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Cinema of Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick is one of our most brilliant, innovative and difficult filmmakers. Norman Kagan's analysis cuts a lucid path through those difficulties. He summarizes the plots of each of Kubrick's films, providing a running commentary as he goes along. He moreover lists thematic obsessions that run through all the films he describes, offering an intriguing sense of Kubrick's career as a whole.
The Cinema of Robert Zemeckis
Robert Zemeckis has risen to the forefront of American filmmaking with a string of successes: Romancing the Stone, Back to the Future I, II, & III, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Forrest Gump, and Castaway. Herein, Norman Kagan unlocks the mind behind the making of these diverse and groundbreaking hits—appraising each work's public and critical appeal while placing the films in the context of Zemeckis's career.
Understanding Comedy through College Comedies
In this book, Norman Kagan explores of the nature of comedy and helps readers discover why they are laughing, new reasons to laugh, and new films to that will offer a source of laughter.
Romance Film
Romance Film is a critical history of significant romance films from Hollywood and abroad. Each chapter analyzes a type of lover, including the siren, intriguer, dandy, innocent, coquette, charmer, charismatic, and comic, and the self-destructive lover. It discusses each type's continuities and the social forces and emotions that shape it.
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The Cinema of Oliver Stone
"The Cinema of Oliver Stone shows how the movies were inspired, how they were made, and what the critics and other filmmakers have said. Also included are analyses of films Stone worked on as a writer but not as a director: Midnight Express, Conan the Barbarian, Scarface, and others."--BOOK JACKET.
Toward the Visualization of History
Where once the study of the past was books and printed articles, the environment has changed and students now enter the lecture hall with a sense of history that has been gleaned from television, film, photography, and other new media. They come to understand history based on what they have seen and heard, not what they have read. Mark Moss discusses the impact of visuals on the study of history with an examination of visual culture and the future of print. Recognizing the visual bias of the younger generations and using this as a starting point for teaching history is a critical component for reading students. By providing an analysis of photography, film, television, and computer culture, Moss uses the Holocaust as a historical an awareness of history, as well as the potential for visual cultural becoming a driving force for social and cultural change. Book jacket.
Supervision Of Psychotherapy And Counselling
This volume brings together authors from a variety of different perspectives and orientations to comment on supervision. Although strongly influenced by psychoanalytic ideas, the book also offers humanistic insights into good supervision practices.
