The Vatican to Vegas
A guided tour through the nuanced politics of architectural illusion, The Vatican to Vegas takes the reader from lavish Baroque fantasies of the seventeenth century to the Electronic Baroque of today. The >scripted spacesThe Vatican To Vegas has emerged as a classic across many fields, from media and architecture, to the fine arts and urban planning. Its timing was ironic: Klein assumed in 2004 that the future of scripted illusion was about to radically shift. This new edition brings the ironic story up to the present, and into the digitally overwhelmed >scripted spaces
Girls' Hairstories
Why have dynamic and shifting hairstyles, from Katniss Everdeen's Power Plait to JoJo Siwa's outsize bows, become such a significant part of how girlhood is articulated in contemporary visual cultures? What do they tell us about how girlhood combines the qualities of resilience and sparkle needed to survive and thrive in turbulent post-recessionary times? Drawing together analysis of popular film franchises, Disney animation, ground-breaking TV shows, music videos, girl celebrity personas and global art cinema, this book shows how across different cultural levels and aimed at different audiences, girls' hairstyles provide a complex dynamic site of interpretation and interaction. It documents the careful craft of hair-dressers and software engineers working in the screen industries to style and animate hair, bringing their work to a new visibility. It is in the very everydayness of hairstyling that we come to understand girls as the most resilient and the most sparkly of citizens.
Silicon Valley Cinema
Silicon Valley corporations now dominate our daily lives to the extent that many of us now question their ability to determine the direction of human life in the twenty-first century. The 2010s saw Hollywood filmmakers engaging in this very debate. Through a sequence of films ranging from biopics of key Silicon Valley leaders to science fiction action films and whimsical workplace comedies, Hollywood films probed Silicon Valley's impact on our past, present, and future. Silicon Valley Cinema analyses these films, arguing that they seek to encourage scepticism about our Silicon Valley overlords and have us step back from our immersion in Silicon Valley's world. Doing so, they suggest, might make our working lives more pleasurable, our world a better place, and might even help us avoid a war with genetically enhanced apes or avert a robot-led apocalypse.
Refocus: The Films of Kim Ki-Young
World-renowned South Korean directors, including Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon Ho, cite Kim Ki-young as being the greatest Korean influence on their work. During his thirty year career, Kim Ki-young produced thirty-three films and became revered by critics within the national and international community as one of the few South Korean 'auteurs'. As the first comprehensive scholarly volume on Kim Ki-young in English, ReFocus: The Films of Kim Ki-young covers his entire career and history of cinematic work, highlighting the thematic and stylistic singularity of Kim's oeuvre, which was produced relative to the specific historical and cultural conditions of post-war South Korea. It offers an innovative departure point from which to explore South Korean film relative to the wider history of world cinema, in addition to situating Kim's work within the broader fields of Korean modern history, transnational cinema and cultural studies.
Stars, Fan Magazines and Audiences
Stars, Fan Magazines and Audiences focuses on movie magazines, publications first produced in 1911 for movie fans in the United States, but soon reaching movie fans on a global scale. Bringing together scholars from different disciplinary and international contexts, this collection considers fan magazines as objects of material and visual history. The designer's toolkit aided movie magazines in seducing their readers, with visual elements, such as fonts, photographs, and illustrations, plied across both editorial content and advertisements. In this way, each issue was subtly designed to stir desire in readers and moviegoers alike. By focusing on the visual aspects of fan magazines, a key pleasure for readers, this collection provides detailed examples of how visual elements engendered aspiration and longing, thus putting the visual contents of the fan magazines at the heart of every chapter.
Refocus: The Films of Jane Campion
Jane Campion's work shines a spotlight on gender relations, often through complex female characters and an innovative approach to the screen representation of women functioning at the edges of society. Campion is vocal about the under-representation of women in the film industry more generally, though her commitment to the notion of feminism is tempered by an ambivalence towards the term. Despite this ambiguity, Campion's continued focus on women merits an exploration of her work through a feminist lens particularly in the wake of #MeToo, which has had a wide-ranging impact on the film industry.
