Category: Video

By M. Williams

Because the golden period of silent videos, stars were defined as display gods, goddesses and idols. this is often the tale of ways Olympus moved to Hollywood to divinise stars as Apollos and Venuses for the trendy age, and outlined a version of stardom that continues to be with us at the present time.

By Richard K. Ferncase

In the early Eighties, critical American self sufficient movies together with Stranger Than Paradise, Blood Simple, and She's Gotta Have It attracted ever-widening audiences, culminating with Steven Soderbergh's award-winning sex, lies, and videotape. This movie, which received the Cannes movie Festival's most sensible award and took greater than $30 million on the field place of work within the usa by myself, capped a notable decade for off-Hollywood filmmakers. Outsider Features takes an in-depth examine 10 of the main winning self reliant function motion pictures made in this decade, from John Sayles's seminal and groundbreaking The go back of the Secaucus Seven to Michael Moore's wry and irreverent Roger & Me, the main profitable non-music documentary ever made. Outsider Features bargains debts of the genesis of every movie, entire synopses and important analyses, and biographies of every filmmaker.

By Bir Bhanu, Prue Talbot

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By Sharon A. Russell

Meant as a advisor to the filmmakers and flicks of the African cinema, this reference ebook additionally offers the framework for figuring out the historical past and improvement of African movie with admire to its state of affairs in international cinema. The objectives and achievements of African movie are studied with admire to the forces that effect it, equivalent to colonialism and racism. the significance of the artistic efforts of African filmmakers and the variety in their techniques to cinema are explored. tested to boot are the perspectives of Africa awarded by means of ecu colonial filmmakers, perspectives usually contested in modern African movie. The listings contain serious analyses, bio-bibliographies, and filmographies. either Saharan and Sub-Saharan motion pictures are incorporated.

By Martin Quedenbaum

By Brendan Calandra, Peter J. Rich

Electronic video use is turning into conventional in instructor schooling as a device to aid enhance instructing and studying and for assessing potent instructing. well timed and finished, this quantity brings jointly most sensible students from a number of disciplines to supply sound theoretical frameworks, research-based aid, and transparent functional recommendation on a number of distinctive techniques to utilizing electronic video in instructor education schemes. half I offers with using video for instructor studying. half II specializes in the function performed by way of these different than

teachers within the powerful use of electronic video in instructor education schemes. half III addresses find out how to administer video for instructor schooling. Exploring the complexities of successfully and thoroughly integrating electronic video into instructor improvement at numerous phases, this publication is a must have source for students and pros within the box.

By David West Reynolds, Hans Jenssen, Richard Chasemore

The visible Dictionary is an important advisor to Episode one of many carrying on with big name Wars saga. DK's well known Eyewitness kind brings the characters, costumes, droids, and gadgetry of the big name Wars universe to lifestyles in stunning visible aspect. hugely outlined, annotated images indicates and explains the tradition, historical past, and know-how of this unfolding epic fight among strong and evil. See the terrifying anatomy of Naboo sea monster, a wild podrace on Tatooine, conflict Droids in wrestle. realize the finery of Queen Amidala's courtroom, the Jedi's sacred ideals, the Nemoidians' strange customs and expertise. discover the secrets and techniques of the Wheel Droids, the underwater global of Jar Jar, the Byzantine intrigue of Coruscant, and lots more and plenty, even more! including the celebrity Wars Episode I really good pass Sections, those books create a definitive megastar Wars Episode I reference library. intriguing images and exhaustive learn display the entire celebrity Wars: Episode 1 characters, creatures, droids, and kit. See the hot, digitally created cut-away perspectives of C-3P0's photoreceptor eye, the interior workings of a conflict droid's head, and Yoda's lightsaber. discover the large Jedi and Sith weaponry, the Podracers, Pit droids, viewscreens, and Gungan conflict gear. Then delve into the secrets and techniques of Anakin's hovel and Watto's junkshop and each aspect of the Destroyer Droid weaponry and gear! writer David West Reynolds used to be given wide entry to the famed Lucasfilm files at Skywalker Ranch in California. Key gadgets from the flicks were re-photographed or even re-created by means of professional experts from commercial mild and Magic, George Lucas's award-winning special-effects construction corporation. the result's a different and interesting reference paintings that unearths the characters and creatures of the recent experience as they seem nowhere else!

