Film and Music

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• The most concise, affordable and up-to-date introduction to the history of film for students, film historians and movie buffs.

• A new chapter discusses changes in the form and technology of the medium since the 1990s, including the impact of digital film-making, bringing the story of film into the present day.

• Maps recent cinematic trends across the world to offer a fully global view of film in the 21st century.

• Considers well-known films such as Slumdog Millionaire, House of Flying Daggers and the Lord of the Rings trilogy alongside lesser-known releases, placing each film within the broader context of cinematic history.

• Engaging text is supplemented by 156 illustrations to give a stimulating account of both aesthetic and technical changes in film since its invention.

• Updated throughout, including a revised reading list and new terms added to the glossary.

Author

David Parkinson is a freelance film critic and historian. He is a contributing editor at Empire magazine, and also writes for Radio Times, the Oxford Times, the Guardian and MovieMail. He runs a popular weekly film blog on the Guardian entitled ‘Ask Parky’, in which he uses his expertise to answer readers’ questions.

In this lively and up-to-date analysis of the history of film, David Parkinson

traces the evolution of the moving image from the earliest shadow shows

to the digital film-making of the 21st century. A new final chapter maps

developments in form and technology across the world from the mid-1990s

to today, examining experiments in three-dimensionality, the revival of

animation and the democratization of film-making following the digital

revolution. Alongside the film trends in the US, UK, France and Germany,

Parkinson highlights the best work to have emerged globally, from Poland

and the Czech Republic to Iran and Israel, from India and South Africa to

China, Korea, Mexico and New Zealand. With a fully updated glossary and

bibliography, History of Film continues to be the definitive survey of this

most dynamic and popular art form.

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History of Film Second Edition

David Parkinson

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Extent

304pp

Size

21.0 x 15.0cm

Illustrations

156 illustrations, 15 in colour

Binding

Paperback

Price

£9.95

ISBN 978 0 500 204108

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• The definitive illustrated retrospective on the Oscar-winning director of some of the most resonant and enduring films of all time.

• Contains over 400 dynamic images, and revealing behind-the-scenes photos from DreamWorks’ own archives.

• Includes a foreword by the legendary director himself.

• Richard Schickel provides a perceptive analysis and illuminating film-by-film commentary, exploring each film in insightful detail.

• Published ahead of the December release of Spielberg’s new film, Lincoln, which stars Daniel Day Lewis in the title role.

ContentsForeword by Steven Spielberg • The Beginner • The Director • Duel • The Sugarland Express • Jaws Close Encounters of the Third Kind • 1941 • Raiders of the Lost Ark • E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom • The Color Purple • Empire of the Sun • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade • Always • Hook • Jurassic Park • Schindler’s List • The Lost World: Jurassic Park • Amistad • Saving Private Ryan • A.I.: Artificial Intelligence • Minority Report • Catch Me If You Can • The Terminal • War of the Worlds • Munich • Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull • The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn • War Horse • And Now … • The Producer • DreamWorks • Filmography • Picture Credits and Acknowledgments

Author

Richard Schickel is a film critic, documentary filmmaker and movie historian, who has written over thirty major books, most recently Conversations with Scorsese.

For more than four decades, Steven Spielberg has created inspiring, exciting

and unforgettable movie magic. Jaws, E.T., the Indiana Jones series, Close

Encounters of the Third Kind, Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan and War

Horse are among the many favourites that have thrilled cinema audiences all

over the world. They are some of the highest-grossing and most captivating

and enduring films of all time – contemporary classics that remain indelibly

part of our lives. This retrospective celebrates some forty years of Steven

Spielberg’s boundless energy and his unwavering commitment to excellence

in all areas of his work. The distinguished writer and critic Richard Schickel,

himself a documentary filmmaker, applies his unique knowledge of every one

of Spielberg’s 27 major films to appraise the director’s remarkably prolific

and varied career. Featuring many first-person observations drawn from

Schickel’s interviews with Spielberg, as well as a personal foreword by the

director himself, this book presents an insider’s perspective on Spielberg’s

legendary achievements. Impeccably designed and illustrated with over 400

superb images, Spielberg: A Retrospective is the ultimate tribute to a movie-

making icon, and a book to treasure.

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Spielberg A Retrospective

Richard Schickel Foreword by Steven Spielberg

Extent

288pp

Size

29.2 x 24.8cm

Illustrations

400 illustrations in colour

and black and white

Binding

Hardback

Price

£24.95

ISBN 978 0 500 516089


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• Written by the Stones, curated by the Stones, and featuring the very best photographs and ephemera from and beyond their archives: here is the official, authorized story of fifty fantastic years of the greatest rock’n’roll band the world has ever known.

• Never before have members of the band been so personally involved in a book of this kind; this intimate portrait is the result of months of close collaboration with Mick, Keith, Charlie and Ronnie.

