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Book SynopsisVoyage into a future where droids, hovering buildings, and space vehicles exist with Beginner’s Guide to Drawing the Future – an accessible, entertaining introduction to creating science-fiction concepts with traditional tools. Packed with insightful tips, exciting tutorial projects, and essential art theory simply explained by industry professionals, this exciting volume is the perfect launch pad for your journey forward through time.

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Book SynopsisExploring how design can be used for good—prompting self-reflection, igniting the imagination, and affecting positive social change.Good design provides solutions to problems. It improves our buildings, medical equipment, clothing, and kitchen utensils, among other objects. But what if design could also improve societal problems by prompting positive ideological change? In this book, Bruce and Stephanie Tharp survey recent critical design practices and propose a new, more inclusive field of socially minded practice: discursive design. While many consider good design to be unobtrusive, intuitive, invisible, and undemanding intellectually, discursive design instead targets the intellect, prompting self-reflection and igniting the imagination. Discursive design (derived from “discourse”) expands the boundaries of how we can use design—how objects are, in effect, good(s) for thinking.Discursive Design invites us to see objects in a new ligh

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Book SynopsisExtensively revised and expanded, The New Essential Guide to Hong Kong Movies includes over 670 film reviews, a poster gallery, and a look at the key studios that made Hong Kong cinema so amazing, along with insights into the Hong Kong movie industry written by global superstar Jackie Chan and Hong Kong film stars Cynthia Rothrock, and Vincent Lyn. Rick Baker and Ken Miller have curated a huge selection of reviews of kung fu and swordplay films, gangster flicks, crime dramas, action, horror, fantasy, erotic, and assorted Category III films, sharing their love for these distinctive, kinetic, and sometimes utterly bizarre Hong Kong genre productions with an infectious enthusiasm. 

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Book SynopsisIllustrator and character designer Lord Gris takes us on a guided tour of her world, where her anime-style characters exude emotion, attitude, mystery, and beauty that can be both bizarre and fragile. Her characters are already appreciated by over 750K followers on Instagram, and have garnered 1.5M likes on TikTok. A flair for connecting with her fans, and being open about the ups and downs of being an artist, has resulted in a highly engaged and enthusiastic fan base. Having already shared videos showing her at work, including her popular Skillshare tutorial, Lord Gris is perfectly positioned to create this beautifully produced book. 3dtotal Publishing excels at helping artists to communicate both the motivations behind their unique creativity, and the technical tips and tricks they use. Therefore, step-by-step tutorials specially commissioned for the book are accompanied by galleries of Lord Gris’s fan favourites, unseen gems, and brand new and exclusive pieces. With a love for digital art using Procreate, acrylics on MDF board, and artist-staple pens and pencils, she shares a host of skills and techniques to offer something new to every artist.

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Book SynopsisDelve into the stunning samurai setting of Ghosts of Tsushima in this official art book.

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Book SynopsisIn 2018 the National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts will host major exhibitions of the work of Tacita Dean. Each will provide a different encounter with her art. This book brings together new and existing works from all three exhibitions - LANDSCAPE, PORTRAIT, STILL LIFE - with texts offering a unique insight into Dean's work by leading writers including Alexandra Harris, Alan Hollinghurst and Ali Smith. Published at a particularly prolific period for Dean, this book provides a new and authoritative view of a hugely influential artist who has been at the forefront of British art for over twenty years. The volume is published with three different covers.

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Book SynopsisDark Horse honours Link, the chosen hero, with the Hero s Edition of The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild - Creating A Champion.

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Book SynopsisHop into a warp pipe and prepare your plunger for the definitive Mario-pedia! spanning every title since the original Bros.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Herbert effectively traces a genealogy of movies from the strip malls of yesteryear to today's rootless culture of moving-image consumption." -- Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa Film Comment "Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store is an unusual and often unusually compelling study of the emergence and disappearance of American movie-rental stores." -- Clayton Dillard Slant "Videoland...offers an outstanding analysis of film as material object embedded within a specific cultural moment, and it is, I believe, a must-read for students of media history." -- Linnie Blake Times Higher Education "Daniel Herbert's fascinating new study, Videoland, recalls a time that seems impossibly remote, even though it barely ended a decade ago." -- Michael S. Gant SantaCruz.com "Herbert's attention to the interlopers and improbable pioneers who helped propel movie culture forward in the 1980s and 1990s is a welcome addition to other recent examinations of home video as well as the emerging field of media industries." -- Kevin McDonald Discourse "In juxtaposing media industry studies with a specific eye toward Americana and regionalism, Videoland offers a loving tribute to the video store as a significant space in media history." -- David Lerner Spectator "Written in a clear, clean, accessible style, this is a masterful study of a cultural moment whose time has come and gone." -- Wheeler Winston Dixon CHOICE "Through [his] interviews, he creates a richly textured sense of the culture that existed in many video stores, of the way the stores were woven into their local communities, and of the economic challenges the stores confronted in a shifting technological landscape." -- Brian L. Ott Journal of American History "Herbert's interdisciplinary methodology is one of the book's chief achievements. Comprised of excellent historical research and cultural analysis, Videoland also makes an important contribution to a range of subfields within film and media studies, including media distribution, media history, taste cultures, film criticism, and ethnographic audience research." -- Maureen Rogers Velvet Light Trap "An accessible history of the video rental store and its impact on media consumption." -- Kristopher Purzycki Film CriticismTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Video Rental and the "Shopping" of Media Part I. The History and Culture of Video Rental 1. A Long Tale 2. Practical Classifications Part II. Video Stores and the Localization of Movie Culture 3. Video Capitals 4. Video Rental in Small-Town America Part III. Circulations of Video Store Culture 5. Distributing Value 6. Mediating Choice: Criticism, Advice, Metadata Coda: The Value of the Tangible Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis beautiful hardcover book features over 20 full-page illustrations by artist Peter Lee and marks the first in a multipart series exploring the Warcraft universe; from the distant past to the modern era.

