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Good Read.......2007-02-23
I totally enjoyed reading the short biographies of the various filmmakers, documentarians, and producers. It was like reading many short stories. I would say if you have any interest in black film making or African American history this book is a worthy read.
The importance of Black cinema.......2000-12-30
Dr. Yearwood is a well-known figure in the area of black film criticism and studies. He's goal is for the rest of the world to recognize the aesthetic values of black film and black culture. I've had him for a professor twice so far and found the depth of his knowledge on film and culture to be staggering.
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satisfying.......2007-10-02
This book is very satisfying. It is in good condition and I have no problems with it.
Animation is not just Disney!.......2000-08-27
This book exposes you to many different types of animation along with traditional animation. I had taken a class on this subject with the author of the book and learned alot about the different kinds of animation. I highly recommend that that you watch some of the animation used as examples in book to get a better understanding of the topics discussed.
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Sight, Sound, Motion: Applied Media Aesthetics
Herbert Zettl
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Media aesthetics have gained prominence with the dramatic advances in the digital technology of video and electronic cinema. In this dynamic field, Herb Zettl's SIGHT SOUND MOTION/APPLIED MEDIA AESTHETICS FIFTH EDITION is more applicable than ever. This new edition of SIGHT SOUND MOTION continues to be the most comprehensive book on the market, not only describing the major aesthetic image elements--light and color, space, time-motion, and sound-but also presenting in-depth coverage on the creative ways that they are used in television and film. Zettl's thorough coverage of aesthetic theory and the application of that theory place this contemporary and highly relevant text in a class by itself. Richly illustrated, this edition features strong visuals that often draw on traditional art forms, such as painting, sculpture, and dance.
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5 stars.......2005-10-10
The book is totally new and under very good condition, and the dilievery time is much earlier than i expected.
Best in field.......2004-12-28
This text thoroughly explains the intricacies of applied media asthetics in a concise and completely accessible way. It is a well organizied text that ehances its presentation through the use of many illustrations. I believe that this is the best text on the subject and that it has been since its first edtion.
motion graphics professor.......2002-06-04
"Sight, Sound, Motion: Applied Media Aesthetics explains the WHY of film and video production. If you're looking for HOW then turn to another book."
I would disagree with the above review. Only by learning WHY first, can we learn HOW later. This book is more than a cookie cutter approach to film and video. If you want to "click and drag" your way through an editing program, then true, this book is not for you. Add this to your collection if you want a book that teaches how to see and create film. Sight, Sound, Motion: Applied Media Aesthetics has staying power.
Fundamental book on the theory of the moving image.......2001-05-20
This was the assigned textbook for my digital video 2 class, and it is simply wonderful. Zettl is a very knowledgable man on the subject of creating images for film, video, and even new media. (Zettl's text Video Basics 3 was used in my digital video 1 class as well) This book lays a solid foundation for the theory behind how and why the viewer perceives the moving image, and how the filmmaker and video producer can create more pleasing and coherent productions.
While the biggest complaint I've heard about this book is it's over-reliance on theory, it still does a good job of contextualizing theory into practical application. Thus the title of the book: APPLIED Media Aesthetics. Although I haven't read any of Eisentien's theories behind filmmaking, I suspect that Zettl's treatment would compete rather well, and is probably more accessible for a modern reader.
This book covers all the bases from color and light, time and space and structuring audio to image. Zettl succintcly deconstructs the intelligent mind behind the images and sound of our cultures film and television productions.
Sight, Sound, Motion: Applied Media Aesthetics explains the WHY of film and video production. If you're looking for HOW then turn to another book.
The Filmmaker's Bible of Aesthetics or What Works and Why.......2000-11-04
This is probably the most important textbook a film production student can have on his/her shelf. NOT for how to work with actors or how to light a scene, but for understanding the underlying reasons of why things work due to our learned aesthetics and Western sensibilities.
Professor Herbert Zettl has written the most concise manual on why we has film viewers percieve things the way we do. He explains in detail (and layman's terms) how our aesthetics have been formed to interpret the dynamic medium of film and television.
