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The Cinema of Oliver Stone
Interviews Stone on Stone Between 2010 and 2014 we interviewed Oliver Stone on a number of occasions, either personally or in correspondence by email. He was always ready to engage with us, quite literally. Stone thrives on the cut- and- thrust of debate about his films, about himself and per- ceptions of him that have adorned media outlets around the world throughout his career – and, of course, about the state of America. What follows are transcripts from some of those interviews, with- out redaction. Stone is always at his most fascinating when a ques- tion leads him down a line of theory or thinking that can expound on almost any topic to do with his films, or with the issues in the world at large. Here, that line of thinking appears on the page as he spoke, and gives credence to the notion of a filmmaker who, whether loved or loathed, admired or admonished, is always ready to fight his corner and battle for what he believes is a worthwhile, even noble, cause. Oliver Stone’s career has been defined by battle and the will to overcome criticism and or adversity. The following reflections demonstrate why he remains the most talked about, and combative, filmmaker of his generation. Interview with Oliver Stone, 19 January 2010 In relation to the Classification and Ratings Administration Interviewer: How do you see the issue of cinematic censorship? Oliver Stone: The ratings thing is very much a limited game. If you talk to Joan Graves, you’ll get the facts. The rules are the rules. -
Extreme Leadership Leaders, Teams and Situations Outside the Norm
JOBNAME: Giannantonio PAGE: 3 SESS: 3 OUTPUT: Wed Oct 30 14:53:29 2013 Extreme Leadership Leaders, Teams and Situations Outside the Norm Edited by Cristina M. Giannantonio Amy E. Hurley-Hanson Associate Professors of Management, George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chapman University, USA NEW HORIZONS IN LEADERSHIP STUDIES Edward Elgar Cheltenham, UK + Northampton, MA, USA Columns Design XML Ltd / Job: Giannantonio-New_Horizons_in_Leadership_Studies / Division: prelims /Pg. Position: 1 / Date: 30/10 JOBNAME: Giannantonio PAGE: 4 SESS: 3 OUTPUT: Wed Oct 30 14:53:29 2013 © Cristina M. Giannantonio andAmy E. Hurley-Hanson 2013 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Published by Edward Elgar Publishing Limited The Lypiatts 15 Lansdown Road Cheltenham Glos GL50 2JA UK Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc. William Pratt House 9 Dewey Court Northampton Massachusetts 01060 USA A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Control Number: 2013946802 This book is available electronically in the ElgarOnline.com Business Subject Collection, E-ISBN 978 1 78100 212 4 ISBN 978 1 78100 211 7 (cased) Typeset by Columns Design XML Ltd, Reading Printed and bound in Great Britain by T.J. International Ltd, Padstow Columns Design XML Ltd / Job: Giannantonio-New_Horizons_in_Leadership_Studies / Division: prelims /Pg. Position: 2 / Date: 30/10 JOBNAME: Giannantonio PAGE: 1 SESS: 5 OUTPUT: Wed Oct 30 14:57:46 2013 14. Extreme leadership as creative leadership: reflections on Francis Ford Coppola in The Godfather Charalampos Mainemelis and Olga Epitropaki INTRODUCTION How do extreme leadership situations arise? According to one view, they are triggered by environmental factors that have nothing or little to do with the leader. -
Thoughts About My Tour in Vietnam
CW2 Martin Beckman in the Operations area Delta Company, 227th 1st Cavalry Division, Lai Khe, Republic of Vietnam May, 1970. Thoughts on My Tour of Duty in the Republic of Vietnam By Martin P Beckman Jr. Friday, 07 July, 2006 1 I was born in Anderson, South Carolina and finished High School there. I attended The Citadel and graduated in 1968. I was then drafted and tested to go to flight school with the U.S. Army. For primary helicopter training I was in WOC class 69-19 at Fort Walter’s Texas and afterwards assigned to Fort Rucker, Alabama. There I was promoted to Warrant Officer One and received my Army Aviator “Silver Wings”. I was selected for a Cobra transition at Fort Stewart, Georgia in route to Vietnam. In my th first tour I flew Cobra’s with the Delta Company, 227 Group, 1st Air Calvary Division from August 1969 until August 1970. I later extended my time in Vietnam to fly the UH1 with the 2nd Signal Group. When I arrived in the Republic of Vietnam, we first went to the assignment station where you waited to receive orders to your Unit. I remember all the second tour soldiers and aviators looking very anxiously at the list on the wall next to the orderly room that was posted several times a day. After a few days of waiting my name was on the list for the 1st Calvary st st Division. From there the 1 “Cav” soldiers were bused to the 1 Team Academy at Bien Hoa. -
Bucharest-Ilfov
