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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Action and adventure films
ISBN : 1845664906
This book offers a breadth of knowledge, insight and passion to a world where tough men sip martinis, wear tights and capes and sometimes even turn green.
Author : Steven Jay Schneider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Science fiction films
ISBN : 0733324959
Can you tell your Dagobah from your Delos and your Ming from your Morlock? Do you need help understanding 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY? From the classic low-budget Flash Gordon tales to the slick CGI-realised world of THE MATRIX, science-fiction films have long pushed the boundaries of the visually and dramatically fantastic. 101 SCI-FI MOVIES YOU MUST SEE BEFORE YOU DIE is your perfect one-stop guide to them all. Science fiction allows every other movie genre to leap - quite literally - into another dimension. Take a classic police chase and set it on Mars. Create a haunted house story, then add the robots. Take the classic boy-meets-girl story, then make them mutants. Great sci-fi movies turn the known world onto its head, play with the laws of physics and all the while hold the viewer spellbound with a gripping vision of future worlds. With insight from critics, film historians, and academics, 101 SCI-FI MOVIES YOU MUST SEE BEFORE YOU DIE, applies knowledge and passion to a century of close encounters, distant planets, time travel, black holes, strange outfits, futuristic technology, inexplicable forces, fantastic spaceships, fluorescent drinks and subterranean societies. Strap yourself in: you′re set for a rocket ride to sci-fi heaven.
Author : Steven Jay Schneider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0143206036
From the string of stylish and iconic James Bond adventures to the fast-paced, dark works of Tsui Hark, John Woo, Robert Rodriguez, and Christopher Nolan, 101 Action Movies You Must See Before You Die examines the rise of the action film in all its forms. It explores what makes an audience endure the thrills and spills of these tense roller-coaster rides on the big screen: Is it an appetite for violence, or a desire to see the bad guys get the justice they deserve? Action movies made actors such as Bruce Willis into household names for their death defying onscreen escapades. From Sean Connery's Bond to Sylvester Stallone's Rambo, these larger-than-life heroes have kept us on the edge of our cinema seats. Arnie told us he'd be back, and brought new life to the phrase 'hasta la vista.' Harrison Ford made archeologists cool, while Angelina Jolie brought a video game to life. And the battles are ongoing - our appetite for derring-do remains unabated as we watch the Dark Knight battle with evil villains straight out of our nightmares. With insight from critics, film historians and academics, 101 Action Movies You Must See Before You Die brings knowledge, insight, and passion to a world where tough men sip martinis, wear tights and capes, and sometimes even turn green - but can still get the girl, save the world, and crush cyborgs, psychopaths, jokers, and aliens along the way. So hold on to your seats for the crazily impossible mission ahead.
Author : Harvey O'Brien
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231850223
Action Movies: The Cinema of Striking Back is a study of action cinema, exploring the ethics and aesthetics of the genre with reference to its relatively short history. It moves from seminal classics like Bullitt (1968) and Dirty Harry (1971) through epoch-defining films like Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) and Die Hard (1988) to revisions, reboots, and renewals in films like Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003), Taken (2008), and The Expendables (2010). The action genre is a fusion of form and content: a cinema of action about action. It is a cinema of the will, configured as a decisive reaction to untenable circumstances. Action heroes take up arms against the sea of troubles that beset them, safe in the knowledge that if they don't do it, nobody will. Though this makes the action movie profoundly disturbing as an embodiment of moral ideology, its enduring appeal proves the appetite for assurance remains undiminished, even in the wake of 9/11.
Author : Daniel Bernardi,Julian Hoxter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520285644
Introduction: screenwriting off the page -- Millennial manic: crisis and change in the business of screenwriting -- Atop the tentpole: hollywood screenwriting today -- Running the room: screenwriting in expanded television -- New markets and microbudgets: "independent" storytellers -- Screenwriter 2.0: the legitimation of writing for video games -- Conclusion: scripting boundaries
Author : Ulysses Press
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781646044092
Lights, Camera, Snacktion! Whether you're streaming an AFI classic or classically bad movie, munchies are a must-have. This unique cookbook offers 50 different snack board ideas, from timeless cheese boards and charcuterie to candy platters and cocktail pairings, all themed around iconic movies. With gorgeous flat-lay photographs, this book outlines everything you need to create cheesy cinematic pairings (and even cheesier puns) like: May the Fromage Be with You (Star Wars); Draw Me Like One of Your French Gruyeres (Titanic); I'll Harvarti What She's Having (When Harry Met Sally); Quesoblanca (Casablanca); Brie-king Dawn (Twilight); Roquefort Horror Picture Show (Rocky Horror Picture Show). And so many more! Whether you're a die-hard cinephile or a Netflix-binger, Once Upon a Rind in Hollywood has a movie for you!
Author : ed. Schneider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 0143202642
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Trademarks
ISBN : PSU:000066194248
Author : Christopher Falzon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000969818
Christopher Falzon argues in this book for a new way of understanding film as philosophy. Inspired and informed by the work of Michel Foucault, Falzon shows how a motion picture can operate not simply as a thought experiment but as a form of experience-centred, experimental reflection. It is film’s ability to show viewers things that challenge their way of thinking, giving them experiences that can make them think differently, that gives the film its status as philosophy. Through these cinematic experiences, not only cultural norms and presuppositions but also cinematic conventions, and even established philosophical positions, can be interrogated and questioned. Experiments in Film and Philosophy explores three films in the light of this new way of thinking about philosophy and film: Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, Rubin Ötlund’s Force Majeure, and Jonathon Glazer’s Under the Skin. It will be of interest to advanced students and scholars interested in the current debates about the relationship between film and philosophy.
