Cinema today
Subtitle: a conversation with thirty-eight filmmakers from around the world
By: Elena Oumano.
Contributors: Oumano, Elena.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780813548760; 9780813548777
Subjects: Motion picture producers and directors -- Interviews; Motion pictures -- Production and direction; Screenwriters -- Interviews; Motion picture authorship
Genres: Interviews
Description: Follows a symposium-in-print format with filmmakers' words and thoughts grouped together under various key cinema topics.
Notes: Filmmakers interviewed: Tomas Alfredson, Ozcan Alper, Olivier Assayas, Serge Bozon, Catherine Breillat, Andrew Bujalski, Charles Burnett, Pedro Costa, Constantino Costa-Gravas, Claire Denis, Sergei Dvortsevoy, Jihan El-Tahri, Matteo Garrone, Bette Gordon, Eric Guirado, Lance Hammer, Mia Hansen-Love, Mary Harron, Scott Hicks, Courtney Hunt, Agnès Jaoui, Kyoshi Kurosawa, Pablo Larrain, Anne Le Ny, Lucrecia Martel, Brillante Mendoza, Teona Strugar Mitevska, Gerardo Naranjo, Lucia Puenzo, Paul Schrader, Celine Sciamma, Shamim Sarif, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jean-Marie Tèno, Ivo Trajkov, Melvin Van Peebles, Gary Winick, Jia Zhangke.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Cinematography; title: Cinema and sound; title: Working with actors; title: Cinematic rhythm and structure; title: The process : pre-production, production, and post-production; title: The business : financing, distribution, and exhibition; title: Cinema, art, and reality; title: The viewer; title: Cinema and society.