December 2012
Attention!
To all National Sections of FIPRESCI
Hereby we present the consecutive part of our international campaign called
BEST BOOKS ON FILM
Here is the fifth part of “The Best Books On Film”! The booklet is mostly addressed to book editors from all over the world.
All five bulletins are available at www.fipresci.org (in the section ‘members only’) and at www.sfp.org.pl/bestbooksonfilm
The 5th part should be translated, copied and sent by the national sections to all their local publishers who handle with books on film and the audiovisual culture.
Best Books On Film - No.5
Contents:
00. Introduction
01. Cuba
02. Czech Republic
03. France
04. Hungary
05. Italy
06. Norway
07. Poland
08. Sweden
09. Switzerland
Introduction
Dear Colleagues of National Sections,
For the past five years we have been leading a campaign entitled BEST BOOKS ON FILM for promoting the best books on film throughout the world.
In general, we have recommended 144 books from 33 countries in our 4 annual booklets published so far. As usual, these booklets are mostly addressed to the book editors from all over the world. All the recommended books are carefully selected by experts and critics of the national sections of FIPRESCI.
We would like to remind you that according to the resolution widely accepted by The General Assembly of FIPRESCI, the boards of all our national sections are obliged to translate the booklets into their local languages and send such information to the appropriate publishers in their countries. Please note that those publishers do not read our Internet pages!
All the sections that neglected to do the aforementioned things are kindly requested to make up this deficiency quickly, remembering that even a five-year delay will not spoil the meaning of a good book. We initiated our international campaign in 2008 and hope to continue this with your assistance!
At the moment we are starting work on our booklet “Best Books On Film 6” and we would like to hear from each national FIPRESCI section about good books published during the last few years. Please send us the information in English regarding 1 – 6 books and let us know in 2 – 4 sentences why a given book might be interesting for a worldwide audience and include all necessary details about each book such as the publisher(s), their regular addresses, e-mails and telephone numbers so that the two or more publishing houses from different countries can get in touch. All the books suggested this way will be recommended in 2013.
Please send all the information about the books chosen by your national section to both e-mail addresses of our two editors of BEST BOOKS ON FILM: 1) [email protected] 2) [email protected]
The fifth edition of our booklet brings a list of 37 newly recommended books from 9 countries. This makes the total number of 181 selected books all together. Every publisher in the world has a chance to find something interesting!
We are looking forward to hearing from you. Thank you!
Dr Jerzy Płażewski, Dr Andrzej Fogler
Warszawa, December 20, 2012
C U B A
1. Arturo Agramonte. Luciano Castillo: Chronology of the Cuban Cinema. Vol.1 (Cronologia del cine cubano, tomo I)
Ediciones ICAIC (Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematograficos), La Habana 2009, 502 pages
Calle 23 No. 1155 e/ 10 y 12, Vedado, Plaza de la Revolución, C.P. 10400, La Habana, Cuba.
Tel.: (53-7) 838 2865 www: www.cubacine.cu e-mail: [email protected]
Historical research about the events of cinema in Cuba from 1897 up to 1936 narrated in a very agreeable form. The Cuban cinema has always been distinguishable among other Latin American cinemas.
2. Jorge Luis Sanches: To Break the Tension of the Arch. The Cuban Movement in the documentary cinema (Romper la tension del arco. Movimento cubano de cine documental)
Ediciones ICAIC, La Habana 2010. 448 pages
Calle 23 No. 1155 e/10 y 12, Vedado, Plaza de la Revolucion, C.P. C.P. 10400 La Habana, Cuba.
Tel.: (53-7) 838 2835 www: www.cubacine.cu e-mail: [email protected]
A deep and very interesting critical study of the Cuban documentary filmmaking. The research is focused on the period: 1897 - 2005. The historical processes and conflicts in this extremely neuralgic region reflect here.
C Z E C H R E P U B L I C
1. David Čeněk: Chris Marker
NAMU, Praha 2012.
Malostranské náměstí 12, 118 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic
Tel.: 00420-234-244-535, 00420-234-244-537 e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
This monograph of the French director Chris Marker (1921-2012) is based on the deep and long research of Marker´s work (films, writings, journalistic work) and also on the collaboration with Chris Marker himself. It contains the complete list of Marker´s work. Thanks to the extent of the text, the monography is ranged among the most essential books on Chris Marker worldwide.
