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The Zombiefied Landscape: World War Z (2013), ParaNorman (2012) and the Politics of the Animated Corpse

James Newton

James Newton

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Animated Landscapes : History, Form and Function

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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... in the film, one that helps to transcend its status as a shallow piece of comedy.Jamie Russell, The Book of the Dead: The Complete History of Zombie Cinema (Surrey: FAB Press, 2005) interprets Return of the Living Dead as nihilistic, an interpretation...

The American Independent Producer and the Film Value Chain

James Lyons

James Lyons

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Beyond the Bottom Line : The Producer in Film and Television Studies

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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... is the strategy of nurturing lasting associations with financiers and distributors, or, on the other hand, with specific writers or directors. An example of the former would be Lawrence Bender Productions and Miramax, while James Schamus’...

Divisions and Dislocations: A Journal for 1994

James Toback

James Toback

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Projections 4 : Film-makers on Film-making

Faber and Faber Limited, 1995

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...James Toback (photo by Brian Hamill) Introduction – David Thomson Not too many American film-makers would own up to keeping diaries. As in Washington, so in Hollywood, the diary can become an incriminating document – of those in power...

Howard Hawks and the Great Paper Chase: Memoir of a Desert Encounter

James V D'Arc

James V D'Arc

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Projections 6 : Film-makers on Film-making

Faber and Faber Limited, 1996

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...James V. D'Arc with Howard Hawks.When the seventeen-foot long truck pulled up to a modest frame rambler on Stevens Street in Palm Springs, California, I double-checked the address from my correspondence file. Could this home, which...

Pulp Fact: The Rise of Miramax as Hollywood Embraces Tarantino-mania

James Mottram

James Mottram is a film journalist and critic who has written The Making of Memento and The Sundance Kids: How The Mavericks Took Back Hollywood. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Sundance Kids : How the Mavericks Took Over Hollywood

Faber & Faber, 2010

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... to move away from making its name with controversial cinema. Turning down the opportunity to release Todd Solondz’s Welcome to the Dollhouse, the Weinsteins tellingly put money into David O. Russell’s 1996 second film, Flirting with Disaster,...

The Second Wave: The Conflicts of Citizen Ruth, Hard Eight and Bottle Rocket

James Mottram

James Mottram is a film journalist and critic who has written The Making of Memento and The Sundance Kids: How The Mavericks Took Back Hollywood. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Sundance Kids : How the Mavericks Took Over Hollywood

Faber & Faber, 2010

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... Russell set to join them with Flirting with Disaster. Three more were about to make their debuts: Valley boy wunderkind Paul Thomas Anderson, erudite Nebraska native Alexander Payne and genial Texan genius Wes Anderson. Their films – Hard Eight,...

Lit Up by the Searchlight: I ♥ Huckabees and Sideways

James Mottram

James Mottram is a film journalist and critic who has written The Making of Memento and The Sundance Kids: How The Mavericks Took Back Hollywood. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Sundance Kids : How the Mavericks Took Over Hollywood

Faber & Faber, 2010

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... into U.S. hits, the films grossed $44.5 million and $26 million, respectively. This was followed with a triple-shot of films most other companies refused to touch: Bill Condon’s Kinsey, David O. Russell’s I ♥ Huckabees and Alexander Payne’s...

Annus Mirabilis: How 1999 Became the Year of the Sundance Kids

James Mottram

James Mottram is a film journalist and critic who has written The Making of Memento and The Sundance Kids: How The Mavericks Took Back Hollywood. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Sundance Kids : How the Mavericks Took Over Hollywood

Faber & Faber, 2010

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...36 David O. Russell gets ready to shoot.You could, if you like, call it a matter of chance. But as the narrator says in P. T. Anderson’s Magnolia: ‘This is not just “something that happened”.’ Like an alignment of the planets, timed...

Religion, Ritual and The Passion of the Christ (2004)

James Russell

James Russell is Principal Lecturer in Film Studies at De Montfort University, UK. His last book was The Historical Epic and Contemporary Hollywood (Bloomsbury, 2007). His short writing has appeared in Cinema Journal, the Journal of American Studies, the Guardian and numerous edited collections. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Historical Epic and Contemporary Hollywood : From Dances with Wolves to Gladiator

Continuum, 2007

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... of attitudes amongst certain sectors of the population was countered by the equally rapid rise of combative conservatism. James Davison Hunter, Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America (New York: Basic, 1991), 67–108. For a detailed...

The Changing Face of Sundance: Public Access and Spanking the Monkey

James Mottram

James Mottram is a film journalist and critic who has written The Making of Memento and The Sundance Kids: How The Mavericks Took Back Hollywood. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Sundance Kids : How the Mavericks Took Over Hollywood

Faber & Faber, 2010

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... The most significant arrivals were Bryan Singer and David O. Russell. Meanwhile, those that grabbed the headlines were Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi) and Kevin Smith (Clerks), both of whom had made their films on a pittance. But there were...