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The Shining
written by Roger Luckhurst, fl. 2008-2015, in Film Classics (London, England: British Film Institute, 2013, originally published 2013), 99 page(s)
An analysis of Stanley Kubrick's
1980 film The Shining by Roger Luckhurst.
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written by Roger Luckhurst, fl. 2008-2015, in Film Classics (London, England: British Film Institute, 2013, originally published 2013), 99 page(s)
Description
An analysis of Stanley Kubrick's
1980 film The Shining by Roger Luckhurst.
Field of Study
Film
Content Type
General reference book
Author / Creator
Roger Luckhurst, fl. 2008-2015
Date Published / Released
2013
Publisher
British Film Institute
Series
Film Classics
Person Discussed
Stanley Kubrick, 1928-1999
Topic / Theme
Horror
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Copyright © 2014 by British Film Institute
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Shoah
written by Sue Vice, fl. 1997-2015, in Film Classics (London, England: British Film Institute, 2011, originally published 2011), 99 page(s)
?Claude Lanzmann's epic 1985 film Shoah is the distillation of more than 350 hours of footage gathered over eleven years. The film tells the story of the Holocaust through interviews with survivors of the extermination camps, bystanders who watched or participated in mass murder, and some of the perpetrators of ge...
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written by Sue Vice, fl. 1997-2015, in Film Classics (London, England: British Film Institute, 2011, originally published 2011), 99 page(s)
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?Claude Lanzmann's epic 1985 film Shoah is the distillation of more than 350 hours of footage gathered over eleven years. The film tells the story of the Holocaust through interviews with survivors of the extermination camps, bystanders who watched or participated in mass murder, and some of the perpetrators of genocide. As a filmic document of the Holocaust, it shuns those staple elements of archival footage or a consistent voiceover that charac...
?Claude Lanzmann's epic 1985 film Shoah is the distillation of more than 350 hours of footage gathered over eleven years. The film tells the story of the Holocaust through interviews with survivors of the extermination camps, bystanders who watched or participated in mass murder, and some of the perpetrators of genocide. As a filmic document of the Holocaust, it shuns those staple elements of archival footage or a consistent voiceover that characterise other classic works. Instead, it is composed entirely of eyewitness interviews in a wide range of settings, contrasted with footage of landscape in the present, and with the chilling imagery of travelling trains. In this way, Shoah's effect is to represent the past, but only as it exists in the present, and it is, in Lanzmann's phrase, a 'fiction of the real', and not a simple documentary.
In this insightful study, Sue Vice explores Shoah both as cinema and as an example of Holocaust representation. In addition, the author follows Lanzmann's declaration that 'Shoah is a fight against generalities' in emphasising the importance of the detail in both dialogue and filmic technique. Vice uses close readings of some of the film's interviews – including that with Abraham Bomba, a barber at the death camp Treblinka, and one secretly filmed with Franz Suchomel, a guard at the same camp – to explore the background to the film, the difficulties in its financing and production, and the long process of editing that led to Lanzmann's realisation that 'the subject of my film is death itself, death and not survival'.
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Field of Study
Film
Content Type
General reference book
Author / Creator
Sue Vice, fl. 1997-2015
Date Published / Released
2011
Publisher
British Film Institute
Series
Film Classics
Person Discussed
Claude Lanzmann, 1925-
Topic / Theme
Film and films, Film directors, War, History, Documentary
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Copyright © 2011 by British Film Institute
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Back to the Future
written by Andrew Shail, fl. 2010 and Robin Stoate, fl. 2010, in Film Classics (London, England: British Film Institute, 2010, originally published 2010), 118 page(s)
Back to the Future was the top-grossing film of 1985 and the eighth highest grossing film of the 1980s. It was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Best Original Screenplay in 1986, and won the 1986 People's Choice Award for Favourite Motion Picture. Co-written and directed by Spielberg protege Robert Zem...
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written by Andrew Shail, fl. 2010 and Robin Stoate, fl. 2010, in Film Classics (London, England: British Film Institute, 2010, originally published 2010), 118 page(s)
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Back to the Future was the top-grossing film of 1985 and the eighth highest grossing film of the 1980s. It was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Best Original Screenplay in 1986, and won the 1986 People's Choice Award for Favourite Motion Picture. Co-written and directed by Spielberg protege Robert Zemeckis, it became a landmark of 'New New Hollywood' and has continued to grow in popularity, voted 20th in Empire magazine's 2006 reader...
