Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Cine y TV

¿Sabía que Akira Kurosawa, el director japonés más célebre y admirado, intentó quitarse la vida tras el fracaso comercial de Dodeskaden? ¿Que Martin Sheen sufrió un infarto durante el rodaje de Apocalypse Now, uno de los más infernales que se recuerdan? ¿Sabía que el principal creador del lenguaje cinematográfico era un fervoroso partidario del Ku Klux Klan? ¿Que en 1921 Fatty Arbuckle, uno de los cómicos más célebres de su tiempo, fue acusado de asesinar a la joven actriz Virginia Rappe?

En una era políticamente convulsa, cuando los magnates de Hollywood rechazaban contratar mediante acusaciones de simpatías comunistas, Douglas escogió para escribir el guión a Dalton Trumbo, un guionista puesto en la lista negra, uno de los hombres que habían ido a prisión tras declarar ante el Comité de Actividades sobre sus afiliaciones políticas. Con su futuro financiero en juego, Douglas se sumergió en una producción tumultuosa.

El presente texto es el registro de un descubrimiento de María Negroni: el cine de Joseph Cornell, artista del assemblage cercano al surrealismo que también cultivó el film-collage con un estilo lírico-documental, cuya capacidad de catalogar lo insólito fascinó a la poeta. A medio camino entre el poemario caligramático y el libro-arte, esta pequeña joya se lee como el diario íntimo de una observadora tras la estela de una imagen.

At last, the definitive audiobook about perhaps the best cabin crew dramedy ever filmed: View from the Top starring Gwyneth Paltrow. In Ayoade on Top, Richard Ayoade, perhaps one of the most 'insubstantial' people of our age, takes us on a journey from Peckham to Paris by way of Nevada and other places we don't care about. It's a journey deep within, in a way that's respectful and non-invasive; a journey for which we will all pay a heavy price, even if you've waited for the smaller paperback edition. Ayoade argues for the canonisation of this brutal masterpiece.

Daniel Bettridge provides us with an ultimate fan guide on an A to Z journey from Atari to the Upside Down. So you can brush up on your knowledge and get ready for what's yet to come! Providing an all new insight into one of the world's most popular television programmes, Bettridge explores the show, its many themes and influences and so much more, giving you the inside information from an outsider's perspective.

Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cultural trends in American politics and pop culture, which reveals how black superheroes are not disposable pop products, but rather a fascinating racial phenomenon through which futuristic expressions and fantastic visions of black racial identity and symbolic political meaning are presented.

Born to immigrant parents and raised in the slums of Toronto during the Depression, Ted Kotcheff learned storytelling on the streets before taking a stagehand job at CBC Television. Discovering his skills with actors and production, Kotcheff went on to direct some of the greatest films of the freewheeling 1970s, including The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Wake in Fright, and North Dallas Forty.

«Creía que los arqueólogos eran unos graciosos hombrecillos que buscaban momios». Así describe Willie la profesión de su compañero de aventuras Indiana Jones en la película Indiana Jones y el templo maldito. El cine de aventuras siempre fue muy popular y exitoso, basado en un voluntario afán por el entretenimiento más que por la refl exión profunda sobre la condición humana. Dentro de este género, existe un conjunto de filmes cuyo eje central es la búsqueda de un tesoro y que forma un subgénero muy específico que es el cine de Arqueología. Indiana Jones, Lara Croft, Tadeo Jones...

From age 11, in 1974, until she left the show, in 1981, Melissa Anderson literally grew up before the viewers of Little House on the Prairie. Melissa, as Mary, is remembered by many as the blind sister - and she was the only actor in the series to be nominated for an Emmy. In The Way I See It, she takes listeners onto the set and inside the world of the iconic series created by Michael Landon, who, Melissa discovered, was not perfect, as much as he tried to be. In this memoir she also shares her memories of working with guest stars like Todd Bridges, Mariette Hartley, Sean Penn, Patricia Neal, and Johnny Cash.

A look at some of the real-life experiences that helped bring Bosch to life and the production techniques that translate them to the screen. Veteran detective Mitzi Roberts opens up about her hallmark case - the pursuit and capture of real-life serial killer Samuel Little - and how it influenced Jason Gedrick's depiction of Raynard Waits. The producers describe the crucial role of postproduction in creating the dramatic scenes, with an exclusive breakdown of how specific action sequences were filmed and edited to achieve the show’s realism.