Race- Nation and Cultural Power in Film Adaptation
In Race, Nation and Cultural Power in Film Adaptation, Roberts undertakes the first full-length study of postcolonial, settler-colonial and Indigenous film adaptation, encompassing literary and cinematic texts from Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, Indian, British, and US cultures. A necessary rethinking of adaptation in the context of race and nation, this book interrogates adaptation studies' rejection of 'fidelity criticism' to consider the ethics and aesthetics of translating narratives from literature to cinema and across national borders for circulation in the global cultural marketplace. In this way, Roberts also traces the circulation of cultural power through these adaptations as they move into new contexts and find new audiences, often at a considerable geographical remove from the production of the source material. Further, this book assesses the impact of national and transnational industrial contexts of cultural production on the film adaptations themselves.
The Films of Aleksandr Rou
In a directorial career spanning from 1938 to 1972, Aleksandr Rou transformed the landscape of Soviet fantasy and filmmaking. Featuring detailed analyses of Rou's films and their social and industrial contexts, this book introduces the exhilarating oeuvre of one of the world's great masters of fairy-tale cinema to Western audiences. 19 b&w illus.
Rewriting Television
Rewriting Television suggests that it is time for a radical overhaul of television studies. If we don't want to merely recycle the same old methods, approaches, and tropes for another twenty years, we need to consider major changes in why and how we do our work. This book offers a new model for doing television (or film or media) studies that can be taken up around the world. It synthesizes ideas from production studies, screenwriting studies, and the idea of "writing otherwise" to create a new way of studying television. It presents an entirely original approach to working with practitioner interviews that has never been seen before in film, television, or media studies. It then offers a series of original reflections on form, story, and voice and considers how these reflections could shape future writing in our discipline(s). Ultimately, this is a book of ideas. This book asks "what if?" This book is an opportunity to imagine differently.
Unstaged Grief
Often dismissed as escapism, screen musicals of the 1960s in fact tapped into unspoken sadness about an America that was slipping away. Jake Johnson delves into film and television musicals of the era to examine their place in networks of grieving in America, for America, and about America. The Golden Age of musical theater ended just as Elisabeth K羹bler-Ross's On Death and Dying debuted, and Johnson uses K羹bler-Ross's five stages to frame the intertwining of musicals and grief. He analyzes films like Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and State Fair alongside paintings, poetry, and other images and texts to reveal how the musical theater engine built in the first half of the century broke down just as a new language emerged to describe the melancholy felt by people facing the end of the world they had known. Nuanced and original, Unstaged Grief plumbs the grief, loss, and hope behind the Technicolor spectacle and rousing showstoppers.
Deanna Durbin
A photographic essay, for serious students of operella and operetta, on the motion picture career of the Classical soprano Deanna Durbin covering each of her delightful musical films from 1936 to 1948. New Revised Edition. Copyright 2025.
Failed Masculinities
Satyajit Ray belonged to a category of filmmakers and artists from newly independent countries whose work was used to define 'national culture'. Failed Masculinities: The Men in Satyajit Ray's Films argues that a study of his films will give us a purchase on the moral trajectory of India in its first few decades of independence, particularly through examination of his male characters and their narratives. Films discussed by Sanyal include the Apu Trilogy, Shakha Prasakha, Ghare Baire and Kapurush.
Contemporary Screen Ethics
Contemporary Screen Ethics focuses on the intertwining of the ethical with the socio-political, considering such topics as: care, decolonial feminism, ecology, histories of political violence, intersectionality, neoliberalism, race, and sexual and gendered violence. The collection advocates looking anew at the global complexity and diversity of such ethical issues across various screen media: from Netflix movies to VR, from Chinese romcoms to Brazilian pornochanchadas, from documentaries to drone warfare, from Jordan Peele movies to Google Earth. The analysis exposes the ethical tension between the inclusions and exclusions of global structural inequality (the identities of the haves, the absences of the have nots), alongside the need to understand our collective belonging to the planet demanded by the climate crisis. Informing the analysis, established thinkers like Deleuze, Irigaray, Jameson and Ranci癡re are joined by an array of different voices - Ferreira da Silva, Gill, Lugones, Milroy, Mu簽oz, Sheshadri-Crooks, Verg癡s - to unlock contemporary screen ethics.
