Overview
Celebrated as an ""exhilarating account"" of a revolutionary new medium (Booklist), Francis Ford Coppola's indispensable guide to live cinema is a boon for moviegoers, film students, and teachers alike. As digital movie-making, like live sports, can now be performed by one director-or by a collaborative team online- it is only a matter of time before cinema auteurs will create ""live"" movies to be broadcast instantly in faraway theaters. ""Peppered with brilliant personal observations"" (Wendy Doniger), Live Cinema and Its Techniques offers a behind-the-scenes look at a consummate career: from Coppola's formative boyhood obsession with live 1950s television shows and later attempts to imitate the spontaneity of live performance on set, the book usefully includes a guide to presenting state-of-the-art techniques on everything from rehearsals to equipment. A testament to Coppola's prodigious enthusiasm for reinvigorating the form, Live Cinema is an indispensable guide that ""reenergizes . . . the search for a new way of storytelling"" (William Friedkin).
Full Product Details
Author: Francis Ford Coppola
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Ltd
Imprint: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 21.10cm
Weight: 0.191kg
ISBN: 9781631494543
ISBN 10: 1631494546
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 10 July 2018
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
Part manifesto, part instruction manual, Live Cinema is a melange of film theory, professional advice, personal history, television history, work notes and Coppola's assorted thoughts on live film production. -- Times Literary Supplement Live Cinema and its Techniques is a short, accessible, vividly personal, defiantly oddball and fascinating book. -- Viewfinder ... the ideas conjured in this brief, filmy volume will interest any movie nut. -- Jonathan Dean, Stage & Screen Books of the Year 2017 - The Sunday Times Part technical manifesto, part riveting history of live movies and TV, and part freewheeling artistic reflection, Live Cinema compactly presents Coppola's innovative ideas, depth of knowledge, and enduring passions in the live cinema space. -- Entertainment Weekly Live Cinema is packed with detailed diaried notes as well as other, directorial, observation, as Coppola outlines the concept-to-reality. Worth a skim through, whatever your present industry role. -- Screentrade
Author Information
Francis Ford Coppola, the Academy Award–winning director of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, is creating a four-part ""live cinema"" movie based on his own family’s multigenerational history. He lives in San Francisco.
