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Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner 1918-86, American lyricist and librettist, b. New York City. After two years as a radio scriptwriter, Lerner began an association with the composer Frederick Loewe that resulted in several popular musicals, including Brigadoon (1947, film 1954), Paint Your Wagon (1951, film 1969... Read more
motion picture photography
motion picture photography or cinematography, photographic arts and techniques involved in making motion pictures . See also photography, still . The Camera The motion picture camera (see under camera ) was developed from simple multi-image devices that, when spun or flipped... Read more
motion pictures
motion pictures movie-making as an art and an industry, including its production techniques, its creative artists, and the distribution and exhibition of its products (see also motion picture photography ; Motion Picture Cameras under camera ). Origins Experiments in photographing mov... Read more
Weir, Peter
WEIR, Peter Nationality: Australian. Born: Peter Lindsay Weir in Sydney, 8 August 1944. Education: Arts/Law coursework at University of Sydney. Family: Married Wendy Stiles, 1966, two children. Career: Worked for family real estate business, then joined television station ATN 7, Sydney... Read more
George W. Lucas, Jr.
George W. Lucas, Jr. 1944-, American film director, producer, and writer, b. Modesto, Calif. Although Lucas's first film, THX-1138 (1970), was not successful, his next two, American Graffiti (1973) and Star Wars (1977), set the course for filmmaking in the next decade. The first made song sco... Read more
camera
camera lightproof box or container, usually fitted with a lens, which gathers incoming light and concentrates it so that it can be directed toward the film (in an optical camera) or the imaging device (in a digital camera) contained within. Today there are many different types of camera in use, all... Read more
Woody Allen
Woody Allen 1935-, American actor, writer, and director, one of contemporary America's leading filmmakers, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., as Allen Stewart Konigsberg. Allen began his career writing for television comedians and performing in nightclubs. His early film comedies, which often depict neurotic urban... Read more
auteur
auteur , in film criticism, a director who so dominates the film-making process that it is appropriate to call the director the auteur, or author, of the motion picture. The auteur theory holds that the director is the primary person responsible for the creation of a motion picture and imbues it wit... Read more
Lon Chaney
Lon Chaney , 1883-1930, American film actor, b. Colorado Springs, Colo. Chaney was the son of deaf-mute parents. He made more than 150 silent films. A master of the use of grotesque, distorting makeup, he is best remembered for his work in horror films such as The Phantom of the Opera (1925). His ... Read more
American Film Institute
American Film Institute (AFI), nonprofit organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1967 by the National Endowment for the Arts to preserve and catalog American films and television, to provide work grants for new and established filmmakers, and to increase recognition and understanding of th... Read more

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Film
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa FILM Film industry of the Middle East. The film industry of the Middle East has flourished and prospered over the past century, producing a number of world-renowned auteurs despite internal opposition, political strife, strong government control...
SIC 2671 Coated and Laminated Packaging Paper and Plastics Film
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries ...sheets, except foil and film, for flexible packaging...packaging paper and plastics film, not specified by kind...much of the 1980s and 1990s, producing a gain in...national economy in the late 1990s, more emphasis on research...primarily active in flexible film packaging, was one of...
Film Industry
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...dominated the world ’ s film industry. In 1915 Adolph Zukor...x2019; s theme parks. Although film revenues from cinema attendance...1980s and DVDs since the late 1990s. By 2000, theatrical revenues...profits of an average Hollywood film; the bulk came from revenues...
adaptation, stage, film, and TV
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...1899 Beerbohm Tree made a short film of King John , and in 1900 Sarah...fidelity, but for the best film-makers were less vehicles...polished piece of Hollywood film-making within the constraints...Prejudice , and Vanity Fair in the 1990s, Britain's strong literary...
SIC 5043 Photographic Equipment and Supplies
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries ...more than 1996. The 1990s saw the introduction...new kind of camera and film and photo finishing option...camera to advance the film to the next available...innovation came in the late 1990s with the introduction of the film less digital camera...
SIC 7829 Services Allied to Motion Picture Distribution
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries ...of fronts in the late 1990s. Shifting patterns in...threatened to undercut film booking and purchasing...simultaneously — film booking agencies are likely...diminishing role in the U.S. film industry. The number...4,000 since the mid 1990s; however, during the...
