Shows how film-makers are influenced both by the historical events of their times, and by each other. This work demonstrates, for example, how Douglas Sirk's Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s influenced Rainer Werner Fassbinder's despairing visions of 1970s Germany. It is of interest to both film students and the general moviegoer.
Mark Cousins is an Irish-Scottish filmmaker and author. His films –
including The Story of Film, The First Movie, The Eyes of
Orson Welles, Atomic, I am Belfast, Stockholm My
Love and Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through
Cinema – have won the Prix Italia, a Peabody and the Stanley
Kubrick Award. They have premiered at the world’s major film
festivals. Their themes are looking, cities, cinema, childhood, and
recovery.
His other books include Imagining Reality: The Faber Book
of Documentary, and The Story of Looking. He loves walking
across cities such as Los Angeles, Moscow, Paris, Beijing, Berlin,
London and Mexico City with his camera.
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