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Book SynopsisLike founder Helga Hufflepuff, the members of Hogwarts' Hufflepuff house, including Cedric Diggory and Newt Scamander, are known for their loyalty and honesty. Now you can capture the magic of Hufflepuff house like never before and collect a stunning array of artifacts inspired by the Harry Potter films. Inside, fans will learn about all things Hufflepuff, relive moments from the films, and delve into the behind-the-scenes magic that brought Harry Potter to life on the big screen.

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Book SynopsisBefore 2019's four-time Oscar®-winning Parasite came Bong Joon Ho's iconic English-language debut, Snowpiercer. The dystopian sci-fi thriller is set seventeen years after the world has frozen over and what's left of humanity lives on a train that travels the globe on a continuous loop. The story follows one man, played by Chris Evans, as he risks everything to lead a revolt to defy his preordained place in society and take control of the engine. Snowpiercer: The Art and the Making of the Film takes readers behind the scenes of this critically acclaimed film in exhaustive and exclusive detail. The book is full to the brim with exclusive, unseen on-set photography, stunning artworks, costume and set designs, and more, and is accompanied by brand-new interviews with the cast and crew, including Bong Joon Ho himself.

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Book SynopsisInspired by the hit Tomb Raider videogame franchise, this book features over 40 recipes from the many locations Lara Croft visits and explores across the globe, with food and drinks inspired by key characters and locations. Also included is expert information on the cultural history of the many beautiful cities and countries to which she travels. A global exploration, this unique cookbook and travel guide takes fans on an exclusive journey across the planet chasing the thrills and adventures of Lara Croft. Featuring beautiful full color photography as well as stunning art from the games, this is the ultimate gift for fans, travelers, and food aficionados alike.

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Book SynopsisThe official companion to the film Bullet Train from Deadpool 2 and Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw director David Leitch, starring Brad Pitt. Screenplay by Zak Olkewicz. Assassin-for-hire Ladybug (Brad Pitt) is filling in for a colleague and just wants an easy in-and-out mission for once. What he gets is far from it. There are four other assassins on this Japanese bullet train (Joey King, Brian Tyree Henry, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Zazie Beetz) and when each assassin's mission impedes the others', it leads to disastrous consequences. Go behind the scenes of this action-packed film in exclusive detail. This beautiful coffee-table book is full to the brim with concept art, behind-the-scenes photography, and storyboards, accompanied by exclusive interviews with the cast and crew, including David Leitch, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, and Hiroyuki Sanada.

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Book SynopsisIn The Middle Ages and the Movies eminent historian Robert Bartlett takes a fresh, cogent look at how our view of medieval history has been shaped by eight significant films of the twentieth century. The book ranges from the concoction of sex and nationalism in Mel Gibson’s Braveheart, to Fritz Lang’s silent masterpiece Siegfried, the art-house classic The Seventh Seal and the epic historical drama El Cid. The historical accuracy of these films is examined, as well as other salient aspects – how was Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose translated from page to screen? Why is Monty Python and the Holy Grail funny? And how was Eisenstein’s Alexander Nevsky shaped by the Stalinist tyranny under which it was filmed?

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Book SynopsisChristopher Nolan occupies a rare realm within the Hollywood mainstream, creating complex, original films that achieve both critical acclaim and commercial success. In The Traumatic Screen, Stuart Joy builds on contemporary applications of psychoanalytic film theory to consider the function and presentation of trauma across Nolan’s work, arguing that the complexity, thematic consistency and fragmentary nature of his films mimic the structural operation of trauma. From 1997’s Doodlebug to 2017’s Dunkirk, Nolan’s films highlight cinema’s ability to probe the nature of human consciousness while commenting on the relationship between spectator and screen. Joy examines Nolan’s treatment of trauma – both individual and collective – through the formal construction, mise en scène and repeated themes of his films. The argument presented is based on close textual analysis and a methodological framework that incorporates the works of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. The first in-depth, overtly psychoanalytic understanding of trauma in the context of the director’s filmography, this book builds on and challenges existing scholarship in a bold new interpretation of the Nolan canon.Trade Review'Nolan's films have been explored in a number of critical works, but this is the first study to examine his work—from Doodlebug (1997) to Dunkirk (2017)—from a psychoanalytic perspective. The characters in Nolan’s films typically have undergone a traumatic experience and must reconcile past memories in order to move forward. [Joy's] synthesized approach to trauma [...] looks at themes of time, memory, identity, and narrative, motifs that are recurring elements in Nolan's films. For example, he takes a Freudian approach to exploring how the murder of the parents of the young Bruce Wayne (Batman) affected Wayne's development. A solid addition to the literature on Nolan.' -- CHOICE'Stuart Joy’s The Traumatic Screen provides a careful and accurate analysis of the films of one of the most important contemporary directors: Christopher Nolan. Nolan’s films are not without criticism, and the final analysis might reveal that only a few of the (justly) lauded works of Christopher Nolan are truly worthy of the appellation “great.” Nonetheless, the best of Christopher Nolan’s films are delightful intellectual puzzles that help provide a deeper understanding of human nature, and Stuart Joy’s The Traumatic Screen is a helpful guide to Nolan’s labyrinthian films.' -- Jesse Russell, Voegelinview'Overall, a good arc is drawn across the structure of the entire book, which repeatedly takes up the central themes of trauma, desire, time and melancholy and substantiates them using film examples. The analysis sections, each of which deals with the respective film in great detail, are written in a particularly comprehensible and clear manner. Even for readers who have not seen the films, Joy has been able to close gaps in the content with concise summaries and provides a very informative overall picture. [...] The author goes into great theoretical depth, which is why this work is definitely useful for further professional work.' -- David Brosch, MEDIENwissenschaft: Rezensionen | Reviews [translated]Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Traumatic Screen: Trauma, Psychoanalysis and Cinema 2. Revisiting the Scene of the Crime: Repressing the Past in Insomnia 3. Batman Begins, Again: The Temporality of Trauma in The Dark Knight Trilogy 4. Looking for the Secret: The Intersection between Trauma and Desire in The Prestige 5. The Dream has Become Their Reality: Acting-Out and Working-Through Trauma in Inception 6. Beyond the Void: Interstellar and the Possibilities of Post-Traumatic Growth 7. Keep Calm and Carry On: Combating Collective Trauma in Dunkirk 8. Conclusion – Ending at the Beginning with Doodlebug, Following and Memento