Gordy LaSure's passionate about film. He eats film, he drinks film, and sometimes he'll even watch a film. But most of all, he loves talking about film, and how they'd be a shit-ton better if only people would pull their asses out of their ears and listen to Gordy LaSure. Why are some films bad and some films terrible? How come just a handful of films (Titanic, Porky's, Dirty Harry) are any good at all? Gordy'll tell you How and Why, and he'll give you a shot of Wherefore on the side. And he doesn't shoot from the hip; he shoots from the gut.

Jean Renoir's career almost spans the history years of cinema - from the early silent movies, to the naturalism of the talkies, committed cinema, film noir, Hollywood studio productions, the Technicolor-period comedies and fast television techniques. His film The Grand Illusion remains one of the greatest movies about the effects of war.

Stanley Kubrick, the director of a string of timeless movies from Lolita and Dr. Strangelove to A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket, and others, has always been depicted by the media as the Howard Hughes of filmmakers, a weird artist obsessed with his work and privacy to the point of madness. But who was he really?

Charlie Chaplin made an amazing 71 films by the time he was only 33 years old. He was not only known as the world’s first international movie star, but as a comedian, film director, and a man ripe with scandal, accused of plagiarism, communism, pacifism, liberalism, and anti-Americanism. He seduced young women, marrying four different times, each time to a woman younger than the next. In this animated biography of Chaplin, Joyce Milton reveals to us a life riddled with gossip and a struggle to rise from an impoverished London childhood to the life of a successful American film star.

È il 20 settembre 1905. Davanti a Porta Pia si proietta "La presa di Roma" diretto da Filoteo Albertini. Nasce così il cinema italiano. Evento pubblico che chiama in causa memoria storica, coscienza civile e passioni contrapposte: dai tempi eroici del muto all'ibridazione dei media, l'autore ci spiega cosa è stato il cinema nel nostro paese e cosa oggi ancora è.

Un viaggio affascinante e intenso nelle pellicole che hanno fatto la storia del cinema per esplorare il sentimento della paternità. Affettuosi e gentili, oppure irascibili e brutali, colpevoli o redenti, indulgenti o moralisti, attesi o rimpianti, guerrieri o sconfitti, i tanti padri narrati in questo libro disegnano un unico grande ritratto composto di infiniti volti in cui cercare anche quello della propria famiglia.

Per la prima volta un'analisi a tutto tondo dell'universo di Star Wars, tra rigorosa riflessione sulla scrittura cinematografica e affascinante viaggio nel profondo del nostro inconscio. Federico Greco coniuga storie e suggestioni, genesi e influenze del più formidabile prodotto audiovisivo (e non solo) di tutti i tempi: la saga di Guerre stellari, dalla prima, mitica, trilogia, fino alle uscite più recenti. Dall'antropologia alla storia, dalla psicanalisi alla filosofia, le vicende e le storie che hanno portato alla creazione di una grande mitologia contemporanea.

From the triumphant “Main Title” in Star Wars to the ominous bass line of Jaws, John Williams has penned some of the most unforgettable film scores—while netting more than fifty Academy Award nominations. This updated and revised edition of Emilio Audissino’s groundbreaking volume takes stock of Williams’s creative process and achievements in music composition, including the most recent sequels in the film franchises that made him famous. Audissino details his lasting impact and cements his legacy as one of the most important composers in movie history.

Susie Bright, “The Pauline Kael of Porn” (SF Chronicle), rips open the history of erotic cinema before the internet— from the Golden Age of lavish 35mm hardcore, to the video-inspired “Porno Spring”, initiated by none other than punk, feminist, and lesbian video-makers.

L'inno alla pace di Charlie Chaplin nel "Grande dittatore", il super-computer HAL 9000 e la sua folle "incapacità d'errore" in "2001: Odissea nello spazio", la figura ormai leggendaria di "Fantozzi Rag. Ugo". La storia del cinema è un susseguirsi di scene, personaggi e dialoghi che sono entrati a far parte dell'immaginario di intere generazioni, e in questo volume Walter Veltroni, da sempre appassionato di cinema, parte dal "momento meraviglioso in cui in sala si fa buio totale" per accompagnarci in un viaggio personale e affettivo tra centouno dei film più belli di sempre.