Filming the City
ISBN: 9781783205547 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Filming the City brings together the work of filmmakers, architects, designers, video artists, and media specialists to provide three distinct prisms through which to examine the medium of film in the context of the city. The book presents commentaries on particular films and their social and urban relevance, offering contemporary criticisms of both film and urbanism from conflicting perspectives, and documenting examples of how to actively use the medium of film in the design of our cities, spaces and buildings. Bringing a diverse set of contributors to the collection, editors Edward...
Filming the City brings together the work of filmmakers, architects, designers, video artists, and media specialists to provide three distinct ...
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185,69 zł |
Cartomancy and Tarot in Film: 1940-2010
ISBN: 9781783203314 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the first book-length study of Tarot cards on the silver screen, Emily E. Auger contextualizes cartomancy--the practice of fortune telling via playing cards--and dives deep into its invention and promulgation in film. After providing an introduction to divination and cartomancy, Auger offers detailed descriptions and analyses of the roles that cartomancy and Tarot cards play in films. The book features an abbreviated filmography--including nearly 200 films--detailing their relationships to cartomancy. As Tarot communities continue to grow worldwide, Cartomancy and Tarot in Film will...
In the first book-length study of Tarot cards on the silver screen, Emily E. Auger contextualizes cartomancy--the practice of fortune telling via play...
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499,16 zł |
Documentary : Witness and Self-Revelation
ISBN: 9780415574181 / Angielski / Twarda / 171 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Digital technologies have transformed documentary for both filmmakers and audiences. Documentary: Witness and Self-Revelation takes an audience-centred approach to documentary, arguing that everyday experiences of what it feels like to film and to be filmed have developed a new sophistication and skepticism in today's viewers. The book argues that documentary has developed a new third phase of its century long history: films now tend to document the encounters between filmers and the filmed. But what do we really know about those encounters? The author's extensive experience of documentary...
Digital technologies have transformed documentary for both filmmakers and audiences. Documentary: Witness and Self-Revelation takes an audience-centre...
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656,16 zł |
How to Become CARY GRANT: A Remarkable Life in Quotes and Remembrances
ISBN: 9781492201397 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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58,11 zł |
The Films of Elías Querejeta: A Producer of Landscapes
ISBN: 9780708324387 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Films of Elias Querejeta" is the first book in English to explore the films of Spain s most celebrated producer, Elias Querejeta. Tom Whittaker highlights Querejeta s recurring emphasis on landscape, arguing that it can be understood as a site of political struggle against Francoism and Spain s embrace of neoliberal capitalism. In bringing together both the importance of cinematic and spatial production, Whittaker s study makes an original contribution not only to film studies but also to Spanish cultural studies and cultural geography."
"The Films of Elias Querejeta" is the first book in English to explore the films of Spain s most celebrated producer, Elias Querejeta. Tom Whittake... |
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59,45 zł |
World Film Locations: Las Vegas
ISBN: 9781841505886 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sin and redemption. The ridiculous and the sublime. The carnivalesque excess of the Strip and the barrenness of the desert surrounding the city. Visited by millions of fortune seekers and starry-eyed lovers each year, Las Vegas is a city with as many apparent contradictions as Elvis impersonators, and this complexity is reflected in the diversity of films that have been shot on location there. A copiously illustrated retrospective of Vegas s appearances on the big screen, this new volume in Intellect sWorld Film Locations series presents synopses of scenes from a broad selection of films... Sin and redemption. The ridiculous and the sublime. The carnivalesque excess of the Strip and the barrenness of the desert surrounding the city. Vi... |
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127,25 zł |
World Cinema, Theology, and the Human : Humanity in Deep Focus
ISBN: 9780415517461 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Forging an open-minded but reasoned dialogue between nine acclaimed titles of world cinema, and a range of theological perspectives that touch on the theme of human experience, World Cinema, Theology, and the Human offers fresh portals of insight for the interdisciplinary area of Theology and Film. In Sison's approach, it is the cinematic representation of vivid humanity, not necessarily propositional statements about God and religion, that lays down a bridge to a conversation with theology. Thus, the book's project is to look for the divine presence, written not on tablets of stone, but on...
Forging an open-minded but reasoned dialogue between nine acclaimed titles of world cinema, and a range of theological perspectives that touch on the ...
