Book Description
Black women film and video makers have been producing shorts, documentaries and films since the early part of this century. Unfortunately, not only has their work been overlooked by distributors, but critical reviews have been few and far between. Conceived to redress that omission, Black Women Film and Video Artists is the first comprehensive history and analysis of this genre. Gathered here are noted scholars and critics, as well as the film/video makers themselves who offer insight into the work of underexplored artists. The discussions range from pioneering to contemporary film makers and include artists such as Madeline Anderson, Monica Freeman, Jacqueline Shearer, Kathleen Collins, Julie Dash, Camille Billops, Zeinabu irene Davis, and Michelle Parkerson, among others. Contributors include: Jacqueline Bobo, Carmen Coustaut, Gloria J. Gibson, C.A. Griffith, Monique Guillory, Carol Munday Lawrence, O. Funmilayo Makarah, Ntongela Maselila, Jacqueline Shearer, P. Jane Splawn.
Customer Reviews:
Comprehensive Volume on Black Women in Film.......2001-01-06
This book should be required reading for any student of American cinema. All too often, independent filmmakers (particularly women) are ignored in other books. When they are mentioned, the discussion is limited to only one or two people. This is because many of the films are rarely shown outside of film festivals (and occassionally cable). Black women filmmakers did not start with Gina Prince-Bythewood (LOVE AND BASKETBALL), Kasi Lemmons (EVE'S BAYOU) or even Julie Dash (DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST). In reality, it started long before any of these women were even born. This book tells the story through essays and often through their own words of the struggles of Black women film and video makers. What is also great about this book is the comprehensive video/filmography in the rear of the volume. It includes not only feature films, but numerous shorts as well (including important student projects). Importantly, it also lists the distributors of these films, so that others may discover them. Filmmakers mentioned in the book that have gone on into features include Zeinabu irene Davis (COMPENSATION which screened at Sundance in 2000) and Cauleen Smith (Urbanworld Fest Winner for DRYLONGSO). These and films like them need to be seen by a wider audience. Hopefully, this book will inspire people to seek them out and to encourage this and other women to make more wonderful films.
Finally! A wonderful book on Black Women Filmmakers........2000-12-25
There has been a large desire to know more about the thoughts, history, and films of Black Women Filmmakers. This anthology edited by Jacqueline Bobo, covers areas from the early pioneers such as Eloyce Gist in the 1920's to the current rung of documentary, animation, and narrative filmmakers in the United States. Some of the filmmakers covered are Jacqueline Shearer, (Eyes on the Prize) Carol Munday Lawrence (Kwanzaa series), and Michelle Parkerson ("...But Then She's Betty Carter", "Gotta Make This Journey:Sweet Honey in the Rock"," A Lithany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde")
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This digital document is an article from Cineaste, published by Cineaste Publishers, Inc. on December 22, 1998. The length of the article is 1173 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: Black Women Film and Video Artists.(Review)
Author: Mia L. Mask
Publication:
Cineaste (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 1998
Publisher: Cineaste Publishers, Inc.
Volume: 24
Issue: 1
Page: 91(1)
Article Type: Book Review
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Do you know what's eating Gilbert Grape?
Can you guess who's coming to dinner?
Are you feeling lucky, punk?
If so, step right up and test your pop culture mettle in
The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Book
Every year since its inception, the annual "Great American Pop Culture Quiz" issue of Entertainment Weekly has been a runaway reader favorite. Now, challenging you like never before, America's leading reporters of entertainment news present hundreds of new trivia questions to help determine whether you've got a steel-trap mind or a brain like a sieve.
Do you know your Eliza Doolittle from your Doctor Doolittle, your Saturday Night Fever from your Saturday Night Live, your Breakfast at Tiffany's from your Breakfast Club? Can you distinguish the Chantels from the Chiffons, Barry Manilow from Barry White, Meathead from Meatloaf, Corey Haim from Corey Hart? Whether it's quotable quotes, sitcom spin-offs, one-hit wonders, or box-office blockbusters, the editors of Entertainment Weekly have dug up the minutia that will set your brain spinning. Broken down by decade -- from the sixties to the present -- these questions will either have you pulling out your hair or puffing up your chest. So get comfortable, grab a No. 2 pencil, and take the ultimate quiz that tests what you really know.
