Lights, camera, enter "The Film Book", stage left. Step into the world of cinema with "The Film Book" - the films, the directors, the genres and the styles. Profiling 100 of the world`s most influential directors and 100 key cinematic works, the book will take you through the changing experience of cinema from the earliest silent movies to the modern 3D cinematic phenomenon. Covering every national school of film-making from Hollywood to Bollywood the book is a great browse bible with "Top 10" and "What to Watch" feature boxes. Test your knowledge with the essential trivia section - how much do you know about Oscar winners, biggest flops, banned films and more? From the birth of cinema right up until the present day, "The Film Book" is a...
ISBN: 978-1-4053-6316-7
Издательство:
Dorling Kindersley Publishing
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Teach Yourself Film Studies Third Edition is an unpretentious guide for all those who want to learn to analyse, understand and evaluate films. It provides an overview of the key areas in film studies; including aesthetics, narrative, genre, documentary films, and the secrets of film reviewing. From Hitchcock and Tarantino to Spielberg and Bigelow, you will soon gain a critical understanding of legendary directors and the techniques and skills that are used to achieve certain cinematic effects. Whether you are a film studies student or just a film buff wanting to know more, this book will give you an invaluable insight into the exciting and incredibly fast-moving world of film.
ISBN: 978-0-340-94732-6
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2012
The 1980s was an exceptionally fertile period for the cinema, which skilfully reflected the decade`s diverse trends and the tastes of an audience obsessed with fashion, music and the latest high tech gadgetry - preferably in matt black. As the US regained confidence in itself during the Reagan years, Hollywood catered to the emerging yuppie market with movies that range from brat-pack capers such as "St Elmo`s Fire" and "The Breakfast Club" to testosterone driven blockbusters like "The Terminator" and "Die Hard"; from the independent, low-budget films of the Coen Brothers to the revival of classic American film noir. The Brits chipped in with "A Fish Called Wanda" and "Chariots of Fire" and the Italians with the enchanting "Cinema...
ISBN: 978-3-8228-4536-3
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000
Lights down, curtain up on the cinema of the 1940s, a decade that produced some of the most critically acclaimed movies of all time. These range from the iconic "Casablanca", starring a cynical, world-weary Humphrey Bogart and a never-more-beautiful Ingrid Bergman, to Orson Welles` seminal "Citizen Kane", and from the optimistic "It`s a Wonderful Life" to the enigmatic "The Third Man", recently voted best British film of all time by the critics. This was the decade when Hollywood introduced cinema audiences to one of the greatest of all genres the film noir, still epitomised by movies like "Double Indemnity". "Out of the Past", "Gilda" and "The Maltese Falcon" - a darkly sinister world of gumshoes, double-crossing dames, bent cops and...
ISBN: 978-3-8228-4516-5
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000
With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially - kicking off Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. Irvine Welsh has here created one of the most corrupt character in contemporary fiction.
ISBN: 0-09-959111-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially - kicking off Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. There are irritating flies in the ointment, though, including a missing wife, a nagging cocaine habit, a dramatic deterioration in his genital health, a string of increasingly demanding extra-marital affairs. The last thing he needs is a messy murder to solve. Still it will mean plenty of overtime, a chance to stitch up some colleagues and finally clinch the promotion he craves. But as Bruce spirals through the lower reaches of degradation and evil, he encounters opposition - in the form of truth and ethical conscience - from the most unexpected...
Profondément épris de la belle Françoise, Honoré de Tenvres s`émeut sans cesse de cet incroyable amour. Jusqu`au jour où on lui dit qu`elle a la réputation d`être une femme facile. Bouleversé, il découvre brutalement les tourments de la Mondains, voluptueux et cruels, les personnages de ces nouvelles de Proust virevoltent avec un raffinement qui annonce les héros d`A la recherche du temps perdu.
ISBN: 978-2-07-035915-8
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: август 2011
In the year 2021 a multinational fleet–experimenting with untested weapons technology–pitched through time, crash-landing in 1942. The world is thrown into chaos as Roosevelt, Hitler, Churchill, Tojo, and Stalin scramble to adapt to new, high-tech killing tools, and twenty-first-century ways of war. For "uptimers" like Britain`s Prince Harry and the men and women who serve aboard the supercarrier USS Hillary Clinton, war is a constant struggle with their own downtime allies, who are mired in ignorance and bigotry.
ISBN: 978-0-345-45717-2
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In this Apple-authorized training book, director and filmmaker Michael Wohl teaches advanced skills that editing professionals need to know most. Each chapter presents a complete lesson in some aspect of video editing or finishing, with
ISBN: 978-0-321-50912-3
Издательство:
ДМК Пресс
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The authors offer guidance in understanding and analysing financial statements, the time-value of money, making capital budgeting decisions, and much more. Appendices include a list of online Internet resources and short descriptions of Excel financial and investment functions. New in this edition is up-to-date information on SEC reporting requirements, managing dependent-demand inventories, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and more. Titles in this series speak to men and women who are starting a company or managing an ongoing small-to-medium-size business. Emphasis is on daily operations and problem solving, with examples cited in these books based on true-to-life situation.
ISBN: 978-0-7641-3940-6
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
This work offers a blend of academic rigour and practical insight and uses examples and illustrations drawn from a wide range of real life situations. "Mastering Financial Management" aims to help readers tease out meaning from company accounts, make financial reports interesting and influential, manage budgets and motivate people to achieve targets, and much more. It is useful as a text for all students requiring an introduction to financial management and for business managers with no financial background.
