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A well-organized guide to teaching film language, with examples from Hollywood, independent, British and World cinemas. Designed to be accessible to those who are new to Film or Media Studies, this book will also be very useful to more experienced practitioners. It centers on a concise account of key ideas in film analysis at the "macro" level (narrative, genre, representation) and "micro" level (cinematography, editing sound). The guide explains accessibly how the auditory and visual components of film language can be interpreted as a semiotic process. It does so mostly from an audience perspective, but also relates film language to film production. Contents include:
Introduction: Assessment contexts; What is film language?; Schemes of work
Background: Production processes; Macro analysis; genre and narrative; Micro analysis
Case studies: Macro analysis; Micro analysis; Micro analysis of an action movie extract
Focus Films: Spider-Man 2, Donnie Darko, The Magdalene Sisters, High Noon, Die Hard: With a Vengeance
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New directions in teaching film in Italian studies programs.: An article from: Italica
Peter Bondanella
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Release Date: 2006-09-14 |
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This digital document is an article from Italica, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2006. The length of the article is 6501 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: New directions in teaching film in Italian studies programs.
Author: Peter Bondanella
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Italica (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 83
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Page: 7(15)
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Rock and Roll?.......2002-04-10
If you believe that rock and roll essentially died with the advent of MTV, and that rap, pop, disco, funk or anything besides rock and roll does not belong in an encyclopedia of rock and roll, don't buy this book. However, if you are perfectly happy with the state of rock music today, and Ice Cube is just as much rock and roll to you as Led Zeppelin, and you've enjoyed the state of rock music in general since LiveAid, buy this book, you'll love it. Basically, this book should be entitled "We really needed the money, so we took our great book from 1983, added anything resembling music that had transpired since then, but essentially kept the title to fool you into spending your money on something you thought was exclusively about rock and roll like our old book. Sorry". Shame on you, Pareles, Romanowski and everyone else associated with this book. Rock music IS truly dead, just let it be. This book just reminds me of everything that has gone wrong with rock music since '83, and is not worth the paper it is written on. Buy the '83 edition, end of story.
Lyricism vs. Rhetoric.......2001-04-21
A greater disservice to this book is impossible then to solicit a dusty clerk from the american library association to mummify it. Their reviewer may be stirred from the torpor of academicism by moderating a high school debate or ladies reading club, I can't imagine this volume finding a place on the shelf of any such person. He probably thinks Ted Nugent is cool.
Almost excelent!.......2000-05-26
As an old rock and roll fan I found this encyclopeadia very good. It is written very lucidly, in popular manner, with love. The selection is always in such kind of publication arguable, but I found this selection very good. Although... I found some big omission. For example: there are not Prodigy. Some omissions like this are the reason for giving "only" four stars. Anyway, I think this is the best rock and roll encyclopaedia in last decade.
Buy several.. one for you and others for gifts.......2000-05-08
This is a book that belongs on every music lover's book shelf. It is the type of reference book that any rock lover would like so, you can be sure it will be appreciated if you give it as a gift. If you don't know what to get a friend for a gift, this is a sure bet. The book is comprehensive in that it has entries on even fairly obscure performers. You can look up just about anyone. Years ago, the Holy Modal Rounders were performing at my college and the band drifted into my dorm room where a few friends of mine and the band partied. Of course, I wanted to find out more about them and they were listed. Everyone, from the pioneers of rock 'n roll, to rock stars of the 90s are included in this book. No matter what era of rock and what rock style you are in to, the artists are sure to be incuded. Each band has a complete listing of personnel, so if there have been changes in the band, all personnel are listed and the dates of the changes are noted. I recommend this book to you and to your friends (for gifts).
An invaluable resource for quick artist info.......2000-04-30
As the former Acquisition Manager for the Hard Rock Cafe memorabilia department I found this book to be an invaluable resource time and again. I am still involved with the memo world as an online content specialist and use this book virtually everyday as I don't think anyone can remember everything verbatim no matter how involved they may be with music and/or it's history. The information contained in the RS encyclopedia offers a quick reference to chronological listing of each artists discography and the text usually supports that with info regarding more significant artist career movement. As always, no amount of information is ever too much and this volume at times does leave a little bit to be desired, but as a quick reference and informative overview guide it is definately commendable and it includes a greater number of artists than any other reference book I am familiar with . The only other book I find to be more useful with regard to specific chronological movement of an artist's career is entitled "Rock Movers and Shakers" by Dafydd Rees/Luke Crampton, 1991, it may be out of print but is still available second hand, however due to the degree of content on the artists included therein, it does not cover as great a degree of entries as does the RS Encyclopedia. Another good resource/review guide are Trouser Press Rock Publications. Individual biography/autobio offer the most detailed resource providing they are penned by a respectable source.
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This digital document is an article from The Antioch Review, published by Antioch Review, Inc. on June 22, 1996. The length of the article is 324 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll: Completely Revised and Updated.(Brief Article)
Author: Katherine Gantz
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The Antioch Review (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1996
Publisher: Antioch Review, Inc.