SIC 7384 Photofinishing Laboratories
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries ...providing transfer and other film photography services related...decline throughout the 1990s. From 1992 to 1997...PhotoWorks (formerly Seattle Film Works); and Skrudland...affairs; in the early 1990s, however, IBM manufactured...thousands of rolls of film daily, generally offered...
SIC 2672 Coated and Laminated Paper, Not Elsewhere Classified
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries ...Packaging Paper and Plastics Film, Coated and Laminated...late 1970s to the late 1990s as more specialty applications...adhesive that coats the film depends on the PSA's...paper, polystyrene, film, or other materials...annually in the early 1990s to between 5 and 7 percent...
Movies
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society ...nonproblematical relationship to film as yet another useful, splendid...trepidation very much affected film as well. Ever since the birth...television and video market in the 1990s has rendered censorship practically...country. In general, however, film censorship has evolved from...
Soderbergh, Steven
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Steven Soderbergh American film director Steven Soderbergh...movie premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was largely responsible...of independent films in the 1990s. In 2001, the eclectic filmmaker...movies, and started taking film classes at Louisiana State...

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My Name is Joe
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...American Film, 1998; Danish Film Academy Award (Robert) for Best Non-American Film, 1998; London Critics Circle...Distelmeyer, Jan, review in EPD Film (Frankfurt), January 1999 * * * In the 1990s Ken Loach gave us a string of powerful...
Cinema
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...big-budget production, the film employed relatively unknown actors...effects. Without a star, the film then needed to be sold on its...comparable example.) During the 1990s, a low-budget student film achieved significant box-office...
Kiarostami, Abbas
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Festivals: Toronto," in Film Comment (New York...At the beginning of the 1990s, even the most ardent...thanks to some European film festivals in 1989, one...Iran. By the end of the 1990s, Abbas Kiarostami had...the decade. Polls in Film Comment magazine and the...
Makhmalbaf, Mohsen
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Special Jury Prize, Istanbul International Film Festival, for Nasseroddin Shah, hactore...Association, Catalonian International Film Festival (Spain), and Best Artistic Contribution Award, Tokyo International Film Festival, for Gabbeh, 1996; Special...
Moretti, Nanni
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Career: Made his first amateur film, La sconfitta, 1973; directed...Palombella rossa is a typical Moretti film: both an off-the-wall satire...played by the filmmaker). By 1990s' standards, Michele is an...polo player. Much of the film is set during a water-polo...
Spielberg, Steven
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...film contest with 40-minute film Escape to Nowhere, 1960; on strength of film Amblin', became TV director...and seaQuest DSV and others, 1990s; formed new Hollywood studio...Director, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director...
TéchinÉ, Andre
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Remakes the Melodrama," in Film Comment (Berkeley), July...December 1996. Everett, Wendy, "Film at the Crossroads: Les Roseaux...in French Cinema in the 1990s: Continuity and Difference...TÉCHINÉ: film— André T...
Linklater, Richard
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...1965. Career: Founded Austin Film Society, 1987; directed first...Award for Best Director, Berlin Film Festival, 1995. Films as Director...three best American films of the 1990s. Each now has a following...and drink unpolluted water. A film built upon the long take, by...
Jones, Quincy
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...jazz to hip-hop of the 1990s and 2000s, Quincy Jones...instrumentalist, songwriter, film composer, and solo artist...side peaceably. In the 1990s, after health and personal...remained active in music, film, and television production...
Ahrens and Flaherty
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...the musical theater world of the 1990s, writing with enough complexity...whose hook-laden pop scores gained 1990s commercial success but critical derision...they gained recognition in the late 1990s for film scoring, Ahrens and Flaherty remain...

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A passage to Hollywood: British literature and American film in the 1990s.(Britain Colonized: Hollywood's Appropriation of British Literature)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Literature-Film Quarterly; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...obsession, spanning the early 1990s to the early 2000s. The...text in order to make the film appeal to mainstream audiences...situate both novel and film in a larger cultural and...as well as the finished film into account, including...heritage films" of the 1990s. This theme of British...