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Book SynopsisAuthor Barry Stone has served his apprenticeship as a western movie geek and aficionado. The Magnificent Seven, The Wild Bunch, Red River - for 50 years the western has been the only genre in a life that 'just ain't big enough for two'. He has written on the history of cinema for the illustrated reference book Historica, is a regular attendee to western premieres for FOX Studios Australia, and was recently a guest of the Museum of Western Film History in Independence, California.Intrigued by the idea of frontier wilderness, of law and order vs lawlessness, and a firm belief that 'the better the bad guy, the better the film', he goes beyond the American south-west to pay homage to the Italian and even Australian western - and, after much deliberation, he ranks them in order.

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Book SynopsisThe latest volume in the Shipyards series features ships of the United Federation of Planets, including Vulcan, Andorian, Tellarite, Bajoran, Trill, and Earth Civilian ships. Each vessel is illustrated in CG artwork, with original VFX models made for the TV shows, alongside a technical overview and operational history.Featuring 27 ships! Starships include the Vulcan D'Kyr, the Vulcan cruiser and the T'Plana Hath; the Andorian battle cruiser, the Bajoran solar-sailor, the El-Aurian S.S. Lakul; and Civilian Federation Ships The Festoon, the S.S. Xhosa, and Harry Mudd's Class-J starship, the Norkova. Federation Members is latest volume in the Star Trek Shipyards Encyclopedia series - the very first set of books to collect all of the ships from Star Trek film and television shows in chronological order. series - The very first series of books to collect all of the ships from Star Trek film and television shows in chronological order. Each ship profile features artwork from the original

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Book SynopsisFeaturing the ships of the Klingon fleet from their first appearance in the original TV series through the hit new series Star Trek: Discovery!THIRTY KLINGON SHIPS INCLUDING FOURTEEN SHIPS FROM STAR TREK: DISCOVERYThis volume features ships of the Klingon Fleet, from the 22nd to the 24th Century. Opening with the Klingon Defense Force bird-of-prey - an essential part of the fleet since the Empire first achieved space flight - the book features thirty ships, including the D7-Class Battle Cruiser, the Sarcophagus, the Raptor and the late 24th Century I.K.S. Negh'Var. With technical details, operational histories and annotated plan views, the book shows the evolution and development of the fleet in sumptuous CG renders, and is the most comprehensive collection of Klingon ships ever produced. The Star Trek Shipyards Encyclopedia series provides Star Trek fans with the first ever chronological history of the starships from the television and film series. In this third volume, the ships

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Book SynopsisThe inventive concept art behind Star Trek: Deep Space Ninetitular space station, U.S.S. Defiant and dozens more ships come to life on the page!Deep Space Nine is considered by many Star Trek fans to be the best of all the Trek shows in the franchise's illustrious 55-year history, and Star Trek Designing Starships puts the spotlight on the show's space-faring vessels. The fifth entry in Hero Collector's ongoing series of Star Trek Designing Starships, Deep Space Nine and Beyond delivers original production art and extensive interviews with the award-wining artists who created the ships and helped bring them to the screen over the course of the show's seven-year run (1993-1999) and its 176 episodes.

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Book SynopsisProfiling more than 50 ships that Voyager encountered in the Delta Quadrant, this is the 2nd of two volumes that profile the ships from STAR TREK: VOYAGER. Featuring the Lokirrim Warship, the Species 8472 Bioship, and the Vidiian Warships, and many more. Including technical overviews and operational histories, the ships are illustrated with CG artwork, created using the original VFX models made for the STAR TREK: VOYAGER TV series. With previously unseen artwork, the two official volumes form the most comprehensive account of ships from STAR TREK: VOYAGER ever produced. Be sure to also look for Volume 1, The Borg and Delta Quadrant: Akritirian to Krenim, which features the ships of the Borg, and includes the Borg Cube and Borg Sphere, Borg Queen's Ship, the Renegade Borg Vessel and the Borg Tactical Cube, in addition to thirty-five ships of the Delta Quadrant species.

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Book SynopsisA personal and expert account of the artists and events that defined the medium’s first 50 years, written a true expert in the field‘London’s book excites because it brings new artists into a lineage worthy of greater stuff. Her passion for lesser-known figures … is contagious.’ – ARTnews, The Best Art Books of 2020Since the introduction of portable consumer electronics nearly a half century ago, artists throughout the world have adapted their latest technologies to art-making. This first-hand account by the curator who has been following video art from its beginnings in the late 1960s, when artists first adapted portable consumer technology to art-making, spotlights video’s ongoing importance in the art world, tracing the genre’s development alongside the advances in technology that have continued to open up new possibilities for artists. London has worked closely and personally with the artists she writes about, who span generations, including Joan Jonas, Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, Shirin Neshat, Pipilotti Rist, Miranda July, Ragnar Kjartansson, and Ian Cheng. The text is both art-historical and personal – weaving together background information and insightful interpretations with unique anecdotes and experiences to trace the history of video art as it transformed into the broader field of media art – from analog to digital, small TV monitors to wall-scale projections, and clunky hardware to user-friendly software. In doing this, she reveals how video evolved from fringe status to be seen as one of the foremost art forms of today. Trade Review"[A]n unabashed personal history coupled with a treasure trove of straight-forward facts about the artists, the art works, and the technological twists and turns that produced this art... Must read for anyone wanting both a personalized dialogue and encyclopedic knowledge on an art form that now dominates our contemporary art landscape." - Dara Birnbaum, artist"Reflects on a fast-moving medium... [the book] identifies the central figures at each stage of the medium's development in extended essays." - The Art Newspaper"Video/Art is both an affectionate and knowledgeable piece of work, full of personal experiences and reflections as well as being a meticulous history of the form." - Trebuchet Magazine"London's new book, Video/Art: The First 50 Years, is a comprehensive vision of video art from the early practitioners up to present-day and beyond. Video/Art explores the impact and evolution of this "space-age medium", envisioning the scope and possibilities that new technologies could create in the future." - Dazed Digital"No history of video art is as comprehensive and essential as the new Video/Art: The First 50 Years by Barbara London." - ARTnews Online"One of the art form's founders makes the case that video art can one day rival the popularity of painting and sculpture." - Bloomberg"Fifty years ago, video art didn't exist. Now, social-media users watch billions of clips a day. One curator [Barbara London] has seen it all change... London's new book, Video/Art: The First 50 Years, is the first survey of how the art world changed. More than that: in the age of the smartphone, her book is a history of how Western society was transformed." - The Telegraph"Readers plunge into a hub of buzzing counterculture via memories of pivotal experimentation and underground screenings." - Aesthetica magazine"Barbara London's indispensable and enticingly personal history... [in which] few guides are more qualified to lead readers through the rapid rise of the once renegade art form... What makes her book such a fun read is that it's not exactly the comprehensive survey its title implies. Instead, it's as much memoir as exegesis, an idiosyncratic front-line report from a deeply informed, intrepid, and passionate pioneer who is still in the trenches." - New Yorker Online"The book is a backstage account of video's evolution, written by one of its first specialized curators." - Performa Magazine Online