By Naomi Shaefer Riley, Christine Rosen (Editors)

“Sizing up and taking down the issues we learn, watch, and play, this all-star workforce of analysts offers a chain of delightsand surprises that may make you think of anew the deep buildings that tell our lives, even if we predict we’re off-duty.”—Kyle Smith, motion picture critic, manhattan PostContemporary pop culture, from books to movie to tv to song to the private corners of the web, has provoked loads of feedback, a few of it good deserved. but for plenty of americans, and especially for more youthful american citizens, pop culture is tradition. it's the in simple terms type of cultural adventure they search and the foreign money within which they trade.In Acculturated, twenty-three thinkers study the rituals, the myths, the tropes, the odd conduct, the practices, and the neuroses of our smooth period. each tradition reveals a fashion for individuals to inform tales approximately ourselves. we depend on those tales to coach us why we do the issues we do, to check the boundaries of our adventure, to reaffirm deeply felt truths approximately human nature, and to coach more youthful generations approximately vice and advantage, honor and disgrace, and greatly extra. A phenomenon just like the present crop of fact tv indicates, for instance, with their bevy of “real” housewives, super-size households, and boy or girl beauty-pageant applicants, turns out an not going position to discover truths approximately human nature or examples of advantage. And but on those indicates, and in a lot else of what passes for pop culture nowadays, a stunning topic emerges: stream past the visible extra and hyperbole, and you'll find the makings of vintage morality tales.As the name indicates, readers will locate in those pages “ACulture Rated.” This full of life roundtable of “raters” contains not just popular cultural critics like Caitlin Flannigan and Chuck Colson, but additionally celebrated tradition creators just like the manufacturers of the hit ABC comedy smooth family members and the host of TLC’s What to not put on. Editors Christine Rosen and Naomi Schaefer Riley have tasked those contributors—both the critics and the insiders—with taking a step or again from the unceasing din of pop culture in order that they could greater pass judgement on its worth and its values and aid readers imagine extra deeply in regards to the that means of the narratives with which they're bombarded each waking minute. In doing so, the editors desire to foster a wide-reaching public conversation—one that may support we all to imagine extra sincerely approximately our culture.Free excerpts, video clips, and extra statement on hand on www.acculturated.com.

By Russell Evans

Written for the newbie, sensible DV Filmmaking courses you thorough the method of creating a movie with inexpensive electronic gear: from improvement via to construction, post-production and distribution. whereas the technical instruments you wish are totally defined, the booklet concentrates on filmmaking rules all through, illustrating how those instruments can be utilized to accomplish stylistic methods for leading edge filmmaking.

The publication assumes no heritage wisdom in both know-how or filmmaking and is split into 4 key areas:
*DEVELOPMENT: flip your concept right into a manageable script, storyboard and schedule.
*PRODUCTION: enhance talents to shoot unique brief motion pictures and switch a zero-to-low finances for your advantage.
*POST-PRODUCTION: examine simple enhancing thoughts to augment your unique thought utilizing iMovie, most suitable and different renowned tools.
*DISTRIBUTION: manage an internet site and use the web to advertise your movie. comprises a number of hyperlinks to invaluable web pages. Plus, most sensible suggestions for the way to go into a movie pageant and a brand new bankruptcy on constructing a career.

Projects make it easier to grasp each one step of the method taking you thru various points of filmmaking this day. steadily you will discover out the place your strengths lie and the way to utilize them. The ebook additionally encourages stylistic improvement through intruding theoretical techniques to filmmaking. A thesaurus of phrases plus an appendix of assets make this advisor a one-stop crucial guide to DV filmmaking perform for newbies and scholar filmmakers.

* grasp not pricey filmmaking rules with effortless step by step strategies and useful projects
* increase a true international standpoint via case stories and interviews with winning filmmakers
* mix technical knowledge with stylistic methods to filmmaking.

By Matthew Frye Jacobson

Thought of by means of many to be the easiest political mystery ever made, The Manchurian Candidate is as unique, troubling, and correct this day because it used to be in 1962. Starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Angela Lansbury, and directed with probing perception through John Frankenheimer, the movie was once broadly acclaimed as a masterpiece. mostly out of circulate for the following 20 years, it bought a well-merited cult following till it used to be rereleased over the last yr of the Reagan presidency, while its pointed satire of political and media manipulation appeared extra well timed than ever. In What Have They outfitted You to Do?—a key line of discussion from the unique film—Matthew Frye Jacobson and Gaspar Gonz?lez adopt an bold reexamination of The Manchurian Candidate, the 1959 novel by way of Richard Condon on which it used to be established, and—critically analyzed right here for the 1st time—the 2004 remake directed by means of Jonathan Demme. in response to shut readings of the movie and vast investigations into the eras within which it was once made and rediscovered, the authors decode the numerous layers of which means inside of and surrounding the movie, from the contradictions of the chilly struggle it either embodies and parodies—McCarthyism and Kennedy liberalism, individualism and conformity—to its development of Asian villains, overbearing ladies, and male heroes in a society nervous approximately race, gender, and sexuality. via their multifaceted research of The Manchurian Candidate (in all its incarnations), Jacobson and Gonz?lez bring up provocative questions about energy and anxiousness in American politics and society from the chilly warfare to this day. Matthew Frye Jacobson teaches American stories at Yale collage. His books contain Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post–Civil Rights the USA. Gaspar Gonz?lez is an autonomous pupil and journalist in Miami. He has taught American reviews at Yale collage and movie stories on the collage of Miami.