Film shines light on diamond industry: Movie tells of the 1990s Sierra Leone civil war, financed by the sale of the stones; officials call the practice nearly extinct.
Newspaper article from: Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA); 12/8/2006; 700+ words ; ...Blood Diamond." The Oscar-buzzed film starring Leonardo DiCaprio digs up old...business, shedding light on how in the 1990s as much as 15 percent of the gems...late 1990s that's depicted in the film. The December release of "Diamond...
THE IoS PROFILE: Quentin Tarantino Freak thrills With the cult film `Pulp Fiction' he created the cinema of cool and invested the 1990s with his unique brand of violence and quirkiness. Now he's back, and the body count's higher than ever. Samurai- cartoon- gangster-spaghetti-western-trash epic anyone?
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 7/20/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...ordinary. The first original film Tarantino has written and directed...took the director 155 days to film on locations such as Mexico...carte blanche." In the early 1990s, Tarantino's stature seemed...watching movies and trying to write film scripts with his friend Roger...
The film finance fiasco: the insurance and financial industries made an ill-judged joint excursion into financing Hollywood movies in the late 1990s, which threw up a shambles of failed deals and rejected claims. The ensuing litigation is in full swing on both sides of the Atlantic, and as Jon Hay discovers, there is much to learn from the mistakes that were made. (Film finance).
Magazine article from: Structured Finance International; 5/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...mental space to worry about film finance. But a crop of insurance...Hollywood films, in the late 1990s, has gone disastrously wrong...contains an example of a $750m film finance securitisation for Vivendi...inherited the prominent Chase film finance business, based in...
A fine mess: the insurance industry made an ill-judged foray into financing Hollywood movies in the late 1990s, which threw up a shambles of failed deals and rejected claims. The ensuing litigation is in full swing on both sides of the Atlantic and, as Jon Hay discovers, there is much to learn from the mistakes that were made. (The Film Finance Debacle).
Magazine article from: Reactions (UK); 6/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...space to worry about film finance. But a crop of insurance-backed film financings, mostly...Hollywood films in the late 1990s, has gone disastrously...Hollywood dream In the 1990s, and especially between 1995 and 1999, film producers, ever hungry...
Janespotting and Beyond: British Heritage Retrovisions Since the Mid-1990s
Magazine article from: Gender Forum; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Syncretic Heritage Film Culture since the Mid-1990s," Voigts-Virchow...gender the heritage film debate was reinvigorated in the 1990s by feminist and gender...label to identify the film-goer Cartmell claims can be seen in 1990s Shakespeare films...
Hollywood Theory, Non-Hollywood Practice: Cinema Soundtracks in the 1980s and 1990s.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Notes; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Fallacies in Contemporary Film Theory (New York: Columbia...1988, 2), "contemporary film theorists, in fact, mystify...Soundtracks in the 1980s and 1990s, a new title in Ashgate's...book is not primarily about film music but rather about how it...
Review Essay: Recent books on Spanish cinema in the 1990s: a global perspective.(seven books)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Post Script; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...1980s and followed in the 1990s by Trueba, Bigas Luna...gloom for the Spanish film industry of the early to mid 1990s gave way in the latter...delimit a cinema of the 1990s as distinct from the...structure of the Spanish film industry. The old opposition...
THE 1990s IN REVIEW: What the 90s mean to...
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/28/1999; 700+ words ; ...serious pornographic film. It exposed the hypocrisy...s happened in the 1990s. It's a very shallow...surely stands out as a film that set new rules...of violence. The 1990s are significant as...important about the 1990s. However, for me...Wim Wenders's 1998 film Buena Vista Social...
Hollywood takes new fancy to Plain; Reports say movie about Amish- Pagans drug ring in mid-1990s will be shot here. Imagine Aerosmith's Steven Tyler driving a buggy? Doesn't sound like 'Witness.'
Newspaper article from: Sunday News Lancaster, PA; 12/29/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...trafficking scandal of the mid-1990s -- is scheduled to begin...published reports, the film will star James Caan as...states PageSix.com. The film, based on a screenplay...attorney in the mid-1990s and helped arrange the...had heard rumors of the film, but was unable to confirm...