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Book SynopsisA small town on an island experiences miraculous events - and frightening omens - after the arrival of a charismatic, mysterious young priest. The cast includes Kate Siegel, Henry Thomas, Zach Gilford, and Hamish Linklater. Midnight Mass: The Art of Horror is a large hardback illustrated coffee table book featuring visual and written materials covering all elements of Intrepid Pictures' Midnight Mass limited series - debuting on Netflix in Fall 2021. This book is the perfect gift for any horror fan and will contain a slew of behind-the-scenes and background material, such as production art and set photos throughout. Readers will gain an insightful understanding of how the show was made with interviews of the cast, crew, executive producer Trevor Macy and Mike Flanagan himself. Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy are the minds behind The Haunting of Hill House, a successful horror TV series on Netflix. Their most recent film, Doctor Sleep, was the critically-acclaimed sequel to Stephen King's The Shining.

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Book SynopsisThis lavishly illustrated book provides a hands-on, step-by-step introduction to the intriguing mathematics of symmetry. Instead of breaking up patterns into blocks--a sort of potato-stamp method--Frank Farris offers a completely new waveform approach that enables you to create an endless variety of rosettes, friezes, and wallpaper patterns: dazzliTrade ReviewHonorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in Mathematics, Association of American Publishers "[A] beautifully illustrated guide to fusing mathematical and artistic creativity to generate fascinating and visually appealing designs."--Evelyn Lamb, Scientific American "[A] beautiful book... [Creating Symmetry] is a thoughtful, innovative and interesting piece of work, discussing material that the author is obviously very enthusiastic about; such enthusiasm is, as is often the case, contagious."--Mark Hunacek, MAA Reviews "This is a marvelous book that brings groups, and along the way many other mathematical concepts, to the reader in an unconventional way."--Adhemar Bultheel, European Mathematical Society Bulletin "Mathematics students thus get a visually rich path into group theory that compellingly informs even first steps with ideas usually deemed advanced. Braver art students will find motivation and the means to learn some mathematics they can put right to use."--D. V. Feldman, Choice "[A] delightful showcase of artistic applications of complex wave functions... This attractive book will appeal to and inspire a broad range of practitioners including complex analysts, mathematical artists, and advanced undergraduates."--Heidi Burgiel, College Mathematics JournalTable of ContentsPreface vii 1 Going in Circles 1 2 Complex Numbers and Rotations 5 3 Symmetry of the Mystery Curve 11 4 Mathematical Structures and Symmetry: Groups, Vector Spaces, and More 17 5 Fourier Series: Superpositions of Waves 24 6 Beyond Curves: Plane Functions 34 7 Rosettes as Plane Functions 40 8 Frieze Functions (from Rosettes!) 50 9 Making Waves 60 10 PlaneWave Packets for 3-Fold Symmetry 66 11 Waves, Mirrors, and 3-Fold Symmetry 74 12 Wallpaper Groups and 3-Fold Symmetry 81 13 ForbiddenWallpaper Symmetry: 5-Fold Rotation 88 14 Beyond 3-Fold Symmetry: Lattices, Dual Lattices, andWaves 93 15 Wallpaper with a Square Lattice 97 16 Wallpaper with a Rhombic Lattice 104 17 Wallpaper with a Generic Lattice 109 18 Wallpaper with a Rectangular Lattice 112 19 Color-ReversingWallpaper Functions 120 20 Color-Turning Wallpaper Functions 131 21 The Point Group and Counting the 17 141 22 Local Symmetry in Wallpaper and Rings of Integers 157 23 More about Friezes 168 24 Polyhedral Symmetry (in the Plane?) 172 25 HyperbolicWallpaper 189 26 Morphing Friezes and Mathematical Art 200 27 Epilog 206 A Cell Diagrams for the 17 Wallpaper Groups 209 B Recipes forWallpaper Functions 211 C The 46 Color-ReversingWallpaper Types 215 Bibliography 227 Index 229