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Book SynopsisThe Naples-born director and screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino has, to date, written and directed nine films, winning an Oscar, a Bafta and a Golden Globe for The Great Beauty in 2013. In 2016, he created and directed his first TV series, The Young Pope, which starred Jude Law. John Malkovich joined the cast in 2020 for the follow-up series. He has established himself as a world-leading auteur with a list of critically acclaimed and award-winning films. This is an invaluable contribution to the existing literature on Sorrentino and is the first English language collection dedicated to this prolific director, who has emerged as one of the most compelling figures in twenty-first-century European film. International contributors from the UK, Italy, France, The Netherlands, Australia, Israel, Canada and the United States, Italy, Israel, France, UK, Australia, Canada, offer original interpretations of Sorrentino’s work. They examine his recurrent grand themes of memory, nostalgia, ageing, love, thirst for fulfilment, search for the self, identity crisis, human estrangement, marginality, irony and power. In so doing, they offer new perspectives and unique cues for discussion, challenging established assumptions and interpretations. Important and current themes such as eco-cinema and post-secularism are addressed as well as the links between Sorrentino’s highly visual cinema and artistic practice such as painting and architecture. While there are several books on Sorrentino available in Italian, none of these provide an authoritative account of his work; and language has restricted the readership. This is the first English-language collection focussed on Sorrentino, arguably the most successful and significant contemporary Italian filmmaker. The majority of the chapters included in this new book are original and it also includes a Foreword by Giancarlo Lombardi, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at CUNY, and an interview with renowned costume designer Carlo Poggioli, who has worked with Sorrentino on many productions. Some of the chapters were previously published in a special issue of the journal JICMS – The Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies in 2019. The new collection makes a significant coherent contribution to the field. Primary readership will be academics, researchers and scholars of Italian film and media studies. Also post-graduate students and upper level under-graduates. Potential to be used as textbook or as supplementary reading for undergraduate and graduate courses Given the subject, there is a possibility for some crossover appeal to a broader readership, but this is primarily a scholarly text.Trade Review'This is an extremely valuable contribution to Sorrentino scholarship that, especially when read in conjunction with Kilbourn’s monograph, provides a provocative, wide-ranging and thought-provoking overview of Sorrentino’s originality and significance. Moreover, it does not fail to engage with the more controversial and divisive aspects of his work, such as his treatment of gender (addressed in essays by Russell Kilbourn and Nicoletta Marini-Maio) and alleged privileging of style over content (addressed in essays by Lydia Tuan and Michela Barisonzi). The book should be of great interest to anyone concerned with Italian cinema, contemporary Italian culture, or the state of global film and television today. Sorrentino has finally achieved the recognition he deserves within academia and I am sure this exciting new collection will only serve as a spur to further scholarship.' -- Alex Marlow-Mann, Modern ItalyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Forward Giancarlo Lombardi Introduction: The Creative and Artistic Trajectory of Paolo Sorrentino Annachiara Mariani Part one: Examining and Deconstructing Sorrentino’s Ethos Chapter 1: Private Pain/Public Places: Sights, Sightings, and Sounds of Nostalgia in Youth and The Young Pope Ellen Nerenberg Chapter 2: Against Postmodernism. Paolo Sorrentino and the Search for Authenticity Mimmo Cangiano Chapter 3: A Journey from Death to Life: Spectacular Realism and the ‘Unamendability’ of Reality in Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty Monica Facchini Chapter 4: Paolo Sorrentino’s Cinematic Excess Lydia Tuan Part two: Sorrentino’s Real and Symbolic Spaces Chapter 5: Posthuman Sorrentino. Youth and The Great Beauty as Ecocinema Matteo Gilebbi Chapter 6: Interpolating the ‘blah, blah, blah’: Rome’s Vocalization Through Architecture in The Great Beauty Alex Gammon Chapter 7: The Great Beauty: A Journey Through Art and Relations in Search for Beauty Michela Barisonzi Chapter 8: The Urban Dimension as Film Character: Rome in The Great Beauty Carla Molinari Part three: A Journey into Sorrentino’s Psyche Chapter 9: The ‘Primal Scene’: Memory, Redemption and (The Image of) ‘Woman’ in the Films of Paolo Sorrentino Russell Kilbourn Chapter 10: Anxiety (of Influence) and (Absent) Fathers in Paolo Sorrentino Sandra Waters Chapter 11: ‘È solo l’alito di un vecchio’. Obscenity, Exchange Regimes, and the Catastrophe of Aging in Loro. Nicoletta Marini-Maio Part four: Sorrentino’s Postsecular Pope Chapter 12: The Young Pope’s Credit Sequence: A Postsecular Allegory in Ten Paintings. Russell Kilbourn Chapter 13: The ‘Fabrication’ of Religion in The Young Pope: the Double Irony of Post-Secular Iconicity Monica Jansen and Maria Bonaria Urban Chapter 14: The Young Pope Between Television and Celebrity Studies Anna Manzato and Antonella Mascio Interview with Carlo Poggioli (costume designer of Paolo Sorrentino) Annachiara Mariani Bibliography

