The Movies Made Me Do It! discusses the influential films that inspired Ross Wells to become a film historian, author, filmmaker, and educator. In this volume Wells explores the ground-breaking motion pictures by Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless, Alphaville, Pierrot le Fou, Contempt, Made in USA, Weekend), Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura, Red Desert, Blow-Up, Zabriskie Point, The Passenger), David Cronenberg (Rabid, Videodrome, Crash, Naked Lunch), Alfred Hitchcock (Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds), John Waters (Pink Flamingos, ...
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The Movies Made Me Do It! discusses the influential films that inspired Ross Wells to become a film historian, author, filmmaker, and educator. In this volume Wells explores the ground-breaking motion pictures by Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless, Alphaville, Pierrot le Fou, Contempt, Made in USA, Weekend), Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura, Red Desert, Blow-Up, Zabriskie Point, The Passenger), David Cronenberg (Rabid, Videodrome, Crash, Naked Lunch), Alfred Hitchcock (Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds), John Waters (Pink Flamingos, Cry Baby), David Lean (Dr. Zhivago), David Lynch (Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway), Dennis Hopper (Easy Rider, The Last Movie, Back Track), and many others. Wells also discusses the environmental effects that created individual interests and themes, having been raised in a rural Texas environment from which he sought to escape through movies, literature, and television. Wells also discusses his lengthy quest to transform his published novel into a feature-length motion picture while working as a journalist and educator.
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