2. Štěpán Hulík: Cinematography of oblivion: The Beginnings of normalization in the Barrandov film studios 1968-1973 (Kinematografie zapomnění: Počátky normalizace ve filmovém studiu Barrandov 1968-1973)
Academia. Praha 2012.
Nakladatelství Academia, Vodičkova 40, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
Highly appreciated book (it recieved Czech book prize Magnesia litera for „the Discovery of the year“) analyzes years 1968-1973 – the end of Prague Spring, the Soviet occupation and beginning of so called „normalization“ in the communist Czechoslovakia – in the Czech film production house of Barrandov studios. The author worked with until now never used archives of Barrandov studios. His work resulted in very vivid and precise description of the liqudation of Czech new wave phenomenon.
3. Antonín Líman: Masters of Japanese Film (Mistři japonského filmu)
Paseka, Praha 2012.
Nakladatelství Paseka, Chopinova 4, 120 00 Praha 2, Czech Republic
Tel.: 00420-222-710-510, 00420-222-710-511 e-mail: [email protected]
The important Czech Japanologue Antonín Líman (Born 1932), translator and essayist, wrote 13 essays about Japanese films: Akira Kurosawa, Kon Ichikawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, Masahiro Shinoda - those masters of Japanese cinematography are in the center of Liman´s essays. He treats the greatest Japanese films in their relationship with literature, theater (kabuki, nó, bunraku), film technique and Japanese cultural tradition.
4. Alena Prokopová: Eva Zaoralová. Life with film (Eva Zaoralová – život s filmem)
Novela bohemica, Praha 2012.
Jana Růžičky 1143/11 148 00 Praha – Kunratice, Czech Republic
The autobiographical interview with Eva Zaoralova, former artistic director of IFF Karlovy Vary, Eva Zaoralova talks about her personal and professional life with sincerity and openness. The interview is not only a glance to unordinary life of one of the important personalities of our film field (Eva Zaoralova started as translator, was active for many years as a film journalist and editor of „Film a doba“ - specialised film review, and served for 16 years as artistic director of IFF KV) but it is also a testimony of the uneasy epoque of the 2nd half of 20th century.
5. Petr Szczepanik: The Cans with Words. The Origins of Sound Film and Czech Media Culture in the Thirties (Konzervy se slovy. Pocatky zvukoveho filmu a česka medialni kultura 30. let)
Host. Brno 2009. 526 pages, illustrated
Host-vydavatelstvi s.r.o., Radlas 5, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
Tel.: ++ 545 212 744 e-mail: [email protected]
This book deals extensively with the media change in Czechoslovakia from the point of view of the new film history. The transformation of “cinema institution” – production, distribution, cinemas, relations with the radio and music records.
6. Zdenek Hudec: Sam Peckinpah and his films. A Biological Image of the World (Sam Peckinpah a jeho filmy: biologicky obraz světa)
Casablanca. Praha 2010. 456 pages, illustrated
Casablanca-Vaclav Żák, Braškovská 1 161 00 Praha 6, Czech Republic
Tel.: ++ 732 754 685 e-mail: [email protected]
The monograph of an important American director – mainly from the perspective of the cultural anthropology. Peckinpah’s “aesthetics of violence” as a reflection of the clash between the individual and social conventions.
7. Jan Lukeš (ed.): Elmar Klos. The Black and White Dream-book (Ćernobilý snář Elmara Klose)
Narodny filmovy archiv. Praha 2011. 340 pages, illustrated
NFA. Bartolomĕjská 11 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic
Tel.: + 226 211 864 e-mail: [email protected]
A “collective monograph” of the considerable personality of Czech cinema (1910 – 1993), director, scriptwriter, organizer, professor. Studies, essays, memories and documents about particular periods and aspects of his life and works, including the outline of Klos’ own unfinished memoirs.
8. Katarina Mišikova: Mind and Story in the Film Fiction. On Cognitive Approaches to the Theory of Film Narration (Mysl a přibeh ve filmove fikci. O kognitivistickych přistupech v teorii filmove narrace)
Nakladatelstvi AMU. Praha 2009, 270 pages
Akademie muzickych umeni. Malostranske namesti 12 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic
Tel.: ++ 234 244 536, 234 244 53 e-mail: [email protected]
A thorough survey and explanation of various recent concepts regarding the process of film narration. Written from the view-point of a film expert and theoretician.