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Book SynopsisElwes takes a journey through the twin histories of landscape art and experimental moving image and discovers how they coalesce in the work of artists from the 1970s to the present day. Drawing on a wide geographical sampling, Elwes considers issues that have preoccupied film and video artists over the years, ranging from ecology, gender, race, performativity, conflict, colonialism and our relationship to the nonhuman creatures with whom we share our world. The book is informed by the belief that artists can provide an embodied, emotional response to landscape, which is an essential driver in the urgent task of combating the environmental crisis we now face. The book comprises a series of essays that explore how the moving image mediates our relationship to and understanding of landscapes. The focus is on artists’ film and video and draws on work from the 1970s to the present day. Early chapters map the theoretical terrain for both landscape and artists’ moving image creating a foundation for the chapters that follow devoted to practice. These address themes of identity politics, performativity and animals and examine examples of British ‘weather-blown films’ and work from around the world including Indigenous Australian film landscapes. The book offers an informed, personal view of the subject and threaded through the narrative is a concern with the environment and the vexed question of whether an appreciation of nature’s aesthetics undermines a commitment to ecology. The book is written in a clear, engaging style and is enlivened by Elwes's own experiences as a video artist, writer and curator, and the primary material she draws on derived from conversations with fellow practitioners across the years. As a practitioner, Elwes was a key figure in the early phases of video art in the UK as well as a curator and critic. She was professor of moving image art at the University of the Arts London; and is founding editor of the Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ) This book will appeal to students, undergraduate and post-graduate, Ph.D. candidates, researchers, practitioners, teachers and lecturers and a general readership of interested gallery-going public.Trade Review'This is a beautifully-written, well-researched, thoughtful, generous and passionate book. It is one that seeks to make a difference not only to our knowledge of representations of landscapes by moving image artists but also to inspire new generations of eco-critically-minded artists to discover fresh ways to communicate urgent messages about the ongoing breakdown of the natural world. The book offers innovative explorations of how the moving image continues to facilitate understandings of our relationships to ‘natural’ landscapes. [...] This is an original, often inspirational work which offers a comprehensive and up-to-date view of landscape and moving image from the perspective of a highly knowledgeable artist.' -- Paul Newland, Journal of British Cinema and Television'Complex, yet highly readable. [...] The strength of Elwes’s writing is that she is not simply a film scholar discussing landscape and the moving image, but she is also an artist underpinning it with her experience of making videos, hence her interest in embodied and emotional responses to landscape. [...] Elwes takes great care to include a wide range of artists (using moving image or otherwise), sometimes returning to specific individuals, which creates a sense of continuity. Her stated focus is how artists might sensitively and ethically engage with the moving image in the landscape in the context of the environmental crisis.' -- Edwina fitzPatrick, MIRAJ: Moving Image Review & Art Journal'Drawing on her lifetime’s work as an artist, a scholar, and an arts administrator, Catherine Elwes’s new book is magnificent. The book’s global reach (from Uluru to the Arctic), the erosion of white male colonial and pectatorial privilege entailed in her expanded geographical perspectives, and her contextualization of all questions of landscape in political issues together mark a decisive and much-needed scholarly paradigm shift, one at last responsive to our present ecological disasters.' -- Professor David James, University of Southern California'[Elwes’s] writing really brings the films to life in their absence. It made me intrigued about the films but the book also stands alone and apart from them, vividly offering images that the reader puts together from the text. It adds other dimensions to the films that are enough even if one were to never see the works themselves – as a piece of writing conjuring a rich critical dimension.' -- Dr Judith Rugg, co-editor of Spatialities: The Geographies of Art & Architecture, and Issues of Curating Contemporary Art & Performance'Moving images are now everywhere in galleries and art biennials, and ecology is no longer a niche theme. Drawing on decades of making and writing about film and video, Elwes offers more than a guided tour. She offers encounters with the art, ideas and artists of the Anthropocene, and invites readers into rich conversations about and between feminism, decolonial critique and environmentalism with eloquence, passion and wit. You will never see landscape art the same way again.' -- Professor Sean Cubitt, University of MelbourneTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Introduction - The semiotics of the view - Eco-critical practices - The indivisibility of the human subject and nature - The text - The parameters - Author’s note 2. The Terms of Engagement - Landscape, space and place - Inside and outside - The ethnographic eye and documentary: Negotiations of the real - The contested status of the real - Taking a step back – crossing over 3. The Invention of Landscape - Landscape, the antithesis of city life - The sublime, the spiritual and the indifference of nature - The picturesque and the pastoral - The return of the picturesque and the romantic sublime 4. The Social Construction of Landscape - National identity, society and history - Framing trauma in the landscape - Property, ownership, colonialism and class identity 5. Landscape Subjectivities - Do you see what I see? - The perceiving subject - A template for seeing, touching, hearing and feeling - Emotion, affect and sensation in nature 6. Painted Landscapes - The tools of the trade - Taking the eye for a walk – perspectives in painting - The great outdoors 7. Frames and Sequences - Photographing the view - Slide-tape: Landscape in series 8. Talking Pictures: Narrative, Time, Colour and Sound - ‘Nature caught in the act’ - Narrative film: Background and foreground - The time base - Colour and black-and-white - Sound and silence 9. Talking Pictures: Framing the View and the Spectator - Framing the view - Point of view: The restless eye - The spectator 10. Artists’ Moving Image - ‘Unmade Narratives’: Experimental film - Video: The travelling companion - Digital media: No man’s land - Photogénie and the entanglement of matter 11. Weather-Blown Film - River Yar (1971–72), William Raban and Chris Welsby - Theory: Clouds and clocks - Wind Vane (1972), Chris Welsby - Feedback: Cybernetics 12. Being-With: Rocks, Sea and Sky - La Région Centrale (1971), Michael Snow - Aspect (2004), Emily Richardson - Sea-changed film: R.V. Ramani and David Gatten - This Is My Land (2006), Ben Rivers - Dawn Burn (1975–76), Mary Lucier - Interwoven Motion (2004), Chris Meigh-Andrews - The wide blue yonder: Semiconductor, Susan Collins, James Turrell and James Benning 13. Getting the Shivers: Empathic Projection and the Elements - Jack Lauder and Lloyd Branson, Zacharias Kunuk, Oscar Muñoz, Bill Viola, Joan Jonas and William Raban 14. Anti-Terrain: Australasia and the ‘Vexed’ Question of Landscape - Preconceptions - The antipodean gaze - Refiguring landscapes - Imagining a future 15. Landscape and Identity Politics - Signatures - Slavery and the African Diaspora: The Black body in the landscape - Mother Earth - Queering the landscape - Fault lines – masculinity 16. Performing the Landscape - Acting out in Merrie England - Performing matter - Shifting the scenery 17. Animals - A pantomime of animals - Captive animals: A transaction of the gaze - ‘Companion animals’ - Cruelty to animals - Discreet courtship 18. Postscript References Index

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Book SynopsisDavid Cronenberg’s films stand collectively as one of the great achievements in cinema. Fearless, imaginative and provocative, as well as intelligent and refreshingly disturbing, his work expresses a unique personal vision. More than simply ‘the baron of blood’ or the ‘king of venereal horror’, Cronenberg has long transcended these early attempts to label him. Through five decades of parasites, plastic realities, creative destruction and the rise of the new flesh – here is a filmmaker uniquely suited to dissect our mutating relationship with sex, death and technology. David Cronenberg On Screen presents a new survey of his extraordinary career, from early, experimental shorts and body-horror explorations, to commercial success with The Fly and Dead Ringers, and on to his celebrated and sometimes controversial literary adaptations. This volume also considers his excursions as an actor; key collaborators; television and advertising; and his new phase as a novelist. Cronenberg’s recurring themes are explored along the way: psychological transformation revealed in physical mutation, disease as an agent of change, violence, alternative sexualities, and the viral nature of desire. In our hyper-connected world of pandemic fear and mutable identities, the films of David Cronenberg are as relevant as ever

