Author: Kevin JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781584563792
Category : Motion picture plays, American
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"A guide to identifying and collecting film scripts of the twentieth century"--
The Celluloid Paper Trail
Author: Kevin JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781584563792
Category : Motion picture plays, American
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"A guide to identifying and collecting film scripts of the twentieth century"--
The Paper Trail (UK)
Author: Paper Trail (UK)The Paper Trail
Author: Alexander MonroPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307456692
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Paper Trail is the two-millennia-long history of how a simple Chinese invention changed the course of human events. Tracing the emergence of paper from the imperial court of Han China to its subsequent journeys to Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, through the empire of the Abbasid Caliphate and eventually, by way of the Silk Road, to Europe in the late thirteenth century, Alexander Monro shows how the medium allowed religions and revolutions, philosophies and propaganda to spread like never before. A sweeping, richly detailed, and vividly written tale populated by holy men and scholars, warriors and poets, rulers and ordinary men and women, here is the story not only of paper, but of human culture itself.
Paper Trail, 1865-1995
Author: Paper Trail
Author: Susan BrockerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781741694574
Category : Paper
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Paper Trail
Author: Susan BrockerPaper Trail
Author: Susan BrockerSeeing Things
Author: Kartik NairPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520392272
Category : Artists' materials
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
"In 1980s India, the Ramsay Brothers and other filmmakers produced a wave of horror movies about soul-sucking witches, knife-wielding psychopaths, and dark-caped vampires. Seeing Things is about the sudden cuts, botched prosthetic effects, continuity errors, and celluloid damage in these movies. Such moments may very well be "failures" of various kinds, but in this book Kartik Nair reads them as clues to the conditions in which the films were once made, censored, and seen, offering a view from below of the world's largest film culture. Combining extensive archival research and original interviews with close readings of landmark films including Purana Mandir, Veerana, and Jaani Dushman, this book tracks the material coordinates of horror cinema's spectral images. In the process, Seeing Things discovers a spectral materiality-one that informs Bombay horror's haunted houses, grotesque bodies, and graphic violence and gives visceral force to our experience of the genre's globally familiar conventions"--
Celluloid Vampires
Author: Stacey AbbottPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 029278449X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
In 1896, French magician and filmmaker George Méliès brought forth the first celluloid vampire in his film Le manoir du diable. The vampire continues to be one of film's most popular gothic monsters and in fact, today more people become acquainted with the vampire through film than through literature, such as Bram Stoker's classic Dracula. How has this long legacy of celluloid vampires affected our understanding of vampire mythology? And how has the vampire morphed from its folkloric and literary origins? In this entertaining and absorbing work, Stacey Abbott challenges the conventional interpretation of vampire mythology and argues that the medium of film has completely reinvented the vampire archetype. Rather than representing the primitive and folkloric, the vampire has come to embody the very experience of modernity. No longer in a cape and coffin, today's vampire resides in major cities, listens to punk music, embraces technology, and adapts to any situation. Sometimes she's even female. With case studies of vampire classics such as Nosferatu, Martin, Blade, and Habit, the author traces the evolution of the American vampire film, arguing that vampires are more than just blood-drinking monsters; they reflect the cultural and social climate of the societies that produce them, especially during times of intense change and modernization. Abbott also explores how independent filmmaking techniques, special effects makeup, and the stunning and ultramodern computer-generated effects of recent films have affected the representation of the vampire in film.
Celluloid Blackboard
Author: Alan S. MarcusPublisher: IAP
ISBN: 1607525798
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This volume advocates for including feature films in secondary history classrooms through examining the ways in which films can promote students’ historical understanding while also addressing the potential drawbacks to using film. In part one the essays explore three frameworks for the analysis of film by secondary students. Part two fills a void in the scholarship, reporting on four recent studies that explore how the use of film may encourage the development of students’ historical understanding. Finally, part three describes the results from two secondary teachers incorporating film into their history classrooms.