Strangelove Country
D. Harlan Wilson's Strangelove Country is an original, dynamic study of Stanley Kubrick's relationship with science fiction that explores how the genre shaped his cinematic identity and how that identity reshaped the genre. Focusing on Kubrick's futurist trilogy-Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange-as well as his collaboration with Steven Spielberg on A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Wilson takes a unique approach that is at once scholarly and defiant of academic stodge. Specifically, he views the "Kubrickian consciousness" through the lens of schizoanalysis and filmosophy, methods of inquiry that he uses to probe how Kubrick's oeuvre forms a singular, autonomous, interstitial "filmind" distinct from the director, with its own manner of thinking, seeing, and being. Synthesizing film theory, critical analysis, and certain novelistic techniques, Wilson reaffirms Kubrick's status as one of the twentieth century's greatest auteurs while casting new light on the filmmaker's extraordinary contribution to the history of cinema.
Coldplay Up Close
Have you always wanted to know more about Coldplay's over 25-year-long band history? "Coldplay Up Close: The illustrated, unauthorized biography" offers you a unique insight into the world of this world-famous band. This book features a minimalist design and focuses on high-quality, large-format photos taken by renowned professional photographers. From the humble beginnings in 1996 to global fame, this book highlights the key milestones of Coldplay. Experience the band's early phase, their commercial breakthrough in the early 2000s, and the innovative collaboration with producer Brian Eno, which has significantly shaped Coldplay's music. A special focus is also placed on the band's distinctive style that sets them apart from others. Each page of this book is a visual celebration of the band's history, guiding readers through concise texts and impressive images. Coldplay Up Close: The Illustrated Biography is not only a must for every fan but also an ideal gift for music lovers. Dive into the fascinating history of Coldplay, like never before told.
Bob's Burgers 2026 Wall Calendar (Includes Stickers)
Based on the Emmy(R) Award-winning, big-hearted animated series, the Bob's Burgers 2026 Wall Calendar showcases the entire Belcher family in their best moments. Centering on patriarch Bob (Archer's H. Jon Benjamin) who runs his business with his wife, porcelain baby collector and dinner-theatre enthusiast Linda (voiced by John Roberts), the series also features teenage daughter Tina (Dan Mintz), who is obsessed with boys and horses; son Gene (Eugen Mirman), who is only afraid of snakes; and youngest daughter Louise (30 Rock's Kristen Schaal), who never, ever takes off her bunny ears. Ever. STICKERS! Includes full-color sticker sheet featuring 25 stickers with art from the show Full-color original art for each month with quotes tailored to the images Generous grids for adding appointments and reminders Includes major official world holidays Opens to 12 inches x 24 inches Perfect for both gift giving and self-purchase
Bob's Burgers 2026 Day-To-Day Calendar
Based on the Emmy(R) Award-winning, big-hearted animated series, the Bob's Burgers 2026 Day-to-Day Calendar features the entire Belcher family and friends in their best moments--every day of the year! Centering on patriarch Bob (Archer's H. Jon Benjamin) who runs his business with his wife, porcelain baby collector and dinner-theatre enthusiast Linda (voiced by John Roberts), the series also features teenage daughter Tina (Dan Mintz), who is obsessed with boys and horses; son Gene (Eugen Mirman), who is only afraid of snakes; and youngest daughter Louise (30 Rock's Kristen Schaal), who never, ever takes off her bunny ears. Ever. Full-color original art for each day of the year Generous space for adding appointments and reminders Includes major official world holidays Perfect for both gift giving and self-purchase Tear-off pages (blank on reverse) Notes page in the back of the calendar Recyclable plastic easel backer for desk or tabletop display
Carnal Knowledge
Este libro es una colecci籀n de ensayos presentados en el Simposio de dos d穩as sobre Sexo y Sexualidad en el Cine y las Letras Hispanas que tendr穩a lugar en la Universidad de Pittsburgh en abril de 1991. Los invitados de honor fueron Gustavo Sainz, el director de cine Jos矇 Luis Borau y Manuel Puig, quien lamentablemente falleci籀 el a簽o anterior y a la memoria del cual este volumen est獺 dedicado. Los art穩culos recopilados aqu穩 representan un enfoque cr穩tico contempor獺neo del trabajo de muchos per穩odos diferentes, que van desde la 'Carta Jamaica' de Col籀n (1503) hasta ejemplos m獺s recientes y expl穩citos de narrativa y poes穩a. Estas nuevas visiones cr穩ticas comparten una visi籀n com繳n en el levantamiento de tab繳es y la relajaci籀n del decoro. This book is a collection of essays presented at the two day Symposium on Sex and Sexuality in Hispanic Film and Letters that would take place at the University of Pittsburgh in April 1991. The guests of honour were Gustavo Sainz, film director Jos矇 Luis Borau and Manuel Puig who unfortunately passed away the year prior and to whom this volume is dedicated. The papers compiled here represent a contemporary critical approach to the work of many different periods, ranging from Columbus's 'Carta Jamaica' (1503) to more recent and explicit examples of narrative and poetry. These new critical visions share a common vision in the lifting of taboos and the loosening of the stronghold of decorum.
