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Playful Frames - Styles Of Widescreen Cinema

by Steven Rybin

56,91€ + 10% CARD

 Playful Frames studies the poetics of the auteur-driven widescreen image, offering nimble, expansive analyses of the work of four distinctive filmmakers â€" Jean Negulesco, Blake Edwards, Robert Altman, and John Carpenter â€" who creatively inhabited the nooks and crannies of widescreen moviemaking during the final decades of the twentieth century.
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All For Beauty - Makeup And Hairdressing In Hollywood''S Studio Era

by Adrienne L. Mclean

56,91€ + 10% CARD

 Ever wonder why so many stars and featured players, male or female, in movies of Hollywood’s "Golden Age" look like they just stepped out of a beauty parlor even if the story places them in a jungle, a hospital bed, or the ancient past? All for Beauty examines how and why makeup and hairdressing evolved as crafts designed partly to maintain the white flawlessness of men and women as a value in the studio era. The book pays particular attention to the labor force, exploring the power and influence of cosmetics inventor and manufacturer Max Factor and the Westmore dynasty of makeup artists but also the contributions of others, many of them women, whose names are far less known. At the end of the complex, exciting, and at times dismaying chronicle, it is likely that readers will never again watch Hollywood films without thinking about the roles of makeup and hairdressing in creating both fictional characters and stars as emblems of an idealized and undeniably mesmerizing visual perfection.
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All For Beauty - Makeup And Hairdressing In Hollywood'S Studio Era

by Adrienne L. Mclean

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 Organised as a chronological industrial history, this book examines how and why makeup and hairdressing evolved as crafts designed partly to maintain the white flawlessness of men and women as a value in the studio era.
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Eyes Have It - Cinema And The Reality Effect

by Murray Pomerance

55,58€ + 10% CARD

 Explores those rarefied screen moments when viewers are confronted by sights that seem at once impossible and present, artificial and stimulating, illusory and definitive. Murray Pomerance journeys through a vast array of cinematic moments, technical methods, and laborious collaborations from the 1930s to the 2000s to show how the viewer's experience of ""reality"" is put in context, challenged, and wilfully engaged.
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Designing Sound - Audiovisual Aesthetics In 1970s American Cinema

by Jay Beck

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 Offering detailed case studies of key films and filmmakers, Jay Beck explores how sound design was central to the 1960s and 1970s era of experimentation with new modes of cinematic storytelling. He demonstrates how sound was key to many directors' signature aesthetics. Yet the book also examines sound design as a collaborative process.
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Zoom - Drama At The Touch Of A Lever

by Nick Hall

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 From the queasy zooms in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo to the avant-garde mystery of Michael Snow's Wavelength, from the excitement of televised baseball to the drama of the political convention, the zoom shot is instantly recognizable and highly controversial. In The Zoom, Nick Hall traces the century-spanning history of the zoom lens in American film and television. From late 1920s silent features to the psychedelic experiments of the 1960s and beyond, the book describes how inventors battled to provide film and television studios with practical zoom lenses, and how cinematographers clashed over the right ways to use the new zooms. Hall demonstrates how the zoom brought life and energy to cinema decades before the zoom boom of the 1970s and reveals how the zoom continues to play a vital and often overlooked role in the production of contemporary film and television.
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Soundies Jukebox Films And The Shift To Small-Screen Culture

by Andrea J. Kelley

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 Positions what are called ""Soundies"" within the broader cultural and technological milieu of the 1940s. Examining the dynamics between Soundies' short musical films, the Panoram's film-jukebox technology, their screening spaces and their popular discourse, Andrea J. Kelley provides an integrative approach to historic media exhibition.
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Shot On Location - Postwar American Cinema And The Exploration Of Real Place

by R. Barton Palmer

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 <div>In the early days of filmmaking, before many of Hollywood’s elaborate sets and soundstages had been built, it was common for movies to be shot on location. Decades later, Hollywood filmmakers rediscovered the practice of using real locations and documentary footage in their narrative features. Why did this happen? What caused this sudden change? Renowned film scholar R. Barton Palmer answers this question in Shot on Location by exploring the historical, ideological, economic, and technological developments that led Hollywood to head back outside in order to capture footage of real places. His groundbreaking research reveals that wartime newsreels had a massive influence on postwar Hollywood film, although there are key distinctions to be made between these movies and their closest contemporaries, Italian neorealist films. Considering how these practices were used in everything from war movies like Twelve O’Clock High to westerns like The Searchers, Palmer explores how the blurring of the formal boundaries between cinematic journalism and fiction lent a "reality effect" to otherwise implausible stories. Shot on Location describes how the period’s greatest directors, from Alfred Hitchcock to Billy Wilder, increasingly moved beyond the confines of the studio. At the same time, the book acknowledges the collaborative nature of moviemaking, identifying key roles that screenwriters, art designers, location scouts, and editors played in incorporating actual geographical locales and social milieus within a fictional framework. Palmer thus offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at how Hollywood transformed the way we view real spaces. </div>
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Death Of The Moguls - The End Of Classical Hollywood