How editing of action from shot to shot creates the illusion of continuous motion. How stagelines work so not to give the effect that your actor is jumping around from one side of the scene to the other. How to crop your shot BETWEEN the bodies natural cut-off points (i.e. neck, elbow, waist) to prevent the actor from looking like a disembodied head or torso.
This book is cover-to-cover insights into what we as viewers take for granted when we watch a good filmmaker's work, but may not consider when faced with the daunting task of mounting a film production and the on-set "reality" problems that dominate the filmmaker's mind when shooting a film.
I first read this book when I was in film school twenty years ago. Since then I have directed many professional film productions and I still review it before starting a new one to refresh myself.
Just as Syd Field's book "Screenplay" is the bible for screenwriting, "Sight Sound Motion" is the bible on understanding what works in film/video and why.
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Holiday Hounds: Traditional Songs for Festive Dogs
Laurie Loughlin
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Following the overwhelming success of Catmas Carols (over 180,000 sold), here are 20 popular holiday songs, this time written from a dog's point of view. The songs are accompanied by colorful and clever illustrations of dogs enjoying the holiday season as only canines can. From "Engines We Have Howl'd on High" ("Angels We Have Heard on High") to "Old Canines" ("Auld Lang Syne"), Holiday Hounds is sure to unite dog lovers around the world in laughter and in song.
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A dog lover's delight!.......1999-05-25
Ms Loughlin an animal lover, she must be. I'm sure she enjoyed writing this delightful, refreshing and fun little gem. My whole family had fun reading it.
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Make Something Ugly-- For a Change: The Definitive Guide to Papier/Cloth Mache
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Kids love to make something ugly.......2007-02-09
I have been teaching K-12 art for 30 years. During those years we art teachers sometimes get into a rut of doing the same projects over and over. My students love paper mache, but I was simply bored to tears. I first came across Dan Reeder's "Screamers" book on paper mache. My students loved the idea. Then he published this nifty book and took Screamers to another level of fun, silliness and grossness. The photo step-by-step process is easy to follow and the finished examples are a sheer pleasure. So often students become frustrated at their inability to make something realistic and beautiful. Now my students can hardly wait until they are old enough to make the critters and ugly creatures! Let there be ugliness!!
Making something ugly for a change...YES!.......2006-04-15
A creative and different take on creating art. Lots of pictures and step by step instructions that are easy to follow. And it would be useful to anyone just starting out making 3-D creatures, whether ugly, or lovely. Many of the techniques would work well for either one. Loads of fun for beginners. I create craft kits for all ages, mostly using paper and this book is a fresh approach to an old art-form. Also earth friendly since you can use recycled paper and other found materials. Enjoy the process and have fun. JJGoodwin.com
Madness, as with charity, starts in the home........2002-01-21
This is a great book. I wasn't quite as fond of it as I was with "A simple screamer", but the information in it is golden. This book expands on the lessons of Mr. Reeder's first, showing methods for making smaller screamers, how to make fins and scales, plus listing some interesting and unusual projects with interesting alternatives for materials. As an added bonus, the book also shows how to impress upon your children a wealth of experiences for their future psychological counseling sessions.
Having taken both of Mr. Reeder's books to heart, I am reminded of the first words my mother ever spoke to my wife (my girlfriend, at the time). She said, "By now, you've certainly noticed that my son is ... unique." I can see from this book and Mr. Reeder's previous one, that he is a man after my own heart.
Be that as it may, it's still a great book for rainy day and class projects. I highly recommend it.
Make Something Ugly for a change.......2000-06-08
This is a great book that really captures the attention of an eleven year old . We have yet to make some of these creatures!
Screamers taken even further!!!!!!!!!.......1999-08-20
This book offers more details.The instructions are easy to follow. It gives great ideas for wonderful creatures. I teach Middle School Art and can't wait to share this book with my students! It's great!
