FilmQuake: The Most Disruptive Films in Cinema

FilmQuake is a book that explores 50 movies that shook the cinematic world, revealing the fascinating stories behind their creation, reception, and legacy. It covers a range of genres, from groundbreaking technological advancements to feminist triumphs, and from films that challenged lawmakers to those that kickstarted New Queer Cinema. The book also examines how filmmakers have addressed themes of prejudice and inequality in modern cinema, such as the Black Lives Matter movement and Jordan Peele's Get Out. It demonstrates the heart of modern film, which is to constantly question boundaries and challenge expectation.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 208 pages
\n Publication date: 26 October 2021
\n Publisher: Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
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Discover films that dared to be different, risked reputations, and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when filmmakers take tradition and rip it up.

FilmQuake presents 50 movies that shook the cinematic world, telling the fascinating stories behind their creation, reception, and legacy. From unbelievable developments in technology (Citizen Kane, 1941) to feminist triumphs (Wanda, 1970); films that kickstarted New Queer Cinema (Paris is Burning, 1990) to others that challenged lawmakers (A Short Film About Killing, 1988) – FilmQuake presents the movies that questioned boundaries, challenged the status quo, and made shockwaves we are still feeling today.

From film's first innovators, like the Lumière brothers, whose short film of a train arriving was reported to have terrified audiences in 19th-century Paris, through iconoclasts like Sergei Eisenstein and Luis Buñuel, to titans of 20th-century cinema like Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard, discover the stories behind the films that incontrovertably changed the course of cinema forever.

Into the modern day, this book examines how filmmakers have addressed themes of prejudice and inequality, from the Black Lives Matter movement and Jordan Peele's unmissable Get Out to Bong Joon-ho's cutting study of the lives of the wealthy in Parasite, as well as innovative new cinematic techniques emerging in films like 28 Days Later and Blair Witch Project.

In telling the history of cinema through the works that were truly disruptive, and explaining the context in which each was created, FilmQuake demonstrates the heart of modern film, which is to constantly question boundaries and challenge expectation.

This book is from the Culture Qua.

\n Weight: 506g\n
Dimension: 157 x 206 x 22 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780711259713\n \n