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Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780395264751
When a young archivist rummages through fifty years' accumulation of her photographs, seventy-year-old Maude Coffin Pratt realizes that her fame means nothing and that her true self rests on an incestuous passion
Author : Dennis Sharp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UVA:X006136705
Author : Rick Altman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0231116632
Silent films were, of course, never silent at all. However, the sound that used to accompany the screen picture in the early days of cinema has been neglected as an area of study. Altman explores the various musical, narrative, and even synchronized sound systems that enriched cinema before Jolson spoke.
Author : Trevor Griffiths
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748668052
This book deals with the growth of cinema-going in Scotland in an extended scholarly manner, integrating the study of cinema into wider debates in social and economic history.
Author : M.J. Lewis,Roger Lloyd-Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134850532
Using Computers in History is designed to introduce students to historical computing through practical workshop exercises. With topics such as the pattern of nineteenth century emigration from the UK, the performance of the American and German economies in the 1930s and the Lancashire cotton industry, Lloyd-Jones and Lewis explain and illustrate the possible uses of the computer for the historian. Using Computers in History: * raises awareness of the use of computers as an important tool for the historian * provides a practical introduction to basic computer terminology * includes high quality diagrams of the screen displays which should appear at each stage * examines the use of spreadsheets and how to design and work with them * discusses the different software packages available, concentrating on Microsoft Excel 4 * includes spreadsheet exercises based around a range of historical data sets * explores the use of databases * shows how to construct them * gives guidelines for further study * prompts students to apply the skills they have learnt to a number of examples
Author : Stafford Cliff
Publisher : Rockport Publishers
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Commercial art
ISBN : 9781564968722
50 Trade Secrets of Great Design: Packaging looks behind the scenes at fifty commercial product package designs, revealing how designers work with clients from concept to completion. A wealth of working drawings, computer visuals, thumbnail sketches, and color photographs demonstrate the formation of each concept and how the final design was executed.
Author : Ian Hunter
Publisher : Regent College Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 1573832596
This biography of Malcolm Muggeridge traces the varied life of one of the most brilliant and controversial men of the twentieth century. The author, Ian Hunter, was given full access to all of Muggeridge's unpublished material, letters, and diaries. The result is an objective, well-researched, and honest account that is sometimes at variance with Muggeridge's own recollection of events. Ian Hunter captures the humor, the intellect, the rawness of perception, the abandoned honesty of a man engaged in knowing himself, his world, and his God. Malcolm Muggeridge was not merely a "vendor of words," as he invariably described himself, but was also a celebrated author, broadcaster, lecturer, debater, traveller, journalist and television personality, a one-time ardent admirer of the Soviet system, a World War II intelligence agent, and a former agnostic turned committed Christian. To many people, however, Malcolm Muggeridge was admired above all for his superb use of the English language. It is to the credit of Ian Hunter that after reading this biography one has a clearer understanding of an extraordinary man. Dr. Ian Hunter is professor emeritus at the University of Western Ontario. His articles and reviews have appeared in many Canadian and American poublications. He edited two collections of Muggeridge's writings: Things Past and The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge; he also wrote a biography of Muggeridge's friend, Hesketh Pearson (Nothing to Repent: The Life of Heskerth Pearson).
Author : Ray Hutchison
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1081 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781412914321
An encyclopedia about various topics relating to urban studies.
Author : Julie Brown,Annette Davison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199797547
Early cinemas were noisy places with pianos, organs, ensembles of all varieties and sometimes full orchestras accompanied films. Britain, a key cultural player in the entertainment world both at the time and now, has a different history than the US of musical cultures and film production.
Author : Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066428150
"Moving Pictures: How They Are Made and Worked" by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot Various features of motion pictures are covered in this comprehensive guide. Mechanical aspects of cinematography are presented in general terms so that professionals and laymen alike will understand them. Though this book regards older versions of filmmaking, current fans of the art will be fascinated by this part of movie history.