Customer Reviews:
Good trivia book!.......2007-01-27
Great little bits of trivia divided up by decade, with nice pics to accompany the questions. Answers are in the back of the book!
Book Description
Keeping sane is not an easy task - especially when you?re thrown into Eternal Darkness, a third-person action-adventure game that features a fully 3D environment. You will have 13 unique characters to choose from spanning a time period of 2000 years. You might be helping a monk solve puzzles during the Spanish Inquisition, or exploring a haunted castle with a God-fearing knight from medieval times. As you play, the characters begin a slow, disturbing descent into madness.
Eternal Darkness: Prima's Official Strategy Guide will provide you with helpful information help stabilize your insanity meter as well as what spells and weapons to use for each horrifying level. Prima will also give you the lowdown on solutions to hair-raising puzzles, essential background on all 13 characters, and complete lists off all the weapons and spells available to you.
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Get refreshed with Horngren/Sundem/Stratton's Introduction to Management Accounting, 13th Edition. This best-selling book offers a relevant,
real-world decision-making approach to management accounting. Readers develop a solid understanding of costs and cost behavior and the use of cost information for planning and control decisions, not just inventory valuation. This book emphasizes the notion that “You need to understand the business first, before you can understand the accounting of business.”
Updated to cover the most recent methods in management accounting, topics include: cost behavior, cost management systems, and activity-based costing; marketing and product decisions; the master budget; flexible budget and variance analysis; management control systems; capital budgeting; cost allocation; andjob-costing and process-costing systems; basic accounting concepts, techniques, and conventions; corporate financial reports and basic financial statements; and consolidated financial statements.
An excellent reference resource for managerial accountants.
Customer Reviews:
No university/college should use this.............2007-08-19
I had to use this book for an online course while earning my bachelor's degree. This book was horrible. This group of 3 authors did not do a good job. The ideas and points did not run smoothly together from one point to another. It seems like the 3 authors did not work very close together to make sure their ideas connected and related directly with each other's ideas. It was as if the authors went from talking about point A, skipping all the way to point F, then going to point C, then back to point F, etc. etc. Their ideas did not flow in an understandable sequence. I also agree about the examples. The examples were no help and they were not thorough examples of material that you would run into the real-world. The examples needed much more details in them.
Huge waste of money.......2007-07-06
Horngren makes a notoriously dry subject even worse. It is filled with long winded verse and practically devoid of dynamic examples. Accounting is something that 'works' and can be worked out. It's best learned when applied to real world situations...this book aims to have you memorize boring definitions and then support those definitions with scarce examples. Even our professor said he's been lobbying to get this book out of my school's curriculum...too bad that didn't happen BEFORE I came along.
Introduction to Management Accounting.......2007-02-19
This book was not at all what I expected and was not very useful.
Introdution to management accouting.......2006-09-02
Very good. Cover is a little worn. Some pages have been written by pencil.
Used in MBA program - Intro to Accounting.......2006-04-06
I have had experience with accounting and found this book to be fairly basic. However, if you are a beginner with no knowledge of accounting, this is a good textbook. I read one of the other reviews about how there is a bunch of useless junk on each page and while this is partially true, it would be UNBEARABLE to read if there wasn't this so called "junk" on every page. Overall a good textbook that I will keep around as a reference for accounting basics.
Book Description
This introduction to management accounting and its significant role in making sound business decisions teaches readers how to be wise users, not necessarily preparers of accounting information—a strong user-based approach that is endorsed and supported by the AECC. The authors present accounting information in a broader business context-emphasizing what accounting information is, why it is important, and how it is used to make economic decisions. Specific chapter topics cover classifying costs, determining costs of products, cost behavior, business decisions using cost behavior, making decisions using relevant information, the capital budget: evaluating capital expenditures, the operating budget, standard costing, and evaluating performance. For individuals with a future in management accounting.
