Ian Haydn Smith 
FilmQuake [EPUB ebook] 
The Most Disruptive Films in Cinema

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.

 


Film Quake introduces 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) – 
Film Quake presents the movies that
questioned boundaries ,
challenged the status quo and
made shockwaves we are still feeling today.



From film’s first innovators, people 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 which 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
B lair Witch Project.



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

 

This book is from the Culture Quake series, which looks into iconic moments of culture which truly created paradigm shifts in their respective fields.
Also available is  Art Quake , which tells the stories of 50 pivotal works that challenged consensus and  broke daring new ground in the world of art, inspiring shock and scandal as they did so, but ultimately cementing themselves as truly great works of modern art.

Spis treści

Introduction


THE SHOCK OF THE NEW: 1895–1929


The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station: Auguste and Louis Lumière

Women in Film


The Birth of a Nation: D.W. Griffith


Within Our Gates: Oscar Micheaux


Nosferatu: F.W. Murnau

German Expressionism

Nanook of the North: Robert Flaherty


Battleship Potemkin: Sergei Eisenstein

Soviet Cinema


The Passion of Joan of Arc: Carl Theodor Dreyer

Sound in Film


A WORLD IN FLUX: 1930–1959


The Golden Age: Luis Buñuel

Avant-Garde Cinema


L’Atalante: Jean Vigo


Triumph of the Will: Leni Riefenstahl

Propaganda on Film


The Great Dictator: Charles Chaplin


Citizen Kane: Orson Welles

Auteur Cinema


Rome, Open City: Roberto Rossellini

Italian Neorealism


Rashomon: Akira Kurosawa


Pather Panchali: Satyajit Ray


The Seventh Seal: Ingmar Bergman

Art Film

The Rise of Animation


Some Like It Hot: Billy Wilder


BREAKING ALL THE RULES: 1960–1979


Breathless: Jean-Luc Goddard

The French New Wave


Psycho: Alfred Hitchcock

New Adventures in Horror


Victim: Basil Dearden


Cleo from 5 to 7: Agnès Varda


The Battle of Algiers: Gillo Pontecorvo


Bonnie and Clyde: Arthur Penn

New Hollywood


2001: A Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick


Wanda: Barbara Loden

Feminist Film


Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss: Melvin Van Peebles

Black Cinema in the US


Touki Bouki: Djibril Diop Mambéty

Cinema of Transgression


Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles: Chantal Akerman


Jaws: Steven Spielberg


Apocalypse Now: Francis Ford Coppola

Developments in Sound


INDEPENDENCE AND INDUSTRY: 1980–1999


Fitzcarraldo: Werner Herzog

An Epic Cinema


Shoah: Claude Lanzmann


The Thin Blue Line: Errol Morris


A Short Film About Killing: Krzysztof Kieślowski

Changing the World


Do the Right Thing: Spike Lee


Paris is Burning: Jennie Livingston

New Queer Cinema


Daughters of the Dust: Julie Dash


Terminator 2: Judgment Day: James Cameron


Reservoir Dogs: Quentin Tarantino

US Indie Cinema


Chungking Express: Wong Kar-wai

Cinema in Hong Kong, China

Recent New Waves


La Haine: Mathieu Kassovitz


The Blair Witch Project: Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez

Recent Horror


THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN: 2000–PRESENT


Russian Ark: Aleksandr Sokurov

Cinema and Time

Digital Cinema


Brokeback Mountain: Ang Lee


United 93: Paul Greengrass

Cinema Post-9/11


Tangerine: Sean Baker


Get Out: Jordan Peele

Film and Black Lives Matter

Change for the Future


Atlantics: Mati Diop


For Sama: Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts

Citizen Journalism


Parasite: Bong Joon-Ho



Glossary

Further Reading

Picture Credits

Index



 

 

O autorze

Ian Haydn Smith is a London-based writer. He is the update editor on 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die and is the editor of BFI Filmmakers Magazine and Curzon Magazine. Ian is also the author of Selling the Movie: The Art of the Film Poster, The Short Story of Photography and Cult Filmmakers.