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Book SynopsisPithy put-downs, hard-boiled snarlings, words of love and regret... All the Best Lines presents 500 memorable movie quotes, embracing both one-liners ('My name is Pussy Galore') and slices of snappy dialogue from pictures as diverse as When Harry Met Sally and Pulp Fiction. Arranged under such timeless themes as Dreams, Friends, Libido and Memories, the quotes juxtapose films and stars from every era and every genre. Dotted throughout the text are feature capsules focusing on themes and stories in the movies from Goldwynisms to Mae West, plus a generous scattering of cinema anecdotes, making the book both a joy to browse and an authoritative reference. Lavishly illustrated with full-colour photographs, All the Best Lines will delight and entertain you in equal measure, reacquainting you with your favourite movies and introducing you to some forgotten classics.Trade ReviewA treasury of great screen lines... This is high-end QI material for the movies' * The Times *A lavish compilation of one-liners, poster quotes and opening scenes * Daily Mail *Pithy put-downs, sparkling one-liners, moving monologues and hilarious quips... Fascinating' * Mirror *A brilliant book * Mail on Sunday *Stylish and substantial, this collection of the finest lines in film dialogue is also a brief history of cinema itself * Daily Telegraph *Sublime... Lavish... A book of inspiring trivia' * Total Film *Celebrating the silver screen in all of its glory Tiffin's book offers a history of the medium as seen through the lens of its most sparkling lines and memorable scenes... A treasure trove of cinematic gems... Alfred Hitchcock famously said, "to make a great film you need three things: the script, the script and the script." And Tiffin's book amply demonstrates the truth of the assertion' * Good Book Guide *Interspersed with brilliant anecdotes and enlightening mini-essays on particular films. It is the kind of book that any cinephile will want to return to time and again * Choice *

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Book SynopsisRuth E. Carter is a living legend of costume design. For three decades, she has shaped the story of the Black experience on screen - from the eighties streetwear of DO THE RIGHT THING to the royal regalia of COMING 2 AMERICA. Her work on Marvel's BLACK PANTHER not only brought Afrofuturism to the mainstream, but also made her the first Black winner of an Oscar in costume design. In 2021, she became the second-ever costume designer to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In this definitive book, Carter shares her origins - recalling a trip to the sporting goods store with Spike Lee to outfit the SCHOOL DAZE cast and a transformative moment stepping inside history on the set of Steven Spielberg's AMISTAD. She recounts anecdotes from dressing the greats: Eddie Murphy, Samuel L. Jackson, Angela Bassett, Halle Berry, Chadwick Boseman, and many more. She describes the passion for history that inspired her period pieces - from MALCOLM X to WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT - and her journey into Afrofuturism. Carter's wisdom and stories are paired with deluxe visuals, including sketches, mood boards, and film stills. Stunning photography by Awol Erizku reveals the beautiful details of Carter's most iconic creations. Fans will even get a glimpse behind the scenes of the highly anticipated BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER. At its core, Carter's oeuvre celebrates Black heroes and sheroes, whether civil rights leaders or Wakandan warriors. She has brought the past to life and helped us imagine a brighter future. This book is sure to inspire the next generation of artists and storytellers.

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Book SynopsisThe greatest movies endure for many reasons: they give us comfort, laughter, drama and suspense. They thrill us with their powerful storytelling and bring us fabulous characters that linger on in the imagination. And then, of course, they showcase the astonishing skill of the moviemaker.The Little Book About Movies is a celebration of filmmaking and the power of cinema to challenge, inspire and change us. Inside you'll find fabulous quotes from some of the world's best filmmakers and actors, as well as stirring lines from some of the finest movies ever made. Whether you're hoping to revisit some of cinema's greatest moments or looking for fresh viewing inspiration, this little volume is the perfect treat for any movie lover.SAMPLE QUOTES: 'Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted' - David Fincher'When I went to Hollywood, I had to work out in a gym. The idea was that I should look like Daniel Craig, though they hadn't even heard of him at that point' - Roger Moore'Acting is about acting, not about being a movie star' - Christian Bale'Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo' - Mary PickfordTable of ContentsA Ribbon of a Dream: On Cinema • An Electrical Thing: On Moviemaking • That Kind of Work: On Actors, Acting and Golden Statues • Putting Lipstick on the Venus de Milo: What the Stars Have Said... Really! • A Town, Not a Medium: On Hollywood • After All, Tomorrow is Another Day!: The Most Iconic Lines

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Book SynopsisStanley Kubrick was up to something. But neither his fiercest admirers nor his harshest critics ever suspected what it was. His movies were the means. So what was the end? In this experimental analysis of the work of Stanley Kubrick, Jasun Horsley unpicks the cult of Kubrick, taking a unique approach as he delves into the deeper - and often darker - reasons as to why the director has achieved such admiration over the years. The Kubrickon maps an unholy merger of computer and behavioral sciences that has shaped not just politics but all of modern society over the past decade (e.g. Cambridge Analytica). It explores Stanley Kubrick’s intensive, secret, insider involvement in the building of an architecture of algorithm-directed technology that has steadily encroached into our inner realms, cementing a symbiotic relationship between human consciousness and technology, with culture as the binding medium of an attention economy. Throughout The Kubrickon Horsley uses Kubrick’s critically acclaimed films such as Eyes Wide Shut and 2001: Space Odyssey to provide a fascinating and revelatory overview of the cultural obsession with Stanley Kubrick, as well as on a wider scale providing illuminating criticisms of society’s consumption of culture and media. For those who dislike Kubrick movies, The Kubrickon will finally absolve you of all uncertainty and guilt. For those who adore Kubrick movies, The Kubrickon will challenge you to the core, and may just set you free. For those who are indifferent to Kubrick movies, The Kubrickon will reward you by making you care about, and nurture, your indifference.
Table of ContentsCONTENTS INTRODUCTION Confessions of a sick mind (Stanley Kubrick's Atrocity Exhibition) His hands were tied (the Kubrick vacuum) Secret pedophile elites Culturally co-opted cognitive counterfeits King culture PART I - THE ARCHITECTURE OF IMMERSION CHAPTER 1 - Children of Kubrick The man Deny all knowledge Immersion criticism Extraordinary facts and ridiculous flights of hermeneutic fantasy CHAPTER 2 - Full metal emperor Needful guesswork Cultural warfare The very idea of greatness, or: Stanley is as Stanley does The works of Satan CHAPTER 3 - Crossing the Kubrickon Under the seat The Overlook, again The “final” answer? A two-way mirror PART II - AGENT STANLEY CHAPTER 4 - How the solar system was won The anomaly of Kubrick's optimistic vision of the future of man Theft as art Arthur C. Clarke's goldfish bowl KUBARK: sinister associations CHAPTER 5 - Clockwork conspiracy theories Some facts about Stanley Learning from The Master Agent Orange A clean-minded pornographer CHAPTER 6 - The lost language of the body Kubrick, DARPA, Simulmatics A computational theocracy Enter the dragon The apple of knowledge PART III - KING VS KING CHAPTER 7 - The silver key The wasp's nest An I for an I The writer's block The golden Bowman CHAPTER 8 - White man's burden, or: the Grand Unified Theory of The Shining (GUTS) The axe blow Historic trauma transmission (Sons of Saturn) Adult boy The secret ally CHAPTER 9 - Hive mind Word vs image Games of thrones Behold the para-self DID Meets DOD: the AI breakthrough BIBLIOGRAPHY END NOTES INDEX

