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Performing Music History offers a unique perspective on music
history and performance through a series of conversations with
women and men intimately associated with music performance,
history, and practice: the musicians themselves. Fifty-five
celebrated artists-singers, pianists, violinists, cellists,
flutists, horn players, oboists, composers, conductors, and jazz
greats-provide interviews that encompass most of Western music
history, from the Middle Ages to contemporary classical music,
avant-garde innovations, and Broadway musicals. The book covers
music history through lenses that include "authentic" performance,
original instrumentation, and social context. Moreover, the
musicians interviewed all bring to bear upon their respective
subjects three outstanding qualities: 1) their high esteem in the
music world as immediately recognizable names among musicians and
public alike; 2) their energy and devotion to scholarship and the
recovery of endangered musical heritages; and 3) their considerable
skills, media savvy, and showmanship as communicators. Introductory
essays to each chapter provide brief synopses of historical eras
and topics. Combining careful scholarship and lively conversation,
Performing Music History explores historical contexts for a host of
fascinating issues.
Performing Music History offers a unique perspective on music
history and performance through a series of conversations with
women and men intimately associated with music performance,
history, and practice: the musicians themselves. Fifty-five
celebrated artists-singers, pianists, violinists, cellists,
flutists, horn players, oboists, composers, conductors, and jazz
greats-provide interviews that encompass most of Western music
history, from the Middle Ages to contemporary classical music,
avant-garde innovations, and Broadway musicals. The book covers
music history through lenses that include "authentic" performance,
original instrumentation, and social context. Moreover, the
musicians interviewed all bring to bear upon their respective
subjects three outstanding qualities: 1) their high esteem in the
music world as immediately recognizable names among musicians and
public alike; 2) their energy and devotion to scholarship and the
recovery of endangered musical heritages; and 3) their considerable
skills, media savvy, and showmanship as communicators. Introductory
essays to each chapter provide brief synopses of historical eras
and topics. Combining careful scholarship and lively conversation,
Performing Music History explores historical contexts for a host of
fascinating issues.
What was it like to work behind the scenes, away from the
spotlight's glare, in Hollywood's so-called Golden Age? The
interviews in this book provide eye-witness accounts from the likes
of Steven Spielberg and Terry Gilliam, to explore the creative
decisions that have shaped some of Classical Hollywood's most-loved
films.
The Gothic tradition continues to excite the popular imagination.
John C. Tibbetts presents interviews and conversations with
prominent novelists, filmmakers, artists, and film and television
directors and actors as they trace the Gothic mode across three
centuries, from Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," through H.P.
Lovecraft, to today's science fiction, goth, and steampunk culture.
H. P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Robert ("Psycho")
Bloch, Chris ("The Polar Express") Van Allsburg, Maurice Sendak,
Gahan Wilson, Ray Harryhausen, Christopher Reeve, Greg Bear,
William Shatner, and many more share their worlds of imagination
and terror.
The Gothic tradition continues to excite the popular imagination.
John C. Tibbetts presents interviews and conversations with
prominent novelists, filmmakers, artists, and film and television
directors and actors as they trace the Gothic mode across three
centuries, from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, through H.P.
Lovecraft, to today's science fiction, goth, and steampunk culture.
H. P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Robert (Psycho) Bloch,
Chris (The Polar Express) Van Allsburg, Maurice Sendak, Gahan
Wilson, Ray Harryhausen, Christopher Reeve, Greg Bear, William
Shatner, and many more share their worlds of imagination and
terror.
Peter Weir: Interviews is the first volume of interviews to be
published on the esteemed Australian director. Although Weir (b.
1944) has acquired a reputation of being guarded about his life and
work, these interviews by archivists, journalists, historians, and
colleagues reveal him to be a most amiable and forthcoming subject.
He talks about "the precious desperation of the art, the madness,
the willingness to experiment" in all his films; the adaptation
process from novel to film, when he tells a scriptwriter, "I'm
going to eat your script; it's going to be part of my blood!"; and
his self-assessment as "merely a jester, with cap and bells, going
from court to court. " He is encouraged, even provoked to tell his
own story, from his childhood in a Sydney suburb in the 1950s, to
his apprenticeship in the Australian television industry in the
1960s, his preparations to shoot his first features in the early
1970s, his international celebrity in Australia and Hollywood. An
extensive new interview details his current plans for a new film.
