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Why Most PowerPoint Presentations Suck, 2nd Edition by Rick Altman 9780578018058
RRP: £19.50Booksplease Price: £16.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578018058Author Rick AltmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint -
Film/Genre by Rick Altman
Booksplease Price: £37.92This book revises our notions of film genre and connects the roles played by industry critics and audiences in making and re-making genre. Altman reveals the conflicting stakes for which the genre... -
A Theory of Narrative by Rick Altman
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.51Narrative is a powerful element of human culture, storing and sharing the cherished parts of our personal memories and giving structure to our laws, entertainment, and history. We experience... -
The American Film Musical by Rick Altman
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.28" . . . a model of genre criticism and probably the best overall analysis of the film musical to date." Journal of Popular Films and Television"The American Film Musical is a truly admirable book... -
Silent Film Sound by Rick Altman 9780231116633
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.13Because silent cinema is widely perceived as having been exactly that-silent-no one has fully examined how souns was used to accompany the films of this era. Silent Film Sound reconsiders all aspects... -
Sound Theory/Sound Practice by Rick Altman
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Dramatically broadening the previous field of research on sound, Sound Theory/Sound Practice promises to renew the debate over the importance of sound to cinema, from a theoretical as well as a... -
Why Most Powerpoint Presentations Suck by Rick Altman 9781477685433
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £19.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781477685433Author Rick AltmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint -
Killer Doubles: Strategies and tactics for better tennis by Professor Rick Altman 9780990633105
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £13.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990633105Author Professor Rick AltmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 164 -
Hip Hop on Film: Performance Culture, Urban Space, and Genre Transformation in the 1980s by Kimberley Monteyne 9781496802620
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Early hip hop film musicals have either been expunged from cinema history or excoriated in brief passages by critics and other writers. Hip Hop on Film reclaims and reexamines productions such as... -
Hip Hop on Film: Performance Culture, Urban Space, and Genre Transformation in the 1980s by Kimberley Monteyne 9781617039225
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.44Early hip hop film musicals have either been expunged from cinema history or excoriated in brief passages by critics and other writers. Hip Hop on Film reclaims and reexamines productions such as... -
Hollywood Musicals, The Film Reader by Steven Cohan 9780415235600
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £47.72Articles examine the musical in relation to its generic form and conventions, the relationship between narrative and spectacle, gender and feminist analysis, camp production and reception, stardom,... -
New Silent Cinema Katherine Groo 9780415735278
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £56.65With the success of Martin Scorsese's Hugo (2011) and Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist (2011) nothing seems more contemporary in recent film than the styles, forms, and histories of early and silent... -
The Sounds of Early Cinema by Richard Abel
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24The Sounds of Early Cinema is devoted exclusively to a little-known, yet absolutely crucial phenomenon: the ubiquitous presence of sound in early cinema. "Silent cinema" may rarely have been silent,... -
The International Film Musical by Corey K. Creekmur
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.68This is a unique study of the film musical, a global cinema tradition. The musical is one of cinema's few genuinely international genres but it has never been studied as a global sensation. This book... -
The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound Miguel Mera (City University London, UK) 9780367871192
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of screen music and sound studies, addressing the ways in which music and sound interact with forms of... -
Classical Hollywood Narrative: The Paradigm Wars by Jane M. Gaines 9780822312994
Booksplease Price: £32.74Since the 1970s film studies has been dominated by a basic paradigm-the concept of classical Hollywood cinema-that is, the protagonist-driven narrative, valued for the way it achieves closure by... -
The French New Wave: An Artistic School by Michel Marie 9780631226574
RRP: £111.95Booksplease Price: £104.36The French New Wave: An Artistic School is a lively introduction to this critical moment in film history by one of the world's leading scholars on the New Wave. Provides a concise account of the... -
Film and Attraction: From Kinematography to Cinema by Andre Gaudreault 9780252035838
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Establishing a new vision for film history, Film and Attraction: From Kinematography to Cinema urges readers to consider the importance of complex social and cultural forces in early film. AndrE... -
Film and Attraction: From Kinematography to Cinema by Andre Gaudreault
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Establishing a new vision for film history, Film and Attraction: From Kinematography to Cinema urges readers to consider the importance of complex social and cultural forces in early film. Andre... -
The Voice in Cinema by Michel Chion
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40How can a voice whose source is never seen-such as Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey or the mother of Norman Bates in Psycho-have such a powerful hold on an audience? When does "synchronized sound" fail... -