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706,63 zł |
Flesh Into Light: The Films of Amy Greenfield
ISBN: 9781841504889 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over her more than four-decade career, New York-basedfilmmaker, performer, and writerAmy Greenfield has achieved widespread critical acclaim for her genre-bending films which cross the boundaries of experimental film, video art, and multimedia performance from her feature film, "Antigone/Rites Of Passion, " to her major new live multimedia work, "Spirit in the Flesh. "Exploring the dynamism of movement and the resilience of the human spirit, Greenfield creates a new visual and kinetic language of cinema.An innovative exploration of an artist whom "Cineaste "called the most important... Over her more than four-decade career, New York-basedfilmmaker, performer, and writerAmy Greenfield has achieved widespread critical acclaim for he... |
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127,25 zł |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Political Dissident : The Life and Work of Aleksandar Petrovic
ISBN: 9781841505459 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the liberal West as in socialist Yugoslavia, the films of Aleksandar Petrovic dramatize how enforced dogmatism can corrode any political system. A case study of the oft-overlooked Yugoslav director s colorful and eventful career, "A Portrait of the Artist as a Political Dissident" explores how Petrovic developed specific political and social themes in his films. A response to the political vagaries of his time, these anti-dogmatic views were later to become a trademark of his work. Although interest in socialist Yugoslavia and its legacy has risen steadily since the 1990s, the history... In the liberal West as in socialist Yugoslavia, the films of Aleksandar Petrovic dramatize how enforced dogmatism can corrode any political system.... |
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281,33 zł |
Cinemas of the Other : A Personal Journey with Film-Makers from Iran and Turkey
ISBN: 9781841505480 / Angielski / Miękka / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Updated collections of recent interviews with filmmakers whose works represent trends in the film industries of Central Asia and the Middle East, these two new geospecific editions expand upon the earlier volume "Cinemas of the Other: A Personal Journey with Film-Makers from the Middle East and Central Asia."Following an introduction delineating the histories of the film industries of the countries that make up the Middle East and Central Asia including Iran, Turkey, and the Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan both books contain... Updated collections of recent interviews with filmmakers whose works represent trends in the film industries of Central Asia and the Middle East, t... |
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127,25 zł |
A Personal Journey with Film-Makers from Central Asia
ISBN: 9781841505497 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Updated collections of recent interviews with filmmakers whose works represent trends in the film industries of Central Asia and the Middle East, these two new geospecific editions expand upon the earlier volume "Cinemas of the Other: A Personal Journey with Film-Makers from the Middle East and Central Asia."Following an introduction delineating the histories of the film industries of the countries that make up the Middle East and Central Asia including Iran, Turkey, and the Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan both books contain... Updated collections of recent interviews with filmmakers whose works represent trends in the film industries of Central Asia and the Middle East, t... |
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100,68 zł |
Polanski and Perception: The Psychology of Seeing and the Cinema of Roman Polanski
ISBN: 9781841505527 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new approach to a director whose contribution to cinema is often overshadowed his personal life, "Polanski and Perception" focuses on Roman Polanski s interest in the nature of perception and how this is manifested in his films. The incorporation of cognitive research into film theory is becoming increasingly widespread, with novel cinematic technologies and recent developments in digital projection making a strong grasp of perceptual psychology critical to fostering cognitive engagement.Informed by the work of neuropsychologist R. L. Gregory, this volume focuses primarily on two sets of... A new approach to a director whose contribution to cinema is often overshadowed his personal life, "Polanski and Perception" focuses on Roman Polan... |
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153,81 zł |
Passion of the Reel : Cinematic versus Modernist Political Fictions in Cameroon
ISBN: 9781841505640 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Highlighting the challenges faced by a nascent national cinema with limited resources, "Passion of the Reel "provides an in-depth analysis of the output of the Cameroonian film industry. Jean-Olivier Tchouaffe shows that, far from an empty receptacle for colonial legacies, Cameroon and Africa must move beyond their colonial legacies to focus on indigenous productions of meaning informed by traditional wisdom and ordinary Cameroonian life experience. Tchouaffe s analysis sets the stage for a film-driven exploration of postcolonialism, social construction, and modernization."
Highlighting the challenges faced by a nascent national cinema with limited resources, "Passion of the Reel "provides an in-depth analysis of the o... |
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408,84 zł |
Children, Film and Literacy
ISBN: 9781137294326 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Children, Film and Literacy explores the role of film in children's lives. The films children engage in provide them with imaginative spaces in which they create, play and perform familiar and unfamiliar, fantasy and everyday narratives and this narrative play is closely connected to identity, literacy and textual practices. Family is key to the encouragement of this social play and, at school, the playground is also an important site for this activity. However, in the literacy classroom, some children encounter a discontinuity between their experiences of narrative at home and those that are...
