Carl Theodor Dreyer and Ordet

Carl Theodor Dreyer and Ordet
Author: Jan Wahl
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2012-03-14
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0813136180

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Regarded by many filmmakers and critics as one of the greatest directors in cinema history, Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889-1968) achieved worldwide acclaim after the debut of 'The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928). This book explores how, in 1955, student Jan Wahl spent an unforgettable summer with Dreyer during the filming of 'Ordet'.

Cinematography of Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cinematography of Carl Theodor Dreyer
Author: Paul Matthew St. Pierre
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2018-11-19
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1683931017

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Carl Theodor Dreyer was a visionary director whose films were based less on his screenplays than on his preconceptions, his complete formal, aesthetic cinematic projections of the films he deputized actors, cinematographers, and crew to produce. Cinematography of Carl Theodor Dreyer examines the life and work of a brilliant director and visionary.

Carl Theodor Dreyer and Ordet

Carl Theodor Dreyer and Ordet
Author: Jan Wahl
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2012-04-20
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0813140528

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This illustrated memoir shares a rare inside look at the legendary director’s process and vision during the filming of his award-winning masterpiece. Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer is considered one of the most influential filmmakers in cinematic history. His 1955 film Ordet (The World) won numerous prizes, including the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion. In 1954, Dreyer invited young film student Jan Wahl to accompany him during this classic work. This captivating account of Wahl's time with the director is based on Wahl's daily journal and transcriptions of his conversations with Dreyer. Offering a glimpse into the filmmaker's world, Wahl fashions a portrait of Dreyer as a man, mentor, friend, and director. Wahl's detailed account is supplemented by exquisite photos of the filming and by selections from Dreyer's papers, including his notes on film style, his introduction for the actors before the filming of Ordet, and a visionary lecture he delivered at Edinburgh.

My Only Great Passion

My Only Great Passion
Author: Jean Drum
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2000-07-26
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1461669995

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In an industry that celebrates extravagance and showmanship, Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer was a rarity, a man who guarded his privacy fiercely and believed that film provided a way to understand human nature by focusing on the individual person. Best known for his 1928 film The Passion of Joan of Arc, dominated by its emotionally harrowing close-ups of Joan during her trial, it was Dreyer who pioneered some of the seminal techniques of modern film, techniques that would later be made famous by better known contemporaries such as Sergei Eisenstein and D.W. Griffith. Now, in My Only Great Passion, the first full-length English language biography of Dreyer, Jean and Dale D. Drum restore his reputation to its rightful place. Based on extensive and exclusive interviews with both Dreyer and the people who worked with him—including personal correspondence dating back to 1952—this biography provides the most comprehensive critical examination to date of both Dreyer's life and his approach to filmmaking. A valuable resource for film critics and historians, those in the film industry, and university cinema departments, as well as anyone with an interest in Danish art and culture, My Only Great Passion provides long neglected insights into the man who first raised European film above the level of entertainment and placed it in the realm of art.

How the Children Stopped the Wars

How the Children Stopped the Wars
Author: Jan Wahl
Publisher: Tricycle Press
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2007-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781582462004

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Inspired by a mysterious stranger, Uillame starts a children's crusade to stop the wars that have called away their fathers, uncles, and brothers.

Transcendental Style in Film

Transcendental Style in Film
Author: Paul Schrader
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2018-05-18
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0520969146

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With a new introduction, acclaimed director and screenwriter Paul Schrader revisits and updates his contemplation of slow cinema over the past fifty years. Unlike the style of psychological realism, which dominates film, the transcendental style expresses a spiritual state by means of austere camerawork, acting devoid of self-consciousness, and editing that avoids editorial comment. This seminal text analyzes the film style of three great directors—Yasujiro Ozu, Robert Bresson, and Carl Dreyer—and posits a common dramatic language used by these artists from divergent cultures. The new edition updates Schrader’s theoretical framework and extends his theory to the works of Andrei Tarkovsky (Russia), Béla Tarr (Hungary), Theo Angelopoulos (Greece), and Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey), among others. This key work by one of our most searching directors and writers is widely cited and used in film and art classes. With evocative prose and nimble associations, Schrader consistently urges readers and viewers alike to keep exploring the world of the art film.

Speaking the Language of Desire

Speaking the Language of Desire
Author: Raymond Carney
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1989-03-31
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780521378079

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Although Carl Dreyer is universally acknowledged to be one of the supreme masters of world cinema, it is one of the oddities of film history that beyond The Passion of Joan of Arc, his works have seldom had the general recognition that they undeniable deserve. This book is an attempt to bring his films to the awareness of contemporary filmgoers everywhere. The author argues that the key to an understanding of Dryers work is to be found in an appreciation of his distinctive style.

Dreyer In Double Reflection

Dreyer In Double Reflection
Author: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 1991-08-21
Genre: Motion pictures
ISBN:

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Carl-Theodor Dreyer (1889-1968) is recognized as one of the great stylists of the cinema. The Passion of Joan of Arc, Vampyr, Day of Wrath, Ordet and Gertrud are among the best-known works of this rigorous, austere and powerful film-maker.

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism
Author: Stephen C. Meyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 844
Release: 2020-03-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0190658460

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The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism provides a snapshot of the diverse ways in which medievalism--the retrospective immersion in the images, sounds, narratives, and ideologies of the European Middle Ages--powerfully transforms many of the varied musical traditions of the last two centuries. Thirty-three chapters from an international group of scholars explore topics ranging from the representation of the Middle Ages in nineteenth-century opera to medievalism in contemporary video game music, thereby connecting disparate musical forms across typical musicological boundaries of chronology and geography. While some chapters focus on key medievalist works such as Orff's Carmina Burana or Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films, others explore medievalism in the oeuvre of a single composer (e.g. Richard Wagner or Arvo Pärt) or musical group (e.g. Led Zeppelin). The topics of the individual chapters include both well-known works such as John Boorman's film Excalibur and also less familiar examples such as Eduard Lalo's Le Roi d'Ys. The authors of the chapters approach their material from a wide array of disciplinary perspectives, including historical musicology, popular music studies, music theory, and film studies, examining the intersections of medievalism with nationalism, romanticism, ideology, nature, feminism, or spiritualism. Taken together, the contents of the Handbook develop new critical insights that venture outside traditional methodological constraints and provide a capstone and point of departure for future scholarship on music and medievalism.

The Carl Theodor Dreyer Collection

The Carl Theodor Dreyer Collection
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2015
Genre:
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Pamphlet issued with the Carl Theodor Dreyer Collection of four DVDs: Gertrud; Carl Th. Dreyer - My métier; Day of wrath - Ordet; Master of the house.