
Joe Dante
SYNEMA Gesellschaft für Film und Medien (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 18. September 2013
Book
256 pages
978-3-901644-52-8 (ISBN)
Description
In der oft eintönigen Landschaft der Blockbuster-Ära seit 1975 funkelt das Kino von Joe Dante wie ein Leuchtfeuer. Der Dante-Touch mit seiner speziellen Mischung aus Humor und Schrecken, messerscharfer Gesellschaftssatire und Cinephilie macht aus der Popkultur ein Fest: "a free-for-all orgy of movies, memories and mischief". Erstmals wird das farbenfrohe Dante-Universum nun in einer reich illustrierten Monografie erkundet: mit bisher unveröffentlichten Bilddokumenten, Essays von Michael Almereyda, Jim Hoberman, Bill Krohn, John Sayles u.v.a. - und einem großen Interview mit Joe Dante selbst, das seine gesamte Laufbahn abdeckt. (In englischer Sprache)
Reviews / Votes
A glance at the contents page suggests that this is primarily a collection of essays, although these only tape up 100 pages in the mid-section. Bookending them are a lenghty, delightfully candid conversation with Dante conducted by co-editor Gabe Klinger that's the closest we currently have to a full-blown autobiography, a detailed timeline of his life and career, and a comprehensive annotated filmography. In short, it does an admirable job as a single-volume overview. -- Sight & Sound Joe Dante makes a convincing case that its subject, despite never taking screenplay credit, has through his choice and interpretation of materials - and what he's done with projects which have landed in his lap - managed to maintain a clear authorial voice while compiling a varied corpus. The volume is, therefore, not only paradise for Dante acolytes, but an excellent choice for anyone wondering how talented practitioners can carve a career in a purgatorial medium which for more than a century has thrown art and commerce together as perhaps the most infernally stormy of bedfellows. -- Tribune Magazine Baskar and Klinger's volume is especially triumphant in light of Joe Dante's continued disreputability within the world of serious film discourse... It can only be hoped that there will be many more publications like it to follow. * Film Matters * The pleasure of reading a book such as this lies in its built-in appeal both to fans and newcomers... Absorbing... * Cineaste *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Wien
Austria
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
100
100 color & 70 b/w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 20 cm
Width: 17 cm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
450 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-901644-52-8 (9783901644528)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Nil Baskar is a film writer, researcher and translator based in Ljubljana. In 2007, he confounded KINO! magazine and has been a regular contributor since. He is in charge of in-house publications for the Slovenian Cinematheque. He has edited and translated books by Andre Bazin, Jacques Ranciere and Jean-Louis Comolli, among others.
Gabe Klinger is a critic, teacher, archivist, curator, and filmmaker. His articles have appeared in Sight & Sound, Film Comment, Cinema Scope, and other publications. His feature documentary, Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater (2013), premiered at the 2013 Venice Film Festival.
Gabe Klinger is a critic, teacher, archivist, curator, and filmmaker. His articles have appeared in Sight & Sound, Film Comment, Cinema Scope, and other publications. His feature documentary, Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater (2013), premiered at the 2013 Venice Film Festival.
Editor
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Contributions
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