Selected film essays and interviews / Bruce F. Kawin ; foreword by Howie Movshovitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kawin, Bruce F., 1945-

Series:

New perspectives on world cinema

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hawks, Howard, 1896-1977.

Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Reviews.

Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993--Interviews.

Gish, Lillian.

Hawks, Howard, 1896-1977--Interviews.

Hawks, Howard.

Genre:

Reviews.

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xiv, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Anthem Press, 2013.

Summary:

This engaging collection of Bruce F. Kawin's most important film essays (1977-2011) is accompanied by his interviews with Lillian Gish (1978) and Howard Hawks (1976). The Hawks interview is particularly concerned with his work with William Faulkner and their friendship. The Gish interview emphasizes her role as a producer in the 1920s. The essays focus on such topics as violence and sexual politics in film, the relations between horror and science fiction, the growth of video and digital cinema and their effects on both film and film scholarship, the politics of film theory, narration in film, and the relations between film and literature. Among the most significant articles reprinted here are "Me Tarzan, You Junk," "The Montage Element in Faulkner's Fiction," "The Mummy's Pool," "The Whole World Is Watching," and "Late Show on the Telescreen: Film Studies and the Bottom Line." The book includes close readings of films from La Jetée to The Wizard of Oz. Book jacket.

Contents:

Pt. 1. Violence and politics

Me Tarzan, you junk

The whole world is watching

Violent genres

Wild blueberry muffins

Pt. 2. Horror and science fiction

The mummy's pool

Time and stasis in La Jetée

Carnival of souls

Pt. 3. Reviews

Welcome to L.A.

The fury

Piranha

The elephant man

Pt. 4. Interviews

Interviews

Lillian Gish

Howard Hawks

Pt. 5. Literature and narration

The montage element in Faulkner's fiction

Horton Foote

An outline of film voices

Dorothy's dream: mindscreen in The wizard of Oz

Pt. 6. Getting it right

Creative remembering and other perils of film study

Late show on the telescreen: film studies and the bottom line

Video frame enlargements

Three endings.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780857283047

0857283049

9780857283054

0857283057

OCLC:

818415257

Publisher Number:

60001748747