Region in focus: Bucharest-Ilfov Bucharest-Ilfov Region, formed by Bucharest, Romania’s capital and Ilfov County – is located in the central part of the Romanian Plain in southern Ro- mania. Bucharest is the largest urban agglomeration of the country; its num- bers approaching 2 million inhabitants represents more than 85% from the total region’s population. Romanian legend says that the city of Bucharest was founded on the banks of the Dambovita River by a shepherd named Bucur, whose name literally means ”joy”. His flute playing reportedly dazzled the people and his hearty wine from nearby vineyards endeared him to the local traders, who gave his name to the place. Known for its wide, tree-lined boulevards, glorious Belle Époque buildings and a re- putation for the highlife (which in the 1900s earned its nickname of ”Little Paris”), Bucharest is today a bustling metropolis. For this reason film productions began shoo- ting in Bucharest and it did not take long for international producers and filming com- panies to discover and appreciate the rich historical heritage of the city. In fact, more than 200 productions have been filmed, entirely or partially in Bucha- rest and its surrounding areas, most of them in the last ten years. Renowned individu- als from the film industry have linked their professional activity to the town of Bucur. Photo: courtesy of Bucharest Ilfov Regional Development Agency Directors such as Costa-Gavras - Amen, Francis Ford Coppola - Youth Without Youth, Katja von Garnier - Blood and Chocolate, Klaus Menzel - What About Love and Tommy Wirkola - What Happened to Monday to name a few. -
It's a Conspiracy
IT’S A CONSPIRACY! As a Cautionary Remembrance of the JFK Assassination—A Survey of Films With A Paranoid Edge Dan Akira Nishimura with Don Malcolm The only culture to enlist the imagination and change the charac- der. As it snows, he walks the streets of the town that will be forever ter of Americans was the one we had been given by the movies… changed. The banker Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore), a scrooge-like No movie star had the mind, courage or force to be national character, practically owns Bedford Falls. As he prepares to reshape leader… So the President nominated himself. He would fill the it in his own image, Potter doesn’t act alone. There’s also a board void. He would be the movie star come to life as President. of directors with identities shielded from the public (think MPAA). Who are these people? And what’s so wonderful about them? —Norman Mailer 3. Ace in the Hole (1951) resident John F. Kennedy was a movie fan. Ironically, one A former big city reporter of his favorites was The Manchurian Candidate (1962), lands a job for an Albu- directed by John Frankenheimer. With the president’s per- querque daily. Chuck Tatum mission, Frankenheimer was able to shoot scenes from (Kirk Douglas) is looking for Seven Days in May (1964) at the White House. Due to a ticket back to “the Apple.” Pthe events of November 1963, both films seem prescient. He thinks he’s found it when Was Lee Harvey Oswald a sleeper agent, a “Manchurian candidate?” Leo Mimosa (Richard Bene- Or was it a military coup as in the latter film? Or both? dict) is trapped in a cave Over the years, many films have dealt with political conspira- collapse. -
Film Studies (FILM) 1
Film Studies (FILM) 1 FILM-115 World Cinema 3 Units FILM STUDIES (FILM) 54 hours lecture; 54 hours total This course will survey the historical, social, and artistic development FILM-100 Survey and Appreciation of Film 3 Units of cinema around the globe, introducing a range of international films, 54 hours lecture; 54 hours total movements, and traditions. This course is an introduction to the history and elements of filmmaking Transfers to both UC/CSU such as narrative, mise-en-scene, cinematography, acting, editing, and FILM-117 Director's Cinema 3 Units sound as well as approaches to film criticism. 54 hours lecture; 54 hours total Transfers to both UC/CSU This course examines the historical and artistic career of a seminal FILM-101 Introduction to Film Production 3 Units director in cinema history. Possible subjects include Martin Scorsese, 36 hours lecture; 54 hours lab; 90 hours total Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola, and Woody Allen. This course is designed to introduce you to the creative process Transfers to CSU only of filmmaking. We will study all aspects of production from the FILM-120 Horror Film 3 Units conceptualization of ideas and scripting, to the basic production 54 hours lecture; 54 hours total equipment and their functions, and finally the production and post- This course offers an in-depth examination of the popular horror film production processes. Assignments will emphasize visualization, through an analysis of its historical evolution, major theories, aesthetics shooting style, and production organization. Presentation of ideas in and conventions, and the impact of its role as a reflection of culture both the written word and visual media are integral to the production society. -
