Un autentico «Hitchcock's Companion», cioè un ricchissimo vademecum con tutto quello che vorreste sapere su ogni film del grande regista inglese: la storia, i dati filmografici completi, l'idea ispiratrice, il senso recondito, le idee e i temi ricorrenti, le trovate visive e quelle sonore, le curiosità, le celeberrime «comparsate» del regista, le sue «bionde virginali», il MacGuffin e infine un verdetto «informale» accompagnato da un voto spesso sorprendente. Completano il volume una bibliografia ragionata e un elenco di siti Internet dedicati a Hitchcock. «I film di Hitchcock sopravviveranno perché sono cibo per la mente. Ci scombussolano e non sappiamo perché. Non ci prendono per idioti, ci lasciano ragionare per conto nostro. Alla fine capiamo che Hitchcock ci sta dicendo che nella vita non ci sono soluzioni a portata di mano, che non va sempre tutto a posto».

L'opera ripercorre la carriera del grande regista, dal debutto come fotografo ai capolavori che lo hanno consacrato. L'autore evidenzia l'evoluzione stilistica e narrativa di Kubrick, dalle sperimentazioni giovanili fino alle produzioni più ambiziose. Dall'ironia di "Il Dottor Stranamore" all'epicità di "2001: Odissea nello spazio", passando per la controversa "Arancia Meccanica", ogni film è analizzato con attenzione per temi, tecniche e influenze artistiche. Ne emerge il ritratto di un autore perfezionista, capace di reinventare generi e linguaggi con una visione sempre innovativa. Completano il volume una bibliografia ragionata e un elenco di siti internet dedicati a Kubrick.

Dietro le quinte del capolavoro di fantascienza del 1976 interpretato da David Bowie Pubblicizzato come "un'esperienza che allarga la mente", L'uomo che cadde sulla Terra (1976), di Nicolas Roeg, sconvolse il mondo intero. Un tour-deforce di fantascienza come forma d'arte, il film portava sullo schermo non solo effetti visivi allucinanti e un'inquietante analisi dell'alienazione contemporanea, ma anche la leggenda del glam-rock David Bowie al suo debutto come attore protagonista nei panni dell'alieno paranoico Newton. Tratto dall'omonimo romanzo di Walter Tevis del 1963, L'uomo che cadde sulla Terra segue le vicende dell'alieno Newton; il suo arrivo sulla Terra in cerca di acqua; la sua trasformazione in ricco imprenditore grazie all'impiego delle tecnologie avanzate del suo pianeta natale; la sua iniziazione sessuale con la giovane Mary-Lou; e infine la scoperta della sua identità aliena, l'imprigionamento, l'abbandono e la caduta nell'alcolismo. Roeg riuscì a ottenere una prestazione eccezionale dal proprio cast, con Bowie in stato di grazia nei panni dell'etereo viaggiatore spaziale, e attori secondari come Candy Clark, Rip Torn, e Buck Henry che non furono da meno. In occasione del 40° anniversario di questo film di culto, sono stati raccolti un gran numero di fotogrammi e scatti dietro le quinte del fotografo di scena David James, molti dei quali raffiguranti Bowie, splendidamente ambiguo e sereno. Un saggio introduttivo scritto appositamente per il libro esplora le riprese del film e ne analizza il notevole e duraturo impatto, grazie anche a un'intervista esclusiva co

Un anno dopo essere arrivato a Hollywood nel 1914, l'attore britannico Charlie Chaplin era diventato il re della commedia slapstick in America. Alla fine del suo secondo anno sul grande schermo, Chaplin aveva ormai raggiunto una fama mondiale - fu la prima star internazionale del cinema - che gli fruttò un contratto milionario che fece di lui uno degli uomini più ricchi del mondo e gli permise di fondare una propria casa di produzione e una società per azioni composta da stretti collaboratori. Dall'Alaska allo Zimbabwe, la bombetta, il bastone e i pantaloni troppo larghi di Charlot sono andati a comporre una silhouette inconfondibile ancora oggi. Grazie all'acceso illimitato al vasto archivio di Chaplin, questo libro segue il "making of" di tutti i suoi film. Con 900 immagini, tra cui fotogrammi, note, storyboard e scatti dietro le quinte, oltre a interviste con i suoi stretti collaboratori, rivela i processi che stanno dietro al genio di Chaplin, dalla spontaneità improvvisa dei primi corti alle meticolose nuove riprese e rielaborazioni di scene e gag nei suoi film classici: Il monello (1921), La febbre dell'oro (1925), Il circo (1928), Luci della città (1931), Tempi moderni (1936) e la provocatoria parodia di Hitler Il grande dittatore (1940).