F R A N C E
1. Paul Obadia: Personality. The Movement and the Space of Jacques Tati and Robert Bresson (Le Personnage. Le Mouvement et L’Espace de Jacques Tati et Robert Bresson). Mon Oncle, Playtime, Pickpocket, Mouchette.
Coll. Champs visuels. Paris 2012. 280 pages. € 28.00 e-mail: [email protected]
The four analysed here films were made between 1950 and 1960, in the years when, besides the “glorious” thirties, the modern cinema of the 20th century was created. Talking about the anchorage of Tati’s films in the French society seems to be obvious. However, inscribing Bresson in this context is a bit problematic.
2. Florence Bernard de Courville (introduction by Hervé Joubert-Laurencin): Oedipus, the King of Pasolini. The Poetics of Mimesis (Oedipe, Roi de Pasolini. Poétique de la mimesis)
Editions l’Harmattan. Paris 2012. 206 pages. € 20.50 e-mail: [email protected]
This analysis shows how it comes to Pasolini’s double mimetic renouncement. The power of repetition: a secret hidden in picture as in the consciousness. The author investigates the forces that vivify his films.
3. Damien Connil and Jerome Duvianau (ed.): Civil Law and the Cinema (Droit public et cinema)
Coll. Biblioteques de droit. Paris 2012. 196 pages. € 19.00 e-mail: [email protected]
The research on different legal regulations as to the filmmaking, among other things: The right to a street filming, the moral competence of the police, the rules of film distribution, the role of the authorities in plagiarism prevention and the rightful place for the regional languages.
4. François Amy de la Bréteque, Emmanuelle André, François Jost, Raphaëlle Moine, Guillaume Soulez, Jean-Philippe Trias: Cinema and Audiovisuals Reflect Mutually. Reflectiveness, Migrations, Intermediality (Cinéma et audiovisuel se reflechissent. Réflexivité, migrations, intermédialité)
Coll. Champs visuels. Paris 2012. 252 pages. € 26.00 e-mail: [email protected]
“Reflectiveness” is the way to come back to the art fixing attention on itself: with reference to the history and its sociocultural context, to the reflection on the notion and the use of intertextuality, to the relation of cinema and audiovisuals to other arts. This is the analysis of the latest forms of intermediality.
H U N G A R Y
1. László Pentelényi , Zentay Nóra Fanni (ed.): JLG/JLG – The Praise of Jean- Luc Godard or the Self-Distruction of Film Art (JLG/JLG – Jean-Luc Godard dicsérete, avagy a filmmuvészet önfelszámolása)
Francia Új Hullám Kiadó (Auteur-directors series). Budapest 2012. 542 pages e-mail: [email protected]
The essay collection is published in order to celebrate the legendary French director’s 82nd birthday and his lifetime achievement Oscar. The publisher’s goal is to gain widespread attention for the revolutionary filmmaker of the French New Wave. The essays concentrate on Godard's late work and on his earlier and more popular films. “There is no break in my career “,says Godard. The book strongly supports this statement.
I T A L Y
1. Goffredo Fofi: Do not mess with the Movies. The Last Interview by Mario Monicelli (Con il cinema non si scherza. L’ultima intervista di Mario Monicelli)
Editions Cineteca di Bologna, 2011. 200 pages (plus DVD). € 15.00
Via Riva di Reno 72, 40-112 Bologna, Italia
Tel.: (+39) 0512 194820, fax: (+39) 0512 194821 e-mail: [email protected]
It is a long interview recorded during the year preceding the death of Mario Monicelli. A journey through seventy years of Italian cinema (and beyond): the passion and civic culture, the evolution of the national costume, friends and loved movies. Almost a novel. Accompanied by a DVD with the first two films made by Monicelli twenties: I ragazzi della via Paal (The Boys of Paal Street, 1935) and Il cuore rivelatore (The Tell-Tale Heart, 1934). DVD with interviews and filmed testimonials.
2. Mariapaola Pierini: Gary Cooper
Le Mani, Recco. Genoa 2011. 412pages. € 22.00.