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Book SynopsisResearch has established that men are unlikely to report being victimised by sexual assault, often out of feelings of embarrassment, shame, fear, and emasculation. Critically examining how the rape of men and boys is represented in television and film, Male Rape Victimisation on Screen argues how presentations of male sexual assault in popular culture have reinforced rape myths associated with male victimisation, as well as the barriers of toxic masculinity that seethe beneath its surface. Employing a feminist and popular criminology framework, Victoria M. Nagy conducts a comprehensive analysis of a range of both adult and child television programmes and films from the past several decades to reveal how rape myths have pervaded popular culture. Turning to reality and the broader implications this has for men who are and are not victims of sexual violence, Nagy explores how knowledge gained from this research can feed into sexual violence prevention efforts and inform a necessary shift in our cultural mindset. Focusing on the under-researched area of male sexual assault, this book broaches cultural, criminology, gender, film, and media studies to reveal how seemingly harmless humour can infiltrate how we think about violent and victimising behaviours.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Prison, Rape and Just Deserts Chapter 2. “Not Paddington!” Rape Humour in Children’s Television and Film Chapter 3. Children as Victims in Animation Chapter 4. Women Behaving Badly: Female Sexual Offending Against Boys and Men Chapter 5. Sexual Assault and Rape by Women Chapter 6. “I’ma get Medieval on your Ass”: Men Being Raped by Men and Getting Justice Chapter 7. Representing Pain: The Aftermath Chapter 8. Reflections and Thinking about Bodies and Disclosures

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Book SynopsisEmbark on an interdimensional culinary journey with Rick and Morty: The Official Cookbook, the ultimate collection of recipes inspired by the hit television series! Create dishes from across the multiverse with Rick and Morty: The Official Cookbook! Featuring cuisine from the planets and dimensions seen in the series, this colorful cookbook offers a wide variety of over 50 recipes inspired by the beloved show. Fans will delight in recreating the show's most iconic dishes, such as Szechuan Sauce and Pickled Ricks, along with a host of other appetizers, main courses, desserts, and drinks. Bursting with photography that's sure to inspire chefs of any skill level, this cookbook is the perfect culinary companion for your travels across space and time.

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Book SynopsisGotham Knights: Official Collector's Edition gives you exclusive behind-the-scenes content and the expert strategy you need to immerse yourself in the world of Gotham Knights. Gotham Knights is the eagerly anticipated action role playing game set in a dynamic, open world Gotham City. Players take on the role of four playable characters: Nightwing, Batgirl, Robin, and Red Hood-each with their own unique style of combat and abilities-in their quest to protect Gotham. This immersive Collector's Edition is the perfect companion for the dangerous streets of Gotham. Go beyond the game with behind-the-scenes interviews with the WB Games Montreal team, stunning concept sketches, renders, and illustrations, along with insider details on Gotham's secret history and the elusive Court of Owls. Featuring detailed maps, in-depth character tactics for solo and co-op play, along with expert strategy for facing the city's most nefarious villains, this compendium gives you everything necessary to be the hero Gotham needs.

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Book SynopsisThe official art book for the animated fantasy movie Spellbound, taking readers on a magical journey through the world of Lumbria via beautiful concept art and illustrations.

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Book SynopsisFrom big city bites to small town tastes, feed your interdimensional demon inside with a smorgasbord of paranormal-inspired recipes with the first-ever official Ghostbusters cookbook! Who you gonna call... to eat?! Featuring more than 50 recipes inspired by the beloved Ghostbusters 1984 film and continuing into present day with Ghostbusters: Afterlife, this cookbook celebrates the bold personalities of Egon, Venkman, Zeddemore, and Stantz, along with the spooks, spectres, and ghosts that tried to transform New York City to a Babylonian dystopia. But they're not alone - they've got company with a new generation of Ghostbusters like Phoebe, Trevor, Podcast, and Lucky that saved Summerville, Oklahoma from the second coming of Gozer! In fact, it's Podcast's, well, podcast that inspires this book! Now he and Ray are combing through the Ghostbusters archives and recording new episodes to bring the group's favorite new and old foods to delicious life. With luscious full-color photography and packed with the fun and spirit of the films, Ghostbusters: The Official Cookbook is a must-have for foodies and paranormal investigative fans alike.

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Book SynopsisDelve behind the scenes of Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro's first foray into stop-motion animation with Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: A Timeless Tale Told Anew Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: A Timeless Tale Told Anew takes readers on an unprecedented journey into the creation of Guillermo del Toro's hit musical fantasy version of the beloved story of Pinocchio. Inspired by the art from Gris Grimly's 2002 edition of The Adventures of Pinocchio, del Toro's adaptation is a dark take on the classic fairy tale. Featuring exclusive interviews with the star-studded cast, which includes Finn Wolfhard, Christoph Waltz, Tilda Swinton, Ewan McGregor, Cate Blanchett, and more, this book showcases the creativity and effort it takes to produce a stop-motion animation film, from concept art to building the puppets to the filming process and beyond.

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Book SynopsisThe official art book for the movie Thor, the 3rd  title reissue of the 24-book Marvel Studios The Infinity Saga series to be published as a resized matching set.The 3rd of the 24 Marvel Cinematic Universe Infinity Saga film titles being published as a complete set.Packed with exclusive content, this fully illustrated tome is a comprehensive behind-the-scenes look at the creative process of bringing a god and his worlds to life on the big screen. Follow the film’s complete artistic evolution, from casting and costume design, to the forging of Mjolnir, bringing Asgard, Jotunheim and their denizens to life, plus the Destroyer and small-town America, and on to the final rendering seen on screen.Here is everything you need to know about the making of the movie from the key players, including Marvel Studios President and Thor Producer Kevin Feige, director Kenneth Branagh, production designer Bo Welch, and costume designer Alexa

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Book SynopsisLet Egon, Peter, Ray, Winston, and ghastly ghouls guide your tarot practice with this spooky tarot deck and guidebook inspired by the classic Ghostbusters movies! Featuring all-new illustrations of your favourite characters, this tarot deck and guidebook is a unique addition to your Ghostbusters collection!

