Beyond the Frame: Dialogues with World Filmmakers

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Liza Bear

Foreword by Laurence A. Kardish

Book Code: B9667

ISBN: 0-275-99667-0

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-99667-3

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336 pages, photos

Praeger Paperback

Publication: 12/30/2007

List Price: $34.95 (UK Sterling Price: £19.95)

Availability: In Stock

Media Type: Paperback

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Beyond the Frame offers many pleasures for aspiring filmmakers and aficionados alike. For one thing it's a crash survey course on many of the more interesting filmmakers of the past twenty years and could profitably be utilized as such by academia, by film clubs, or by ordinary citizens at home who want to know about wonderful, often neglected, movies to watch from China, Argentina, Senegal or the good old U.S. of A.
—WBAI Radio .
Forget foreign language: in Bear's collection of newspaper profiles and features, world means world. Winterbottom sits alongside Forman, Kitano and many others, as players from the past 20 years' most exciting films wax lyrical.
—Empire Magazine May 2008

Endorsement From Julia Keydel
Associate Professor of Film and Television
Tisch School of the Arts, NYU: It's pretty difficult to be in a conversation with Liza Bear and not be open and honest. She sets the tone! She has been in the trenches and fully understands the practical, moral, and aesthetic challenges involved in making a film. The range of filmmakers included here is remarkable, and Bear demonstrates great skill in engaging all of them in captivating dialogues. Her acute perceptions of each director's work, along with her deeply empathetic appreciation of the filmmaker's task in general, infuse all of the interviews with a truly inquisitive spirit that is rare in interviews today. This volume will greatly enhance any film enthusiast's appreciation and understanding of the world of filmmakers.

Description: Liza Bear's Beyond the Frame provides immediate insights into the modus operandi of many of the most intriguing figures of world cinema from the past 20 years -- among them master directors such as Gillian Armstrong, Milos Forman, Takeshi Kitano, Wong Kar-wai, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Jacques Rivette, Ousmane Sembene, Agnes Varda, and Zhang Yimou. This lively collection consists of in-depth profiles reprinted from the cultural quarterly Bomb, and shorter feature stories. The spontaneity of the exchanges cuts to the creative quick. In addition to cinema veterans, the book focuses on debut features such as Alejandro Inarritu's Amores Perros, Shirley Barrett's Love Serenade, Samira Makhmalbaf's The Apple, and Jafar Panahi's The White Balloon. Other highly original films discussed include Infernal Affairs, Swimming Pool, and Princess Mononoke. Supplementary to the interviews is an introduction by noted author Robin Andersen that elucidates recurrent themes arising out of the discussions, a foreword by Laurence A. Kardish, Film Curator at the Museum of Modern Art, an index, and numerous photographs.

LC Card Number: 2007037158

LCC Class: PN1998

Dewey Class: 791

PDF Catalogs:
Praeger Public Library Spring 2008.pdf


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