Via del Fieschi 1 Genoa, Italia
Tel.: 0185 730157, fax: 0185 720940 e-mail: [email protected]
The life and career of an actor symbol of the Hollywood star system and the image that America had of itself in the golden years of cinema history. Based on extensive research in the US archives . The author reconstructs thirty five years of Cooper's career through the varied gallery of characters, in collaboration with the directors and the detailed analysis of the films.
3. Claudio Bartolini, Luca Severini: Italian Thriller in a Hundred Years (Thriller italiano in cento film)
Le Mani, Recco. Genoa 2011. 272 pages. € 18.00
Via del Fieschi 1 Genoa, Italia
Tel.: 0185 730157/11,fax: 0185 720940 e-mail: [email protected]
Journey to a "gender" is often considered marginal. The works of Mario Bava, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, and Sergio Martino but also Antonio Bido, Aldo Lado, Eros Puglielli and Armando Crispino. In search of common lines, anniversaries and fees more or less denied. The pioneering sixties, the seventies prolific, until the gradual decline of a "genre" that is not resigned to die, however.
4. Roberto Curti: Ghosts of Love (Fantasmi d’amore)
Lindau s.r.l. Torino 2011. 352pages. € 32.00
Corso Re Umberto 37 10 128 Torino, Italia
Tel.: +39 011 517 324, fax: +39 011 669 3929 e-mail: [email protected]
The history of Italian Gothic from its origins to the present day. From the works of Mario Bava, Riccardo Freda and Dario Argento to occasional attendance of "gender" by directors such as Federico Fellini and Dino Risi. Attention also to the television productions. Analysis . of the themes, style, relationships with the literature and national history.
N O R W A Y
1. Jan Erik Holst (ed.): Feature Films in Norway 1995 – 2011. Vol. II. (Filmen i Norge 1995 – 2011.Volume II)
Gyldendal Norsk Forlag. Oslo 2011. 415 pages
Tel.: +47 22034100 e-mail: [email protected]
Many good reviews in leading newspapers and magazines. The popular history of the Norwegian cinema of the last 16 years.
2. Per Haddal: Face To Face, Liv Ullmann and her Films (Ansikt til ansikt, Liv Ullmann og filmen)
Norsk Filminstiutt (insitutts skriftserie nr. 13). Oslo 2001. 80 pages
Norwegian Film Institute
Tel.: +47 907 58242 e-mail: [email protected]
Biographical essay written by Norway’s leading film critic about the actress and director Liv Ullmann, who is the leading Norwegian film star, with roles in the films by Ingmar Bergman, Arne Skouen and Jan Troell and who has been a director herself in film and theater since 1992, with four films up till now.
3. Einar Nistad: The Magic Room (Det magiske rommet)
Norske kinosjefers forbund/Norsk filminstitutt. Oslo 2002. 275 pages
Well written history of the Norwegian cinema theatres, which have played an important role in the cultural development of the country as they have all been run by the municipalities after the Cinema Act was implemented in 1913. The author presents all these from the view point of a head of cinema. The book is illustrated in a rich and informative way.
4. Peter Cowie: Cool and Crazy – Modern Norwegian Cinema 1990 - 2005
Norsk filminstitutt. Oslo 2006. 90 pages
Tel.: +47 907 58242 e-mail: [email protected]
Modern Norwegian film history as seen from one of the world’s leading historians, and former publishing director of the international film trade paper Variety. Excellent, well written by someone who knows Norwegian cinema in depth.
5. Jan Erik Holst: The Little Circus (Det lille sirkus)
Norsk filminstitutt (filminstitutts skriftserie nr. 18). Oslo 2006. 180 pages
Tel.: +47 907 58242 e-mail: [email protected]
Interesting and full of valuable information film political essay about the development and history of Norwegian films and Norwegian film policy, including support systems from 1950 up to the present days.
6. Ove Solum and Dag Abjørnsen (ed.): Film and Cinema – the Norwegian Model (Film & Kino – den norske modellen)
Unipub Forlag. Oslo 2010. 205 pages
Tel.: +47 241 47500 e-mail: [email protected]
Interesting collection of film political essays, mostly about the development of municipal and private cinemas in Norway and the role of the governmental film policy and support system for film production.
7. Gunnar Iversen: The Norwegian Film History (Norsk films historie)
Universitetsforlaget. Oslo 2011. 366 pages
Tel.: +47 241 47500 e-mail: [email protected]
Completed and updated Norwegian feature film history, by the leading Norwegian film expert, film art historian and a university professor.