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The best book on investing ever written, this deluxe hardcover re–issue of the 1949 classic work offers Graham's sound and safe principles for investing – principles that have worked for more than the half century since it was first published. Beautifully packaged, this essential work will be a must–have for fans and novices alike. It also features a new Foreword by mutual fund legend, John Bogle.
The classic bestseller by Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor has taught and inspired hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Since its original publication in 1949, Benjamin Graham's book has remained the most respected guide to investing, due to his timeless philosophy of "value investing", which helps protect investors against the areas of possible substantial error and teaches them to develop long–term strategies with which they will be comfortable down the road.
Over the years, market developments have borne out the wisdom of Graham's basic policies, and in today's volatile market, The Intelligent Investor is the most important book you will ever read on making the right decisions to protect your investments and make them a success.
This deluxe hardcover re–issue of the original 1949 text by Graham – what Warren Buffett deems to be pure, unadulterated Graham – will feature a beautiful package that will make it an instant must–have for the many fans of Graham, and collectors everywhere, and is further enhanced by the inclusion of a new Foreword from mutual fund legend, creator of the first S&P500 index fund, and founder of The Vanguard Group, John Bogle.
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This is what I was missing for Investing in the stock market.......2007-04-12
During the last five years I entered the stock market and took a couple of seminars on investing in stocks, the seminars were valuable introductions to the market, after reading the book I discovered that what I had learned in those seminars was to behave like an speculator rather than a true investor. After many costly mistakes I know why I needed to read the book. The cases presented in the book of companies that in many cases no longer exist do not harm the wisdom and clarity of the basics needed to become a true investor. I recommend the book to every person who wants to enter the market. It is actually a must read beforehand. Now I know what Warren Buffet means when stating "this is the best book on investing ever written". Hope you will find it as valuable.
Carlos Irving Rojas - Mexico City
It may not be the BIBLE of Investing - But it certainly is the NEW TESTAMENT.......2007-03-10
What are you waiting for, buy the book and rock your world. I am reminded of the old joke we use to tell in Wall Street when I was with Lehman Brothers back in the 1970's. It's the story about the guy who is given permission to remove as much gold as he can from Fort Knox but he only has a morning, and must work alone. He's given a truck and a wagon to haul the gold with. He gets in the truck and heads the wrong way. "Where are you going, you are going the wrong way, you only have a morning to work with, and the clock has started." His answer is classic, "I am going to get breakfast first."
The point is very simple. People are reading Wall Street Journals, getting MBA's, and watching the talking heads on television. I've got portfolio managers who would kill for an edge, and every one of them, all of them are missing the point. It's all there, all the knowledge, all the wisdom you need to become a MASTER in the financial markets. You simply have to know what to read, and you begin by reading THE INTELLIGENT INVESTOR.
At Harvard we use to say they divided the building up into two lecture halls tonight. The door at the first hall has a sign that says LECTURE ON GOD, on it. The door of the second lecture hall has a sign that says GOD on it. Everybody wanted to go to the lecture. Listen up folks, this book THE INTELLIGENT INVESTOR, it's the real thing. This is not Madison Avenue sitting down with a author that they pulled out of Hollywood, and said let's put some interesting witticisms into a book on investing, dress it up, market it smart, and make a couple of bucks.
This is a book by a man with an Einstein type IQ, whose natural abilities were in the financial arena, who has the uncanny skill sets to explain himself in beautiful prose that just about all the rest of us can understand. If you want to be in the stock market, and you haven't read Benjamin Graham, it's like being in a gunfight in the old west, and not having a gun. You got to do the basics, and very few people do.
Wasn't it Woody Allen who said, "80% of making it is just showing up?" If you want to be in the market, and outperform everybody else wanting the same thing, than you can't do the same things they do, or you will get the same results, and that means mediocrity. You are in the race for Alpha, the extraordinary return. To win the race, you need an EDGE. Now how many people do you think are doing the basics? The answer is about as close to zero as you can get.