Author : Stephen Herbert
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415211530
"This important collection reprints influential works in the early history of moving pictures in the UK. Ranging from the period of invention in the early 1890s to the First World War, the pieces include the seminal 1917 report to the Cinema Commission of Enquiry The Cinema--Its Present Position and Future Possibilities; Colin Bennett's 1913 Handbook of Kinematography; articles from trade journals published during the 1910s; and more."--Publisher description.
Author : Ellen Baskin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2401 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351769839
This title was first published in 2003. The sixth edition of this compendium of film and television adaptations of books and plays includes several thousand new listings that cover the period from 1992 to December 2001. There are 8000 main entries, covering 70 years of film history, including some foreign language material.
Author : Esther M. Morgan-Ellis
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780820352039
During the 1920s, a visit to the movie theater almost always included a sing-along. Patrons joined together to render old favorites and recent hits, usually accompanied by the strains of a mighty Wurlitzer organ. The organist was responsible for choosing the repertoire and presentation style that would appeal to his or her patrons, so each theater offered a unique experience. When sound technology drove both musicians and participatory culture out of the theater in the early 1930s, the practice faded and was eventually forgotten. Despite the popularity and ubiquity of community singing—it was practiced in every state, in theaters large and small—there has been scant research on the topic. This volume is the first dedicated account of community singing in the picture palace and includes nearly one hundred images, such as photographs of the movie houses’ opulent interiors, reproductions of sing-along slides, and stills from the original Screen Songs “follow the bouncing ball” cartoons. Esther M. Morgan-Ellis brings the era of movie palaces to life. She presents the origins of theater sing-alongs in the prewar community singing movement, describes the basic components of a sing-along, explores the unique presentation styles of several organists, and assesses the aftermath of sound technology, including the sing-along films and children’s matinees of the 1930s.
Author : Glyn Davis,Kay Dickinson,Lisa Patti,Amy Villarejo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317623380
Film Studies: A Global Introduction reroutes film studies from its Euro-American focus and canon in order to introduce students to a medium that has always been global but has become differently and insistently so in the digital age. Glyn Davis, Kay Dickinson, Lisa Patti and Amy Villarejo’s approach encourages readers to think about film holistically by looking beyond the textual analysis of key films. In contrast, it engages with other vital areas, such as financing, labour, marketing, distribution, exhibition, preservation, and politics, reflecting contemporary aspects of cinema production and consumption worldwide. Key features of the book include: clear definitions of the key terms at the foundation of film studies coverage of the work of key thinkers, explained in their social and historical context a broad range of relevant case studies that reflect the book’s approach to global cinema, from Italian "white telephone" films to Mexican wrestling films innovative and flexible exercises to help readers enhance their understanding of the histories, theories, and examples introduced in each chapter an extensive Interlude introducing readers to formal analysis through the careful explication and application of key terms a detailed discussion of strategies for writing about cinema Films Studies: A Global Introduction will appeal to students studying film today and aspiring to work in the industry, as well as those eager to understand the world of images and screens in which we all live.
Author : Sam Manning
Publisher : University of London Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781912702367
Cinema-going was the most popular commercial leisure activity in the first half of the twentieth century, peaking in 1946 with 1.6 billion recorded admissions. Though ‘going to the pictures’ remained a popular pastime, the transition to peacetime altered citizens’ leisure habits. During the 1950s increased affluence, the growth of television ownership and the diversification of leisure led to rapid declines in attendance. Cinema attendances fell in all regions, but the speed, nature and extent of decline varied widely across the United Kingdom. By linking national developments to detailed case studies of Belfast and Sheffield, this book adds nuance to our understanding of regional variations in film exhibition, audience habits and cinema-going experiences during a period of profound social and cultural change. Drawing on a wide range of quantitative and qualitative sources, Cinema and Cinema-Going conveys the diverse nature of this important industry, and the significance of place as a determinant of film attendance in post-war Britain.