Movie House Interprets the Ups and Downs of Movies

Author: Bruce F. Kawin
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: From the beginning to the completion of a film, from A Clockwork Orange to Furiosa, from Méliès to Spielberg, this book passionately contemplates the endless possibilities of cinema. As a work on film as both art and craft, it deserves its ambitious title. Bruce F. Kawin, a Faulkner expert and film historian at the University of Colorado, USA, has compiled valuable materials on film production, film aesthetics, and the film industry in this book. He showcases the various facets of cinema, distills the most important concepts and frameworks related to film production and film criticism, and provides rigorous definitions for them. Additionally, he offers meticulous and clear analyses of landmark works and directors in film history, combining professionalism with accessibility.
Through this book, we can witness the unfamiliar film production processes of directors whose names we know, see their struggles in their personal lives, and observe the formation of their individual experiences. It becomes clearer how they capture fleeting ideas, gradually flesh them out, and develop them into the films we later encounter. In this book, these masters we have long admired are, a person struggling with the process of filmmaking. Such a book offers us, undoubtedly, a calm and thoughtful dialogue. As we read, we revisit their films and imagine them in their own...