Back to the Future was the top-grossing film of 1985 and the eighth highest grossing film of the 1980s. It was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Best Original Screenplay in 1986, and won the 1986 People's Choice Award for Favourite Motion Picture. Co-written and directed by Spielberg protege Robert Zemeckis, it became a landmark of 'New New Hollywood' and has continued to grow in popularity, voted 20th in Empire magazine's 2006 readers' poll of the best films of all time. In 2007, the United States Library of Congress deemed Back to the Future to be 'culturally, historically or aesthetically' significant enough to be 'preserved for all time' in the National Film Registry. Other choices that year included such classics as The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Now, Voyager (1942), Oklahoma! (1955) and 12 Angry Men (1957).
Andrew Shail and Robin Stoate's study of the film places it in the historical context of Reaganite America and the cinematic context of the 'New New Hollywood' and Zemeckis's filmmaking career. They discuss the film's treatment of time travel and its depiction of the potential and pitfalls of science and of atomic energy. Shail and Stoate consider Back to the Future's attitudes towards teen culture of the 1980s and the 1950s, seen in the film as a period in which traditional 'American' values and gender roles held sway to the benefit of family and community life, in contrast to the more troubled decade from which Marty McFly begins his time-travelling adventures.
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Field of Study
Film
Content Type
General reference book
Author / Creator
Andrew Shail, fl. 2010, Robin Stoate, fl. 2010
Date Published / Released
2010
Publisher
British Film Institute
Series
Film Classics
Person Discussed
Robert Zemeckis, 1951-
Topic / Theme
Film directors, Film and films, Science Fiction
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2014 by British Film Institute
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The Sentence (Never produced): Draft script
(Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2007), 126 page(s)
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(Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2007), 126 page(s)
Field of Study
Film
Content Type
Script
Author / Creator
James Dickey, 1923-1997
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
Alexander Street
Person Discussed
Lead Belly Ledbetter, 1885-1949
Topic / Theme
Relationships, Stanley Hollis, Warden Strasser, Cleveland Hawkins
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1977. Reproduced by permission of the Literary Estate of James Dickey.
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The Sentence: Draft script, never produced
(Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2007), 98 page(s)
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(Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2007), 98 page(s)
Field of Study
Film
Content Type
Script
Author / Creator
James Dickey, 1923-1997
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
Alexander Street
Person Discussed
Lead Belly Ledbetter, 1885-1949
Topic / Theme
Relationships, Stanley Hollis, Warden Strasser, Cleveland Hawkins
Copyright Message
Copyright © James Dickey. Reproduced by permission of the Literary Estate of James Dickey.
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The Comoedia Theatre, A Rebirth
directed by Agnès Ribouton, fl. 2007 and Eric Guirado, 1968- (Paris, Ile-de-France: Windrose (Film distributor), 2007), 54 mins
The Comoedia is one of the oldest theaters in the world. It is located in Lyon (France), in the city where cinema was born. The history of cinemas is told through the life of this theater. Inaugurated in 1914, this theater exhibited sideshows before becoming a grand theater showing 70mm movies in the 60's and 70's...
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directed by Agnès Ribouton, fl. 2007 and Eric Guirado, 1968- (Paris, Ile-de-France: Windrose (Film distributor), 2007), 54 mins
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The Comoedia is one of the oldest theaters in the world. It is located in Lyon (France), in the city where cinema was born. The history of cinemas is told through the life of this theater. Inaugurated in 1914, this theater exhibited sideshows before becoming a grand theater showing 70mm movies in the 60's and 70's. Saved from the demolition in 2003, it reopened in 2006, thanks to the commitment of passionate figures.
Field of Study
Film
Content Type
Documentary
Author / Creator
Agnès Ribouton, fl. 2007, Eric Guirado, 1968-
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
Windrose (Film distributor)
Topic / Theme
Theater buildings, Film and films
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2009. Used by permission of Windrose Distribution.
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Billy T James: A Daughter's Story
directed by Alan D'Arcy Erson, fl. 2000-2007; produced by George Andrews, fl. 2014 (Auckland, Auckland Region: GA Productions, 1997), 44 mins
Cherie James pays a daughter's tribute to New Zealand's best-loved entertainer Billy T James.
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directed by Alan D'Arcy Erson, fl. 2000-2007; produced by George Andrews, fl. 2014 (Auckland, Auckland Region: GA Productions, 1997), 44 mins
Description
Cherie James pays a daughter's tribute to New Zealand's best-loved entertainer Billy T James.
Field of Study
Film
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
George Andrews, fl. 2014
Author / Creator
Alan D'Arcy Erson, fl. 2000-2007
Date Published / Released
1997
Publisher
GA Productions
Person Discussed
Billy T. James, 1948-1991
Topic / Theme
Fathers, Daughters, Family relationships, Entertainment industry, Family and Culture
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1996 by George Andrews Productions
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Blade Runner (2nd Edition)
written by Scott Bukatman, fl. 1980-2016, in Film Classics (London, England: British Film Institute, 2012, originally published 1997), 111 page(s)
Ridley Scott's dystopian classic Blade Runner, an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, combines noir with science fiction to create a groundbreaking cyberpunk vision of urban life in the twenty-first century. With replicants on the run, the rain-drenched Los Angeles which Bla...
