Cinema Today

A Conversation with Thirty-nine Filmmakers from around the World

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by Elena Oumano

Type

Interviews

Subject

Director

Keywords

interviews, director, world cinema

Publishing date

2010

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 296 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-0-8135-4877-7

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Book Presentation:
Imagine attending a fascinating film forum among a distinguished and varied panel of cinema legends. An afternoon or evening where contemporary filmmakers from around the world--Kazakhstan, Turkey, Macedonia, Portugal, Chile, Argentina, Egypt, Cameroon, Australia, the Philippines, South Africa, Greece, Portugal, Sweden, Japan, the People's Republic of China, Mexico, Poland, the United States, Italy, the United Kingdom, and France--gather together to discuss how they arrive at the creative choices that bring their film projects to life.

Can't spare the time from work or class? Travel expense too great? What? You can't even find such a collaborative event?

Then imagine curling up with a good book, maybe a shot of espresso in hand, and becoming engrossed in the exciting and informative conversation that Elena Oumano has ingeniously crafted from her personal and individual interviews with these artists. Straying far from the usual choppy question-and-answer format, Cinema Today saves you from plowing through another tedious read, in which the same topics and issues are directed to each subject, over and over-an experience that is like being trapped in a revolving door.

Oumano stops that revolving door by following a lively symposium-in-print format, with the filmmakers' words and thoughts grouped together under various key cinema topics. It is as though these experts are speaking to each other and you are their audience--collectively they reflect on and explore issues and concerns of modern filmmaking, from the practical to the aesthetic, including the process, cinematic rhythm and structure, and the many aspects of the media: business, the viewer, and cinema's place in society. Whether you are a movie lover, a serious student of cinema, or simply interested in how we communicate in today's global village through films that so profoundly affect the world, Cinema Today is for you.

About the Author:
ELENA OUMANO is a professor of communications at BMCC of the City University of New York. As a music and film journalist, her work has been published in the New York Times, Spin, The Nation, the Village Voice, Amazon.com, Interview Magazine, L.A. Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, Image, the magazine of the San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle, GRAMMY Magazine, and other media outlets. She is also the author, coauthor, or ghost writer of more than twenty books.

Press Reviews:
"Oumano's work shines—she offers the choicest nuggets and insights by filmmakers talking about their art."
— Wheeler Winston Dixon

"Cinema Today is a fascinating look at film as an art form. Oumano's book is an outstanding contribution to the field, crammed full of essential information about the production process and enlightening details of personal experiences that any aspiring filmmaker can use."
— Foreword Reviews

"Oumano's work shines—she offers the choicest nuggets and insights by filmmakers talking about their art."
— Wheeler Winston Dixon

"Cinema Today is a fascinating look at film as an art form. Oumano's book is an outstanding contribution to the field, crammed full of essential information about the production process and enlightening details of personal experiences that any aspiring filmmaker can use."
— Foreword Reviews

See the publisher website: Rutgers University Press