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Book SynopsisThe official art book for the movie Doctor Strange, the 13th title reissue of the 24-book Marvel Studios' The Infinity Saga series published as a resized matching set.

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Book SynopsisCelebrate the legacy of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi with this visual deep dive into the production of the iconic film!

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Book SynopsisDiscover 37 delicious recipes inspired by classic and newcomer cult series, from Star Trek to Game of Thrones, from Thibaud Villanova, author of Gastronogeek Anime Cookbook and The Unofficial Ghibli Cookbook.

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Book SynopsisLet the rich world of Jane Austen guide you with this beautifully illustrated oracle deck and discover your inner Elizabeth Bennet or Marianne Dashwood. Featuring beautiful illustrations inspired by the abundant world of Jane Austen, this 40-card oracle deck is a unique way to experience Austen's timeless stories and iconic characters. Explore your inner Elizabeth Bennet or discover your crazy Marianne Dashwood side with an accompanying guidebook explaining each card's meaning. A letter bearing good news, an unexpected encounter, a revelation not to be taken lightly? Fans of Jane Austen are guided by the messages brought to you by the rich narrative of one of Britain's most prestigious authors.

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Book SynopsisThink you know Star Trek, the original series like no fan has done before? Well boldly go and take up our unique puzzle challenge!The perfect holiday gift for the Star Trek fan in your life!It's a puzzle book, Jim, but not as we know it. This is no conventional 'search-and-find.' Each of its detailed, full-color pages is packed with out-of-context items and cosmic continuity errors that only a true fan can spot. It would be illogical to resist this challenge, when the accuracy of the whole Trek universe is at stake. Captain Kirk, Mr Spock and the Enterprise crew have discovered that a series of exploding tribbles have been hidden by the Klingons in locations visited by the Enterprise. Kirk and his crew must seek and find each exploding tribble. At the same time, fans must spot items from every story in The Original Series, also concealed in the pictures. This is next-level Where's Waldo for adult fans, plus a chance to save the galaxy into the bargain!The book opens with an article e

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Book SynopsisThe first English language scholarly collection of articles on the leading Berlin based German artist and film-maker Ulrike Ottinger. The articles engage with the full range of the works, from the early Berlin feature films of the 1970s and .'80s to the ethnographic documentaries also including the art exhibitions, photography shows, installations, and artist books. The book brings together feminist film theorists with art historians and cultural theorists, each with a distinctive and detailed perspective on the queer fabulist genres of Ottinger now in her 80s.

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Book SynopsisAll art is propaganda,' wrote George Orwell, but not all propaganda is art.' Moving from World War I to the War on Terror' and beyond, The Story of British Propaganda Film shows how the emergence of film as a global media phenomenon reshaped practices of propaganda, while new practices of propaganda in turn reshaped the use of the moving image. It explores classic examples of cinematic propaganda such as The Battle of the Somme (1916), Listen to Britain (1942) and Animal Farm (1954) alongside little-known newsreels, telemagazines' and digital media initiatives, in the process challenging our understanding of propaganda itself, and its many diverse manifestations.Richly illustrated with unique material from the BFI National Archive, the book shows how central propaganda is to the development of British film, and how it has filtered our understanding of modern British history, from narratives of decolonisation to the celebration of pop culture and t

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Book SynopsisThe Cinema Book'' is widely recognised as the ultimate guide to cinema. Authoritative and comprehensive, the third edition has been extensively revised, updated and expanded in response to developments in cinema and cinema studies. Lavishly illustrated in colour, this edition features a wealth of exciting new sections and in-depth case studies.

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together a host of internationally recognised scholars to provide an interdisciplinary perspective on the representation of the child in cinema. Individual chapters examine how children appear across a broad range of films, including Badlands (1973), Ratcatcher (1999), Boyhood (2014), My Neighbour Totoro (1988), and Howl’s Moving Castle (2004). They also consider the depiction of children in non-fiction and non-theatrical films, including the documentaries Être et Avoir (2002) and Capturing the Friedmans (2003), art installations and public information films. Through a close analysis of these films, contributors examine the spaces and places children inhabit and imagine; a concern for children’s rights and agency; the affective power of the child as a locus for memory and history; and the complexity and ambiguity of the child figure itself. The essays also argue the global reach of cinema featuring children, including analyses of films from the former Yugoslavia, Brazil and India, as well as exploring the labour of the child both in front of and behind the camera as actors and filmmakers. In doing so, the book provides an in-depth look into the nature of child performance on screen, across a diverse range of cinemas and film-making practices.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Karen Lury Space and time 1. The Dreamhouse Amelie Hastie 2. Children’s right to space, place and home Owain Jones 3. Synchrony in the work of Hayao Miyazaki Robert Maslen Screen performance 4. The achievement of Janis Wilson, Hollywood juvenile supporting actor. Martin Shingler 5. Performing black boyhood, quiet and Moonlight Karen Lury 6. Children in Documentaries: or, the camera never lies Stella Bruzzi Histories 7. Kusturica’s Children: the bubble that bursts history. Dimitris Eleftheriotis 8. The child imprisoned in history: crystalline community building in O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias (Brazil, 2006) David Martin Jones 9. Beginnings and Children Lalitha Gopalan Beyond cinema 10. The Child in Surrealism: Bellmer, Cornell, Hillier David Hopkins 11. Mind How You Go: children and the public information film Andrew Burke 12. ‘We know what it’s actually like’: voice, dialect and self-efficacy in Scotland’s Understanding Cinema project Jamie Chambers Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFor popular-culture vultures, there really is no better guide to Britain’s best TV and film locations than On Location. With their historical charm, scenic beauty and diverse cities, the United Kingdom and Ireland have proved to be popular backdrops for film and TV directors over the decades. Whether it be the period piece Bridgerton, the gritty drama Game of Thrones, the adrenaline-fuelled Mission: Impossible series or the sci-fi trailblazer Doctor Who, the UK and Ireland have been on hand to lend buildings, countryside and natural features to some of the most gripping on-screen moments. On Location presents some of the finest destinations around the British Isles to appear in cinema and on TV, and details exactly how you can go about visiting them. Attractions range from London’s bustling city centre, home to many James Bond movies, to secluded stately homes that have hosted elaborate productions of Pride and Prejudice, and offbeat urban buildings featured in well-loved shows such as Only Fools and Horses and The Young Ones. Featuring over 100 TV shows and blockbuster films, this guidebook is sure to keep even the most obsessive film buff occupied for years.Table of ContentsIntroduction SOUTH ENGLAND The Jurassic Coast Bletchley Park Tilbury Fort Chartwell Warner Bros. Studio Tour Eltham Palace Beaulieu The Friars – Aylesford Priory London: Tower Bridge London: St Paul’s Cathedral London: The Savoy London: The Royal Courts of Justice London: Natural History Museum London: The Cinema Museum London: Notting Hill London: The British Museum London: Westminster The London Underground James Bond’s London Oxford The Historic Dockyard Chatham SOUTH-WEST Cornwall’s Mining Landscape Antony Greenway Tyntesfield Bristol Bath The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum MIDLANDS Chatsworth House Sutton Scarsdale Hall Lincoln Cathedral Kedleston Hall Packwood House Lyme Park Quarry Bank Mill Cleethorpes NORTH ENGLAND Derwent Valley Liverpool Whitby Morecambe Ribblehead Viaduct Tan Hill Inn Carnforth Station North York Moors Railway Whitley Bay Alnwick Castle Sycamore Gap Cragside Timperley Durham Cathedral York The Lake District Ulverston: The Laurel and Hardy Museum Beamish: The Living Museum of the North Blackpool Sheffield WALES Bodnant Garden Portmeirion Henrhyd Falls Dyffryn Gardens Barry Dunraven Bay Freshwater Bay Cardiff SCOTLAND Tobermory Edinburgh Glenfinnan Viaduct Dumfries and Galloway Dunnottar Castle St Andrews Glasgow The Outer Hebrides Shetland Eilean Donan Castle NORTHERN IRELAND Derry The Giant’s Causeway The Dark Hedges Game of Thrones Studio Tour Castle Ward Belfast IRELAND Trinity College, Dublin Kilmainham Gaol Dublin Skellig Michael Film List by Region Image Credits Index

