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An illustrated volume that offers a behind-the-scenes look at Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee's most ambitious film, an adaptation of Yann Martel's international bestseller and Man Booker Prize-winning novel. It includes a foreword by Martel and an introduction by Lee.

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Shows film artists how to free their imaginations, and explore, innovate and experiment in poetic and visual ways through shooting, editing, adding sound, developing a story, and adding special effects. This title is accompanied by a DVD of 30 films that offers a mini film festival of short, artful, and meaningful films made mostly by beginners.

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Everything you need, from getting the script right, to the edit being tight, is laid out in an informal and easily digestible style. Making Your First Blockbuster covers not only all the major components but delves deep into the nuances that make the big blockbusters really deliver. T

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This volume in the French Film Directors series has been long-awaited by students and academics of French and European cinema in particular and by Film Studies students in general. -- .

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First and only comprehensive overview of Pagnol's career in English, and the only book in any language to link Pagnol's early career as a playwright with his controversial theories of cinema and his work as a film director. -- .

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This no-nonsense guide will prepare the actor for the perfect part in theater, on the web, or anything in...

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"Allison Page examines U.S. media from the 1960s to today and delivers vital new ideas about how our feelings about race are governed and normalized by our media landscape. Media and the Affective Life of Slavery argues that visual culture works through emotion, a powerful lever for shaping and managing racialized subjectivity"--

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"Allison Page examines U.S. media from the 1960s to today and delivers vital new ideas about how our feelings about race are governed and normalized by our media landscape. Media and the Affective Life of Slavery argues that visual culture works through emotion, a powerful lever for shaping and managing racialized subjectivity"--

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"With no known cause or cure despite a century of research, Alzheimer's disease is a true medical mystery. Scott Selberg examines the nature of this enduring national health crisis by looking at the disease's relationship to media and representation, showing how collective investments in different kinds of media have historically shaped how we understand, treat, and live with this disease"--

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An interdisciplinary study of 'medieval film' and its cultural functions -- .

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'The Passion' has sparked debate everywhere. This timely collection of essays explores the film's questions in depth and expands on its themes. Topics covered include why Christ was killed; whether moral responsibility is possible when God knows; the relationship between film, antisemitism, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and more.

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After scouring obscure educational films for nine years, the author offers a fascinating stroll down memory lane via the hundreds of films designed to keep public school children on the straight and narrow track between 1945 and 1970. 200 photos.

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This is the first book-length study of the most prolific and most critically acclaimed director working in British cinema today. Michael Winterbottom has established himself, and his company, Revolution Films, as a dynamic force in world cinema. -- .

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Derived from the Latin verb 'gerere'-to carry, act, or do-'gesture' has accrued critical currency but has remained undertheorized. Migrations of Gesture addresses this absence and provides a complex theory on the value of gesture for understanding human sign production.

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Mike Leigh may well be Britain's greatest living film director; his worldview has permeated our national consciousness. Written with the co-operation of Leigh himself, this book gives detailed readings of the nine feature films he has made for the cinema, as well as an overview of his work for television. -- .

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Offers an exploration of anime, manga, and Japanese popular culture.

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"How computer animation technologies became vital visualization tools in the life sciences"--

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A collection of 64 monologues categorized by gender for use in the audition process, be it professional audition or audition course.

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A Canadian cult classic made in 1974 about queer, intergenerational love.

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A resource for actors, movement teachers and directors, exploring the physical skills needed for the stage and the screen. The contributors, who are from diverse performance traditions, explain how their particular disciplines came into being and why the skills involved are valuable to actors.