P O L A N D
1. Mariola Marczak: Concern and Nostalgia. Cinema Towards Values. About Movies by Krzysztof Zanussi (Niepokój i tęsknota. Kino wobec wartości. O filmach Krzysztofa Zanussiego)
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego. Olsztyn 2011. 556 pages, 52.50 PLN
Wydawnictwo UWM, ul. Jana Heweliusza 14 10-718 Olsztyn, polska
Tel.: +48 89 523 36 61 e-mail: [email protected]
A large monograph of Krzysztof Zanussi’s cinema. It shows his works from the very beginning (his first amateur and student’s attempts) until his latest films. The author gives a penetrating study on Zanussi’s creativeness, its evolution, changes in the artist’ individual subjects, changes in the film language and finally – the vicissitudes of its reception. All these shows the metamorphosis of the director’s public image.
2. Katarzyna Mąka-Malatyńska: A view from This Side. Presentations of the Holocaust in Polish Cinema (Widok z tej strony. Przedstawienia Holocaustu w polskim filmie)
Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM. Poznań 2012. 323 pages. 40.00 PLN
Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza, ul. Fredry 10 61-701 Poznań, Polska
Tel.: +48 61 829 4646 e-mail [email protected]
A very interesting and absolutely successful analysis of a film image of the Holocaust in Polish feature films and documentaries. The study is based on three notions: the hero, the construction of the space-time and searching for a film form to the existential experience of the Extermination.
3. Bartosz Kwieciński: Images and Cilchés. Between Opposite Extremes of the Visual Memory of the Shoah (Obrazy i klisze. Między biegunami wizualnej pamięci Zagłady)
Universitas. Kraków 2012. 339 pages. 46.00 PLN
Universitas, ul. Sławkowska 17 31-016 Kraków, Polska
Tel.: +48 12 423 2605 e-mail: [email protected]
It is a penetrating and comprehensive study of two different and well-known films on the Holocaust: a documentary “Shoah” by Claude Lanzmann and a feature film “The Schindler’s List” by Steven Spielberg. The deliberation on the subject of both films is based on the extensive interpretation context. Thanks to this the author aims at the explanation of the unprecedented crime of the Extermination, using the history of Europe as a background.
4. Paweł Sitkiewicz: Polish School of the Animated Cinema (Polska szkoła animacji)
Słowo/Obraz/Terytoria. Gdańsk 2011. 320pages. 44.00 PLN
Al. Grunwaldzka 74/3 80-244 Gdańsk, Polska
Tel.: +48 58 341 44 13 e-mail: [email protected]
The book presents how the Polish school of animation has been formed (films by Jan Lenica, Walerian Borowczyk, Witold Giersz, Mirosław Kijowicz, Stefan Schabenbeck, Daniel Szczechura and others) in the context of political changes and against a background of a few periods of culture, from the 1920s to this day. This cinema is presented from the view-point of the audience, the local and foreign critics, the artistic circle and also from the point of view typical for the authorities and the censorship.
5. Arkadiusz Lewicki: Sex and the Tenth Muse. Eroticism, Intimate Relations and Gender Models in the Pre-Code Cinema (1984-1934) (Seks i Dziesiąta Muza. Erotyzm, relacje intymne i wzorce genderowe w kinie przedkodeksowym (1894- 1934))
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego. Wrocław 2011. 596pages. 48.00 PLN
WUW. Plac Uniwersytecki 15 50-137 Wrocław, Polska
Tel.: +48 71 375 25 07 e-mail: [email protected]
A description of the process of breaking the erotic taboo during the first forty years of the world cinema. The analysis of hundreds of film presents the evident connections between the cinema and the eroticism – from the first screened kisses until some stricte pornographic movies. The author says that the models of such relations were created in the first decades of the 20th century and still determine the way we look at sex, love and the obligation connected to the cultural sex.
6. Małgorzata Przedpełska-Bieniek: The Sound in Film (Dźwięk w filmie)
Wydawnictwo Sonoria. Warszawa 2009. 392 pages. 67.00 PLN
Sonoria, ul. Wernyhory 13a 02-727 Warszawa, Polska
Tel.: +48 22 853 6051/52, fax: +48 22 258 1705 www: www.sonoria.pl e-mail: [email protected]
This handbook is intended for first year students of any schools offering sound engineering and students of film schools different directions and levels, as well. The book is also used by a lot of people working in the sound professions to complete knowledge of the latest technologies and for all who are interested in audio (radio and phonography) and audiovisual (film and TV) technology of sound. The unique feature of this book is plain language, lots of pictures and illustrations and many references to the producer’s practice and common situations.