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written by Scott Bukatman, fl. 1980-2016, in Film Classics (London, England: British Film Institute, 2012, originally published 1997), 111 page(s)
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Ridley Scott's dystopian classic Blade Runner, an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, combines noir with science fiction to create a groundbreaking cyberpunk vision of urban life in the twenty-first century. With replicants on the run, the rain-drenched Los Angeles which Blade Runner imagines is a city of oppression and enclosure, but a city in which transgression and disorder can always erupt. Graced by st...
Ridley Scott's dystopian classic Blade Runner, an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, combines noir with science fiction to create a groundbreaking cyberpunk vision of urban life in the twenty-first century. With replicants on the run, the rain-drenched Los Angeles which Blade Runner imagines is a city of oppression and enclosure, but a city in which transgression and disorder can always erupt. Graced by stunning sets, lighting, effects, costumes and photography, Blade Runner succeeds brilliantly in depicting a world at once uncannily familiar and startlingly new. In his innovative and nuanced reading, Scott Bukatman details the making of Blade Runner and its steadily improving fortunes following its release in 1982. He situates the film in terms of debates about postmodernism, which have informed much of the criticism devoted to it, but argues that its tensions derive also from the quintessentially twentieth-century, modernist experience of the city – as a space both imprisoning and liberating.
In his foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, Bukatman suggests that Blade Runner 's visual complexity allows it to translate successfully to the world of high definition and on-demand home cinema. He looks back to the sciencefiction tradition of the early 1980s, and on to the key changes in the 'final' version of the film in 2007, which risk diminishing the sense of instability created in the original.
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Field of Study
Film
Content Type
General reference book
Author / Creator
Scott Bukatman, fl. 1980-2016
Date Published / Released
1997, 2012
Publisher
British Film Institute
Series
Film Classics
Person Discussed
Philip K. Dick, Ridley Scott, 1937-
Topic / Theme
Filmmaking industry, Science Fiction, Rick Deckard
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2012 by British Film Institute
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Pratimurthi
directed by Bimal Dutt; performed by Sadhu Meher, fl. 1969-2007, Rajendra Gupta, 1935- and Rakhee Gulzar, 1947- (India: National Film Development Corporation Ltd), 1 hour 37 mins
This drama was directed by Bimal Dutt, and features Sadhu Meher, Rajendra Gupta, and Rakhee Gulzar.
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directed by Bimal Dutt; performed by Sadhu Meher, fl. 1969-2007, Rajendra Gupta, 1935- and Rakhee Gulzar, 1947- (India: National Film Development Corporation Ltd), 1 hour 37 mins
Description
This drama was directed by Bimal Dutt, and features Sadhu Meher, Rajendra Gupta, and Rakhee Gulzar.
Field of Study
Film
Content Type
Performance
Performer / Ensemble
Sadhu Meher, fl. 1969-2007, Rajendra Gupta, 1935-, Rakhee Gulzar, 1947-
Author / Creator
Bimal Dutt, Sadhu Meher, fl. 1969-2007, Rajendra Gupta, 1935-, Rakhee Gulzar, 1947-
Date Published / Released
1993
Publisher
National Film Development Corporation Ltd
Topic / Theme
Family
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1993 Used by permission of National Film Development Corporation.
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The James Gang Rides Again
directed by Tom Parkinson, 1942- and George Andrews, fl. 2014; produced by Billy T. James, 1948-1991 and George Andrews, fl. 2014, Pulse Productions, New Zealand (GA Productions, 1990, originally published 2009), 47 mins
New Zealand's best-loved comedian and entertainer Billy T James tells the story of his heart transplant and recovery.
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directed by Tom Parkinson, 1942- and George Andrews, fl. 2014; produced by Billy T. James, 1948-1991 and George Andrews, fl. 2014, Pulse Productions, New Zealand (GA Productions, 1990, originally published 2009), 47 mins
Description
New Zealand's best-loved comedian and entertainer Billy T James tells the story of his heart transplant and recovery.
Field of Study
Film
Content Type
Documentary, Performance
Contributor
Billy T. James, 1948-1991, George Andrews, fl. 2014, Pulse Productions, New Zealand
Author / Creator
Tom Parkinson, 1942-, George Andrews, fl. 2014
Date Published / Released
2009, 1990
Publisher
GA Productions
Person Discussed
Billy T. James, 1948-1991
Topic / Theme
Surgery, Heart diseases, Comedians
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1990 by George Andrews Productions
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