Author : Richard A. Hall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781440868139
Pop Goes the Decade: The 2000s comprehensively examines popular culture in the 2000s, placing the culture of the decade in historical context and showing how it not only reflected but also influenced its times. Pop Goes the Decade: The 2000s starts with a timeline of major historical pop culture events of the 2000s, followed by an introduction describing what the U.S. was like at the beginning of the new millennium and how it would change throughout the decade. Next come chapters broken down by medium: television, sports, music, movies, literature, technology, media, and fashion and art. A chapter on controversies in popular culture is followed by a chapter on game-changers, featuring 20 individuals who made a major impact on the U.S. in the 2000s. Finally, a conclusion shows the impact that pop culture in the 2000s has had on the U.S. in the years since. This volume serves as a comprehensive resource for high school and college students studying popular culture in the 2000s. It provides a summary of total impact, plus specific insights into each individual topic. It also includes a wide swath of the scholarship produced on the subject to date.
Author : Nicolae Sfetcu
Publisher : Nicolae Sfetcu
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Movie is considered to be an important art form; films entertain, educate, enlighten and inspire audiences. Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as — in metonymy — the field in general. The origin of the name comes from the fact that photographic film (also called filmstock) has historically been the primary medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist — motion pictures (or just pictures or "picture"), the silver screen, photoplays, the cinema, picture shows, flicks — and commonly movies.
Author : Vittorio Murino,Marco Cristani,Shishir Shah,Silvio Savarese
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780128092804
Group and Crowd Behavior for Computer Vision provides a multidisciplinary perspective on how to solve the problem of group and crowd analysis and modeling, combining insights from the social sciences with technological ideas in computer vision and pattern recognition. The book answers many unresolved issues in group and crowd behavior, with Part One providing an introduction to the problems of analyzing groups and crowds that stresses that they should not be considered as completely diverse entities, but as an aggregation of people. Part Two focuses on features and representations with the aim of recognizing the presence of groups and crowds in image and video data. It discusses low level processing methods to individuate when and where a group or crowd is placed in the scene, spanning from the use of people detectors toward more ad-hoc strategies to individuate group and crowd formations. Part Three discusses methods for analyzing the behavior of groups and the crowd once they have been detected, showing how to extract semantic information, predicting/tracking the movement of a group, the formation or disaggregation of a group/crowd and the identification of different kinds of groups/crowds depending on their behavior. The final section focuses on identifying and promoting datasets for group/crowd analysis and modeling, presenting and discussing metrics for evaluating the pros and cons of the various models and methods. This book gives computer vision researcher techniques for segmentation and grouping, tracking and reasoning for solving group and crowd modeling and analysis, as well as more general problems in computer vision and machine learning. Presents the first book to cover the topic of modeling and analysis of groups in computer vision Discusses the topics of group and crowd modeling from a cross-disciplinary perspective, using social science anthropological theories translated into computer vision algorithms Focuses on group and crowd analysis metrics Discusses real industrial systems dealing with the problem of analyzing groups and crowds
Author : Nicola Rehling
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781461633426
Extra-Ordinary Men analyzes popular cinematic representations of white heterosexual masculinity as the 'ordinary' form of male identity, one that enjoys considerable economic, social, political, and representational strength. Nicola Rehling argues that while this normative position affords white heterosexual masculinity ideological and political dominance, such 'ordinariness' also engenders the anxiety that it is a depthless, vacuous, and unstable identity. At a time when the neutrality of white heterosexual masculinity has been challenged by identity politics, this insightful volume offers lucid accounts of contemporary theoretical debates on masculinity in popular cinema, and explores the strategies deployed in popular films to reassert white heterosexual male hegemony through detailed readings of films as diverse as Fight Club, Boys Don't Cry, and The Matrix. Accessible to undergraduates, but also of interest to film scholars, the book makes a distinctive contribution to our understanding of the ways in which popular film helps construct and maintain many unexamined assumptions about masculinity, gender, race, and sexuality.
Author : Stephen Teo
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789622098398
Director in Action examines the career of Johnnie To, whose art-house action hits include A Hero Never Dies, The Longest Nite, Running out of Time, The Mission, PTU, Breaking News, Election, and Election 2. The author discusses the symbiotic relationship between director and genre, why To is regarded as an auteur, and the influence he has on the trajectory of the action genre in the Hong Kong cinema. The author's view is that To's idiosyncratic auteurist style transforms the generic conventions under which he is compelled to work, and that there is a discernible element of experimentalism in his most outstanding films. In addition, To modulates the film noir form to suit his local contexts, characters and locations, to create a highly personalized noir cinema in post-1997 Hong Kong.
Author : John Rain
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781913538194
The 1980s. A time of fear: fear of the unknown, fear of your neighbours, fear of drugs, fear of sex, fear of strangers, fear of videos, and the very real fear that the world would end at any moment in an awful, and very sudden, nuclear attack. However, in those times of turmoil and worry, there was a comfort that soothed the mind, and acted as a quiet balm: action movies. Video shops were bursting at the seams with rampant gunfire, sex, drugs, rock, roll, cars on fire, people on fire, guns, bombs, and people dressed in army fatigues (and that was just the staff). Heroes were born shrouded in fire and violent revenge, they were not only armed with guns, but also red-hot quips, that served as a muscly arm around the shoulder, and a wink that everything was going to be okay. So thank you Arnold, Sylvester, Sigourney, Bruce, Eddie, Charles, Patrick, Mel, Chuck and everyone else that made it happen. You saved the world, in your own inimitable way. Join John Rain, the author of the critically-acclaimed Thunderbook: The World of Bond According to Smersh Pod, as he examines a choice selection of the greatest action movies from the decade when the explosion was king.