Hearing Film: Tracking Identifications in Contemporary Hollywood Film Music by Anahid Kassabian
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04Music is central to any film, creating a tone for the movie that is just as vital as the visual and narrative components. In recent years, racial and gender diversity in film has exploded, and the... -
A Companion to Early Cinema by Andre Gaudreault
Booksplease Price: £39.20A COMPANION TO EARLY CINEMA "This collection of essays by early cinema scholars from Europe and North America offers manifold perspectives on early cinema fiction which perfectly reflect the state of... -
Disintegrating the Musical: Black Performance and American Musical Film by Arthur Knight
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91From the earliest sound films to the present, American cinema has represented African Americans as decidedly musical. Disintegrating the Musical tracks and analyzes this history of musical... -
Disintegrating the Musical: Black Performance and American Musical Film by Arthur Knight 9780822329350
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £80.06From the earliest sound films to the present, American cinema has represented African Americans as decidedly musical. Disintegrating the Musical tracks and analyzes this history of musical... -
Virtual Voyages: Cinema and Travel by Jeffrey Ruoff
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Virtual Voyages illuminates the pivotal role of travelogues within the history of cinema. The travelogue dominated the early cinema period from 1895 to 1905, was central to the consolidation of... -
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Virtual Voyages: Cinema and Travel by Jeffrey Ruoff 9780822337010 [USED COPY]
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £19.45Virtual Voyages illuminates the pivotal role of travelogues within the history of cinema. The travelogue dominated the early cinema period from 1895 to 1905, was central to the consolidation of... -
Film Sound: Theory and Practice by Elisabeth Weis 9780231056373
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £33.90This classic anthology provides essential models for analyzing sound stylistics through the detailed study of critical sound films. Elisabeth Weis and John Belton carefully curate major essays from... -
Soundtrack Available: Essays on Film and Popular Music by Arthur Knight
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91From the silent era to the present day, popular music has been a key component of the film experience. Yet there has been little serious writing on film soundtracks that feature popular music... -
Making Radio: Early Radio Production and the Rise of Modern Sound Culture by Shawn VanCour 9780190497118
Booksplease Price: £101.94The opening decades of the twentieth century witnessed a profound transformation in the history of modern sound media, with workers in U.S. film, radio, and record industries developing pioneering... -
Musicals at the Margins: Genre, Boundaries, Canons by Julie Lobalzo Wright 9781501378522
Booksplease Price: £33.84But is it a musical? This question is regularly asked of films, television shows and other media objects that sit uncomfortably in the category despite evident musical connections. Musicals at the... -
Musicals at the Margins: Genre, Boundaries, Canons by Julie Lobalzo Wright 9781501357114
Booksplease Price: £102.21But is it a musical? This question is regularly asked of films, television shows and other media objects that sit uncomfortably in the category despite evident musical connections. Musicals at the... -
Gene Kelly: The Making of a Creative Legend by Earl J. Hess 9780700630172
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £32.23Whether as a curiosity or a beloved idol, Gene Kelly (1912-1996) lives on in our cultural memory as a fantastic dancer in MGM musicals, especially Singin' in the Rain. But dancing, however... -
Words on Screen by Michel Chion 9780231174992
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Michel Chion is well known in contemporary film studies for his innovative investigations into aspects of cinema that scholars have traditionally overlooked. Following his work on sound in film in... -
Words on Screen by Michel Chion
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £90.70Michel Chion is well known in contemporary film studies for his innovative investigations into aspects of cinema that scholars have traditionally overlooked. Following his work on sound in film in... -
The Co-Teacher's Playbook: What It Takes to Make Co-Teaching Work for Everyone by Angela Peery 9781544377629
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £27.09Designed for co-teachers to use together, this hands-on guide includes real-life stories; reflective activities; reproducible lists, checklists, templates, and agreements; and a downloadable... -
Saying It With Songs: Popular Music and the Coming of Sound to Hollywood Cinema by Katherine Spring 9780199842223
Booksplease Price: £37.40In the late 1920s, Hollywood's conversion from silent to synchronized-sound film production not only instigated the convergence of the film and music industries but also gave rise to an extraordinary... -
The Sound Studies Reader Jonathan Sterne 9780415771313
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £54.94The Sound Studies Reader blends recent work that self-consciously describes itself as 'sound studies' along with earlier and lesser-known scholarship on sound from across the humanities and social... -
Superhero Synergies: Comic Book Characters Go Digital by James N. Gilmore 9781442232112
Booksplease Price: £106.08In the age of digital media, superheroes are no longer confined to comic books and graphic novels. Their stories are now featured in films, video games, digital comics, television programs, and more... -
Rock 'N' Film: Cinema's Dance With Popular Music by David E. James 9780190842017
Booksplease Price: £40.30For two decades after the mid-1950s, biracial popular music played a fundamental role in progressive social movements on both sides of the Atlantic. Balancing rock's capacity for utopian popular...