FilmQuake : The Most Disruptive Films in Cinema.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ian Haydn Smith, Ian Haydn.

Ian Haydn Smith, author.

Series:

Culture Quake

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Quarto Publishing Group UK, 2022.

Summary:

An alternative introduction to cinema, focusing on the stories of 50 key films that consciously questioned the boundaries, challenged the status quo and made shockwaves we are still feeling today.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Introduction

The Shock of the New: 1895-1929

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station: Auguste and Louis Lumière

Women in Film

The Birth of a Nation: D.W. Griffith

Within Our Gates: Oscar Micheaux

Nosferatu: F.W. Murnau

German Expressionism

Nanook of the North: Robert Flaherty

Battleship Potemkin: Sergei Eisenstein

Soviet Cinema

The Passion of Joan of Arc: Carl Theodor Dreyer

Sound in Film

A World in Flux: 1930-1959

The Golden Age: Luis Buñuel

Avant-Garde Cinema

L'Atalante: Jean Vigo

Triumph of the Will: Leni Riefenstahl

Propaganda on Film

The Great Dictator: Charles Chaplin

Citizen Kane: Orson Welles

Auteur Cinema

Rome, Open City: Roberto Rossellini

Italian Neorealism

Rashomon: Akira Kurosawa

Pather Panchali: Satyajit Ray

The Seventh Seal: Ingmar Bergman

Art Film

The Rise of Animation

Some Like It Hot: Billy Wilder

Breaking All the Rules: 1960-1979

Breathless: Jean-Luc Goddard

The French New Wave

Psycho: Alfred Hitchcock

New Adventures in Horror

Victim: Basil Dearden

Cléo from 5 to 7: Agnès Varda

The Battle of Algiers: Gillo Pontecorvo

Bonnie and Clyde: Arthur Penn

New Hollywood

2001: A Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick

Wanda: Barbara Loden

Feminist Film

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss: Melvin Van Peebles

Black Cinema in the US

Touki Bouki: Djibril Diop Mambéty

Cinema of Transgression

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles: Chantal Akerman

Jaws: Steven Spielberg

Apocalypse Now: Francis Ford Coppola

Developments in Sound

Independence and Industry: 1980-1999

Fitzcarraldo: Werner Herzog

An Epic Cinema

Shoah: Claude Lanzmann

The Thin Blue Line: Errol Morris

A Short Film About Killing: Krzysztof Kieślowski

Changing the World.

Do the Right Thing: Spike Lee

Paris is Burning: Jennie Livingston

New Queer Cinema

Daughters of the Dust: Julie Dash

Terminator 2: Judgment Day: James Cameron

Reservoir Dogs: Quentin Tarantino

US Indie Cinema

Chungking Express: Wong Kar-wai

Cinema in Hong Kong, China

Recent New Waves

La Haine: Mathieu Kassovitz

The Blair Witch Project: Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez

Recent Horror

The Future is Unwritten: 2000-Present

Russian Ark: Aleksandr Sokurov

Cinema and Time

Digital Cinema

Brokeback Mountain: Ang Lee

United 93: Paul Greengrass

Cinema Post-9/11

Tangerine: Sean Baker

Get Out: Jordan Peele

Film and Black Lives Matter

Change for the Future

Atlantics: Mati Diop

For Sama: Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts

Citizen Journalism

Parasite: Bong Joon-Ho

Glossary

Further Reading

Picture Credits

Index

Copyright.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Ian Haydn Smith, Ian Haydn FilmQuake

ISBN:

9780711259720

OCLC:

1293257836