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Casual affairs
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ISBN: 1438450907 9781438450902 9781438450896 1438450893 Year: 2014 Publisher: Albany, New York

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Follows the life and career of Sally Benson, acclaimed writer of New Yorker fiction and Hollywood screenplays.


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You're not dead until you're forgotten : a memoir
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ISBN: 0773596089 9780773544024 077354402X 9780773596085 9780773596092 0773596097 Year: 2014 Publisher: Montréal, Québec : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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"Dunning was born into the movie business ... and ultimately became Canada's pre-eminent B-movie producer, with a knack for developing young talent ... Dunning ... recounts his rough-and-tumble upbringing in the Montreal suburb of Verdun in the 1930s, his modest start in the film industry behind the candy counter of his family's movie theatre, and later, his ventures into film distribution and production. In the 1960s Dunning, along with financial wizard André Link, founded Cinepix, which eventually merged into the Lionsgate Entertainment film colossus. Specializing in such exploitation genres as raucous comedy, horror films, and groundbreaking Québécois 'maple syrup porn', Cinepix churned out cult classics like Valérie ... and Meatballs ... Driven to succeed in the face of arbitrary censors, parochial Canadian critics, and controlling government funding agencies, Dunning and Link developed a formula for producing controversial, moneymaking movies, and helped launch the careers of luminaries-to-be, such as David Croenenberg, Ivan Reitman and Don Carmody"--Publisher's description.


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Screenwriting : creative labour and professional practice
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ISBN: 0415642671 0203080777 1136169482 1136169490 0415642655 1306661668 Year: 2014 Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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"Screenwriting has been the subject of a wealth of popular literature that seeks to offer this work to all, to reveal the 'secrets' of screenwriting or to provide accounts of how to succeed in the mainstream screen production industries, primarily in Hollywood. But the deluge of How-to style manuals and interview collections offer little systematic analysis of the histories, practices, identities and subjects which form and shape the daily working lives of screenwriters. Screenwriting work demands particular and complex forms of subjectivity in order to distinguish it from other forms of filmmaking and writing, to make the work knowable and do-able. This book analyzes the ways in which screenwriters navigate and make sense of the labor markets in which they are immersed. Drawing on historical and critical perspectives of mainstream screenwriting in the USA and UK, as well as empirical data drawn from interviews, labour market and textual analysis, this book presents an original and multi-faceted case study of screenwriting as creative labor and professional practice. Using a range of theoretical approaches and an interdisciplinary methodological framework, it examines both the structural and subjective features of screenwriting work and it analyzes not only who has access to the work, but also who is excluded from this profession"--


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Y a-t-il un cinema d'auteur ?
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ISBN: 2757407732 2757414313 2757408143 Year: 2014 Publisher: Presses universitaires du Septentrion

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La vulgarisation de la notion d'auteur de film, tant du côté de la réception que de la production, fait écran à une question que la critique, héritière zélée de la Politique des auteurs mise en œuvre par les Cahiers du cinéma de jadis, ne pose plus, celle des critères qui permettraient de distinguer, de même que l'on distingue les écrivains des écrivants, les grands cinéastes des réalisateurs et des tâcherons. Ceci ne suffit pas à cela. Les critères d'appréciation étant devenus plus culturalistes qu’esthétiques, ou alors esthétisants, il n’est pas certains en bref que ceux que l’on présente comme des auteurs et les auteurs eux-mêmes soient de grands cinéastes. On ne prend guère en compte la façon dont le film fait sens au-delà de l’information, du discours, du message. Il ne suffit pas d’effets de sens, il faut que le spectateur soit mis en position de participer et même de construire du sens. Des classiques aux modernes, le cinéma a certes considérablement évolué : de nouveaux genres sont apparus, le cinéma documentaire a effectué des avancées et des mues essentielles, on n’est pas auteur aujourd’hui comme on l’était à l’époque des studios. Mais suffit-il d’être auteur ? Les critères sont plus que jamais nécessaires pour distinguer ceux des cinéastes qui sont, au même titre que les grands écrivains et artistes, des créateurs.


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Screenwriting in a digital era
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ISBN: 1137220538 0230343287 1349344656 1137319100 9780230343283 9781349344659 9781137319104 Year: 2014 Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan

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"Screenwriting in a Digital Era" examines the practices of writing for the screen from early Hollywood to Dogme, the new realism and beyond. Looking back to prehistories of the form, Kathryn Millard links screenwriting to visual and oral storytelling. From the shadow playwrights of twelfth century Egypt to semi-improvised ensemble films played out on the streets of cities around the globe, she draws on a wealth of insights from music, photography, performance, writing, psychology and organisational studies to explore the creative processes underlying writing for the screen. Looking also to the future, "Screenwriting in a Digital Era" examines the blurring of genres, production stages and roles in digital ecologies and the rise of sustainable screenwriting.


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"It's the Pictures That Got Small"
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ISBN: 0231538227 9780231538220 9780231167086 0231167083 132235085X Year: 2014 Publisher: New York, NY

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Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter Charles Brackett was an extremely observant and perceptive chronicler of the entertainment industry during its most exciting years. He is best remembered as the writing partner of director Billy Wilder, who once referred to the pair as "the happiest couple in Hollywood," collaborating on such classics as The Lost Weekend (1945) and Sunset Blvd (1950). In this annotated collection of writings taken from dozens of Brackett's unpublished diaries, leading film historian Anthony Slide clarifies Brackett's critical contribution to Wilder's films and Hollywood history while enriching our knowledge of Wilder's achievements in writing, direction, and style. Brackett's diaries re-create the initial meetings of the talent responsible for Ninotchka (1939), Hold Back the Dawn (1941), Ball of Fire (1941), The Major and the Minor (1942), Five Graves to Cairo (1943), The Lost Weekend, and Sunset Blvd, recounting the breakthrough and breakdowns that ultimately forced these collaborators to part ways. Brackett was also a producer, served as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Screen Writers Guild, was a drama critic for the New Yorker, and became a member of the exclusive literary club, the Algonquin Round Table. Slide provides a rare, front row seat to the Golden Age dealings of Paramount, Universal, MGM, and RKO and the innovations of legendary theater and literary figures, such as Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Edna Ferber, and Dorothy Parker. Through Brackett's keen, witty perspective, the political and creative intrigue at the heart of Hollywood's most significant films comes alive, and readers will recognize their reach in the Hollywood industry today.


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Constructing dialogue : from Citizen Kane to Midnight in Paris
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ISBN: 9781441174253 9781441169808 9781441121912 9781441108517 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Bloomsbury

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