by Wheeler Winston Dixon

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 Death of the Moguls is a detailed assessment of the last days of the "rulers of film." Wheeler Winston Dixon examines the careers of such moguls as Harry Cohn at Columbia, Louis B. Mayer at MGM, Jack L. Warner at Warner Brothers, Adolph Zukor at Paramount, and Herbert J. Yates at Republic in the dying days of their once-mighty empires. He asserts that the sheer force of personality and business acumen displayed by these moguls made the studios successful; their deaths or departures hastened the studios' collapse. Almost none had a plan for leadership succession; they simply couldn't imagine a world in which they didn't reign supreme. Covering 20th Century-Fox, Selznick International Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures, Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures, Republic Pictures, Monogram Pictures and Columbia Pictures, Dixon briefly introduces the studios and their respective bosses in the late 1940s, just before the collapse, then chronicles the last productions from the studios and their eventual demise in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He details such game-changing factors as the de Havilland decision, which made actors free agents; the Consent Decree, which forced the studios to get rid of their theaters; how the moguls dealt with their collapsing empires in the television era; and the end of the conventional studio assembly line, where producers had rosters of directors, writers, and actors under their command. Complemented by rare, behind-the-scenes stills, Death of the Moguls is a compelling narrative of the end of the studio system at each of the Hollywood majors as television, the de Havilland decision, and the Consent Decree forced studios to slash payrolls, make the shift to color, 3D, and CinemaScope in desperate last-ditch efforts to save their kingdoms. The aftermath for some was the final switch to television production and, in some cases, the distribution of independent film.
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Making Believe - Screen Performance And Special Effects In Popular Cinema

by Lisa Bode

51,61€ + 10% CARD

 With the rise of digital effects in cinema the human performer is increasingly the only â€œrealâ€ element on screen. Making Believe sheds new light on screen performance by historicizing it within the context of visual and special effects cinema and technological change in filmmaking, through the silent, early sound, and current digital eras.
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Hidden In Plain Sight - An Archaeology Of Magic And The Cinema

by Colin Williamson

58,23€ + 10% CARD

 What does it mean to describe cinematic effects as "movie magic", to compare filmmakers to magicians, or to say that the cinema is all a "trick"? In this volume, Colin Williamson situates film within a long tradition of magical practices that combine art and science, involve deception and discovery, and evoke two forms of wonder - both awe at the illusion displayed and curiosity about how it was performed.
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Making Believe - Screen Performance And Special Effects In Popular Cinema

by Lisa Bode

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 With the rise of digital effects in cinema the human performer is increasingly the only â€œrealâ€ element on screen. Making Believe sheds new light on screen performance by historicizing it within the context of visual and special effects cinema and technological change in filmmaking, through the silent, early sound, and current digital eras.
Moving Color - Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism

by Joshua Yumibe

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 This is the first book-length study of the beginnings of colour cinema. It traces the legacy of colour history from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the cinema of the early twentieth century and explores the implications of this genealogy on experimental and contemporary digital cinemas.
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Film Noir And The Arts Of Lighting

by Patrick Keating

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Film Noir And The Arts Of Lighting

by Patrick Keating

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Over And Over - Performance, Time, And Resonance In Serial Television Drama

by Elliott Logan

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Over And Over - Performance, Time, And Resonance In Serial Television Drama

by Elliott Logan

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Playful Frames - Styles Of Widescreen Cinema

by Steven Rybin

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 Playful Frames studies the poetics of the auteur-driven widescreen image, offering nimble, expansive analyses of the work of four distinctive filmmakers â€" Jean Negulesco, Blake Edwards, Robert Altman, and John Carpenter â€" who creatively inhabited the nooks and crannies of widescreen moviemaking during the final decades of the twentieth century.
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Playful Frames - Styles Of Widescreen Cinema

by Steven Rybin

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 Playful Frames studies the poetics of the auteur-driven widescreen image, offering nimble, expansive analyses of the work of four distinctive filmmakers â€" Jean Negulesco, Blake Edwards, Robert Altman, and John Carpenter â€" who creatively inhabited the nooks and crannies of widescreen moviemaking during the final decades of the twentieth century.
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Toward A Healthier Garden State - Beyond Cancer Clusters And Covid

by Dona Schneider e Michael R. Greenberg

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 By evaluating New Jerseyâ€™s progress towards improved population health, this book notes how progress has been slowed and accelerated by events and policies that are beyond the control of any single individual.
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Toward A Healthier Garden State - Beyond Cancer Clusters And Covid

by Dona Schneider e Michael R. Greenberg

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 By evaluating New Jerseyâ€™s progress towards improved population health, this book notes how progress has been slowed and accelerated by events and policies that are beyond the control of any single individual.
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Mirror Of Poems - Reflections

by Gray Dwayne A Gray

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In The Shadow Of Tungurahua - Disaster Politics In Highland Ecuador

by A.J. Faas

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 Relates the stories of the people of Penipe, Ecuador living in and between several villages around the volcano Tungurahua and two resettlement communities built for people displaced by government operations following volcanic eruptions in 1999 and 2006.
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Beginning Arnis Stick Fighting Vol 1

by David Sgro

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