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My Life is the Cinema
My Life is the Cinema brings to English readers for the first time the memoirs and selected writings of Esfir' Shub, the pioneering Soviet filmmaker whose archival works transformed the practice of documentary cinema. A comrade of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, Shub was among the first to recognize montage as both an artistic and historiographic method, an instrument through which the political and emotional truths of the twentieth century could be revealed. Her landmark film The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1927) established the compilation documentary as a distinct genre, reshaping the relationship between image, history, and ideology.
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I Killed Bette Davis
Larry Cohen
Larry Cohen's guerilla filmmaking: stealing shots, battling studios, and *maybe* killing Bette Davis?
I Loved Movies, But…
Joseph McBride
Orson Welles to Spielberg: Joseph McBride's life in cinema, a relentless quest for truth behind the silver screen's seductive illusions.
Jump Cuts, Tracking Shots, and Scherzos
David Sterritt
Kurosawa to Coppola, Cage to the Stones: five decades of sharp film writing from critic David Sterritt.
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