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Woody Allen

Ryan Gilbey

Ryan Gilbey is a freelance film journalist and writes for a variety of publications, including Sight & Sound, the Guardian, Observer and the Sunday Times. He is the former film critic for the Independent. It Don’t Worry Me is his first book. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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It Don’t Worry Me : Nashville, Jaws, Star Wars and beyond

Faber and Faber, 2003

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...Sleeper (1973): Woody Allen as Miles Monroe. In 1977, with the help of his co-writer Marshall Brickman and his editor Ralph Rosenblum, Woody Allen invented Woody Allen. The character proved so...

Film Exists in a State of Philosophy: Two Contemporary Cavellian Views

Garrett Stewart

Garrett Stewart

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The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema : Turning Anew to the Ontology of Film a Half-Century after The World Viewed

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

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...THE QUESTION OF WHETHER PHILOSOPHY can occur through film (sometimes called in the shorthand “film-as-philosophy”) has been especially lively during the last twenty years of scholarship in the philosophy of film. Specifically, the question...

Symbolic Storyworlds

Warren Buckland

Warren Buckland is Reader in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is the author of Film Theory: Rational Reconstructions (2012), Directed by Steven Spielberg (2006), and The Cognitive Semiotics of Film (2000). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Wes Anderson’s Symbolic Storyworld : A Semiotic Analysis

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...Within the framework of a theory of codes it is unnecessary to resort to the notion of extension [reference], nor to that of possible worlds; the codes, insofar as they are accepted by a society, set up a ‘cultural’ world, which is neither...

The Short Answer

Marilyn Beker

Marilyn Beker is a professor of screenwriting in the School of Film and Television at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. She is the author of Screenwriting With a Conscience: Ethics for Screenwriters and The Screenwriter Activist: Writing Social Issue Movies. She has extensive screenwriting and production experience and is the recipient of the Visionary Leader in Education Award from Shorts HD and Shorts International for her work in short films. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Write To Shoot : Writing Short Films for Production

Routledge, 2017

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... T H E S H O RT A N S W E R As I mentioned in the introduction, there are lots of rea- sons to write and make a short film. Perhaps the most obvi- ous reason is to gain access to audiences. It’s much easier to get lots of people to see...

Introduction

Roger Crittenden

Roger Crittenden: After a distinguished career at the BBC, where he gained a special award for sustained excellence as a film editor, he was recruited to the new National Film and Television School as Head of Editing and later became Director of the MA programme. While with the NFTS, he taught in Moscow, Mexico City, Manila, Copenhagen, Singapore, Brisbane Australia, and in Cuba. In 2014 he was given the first ever CILECT International Teaching Award for his outstanding contribution to media pedagogy. More recently, he was appointed Adjunct Professor of Film at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. Roger is the author of two books on editing, as well as a book on Truffaut’s Day For Night for the British Film Institute's Film Classic Series. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Fine Cuts : Interviews on the Practice of European Film Editing

Routledge, 2018

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... I f I were writing the history of fi lm editors in the United States, I might start with a photo that shows D.W. Griffi th with a certain Rose Smith. It was her husband, James Smith, who as his editor was credited by Griffi th as being...

Film Theory, Film Analysis

Warren Buckland

Warren Buckland is Reader in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is the author of Film Theory: Rational Reconstructions (2012), Directed by Steven Spielberg (2006), and The Cognitive Semiotics of Film (2000). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Wes Anderson’s Symbolic Storyworld : A Semiotic Analysis

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...The goal toward which all descriptive work strives is not the film as a real discourse (a series of images, sounds, and words arranged in a certain order, an object that may be attested), for the latter is already an achieved object before...

Brazil’s open cities: Mimicry, sexuality and class dynamics in the urban landscape of 1960s cinema

Bruce Williams

Bruce Williams

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Third Cinema, World Cinema and Marxism

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

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...Brazil of the 1960s was a country divided and plagued by national angst; a privileged elite feared a popularist uprising inspired by international communism. This crisis of the ruling class was exacerbated by pressure from the United...

Auteurism in the 1990s

NÖEl King

NÖEl King

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Toby Miller

Toby Miller

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The Cinema Book

British Film Institute, 2007

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...In the Afterword to the 1998 edition of Signs and Meaning in the Cinema, Peter Wollen wrote: ‘I am still an auteurist’. It is tempting to see the coincidence of auteurism and millennialism contained in the notion ‘auteurism in the 1990s...

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex...

Stig Björkman

Stig Björkman is the editor of Bergman on Bergman and Woody Allen on Woody Allen, and has directed the documentaries Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier and I Am Curious, Film. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Woody Allen on Woody Allen

Faber and Faber Limited, 1993

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...Sex is one of the more pronounced subjects or themes in your films. When you were growing up, was sex more or less a forbidden subject?Oh yes, completely. It was not talked about, nobody even practised it.So then the cinema was even more...

Play It Again, Sam

Stig Björkman

Stig Björkman is the editor of Bergman on Bergman and Woody Allen on Woody Allen, and has directed the documentaries Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier and I Am Curious, Film. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Woody Allen on Woody Allen

Faber and Faber Limited, 1993

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...Then you wrote and acted in the play Play It Again, Sam. I believe this was your only stage appearance in a play. How was this experience?It was fun. I liked Diane Keaton and Tony Roberts, and we had a good time doing it. The play...