Book Description
Introduction to Managerial Accounting, 3/e by Brewer/Garrison/Noreen is based on the market-leading text, Managerial Accounting, by Garrison, Noreen and Brewer. However, this is not simply a briefer book with chapters removed; B/G/N has been rethought and retooled to meet the needs of the market.
B/G/N 3/e is a more accessible, yet thoroughly student-friendly text that satisfies the basic needs of the managerial accounting student without unnecessary depth on advanced topics associated with the follow-up course, cost accounting/cost management. Faculty and students alike will find this new edition has retained the hallmark features of the Garrison brand: author-written supplements, excellent readability, terrific examples, and balanced end-of-chapter material.
Customer Reviews:
Great book, almost the same as last edition. .......2007-06-22
I HATE that textbook publishers print out a new edition, with basicaly the same problems as the last edition (only the numbers change). However, to be fair, this is a very clear book, has good examples that follow the exercies in the book. Probably one of the better accounting books I have seen. Also has some chapters of introduction to finance. Overall would recommend.
Ok - not great.......2007-01-04
This book is what I would call an o.k. textbook. It's not horribly hard to sit down & read or understand. On the other hand it's not light reading. There are some areas in later chapters that are not covered as well as I has hoped.
Book Description
Master the concepts and managerial uses of financial information with MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING! Emphasizing international trends, strategic effects of decisions, ethics, and new management accounting trends, this text provides all the tools you need to be successful in this course. Studying is made easy with end-of-chapter key terms and concepts, summaries, problems for self-study, and managerial accounting boxes that feature new trends and practices in managerial accounting to help you apply key concepts.
Customer Reviews:
Not outstanding........2007-02-28
I feel the authors have covered the topic well. As a read, I thought the text was written as good as an accounting can be.
The problem I shared with my classmates is that there was difficulty completing the exercises at the ends of the chapters. We feel maybe two reasons for this: first, the problems often could not be solved without looking forward to the chapters not yet covered; and second, specific details needed to solve problems were either not there or organized in an unfamiliar way. This required asking many questions with the instructor and classmates to try to complete the exercises.
Overall, though, I suppose this is on par with other texts on the topic. The book we liked the best was "Accounting: what the numbers mean" as it was written & organized very well; and the exercises were very effective.
Book Description
An excellent introduction to financial accounting, this book informs the reader about its significant role in making sound business decisions. With its concentration on the uses of financial accounting rather than on the preparation of accounting information, the authors present the information in a manner that makes the topic readily available for use in a broad number of ways. This complete and easy to understand financial accounting book covers the following topics briefly, yet comprehensively: economic decision-making and business in the United States; balance sheets; income statements and statements of owners' equity; economic management; the accounting system; long-lived depreciable assets; inventory accounting; cash flow statements; and a close look at financial statement analysis. For readers needing a book that will allow them a basic understanding of financial accounting.
Book Description
Easy Activity-Based Management Implementation. Everyone's touting activity-based management (ABM) as the best costing method for reengineering and TQM inititatives. But where do you begin? Edward Forrest's groundbreaking Activity-Based Management: A Comprehensive Implementation Guide. This exhaustive guide takes you step-by-step through each stage of planning, organizing, implementing, and managing your own ABM program to support continuous improvement, boost profits, and eliminate non-value added activities. You get expert guidance on everything from streamlining data collection and analysis to using the results to boost ROI. You even get all the ready-to-use forms, reports, and procedures you need to facilitate and measure your program's progress.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent!.......2005-03-12
Seller was very professional and honest. I received the book in perfect conditions and before the estimated time.
activity base management.......2000-02-25
very good and comprehensive book with up to date informatio
Book Description
Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included.look no further for study resources or reference material. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes, and practice-tests for your textbook. Only Cram101 is Textbook Specific. Cram101 is NOT the Textbook.
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