International Dictionary of Broadcasting and Film

ISBN-13: 9780240803760 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 328 str.

Desi K. Bognar

Opis

This work aims to act as a comprehensive guide to professional film-making and broadcasting terminology. Entries include information on professional organizations, festivals and awards. Appendices contain tables of international television and film standards, frequencies and channels, and a list of national and international news agencies and their standard abbreviations.

Recenzje

Praise for the previous edition:

"In a time of ceaseless migrations between continents and media, many will be grateful to Desi Bognár for this painstaking linguistic gazetteer." -Erik Barnouw, Author of Tube of Plenty: the Evolution of American Television and Documentary: a History of the Non-Fiction Film; Editor-in-Chief, International Encyclopedia of Communications.

"...Handsome, intelligent, well-put-together...And now I know what 'Noodling' is!"
- Professor Robert Onopa, University of Hawai'i at Mãnoa

"[The] International Dictionary is excellent and fulfills a very important/felt need..." - Dr. S. Krishnaswami, Krishnaswami Associates, Co-Author of Indian Film, Madras, India

Spis treści

Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgment; Abbreviations; The language; Terms A-Z; British - metric conversion table; Magnetic tape width standards; Magnetic tape speed standards; Phonograph speeds; Film length standards; Negative, sound, print and television recording films; Film width standards; Film projection speed; Table of frequencies; Frequency bands; Radio bands; Television channels; Television picture standards; Colour television systems; Film emulsion speed conversion table; Television systems worldwide; National and international news agencies.

O autorze

Desi Bognar