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Book SynopsisCollects manifestoes from the global history of cinema, providing an historical and theoretical account of the role played by film manifestos in filmmaking and film culture. This book uncovers a neglected, yet nevertheless central history of the cinema, exploring a series of documents that postulate ways in which to re-imagine the cinema.Trade Review"The most important film book of the year ... required reading for both students and lovers of cinema." CHOICETable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. "An Invention without a Future" 1. The Avant-Garde(s) The Futurist Cinema (Italy, 1916) F.T. Marinetti, Bruno Corra, et al. Lenin Decree (USSR, 1919) Vladimir Ilyich Lenin The ABCs of Cinema (France, 1917--1921) Blaise Cendrars WE: Variant of a Manifesto (USSR, 1922) Dziga Vertov The Method of Making Workers' Films (USSR, 1925) Sergei Eisenstein Constructivism in the Cinema (USSR, 1928) Alexei Gan Preface: Un chien Andalou (France, 1928) Luis Bunuel Manifesto of the Surrealists Concerning L'Age d'or (France, 193) The Surrealist Group Manifesto on "Que Viva Mexico" (USA, 1933) The Editors of Experimental Film Spirit of Truth (France, 1933) Le Corbusier An Open Letter to the Film Industry and to All Who Are Interested in the Evolution of the Good Film (Hungary, 1934) Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Light*Form*Movement*Sound (USA, 1935) Mary Ellen Bute Prolegomena for All Future Cinema (France, 1952) Guy Debord No More Flat Feet! (France, 1952) Lettriste International The Lettristes Disavow the Insulters of Chaplin (France, 1952) Jean-Isidore Isou, Maurice Lemaitre, and Gabriel Pomerand The Only Dynamic Art (USA, 1953) Jim Davis A Statement of Principles (USA, 1961) Maya Deren The First Statement of the New American Cinema Group (USA, 1961) New American Cinema Group Foundation for the Invention and Creation of Absurd Movies (USA, 1962) Ron Rice From Metaphors on Vision (USA, 1963) Stan Brakhage Kuchar 8mm Film Manifesto (USA, 1964) George Kuchar Film Andepandan [Independents] Manifesto (Japan, 1964) Takahiko Iimura, Koichiro Ishizaki, et al. Discontinuous Films (Canada, 1967) Keewatin Dewdney Hand-Made Films Manifesto (Australia, 1968) Ubu Films, Thoms Cinema Manifesto (Australia, 1971) Arthur Cantrill and Corinne Cantrill For a Metahistory of Film: Commonplace Notes and Hypotheses (USA, 1971) Hollis Frampton Elements of the Void (Greece, 1972) Gregory Markopoulos Small Gauge Manifesto (USA, 198) JoAnn Elam and Chuck Kleinhans Cinema of Transgression Manifesto (USA, 1985) Nick Zedd Modern, All Too Modern (USA, 1988) Keith Sanborn Open Letter to the Experimental Film Congress: Let's Set the Record Straight (Canada, 1989) Peggy Ahwesh, Caroline Avery, et al. Anti-1 Years of Cinema Manifesto (USA, 1996) Jonas Mekas The Decalogue (Czech Republic, 1999) Jan Svankmajer Your Film Farm Manifesto on Process Cinema (Canada, 212) Philip Hoffman 2. National and Transnational Cinemas From "The Glass Eye" (Italy, 1933) Leo Longanesi The Archers' Manifesto (UK, 1942) Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger What Is Wrong with Indian Films? (India, 1948) Satyajit Ray Bunuel the Poet (Mexico, 1951) Octavio Paz French Cinema Is Over (France, 1952) Serge Berna, Guy Debord, et al. Some Ideas on the Cinema (Italy, 1953) Cesare Zavattini A Certain Tendency in French Cinema (France, 1954) Francois Truffaut Salamanca Manifesto & Conclusions of the Congress of Salamanca (Spain, 1955) Juan Antonio Bardem Free Cinema Manifestos (UK, 1956--1959) Committee for Free Cinema The Oberhausen Manifesto (West Germany, 1962) Alexander Kluge, Edgar Reitz, et al. Untitled [Oberhausen 1965] (West Germany, 1965) Jean-Marie Straub, Rodolf Thome, Dirk Alvermann, et al. The Mannheim Declaration (West Germany, 1967) Joseph von Sternberg, Alexander Kluge, et al. Sitges Manifesto (Spain, 1967) Manuel Revuelta, Antonio Artero, Joachin Jorda, and Julian Marcos How to Make a Canadian Film (Canada, 1967) Guy Glover How to Not Make a Canadian Film (Canada, 1967) Claude Jutra From "The Estates General of the French Cinema, May 1968" (France, 1968) Thierry Derocles, Michel Demoule, Claude Chabrol, and Marin Karmitz Manifesto of the New Cinema Movement (India, 1968) Arun Kaul and Mrinal Sen What Is to Be Done? (France, 197) Jean-Luc Godard The Winnipeg Manifesto (Canada, 1974) Denys Arcand, Colin Low, Don Shebib, et al. Hamburg Declaration of German Filmmakers (West Germany, 1979) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, et al. Manifesto I (Denmark, 1984) Lars von Trier Manifesto II (Denmark, 1987) Lars von Trier Manifesto III: I Confess! (Denmark, 199) Lars von Trier The Cinema We Need (Canada, 1985) R. Bruce Elder Pathways to the Establishment of a Nigerian Film Industry (Nigeria, 1985) Ola Balogun Manifesto of 1988 (German Democratic Republic, 1988) Young DEFA Filmmakers In Praise of a Poor Cinema (Scotland, 1993) Colin McArthur Dogme '95 Manifesto and Vow of Chastity (Denmark, 1995) Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg I Sinema Manifesto (Indonesia, 1999) Dimas Djayadinigrat, Enison Sinaro, et al. 3. Third Cinemas, Colonialism, Decolonization, and Postcolonialism Manifesto of the New Cinema Group (Mexico, 1961) El grupo nuevo cine Cinema and Underdevelopment (Argentina, 1962) Fernando Birri The Aesthetics of Hunger (Brazil, 1965) Glauber Rocha For an Imperfect Cinema (Cuba, 1969) Julio Garcia Espinosa Towards a Third Cinema: Notes and Experiences for the Development of a Cinema of Liberation in the Third World (Argentina, 1969) Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino Film Makers and the Popular Government Political Manifesto (Chile, 197) Comite de cine de la unidad popular Consciousness of a Need (Uruguay, 197) Mario Handler Militant Cinema: An Internal Category of Third Cinema (Argentina, 1971) Octavio Getino and Fernando Solanas For Colombia 1971: Militancy and Cinema (Colombia, 1971) Carlos Alvarez The Cinema: Another Face of Colonised Quebec (Canada, 1971) Association professionnelle des cineastes du Quebec 8 Millimeters versus 8 Millions (Mexico, 1972) Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, Arturo Ripstein, Paul Leduc, et al. Manifesto of the Palestinian Cinema Group (Palestine, 1973) Palestinian Cinema Group Resolutions of the Third World Filmmakers Meeting (Algeria, 1973) Fernando Birri, Ousmane Sembene, Jorge Silva, et al. The Luz e Acao Manifesto (Brazil, 1973) Carlos Diegues, Glauber Rocha, et al. Problems of Form and Content in Revolutionary Cinema (Bolivia, 1976) Jorge Sanjines Manifesto of the National Front of Cinematographers (Mexico, 1975) Paul Leduc, Jorge Fons, et al. The Algiers Charter on African Cinema (Algeria, 1975) FEPACI (Federation panafricaine des cineastes) Declaration of Principles and Goals of the Nicaraguan Institute of Cinema (Nicaragua, 1979) Nicaraguan Institute of Cinema What Is the Cinema for Us? (Mauritania, 1979) Med Hondo Niamey Manifesto of African Filmmakers (Niger, 1982) FEPACI (Federation panafricaine des cineastes) Black Independent Filmmaking: A Statement by the Black Audio Film Collective (UK, 1983) John Akomfrah From Birth Certificate of the International School of Cinema and Television in San Antonio de Los Banos, Cuba, Nicknamed the School of Three Worlds (Cuba, 1986) Fernando Birri FeCAViP Manifesto (France, 199) Federation of Caribbean Audiovisual Professionals Final Communique of the First Frontline Film Festival and Workshop (Zimbabwe, 199) SADCC (South African Development Coordination Conference) Pocha Manifesto #1 (USA, 1994) Sandra Pena-Sarmiento Poor Cinema Manifesto (Cuba, 24) Humberto Solas Jollywood Manifesto (Haiti, 28) Cine Institute The Toronto Declaration: No Celebration of Occupation (Canada, 29) John Greyson, Naomi Klein, et al. 4. Gender, Feminist, Queer, Sexuality, and Porn Manifestos Woman's Place in Photoplay Production (USA, 1914) Alice Guy-Blache Hands Off Love (France, 1927) Maxime Alexandre, Louis Aragon, et al. The Perfect Filmic Appositeness of Maria Montez (USA, 1962) Jack Smith On Film No. 4 (In Taking the Bottoms of 365 Saints of Our Time) (UK, 1967) Yoko Ono Statement (USA, 1969) Kenneth Anger Wet Dream Film Festival Manifesto (The Netherlands, 197) S.E.L.F. (Sexual Egalitarianism and Libertarian Fraternity) Women's Cinema as Counter-Cinema (UK, 1973) Claire Johnston Manifesto for a Non-sexist Cinema (Canada, 1974) FECIP (Federation europeenne du cinema progressiste) Womanifesto (USA, 1975) Feminists in the Media Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (UK, 1975) Laura Mulvey An Egret in the Porno Swamp: Notes of Sex in the Cinema (Sweden, 1977) Vilgot Sjoman For the Self-Expression of the Arab Woman (France, 1978) Heiny Srour, Salma Baccar, and Magda Wassef Manifesto of the Women Filmmakers (West Germany, 1979) Verband der Filmarbeiterinnen Wimmin's Fire Brigade Communique (Canada, 1982) Wimmin's Fire Brigade Thoughts on Women's Cinema: Eating Words, Voicing Struggles (USA, 1986) Yvonne Rainer The Post Porn Modernist Manifesto (USA, 1989) Annie Sprinkle, Veronica Vera, et al. Statement of African Women Professionals of Cinema, Television and Video (Burkina Faso, 1991) FEPACI (Federation panafricaine des cineastes) Puzzy Power Manifesto: Thoughts on Women and Pornography (Denmark, 1998) Vibeke Windelov, Lene Borglum, et al. Cinema with Tits (Spain, 1998) Iciar Bollain My Porn Manifesto (France, 22) Ovidie No More Mr. Nice Gay: A Manifesto (USA, 29) Todd Verow Barefoot Filmmaking Manifesto (UK, 29) Sally Potter Dirty Diaries Manifesto (Sweden, 29) Mia Engberg 5. Militating Hollywood Code to Govern the Making of Talking, Synchronized and Silent Motion Pictures (Motion Picture Production Code) (USA, 193) Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America Red Films: Soviets Spreading Doctrine in U.S. Theatres (USA, 1935) William Randolph Hearst Statement of Principles (USA, 1944) Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals Screen Guide for Americans (USA, 1947) Ayn Rand White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art (USA, 1962) Manny Farber Super Fly: A Summary of Objections by the Kuumba Workshop (USA, 1972) Kuumba Workshop The World Is Changing: Some Thoughts on Our Business (USA, 1991) Jeffrey Katzenberg Full Frontal Manifesto (USA, 21) Steven Soderbergh 6. The Creative Treatment of Actuality Towards a Social Cinema (France, 193) Jean Vigo From "First Principles of Documentary" (UK, 1932) John Grierson Manifesto on the Documentary Film (UK, 1933) Oswell Blakeston Declaration of the Group of Thirty (France, 1953) Jean Painleve, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Alain Resnais, et al. Initial Statement of the Newsreel (USA, 1967) New York Newsreel Nowsreel, or the Potentialities of a Political Cinema (USA, 197) Robert Kramer, New York Newsreel Documentary Filmmakers Make Their Case (Poland, 1971) Bohdan Kosinski, Krzysztof Kieslowski, and Tomasz Zygadlo The Asian Filmmakers at Yamagata YIDFF Manifesto (Japan, 1989) Kidlat Tahimik, Stephen Teo, et al. Minnesota Declaration: Truth and Fact in Documentary Cinema (Germany, 1999) Werner Herzog Defocus Manifesto (Denmark, 2) Lars von Trier Kill the Documentary as We Know It (USA, 22) Jill Godmilow Ethnographic Cinema (EC): A Manifesto{ths}/{ths}A Provocation (USA, 23) Jay Ruby Reality Cinema Manifesto (Russia, 25) Vitaly Manskiy Documentary Manifesto (USA, 28) Albert Maysles China Independent Film Festival Manifesto: Shamans * Animals (People's Republic of China, 211) By several documentary filmmakers who participated and also who did not participate in the festival 7. States, Dictatorships, the Comintern, and Theocracies Capture the Film! Hints on the Use of, Out of the Use of, Proletarian Film Propaganda (USA, 1925) Willi Munzenberg The Legion of Decency Pledge (USA, 1938) Archbishop John McNicholas Creative Film (Germany, 1935) Joseph Goebbels Vigilanti Cura: On Motion Pictures (Vatican City, 1936) Pope Pius XI Four Cardinal Points of A Revolucao de Maio (Portugal, 1937) Antonio Lopes Ribeiro From On the Art of Cinema (North Korea, 1973) Kim Jong-il 8. Archives, Museums, Festivals, and Cinematheques A New Source of History: The Creation of a Depository for Historical Cinematography (Poland/France, 1898) Boleslaw Matuszewski The Film Prayer (USA, c. 192) A. P. Hollis The Film Society (UK, 1925) Iris Barry Filmliga Manifesto (The Netherlands, 1927) Joris Ivens, Henrik Scholte, Men'no Ter Bbaak, et al. Statement of Purposes (USA, 1948) Amos Vogel, Cinema 16 The Importance of Film Archives (UK, 1948) Ernest Lindgren A Plea for a Canadian Film Archive (Canada, 1949) Hye Bossin Open Letter to Film-Makers of the World (USA, 1966) Jonas Mekas A Declaration from the Committee for the Defense of La Cinematheque francaise (France, 1968) Committee for the Defense of La Cinematheque francaise Filmmakers versus the Museum of Modern Art (USA, 1969) Hollis Frampton, Ken Jacobs, and Michael Snow Anthology Film Archives Manifesto (USA, 197) P. Adams Sitney Toward an Ethnographic Film Archive (USA, 1971) Alan Lomax Brooklyn Babylon Cinema Manifesto (USA, 1998) Scott Miller Berry and Stephen Kent Jusick Don't Throw Film Away: The FIAF 7th Anniversary Manifesto (France, 28) Hisashi Okajima and La federation internationale des archives du film Manifesto Working Group The Lindgren Manifesto: The Film Curator of the Future (Italy, 21) Paolo Cherchi Usai Film Festival Form: A Manifesto (UK, 212) Mark Cousins 9. Sounds and Silence A Statement on Sound (USSR, 1928) Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Grigori Alexandrov A Rejection of the Talkies (USA, 1931) Charlie Chaplin A Dialogue on Sound: A Manifesto (UK, 1934) Basil Wright and B. Vivian Braun Amalfi Manifesto (Italy, 1967) Michelangelo Antonioni, Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier Paolo Pasolini, et al. 10. The Digital Revolution Culture: Intercom and Expanded Cinema: A Proposal and Manifesto (USA, 1966) Stan VanDerBeek The Digital Revolution and the Future Cinema (Iran, 2) Samira Makhmalbaf The Pluginmanifesto (UK, 21) Ana Kronschnabl Digital Dekalogo: A Manifesto for a Filmless Philippines (The Philippines, 23) Khavn de la Cruz 11. Aesthetics and the Futures of the Cinema The Birth of the Sixth Art (France, 1911) Ricciotto Canudo Memo from Walt Disney to Don Graham (USA, 1935) Walt Disney The Birth of a New Avant Garde: La camera-stylo (France, 1948) Alexandre Astruc From Preface to Film (UK, 1954) Raymond Williams The Snakeskin (Sweden, 1965) Ingmar Bergman Manifesto (Italy, 1965) Roberto Rossellini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Tinto Brass, et al. Manifesto on the Release of La Chinoise (France, 1967) Jean-Luc Godard Direct Action Cinema Manifesto (USA, 1985) Rob Nilsson Remodernist Film Manifesto (USA, 28) Jesse Richards The Age of Amateur Cinema Will Return (People's Republic of China, 21) Jia Zhangke Appendix. What Is a Manifesto Film? Notes Acknowledgments of Permissions Index