Interviews discuss Weir's diverse and impressive range of work-his
earlier films Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave, Gallipoli, and
The Year of Living Dangerously, as well as Academy Award-nominated
Witness, Dead Poets Society, Green Card, The Truman Show, and
Master and Commander. This book confirms that the trajectory of
Weir's life and work parallels and embodies Australia's own quest
to define and express a historical and cultural identity.
This first book-length critical examination of the life and work of
Marjorie Bowen (1885-1952) reveals a major English writer whose
prodigious output included stories of history, romance, and the
supernatural. As Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda writes
in his Foreword, Bowen may be "the finest British woman writer of
the uncanny of the last century," a view that echoes the high
regard of cultural historian Edward Wagenknecht, who called her "a
literary phenomenon," one whose best work places her alongside such
contemporaries as Edith Wharton and Daphne du Maurier. Publicly
acclaimed-known only by a series of pseudonyms (including "Marjorie
Bowen")-but privately inscrutable, she was and is a mysterious and
complex character. Drawing for the first time upon archival
resources and the cooperation of the Bowen Estate, this book
reveals a woman who saw herself as a rationalist and serious
historian, but also as a mystic and "dark enchantress of dread."
Above all, through a lifetime of domestic storms and creative
ecstasy, Bowen worked tirelessly as both a professional writer and
a consummate artist, always seeking, as she once confessed, "to
find beauty in dark places.
This is a critical study of the great British man of letters, G.K.
Chesterton, with chapters devoted to the novels, stories, and
essays that explore the darker fringes of his wild imagination.
"Everything is different in the dark," wrote Chesterton; "perhaps
you don't know how terrible a truth that is." Chesterton's frequent
use of the image and theme of "gargoyles" provides the thematic
structure of the book. It covers the detective stories of Father
Brown and others, the locked rooms and miracle crimes that appear
in his writing, his status as a science fiction writer, and the
riddles and paradoxes of three works-Job, The Man Who Was Thursday,
and the play, The Surprise. This volume also includes an interlude
about Chesterton and Jorge Luis Borges and a robust appendix
including interviews about the formation of Ignatius Press's
Collected Chesterton.
Horror novelist Peter Straub creates highly personalized fiction
with an allusiveness and ambiguity that deny the genre's explicit
nature. For him, the Gothic style is to be created and recreated in
a changing world-Faustian pacts, buried secrets, haunted places,
ghosts, vampires and succubi take on strange new shapes and
effects. Stephen King describes his style as ""a synthesis of
horror and beauty."" Drawing on interviews with Straub and
featuring an exclusive interview with King, this study explores the
work of the author who has been called ""a writer of rare wit and
intelligence in a field beset with cynical potboilers.
"Peter Weir: Interviews" is the first volume of interviews to be
published on the esteemed Australian director. Although Weir (b.
1944) has acquired a reputation of being guarded about his life and
work, these interviews by archivists, journalists, historians, and
colleagues reveal him to be a most amiable and forthcoming subject.
He talks about the precious desperation of the art, the madness,
the willingness to experiment in all his films; the adaptation
process from novel to film, when he tells a scriptwriter, I'm going
to eat your script; it's going to be part of my blood ; and his
self-assessment as merely a jester, with cap and bells, going from
court to court. He is encouraged, even provoked to tell his own
story, from his childhood in a Sydney suburb in the 1950s, to his
apprenticeship in the Australian television industry in the 1960s,
his preparations to shoot his first features in the early 1970s,
his international celebrity in Australia and Hollywood. An
extensive new interview details his current plans for a new
film.
Interviews discuss Weir's diverse and impressive range of
work--his earlier films "Picnic at Hanging Rock," "The Last Wave,"
"Gallipoli," and "The Year of Living Dangerously," as well as
Academy Award-nominated "Witness," "Dead Poets Society," "Green
Card," "The Truman Show," and "Master and Commander." This book
confirms that the trajectory of Weir's life and work parallels and
embodies Australia's own quest to define and express a historical
and cultural identity.
First appearing in 1976, American Classic Screen was the publishing
arm of The National Film Society. Intended for scholars and general
readers interested in films from the golden age of cinema and
beyond, the magazine ran for a decade and included original
interviews, profiles, and articles that delved deep into the rich
history of Hollywood. Contributors to the magazine included noted
academics in the area of film studies, as well as independent
scholars and authors eager to expand the world of cinema. Since the
periodical's demise, however, many of the essays and articles have
been difficult to find-at best-and in some cases, entirely
unavailable. In American Classic Screen Features, editors John C.