Investors, just like people want instant gratification with a minimum of effort, energy, and pain, and that's not how smart, astute investing works. You need to read books like this one not once, but over and over again, until it becomes part of you, until emotionally its wisdom becomes imprinted in your brain. You then need to start implementing it. See what kinds of results you are getting, and then make the adjustments necessary to make its wisdom YOUR OWN.
In other words, you need to OWN THE KNOWLEDGTE THAT'S IN THIS BOOK. Can it be done? Yes, but not easily. Benjamin Graham spent a lifetime figuring this stuff out. He didn't hit the ski slopes at Sun Valley. He wasn't sitting by the pool at Bungalow 5, at the Beverly Hills Hotel. He was grinding out the "Margin of Safety" concept, and testing it against the real world, did it work, and did it falter? Was it a 100 percent reliable.
I have heard Warren Buffett his most famous, but not only successful disciple tell the story of how the students in Graham's class room at Columbia would challenge the old man. Graham would used those challenges to make his thinking better, sharper, more real, and in so doing he became a better investor.
You want to know about Mr. Market, and why just about every investor ignores this theory, which is the equivalent of the Quantum Theory in Physics. You need to read the book. In Chapter 11, he teaches you how to value a business, his way. The teachers at Harvard, Wharton, Ross School, and others have nothing on Ben Graham. We are all students at his feet.
In my lifetime, I have worked with some of the smartest people on the planet. My direct mentor is the richest man on Wall Street, and I have known just about every major national and international investor worth his salt in the world in my generation. Every one of them could quote Benjamin Graham, meanwhile the want-to-bees, were out getting fitted for suits, after having lunch at the 21 Club.
Absorb some wisdom from someone who has been there. Read this book; learn about the "Circle of Competence", and the overwhelming importance of investor psychology. It is amazing that in this book several generations old, Ben is dealing with the same issues confronting us today, director independence, broker conflicts, frequent trading and the lack of performance it creates, management teams out of control, and dealing in a self-serving manner.
Each edition of this book is unique in its own way, with different world-class players commenting along side the text. I happen to like this edition because John Bogle (read his books also) is a man who I respect enormously who has impacted the investing world. The revised edition with Warren Buffett commenting is wonderful also. You simply can not go wrong touching anything that has been written by Benjamin Graham. Good luck.
Richard Stoyeck
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Value investing primer.......2007-02-17
This was a pretty good book on value investing. The problem is that the book is 30 years old, and the examples are a bit dated. The thing is that if people find out that a type of investment strategy is profitable, more people invest in it, which makes it less profitable. This is why his examples perhaps do not still hold today - if people know about these pitfalls, presumably they are avoiding them. But I'm not sure if this is really true or not - sometimes people do not change, even in the face of overwhelming evidence.
The one thing to take away from this book is that when there is an optimistic spirit in the market, people get carried away, and vice versa. Over time, emotions will always remain as long as people are responsible for trading stocks.
Overall, it's a good intro to investing, but further research into modern statistics needs to follow.
The gold standard in investment titles.......2007-02-08
This classic book on investing belongs on the bookshelf of every investor. The principles that Benjamin Graham outlines are the very precepts that guided such great investors as Warren Buffett, and such mutual fund innovators as John Bogle, the noted Vanguard Group founder, who wrote this edition's foreword. First published in 1949, the text shows a few signs of age, most notably in its discussion of interest rates, investment vehicles such as savings bonds and other time-sensitive subjects. However, those are minor issues. When Benjamin Graham writes about categories of investors, approaches to security analysis, the proper disposition investors should have toward market moves, and other fundamental investment subjects, his advice is timeless. We highly recommend this seminal book.
A must read for Fundamental Investors.......2006-12-03
First, I just want to say that many of you might find this book boring to read. If that turn out to be the case, you can read the commentary (which uses more relevant and recent examples) for each chapter by Jason Zweig, which is worth the price of the book alone. I got tempted to read the commentary only but I forced myself to read the entire book and I'm glad I did it. Warren Buffett is right, this is the best book on investing ever written, by far. This is one of the reasons in my opinion why Warren himself never write an investment book (plus the fact that it is not easy to explain Warren's intelligent on a paper. Instead just learn from what he does).
