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Q&A with David Da Silva, author of Martial Arts in Cinema: From Tokyo to Hollywood
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Q&A with David Da Silva, author of Martial Arts in Cinema: From Tokyo to Hollywood Q: What inspired you to write Martial Arts in Cinema: Volume 1 – From Tokyo to Hollywood (1945–1988) ? David Da Silva: My father, Natalino, introduced me to Bruce Lee and martial arts films at a young age, sparking a lifelong passion. As a cinema historian with a PhD in film studies, I wanted to trace the genre’s evolution from post-war Japan and Hong Kong to its impact on Hollywood, highlighting its cultural and artistic significance. Q: How is the book structured, and what period...
Q&A with James McFadden, author of The Unauthorized G.I. Joe Chronology
Q: How long have you been a fan of the G.I. Joe franchise? JAMES McFADDEN: I've been a fan of G.I. Joe since the very start of its re-launch in the early 1980s. Q: What inspired your fascination with that universe, and why? McFADDEN: The property, at its beginning, was essentially a superhero adventure, blended with sci-fi and real-world military elements, all of which could be watched on TV, read in comics and played with every day through the toys. It's a mixture that was very difficult for a kid to resist. Q: How would you sum up the project...
Q&A WITH FILMMAKER/AUTHOR MARJORIE SHORT
Q & A WITH FILMMAKER/AUTHOR MARJORIE SHORT Q: Making Mischief: The Intern Diaries is a pretty unusual book. Why did you write it? A: Actually, it was never intended to be a book! It was a journal of my experience as the Academy/AFI Directing Intern on the feature film Mischief in 1984. By the end, I had five notebooks of entries. I had to turn all that into a report to the AFI assessing my experiences. Q: What kinds of things did you write about in your diaries? A: When I first got to location,...
Joe Nazzaro Q&A on Behind the Mask
Joe Nazzaro discusses his new book, Behind the Mask: The Secrets of Hollywood’s Leading Creature Suit Performers. How did this project come about? I’ve been fascinated by makeup/creature FX my entire life. I watched tons of bad horror movies on our local NY stations, and at some point, I began to realize there were actually ‘actors’ in those suits. I put the word in quotes, because some of those films just required a performer to crash through a wall or carry off the heroine in his arms, which didn’t take all that much acting ability; in fact, a lot of...
Q&A with Ron Magid, author of The Halloween Society
Author Ron Magid unpacks his bizarre, unlikely adventures forging a career from mask maven to film journalist, playwright and screenwriter in THE HALLOWEEN SOCIETY UNEARTHED and THE HALLOWEEN SOCIETY UNMASKED. His two-volume memoir provides a handy How-to for making a career (and contacts) in the hard to navigate entertainment industry. Q: What is The Halloween Society? The Halloween Society was founded by myself and Dante Renta in 1984, to celebrate horror, science fiction and fantasy films with a unique focus on monsters, masks and the artists that created them. From 1985 - 1989 we unleashed a baker's dozen of the...