Children, Film and Literacy explores the role of film in children's lives. The films children engage in provide them with imaginative spaces in which ...
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194,08 zł |
Cinemaps: An Atlas of 35 Great Movies
ISBN: 9781594749896 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Acclaimed artist Andrew DeGraff has created beautiful hand-painted maps of all your favorite films, from King Kong and North by Northwest to The Princess Bride, Fargo, Pulp Fiction, even The Breakfast Club--with the routes of major characters charted in meticulous cartographic detail. Follow Marty McFly through the Hill Valley of 1985, 1955, and 1985 once again as he races Back to the Future. Trail Jack Torrance as he navigates the corridors of the Overlook Hotel in The Shining. And join Indiana Jones on a globe-spanning journey from...
Acclaimed artist Andrew DeGraff has created beautiful hand-painted maps of all your favorite films, from King Kong and North by Northwest
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128,16 zł |
Writing for Television, Radio, and New Media
ISBN: 9781285465074 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You can trust Hilliard's WRITING FOR TELEVISION, RADIO, AND NEW MEDIA to provide you with thorough and up-to-date coverage of the principles, techniques, and approaches of writing for television, radio, and the Internet. You'll learn about writing for a variety of formats, such as commercials, news and sports, documentaries, reality programs, talk shows, interviews, music programs, and drama and sitcoms. The book's comprehensive content, excellent organization, attention to form, and good examples ensure that you will be well trained for a career in the field.
You can trust Hilliard's WRITING FOR TELEVISION, RADIO, AND NEW MEDIA to provide you with thorough and up-to-date coverage of the principles, techniqu...
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892,07 zł |
Remaking Brazil : Contested National Identities in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema
ISBN: 9780708325087 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brazil has long been home to a strong and important film industry, and in recent years Brazilian cinema has been drawing growing attention worldwide, with such films as "Central Station" and "City of God" receiving international acclaim." Remaking Brazil" takes a close look at Brazilian films released between 1995 and 2010, including "Elite Squad," "Orfeu," "The Trespasser," and "Almost Brothers," paying special attention to issues of race, ethnicity, and national identity. Brazil has long been home to a strong and important film industry, and in recent years Brazilian cinema has been drawing growing attention worldwid... |
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89,26 zł |
Resolutions 3: Global Networks of Video
ISBN: 9780816670833 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Resolutions 3 explores the wide-ranging implications of video art and video-based production in contemporary media culture. It is the third volume in a series composed of Resolution: A Critique of Video Art (1986) and Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices (1996). While Resolution was one of the first critical texts on video art in the United States, Resolutions was one of the first books to address video as a medium across disciplines from theoretical, activist, and transnational perspectives. Resolutions 3 articulates this legacy as a... Resolutions 3 explores the wide-ranging implications of video art and video-based production in contemporary media culture. It is the third ... |
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131,18 zł |
Sergei M. Eisenstein: Notes for a General History of Cinema
ISBN: 9789089642837 / Angielski / Miękka / 545 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the iconic directors of twentieth-century cinema, Sergei Eisenstein is best known for films such as The Battleship Potemkin, Alexander Nevskii, and Ivan the Terrible. His work, in turn, has inspired other great moviemakers, including Akira Kurosawa and Francis Ford Coppola.
This is the first English-language edition of Eisenstein s recently discovered notes for a general history of the cinema, a project he undertook in the years before his death in 1948. He presents a vast genealogy of the various media and art forms that preceded cinema s birth and... One of the iconic directors of twentieth-century cinema, Sergei Eisenstein is best known for films such as The Battleship Potemkin, Alexande...
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226,87 zł |
Truth and Fiction: Notes on (Exceptional) Faith in Art
ISBN: 9780615647104 / Angielski / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reflecting upon his experience making his 2010 feature film Mothers, a cinematic triptych interweaving three narratives that are each, in their own way, about the often tenuous lines between truth and fiction, and one of which actually morphs into a documentary about the aftermath in a small Macedonian town where three retired cleaning women were found raped and killed in 2008 and the murderer turned out to be the journalist covering the story for a major Macedonian newspaper, the Oscar-nominated Macedonian-born and New York-based writer-director Milcho Manchevski writes that, "Most of us...
Reflecting upon his experience making his 2010 feature film Mothers, a cinematic triptych interweaving three narratives that are each, in their own wa...
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80,77 zł |