Mamoulian

Mamoulian

by Tom Milne
Mamoulian

Mamoulian

by Tom Milne

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The great Armenian-American director Rouben Mamoulian (1897-1987) remains a favourite among film-makers, his films combining great technical originality with a uniquely poetic visual style. Mamoulian's technical innovations are evident from his first film, Applause (1923), in which he incorporated two separate soundtracks into one printing, thus overcoming the difficulty of sound levels which had frustrated the pioneer directors of 'talkies', and in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931), in which he used synthetic sound painted directly onto the soundtrack.  Such inventive solutions to film-making challenges were linked to Mamoulian's abiding sense of the magic of the cinema. Heused colour as a dramatic ingredient in the first three-strip Technicolour film, Becky Sharp (1935), and his musicals Summer Holiday (1948) and Silk Stockings (1957) were remarkable in their time for the way in which the dance was used to enhance the drama and to illuminate character.   And for Garbo, in Queen Christina (1933) he created the framework for her greatest role.

Tom Milne's classic study, first published in 1969, provides a film-by-film analysis of Mamoulian's career and challenges widespread critical assumptions about the director's oeuvre. In his foreword to this new edition, Geoff Andrew recognises Milne's careful and insightful analysis of Mamoulian's expressive and imaginative style and asks whether this unique director ought to be considered as an auteur.   Andrew also pays tribute to Milne's elegant, witty and eclectic critical style and hails him as one the most important and influential British writers on film.

TOM MILNE (1926-2005) was a leading British film critic, contributing to Sight&Sound, the Monthly Film Bulletin, The Observer, The Financial Times and The Times during his career. During the 1960s he worked at the British Film Institute as Associate Editor of Sight&Sound and Editor of The Monthly Film Bulletin. His other publications include a monograph on Joseph Losey (1967), a short study on the Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer (1971) and an anthology of interviews and writings on Jean-Luc Godard (1972) that he edited and translated.

Foreword by GEOFF ANDREW, Head of Film Programme at BFI Southbank, UK, and the author of several books including Nicholas Ray: Poet of Nightfall (BFI, 2004) and, in the BFI Film Classics series, volumes on Kieslowski's Three Colours Trilogy and Kiarostami's 10.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781838717049
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 07/25/2019
Series: BFI Silver
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 46 MB
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About the Author


TOM MILNE was a leading British film Critic, contributing to Sight& Sound, the Monthly Film Bulletin, The Observer, The Financial Times and The Times during his career. During the 1960s he worked at the British Film Institute as Associate Editor of Sight& Sound and Editor of the Monthly Film Bulletin. In addition to his study of Mamoulian, published in the BFI/Thames& Hudson Cinema One series, Milne published a number of monographs on Film Directors Joseph Losey (1967) - also in the Cinema One series - and a short study on the Danish Director Carl Theodor Dreyer (1971) and edited and translated an anthology of interviews and writings on Jean-Luc Godard (1972).

Tom Milne had a lifelong interest in the translation and subtitling of French films for television screenings and was the Founding Editor of the Time Out Film Guide, first published in 1989.
 
Introduction by GEOFF ANDREW  - Head of the Film Programme at BFI Southbank, UK, and was previously Film Editor of Time Out London. He is the author of several books including Nicholas Ray: Poet of Nightfall (BFI, 2004) and, in the BFI Film Classics series, volumes on Kieslowski's Three Colours Trilogy and Kiarostami's 10. 

Tom Milne was a leading British film critic. During the 1960s he worked at the British Film Institute as Associate Editor of Sight&Sound.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the 2010 Edition by Geoff Andrew.- Introduction to the 1969 Edition.- Applause.- City Streets.- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.- Love Me Tonight.- Song of Songs.- Queen Christina.- We Live Again.- Becky Sharp.- The Gay Desperado.- High, Wide and Handsome.- Golden Boy.- The Mark of Zorro.- Blood and Sand.- Rings on her Fingers.- Summer Holiday.- Silk Stockings.- Filmography .- Acknowledgements.
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