[PDF] Paris To Hollywood eBook

Author : Peter Wollen
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 45,39 MB
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1789608155

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In this new collection of essays on film, all written over the last ten years, Peter Wollen explores an extraordinarily wide range of topics, stretching from an analysis of 'Time in Film and Video Art' to a study of 'Riff-Raff Realism' in British films. There are provocative discussions of the works of established auteur directors such as Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock and of the film-making careers of such experimental movie-makers as William Burroughs and Viking Eggeling, the dadaist pioneer of abstract film. The collection also includes fascinating studies of a number of film classics, such as John Huston's Freud, Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. Other essays deal with the relationship of film to the other arts, such as dance and architecture, and explore the interaction between film and anthropology. This is not a theoretical book but it is one that suggests many new approaches to thinking about film and many unexpected connections between film studies and the history of such strangely related activities as espionage, psychoanalysis, Stalinism, love of speed and digital technology. Full of fascinating new insights, Peter Wollen's new book is based on the premise that there are no fixed ways of writing about film but, rather, a plethora of paths leading in very different directions, each contributing to a new understanding of the twentieth century's major art-form.

Author : Antoine de Baecque
Publisher : Flammarion-Pere Castor
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,94 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 9782080201270

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This comprehensive volume examines Tinseltown's fascination with the City of Light, from silent movies through to modern blockbusters. Romantic, elegant, and enticing, Paris has fascinated American filmmakers for over a century. As habile in accommodating a romantic comedy or mystery as it is in hosting an action-packed thriller, it is by far the foreign city that appears most frequently in Hollywood movies. In Paris by Hollywood, essays by eminent film experts and commentators uncover Hollywood's role in the cultivation of now timeless Parisian clichés, examining seminal films such as An American in Paris, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Sabrina. Chapters on Audrey Hepburn's Parisian persona; Disney's and Woody Allen's personifications of Paris; Hollywood's depictions of the French Revolution; and the American fascination with the enigmatic, glamorous "Parisienne" explore a cultural relationship that owes as much to the allure of Paris itself as to Hollywood's desire to paint a picture of European exoticism. Interviews with eminent filmmakers and actors including Martin Scorsese, Julie Delpy, and Leslie Caron bring us behind the scenes and provide intimate insider's perspective. Insightful analysis explores the reasons why Hollywood has invested and continues to invest so much in depicting the French capital; an often mutually-beneficial economic and cultural relationship. Covering over 100 years of movie-making, from silent films to the animated world of Disney, via Cancan films and action-packed blockbusters, Paris by Hollywood is the perfect companion for lovers of American cinema and those captivated by the magic of the French capital.

Author : Vanessa R. Schwartz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 15,38 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0226742431

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Looks at the influence of French culture on a variety of motion pictures in the 1950s and 1960s, including "Gigi" and "Funny Face."

Author : Man Ray
Publisher : Schirmer Mosel
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,45 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Artists
ISBN : 9783829605403

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When American-born Surrealist Man Ray died in 1976, he left behind thousands of photo negatives, mostly portraits taken in his studio after his arrival in Paris in 1921. The Centre Georges Pompidou, which has owned them since the mid-1990s, has duly catalogued the collection of negatives and is now in a position to bring out what is an encyclopedic publication in the best sense of the term. It attests both to Man Ray s ability as a portrait photographer and to the quality of his archive as a monument to cultural history. The catalog features 500 portraits, each of which is explained in a short commentary. Since Man Ray's clientele was made up of members of Dadaist and Surrealist circles, of artists and painters, of writers and US emigrants of the Lost Generation, of aristocrats, and paragons of the worlds of fashion and theater, the book is at the same time a marvelous Who's Who and an indispensable reference work for a broad range of different historians and scholars of the 20th century.

Author : Jenna Conwisar
Publisher : New Year Publishing
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 47,86 MB
Release : 2011-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1935547356

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In her third travel related book; Paris and her sister explore Southern California while attending a family event with her cousins. Their adventures include visiting the Santa Monica Pier, San Diego, Hollywood and Hearst Castle.

Author : Peter Wollen
Publisher : Verso
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 38,45 MB
Release : 2002-11-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781859843918

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Peter Wollen's book is based on the premise that there are no fixed ways of writing about film.