Volume: v54
Issue: n3
Page: p362(1)
Article Type: Book Review, Brief Article
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If you want to create an exciting focal point for a room or disguise a boring floor, a colorful floorcloth may be the solution. Created from heavy canvas and adorned with paint, stencils, stamps, paper decoupage, or fabric appliqué, a floorcloth can be a simple accent or a work of art. Consult this book for excellent directions on materials, preparation, finishing, and an array of decorative techniques. The 15 step-by-step projects are divided into simple, intermediate, and advanced, so you can jump in at whatever skill level feels comfortable. Greet visitors with a stenciled welcome mat bordered with paper-napkin decoupage, perk up a bedroom with a Victorian lace design made by spray painting over paper doilies to form the delicate pattern, step into a pool of light with a circle of faux stained glass, or bedeck a table with a runner sporting classical Greek figures. The designs are pleasant and the color illustrations adequate; more photos of the finished floorcloths in actual rooms would have been nice to give a better sense of scale and context. But the thorough instructions and smattering of helpful tips make the book worthwhile. --Amy Handy
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A great introduction to the art of making floorcoverings which even a master would appreciate. Wonderful illustrations and straight forward instructions to help anyone turn a floorcloth dream into a reality. Thank you for a well done and helpful work.
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For over a decade since the publication of 'Graphic Design: New York' in 1992, the international design community was waiting with anticipation for a new rival profiling New York's most interesting design studios of today. This newly published volume is a compilation of New York's best creators actively working today. The book itself is a part of a larger media project, incorporating print, Web, TV and events. Most of the interviews in the book represent only a part of the content which continues on infiltratenyc.com where readers are encouraged to contribute their opinion and initiate a discussion via web logs.
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insightful and entertaining.......2005-04-05
this book is my best design purchase in years. it's really insightful and entertaining. design journalism has become stale and most publications are just reprinting press releases they receive from the featured companies. gelman manages to reveal personalities of his subjects. Being an insider he can't be fooled and doesn't take s**t from anyone. it also has a highest concentration of very smart cerebral work, very fresh and energetic.
Infiltrate.......2005-04-01
I love this book's refreshingly unpretentious method of approaching graphic designers in NYC. Not only are superstar names included in the book but a whole gamut of talented and emerging designers. The interviews are compelling because Gelman, the interviewer and a major graphic designer himself, creates an environment for each designer that allows for spontaneous, truthful discussions. Not to mention the fact that the book itself is beautiful, celebrating the unmistakable energy of downtown Manhattan.
"Infiltrate" reaches out to the reader in ways that many books do not--most of the interviews are continued on the book's website where you can leave comments, ask questions and engage interactively with the "Infiltrate" community. (http://infiltratenyc.com/)
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Murray J Forbes
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Since the founding of the United States, war has been a recurring phenomenon in American history. We have fought for many reasons: independence, national unity, manifest destiny, international democracy. Americans have fought in almost every corner of the world, from deserts to mountains to jungles. And in every war on every front, we have paid intense attention. Typewriter patriots, equipped with telegraphs, radio microphones, or satellite links, have been the conduit for a public eager to imagine and feel every musket fire and missile blast from Lexington to Baghdad. In Dispatches from the Front we have unique and special dispatches from ten American wars. In the correspondents' words ring the passion and drama of war from the American Revolution to the Persian Gulf War. The work of Thomas Paine, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Ernie Pyle, Edward R. Morrow, Sydney Schanberg, and more than sixty other correspondents tell us of America's wars as they happened, on the battlefield and on the home front. Brief essays introduce each war by discussing the important changes taking place in American society and providing a series of "national snapshots" of the economic, political, and technological character of the world and the country at the time. The impact of these factors on each episode of warfare is considered, followed by a focus on the experiences of the war itself. Over the years, the words of press observers have been central in fostering wartime nationalism. Reporters functioned as frontline poets, scratching the first impressions into the culture's consciousness. The tone and character of the press coverage shaped the nation's understanding of itself. Dispatches from the Front offers insight into the culture of the United States at each crisis point, from its beginnings to the present time.
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This volume includes unique & special dispatches from 10 American wars, from the American Revolution to the Persian Gulf War. Illustrated with drawings, photographs, & newspaper clippings, the work of Thomas Paine, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Ernie Pyle, Edward R. Morrow, Sydney Schanberg, & more than 60 other correspondents tell us of America's wars as they happened, on the battlefield & on the home front. Brief essays by journalist & scholar Nathaniel Lande introduce each war by discussing the important changes taking place in American society & providing a series of "national snapshots" of the economic, political, & technological character of the world & the country at the time.
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A First Rate Book.......2000-02-23
"DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT is a first-rate book about the men and women who reported the gallantry, the raw courage and the honor of America's wars. Nathaniel Lande is both a teacher and a scholar in his vivid account of these correspondents, who became opinion makers helping shape an emerging nation." William Friday: President Emeritus
Outstanding scholarship. A wonderful read!.......2000-02-20
"A Dynamite read" Colonel David Hackworth: NEWSWEEK.
"Beautifully written...This masterful collection is for anyone who appreciates good writing and loves journalism. It is a moving account of our republic that honors the best in our profession." Edward Barnes:TIME.
I could not agree more with these quotes from the Oxford University Press edition of DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT: A History of the American War Correspondent. From typewriter patriots to frontline poets, radio microphones and satelitte links, this book is a stunning illustrated history of the American War Correspondent. I found it facinating, especially the tone and character of the press coverage that has shaped the nation's understanding of itself. Nathaniel Lande is a graceful and insightful writer, a scholar who has written one of the most facinating books with riveting accounts from Ten American Wars. It is more than "national snapshots" of the world and America on the home front and front lines. I felt every musket fire and missile blast from Lexington to Bagdad. I think readers will be particularly moved, as I was, with the selected dispatches filed by Ernest Hemingway, Ernie Pyle and Sydney Schanberg, who with more than sixty other correspondents took me inside American's Wars as they happened.
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