In a surveillance culture, the ubiquity of audio-visual recording devices has enabled the unprecedented documentation of private indiscretions, scandalous conversations, and obscene behaviors performed by both ordinary and high-profile people.
In a surveillance culture, the ubiquity of audio-visual recording devices has enabled the unprecedented documentation of private indiscretions, scandalous conversations, and obscene behaviors performed by both ordinary and high-profile people.
He was a Pony Express rider at fourteen, a Civil War soldier, a scout who earned the Medal of Honor, and the showman who brought the Wild West to the world's stage.
This is the story of the game-changing collaboration between director Alfred Hitchcock and composer Bernard Herrmann, who channelled their inner fears and desires into films that would become the nightmarish narratives and soundtracks of our lives.
From Chinese K-Pop fans on social media, to professional cosplayers in Australia and video game communities that stretch from Hong Kong to Singapore, this book explores the varied world of fan cultures across the Asia Pacific.
From Chinese K-Pop fans on social media, to professional cosplayers in Australia and video game communities that stretch from Hong Kong to Singapore, this book explores the varied world of fan cultures across the Asia Pacific.
Using an autoethnographic approach, this book offers practical strategies and case studies to help scholars better perform the many roles of an academic.
Using an autoethnographic approach, this book offers practical strategies and case studies to help scholars better perform the many roles of an academic.
From simple to advanced, and using household and inexpensive props, Knack Magic Tricks includes tricks using cards, coins, handkerchiefs, and fruit, as well as mental tricks, anytime tricks, standup tricks, and tricks especially for kids (to be performed bothfor them and by them).
The first biography of a great American composer of the cinema ageJohn Williams is one of the most important film composers of all time, having almost singlehandedly revived the Hollywood symphonic scoring tradition and helped restore the livelihood of American orchestras through the popularity of film music programming.
For the millions seeking to pursue their Hollywood dreams, this is the definitive guide to breaking into the entertainment industry that explores and demystifies dozens of careers from acting to post-production, and also takes into account changes brought by the rise of streaming and AI.
Peter Pan descubre que el Capitán Garfio, no está muerto, al contrario se ha salvado y continúa sus malvadas empresas, pero algunos niños descubren que Capitán Garfio está por cumplir años y deciden de convencer a Peter Pan de prepararle una fiesta de cumpleaños a sorpresa.
As a figurehead for the literary humanities, and a dramatist whose plays feature fairies, ghosts, and spirits, Shakespeare may not be the first author that comes to mind when thinking about science.
As the world recently commemorated the hundredth anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, our fascination with the pharaoh begs for a balanced view.
Examines the moving image in relation to nineteenth-century literature, theories of mind, and visual mediaThis book examines how the productive interplay between nineteenth-century literary and visual media paralleled the emergence of a modern psychological understanding of the ways in which reading, viewing and dreaming generate moving images in the mind.
An electrifying collection of essays from legendary cultural critic and Pulitzer Prize-winner Greg Tate Easily one of the greatest wordsmiths [and] the best American writer and thinker of the past forty years Washington PostFrom one of the most original, creative, and provocative writers on American culture comes a now-classic collection of essays, delving far and wide into Black music, into film, into the beats and rhyme of culture (Questlove).
For more than a century, directors have shaped and subverted audience expectations, presenting films that draw viewers into a process of anticipation, deduction, and interpretation.
As a figurehead for the literary humanities, and a dramatist whose plays feature fairies, ghosts, and spirits, Shakespeare may not be the first author that comes to mind when thinking about science.
From cinema s most distinguished and The best writer on film in our time (Michael Ondaatje) comes a masterful assessment of the whole sweep of movie history The movies traded on the liberation of secret desires drive that car as fast as you can; turn your humble abode into a palace; conquer all the mean spirits in the world; be as free and winsome as the Tramp yet as rich as Charlie Every lowlife can be a Corleone.
As the world recently commemorated the hundredth anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, our fascination with the pharaoh begs for a balanced view.
In this valuable resource guide for both beginners and professionals, veteran songwriter, producer, arranger, vocalist, music director, and educator Larry D.
