Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Canadian Moving Picture Digest
Author: Reports of the United States Tax Court
Author: United States. Tax CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1570
Book Description
Moving Picture World and View Photographer
Author: Encyclopedia of American Short Films, 1926-1959
Author: Graham WebbPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476639264
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 735
Book Description
Short subject films have a long history in American cinemas. These could be anywhere from 2 to 40 minutes long and were used as a "filler" in a picture show that would include a cartoon, a newsreel, possibly a serial and a short before launching into the feature film. Shorts could tackle any topic of interest: an unusual travelogue, a comedy, musical revues, sports, nature or popular vaudeville acts. With the advent of sound-on-film in the mid-to-late 1920s, makers of earlier silent short subjects began experimenting with the short films, using them as a testing ground for the use of sound in feature movies. After the Second World War, and the rising popularity of television, short subject films became far too expensive to produce and they had mostly disappeared from the screens by the late 1950s. This encyclopedia offers comprehensive listings of American short subject films from the 1920s through the 1950s.
Reports of the Tax Court of the United States
Author: United States. Tax CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1586
Book Description
Final issue of each volume includes table of cases reported in the volume.
Stumptown Volume 2: The Case of the Baby in the Velvet Case
Author: Greg RuckaPublisher: Oni Press
ISBN: 1620100320
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
From Eisner Award-winning writer Greg Rucka and acclaimed artist Matthew Southworth comes a NEW Stumptown mystery! Dex Parios has finally opened her own office, and her first case is to find rock star Mim Bracca's baby - her prized guitar, which disappeared after her band Tailhook's Portland show. Mim has no leads, and she doesn't want to go to the police - but Dex needs the case, and besides, it shouldn't be that hard to find a missing guitar. As long as the D.E.A. doesn't get involved ... or the Skinheads …
The Hollywood Reporter
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion picture industry
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Vivid Tomorrows
Author: David BrinPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476641730
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Can science fiction--especially sci-fi cinema--save the world? It already has, many times. Retired officers testify that films like Doctor Strangelove, Fail-Safe, On the Beach and War Games provoked changes and helped prevent accidental war. Soylent Green and Silent Running recruited millions of environmental activists. The China Syndrome and countless movies about plagues helped bring attention to those failure modes. And the grand-daddy of "self-preventing prophecy"--Nineteen Eighty-Four--girded countless citizens to stay wary of Big Brother. It's not been all dire warnings. While optimism is much harder to dramatize than apocalypse, both large and small screens have also encouraged millions to lift their gaze, contemplating how we might get better, incrementally, or else raise grandchildren worthy of the stars. Come along on a quirky quest for unusual insights into the power of forward-looking media. How the romantic allure of feudalism tugs at men and women who benefited vastly from modernity. Or explore why almost every Hollywood film preaches Suspicion of Authority, along with tolerance, diversity and personal eccentricity, and how those messages helped keep us free. No one is spared scrutiny! Not Spielberg or Tolkien or Cameron or Costner... nor Dune or demigods or zombie flicks. Certainly not George Lucas or Ayn Rand! Though some critiques are offered from a lifetime of respect and love... and gratitude.
The Shelby Beacon
Author: International Schools
Author: Mary HaydenPublisher: Symposium Books Ltd
ISBN: 1873927924
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The foundation of the first international schools of the modern era well over a century ago, and their burgeoning growth over recent years, provides the context in this book for a series of personal perspectives written by some of those who have been involved centrally in their development. As the schools themselves have increased not only in number and geographical distribution but also in diversity of style and ownership, so have a range of complex issues arisen relating to their fundamental purposes, the curricula that they choose (what should be taught and what should be learned), the nature of their organization (including leadership and management), and their potential contributions in responding to a perceived global need and in influencing the promotion of international education in national systems of schools. The distinguished group of authors contributing to this volume identify the current issues surrounding the rapid evolution of international schools and likely future directions of development, based on their own impressive personal and professional experience of the sector. That both comparative and international education genres are to be found in approaches taken in the various chapters means that the book will be of interest and value not only to teachers in international schools, but also to those working in national schools and to researchers in colleges and universities worldwide.