Screen writings
Subtitle: partial views of a total art, classic to contemporary
By: Bert Cardullo
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781843318798; 9781843318378
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: v. 1.  Introduction:  The necessary film; title: Children of a lesser God:  The children's film from De Sica to Kore-eda (on Vittorio De Sica's "The children are watching us" and Hirokazu Kore-eda's "Nobody knows"); title: Death wish, child's whim, auteurist will:  Boyer and Clément's forbidden games replayed; title: War games (on Bahman Ghobadi's "Turtles can fly"); title: Outing Edward, outfitting Marlowe:  Derek Jarman's film of "Edward II"; title: Theater and fiction into film:  Notes on paradigmatic scenes and emblematic adaptations (on William Wyler's "The little foxes", D.W. Griffith's "Way down East", Kenneth Branagh's "Henry V", Bill Forsyth's "Housekeeping", Danny Boyle's "Trainspotting", and Stephen Frears's "Dangerous liaisons"); title: Married to the job:  Ermanno Olmi's "Il Posto" and "I Fidanzati" revisited; title: Reflecting reality and mystery:  An interview with Ermanno Olmi; title: Lower depths, higher planes:  On the films of the Dardenne Brothers (on "La Promesse", "Rosetta", "The son", and "L'Enfant"); title: Cinema of Resistance:  An interview with Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne; title: World is too much with us:  Violence on screen, or realism, reality, and the an-esthetic of the unreal; title: Characterizing space, configuring time:  Notes, mostly on Antonioni's "L'Avventura" and "La Notte"; title: As time goes by:  Memory and the movies (on Bo Widerberg's "Elvira Madigan", Mike Nichols' "Carnal knowledge", Peter Bogdanovich's "The last picture show", Martin Scorsese's "Mean streets", and John Hancock's "Bang the drum slowly").