ReFocus

  • ReFocus: The Films of Kelly Reichardt
    By E. Dawn Hall

    Matthew Flanagan, “Towards an Aesthetic of Slow in Contemporary Cinema,” 16:9 Film Journal 6, no. ... Ibid. p. 202. James Lattimer, “Beyond Neo-Neo Realism: Reconfigurations of Neorealist Narration in Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff,” ...

  • ReFocus: The Films of Elaine May
    By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

    This collection focuses both on the films she has directed, and also emphasises her work with other high profile collaborators such as John Cassavetes, Warren Beatty and Otto Preminger.

  • ReFocus: The Films of Paul Schrader
    By Michelle E. Moore

    “Karneval des Todes. Luchinio Viscontis La cauduta degli dei,” in Film Konzepte Heft 48: Luchino Visconti. Edited by Jörn Glasenapp. Munich: edition text+kritik, 2017. Sypher, Wylie. Rococo to Cubism in Art and Literature.

  • ReFocus: The Films of Barbara Kopple
    By Jaeckle Jeff Jaeckle

    On the surface, Shut Up & Sing!, about a transitional moment in the lives and careers of the Dixie Chicks, seems the least intersectional of Kopple's works. The band is a group of affluent white celebrities.

  • ReFocus: The Films of Budd Boetticher
    By Gary D Rhodes

    (Daniel Eagan, America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry [London and New York: Continuum, 2010], p. 526.) 2. Boetticher uses the rounded rock formations of the Alabama Hills to ...

  • ReFocus: The Films of Susanne Bier
    By Missy Molloy

    Facts and Figures, Production and Exhibition (2016), Copenhagen, The Danish Film Institute. “Fritz Michael Hartmann,” Frihedsmuseets ... Goodridge, Mike (2012), FilmCraft: Directing, London: Ilex. Greenberg, Udi E. (2008), ...

  • ReFocus: The Films of Amy Heckerling
    By Smith Frances Smith

    Rosenman is a scholar of popular and canonical nineteenth-century British literature; see her latest book, Unauthorized Pleasures: Accounts of Victorian Erotic Experiences (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003).

  • ReFocus: The Films of Delmer Daves
    By Carter Matthew Carter

    Horlik, Allan, Patricians, Professors, and Public Schools: The Origins of Modern Educational Thought in America (New York: Brill, 1994). Irvine, Janice, Talk about Sex: The Battles over Sex Education in the United States (Oakland: ...

  • ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze
    By Kim Wilkins

    As Jason Mittell puts it, “by highlighting the conventionality of Donald's writing and McKee's guidance, Adaptation reminds us to pay attention to its own unconventional techniques.” Jason Mittell, Narrative Theory and Adaptation (New ...

  • ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze
    By Wilkins Kim Wilkins

    As Jason Mittell puts it, “by highlighting the conventionality of Donald's writing and McKee's guidance, Adaptation reminds us to pay attention to its own unconventional techniques.” Jason Mittell, Narrative Theory and Adaptation (New ...

  • ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb
    By Gott Michael Gott

    Dimitris Eleftheriotis, Cinematic Journeys: Film and Movement (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010), 15. 9. ... Jason Wood, 100 Road Movies (London: British Film Institute, 2007), xv. 23. Ibid., xix. 24.

  • ReFocus: the Films of John Hughes
    By Timothy Shary, Frances Smith

    This wide-ranging collection examines the films of John Hughes from diverse angles, considering how he depicted young characters, how he revealed the humour of family life, and how his films subtly critiqued social issues such as class, ...

  • ReFocus: The Films of Amy Heckerling
    By Frances Smith

    ... Middle-Class Meltdown in America (New York: Routledge, 2014); Eric Olin Wright and Joel Rogers, American Society: How ... known that Americans occupying many different socio-economic positions tend to self-identify as “middle-class.

  • ReFocus: The Films of Xavier Dolan
    By Andree Lafontaine

    In the spirit of Thomas Waugh's The Romance of Transgression in Canada (2006) and his understanding of transgression as a queering gesture at the core of Canadian cinemas, sexualities, and nations,4 I will employ the concept of ...

  • ReFocus: the Films of Lucrecia Martel
    By Paul Merchant, Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha, Julia Kratje

    This volume's fresh, holistic approach to Martel's career includes contributions from scholars in Latin America, Europe and the United States, and ends with a new interview with Martel herself.Edited byNatalia Christofoletti Barrenha is an ...

  • ReFocus: The Films of Pablo Larrain
    By Laura Hatry

    Assessing his work in the context of film aesthetics, philosophy, history, adaptation studies and cultural studies, this is the first book-length English-language anthology about this important director's cinema, offering a wide range of ...

  • ReFocus: The Films of Budd Boetticher
    By Gary D Rhodes

    ... The Films of Budd Boetticher boxed set (Sony, 2008). 10. As of 1 August 2015, Arruza can be viewed on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v ... Budd Boetticher, When in Disgrace (Santa Barbara: Fallbrook Publishing, introduction 9.

  • ReFocus: The Films of Paul Schrader
    By Moore Michelle E. Moore

    This volume of essays - one of the first collections to assess Schrader's contributions to directing, screenwriting and criticism - includes the first original appraisals of his much-lauded masterpiece First Reformed (2017), as well as a ...

  • ReFocus: the Films of Ken Russell
    By Matthew Melia

    Showcases the most contemporary scholarly and archival research into Ken Russell's career and work

  • ReFocus: Living a Life that Reflects God's Heart
    By Paul Batura, Jim Daly

    Written by Jim Daly, the compassionate leader of Focus on the Family, ReFocus inspires and motivates Christians to transcend political agendas and partisan battles and instead interact with others in a way that will consistently reveal the ...