FilmQuake
The Most Disruptive Films in Cinema
Published on 26. October 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-7112-5971-3 (ISBN)
Description
Discover films that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when filmmakers take tradition and rip it up.
FilmQuake introduces 50 movies that shook the cinematic world, telling the fascinating stories behind their creation, reception and legacy.
From unbelievable developments in technology (Citizen Kane, 1941) to feminist triumphs (Wanda, 1970); films that kickstarted New Queer Cinema (Paris is Burning, 1990) to others that challenged lawmakers (A Short Film About Killing, 1988) - FilmQuake presents the movies that questioned boundaries, challenged the status quo and made shockwaves we are still feeling today.
From film's first innovators, people like the Lumiere brothers, whose short film of a train arriving was reported to have terrified audiences in 19th century Paris, through iconoclasts like Sergei Eisenstein and Luis Bunuel, to titans of 20th century cinema like Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard, discover the stories behind the films which incontrovertably changed the course of cinema forever.
Into the modern day, this book examines how filmmakers have addressed themes of prejudice and inequality, from the Black Lives Matter movement and Jordan Peele's unmissable Get Out to Bong Joon-ho's cutting study of the lives of the wealthy in Parasite, as well as innovative new cinematic techniques emerging in films like 28 Days Later and Blair Witch Project.
In telling the history of cinema through the works that were truly disruptive, and explaining the context in which each was created, FilmQuake demonstrates the heart of modern film, which is to constantly question boundaries and challenge expectation.
This book is from the Culture Quake series, which looks into iconic moments of culture which truly created paradigm shifts in their respective fields.
Also available is ArtQuake, which tells the stories of 50 pivotal works that challenged consensus and broke daring new ground in the world of art, inspiring shock and scandal as they did so, but ultimately cementing themselves as truly great works of modern art.
FilmQuake introduces 50 movies that shook the cinematic world, telling the fascinating stories behind their creation, reception and legacy.
From unbelievable developments in technology (Citizen Kane, 1941) to feminist triumphs (Wanda, 1970); films that kickstarted New Queer Cinema (Paris is Burning, 1990) to others that challenged lawmakers (A Short Film About Killing, 1988) - FilmQuake presents the movies that questioned boundaries, challenged the status quo and made shockwaves we are still feeling today.
From film's first innovators, people like the Lumiere brothers, whose short film of a train arriving was reported to have terrified audiences in 19th century Paris, through iconoclasts like Sergei Eisenstein and Luis Bunuel, to titans of 20th century cinema like Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard, discover the stories behind the films which incontrovertably changed the course of cinema forever.
Into the modern day, this book examines how filmmakers have addressed themes of prejudice and inequality, from the Black Lives Matter movement and Jordan Peele's unmissable Get Out to Bong Joon-ho's cutting study of the lives of the wealthy in Parasite, as well as innovative new cinematic techniques emerging in films like 28 Days Later and Blair Witch Project.
In telling the history of cinema through the works that were truly disruptive, and explaining the context in which each was created, FilmQuake demonstrates the heart of modern film, which is to constantly question boundaries and challenge expectation.
This book is from the Culture Quake series, which looks into iconic moments of culture which truly created paradigm shifts in their respective fields.
Also available is ArtQuake, which tells the stories of 50 pivotal works that challenged consensus and broke daring new ground in the world of art, inspiring shock and scandal as they did so, but ultimately cementing themselves as truly great works of modern art.
Reviews / Votes
"Smith's selections are often startling and surprising..." -- Christopher Schobert * The Film Stage *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing PLC
Product notice
Flexible plastic/vinyl cover
Illustrations
75 colour photos
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
506 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7112-5971-3 (9780711259713)
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Ian Haydn Smith is a London-based writer. He is the update editor on 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die and is the editor of BFI Filmmakers Magazine and Curzon Magazine. Ian is also the author of Selling the Movie: The Art of the Film Poster, The Short Story of Photography and Cult Filmmakers.