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Book SynopsisIn Making Things and Drawing Boundaries, critical theory and cultural practice meet creativity, collaboration, and experimentation with physical materials as never before. Foregrounding the interdisciplinary character of experimental methods and hands-on research, this collection asks what it means to “make” things in the humanities. How is humanities research manifested in hand and on screen alongside the essay and monograph? And, importantly, how does experimentation with physical materials correspond with social justice and responsibility? Comprising almost forty chapters from ninety practitioners across twenty disciplines, Making Things and Drawing Boundaries speaks directly and extensively to how humanities research engages a growing interest in “maker” culture, however “making” may be defined.Contributors: Erin R. Anderson; Joanne Bernardi; Yana Boeva; Jeremy Boggs; Duncan A. Buell; Amy Burek; Trisha N. Campbell; Debbie Chachra; Beth Compton; Heidi Rae Cooley; Nora Dimmock; Devon Elliott; Bill Endres; Katherine Faull; Alexander Flamenco; Emily Alden Foster; Sarah Fox; Chelsea A. M. Gardner; Susan Garfinkel; Lee Hannigan; Sara Hendren; Ryan Hunt; John Hunter; Diane Jakacki; Janelle Jenstad; Edward Jones-Imhotep; Julie Thompson Klein; Aaron D. Knochel; J. K. Purdom Lindblad; Kim Martin; Gwynaeth McIntyre; Aurelio Meza; Shezan Muhammedi; Angel David Nieves; Marcel O’Gorman; Amy Papaelias; Matt Ratto; Isaac Record; Jennifer Reed; Gabby Resch; Jennifer Roberts-Smith; Melissa Rogers; Daniela K. Rosner; Stan Ruecker; Roxanne Shirazi; James Smithies; P. P. Sneha; Lisa M. Snyder; Kaitlyn Solberg; Dan Southwick; David Staley; Elaine Sullivan; Joseph Takeda; Ezra Teboul; William J. Turkel; Lisa Tweten.Trade Review"Sayers is to be commended for giving space to queer and feminist makers, who are often overlooked in favor of discussions on technological innovations. The essays on the interplay of craft and circuitry highlight how academic institutions need to look beyond monograph and journal publication as keystones to academic careers. This is required reading for those interested in digital humanities and in the intersection of maker culture and academics."—CHOICETable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: “I Don’t Know All the Circuitry”Jentery SayersPart I. Making and the Humanities1. The Boundary Work of Making in Digital HumanitiesJulie Thompson Klein2. On the “Maker Turn” in the HumanitiesDavid Staley3. Vibrant Lives presents The Living Net4. A Literacy of Building: Making in the Digital HumanitiesBill Endres5. MashBOT6. Making Humanities in the Digital: Embodiment and Framing in Bichitra and Indiancine.maP. P. SnehaPart II. Made by Whom? For Whom?7. Making the RA Matter: Pedagogy, Interface, and PracticesJanelle Jenstad and Joseph Takeda8. Reproducing the Academy: Librarians and the Question of Service in the Digital HumanitiesRoxanne Shirazi9. Looks Like We Made It, But Are We Sustaining Digital Scholarship?Chelsea A. M. Gardner, Gwynaeth McIntyre, Kaitlyn Solberg, and Lisa Tweten10. Full Stack DH: Building a Virtual Research Environment on a Raspberry PiJames Smithies11. Mic Jammer12. The Making of a Digital Humanities Neo-LudditeMarcel O’Gorman13. Made: Technology on Affluent Leisure Time14. Reifying the Maker as HumanistJohn Hunter, Katherine Faull, and Diane Jakacki15. All Technology Is Assistive: Six Design Rules on DisabilitySara HendrenPart III. Making as Inquiry16. Thinking as Handwork: Critical Making with Humanistic ConcernsGabby Resch, Dan Southwick, Isaac Record, and Matt Ratto17. Bibliocircuitry and the Design of the Alien Everyday, 2012–201318. Doing History by Reverse Engineering Electronic DevicesYana Boeva, Devon Elliott, Edward Jones-Imhotep, Shezan Muhammedi, and William J. Turkel19. Electronic Music Hardware and Open Design Methodologies for Postoptimal ObjectsEzra Teboul20. Glitch Console21. Creative Curating: The Digital Archive as ArgumentJoanne Bernardi and Nora Dimmock22. Reading Series Matter: Performing the SpokenWeb ProjectAlexander Flamenco, Lee Hannigan, and Aurelio Meza23. Loss Sets24. Dialogic Objects in the Age of 3D Printing: The Case of the Lincoln Life MaskSusan GarfinkelPart IV. Making Spaces and Interfaces25. Feminist Hackerspaces: Hacking Culture, Not Devices (the zine!)Amy Burek, Emily Alden Foster, Sarah Fox, and Daniela K. Rosner26. Fashioning Circuits, 2011–Present27. Making Queer Feminisms Matter: A Transdisciplinary Makerspace for the Rest of UsMelissa Rogers28. Movable Party29. Disrupting Dichotomies: Mobilizing Digital Humanities with the MakerBusKim Martin, Beth Compton, and Ryan Hunt30. Designs for Foraging: Fruit Are Heavy, 2015–201631. Experience Design for the Humanities: Activating Multiple InterpretationsStan Ruecker and Jennifer Roberts-Smith32. AIDS Quilt Touch: Virtual Quilt Browser33. Building Humanities Software That Matters: The Case of Ward One Mobile AppHeidi Rae Cooley and Duncan A. Buell34. Placeable: A Social Practice for Place-Based Learning and Co-design ParadigmsAaron D. Knochel and Amy Papaelias35. Making the Model: Scholarship and Rhetoric in 3D Historical ReconstructionsElaine Sullivan, Angel David Nieves, and Lisa M. SnyderPart V. Making, Justice, Ethics36. Beyond MakingDebbie Chachra37. Making It MatterJeremy Boggs, Jennifer Reed, and J. K. Purdom Lindblad38. Ethics in the MakingErin R. Anderson and Trisha N. CampbellAcknowledgmentsContributors

