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The American success myth on film
\" In examining the enduring appeal that rags-to-riches stories exert on our collective imagination, this book highlights the central role that films have played in the ongoing cultural discourse about success and work in America\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Acting
Screen performances entertain and delight us but we rarely stop to consider actors' reliance on their craft to create memorable characters. Although film acting may appear effortless, a host of techniques, artistic conventions, and social factors shape the construction of each role.
The chapters inActingprovide a fascinating, in-depth look at the history of film acting, from its inception in 1895 when spectators thrilled at the sight of vaudeville performers, Wild West stars, and athletes captured in motion, to the present when audiences marvel at the seamless blend of human actors with CGI. Experts in the field take readers behind the silver screen to learn about the craft of film acting in six eras: the silent screen (1895-1928), classical Hollywood (1928-1946), postwar Hollywood (1947-1967), the auteur renaissance (1968-1980), the New Hollywood (1981-1999), and the modern entertainment marketplace (2000-present). The contributors pay special attention to definitive performances by notable film stars, including Lillian Gish, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, Beulah Bondi, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Nicholas Cage, Denzel Washington, and Andy Serkis.
In six original essays, the contributors to this volume illuminate the dynamic role of acting in the creation and evolving practices of the American film industry.
Actingis a volume in the Behind the Silver Screen series-other titles in the series includeAnimation;Art Direction and Production Design;Cinematography;Costume, Makeup, and Hair;Directing;Editing and Special/Visual Effects;Producing;Screenwriting; andSound.
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American Cinema of the 2010s
The 2010s were perhaps the most tumultuous decade since the 1960s. The effects of the Great Recession continued to be felt. The administration of Barack Obama, the first African-American president, encouraged many to think that America was now 'post-racial', an illusion broken by the election of Donald Trump. Polarisation reigned, communicated on social media. Netflix and Amazon jumped into production. By 2019, Netflix produced more feature films than the traditional studios combined. Cinema's move from film to digital, in production and in exhibition, was complete by mid-decade. `MeToo and `Oscarssowhite signaled a reckoning with gross gender and racial inequalities in the media, matched by that in the wider culture. The essays of this book explore the blockbusters, low-budget sleepers, and films in between.
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Alexander Payne
Since 1996, Alexander Payne has made six feature films and a short segment of an omnibus movie. Although his body of work is quantitatively small, it is qualitatively impressive. His movies have garnered numerous accolades and awards, including two Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay. As more than one interviewer in this volume points out, he maintains an impressive and unbroken winning streak. Payne's stories of human strivings and follies, alongside his mastery of the craft of filmmaking, mark him as a contemporary auteur of uncommon accomplishment.
In this first compilation of his interviews, Payne reveals himself as a captivating conversationalist as well. The discussions collected here range from 1996, shortly after the release of his first film,Citizen Ruth, to the debut ofNebraskaat the Cannes Film Festival in 2013. Over his career, he muses on many subjects including his own creative processes, his commitment to telling character-centered stories, and his abiding admiration for movies and directors from across decades of film history.
Critics describe Payne as one of the few contemporary filmmakers who consistently manages to buck the current trend toward bombastic blockbusters. Like the 1970s director-driven cinema that he cherishes, his films are small-scale character studies that manage to maintain a delicate balance between sharp satire and genuine poignancy.
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Two Thumbs Up: Teaching Human Resource Management Topics Using Recently-Released Films
Using film clips in the human resource (HR) and management classroom can be highly effective. Film clips can illustrate a variety of management topics, have a high impact, are easy to use, and generally cost little. This paper provides HR educators with ideas for using clips from five movies, released in 2015 or later, to teach their graduate or undergraduate students. Ideas for facilitation and prompts for discussion are included.
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Whittling Birch Bark
This interview was conducted the week afterNebraskadebuted at the 66th Cannes Film Festival, where it was one of twenty films selected for the main competition. Payne was continuing to edit the film in preparation for its theatrical release later in the year.
Julie Levinson: I want to have a sort of meta-conversation by asking about some of the things you’ve said in past interviews and by taking an overview of your films. There’s a great line from Jean Renoir: “A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it apart and makes it again.” As
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Time and Time Again: Temporality, Narrativity, and Spectatorship in Christian Marclay's \The Clock\
The Clock (Christian Marclay, 2010) is a twenty-four-hour collage movie comprising thousands of film clips that collectively span a range of cinema history and genres. The excerpted scenes show timepieces that are precisely synchronized with the moment during which the audience sees them, thereby conflating cinematic and actual time. Beyond The Clock's clever gimmick is a significant theoretical contemplation of the contingency of measured time, the power of film narrative, and the conventions and complexities of spectatorship. Using varied analytical frameworks, including the philosophies of Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze, this article explores the ways in which The Clock both celebrates and subverts cinematic practice.
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THE AUTEUR RENAISSANCE, 1968-1980
The years between 1968 and 1980 comprised a singular period in the history of American movies, not to mention in the culture at large. A perfect storm of social, economic, industrial, and ideological factors conspired to throw the film industry into upheaval. One of the upshots of that upheaval was a fleeting cultural moment variously known as the Auteur Renaissance, the New Hollywood, or, nostalgically, Hollywood’s last golden age. The recent demise of the studio system and the ensuing rise of independent producers, young auteurist directors, and free-agent actors opened the door for new expressive possibilities and new synergies among
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