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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453823403321

Autore

Dixon Wheeler W. <1950->

Titolo

Cinema at the margins / / Wheeler Winston Dixon [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Anthem Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-78308-016-7

1-78308-026-4

1-78308-027-2

0-85728-195-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 220 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

New Perspectives on World Cinema

New perspectives on world cinema

Disciplina

791.43/7

Soggetti

Motion pictures - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part 1. Genre -- The future catches up with the past: Peter Bogdanovich's targets -- Surrealism and sudden death in the films of Lucio Fulci -- Flash Gordon and the 1930s and 40s science fiction serial -- Just the facts, man: the complicated genesis of television's Dragnet -- The disquieting aura of Fabián Bielinsky -- Part 2. History -- Fast worker: the films of Sam Newfield -- The power of resistance: Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne -- Beyond characterization: performance in 1960s -- Experimental cinema -- Vanishing point: the last days of film -- Part 3. Interviews -- "Let the sleepers sleep and the haters hate": an interview with Dale "Rage" Resteghini -- Margin call: an interview with J.C. Chandor -- "All my films are personal": an interview with Pat Jackson -- Working within the system: an interview with Gerry O'Hara -- Andrew V. McLaglen: last of the Hollywood professionals -- Pop star, director, actor: an interview with Michael Sarne.

Sommario/riassunto

'Cinema at the Margins' is a collection that aims to highlight some of the lesser-known films and filmmakers of the past that are being marginalized and forgotten in today's reductive popular memory of movie history.