• Publication of the book on 12 July 2012 – the 50th anniversary of the Stones’ first gig at the Marquee Club – will be a global event. A memorial plaque will be unveiled at the Marquee’s original site at 165 Oxford Street, and an anniversary documentary is also scheduled for release in the summer. Speculation is also mounting about a worldwide anniversary tour.

• Superb reportage photography from The Daily Mirror – which has the largest newspaper archive of Rolling Stones photography, much of it hitherto unseen – documents all the key events – the albums, the gigs, the dramas – in the band’s history. This is the stuff of legend.

• Features the work of legendary photographers, including Gered Mankowitz, Ethan Russell, Bent Rej, Ian Wright and Philip Townsend – the appointed photographer for their first ever shoot.

Authors

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood are the Rolling Stones.

It’s 50 years since the Rolling Stones’ first gig at the Marquee Club in

London, and the celebrations to mark their golden anniversary are set to

be as epic as their amazing career. This book – the only official volume to

celebrate this momentous occasion – is a key part of those celebrations.

Introduced by each member of the band, this is their story of the last half

century, told in rare and unseen photographs, contact sheets and ephemera

from and beyond the band’s own archive. Packed with content, stunningly

designed and beautifully manufactured, The Rolling Stones: 50 will be the

definitive illustrated book on the band for many years to come.

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The Rolling Stones: 50 Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood

Extent

352pp

Size

30.4 x 25.0cm

Illustrations

Over 1,000 illustrations in colour

and black & white

Binding

Hardback

Price

£29.95

ISBN 978 0 500 516249


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• Published in the run-up to the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth in 2013, and written by one of the most distinguished Wagner scholars in the world, this will be the Wagner book of the bicentenary.

• Considers a whole range of themes, including the composer’s original sources of inspiration; his fetish for exotic silks; his relationship with his wife, Cosima, and with his mistress, Mathilde Wesendonck; his anti-semitism; the operas’ proto-cinematic nature; and the turbulent legacy both of the Bayreuth Festival and of Wagnerism itself.

• The volume’s arrangement – unique among books on the composer – combines an accessible text, intriguing images and original documents in carefully co-ordinated sections, thus ensuring a consistently fresh approach.

Contents1. Father of the Man: Paternity and Childhood • 2. Learning the Craft: Youthful Apprenticeship • 3. Earning his Keep: First Professional Appointments • 4. Under the Yoke: Kapellmeister in Dresden • 5. The Eternal Wanderer: Der fliegende Holländer 6. Desperately Seeking Venus: Tannhäuser • 7. Swansong to Traditional Opera: Lohengrin • 8. Revolutionary Road: Uprising in Dresden • 9. The Zurich Years: Wagner’s Exile in Switzerland • 10. The Rise and Fall of Valhalla: Der Ring des Nibelungen • 11. ‘Most Excellent Friend’: Franz Liszt • 12. Muses, Mistresses and Mother-Figures: Wagner’s Women • 13. The Behemoth of Bayreuth: Wagner’s Personality • 14. Always Short: Wagner and Money • 15. In the Pink: The Role of Silks and Satins in Wagner’s Life • 16. ‘My Adored and Angelic Friend’: Ludwig II • 17. Fatal Attraction: Tristan und Isolde • 18. ‘Art is What Matters Here’: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg • 19. Grit in the Oyster: Anti-Semitism in Wagner’s Life and Work • 20. Creative Spark: Sources of Inspiration in Wagner’s Work • 21. The Silent Sufferer: Cosima Wagner • 22. Tribschen Interlude: The Lucerne Years • 23. A Home for the Gods: The Bayreuth Project • 24. Wagner’s Last Card: Parsifal • 25. Death in Venice: The Events of Wagner’s Last Days • 26. Perfect and Imperfect Wagnerites: The Spread of the Wagner Cult • 27. Panning for Gold: Wagner and Cinema 28. Swastikas Over Bayreuth: Wagner and the Third Reich • 29. Regime Change: The Grandsons Usher In the Era of New Bayreuth • 30. Renewing the Legacy: Bayreuth Today and in the Future • Family Tree

Author

Barry Millington is chief music critic for the London Evening Standard and the editor of The Wagner Journal. He has written and edited, or co-edited, seven books on Wagner, including The Wagner Compendium, The Ring of the Nibelungen: A Companion and the New Grove Guide to Wagner and his Operas.

Richard Wagner (1813–1883) is one of the most influential – and also one of

the most polarizing – composers in the history of music. Over the course of

his long career, he produced a stream of spellbinding works that challenged

musical convention through their richness and tonal experimentation,

ultimately paving the way for modernism. This book presents an in-depth

but easy-to-read overview of Wagner’s life, work and times. Making use of

the very latest scholarship – much of it undertaken by the author himself in

connection with his editorship of The Wagner Journal – Millington reassesses

received notions about Wagner and his work, demolishing ill-informed

opinion in favour of proper critical understanding. It is a radical – and

occasionally controversial – reappraisal of this most perplexing of composers.

