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  • Anne Billson on Film 2009

    by Anne Billson ...
    For three years, Anne Billson wrote a film column for the Guardian newspaper which became obligatory reading for anyone interested in the world of cinema. She combines in-depth knowledge of her field with an eminently readable and unpretentious style and makes sometimes surprising and controversial observations with wit and elegance. Quite simply, she's a must-read for anyone who likes reading ... Read more

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  • Precarious Creativity

    Global Media, Local Labor

    Edited by Michael Curtin, Kevin Sanson ...
    At free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s new open access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Precarious Creativity examines the seismic changes confronting media workers in an age of globalization and corporate conglomeration. This pathbreaking anthology peeks behind the hype and supposed glamor of screen media ... Read more

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  • Ghosts – or the (Nearly) Invisible

    Spectral Phenomena in Literature and the Media

    Series Book 9 - ALPH: Arbeiten zur Literarischen Phantastik / ALPH: Approaches to Literary Phantasy
    In this volume, ghost stories are studied in the context of their media, their place in history and geography. From prehistory to this day, we have been haunted by our memories, the past itself, by inklings of the future, by events playing outside our lives, and by ourselves. Hence the lure of ghost stories throughout history and presumably prehistory. Science has been a great destroyer of myth ... Read more

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  • Direção, atuação e preparação de elenco

    os processos de criação de atores e atrizes no cinema brasileiro

    Resultado de quatro anos de pesquisa acadêmica no Programa de Pós-graduação em Teatro da Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC), Virgínia Jorge Silva Rodrigues, cineasta e professora de direção cinematográfica de um dos principais cursos superiores de audiovisual no Brasil, debruça-se sobre um tema pouco discutido: a preparação de atores e atrizes para atuarem no cinema. Sem ... Read more

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  • Anne Billson on Film 2010

    by Anne Billson ...
    For three years, Anne Billson wrote a film column for the Guardian newspaper which became obligatory reading for anyone interested in the world of cinema. She combines in-depth knowledge of her field with an eminently readable and unpretentious style and makes sometimes surprising and controversial observations with wit and elegance. Quite simply, she's a must-read for anyone who likes movies ... Read more

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  • Premises and Problems

    Essays on World Literature and Cinema

    Edited by Luiza Franco Moreira ...
    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    World literature, many have stressed, is a systematic category. Both literary scholars and social scientists have argued that the prestige of the major literary languages is key to establishing the shape of the overall system. In order to critically interrogate world literature and cinema, Premises and Problems approaches this system from the perspective of languages and film traditions that do ... Read more

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  • Androids, Humanoids, and Other Folklore Monsters

    Science and Soul in Science Fiction Films

    by Per Schelde ...
    Science fiction films, from the original Frankenstein and The Fly to Blade Runner and The Terminator, traditionally have been filled with aliens, spaceships, androids, cyborgs, and all sorts of robotic creatures along with their various creators. The popular appeal of these characters is undeniable, but what is the meaning of this generation of creatures? What is the relationship of mad scientist ... Read more

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  • Conflict and Controversy in Small Cinemas

    Series Book 12 - Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance
    This book examines small cinemas and their presentation of society in times of crisis and conflict from an interdisciplinary and intercultural point of view. The authors concentrate on economic, social and political challenges and point to new phenomena which have been exposed by film directors. They present essays on, among others, Basque cinema; gendered controversies in post-communist small ... Read more

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  • Affective Images

    Post-apartheid Documentary Perspectives

    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    Affective Images examines both canonical and lesser-known photographs and films that address the struggle against apartheid and the new struggles that came into being in post-apartheid times. Marietta Kesting argues for a way of embodied seeing and complements this with feminist and queer film studies, history of photography, media theory, and cultural studies. Featuring in-depth discussions of ... Read more

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  • Story Alchemy: The Search for the Philosopher's Stone of Storytelling

    Series series Author's Craft
    David Sheppard’s Novelsmithing saved my last novel; his Story Alchemy may well save my work-in-progress. This is the most unusual book on craft I have ever read. My head is popping with new insights on the nature of storytelling, dream and memory, and the blurred line between everyday life and the world of myth. Story Alchemy gives you tools for bringing the stories up from your own psyche. This ... Read more

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  • Need to Know

    An Archive of Journalistic Pursuits

    by Jeremy Duns ...
    Need to Know collects the following previously published non-fiction books: News of Devils, Rogue Royale, Diamonds in the Rough, Tradecraft, Agent of Influence, A Spy Is Born, and Enemy Action. In addition, it includes many other essays and articles that haven’t previously appeared in book form. There's a lot about espionage, and a lot about Ian Fleming and James Bond - but plenty of other stuff, ... Read more

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  • Solaris, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - Psychological and philosophical aspects

    About the main psychological and philosophical aspects detached from the film Solaris directed by Andrei Tarkovski, as well as the cinema techniques used by the director to convey his messages to the spectator. In the "Introduction" I briefly present the relevant elements of Tarkovski's biography and an overview of Stanislav Lem's Solaris novel and the film Solaris directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. In ... Read more