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Book SynopsisThe Art of the Paperblue is a must have art book for artists, entertainment designers, and anyone who wants to learn to paint creative environment paintings. Paperblue shares his knowledge of creating environment conceptual paintings for movies, games, and other entertainment industry fields. This book shows more than 10 full-length step-by-step tutorials with detailed explanations and hundreds of stunning art works and numerous quick sketches. In addition, Paperblue shares his techniques of using custom brushes, smudge tools, color theories, compositions, and many other techniques helpful in creating imaginative art works. This book features Sci-Fi environment paintings, fantasy paintings, vehicle designs, Mechs, ships, fighters, aircrafts and more. Get ready to be inspired by the gorgeous artwork of Paperblue, all while learning his painting techniques via step-by-step tutorials.

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Book SynopsisIn Poetic Operations artist and theorist micha cárdenas considers contemporary digital media, artwork, and poetry in order to articulate trans of color strategies for safety and survival. Drawing on decolonial theory, women of color feminism, media theory, and queer of color critique, cárdenas develops a method she calls algorithmic analysis. Understanding algorithms as sets of instructions designed to perform specific tasks (like a recipe), she breaks them into their component parts, called operations. By focusing on these operations, cárdenas identifies how trans and gender-non-conforming artists, especially artists of color, rewrite algorithms to counter violence and develop strategies for liberation. In her analyses of Giuseppe Campuzano''s holographic art, Esdras Parra''s and Kai Cheng Thom''s poetry, Mattie Brice''s digital games, Janelle Monáe''s music videos, and her own artistic practice, cárdenas shows how algorithmic analysis provideTrade Review“In this beautifully written book, micha cárdenas directs us to look at how the algorithm, as analytic and praxis, holds the possibility of trans of color survival. Deftly moving across numerous geographies, texts, and fields of inquiry, Poetic Operations is a bold contribution to trans of color studies.” -- C. Riley Snorton, author of * Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity *“micha cárdenas’s powerful new work extends intersectionality as a mode for understanding the relationships between race, class, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, and other axes of power, oppression, and resistance. Doing important theoretical and analytical work in its analysis of trans of color media arts practice, Poetic Operations will be useful for those working in media studies, digital studies, trans studies, and art history, as well as anyone interested in interrogating power.” -- Sasha Costanza-Chock, author of * Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need *"Poetic Operations is arguably the first major academic work to deal with the subject matter in such detail. How cárdenas uses the term will likely become the standard by which other engagements with the term are measured.” -- Sofie Vlaad * Journal of Critical Race Inquiry *“Importantly, this book models theory developed from and for trans of color existence and models how scholars must critically reflect on how our theories have ramifications for people’s lives. . . . Poetic Operations provides methods for analysis and design that invite exciting and innovative projects that engage in decolonial trans of color survival and celebration.” -- Shano (Hongyuan) Liang and Michael Anthony DeAnda * Lateral *“cárdenas explores digital media, speculative design and technology, performance and visual arts, coding, activism, theory, games, and poetry across the geographies of the Americas and beyond, along with a deep self-reflective engagement with her own practice-based projects. . . . Centering Black, Indigenous, Latinx trans and travesti voices, PoeticOperations offers critical approaches to deploy digital technologies for decolonial futures.” -- Nishant Upadhyay * American Quarterly *"Poetic Operations is a clear, well-written, and creative first- and third-person account of trans of color existence in written, digital, and performed avenues of praxis. Ultimately, cárdenas provides a useful model of algorithms, exposing this tool as a survival method used by trans people for centuries and how it continues to prevent violence and provide safety and security for contemporary communities everywhere." -- Riana Slyter * Women's Studies in Communication *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Algorithmic Analysis 1 1. Trans of Color Poetics 26 2. The Decolonial Cut 43 3. The Shift 72 4. The Experience of Shifting 96 5. The Stitch 129 Conclusion. Visionary Trans of Color Futures 167 Notes 179 Bibliography 203 Index 213

