Barry Keith Grant is Professor of Film Studies and Popular Culture at Brock University, Canada. He is author of Film Genre (2007) and Voyages of Discovery (1992) and co-author of The Film Studies Dictionary (2001) and 100 Documentary Films (2009). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...DIRECTOR John BoormanPRODUCER John BoormanSCREENPLAY John BoormanDIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Geoffrey UnsworthEDITOR John MerrittMUSIC David MunrowPRODUCTION DESIGN Anthony PrattMAIN CAST Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman, John...
Mark Axelrod is a Full Professor of English & Comparative Literature, and Director of the John Fowles Center for Creative Writing, at Chapman University, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
Constructing Dialogue: Screenwriting From Citizen Kane to Midnight in Paris
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014
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...Screenplay by Richard Maibaum and Paul Dehn Based on the novel by Ian FlemingIn an American Film Institute [AFI] interview, Hitchcock once talked about cinematic tension and the example he used was the “bomb under the table” ploy. According...
Danny Powell is a London-based teacher of media and film studies whose books include Studying British Cinema: The 1960s. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Films to watch: Khartoum (1966), Zulu (1964), Damn the Defiant! (1962), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Dr No (1962), Modesty Blaise (1966), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)
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Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar based in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of books including The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect (2013), Alfred Hitchcock's America (2013) and the BFI Film Classics on Hitchcock's Marnie (2014) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (2016). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...A thrilling tale of anxiety and moral extremity, Marnie (1964) cemented Alfred Hitchcock's reputation as a master of suspense and the visual form. Murray Pomerance here ranges through the many tortuous and thrilling passages of Marnie...
...It is difficult to imagine now the importance of the Bond films of the early 1960s to British cinema. The effects of Bond, both in an industrial and institutional context, are immense. The ‘Swinging 60s’ was about to explode...
Amy Sargeant is Reader in Film at the University of Warwick, UK. Her publications include British Cinema, British Historical Cinema and Adventures in Motion Pictures. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Spymaster Major Dalby (Nigel Green) keeping an eye on the ‘shrewd little cockney’ Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) in Sidney J. Furie’s 1965 The Ipcress FileVivian Nicholson’s memories of her upbringing in Castleford match the familiar...
...The cinema is necessarily fascination and rape, that is how it acts on people.What is to be done with Marnie? Of Hitchcock’s major works, it has always been something of a problem child, more sharply dividing the director’s admirers...
Amy Sargeant is Reader in Film at the University of Warwick, UK. Her publications include British Cinema, British Historical Cinema and Adventures in Motion Pictures. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Latin Lovers: Sebastiane (Derek Jarman/Paul Humfress, 1976)John Fowles’ 1977 novel Daniel Martin is written, in part, in the conventional manner of a screenplay, suggesting camera shots and significant details through which the protagonist...
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