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  • The White Indians of Mexican Cinema

    Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age

    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    The White Indians of Mexican Cinema theorizes the development of a unique form of racial masquerade—the representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity—during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, from the 1930s to the 1950s. Adopting a broad decolonial perspective while remaining grounded in the history of local racial categories, Mónica García Blizzard argues that this trope works to reconcile two ... Read more

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  • Patronees among us holy in heaven

    S.Rosa di Viterbo-script- biography

    " Patroness among Us Holy in Heaven: she was the transparency of Christ " describes the story of the V ita di Santa Rosa di Viterbo (1233-1251). S. Rosa is Patroness of Viterbo, Patroness of the Italian Catholic Women's Action (1922). and Patroness of the Florists of Italy ( in 1983: declared by Pope John Paul II ). " Patrona among us Santa in Heaven" is narration that becomes images and living ... Read more

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  • THE DEVIL IN OUR HOME

    by Haliru Ali ...
    The secrets my parent kept from us haunted us right from the day we were born,theiratrocities drove our lives into the mercy of two victimizers.Unfortunately,their mistakes notonly nurtured painful moments,but also shoved our entire essence as a family into dis-array.Murder was achieved with words; betrayals were kept afloat on our doorsteps.Secrets arereal! Some are cursed. ... Read more

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  • Digital Peripheries

    The Online Circulation of Audiovisual Content from the Small Market Perspective

    Series series Springer Series in Media Industries
    This is an open access book. Media industry research and EU policymaking are predominantly tailored to large (and, in the latter case, Western) European markets. This open access book addresses the specific qualities of smaller media markets, highlighting their vulnerability to global digital competition and outlining survival strategies for them. New online distribution models and new trends in ... Read more

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  • Lo Sguardo di Satana - Carrie

    Saggistica Cinematografica

    by Autori vari ...
    Un anteprima, con Trailers, del film in programmazione nelle sale cinematografiche a gennaio 2013. Illustrato. ... Read more

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  • Coming Out

    by Kyle Frackman ...
    Series Book 9 - Camden House German Film Classics
    Examines the creation, context, and significance of the first and only East German feature film about homosexuality. It took forty years for East Germany's state-run studios, DEFA, to produce a feature film about homosexuality: Coming Out. The film's story seems radically ordinary today: a young teacher, Philipp, is gay but cannot accept the truth about his sexuality. He starts a relationship with ... Read more

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  • Fighting for Breath

    THIS IS A SCREENPLAY.Che Guevara fought many battles in his life. The most enduring was the one he fought against asthma and this screenplay suggests that battle as a key influence in his life choices.The original screenplay was commissioned in 1999. In 2001 it won through to the finals of a Channel 4 script competition but it did not go through to completion because it was deemed too difficult ... Read more

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  • 101 Worldbuilding Prompts

    by M. D. Presley ...
    Take Your First Steps Into Worldbuilding.Ready to build your first fantasy world but don't know where to start? 101 Worldbuilding Prompts delivers just what it promises with 101 questions to guide you through the process. Focused on fantasy authors, the book includes:Strategies for top-down planners and bottom-up pantsers.An introduction into fantasy conceits and analogue cultures.How to find your ... Read more

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  • Mothers on Mothers

    Maternal Readings of Popular Television

    From Supernanny to Gilmore Girls, from Katie Price to Holly Willoughby, a wide range of examples of mothers and motherhood appear on television today. Drawing on questionnaires completed by mothers across the UK, this book sheds new light on the varied and diverse ways in which expectant, new and existing mothers make sense of popular representations of motherhood on television. The volume ... Read more

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  • The Art of Movies

    Movie is considered to be an important art form; films entertain, educate, enlighten and inspire audiences.Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as — in metonymy — the field in general. The origin of the name comes from the fact that photographic film (also called filmstock) has historically been the primary medium for recording and displaying motion ... Read more

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  • Ten Commandments of YouTube

    by Matt Gielen ...
    Want to develop a rabid and devoted fan base on YouTube? Want millions of subscribers? After reaching 1 million subscribers in a year on our YouTube channel, Cartoon Hangover, and spending years studying the best of the best including Hannah Hart, Shay Carl, Michelle Phan and more, the #1 programming team in the world at Frederator Networks has compiled tried and true methods into the most ... Read more

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  • The B&C Kinematograph Company and British Cinema

    Early Twentieth-Century Spectacle and Melodrama

    by Gerry Turvey ...
    Series series Exeter Studies in Film History
    This book sheds new light on the under-researched period of early British cinema through an in-depth history of the British and Colonial Kinematograph Company—also known as ‘B&C’—in the years 1908–1916, the period when it became one of Britain’s leading film producers. It provides an account of its films and personalities, and explores its production methods, business practices and policy changes ... Read more

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