Tibbetts and James M. Welsh have assembled some of the most
significant and memorable essays and critical pieces written for
the magazine over its ten-year history. This collection contains
fascinating accounts of Hollywood history including articles on
Marilyn Monroe's first screen test, John Ford's favorite film,
Olivia De Havilland's lawsuit against Warner Bros., Walt Disney's
unfinished projects, and Stanley Kubrick's early noir classics, as
well as such articles as "The Rise and Fall of the California
Motion Picture Company," "Red Alert: Images of Communism in
Hollywood," "Uncensored Garbo," and "The Lost Movie of Errol
Flynn." This volume also contains in-depth examinations of classic
films, including Birth of a Nation, The Big Parade, The Jazz
Singer, King Kong, and Citizen Kane. This compendium of essays
recaptures the spirit and scholarship of that time and will appeal
to both scholars and fans who have an abiding interest in the
American motion picture industry.
First appearing in 1976, American Classic Screen was the publishing
arm of The National Film Society. Intended for scholars and general
readers interested in films from the golden age of cinema and
beyond, the magazine ran for a decade and included original
interviews, profiles, and articles that delved deep into the rich
history of Hollywood. Contributors to the magazine included noted
academics in the area of film studies, as well as independent
scholars and authors eager to expand the world of cinema. Since the
periodical's demise, however, many of the essays and articles have
been difficult to find at best and in some cases, entirely
unavailable. In American Classic Screen Profiles, editors John C.
Tibbetts and James M. Welsh have assembled some of the most
significant and memorable profiles written for the magazine over
its ten-year history. This collection contains rare insights into
some of the brightest stars of yesteryear, as well as gifted
filmmakers, directors and craftsmen alike, including Fatty
Arbuckle, Baby Peggy, Warner Baxter, Ralph Bellamy, Beulah Bondi,
George M. Cohan, Cecil B. DeMille, Boris Karloff, Jayne Mansfield,
Marilyn Monroe, Eleanor Powell, Robert Redford, Mickey Rooney,
William Wellman, and Natalie Wood.This compendium of profiles
recaptures the spirit and scholarship of that time and will appeal
to both scholars and fans who have an abiding interest in the
American motion picture industry.
First appearing in 1976, American Classic Screen was the publishing
arm of The National Film Society. Intended for scholars and general
readers interested in films from the golden age of cinema and
beyond, the magazine ran for a decade and included original
interviews, profiles, and articles that delved deep into the rich
history of Hollywood. Contributors to the magazine included noted
academics in the area of film studies, as well as independent
scholars and authors eager to expand the world of cinema. Since the
periodical's demise, however, many of the essays and articles have
been difficult to find at best and in some cases, entirely
unavailable. In American Classic Screen Interviews, editors John C.
Tibbetts and James M. Welsh have assembled some of the most
significant and memorable interviews conducted for the magazine
over its ten-year history. This collection contains rare
conversations with some of the brightest stars of yesteryear, as
well as gifted filmmakers, celebrated animators, and highly revered
historians, including Fred Astaire, Kevin Brownlow, Frank Capra,
Stanley Donen, Olivia DeHavilland, Irene Dunne, Joan Fontaine, Friz
Freleng, Margaret Hamilton, Winton C. Hoch, Henry King, Mervyn Le
Roy, Fred MacMurray, Glen MacWilliams, Rouben Mamoulian, Clarence
"Ducky" Nash, Paul Newman, Hermes Pan, Robert Preston, and Jane
Withers. This compendium of interviews recaptures the spirit and
scholarship of that time and will appeal to both scholars and fans
who have an abiding interest in the American motion picture
industry.
Completely revised and updated, The Encyclopedia of Novels into
Film, Second Edition provides a comprehensive, in-depth look at
more than 300 American and foreign novels and their film
adaptations. Edited and written by two renowned film scholars, with
contributions from more than 70 top experts in the field, this
engaging reference explores both the popular and lesser-known films
that have come to define this genre. Covering both American and
foreign films, each of the more than 300 illuminating entries
provides an overview of the literary source and a critical
assessment of its various film adaptations. This edition includes
more than 30 all-new entries and numerous updates to cover new
adaptations, as well as many new photographs. Providing an in-depth
look at how books are selected for the silver screen, The
Encyclopedia of Novels into Film, Second Edition is a fascinating
study for anyone interested in film and literature.
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