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Bert Cardullo
American Drama/Critics: Writings and Readings is a collection of essays on acknowledged classics of American drama such as Death of a Salesman, The Glass Menagerie, and Our Town, and on…
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Cinematic Illusions: Realism, Subjectivity, and the Avant-Garde is a collection of twelve essays arranged around the primordial subject of realism and anti-realism (the experimental or non-representational) in film.
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Out of Asia: The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray, Abbas Kiarostami, and Zhang Yimou is a collection of interviews with, and essays about, the four filmmakers who introduced the…
The main purpose of The Movies on My Mind: Collected Criticism, 2002-2007 is to stake out territory for a certain type of film critic, somewhere between a reviewer-journalist and a…
This is a collection of essays whose title more or less explains its contents.
Serious Dialogue:Interviews with American Theater Critics is a collection of interviews with, and among, America’s most notable theater critics: Robert Brustein, Stanley Kauffmann, Eric Bentley, Gordon Rogoff, and John Simon.
Five French Filmmakers: Renoir, Bresson, Tati, Truffaut, Rohmer; Essays and Interviews is, as its title indicates, a collection of essays about, followed by interviews with, five of France’s major movie…
Includes interviews with nine major film directors. This book also includes critical essays on their work.
The term neorealism was first applied by the critic Antonio Pietrangeli to Visconti’s Ossessione (1942), and the style came to fruition in the mid-to-late forties in such films of Roberto…
The main purpose of The Ghost of Cinema Past: Contemporary Reflections on Classic Film Art is to reinvestigate and reevaluate classic films, films of yesterday, from the point of view…
A number of writers have attempted to capture Robert Bresson’s style as well as his substance with such terms as minimalist, austere, ascetic, elliptical, autonomous, pure, even gentle.
Recognized as a master of Italian and world cinema, Vittorio De Sica is considered one of the major proponents of neorealism, an Italian movement that forever altered the content and…
This book is a collection of interviews with, and essays about, not so much the two non-Western filmmakers who introduced the cinema of their respective countries to the West-Akira Kurosawa…
The film directors Ken Loach and Mike Leigh have addressed the erosion of regional and class identities in an English landscape rendered increasingly uniform by consumerism.
Much has been made of the gains of the multicultural reconstruction of the canon of world drama, but what about the works that have been abandoned to make room for…
Contains interviews with nine film directors, accompanied by critical essays on their work.
‘Screen Writings: Genres, Classics, and Aesthetics’ offers close readings of genre films and acknowledged film classics in an attempt to explore both the aesthetics of genre and the definition of…
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‘Screen Writings: Partial Views of a Total Art, Classic to Contemporary’ offers close readings of individual films intended to explain how moviemakers use the resources of the medium to pursue…
Professor Bert Cardullo (Izmir University of Economics, Turkey)
This book examines the historical, cultural, and aesthetic relationships between theater and film. As we enter the 21st century, almost all artists, students, and critics working in theater will have…
Fernand Corommelynck,Alain Piette,Bert Cardullo
This book is the first collection of Crommelynck’s work in English and includes a translation of The Magnanimous Cuckold, as well as The Merchant of Regrets; The Sculptor of Masks…
‘Action!’ draws on the very best published and unpublished interviews of the ‘Bright Lights Film Journal’, and contains many gems, including the last ever interview given by Francois Truffaut, four…
Over the last century, film actors from Charlie Chaplin and Lillian Gish to Meryl Streep and Jeff Daniels have spoken about the art and technique of playing to the camera…