Oliver Stone Et Woody Allen Sèment Le Bonheur Sur La Croisette
Culture / Culture FESTIVAL DE CANNES Oliver Stone et Woody Allen sèment le bonheur sur la Croisette Les deux cinéastes américains, Oliver Stone et Woody Allen, qui ont présenté leur dernier film, respectivement, Wall Street : l'argent ne dort jamais, suite du filmWall Street, sorti en 1988, et You will meet a tall dark stranger, les deux présentés en Hors Compétition, ont ravi la vedette aux cinéastes en lice pour la plus haute distinction du festival : la Palme d'or. Commençons par Oliver Stone. Fidèle à lui-même, et toujours à l'avant-garde, il a exploré et dénoncé la dictature impitoyable de l'argent, imposée par les spéculateurs et grands banquiers de Wall Street. “Aléa moral, subprimes, intérêt, taux, bulle…” sont autant de mots barbares qui reviennent sans cesse dans le film. Pour rendre accessible ce monde complexe, il a imaginé une trame narrative simple et captivante. Il a mis en scène un jeune trader qui tente d'alerter le monde au sujet des dangers irréversibles de la spéculation financière. Dans le même temps, il cherche à venger la mort de son mentor, ruiné et poussé au suicide. L'une des remarques importantes que l'on puisse souligner est l'omniprésence des écrans, télévision et ordinateurs compris, quasiment propulsés au rang de personnages. Une présence qui permet la dénonciation de la sainte alliance entre le monde de la communication et celui de la finance qui rend le monde réduit à des bulles éphémères, davantage fragile et instable. Certains ont reproché au film sa fin quelque peu heureuse à la manière d'un conte. -
Famous People from Michigan
APPENDIX E Famo[ People fom Michigan any nationally or internationally known people were born or have made Mtheir home in Michigan. BUSINESS AND PHILANTHROPY William Agee John F. Dodge Henry Joy John Jacob Astor Herbert H. Dow John Harvey Kellogg Anna Sutherland Bissell Max DuPre Will K. Kellogg Michael Blumenthal William C. Durant Charles Kettering William E. Boeing Georgia Emery Sebastian S. Kresge Walter Briggs John Fetzer Madeline LaFramboise David Dunbar Buick Frederic Fisher Henry M. Leland William Austin Burt Max Fisher Elijah McCoy Roy Chapin David Gerber Charles S. Mott Louis Chevrolet Edsel Ford Charles Nash Walter P. Chrysler Henry Ford Ransom E. Olds James Couzens Henry Ford II Charles W. Post Keith Crain Barry Gordy Alfred P. Sloan Henry Crapo Charles H. Hackley Peter Stroh William Crapo Joseph L. Hudson Alfred Taubman Mary Cunningham George M. Humphrey William E. Upjohn Harlow H. Curtice Lee Iacocca Jay Van Andel John DeLorean Mike Illitch Charles E. Wilson Richard DeVos Rick Inatome John Ziegler Horace E. Dodge Robert Ingersol ARTS AND LETTERS Mitch Albom Milton Brooks Marguerite Lofft DeAngeli Harriette Simpson Arnow Ken Burns Meindert DeJong W. H. Auden Semyon Bychkov John Dewey Liberty Hyde Bailey Alexander Calder Antal Dorati Ray Stannard Baker Will Carleton Alden Dow (pen: David Grayson) Jim Cash Sexton Ehrling L. Frank Baum (Charles) Bruce Catton Richard Ellmann Harry Bertoia Elizabeth Margaret Jack Epps, Jr. William Bolcom Chandler Edna Ferber Carrie Jacobs Bond Manny Crisostomo Phillip Fike Lilian Jackson Braun James Oliver Curwood 398 MICHIGAN IN BRIEF APPENDIX E: FAMOUS PEOPLE FROM MICHIGAN Marshall Fredericks Hugie Lee-Smith Carl M. -
Preston Sturges Authenticity of the Image and of Testimonial “In-Person Reenactment” from Familiar and Big Time
r In Person: Margulies’s book is a vivid and wide-ranging in Postwar account of this type of re-enactment, offering Reenactment insight with implications that stretch across Cinema and Contemporary documentary and cinema history as a whole. New York: Oxford by Ivone Margulies. An associate professor in film and media at University Press, 2019. 227 pp., illus. Hunter College, author of a book on Chantal paperback: $29.95. Akerman (Nothing Happens: Chantal Alter- man’s Hyperrealisr Everyday [Duke Universtty From Nanook’s apocryphal seal hunt to Press, 1996]), and editor of Rites of Realistn: .., the kitschy dramatizations of an Unsolved Essays on Corporeal Cinema (Duke Universrty Preston _._.- Mysteries episode, re-enactment has been a Press, 2003), Margulies’s scholarship has long . uuivud consistent formal gambit throughout docu- been invested in documentary, French cine- Sturges mentanj's history. Over the years, as well, the ma, and the presence of the body on screen. sealants restaging of past events with nonprofessional The present volume seems a culmination of The Last «n-um actors has fallen in and out of fashion—some- her long engagement with these subjects. out times considered standard practice, sometimes Deftly argued and intricately constructed, Years of ._._...,..-- seen as documentary’s béte noire. Indeed, it’s In Person compn‘ses seven chapters that track, \nh \a-m.‘ 4...: IM- a...“ Inna-inww...“ something of an old film history chestnut that in roughly chronological order, the appear- Hollywood's the great wave of ve’rité and direct-cinema ances of in-person re-enactment in nonfiction First Writer-Director films of the 19505 and 19605 used their obser~ cinema from WWII to the present—from vational mode to reject it outright, expunging Orson Welles’s 1942 short film Four Men in a Nick Smedley and Tom Sturges the practice from nonfiction cinema in favor Raft (from his aborted, post-Ambersons of their apparently more “immediate” style. -
