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Film director Paul Bartel enjoyed flouting the expectations of
audiences and critics with his amusing movies about murder, greed
and transgressive sex. Strange stories that aroused laughter, he
felt, carried the potential to disorient viewers and problematize
their beliefs about American culture and its values. Among his
best-remembered features are Death Race 2000 (1975), Eating Raoul
(1982) and Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989).
The first book-length study of its sort, The Life and Films of Paul
Bartel provides readers with a detailed biography tracing Bartel's
emergence as an independent low-budget auteur whose work aroused
admiration from figures like Steven Spielberg, Jim Jarmusch and
Brian De Palma. It considers the manner in which his experience as
a gay man motivated him to introduce subversive subject matter into
his work, too. Readers will also find interviews with several
people who knew Bartel, including Roger Corman, Joe Dante and John
Waters, and critical material that considers the thematic and
technical aspects of each film.
John Frankenheimer's career as a professional director began and
ended in television. In the mid-1950s, he won acclaim working on
live productions for anthology series like Playhouse 90, and from
the mid-1990s until his death in 2002 he helmed a string of
Emmy-winning features for cable TV, including The Burning Season
(1994) and Andersonville (1996). Despite these successes,
Frankenheimer's reputation rests primarily upon the nearly thirty
feature films he directed, which range from bona fide classics like
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) and The Manchurian Candidate (1962) to
such lesser achievements as Prophecy (1979) and Dead Bang (1989).
Unfortunately for Frankenheimer, the discrepancy between his best
films and his worst led many critics during his lifetime to dismiss
him as someone whose talent dissipated in the late 1960s. In the
decade since his death, however, several critics have emerged who
reject the assertion that the quality of Frankenheimer's output
faded after an impressive start. In John Frankenheimer: Interviews,
Essays, and Profiles, Stephen B. Armstrong has collected the most
interesting and insightful articles and features published on this
underrated director. While question-and-answer exchanges make up
the bulk of the items featured here, also included are journalistic
profiles of the director at work and essays Frankenheimer himself
wrote for magazine audiences. In addition, readers will find a
series of interviews of people who worked with Frankenheimer,
including actors Roy Scheider, Tim Reid, and the director's wife of
40 years, Evans Frankenheimer. In this volume, the director and
others look back on a career that included such films as Seven Days
in May, The Train, Grand Prix, The Iceman Cometh, Black Sunday, and
Ronin. The first collection of its kind, John Frankenheimer:
Interviews, Essays, and Profiles enables those who value the
director's work to develop a better understanding of the man
through his own words and the words of others.
This traditional auteurist survey closely examines the films of
director John Frankenheimer, assessing the thematic and stylistic
elements of such films as ""The Iceman Cometh"", ""The Manchurian
Candidate"", and ""The Bird Man of Alcatraz"". It begins with a
complete overview of Frankenheimer's life and career. A chronology
lists production history details for each of his films, and a
comprehensive biography draws attention to Frankenheimer's early
artistic development. Subsequent chapters categorize his films by
genre and theme, examining each film through analytical critiques
and plot synopses. Multiple appendices include an analysis of
Frankenheimer's short films ""Maniac at Large"" and ""Ambush"", a
complete filmography, and a suggested reading list.
Here is a comprehensive survey of the film and television career of
London-born director Andrew V. McLaglen. An opening biography
considers the events and circumstances that contributed to his
development as a filmmaker, including his relationships with his
actor father Victor McLaglen, fellow director John Ford, and motion
picture icon John Wayne, who collaborated with Andrew McLaglen on
such films as McLintock! (1963), Hellfighters (1968), The
Undefeated (1969) and Chisum (1970). An extensive annotated
filmography covers every theatrical feature film McLaglen directed,
as well as his television productions and the films he worked on
prior to becoming a director. Appendices provide information on the
numerous documentaries in which McLaglen has appeared, and a list
of stage plays he has directed since his retirement from motion
pictures in 1989.
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