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Minding movies : observations on the art, craft, and business of filmmaking / David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson.
LIBRA PN1994 .B67 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bordwell, David.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- The business
- World rejects Hollywood blockbusters!?
- Live with it! there'll always be sequels. Good thing, too
- Superheroes for sale
- What won the weekend? or, how to understand box-office figures
- Snakes, no; Borat, yes: not all internet publicity is the same
- Don't knock the blockbusters
- Writing about movies
- In critical condition
- Love isn't all you need
- Do filmmakers deserve the last word?
- Crix nix Variety's tics
- Film as art
- But what kind of art?
- This is your brain on movies, maybe
- Movies still matter
- Storytelling and style
- Anatomy of the action picture
- Times go by turns
- Grandmaster flashback
- Originality and origin stories
- Good actors spell good acting
- By Annie standards
- Unsteadicam chronicles
- Pausing and chortling: a tribute to Bob Clampett
- Films
- A behemoth from the dead zone
- Cronenberg's violent reversals
- The movie looks back at us
- Lessons from Babel
- Slumdogged by the past
- Rat rapture
- A welcome basterdization
- Into the future
- New media and old storytelling
- The celestial multiplex
- Take my film, please.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226066981
- 0226066983
- 9780226066998
- 0226066991
- OCLC:
- 645790898
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