- TitleTop Gun (Original)
- ArticlesArticles held in BFI Reuben LibraryIn: Cinéaste v34 n2 Spring 2009, pp. 43-47
"Invisible" or "Visible" Editing: The Development of Edit... / Vincent LoBRUTTO
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"...orial Styles and Strategies". Looks at films like ALL THAT JAZZ, SPARTACUS, BRUTE FORCE, L'AVVENTURA, A BOUT DE SOUFFLE, FLASHDANCE, BONNIE AND CLYDE, DIE HARD and TOP GUN; Filmmakers also include Stan Brakhage and Dede Allen.In: Empire n239 May 2009, pp. 142
At home/DVD reissues: Top Gun / David HUGHES
DVD Review - English - illustrationsIn: Empire n241 July 2009, pp. 108-114
Tony Scott on Tony Scott / Adam SMITH
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Filmmaker Tony Scott discusses his career and the films he hs made.In: Empire n227 May 2008, pp. 168-169
The top 10 movie dogfights / Ian FREER
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A compilation of the top ten best scenes of aerial combat in film.In: Empire n228 June 2008, pp. 108-111
Popbusters! / Dorian LYNSKEY
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Discusses the history of the power-ballad theme song for films from the 1980's onwards. Traces the key films for the trend and how after ubiquity in 1980s and 90s Hollywood has reverted back to "old-fashioned" scores.In: Empire n228 June 2008, pp. 168-169
The top 10 best-dressed characters / Helen O'HARA
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A listing and brief critique of the ten best-dressed characters in filmIn: Cinema Journal v47 n1 Autumn 2007, pp. 101-105
In focus: Misogynist film: teaching Top Gun / Tania MODLESKI
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Discusses the use of TOP GUN when teaching the link between "male homoerotic desire and misogyny".In: Empire n201 March 2006, pp. 77-88,90-101
201 Greatest movies of all time
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A listing of the top two hundred and one films as chosen by the reader's of Empire magazine. With comments by actors and filmmaker's.In: Film and History v35 n1 2005, pp. 20-28
From "Knockout Punch" to "Home Run": Masculinity's "Dirty... / Ralph R. DONALD
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`...Dozen" Sports Metaphors in American Combat Films'. Part of a whole issue on American sports in film, television and history, this article examines the vocabulary of sport as used in war films.In: Empire n158 August 2002, pp. 98-100
The jet set. / Adam SMITH
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A retrospective look at the making of TOP GUN.In: Journal of Popular Film & Television v18 n1 Spring 1990, pp. 18-27
Making love, not war: the soldier male in Top Gun and... / James CONLON
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Examines TOP GUN and COMING HOME as regards the inter- relationships of men to love and war.In: Post Script v9 n3 Summer 1990, pp. 21-35
Top Gun and postmodern mass culture aesthetics / Diane SHOOS, Diana GEORGE
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An examination of the film in terms of popular mass culture and as a vehicle for image and spectacle.In: American Film v15 n9 June 1990, pp. 33,45
Save Our Script
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The problems of scriptwriting with contributions from various scriptwriters; Wareen Skaaran on TOP GUN, includes an extract from the changed script. (Illustration page 33).In: Premiere n125 August 1987, pp. 42-47
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Stills, plus interview with the director.In: Cinefex n29 February 1987, pp. 52-67
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Article on the production of the special effects in the filmIn: American Cinematographer v67 n5 May 1986, pp. 50, 56, 58
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Jeff Kimbell talks about his work as director of photography on the film.In: American Cinematographer v67 n6 June 1986, pp. 28-33
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Article on the special effects and use of miniatures, including notes on the process projections shots for the aviation scenes (p.31).In: American Film v11 n8 June 1986, pp. 28-32,52
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Production report and analysis of the background to the making of a film of this nature in 1985.In: The Hollywood Reporter v288 n38 18 Sep 1985, pp. 1,5
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Note of the death of stunt pilot Art Scholl after his plane crashed into the sea during shooting of aerial sequences for this film.