Последние издания книг Ричарда Уоррена Шикеля

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, most captivating and enduring films of all time - contemporary classics that indelibly remain part of our lives.
Steven Spielberg's own story is itself the stuff of dreams. He was born in 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father was an electrical engineer and his mother a restaurateur and concert pianist. In 1959, he made a mini-movie to earn his Boy Scout photography merit badge, an achievement that proved to be the catalyst for his future career. By the time Spielberg was a teenager, he was charging his friends admission to his home movies and won his first prize at the age of thirteen for a short war film. Soon he took to wandering the lot at Universal Studios, hoping not to get caught, and eventually was taken on there as an intern. The rest, as they say, is history.
This timely retrospective celebrates more than 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, provides unique insight on every one of Spielberg's twenty-eight major movies to appraise such a remarkably prolific and varied career. Featuring many first-person observations drawn from Schickel's interviews, as well as a personal foreword by the director himself, this is an insider's perspective on Spielberg's legendary achievements.
Impeccably designed and illustrated with more than 400 superb images, many sourced specially from the Steven Spielberg Archive, this book is an essential companion to the art of making movies and an authoritative tribute to a Hollywood icon.

With over 400 illustrations in colour and black and white.

Book DescriptionFew figures in film and theater history tower like Elia Kazan. Born in 1909 to Greek parents in Istanbul, Turkey, he arrived in America with incomparable vision and drive, and by the 1950s he was the most important and influential director in the nation, simultaneously dominating both theater and film. His productions of A Streetcar Named Desire and Death of a Salesman reshaped the values of the stage. His films -- most notably On the Waterfront -- brought a new realism and a new intensity of performance to the movies. Kazan's career spanned times of enormous change in his adopted country, and his work affiliated him with many of America's great artistic moments and figures, from New York City's Group Theatreof the 1930s to the rebellious forefront of 1950s Hollywood; from Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy to Marlon Brando and James Dean. Ebullient and secretive, bold and self-doubting, beloved yet reviled for "naming names" before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Kazan was an individual as complex and fascinating as any he directed. He has long deserved a biography as shrewd and sympathetic as this one. In the electrifying Elia Kazan, noted film historian and critic Richard Schickel illuminates much more than a single astonishing life and life's work: He pays discerning tribute to the power of theater and film, and casts a new light on six crucial decades of American history.

Book Description"This magnificent and important biography...is the best ever written on the man." -The New Republic "Mr. Schickel's excellent and important biography makes it clear that when the movers of our century are tallied, D.W. Griffith,

Book DescriptionIn his new book the celebrated film critic and biographer turns to a story of his own life as a child growing up in a comfortable Milwaukee surburb during the years of WW II.

Книга Ричарда Шикеля посвящена великому испанскому живописцу Франсиско Хосе де Гойя, гениально выразившему анархический индивидуализм национального характера своих соотечественников, показавшему и выставившему на наш суд темные стороны человеческой души, откровенно выразившему личное отношение к жестокому и иррациональному миру.

This classic history of Walt Disney's life and works asks penetrating questions about Disney's achievements and shortcomings, and the enormous popularity of the Disney version. One of the best studies ever done on American popular culture...unfailingly, consistently intelligent, and eminently readable.--Stephen J. Whitfield, Brandeis University.