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Bernardo Bertolucci's Last tango in Paris;: The screenplay,
Bernardo Bertolucci Manufacturer: Delacorte Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0440020417 |
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Last Tango In Paris
Robert Alley Manufacturer: Dell, 1973 ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: B000E6LHYI |
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Last Tango in Paris (Bfi Modern Classics)
David Thompson Manufacturer: British Film Institute ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0851705456 |
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"Last Tango left me depleted and exhausted. Some of the pain I was experiencing was my very own. Thereafter I decided to make my living in a way that was less devastating emotionally." Thus Marlon Brando recalled, in his autobiography, making Last Tango in Paris.Customer Reviews:
Respectable study of once-notorious film........2002-03-08
David Thompson is not interested in charting this decline. His book is a straightforward account of the film's genesis, context, production and impact. The film arose from Bertolucci's sessions with a psychanalyist, which probably accounts not only for the film's visual motifs, but the confessional monologues that litter it. Bertolucci saw in 'Last Tango' a fusion - of American and European cinema; of formal mise-en-scene with verite and imporvisation, and Thompson sensitively draws out the film's tensions and contradictions. He discusses the film's visual influences (in particular, the paintings of Francis Bacon and the French films of the 1930s), and the contributions of significant crew members to the film's texture. His charting the story's development from Bertolucci's initial idea through financial considerations and crucial script changes and omissions to cuts made after the final premiere and the final release, not only shows us the adaptability and openness of Bertolucci's aesthetic, but also alerts us to the shifting nature of the film's meanings. His synopsis of the film itself, and analysis of key scenes, figures, techniques and the interaction of the two plots, is enlightening.
The book concludes with essays on the three lead actors, Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider and Jean-Pierre Leaud. Those on Brando and Leaud in particular show how Bertolucci conflated the actors' iconic image (Hollywood; French New Wave), and their real-life histories with their roles, making the film both more intellectually detached and emotionally engaging. His chapter on Brando, on the personal traumas that fed into his characterisation, goes some way to illuminating the devastating power of his performance.
Nevertheless, Thompson assumes that the reader knows 'Last Tango' is a classic, and so doesn't feel the need to defend it - his eliding the film's alleged misognyny is particularly troubling. Bertolucci says that he undertook psychoanalysis for artistic reasons as a way of stimulating and provoking himself and his actors in the search for those 'secret places' of the mind. It reminds me of the story about Dali who showed Freud a painting he thought revealed his unconscious: 'No, Salvador, that's a painting of what you consciously think is your unconscious'. Doesn't the same problem bedevil 'Last Tango'?
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The Batman Adventures, #13 (Comic Book): LAST TANGO IN PARIS, ACT ONE: OLD FLAME
PUCKETT ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000RF0GD4 |
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Closeup Last Tango in Paris
Kent E Carroll (Ed) Manufacturer: Grove Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000RT6G5M |
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Closeup: Last Tango in Paris
Kent E. (Editor) Carroll Manufacturer: Grove Press, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000FOTY8K |
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CLOSEUP: LAST TANGO IN PARIS:
Carroll. Kent E.: (Editpr): Manufacturer: Grove Press/Evergreen Review Special ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000KE2MN4 |
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LAST TANGO IN PARIS
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Last Tango in Paris
Manufacturer: MGM/UA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 079280144X |
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Last Tango in Paris
Robert Alley Manufacturer: A Dell Book/ Dell Publishing Co Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000H2S3S2 |
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White Weddings: Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture
Chrys Ingraham Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0415918405 |
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From sitcoms and soap operas to talk shows and movies, Americans are in love with the idea of a white wedding. The happy bride and groom smile from the covers of fashion and entertainment magazines, and appear in TV commercials to sell everything from life insurance to antacid. Fascinated by this national obsession, Chrys Ingraham peers behind the veil to question the meaning of weddings in American popular culture.
What she finds is nothing less than a wedding industrial complex. The wedding industry does a thriving business with annual revenues in excess of 30 billion dollars. The average cost of a wedding is over $19,000, with 2.4 million couples getting married each year. White Weddings is the first book to investigate the underside of this recession-proof industry, exposing how weddings are used to sell a heterosexual fairy tale.
Ingraham draws on popular media, such as bridal magazines, children's toys, feature films, television, and advertising to reveal how they regulate gender, sexuality, race, and class. Weddings mean more than just flowers and flatware, but are part of a belief system that relies on romantic and sacred notions of heterosexuality to maintain the illusion of normalcy. This entertaining and insightful book will make you think twice about ever wanting to catch the bouquet.
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Highly Recommended!.......2007-04-26
Ranting instead of argument.......2005-10-13
A vitally important work... .......2004-10-05
Read this before the walk down the altar.......2004-08-22
Ingraham's critic is too narrow.......2004-05-17
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Maneuvers in Moscow: Karpov-Kasparov II (Macmillan Chess Library)
Raymond Keene , and David Goodman Manufacturer: Collier Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0020287208 |
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Maneuvers in Moscow : Karpov-Kasparov II
Raymond ; Goodman, David Keene Manufacturer: Collier Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000MEEWTE |
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Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy
Ann Rockley Manufacturer: New Riders Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0735713065 |
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Today's businesses are overwhelmed with the need to create more content, faster, cutomized for more customers, and for more media than ever before. Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy provides the concepts, strategies, guidelines, processes, and technological options that will prepare enterprise content managers and authors to meet the increasing demands of creating, managing, and distributing content.
Author Ann Rockley, along with the Rockley Group team, provides techniques that will help you define your content management requirements, build your vision, design your content architecture, pick the right tools, and overcome the hurdles of managing enterprise content. This book will help you visualize the broad spectrum of enterprise content, the requirements for effectively creating, managing, and delivering content, and the value of developing a unified content strategy for your organization.