According to Vogel--founder of Cinema 16, North America's legendary film society--the book details the "accelerating worldwide trend toward a more liberated cinema, in which subjects and forms hitherto considered unthinkable or forbidden are boldly explored." So ahead of his time was Vogel that the ideas that he penned some 30 years ago are still relevant today, and readily accessible in this classic volume. Accompanied by over 300 rare film stills, "Film as a Subversive Art" analyzes how aesthetic, sexual and ideological subversives use one of the most powerful art forms of our day to exchange or manipulate our conscious and unconscious, demystify visual taboos, destroy dated cinematic forms, and undermine existing value systems and institutions. This subversion of form, as well as of content, is placed within the context of the contemporary world view of science, philosophy, and modern art, and is illuminated by a detailed examination of over 500 films, including many banned, rarely seen, or never released works.

    The Japanese family in dissolution figures in every one of his fifty-three films. In his later pictures, the whole world exists in one family, the characters are family members rather than members of a society, and the ends of the earth seem no more distant than the outside of the house.

    However, only once in a while does a genius emerge whose work is of such brilliance and magnitude that it surpasses all existing levels. Charles Chaplin was such an artist and his extraordinary career is a stunning testament to both his own genius and to the development of that unique popular art form--the cinema.

    François Truffaut called him “an infallible filmmaker . . . Renoir has succeeded in creating the most alive films in the history of cinema, films which still breathe forty years after they were made.” In this book, Jean Renoir(1894-1979)presents his world, from his father’s Montemarte studio to his own travels in Paris, Hollywood, and India. Here are tantalizing secrets about his greatest films—The Rules of the Game, The Grand Illusion, The River, A Day in the Country, La Bête Humaine, Toni. But most of all, Renoir shows us himself: a man if dazzling simplicity, immense creativity, and profound humanity.

    Now, in a new, enlarged edition of the first major book to deal with with Stanwyck, Ella Smith presents every side of the famous woman at work, revealing how she tackled each role; how she felt about her profession; how actors, directors, and technicians who have worked with her evaluate her outstanding ability; and why she has maintained her eminence in a profession best described as precarious.Every stage pf the star's ascent to fame is fully chronicled. The entire panorama of her Hollywood career is brought vividly to life: the scores of films she made (including BALL OF FIRE; STELLA DALLAS; DOUBLE INDEMNITY; SORRY, WRONG NUMBER; and THE LADY EVE); the great directors who guided her superb performances (Frank Capra, John Ford, King Vidor, Howard Hawks, and Billy Wilder); and the producers who selected her to star in many of their most important pictures (Hal B. Wallis, Cecil B. Demille, Samuel Goldwyn, and Daryl F. Zanuck).Ella Smith discusses, in chronological order, each one of the Stanwyck films and provides a wealth of photographs that will delight all Stanwyck admirers. The star's television work, including her Emmy-winning performance in THE THORN BIRDS, is also fully covered, and a complete filmographyis attached for easy reference. In addition, there are extensive critical reviews.Starring Miss Barbara Stanwyck is a book that will prove fascinating to everyone who has been captivated by the actress's great beauty, her ability to move audiences, and her total freedom from artifice or pretense. It is a stunning tribute to a woman who is noted not only for her fairness and cooperativeness, her steady and straightforward personality, but for her with, warmth, energy, and charm as well.important info about this edition:Expanded book with more added on Barbara Stanwyck's career.

    400 photos.

    This richly comic work, long recognized as the most important expression of the director's views about himself and his art, communicates to its viewers an understanding of the processes of filmmaking itself.

    While the role may have given him eternal life on the silver screen, it doomed him to a career plagued by typecasting. After a decade of trying vainly to broaden his range and secure parts to challenge his acting abilities, Lugosi finally resigned himself to a career as the world's most recognizable vampire. His last years were spent as a forgotten and rather tragic figure.

    

    Carole Lombard’s mother didn’t want to get on the plane. The stars were all wrong, she said, and her astrologer had warned her not to fly. But Carole Lombard was in a hurry. She’d spent the week on a whirlwind tour of the country, selling war bonds for the United States government, and she couldn’t bear another moment away from her husband, Clark Gable, Hollywood’s most dashing leading man. She flipped a coin—heads for the train, tails for the plane. Carole won. They flew. Her plane crashed into a mountainside shortly after it left Las Vegas, killing all aboard. This intimate biography by Warren G. Harris tells the story of Gable and Lombard, whose romance shocked the movie industry, and whose tragedy would change Hollywood forever.

    

    John McCabe follows Stan Laurel's career from his early days in British variety, his arrival in the United States, the first films, to his teaming up with Oliver Hardy in 1926 and their meteoric rise to fame.

    

    Critics hailed the first edition of Visionary Film as the most complete work written on the exciting, often puzzling, and always controversial genre of American avant-garde film.

    He wanted a reaction, and he got one. Audiences fainted, walked out and boycotted screenings but they wouldn't forget the horror that was Psycho. Enjoyed the film? Want to know more? Go behind the scenes with the ultimate film guides and get the bigger picture. Understand how Alfred Hitchcock influenced some of Hollywood's greatest directors and how Psycho was credited with creating a genre of its own and later revered as a cinematic classic despite having no financial backing. Consider the importance of film style and key scenes, and learn how the film engages the audience by the use of narrative. Understand what role camera shots and music had on building a cinematic experience. What were the decisions behind casting Janet Leigh in the leading role and what did the character of Norman Bates do for Anthony Perkins career? Satisfy your curiosity with the ultimate film guides. Read biographies of key players, critics reviews and finally see the film the director wanted you to see. ...don't be in the dark about film