Film as a Subversive Art: By Amos Vogel
9 best books like Film as a Subversive Art: By Amos Vogel (Amos Vogel): The Medium is the Massage, Ways of Seeing, The Films in My Life, This Is Orson Welles, Scorsese on Scorsese, From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film, Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate, the Film That Sank United Artists, Conversations with Wilder, The Americans
The Medium is the Massage
| Author | Marshall McLuhan |
| ISBN | 1584230703 |
The Medium is the Massage is Marshall McLuhan's most condensed, and perhaps most effective, presentation of his ideas. Using a layout style that was later copied by Wired, McLuhan and coauthor/designer Quentin Fiore combine word and image to illustrate and enact the ideas that were first put forward...
| Author | John Berger |
| ISBN | 0140135154 |
John Berger’s Classic Text on Art
John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener...
| Author | François Truffaut |
| ISBN | 0306805995 |
François Truffaut (1932-1984), perhaps the most respected member of the New Wave group of French moviemakers, left a legacy of beloved and influential films that include The 400 Blows, Jules and Jim, Stolen Kisses, Day for Night and The Story of Adele H. Equally fascinating is the very large body of...
Innovative film and theater director, radio producer, actor, writer, painter, narrator, and magician, Orson Welles (1915–1985) was the last true Renaissance man of the twentieth century. From such great radio works as "War of the Worlds" to his cinematic masterpieces Citizen Kane, The Magnificent...
| Author | David Thompson |
| ISBN | 0571178278 |
This book is filled with insights on Marty's filmmaking process. When I started reading this book, I decided to watch his films along the way. It was a slow but very fulfilling experience! While one may not like all of his films, one would still gain certain appreciation for these films having read his...
| Author | Siegfried Kracauer |
| ISBN | 0691025053 |
A landmark, now classic, study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic, From Caligari to Hitler was first published by Princeton University Press in 1947. Siegfried Kracauer--a prominent German film critic and member of Walter Benjamin's and Theodor Adorno's intellectual circle--broke...
| Author | Steven Bach |
| ISBN | 1557043744 |
Heaven's Gate is probably the most discussed, least seen film in modern movie history. Its notoriety is so great that its title has become a generic term for disaster, for ego run rampant, for epic mismanagement, for wanton extravagance. It was also the film that brought down one of Hollywood’s major...
| Author | Cameron Crowe |
| ISBN | 0375709673 |
In Conversations with Wilder, Hollywood's legendary and famously elusive director Billy Wilder agrees for the first time to talk extensively about his life and work.
Here, in an extraordinary book with more than 650 black-and-white photographs -- including film posters, stills, grabs,...
| Author | Robert Frank |
| ISBN | 3931141802 |
Armed with a camera and a fresh cache of film and bankrolled by a Guggenheim Foundation grant, Robert Frank crisscrossed the United States during 1955 and 1956. The photographs he brought back form a portrait of the country at the time and hint at its future. He saw the hope of the future in the faces of a...
