Author: Donald Lyons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
"Independent Visions is an indispensable guide to the independent filmmakers who are changing how we look at movies. Donald Lyons writes with wit and passion."--Peter Travers, Rolling Stone Far from the big money movie machine of Hollywood lies the cutting-edge, artistically fresh world of American independent film. These independent filmmakers, working outside the formulas and constraints of the big studios, produce today's most exciting and innovative movies. In Independent Visions, film critic Donald Lyons surveys the surprisingly vast array of these independents from across the country and dissects the fascinating careers of the men and women who made them, Including: Joel Coen (Barton Fink) * Martha Coolidge (Rambling Rose) * David Cronenberg (Naked Lunch) * Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant) * Carl Franklin (One False Move) * Leslie Harris (Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.) * Hal Hartley (Simple Men) * Jim Jarmusch (Mystery Train) * Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing) * David Lynch (Blue Velvet) * John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer) * Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi) * Nancy Savoca (True Love) * John Sayles (Passion Fish) * John Singleton (Boyz N the Hood) * Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies and Videotape) * Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs) * Gus Van Sant (My Own Private Idaho) * and many more!
Independent Visions
Author: Donald Lyons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
"Independent Visions is an indispensable guide to the independent filmmakers who are changing how we look at movies. Donald Lyons writes with wit and passion."--Peter Travers, Rolling Stone Far from the big money movie machine of Hollywood lies the cutting-edge, artistically fresh world of American independent film. These independent filmmakers, working outside the formulas and constraints of the big studios, produce today's most exciting and innovative movies. In Independent Visions, film critic Donald Lyons surveys the surprisingly vast array of these independents from across the country and dissects the fascinating careers of the men and women who made them, Including: Joel Coen (Barton Fink) * Martha Coolidge (Rambling Rose) * David Cronenberg (Naked Lunch) * Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant) * Carl Franklin (One False Move) * Leslie Harris (Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.) * Hal Hartley (Simple Men) * Jim Jarmusch (Mystery Train) * Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing) * David Lynch (Blue Velvet) * John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer) * Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi) * Nancy Savoca (True Love) * John Sayles (Passion Fish) * John Singleton (Boyz N the Hood) * Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies and Videotape) * Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs) * Gus Van Sant (My Own Private Idaho) * and many more!
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
"Independent Visions is an indispensable guide to the independent filmmakers who are changing how we look at movies. Donald Lyons writes with wit and passion."--Peter Travers, Rolling Stone Far from the big money movie machine of Hollywood lies the cutting-edge, artistically fresh world of American independent film. These independent filmmakers, working outside the formulas and constraints of the big studios, produce today's most exciting and innovative movies. In Independent Visions, film critic Donald Lyons surveys the surprisingly vast array of these independents from across the country and dissects the fascinating careers of the men and women who made them, Including: Joel Coen (Barton Fink) * Martha Coolidge (Rambling Rose) * David Cronenberg (Naked Lunch) * Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant) * Carl Franklin (One False Move) * Leslie Harris (Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.) * Hal Hartley (Simple Men) * Jim Jarmusch (Mystery Train) * Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing) * David Lynch (Blue Velvet) * John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer) * Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi) * Nancy Savoca (True Love) * John Sayles (Passion Fish) * John Singleton (Boyz N the Hood) * Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies and Videotape) * Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs) * Gus Van Sant (My Own Private Idaho) * and many more!
Visions in a Seer Stone
Author: William L. Davis
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469655675
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
In this interdisciplinary work, William L. Davis examines Joseph Smith's 1829 creation of the Book of Mormon, the foundational text of the Latter Day Saint movement. Positioning the text in the history of early American oratorical techniques, sermon culture, educational practices, and the passion for self-improvement, Davis elucidates both the fascinating cultural context for the creation of the Book of Mormon and the central role of oral culture in early nineteenth-century America. Drawing on performance studies, religious studies, literary culture, and the history of early American education, Davis analyzes Smith's process of oral composition. How did he produce a history spanning a period of 1,000 years, filled with hundreds of distinct characters and episodes, all cohesively tied together in an overarching narrative? Eyewitnesses claimed that Smith never looked at notes, manuscripts, or books—he simply spoke the words of this American religious epic into existence. Judging the truth of this process is not Davis's interest. Rather, he reveals a kaleidoscope of practices and styles that converged around Smith's creation, with an emphasis on the evangelical preaching styles popularized by the renowned George Whitefield and John Wesley.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469655675
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
In this interdisciplinary work, William L. Davis examines Joseph Smith's 1829 creation of the Book of Mormon, the foundational text of the Latter Day Saint movement. Positioning the text in the history of early American oratorical techniques, sermon culture, educational practices, and the passion for self-improvement, Davis elucidates both the fascinating cultural context for the creation of the Book of Mormon and the central role of oral culture in early nineteenth-century America. Drawing on performance studies, religious studies, literary culture, and the history of early American education, Davis analyzes Smith's process of oral composition. How did he produce a history spanning a period of 1,000 years, filled with hundreds of distinct characters and episodes, all cohesively tied together in an overarching narrative? Eyewitnesses claimed that Smith never looked at notes, manuscripts, or books—he simply spoke the words of this American religious epic into existence. Judging the truth of this process is not Davis's interest. Rather, he reveals a kaleidoscope of practices and styles that converged around Smith's creation, with an emphasis on the evangelical preaching styles popularized by the renowned George Whitefield and John Wesley.
