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About the Book:
New Wave King: The
Cinematography of Laszlo Kovacs, ASC
is the first book published
on Laszlo Kovacs, a
cinematographer who changed the face of filmmaking by taking it out
of the studios and on the road.
With more than 70 US
feature films to his credit
as cinematographer or
director of photography,
Laszlo Kovacs was one
of the top cinematographers in the motion picture industry. Born
in the countryside outside Budapest, he filmed
the Hungarian uprising and escaped to Hollywood. In the US he joined
a second rebellion, that of the young generation of film-makers who
forced Hollywood to reconsider its values. He worked with Altman and
Scorsese, Rafelson and Bogdanovich, part of a counter-cultural
movement now seen as a golden age. His cinematography brought a
poetic realism to the anti-establishment classics Easy Rider and Five
Easy Pieces. From the
ASC classic archives and the pages of American
Cinematographer magazine
comes this definitive look at the work of one of the innovators in
motion picture photography, whose films include such classics as Easy
Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The King Of Marvin Gardens, Shampoo,
Ghostbusters and New York, New York.
The
book New Wave King:
The Cinematography of Laszlo Kovacs
features:
• A new foreword
by Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC
• Introductory
essay by Ray Zone
• Kovacs on the
making of Easy Rider
• Kovacs' work
with Martin Scorsese on New York, New York
• A
behind-the-scenes look at the making of Ghostbusters
• The filming of
the western The Lone Ranger
• The special
effects for Multiplicity, and Jack Frost
• Kovacs on
lighting and a comprehensive filmography
• A comprehensive
and annotated Filmography of Kovacs' films
Students of cinematography and film history will find this volume
indispensable. There is only one Laszlo Kovacs. Readers of this book will gain unusual insights into the
mind of the man who seemed equally comfortable with subdued, intimate
scenes and dazzling pyrotechnics, full of spectacle and colour, a
range that became more apparent in later years on such blockbusters
as Ghostbusters, My Best Friend's Wedding, and Miss Congeniality. His
camera celebrated American characters and landscape with equal
passion, drawing on the spirit of the western and that of the times
in which he lived, and picked up a lifetime achievement award from the
American Society of Cinematographers for his work along the way.
About the Author:
Ray Zone (1947–2012) was an
American film historian, author, artist, and pioneer in methods of
converting flat images like comic books into stereoscopic images. He
produced 3D adaptations of art for more than 150 comic books, helping
to earn him the nickname “The 3D King of Hollywood.” He also
wrote and edited several books, including New Wave King:
The Cinematography of Laszlo Kovacs.