The Complete Films Of Laurence Olivier

Author : Jerry Vermilye
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806513027
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Films of Laurence Olivier written by Jerry Vermilye and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laurence Olivier portrayed characters that were as diverse as they were memorable. From Hamlet to Heathcliff, from a Nazi dentist in 'Marathon Man' to a cunning mystery writer in 'Sleuth' his roles made him one of the most highly acclaimed actors of all time. This book celebrates his career, including casts, credits, synopses and production notes from every movie in which he appeared. Photographs illustrate the text, wit hrare candids borrowed from Olivier collectors.

Author : Jerry Vermilye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Films of the Thirties written by Jerry Vermilye and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger Lewis
Publisher : Arrow Books
ISBN 13 : 9780099513667
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real Life of Laurence Olivier written by Roger Lewis and published by Arrow Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laurence Olivier was both an enchanter and a force of nature. Most of all, Olivier's life and work become a love story - the tale of the relationship with Vivien Leigh, who was destroyed by the extent of her passion for him, as he himself was cast into a frenzy of guilt and disillusionment.

Author : Margaret Morley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806508795
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Films of Laurence Olivier written by Margaret Morley and published by . This book was released on 1984-03-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Laurence Olivier
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9780297788645
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Acting written by Laurence Olivier and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1986 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overpeinzingen van de Engelse auteur (geb. 1907).

Author : Margaret Morley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780729600996
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Olivier written by Margaret Morley and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kendra Bean
Publisher : Running Press Adult
ISBN 13 : 0762450991
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vivien Leigh written by Kendra Bean and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on in-depth research and new interviews to present a narrative account of the actress's life that covers her early childhood in India, her celebrated love affair with Laurence Olivier, and her early death at age fifty-three.

Author : Patrick J. Cook
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821443658
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cinematic Hamlet written by Patrick J. Cook and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hamlet has inspired four outstanding film adaptations that continue to delight a wide and varied audience and to offer provocative new interpretations of Shakespeare’s most popular play. Cinematic Hamlet contains the first scene-by-scene analysis of the methods used by Laurence Olivier, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh, and Michael Almereyda to translate Hamlet into highly distinctive and remarkably effective films. Applying recent developments in neuroscience and psychology, Patrick J. Cook argues that film is a medium deploying an abundance of devices whose task it is to direct attention away from the film’s viewing processes and toward the object represented. Through careful analysis of each film’s devices, he explores the ways in which four brilliant directors rework the play into a radically different medium, engaging the viewer through powerful instinctive drives and creating audiovisual vehicles that support and complement Shakespeare’s words and story. Cinematic Hamlet will prove to be indispensable for anyone wishing to understand how these films rework Shakespeare into the powerful medium of film.

Author : Philip Ziegler
Publisher : MacLehose Press
ISBN 13 : 1623650437
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Olivier written by Philip Ziegler and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A finalist for the Sheridan Morley Prize that has been called "probably the best Olivier book for general readers" (Kirkus Reviews), Philip Ziegler's Olivier provides an incredibly accessible and comprehensive portrait of this Hollywood superstar, Oscar-winning director, and one who is considered the greatest stage actor of the twentieth century. The era abounded in great actors--Gielgud, Richardson, Guinness, Burton, O'Toole--but none could challenge Laurence Olivier's range and power. By the 1940s he had achieved international stardom. His affair with Vivien Leigh led to a marriage as glamorous and as tragic as any in Hollywood history. He was as accomplished a director as he was a leading man: his three Shakespearian adaptations are among the most memorable ever filmed. And yet, at the height of his fame, he accepted what was no more than an administrator's wage to become the founding Director of the National Theatre. In 2013 the theatre celebrates its fiftieth anniversary; without Olivier's leadership it would never have achieved the status that it enjoys today. Off-stage, Olivier was the most extravagant of characters: generous, yet almost insanely jealous of those few contemporaries whom he deemed to be his rivals; charming but with a ferocious temper. With access to more than fifty hours of candid, unpublished interviews, Ziegler ensures that Olivier's true character--at its most undisguised--shines through as never before.

Author : Anthony Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521399135
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Filming Shakespeare's Plays written by Anthony Davies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-06-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's plays provide wonderfully challenging material for the film maker. While acknowledging that dramatic experiences for theatre and cinema audiences are significantly different, this book reveals some of the special qualities of cinema's dramatic language in the film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays by four directors - Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa - each of whom has a distinctly different approach to a film representation. Davies begins his study with a comparison of theatrical and cinematic space showing that the dramatic resources of cinema are essentially spatial. The central chapters focus on Laurence Olivier's Henry V, Hamlet and Richard III; Orson Welles' Macbeth, Othello and Chimes at Midnight; Peter Brook's King Lear and Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood. Davies discusses the dramatic problems posed by the source plays for these films for the film maker and he examines how these films influenced later theatrical stagings. He concludes with an examination of the demands that distinguish the work of the Shakespearean stage actor from that of his counterpart in film.