Berenice Abbott, Photographer
Author: George Sullivan
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618440269
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A biography of Berenice Abbott, who was a pioneer in the field of professional photography and is particularly acclaimed for her photographs of the streets and buildings of New York City before they were replaced by skyscrapers during a building boom in the 1920s and early 1930s.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618440269
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A biography of Berenice Abbott, who was a pioneer in the field of professional photography and is particularly acclaimed for her photographs of the streets and buildings of New York City before they were replaced by skyscrapers during a building boom in the 1920s and early 1930s.
Independent Vision
Author: Miriam Ascarelli
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1557535639
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Mention the words ?Seeing Eye,” and most people will associate them with guide dogs for the blind and partially sighted. Mention the name ?Dorothy Harrison Eustis,” and most people will not recognize it, even though she is the woman responsible for founding The Seeing Eye, the first guide dog school in the United States. Since its inception eighty years ago, The Seeing Eye has trained thousands of people who are visually impaired to use guide dogs. The success of the program has spawned guide dog schools across the country and around the world, and the concept has been further expanded to include service dogs for people with other kinds of disabilities. Drawing on correspondence, private papers, and newspaper accounts of the day, Miriam Ascarelli chronicles the life of Dorothy Harrison Eustis revealing both a driven woman and a very private person who shunned media coverage of herself but actively courted it for her organization.
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1557535639
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Mention the words ?Seeing Eye,” and most people will associate them with guide dogs for the blind and partially sighted. Mention the name ?Dorothy Harrison Eustis,” and most people will not recognize it, even though she is the woman responsible for founding The Seeing Eye, the first guide dog school in the United States. Since its inception eighty years ago, The Seeing Eye has trained thousands of people who are visually impaired to use guide dogs. The success of the program has spawned guide dog schools across the country and around the world, and the concept has been further expanded to include service dogs for people with other kinds of disabilities. Drawing on correspondence, private papers, and newspaper accounts of the day, Miriam Ascarelli chronicles the life of Dorothy Harrison Eustis revealing both a driven woman and a very private person who shunned media coverage of herself but actively courted it for her organization.
Daytime Visions
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781592701957
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Collage illustrations introduce the letters of the alphabet.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781592701957
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Collage illustrations introduce the letters of the alphabet.
Indie
Author: Michael Z. Newman
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231144652
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
By locating the American indie in the historical context of the Sundance-Miramax era, the author considers indie cinema as an alternative American film culture.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231144652
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
By locating the American indie in the historical context of the Sundance-Miramax era, the author considers indie cinema as an alternative American film culture.
Rival Visions
Author: Dustin Gish
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813944481
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The emergence of the early American republic as a new nation on the world stage conjured rival visions in the eyes of leading statesmen at home and attentive observers abroad. Thomas Jefferson envisioned the newly independent states as a federation of republics united by common experience, mutual interest, and an adherence to principles of natural rights. His views on popular government and the American experiment in republicanism, and later the expansion of its empire of liberty, offered an influential account of the new nation. While persuasive in crucial respects, his vision of early America did not stand alone as an unrivaled model. The contributors to Rival Visions examine how Jefferson’s contemporaries—including Washington, Adams, Hamilton, Madison, and Marshall—articulated their visions for the early American republic. Even beyond America, in this age of successive revolutions and crises, foreign statesmen began to formulate their own accounts of the new nation, its character, and its future prospects. This volume reveals how these vigorous debates and competing rival visions defined the early American republic in the formative epoch after the revolution.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813944481
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The emergence of the early American republic as a new nation on the world stage conjured rival visions in the eyes of leading statesmen at home and attentive observers abroad. Thomas Jefferson envisioned the newly independent states as a federation of republics united by common experience, mutual interest, and an adherence to principles of natural rights. His views on popular government and the American experiment in republicanism, and later the expansion of its empire of liberty, offered an influential account of the new nation. While persuasive in crucial respects, his vision of early America did not stand alone as an unrivaled model. The contributors to Rival Visions examine how Jefferson’s contemporaries—including Washington, Adams, Hamilton, Madison, and Marshall—articulated their visions for the early American republic. Even beyond America, in this age of successive revolutions and crises, foreign statesmen began to formulate their own accounts of the new nation, its character, and its future prospects. This volume reveals how these vigorous debates and competing rival visions defined the early American republic in the formative epoch after the revolution.
Island Visions
Author: Jacob Seibel-Boettner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781930194052
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781930194052
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Bogie & Bacall
Author: Cindy De La Hoz
Publisher: Running Press Adult
ISBN: 0762460415
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Ever since nineteen-year-old Lauren Bacall seductively taught Humphrey Bogart how to whistle in the most famous scene from 1941's To Have and Have Not, fans have been fascinated by the palpable heat between these two movie legends. Their onscreen passion blossomed into a full-blown off-screen love affair, and culminated in a blissful marriage that lasted twelve years, until Bogart's untimely death in 1957. Bogie & Bacall celebrates their love, with rare photos of the couple, along with tips and anecdotes that will inspire you to ignite your own legendary romance.
Publisher: Running Press Adult
ISBN: 0762460415
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Ever since nineteen-year-old Lauren Bacall seductively taught Humphrey Bogart how to whistle in the most famous scene from 1941's To Have and Have Not, fans have been fascinated by the palpable heat between these two movie legends. Their onscreen passion blossomed into a full-blown off-screen love affair, and culminated in a blissful marriage that lasted twelve years, until Bogart's untimely death in 1957. Bogie & Bacall celebrates their love, with rare photos of the couple, along with tips and anecdotes that will inspire you to ignite your own legendary romance.
Visions of Freedom
Author: Piero Gleijeses
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469609681
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469609681
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991