Content
Introduction
THE SHOCK OF THE NEW: 1895-1929
The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station: Auguste and Louis Lumiere
Women in Film
The Birth of a Nation: D.W. Griffith
Within Our Gates: Oscar Micheaux
Nosferatu: F.W. Murnau
German Expressionism
Nanook of the North: Robert Flaherty
Battleship Potemkin: Sergei Eisenstein
Soviet Cinema
The Passion of Joan of Arc: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Sound in Film
A WORLD IN FLUX: 1930-1959
The Golden Age: Luis Bunuel
Avant-Garde Cinema
L'Atalante: Jean Vigo
Triumph of the Will: Leni Riefenstahl
Propaganda on Film
The Great Dictator: Charles Chaplin
Citizen Kane: Orson Welles
Auteur Cinema
Rome, Open City: Roberto Rossellini
Italian Neorealism
Rashomon: Akira Kurosawa
Pather Panchali: Satyajit Ray
The Seventh Seal: Ingmar Bergman
Art Film
The Rise of Animation
Some Like It Hot: Billy Wilder
BREAKING ALL THE RULES: 1960-1979
Breathless: Jean-Luc Goddard
The French New Wave
Psycho: Alfred Hitchcock
New Adventures in Horror
Victim: Basil Dearden
Cleo from 5 to 7: Agnes Varda
The Battle of Algiers: Gillo Pontecorvo
Bonnie and Clyde: Arthur Penn
New Hollywood
2001: A Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick
Wanda: Barbara Loden
Feminist Film
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss: Melvin Van Peebles
Black Cinema in the US
Touki Bouki: Djibril Diop Mambety
Cinema of Transgression
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles: Chantal Akerman
Jaws: Steven Spielberg
Apocalypse Now: Francis Ford Coppola
Developments in Sound
INDEPENDENCE AND INDUSTRY: 1980-1999
Fitzcarraldo: Werner Herzog
An Epic Cinema
Shoah: Claude Lanzmann
The Thin Blue Line: Errol Morris
A Short Film About Killing: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Changing the World
Do the Right Thing: Spike Lee
Paris is Burning: Jennie Livingston
New Queer Cinema
Daughters of the Dust: Julie Dash
Terminator 2: Judgment Day: James Cameron
Reservoir Dogs: Quentin Tarantino
US Indie Cinema
Chungking Express: Wong Kar-wai
Cinema in Hong Kong, China
Recent New Waves
La Haine: Mathieu Kassovitz
The Blair Witch Project: Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez
Recent Horror
THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN: 2000-PRESENT
Russian Ark: Aleksandr Sokurov
Cinema and Time
Digital Cinema
Brokeback Mountain: Ang Lee
United 93: Paul Greengrass
Cinema Post-9/11
Tangerine: Sean Baker
Get Out: Jordan Peele
Film and Black Lives Matter
Change for the Future
Atlantics: Mati Diop
For Sama: Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts
Citizen Journalism
Parasite: Bong Joon-Ho
Glossary
Further Reading
Picture Credits
Index
THE SHOCK OF THE NEW: 1895-1929
The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station: Auguste and Louis Lumiere
Women in Film
The Birth of a Nation: D.W. Griffith
Within Our Gates: Oscar Micheaux
Nosferatu: F.W. Murnau
German Expressionism
Nanook of the North: Robert Flaherty
Battleship Potemkin: Sergei Eisenstein
Soviet Cinema
The Passion of Joan of Arc: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Sound in Film
A WORLD IN FLUX: 1930-1959
The Golden Age: Luis Bunuel
Avant-Garde Cinema
L'Atalante: Jean Vigo
Triumph of the Will: Leni Riefenstahl
Propaganda on Film
The Great Dictator: Charles Chaplin
Citizen Kane: Orson Welles
Auteur Cinema
Rome, Open City: Roberto Rossellini
Italian Neorealism
Rashomon: Akira Kurosawa
Pather Panchali: Satyajit Ray
The Seventh Seal: Ingmar Bergman
Art Film
The Rise of Animation
Some Like It Hot: Billy Wilder
BREAKING ALL THE RULES: 1960-1979
Breathless: Jean-Luc Goddard
The French New Wave
Psycho: Alfred Hitchcock
New Adventures in Horror
Victim: Basil Dearden
Cleo from 5 to 7: Agnes Varda
The Battle of Algiers: Gillo Pontecorvo
Bonnie and Clyde: Arthur Penn
New Hollywood
2001: A Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick
Wanda: Barbara Loden
Feminist Film
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss: Melvin Van Peebles
Black Cinema in the US
Touki Bouki: Djibril Diop Mambety
Cinema of Transgression
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles: Chantal Akerman
Jaws: Steven Spielberg
Apocalypse Now: Francis Ford Coppola
Developments in Sound
INDEPENDENCE AND INDUSTRY: 1980-1999
Fitzcarraldo: Werner Herzog
An Epic Cinema
Shoah: Claude Lanzmann
The Thin Blue Line: Errol Morris
A Short Film About Killing: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Changing the World
Do the Right Thing: Spike Lee
Paris is Burning: Jennie Livingston
New Queer Cinema
Daughters of the Dust: Julie Dash
Terminator 2: Judgment Day: James Cameron
Reservoir Dogs: Quentin Tarantino
US Indie Cinema
Chungking Express: Wong Kar-wai
Cinema in Hong Kong, China
Recent New Waves
La Haine: Mathieu Kassovitz
The Blair Witch Project: Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez
Recent Horror
THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN: 2000-PRESENT
Russian Ark: Aleksandr Sokurov
Cinema and Time
Digital Cinema
Brokeback Mountain: Ang Lee
United 93: Paul Greengrass
Cinema Post-9/11
Tangerine: Sean Baker
Get Out: Jordan Peele
Film and Black Lives Matter
Change for the Future
Atlantics: Mati Diop
For Sama: Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts
Citizen Journalism
Parasite: Bong Joon-Ho
Glossary
Further Reading
Picture Credits
Index