Now about the content of this book, it tells you everything you need to know about the investing field (not only stocks, but business in general, bonds, macro economy to some extent, psychological factor of the market, strategy for defensive and speculative investors etc).
Secondly, Warren Buffett highly recommend this book and his favorites are chapter 20 (Margin of safety) and chapter 8 (Investor and market fulctuation). Margin of safety should be the central concept of your investment, and understanding how the market works (and the mood and inconsistencies of Mr Market) should be the second thing that you need to know before jumping into the market.
I also find the chapter 11 (security analysis for lay investor) very educating as it teaches us to value the future of a business (breaking down into 3 area:
1. Long term prospect
2. Quality and conduct of management
3. Financial strength and capital structure
Additionally the comparison of eight companies (chapter 18) very practical and eye opening. I won't spill the content right here but when I read them, it feels like common sense to me, but back (during the tech bubble) then I was involved in several similar stocks that I shouldn't have touched with a ten feet pole.
The bonus chapter "The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville" by Warren Buffett is a classic reading. This article shows how inefficient the market can be, and argue that most of the time the market is not efficient. I have become a believer that the market is not efficient (after many years believing that the market is very efficient as the business school has taught me)
This book also cover several useful metrics that we can use to value a company in addition to just looking at EPS or PE ratio, such as the ROIC (Return on Invested Capital) etc.
In general, Ben Graham focuses a bit more on capital preservation (shown by focusing on margin of safety, dividend policy, and stocks priced below its tangible book value strategy.) which I think are really important, but one need to understand that there's more to investment than just those things (such as long term groth/the business itself and management) which are also covered in book.
This book would not serve as your investing philosophy, but it should help you create your own investing philosophies. It will help you find what your strength (defensive or enterprising) is and find/form your circle of competence. And as a minimum, this book will increase your confident when dealing with the stock market.
Last but not least, also read "Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits" by Philip A. Fisher and "One up on Wall Street" by Peter Lynch to complement this book.
Happy Investing!
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The classic bestseller by
Benjamin Graham, perhaps the greatest investment advisor of the Twentieth Century,
The Intelligent Investor has taught and inspired hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Since its original publication in 1949, Benjamin Graham's book has remained the most respected guide to investing, due to his timeless philosophy of "value investing," which helps protect investors against areas of (possible) substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies which they will be comfortable with down the road.
Among this audio's special features are the use of numerous comparisons of pairs of common stocks to bring out their elements of strength and weakness and the construction of investment portfolios designed to meet specific requirements of quality and price attractiveness.
Read by Bill McGowan
Customer Reviews:
Outdated. Buy a newer edition........2007-04-18
I am an eager reader of books on Warren Buffett's investing methods. I really want to like "The Intelligent Investor", but I don't. Unfortunately, Benjamin Graham did not write his books to be timeless. Instead, he wrote them specifically for the investing environments as they existed at the times of publication. This audiobook is of the 1972 edition of "The Intelligent Investor", and it reflects the investing environment of the early 1970's.
The story of Mr. Market and the principle of "a margin of safety" are important concepts contained in this book, but they can be found in other writings by and about Warren Buffett.
There is an updated edition of "The Intelligent Investor" by Jason Zweig. It was published in 2003. Hopefully that is better than the older, outdated editions. It is not (yet) available in audio format.
If you are looking for a good audiobook on Warren Buffett's investing methods, I highly recommend "How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett" by Timothy Vick. The best book on Buffett's investing methods that I have read is "The New Buffettology" by Mary Buffett, but it is not available as an audiobook.
Excellent book for beginners.......2007-01-11
This book is specifically for invertors not speculators. Haveing this on CD and a book format, its easier to grab the ideas that were written couple of decades and still its worth.
Intelligent Investor CD.......2006-08-30
Have the book and the CD. They work well together. The CD is great just after reading the book to hammer some of the big picture concepts. The CD is wonderful rush hour material to get you out of that rush hour driving sooner! It is worth the $$ to have both.
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