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Book SynopsisFor the first time, talented French illustrator and character designer Sibylline Meynet not only shares her beautiful artwork in this beautifully crafted book, but also presents specially commissioned tutorials, step-by-step techniques, and the story of her journey as a professional artist. Rêverie: The Art of Sibylline Meynet is a must-have for aspiring artists and illustrators in need of career inspiration and a creative re-boot. Sibylline launched herself as a freelance illustrator straight out of high school in her native France, and now works as a comic artist, character designer, and illustrator for magazines and books. Her artwork features in abundance the girls and animals she loves to draw, characters who exude charm and whimsy as well as great narrative strength and depth. Behind her artwork is a career in film and print, on projects from Scoob! (Warner Bros.) and Garfield (BOOM! Studios), to Cursed and Orange is the New Black (Netflix). In this book, Sibylline shares her experiences working in the industry, juggling work commitments with exhibiting, collaborations, and personal projects. For artists seeking new creative exercises, career inspiration, advice, and a chance to peruse the gallery of a talented and unique professional artist, this exciting new book is essential.

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Book SynopsisIn the 1990s, Shirin Neshat’s startling black-and-white videos of Iranian women won enormous praise for their poetic reflections on post-revolutionary life in her native country. Writing in the New Yorker, Peter Schjeldahl called her multi-screen video meditations on the culture of the chador in Islamic Iran “the first undoubtable masterpieces of video installation.” Over the next twenty-five years Neshat’s work has continued its passionate engagement with ancient and recent Iranian history, extending its reach to the universal experience of living in exile and the human impact of political revolution. This book connects Neshat’s early video and photographic works—including haunting films such as Rapture, 1999 and Tooba, 2002—to her current projects which focus on the relation of home to exile and dreams such as The Home of My Eyes, 2015, and a new, never-before-seen project, Land of Dreams, 2019. It includes numerous stills from her series, Dreamers, in which she documents the lives of outsiders and exiles in the United States. This volume also includes essays by prominent Iranian cultural figures as well as an interview with the artist. Neshat has always been a voice for those whose individual freedoms are under attack. With this monograph, her audience will gain a deeper understanding of Neshat’s own emotional, psychological, and political identities, and how they have helped her create compassionate portraits of the fraught and delicate spaces between attachment and alienation.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Plates and Figures | ix Introduction: The Body of Medusa | 1 1 China Girls in the Film Laboratory | 33 2 Gone Girls of Escamontage | 73 3 Gradivan Footsteps in the Film Archive | 102 Afterword | 129 Acknowledgments | 133 Notes | 135 Bibliography | 165 Index | 181 Color plates follow page 84

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Book SynopsisAn oversized art book showcasing the hugely popular online video game Final Fantasy XIV.

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Book SynopsisQuentin Tarantino is one of the leading filmmakers of the 90s, known for his unique scenes, exquisite soundtracks, violence and coarse language. Tarantino pays tributes in each of his films and creates unique situations in which the grotesque becomes amusing. This book is a tribute to Quentin Tarantino and the whole universe he has created. Here, you will see different fan art works by 31 international artists, authentic masterpieces, accompanied by phrases and anecdotes from the world of this fantastic filmmaker.

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