The Education of a Field Marshal :: Wellington in India and Iberia
University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014 1992 The education of a field am rshal :: Wellington in India and Iberia/ David G. Cotter University of Massachusetts Amherst Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses Cotter, David G., "The ducae tion of a field marshal :: Wellington in India and Iberia/" (1992). Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014. 1417. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/1417 This thesis is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE EDUCATION OF A FIELD MARSHAL WELLINGTON IN INDIA AND IBERIA A Thesis Presented by DAVID' G. COTTER Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS May, 1992 Department of History Copyright by David G. Cotter 1992 All Rights Reserved ' THE EDUCATION OF A FIELD MARSHAL WELLINGTON IN INDIA AND IBERIA A Thesis Presented by DAVID G. COTTER Approved as to style and content by Franklin B. Wickwire, Chair )1 Mary B/ Wickwire 'Mary /5. Wilson Robert E. Jones^ Department Chai^r, History ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am grateful to all in the History department at the University of Massachusetts, especially Professors Stephen Pelz, Marvin Swartz, R. Dean Ware, Mary Wickwire and Mary Wilson. I am particularly indebted to Professor Franklin Wickwire. He performed as instructor, editor, devil's advocate, mentor and friend. -
The Cinema of Oliver Stone
Conclusion Although we are clearly overreaching, it’s too easy to talk about the USA losing its grip because we happen to be rooting for another approach. It’s not going to go away that easily. This empire is Star Wars in the ‘evil empire’ sense of the words … We are virtually becoming a tyranny against the rest of the world. It’s not evident to people at home, because they don’t see the consensus in the media and they don’t see the harm the USA does abroad. We are not in decline. We are decayed and corrupt and immoral, but not in decline. The USA exerts its will in Europe, Asia, much of the Middle East, and still much of Latin America. The recent revela- tions that the NSA’s and the UK’s surveillance programmes are linked is big news.1 Oliver Stone has been a fixture in the Hollywood landscape since his Oscar- winning script for Midnight Express (Alan Parker, 1978). That high-profile foothold gave him the opportunity to build slowly towards his ambition of capturing on film what he had lived through in Vietnam during 1967 and 1968. The young Yale man who had entered the army was a cerebral romantic in search of adventure; but his experience, not just of combat but also of his return to a country that was already openly divided about the war, altered his perspective and the direction of his life. Enrolment at film school under the GI Bill seemed to offer a way of expressing his anger and disillusionment, and the same determination that had kept him alive in South-East Asia now drove him on to try and tell something of that experience on film. -
Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde
Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde Edited by LESTER D. FRIEDMAN Syracuse University PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA http://www.cup.org 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Melbourne 3166, Australia Ruiz de Alarco´n 13, 28014 Madrid, Spain ᭧ Cambridge University Press 2000 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2000 Printed in the United States of America Typeface Stone Serif 10/14 pt. System DeskTopPro/UX [BV] A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde / edited by Lester D. Friedman. p. cm. – (Cambridge film handbooks series) Filmography: p. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-521-59295-X – ISBN 0-521-59697-1 (pbk.) 1. Bonnie and Clyde (Motion picture) I. Friedman, Lester D. II. Series. PN1997.B6797 1999 791.43'72 – dc21 98-32173 CIP ISBN 0 521 59295 X hardback ISBN 0 521 59697 1 paperback LESTER D. FRIEDMAN Introduction ARTHUR PENN’S ENDURING GANGSTERS HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES: COUNTERCULTURAL CINEMA Boy meets girl in small-town Texas. Their crime spree begins as girl goads boy into robbing a grocery store; they speed out of town in a stolen car, spirits high.