Come fotografo speciale sui set e le location della trilogia "Il padrino" di Francis Ford Coppola, Steve Schapiro ha avuto la notevole esperienza di essere testimone di alcune tra le performance più memorabili di attori leggendari. Schapiro ha immortalato Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, James Caan, Robert Duvall, e Diane Keaton in fotografie che da allora sono divenute immagini iconiche, riconoscibili all'istante e imitate all'infinito. Questo libro raccoglie le più belle fotografie di Schapiro tratte da tutti e tre i film della saga del Padrino, riprodotte con amore dai negativi originali. Con saggi contestuali e interviste che coprono la trilogia in tutta la sua interezza, questo libro contiene oltre 400 immagini a colori e in bianco e nero. Le immagini di Schapiro ci portano dietro le quinte di questa epica e inimitabile saga cinematografica, rivelando il processo alla base del lavoro del regista, catturando gli stati d'animo e le personalità coinvolte, e gettando uno sguardo approfondito sulla storia della realizzazione del film.

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Discover the freedom of open roads with Lonely Planet Grand Tour of Italy Road Trips, your passport to encountering Italy by car. Featuring four amazing road trips, plus up-to-date advice on the destinations you'll visit on the way. Follow the trail of bohemians and intellectuals from hedonistic beach towns to Renaissance jewels, all with your trusted travel companion. Get to Italy, rent a car, and hit the road!

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Discover the freedom of open roads with Lonely Planet Tuscany Road Trips, your passport to uniquely encountering Tuscany by car. Featuring four amazing road trips, plus up-to-date advice on the destinations you'll visit along the way, walk among ancient ruins or taste your way through spectacular vineyards, all with your trusted travel companion. Get to Italy, rent a car, and hit the road along Tuscany's countrysides!

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Effective leadership is essential in any sports organisation, both in the boardroom and on the training pitch.Leadership in Sport is the first textbook to examine sports leadership in the round, across both management and coaching environments. It includes a dedicated section to underpinning core leadership theories, and employs a number of case studies throughout to show how best practice is applied in real world settings.

Drawing on expertise from some of the leading academics and practitioners throughout the world, and from both disciplines, the book covers various leadership issues including:

• facilitative leadership

• strategic leadership

• leading effective change

• diversity in leadership

• communication and empathy

• motivation and performance.

Key conceptual questions—the nature of leadership, its role in sport, styles of leadership, what constitutes ineffective leadership—and other contemporary issues are also explored to give students and practitioners the most complete and clear picture of contemporary leadership in sport. With useful features in every chapter, such as key terms and review questions, this is an essential text for sport management or coaching degree courses.

An artist’s canvas reflects the face he chooses to show to the world, but the place in which that art is made is seldom revealed. Paul Duncan was given unparalleled access into the homes and lives of fourteen of South Africa’s most revered artists. Over countless mugs of coffee or glasses of wine, he listened and observed as they spoke about their lives, loves and the way they make their art.

South African Artists at Home takes the reader into some very private spaces, affording us a glimpse of what the artist goes home to at the end of the day. For some, the work space and home space are irrevocably intertwined. For others, home is a sanctuary. Or perhaps it is the studio that is the sanctuary and home is where ‘real life’ happens. Either way, if you have an interest in art, artists, and the often bizarre way that making art intersects with living life, you’ll find this book intriguing.

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. Poetics. California Interest. African & African American Studies. LGBT Studies. Film. From a never before seen manuscript of poems by Harlem Renaissance poet Helene Johnson to a treasure trove of Adrienne Rich's teaching materials from City College, this new series overturns all expectations. We have brought you facsimile reproductions and variorum editions, notes, storyboards, memos, screenplays, letters and of course, poetry from all around America. Building cultural history from the ground up, Series IV provides a completely different vantage point from which to further explore our literary heritage. LOST & FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE SERIES IV consists of eight beautifully printed chapbooks (600 pages in all), featuring rare and unpublished texts, including late work by Harlem Renaissance poet Helene Johnson, Adrienne Rich's teaching materials, a newly discovered film script by Edward Dorn, the formative correspondence of Pauline Kael & Robert Duncan, and a facsimile reproduction of Vincent Ferrini's 1946 Tidal Wave: Poems of the Great Strikes.

Series IV consists of:

Edward Dorn: Abilene! Abilene! (Parts I & II) (ed. Kyle Waugh)

Vincent Ferrini: Before Gloucester (eds. Ammiel Alcalay & Kate Tarlow Morgan)

Helene Johnson: After the Harlem Renaissance (ed. Emily Rosamond Claman)

Pauline Kael & Robert Duncan: Selected Letters 1945- 1946 (PARTS I & II) (ed. Bradley Lubin)

Adrienne Rich: Teaching at CUNY, 1968- 1974 (Parts I & II) (eds. Iemanjá Brown, Stefania Heim, erica kaufman, Kristin Moriah, Conor Tomás Reed, Talia Shalev & Wendy Tronrud)

"This is a book about Cape Town's interiors. It's about all kinds of places, from public buildings to centres of learning, places of worship to museums, that perhaps it never occurred to you to pop into, even just for a quiet moment ..." -- Introduction.

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