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Richard Wagner The Sorcerer of Bayreuth

Barry Millington

Extent

320pp

Size

24.0 x 16.5cm

Illustrations

285 illustrations

Binding

Hardback

Price

£28.00

ISBN 978 0 500 516430


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• An incomporable portrait of cinema, featuring Hollywood’s biggest stars and the iconic films of today and yesterday.

• In the same format as Thames & Hudson’s bestselling FashionBox, MusicBox and PhotoBox.

• Arranged in thematic chapters that look at the film world from a witty and fresh perspective.

• Features more than 350 colour images of iconic films and film stars by renowned photographers, including Robert Capa, Martin Schoeller, Bruce Davidson, Eve Arnold and more.

Contents

Location • Preparations • Action! • The Rings • Adventurers • ‘Born yesterday’ • Vampires & Co. • Baby Star • Heroes • Superheroes • Femmes Fatale • Clowns • The Body • Private Life • In Public • Artifice • Myth

Author

Paolo Mereghetti is a film critic and journalist. He won the Premio Flaiano for the Cinematographic Criticism in 2001.

Since the dawn of the film industry, the world’s greatest photographers have

been drawn to record the colourful characters and the process of filming,

capturing rare behind-the-scenes views, moving portraits and candid stills

of the stars living their everyday lives. A photographic journey that spans

the history of cinema, MovieBox is a collection of more than 350 images

of the most iconic movies and film stars as immortalized by renowned

photographers. The book features unforgettable images of the icons of

Hollywood’s past – Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn,

Cary Grant, Elizabeth Taylor, Alfred Hitchcock – and the hottest stars of

today – Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Christian Bale and

many more. From the most popular shooting locations to pre-production,

to casting, to the set, to the awards and the cinema theatres, MovieBox

offers a sweeping portrait of cinema, showcasing a stunning collection of

photographs that are now part of our collective memory.

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MovieBox Photographing the Magic of Cinema

Paolo Mereghetti

Extent

480pp

Size

22.0 x 17.0cm

Illustrations

350 illustrations in colour

and black and white

Binding

PLC

Price

£19.95

ISBN 978 0 500 516485

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• The ultimate celebration of cultural icon, musical superstar, trendsetter and Vogue cover girl in all her glorious guises.

• Showcases extensive material from each of Kylie’s key periods, arranged in chronological order, whether Kylie as geisha/manga superheroine in her ‘Impossible Princess’ era, ingenue in gold hot pants for ‘Light Years’, or Grecian winged messenger for ‘Aphrodite’.

• In addition to coverage of music shoots and tour costumes, awe-inspiring red-carpet shots and photo-shoot images appear in full colour.

• Includes specially written texts by all of the most important designers and stylists with whom Kylie has worked. Additional commentary is provided by Kylie herself, as is a specially written afterword.

• Features all the great fashion houses of our time, including Yves Saint Laurent, Dolce & Gabbana, John Galliano and Pucci, as well as cutting-edge designers such as Gareth Pugh, Richard Nicoll, Christopher Kane, Mark Fast, Mrs Jones and Giles Deacon.

Author

With worldwide record sales of around 70 million, a Grammy, a Brit and numerous ARIA awards, Kylie Minogue is a truly international superstar and one of the biggest selling Australian solo artists of all time. She has appeared in countless fashion magazines, from The Face to Vanity Fair. In 2008 she was awarded both the OBE at Buckingham Palace and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France. William Baker is Kylie’s creative director. He is also a fashion designer, stylist, author and theatre director, and has collaborated on a number of fashion-based projects for Björk, Tricky, Jay Kay (Jamiroquai) and Garbage.

2012 marks 25 years since Kylie Minogue burst onto the world music scene.

Eleven studio albums, a host of number one singles and a string of industry

awards later, her status as a self-reinventing style icon is undisputable. In

her wide-ranging career she has worked with practically every major fashion

designer in the world: this exceptionally well produced book reveals and

revels in those groundbreaking collaborations. Packed with iconic images as

well as the very best rare and unseen archival photography, video outtakes,

fashion sketches, designs and ephemera from Kylie’s archives, it will be a

collector’s item for fashionistas and fans worldwide.

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Kylie / Style Kylie Minogue in Fashion

Kylie Minogue and William Baker

Extent

224pp

Size

32.0 x 24.0cm

Illustrations

c. 400 illustrations in colour

and black and white

Binding

Hardback

Price

£24.95

ISBN 978 0 500 516652


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