S W E D E N
1. Jan Holmberg: The End of Film and so on (Slutet på filmen O.s.v.)
Bokförlaget Daidalos 2011. 187 pages
Tel: +46 31 42 20 45 www: www.daidalos.se email: [email protected]
A highly personal, enjoyable, and associative essay. The author Jan Holmberg has a rich experience in film, is a PhD in film history, and at present director of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation. Here he discusses the material, historical and cultural conditions of the medium itself and the film experience and what these might tell us about its future. In the process and as an undeniable bonus we get to know the point of Gus van Sant’s remake of ’Psycho’, why film and communism are parallel phenomenae, what ’Death Proof’ has in common with ’Persona’.
2. Kurt Mälarstedt: Director Cinematographer Editor Jan Troell (Regi Foto Klippning Jan Troell)
Norstedts 2011. 416 pages, illustrated (enhanced DVD) www: www.norstedts.se
The first comprehensive and richly illustrated biography of Jan Troell. In conversations with veteran journalist Kurt Mälarstedt Troell tracks the motives, the work and aims of all his films from the debut in 1962 up to his latest film. It’s an impressive filmography, which among many others includes feature films like ’Here’s your life” (1966), ’The Emigrants’ (1971), ’The new land’ (1972), ’Il Capitano’ (1991), ’Everlasting moments’ (2008) as well as documentaries and a number of shorts. The book well compensates with its ability to on a first name basis capture the essence of a film maker in all his modest and unpretentious greatness and humanism. Enhanced DVD offers, among other films, his before this publication hard-to-get 30-minutes early masterpiece ’Uppehåll i myrlandet’ (1966) with Max von Sydow.
3. Mårten Blomkvist: Highly Bloody Eccentric – A Biography of Bo Widerberg (Höggradigt jävla excentrisk. En biografi över Bo Widerberg)
Norstedts 2011. 580 pages, illustrated www: www.norstedts.se
Bo Widerberg (1930 – 1997), author and film director receives the first full-length biography by critic Mårten Blomkvist – who also happens to be the son-in-law of Bo Widerberg, the man who made such films as ’Raven’s End’ (1963) ’Elvira Madigan’ (1967), ’Ådalen 31’ (1969) and ’Joe Hill’ (1971). It captures everything that formed the Widerberg touch, summarized as ’life at all costs!’. Blomkvist paints a full picture not only of an auteur in its full sense but also of a charmingly talkative and intense man. Of course, the book includes Widerberg’s complicated (but by others often oversimplified) relationship and opposition to Ingmar Bergman.
S W I T Z E R L A N D
1. Andreas Maurer: Blackout – Ten Errors Around the Cinema of the 21st Century (Filmriss – zehn grosse Irrtümer rund um das Kino des 21. Jahrhunderts)
Edition Howeg. Zurich 2012. 144 pages. € 28.00 Bürglistrasse 21 8002 Zürich, Suise
Tel.: +41 44 201 06 50 www: www.editionhoweg.ch
A former film critic’s book is a polemic against traditional film criticism which in his mind ignores the digitalisation and its repercussions. Maurer pleas for a film criticism that takes into account practices such as homevideo consumption and file sharing. He ends his book with the sentence "Cinema is dead – long live the cinema“.
2. Christian Jungen: Hollywood in Canne$: the history of a love-hate relationship, 1939-2006 (Hollywood in Canne$: Die Geschichte einer Hassliebe, 1939-2006)
Schuren Verlag, Marburg 2006. 384 pages. € 29.90
Schuren Verlag GmbH Universitatsstr. 55 D-35037 Marburg,
Tel.: 06421/6 30 84, fax: 06421/68 11 90 email: [email protected]
Christian Jungen, a leading Swiss film critic, tells here the story of how Hollywood contributed to the foundation of the Cannes Film Festival and how it later instrumentalized it to launch its blockbusters. There is also a chapter on the role of film critics at the Festival. Based on unpublished letters from the Studios archives and on interviews with Studio executives and filmmakers such as Steven Spielberg.