pp. $57.50.
Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters
John Waters
Originally released in 1986, Crackpot is John Waters's
brilliantly entertaining litany of odd and fascinating people, places,
and things. From Baltimore to Los Angeles, from William Castle to
Pia Zadora, from the National Enquirer to Ronald Reagan's colon,
Waters explores the depths of our culture. A hilarious book from
the "Pope of Trash." Softcover, 204 pp. $21.00.
The Films of Peter Weir
Second Edition
Jonathan Rayner
In this fully revised and updated edition of Jonathan Rayner's
acclaimed study, the films of Peter Weir are closely scrutinized.
Rayner illustrates how the director's films -- from his early Australian
works Picnic at Hanging Rock and Gallipoli, right up
to his recent Hollywood efforts The Truman Show and Master
and Commander -- have a consistent vision, no matter how disparate
their subject matter. Softcover, 287 pp. $25.95.
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