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Book SynopsisSing and rhyme along with these 26 much-loved nursery rhyme songs! Includes: 'The Wheels on the Bus' / 'Down at the Station, Early in the Morning' / 'Row Row Row Your Boat' / 'The Big Ship Sails on the Alley Alley Oh' / 'London Bridge is Falling Down' / 'Jack and Jill' / 'Hickory Dickory Dock' / 'I'm a Little Teapot' / 'Polly Put the Kettle On' / 'Miss Polly had a Dolly' / 'Pop Goes the Weasel' / 'Five Currant Buns' / 'Ten Fat Sausages' / 'Peter Hammers with One Hammer' / 'The Grand Old Duke of York' / 'Girls and Boys Come Out to Play' / 'I Jump Out of Bed' / 'Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush' / 'Ring a Ring o'Roses' / 'I Hear Thunder, I Hear Thunder' / 'Incy Wincy Spider' / 'Heads Shoulders Knees and Toes' / 'If You're Happy and You Know it Clap Your Hands' / 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' / 'Wee Willie Winkie' / 'Ten in a Bed'.1 CD. 45 mins.

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Book SynopsisPost-Cinematic Affect is about what it feels like to live in the affluent West in the early 21st century. Specifically, it explores the structure of feeling that is emerging today in tandem with new digital technologies, together with economic globalization and the financialization of more and more human activities. The 20th century was the age of film and television; these dominant media shaped and reflected our cultural sensibilities. In the 21st century, new digital media help to shape and reflect new forms of sensibility. Movies (moving image and sound works) continue to be made, but they have adopted new formal strategies, they are viewed under massively changed conditions, and they address their spectators in different ways than was the case in the 20th century. The book traces these changes, focusing on four recent moving-image works: Nick Hooker's music video for Grace Jones' song Corporate Cannibal; Olivier Assayas' movie Boarding Gate, starring Asia Argento; Richard Kelly's movie Southland Tales, featuring Justin Timberlake, Dwayne Johnson, and other pop culture celebrities; and Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor's Gamer.

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Book SynopsisFor eighty years, Pinewood Studios has made dreams a reality. Billions of people across the globe, of all ages, from all walks of life have read six words on cinema or television screens: 'Made at Pinewood Studios, London, England'. From hosting super spies and superheroes, Pinewood has been home to a galaxy far, far away, helping create the movies that have made audiences laugh and cry in equal measure. Some of the most glittering careers on both sides of the camera have been launched behind the iconic gates of Pinewood.From James Bond to Star Wars, the modern age of Marvel and the re-imagining of the Disney classics, Pinewood Studios and Shepperton Studios have played host to the greatest and most cherished movies of all time. Complete with many exclusive behind-the-scenes images from those classic movies, this beautiful new book offers insight, anecdotes and interviews with some of the producers, directors and acting talent who have worked at the studios, including Ridley Scott, Barbara Broccoli, Tim Burton and Sir Roger Moore.Trade ReviewLavishly illustrated * Mail on Sunday *This beautiful book is a fitting tribute that any film buff will devour … You’ll often pick this book up and enjoy it more each time you do. ***** * The Sun, Book of the Week *Luxurious… Now that’s what I call a great Christmas present. * Cinema Retro *

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Book SynopsisAn anthology of 70 tiny plays from Fishamble theatre company, providing an invaluable resource of four-minute plays for actors, directors, students, and teachers.

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Book SynopsisThis first and ground-breaking biography of Arthur Jefferson, the father of Stan Laurel (the mastermind behind the legendary comedy partnership of Laurel and Hardy), reveals that he was a major influence on his son, a fine comic actor himself, a successful playwright, and an excellent example of the provincial theatrical lessees who provided Victorians and Edwardians with their main source of entertainment. It describes the ups and downs of his life, family and career and how, in middle age, he had to confront the challenge to the world of intimate, local, live theatre from the emerging global, silent and then sound cinema industry. Ironically, it was the success of films like those of Laurel and Hardy which all but destroyed the provincial theatrical world that Arthur loved.

