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Mamoulian (Paperback, 2nd ed. 2010)
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Mamoulian (Paperback, 2nd ed. 2010)
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The great Armenian-American director Rouben Mamoulian (1897-1987)
remains a favourite among film-makers, his films combining great
technical originality with a uniquely poetic visual style.
Mamoulian's technical innovations are evident from his first film,
Applause (1923), in which he incorporated two separate soundtracks
into one printing, thus overcoming the difficulty of sound levels
which had frustrated the pioneer directors of 'talkies', and in Dr
Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931), in which he used synthetic sound painted
directly onto the soundtrack. Such inventive solutions to
film-making challenges were linked to Mamoulian's abiding sense of
the magic of the cinema. Heused colour as a dramatic ingredient in
the first three-strip Technicolour film, Becky Sharp (1935), and
his musicals Summer Holiday (1948) and Silk Stockings (1957) were
remarkable in their time for the way in which the dance was used to
enhance the drama and to illuminate character. And for Garbo, in
Queen Christina (1933) he created the framework for her greatest
role. Tom Milne's classic study, first published in 1969, provides
a film-by-film analysis of Mamoulian's career and challenges
widespread critical assumptions about the director's oeuvre. In his
foreword to this new edition, Geoff Andrew recognises Milne's
careful and insightful analysis of Mamoulian's expressive and
imaginative style and asks whether this unique director ought to be
considered as an auteur. Andrew also pays tribute to Milne's
elegant, witty and eclectic critical style and hails him as one the
most important and influential British writers on film. TOM MILNE
(1926-2005) was a leading British film critic, contributing to
Sight & Sound, the Monthly Film Bulletin, The Observer, The
Financial Times and The Times during his career. During the 1960s
he worked at the British Film Institute as Associate Editor of
Sight & Sound and Editor of The Monthly Film Bulletin. His
other publications include a monograph on Joseph Losey (1967), a
short study on the Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer (1971) and
an anthology of interviews and writings on Jean-Luc Godard (1972)
that he edited and translated. Foreword by GEOFF ANDREW, Head of
Film Programme at BFI Southbank, UK, and the author of several
books including Nicholas Ray: Poet of Nightfall (BFI, 2004) and, in
the BFI Film Classics series, volumes on Kieslowski's Three Colours
Trilogy and Kiarostami's 10.
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