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Book SynopsisTHE ART OF KATSUHIRO OTOMO by Jeremy Mark Robinson  This is a book about the genius Japanese artist Katsuhiro Otomo (b. 1954). Best-known for the Akira manga of 1982-90 and the Akira movie of 1988, Otomo is also an all-round artist who writes fiction, writes and directs short and feature movies, produces commercial art, and design projects. Among Otomo’s works are the movies Steam-Boy, Mushishi, Metropolis, Memories and Roujin Z, and manga such as Domu, The Legend of Mother Sarah, Hansel and Gretel and Sayonara Japan. The works of Otomo have been celebrated with awards – he won the Kodansha Comic-Strip Award in 1984 for Akira, and the Science Fiction  Grand Prix Award in 1983 for Domu.  There are very few genuine auteurs in Japanese animation: the animation industry, like all filmmaking on a large scale, is truly collaborative. However, you can definitely see elements in the films directed and written and supervised by Katsuhiro Otomo that are auteurist: Otomo has his own style, visually, but also his own concerns, thematically, politically and psychologically.  Akira is a giant of a movie that opens at full blast: this movie rocks from shot one. It really rocks – at a far higher level of intensity than any comparable movie, including all of the classics regularly trotted out as hi-octane movie-making. Akira is clearly one of those movies where the filmmakers have thrown everything they can think of into the mix, and it’s a movie in which the filmmakers have given their all.  Meanwhile, the manga of Akira exceeds all expectations – about storytelling, about what a comicbook or manga is, about how an action-adventure-fantasy story can work in a contemporary setting, and how a story can be genuinely thrilling, genuinely political, genuinely wild and epic.  In short, Akira ticks all of the boxes: (a) it has action and spectacle in spades, (b) it has fascinating characters and situations, (c) it is incredibly exciting, (d) it is very unusual, sometimes downright eccentric and out-there, (e) it is highly politicized, (f) it has plenty to say about living in the modern world, about contemporary, advanced capitalist societies, and (g) it establishes its own world, its own raison d’etre, its own philosophy with supreme self-confidence.  Akira is the manga to top all manga, to end all manga. It is a manga designed to go further, louder and crazier than any other manga. And it does! Akira delivers on its promise: it really is every bit as great as everybody says it is.  The Art of Katsuhiro Otomo includes chapters on: Katsuhiro Otomo’s manga and movies; lengthy chapters on every aspect of the Akira movie (animation, sound, music, voices, story, themes, etc); the story of the Akira manga; Otomo’s inspirations and inflfiuences; the contemporary anime industry; and a section of the views of critics and fans.  Fully illustrated, including many images from Otomo’s whole output, the Akira movie, the Akira manga, Otomo’s other works in comics and cinema, and Otomo’s inspirations.  Hardcover – full colour laminate cover.  This edition is revised, and contains extra illustrations.  Bibliography, resources and notes. 644 pages. www.crmoon.com

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Book SynopsisMost books about cinema, whether popular or academic, concentrate on what we might call the inside' of the film: from star performances to narrative structures. The relatively few books about the outside' of films speak mainly of such aspects of production and reception as the organization of the film industry and the sociology of audiences: the Hollywood studio system, for example, or fan clubs. "The Remembered Film" is unique in addressing a previously overlooked aspect of cinema: the isolated fragments of films, iconic images or scenes, that fleetingly cross our perceptions and thoughts in the course of everyday life. Victor Burgin examines a kaleidescope of film fragments drawn from a variety of media, the internet, memory and fantasy. Among these are sequences of such brevity they might almost be stills. Such sequence-images', as Burgin calls them, are neither strictly image' nor image sequence' and have not been considered before by either film or photography theory. He also considers some typical individual experiences sampled' from mainstream cinema. He reflects on such disparate occurrences as the association in memory of fragments from otherwise unrelated films, of the relation of a recollected film image to an architectural setting, or of a feeling marked' by an image remembered from a film. "The Remembered Film" provides a radical new way of thinking about film outside conventional cinema, and in relation to our everyday lives. It will appeal to a wide audience interested in film and media.Trade Review'Burgin explores the impressionistic qualities of cinema and how, in recollection, the viewer relates to image: exploring how memory and circumstance place certain sequences in our psyches, the overwhelming beauty of certain images and sequences becoming larger than the bodies of work they've hailed from ... Burgin's art swoon is nearly as tempting as some of the beauty he finds in small, strange places.' - i-D Magazine

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Book SynopsisFilm and music belong together; classics like Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" (1927) and Mike Nichols' "The Graduate" (1967) are renowned for their brilliant soundtracks. But what exactly is film music? Does music act as an accompaniment to the film', or is film an illustration of the music, or are the two inseparable? In "Film Music", Peter Larsen traces the history of music in film and discusses central theoretical questions concerning its narrative and psychological functions. He looks in depth at classics such as Howard Hawks' "The Big Sleep" (1946) and Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" (1959), as well as later international blockbusters and cult films including "American Grafitti" (1973), "Star Wars" (1977) and "Blade Runner" (1982). These case studies explore the role of music in the history of film, and also show how other films can be discussed in relationship to their music. "Film Music" offers a much-needed overview of how music functions in film and serves as a fascinating, accessible introduction to the analysis of film music. The book will serve as an important text for students of film, music and cultural disciplines, as well as the general reader with an interest in film and popular music.Trade Review... contains some salient points about the function of film music and its development, from the silent period (when films had live accompaniment) through to the present. It will certainly be a must for Bernard Herrmann fans, given its thorough examination of his score for Hitchcock's North by Northwest. On this count alone the book is worth its while. Film Review

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Book SynopsisHorror films revel in taking viewers into shadowy places where evil resides, whether it is a house, a graveyard or a dark forest. With "Dark Places", Barry Curtis leads us deep inside these haunted spaces to explore them and the monstrous antagonists who dwell there. In this wide-ranging and compelling study, Curtis demonstrates how the claustrophobic interiors of haunted spaces in films connect to the dark places' of the human psyche. He examines diverse topics such as the special effects ranging from crude to state-of-the-art used in movies to evoke supernatural creatures; the structures, projections and architecture of horror movie sets; and, ghosts as symbols of loss, amnesia, injustice and vengeance. "Dark Places" also examines the reconfiguration of the haunted house in film as a motel, an apartment, a road or a spaceship, and how these re-imagined spaces thematically connect to Gothic fictions. Curtis draws his examples from numerous iconic films including "Nosferatu", "Psycho", "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" and "The Shining" as well as lesser-known international works. Japanese horror films and their Hollywood remakes such as "Ringu" and "The Ring", or "Juon" and "The Grudge" come under particular scrutiny, as he explores Japanese cinema's preoccupation with malevolent forces from the past. Whether you love the splatter of blood or prefer to hide under the couch, "Dark Places" cuts to the heart of why we are drawn to carnage.Trade ReviewDark Places is a valuable work for film scholars focused on the horror genre or otherwise. In considering the widest possible legacy for the haunted house on screen - and by bringing theoretical and multi-disciplinary sophistication to bear on such an unlikely topic - Curtis has fashioned a noteworthy exploration of one of cinema's unsung icons. Southwest Journal of Cultures

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