Soho on Screen
Despite Soho's rich cultural history, there remains an absence of work on the depiction of the popular neighbourhood in film. Soho on Screen provides one of the first studies of Soho within post-war British cinema. Drawing upon historical, cultural and urban studies of the area, this book explores twelve films and theatrically released documentaries from a filmography of over one hundred Soho set productions. While predominantly focusing on low-budget, exploitation films which are exemplars of British and international filmmaking, Young also offers new readings of star and director biographies, from Laurence Harvey to Emeric Pressburger, and in so doing enlivens discussion on filmmaking in a time and place of intense social transformation, technological innovation and growing permissiveness.
Ecrans
Contributeurs: Martine Beugnet, Remi Fontanel, Mary Harrod, Nedjma Moussaoui, Benjamin Thomas, Luc Vancheri, David Vasse, Valerie Vignaux, Ginette Vincendeau et Emma Wilson.
Stand-up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms
What are the barriers to women's participation in live comedy, and how are these barriers maintained in the digital era? In this book, Ellie Tomsett considers how the origins of stand-up comedy still impact on current live comedy production, and explains how the contemporary stand-up scene continues to reflect wider societal stereotypes about the capabilities of women. Using primary data collected from women-only comedy nights and immersive research with the UK Women in Comedy Festival in Manchester, Tomsett analyses examples of stand-up performed by contemporary comedians - including Bridget Christie, Luisa Omielan, Lolly Adefope and Gr獺inne Maguire - and provocatively questions how these performances relate to conceptions of feminist and postfeminist humour, as well as notions of backlash against contemporary feminisms. She focuses on live comedy that is explicitly feminist to consider how social attitudes to women, the increasing visibility of female labour outside the home, and the emergence of multiple (and sometimes contradictory) feminisms has influenced the comedy produced by women comedians in 21st century Britain.
An Atonal Cinema
This is a book about Palestinians elsewhere and Palestinian elsewheres. Articulating an ambiguous right to remain out-of-place as a spatialized response to the fossilized present, the films and filmmakers in this book examine Palestine, as a place and idea, from the dissonance of exile. An Atonal Cinema: Resistance, Counterpoint and Dialogue in Transnational Palestine theorizes a transnational consciousness within contemporary Palestinian cinema as one which articulates an 'atonal' cinema, utilizing contrapuntal dialogue as a mode of resistance with which to respond critically to the 'place-myth' of Palestine in films produced within Palestine but without Palestinians. Drawing on a genealogy of Edward Said's atonal thinking of counterpoint, the author argues that the films in this book display a 'double-consciousness', through which Palestine is simultaneously elided and re-inscribed in a contrapuntal dialogue between the 'here' of its contemporary reality and the 'elsewhere' of its historical image. An Atonal Cinema's radical approach includes cinematic texts from Europe, South America and Israel in its corpus, which have both triggered and been shaped by critical responses in contemporary Palestinian cinema. Drawing on both literature and cinema, it draws on the work of Edward Said, Mahmoud Darwish, Jean Genet and Carlo Levi. Films by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jean-Luc Godard, Menahem Golan and Miguel Litt穩n are read contrapuntally through contemporary responses from Ayreen Anastas, Basma Alsharif, Mohanad Yaqubi, Elia Suleiman and Kamal Aljafari.
The Metropolitan Police and the British Film Industry, 1919-1956
This groundbreaking book investigates the murky relationship between the Metropolitan Police Press Bureau and the British film industry, shedding new light on police-media relations. Beginning with the culture of suppression during the interwar period, when retired police inspectors were threatened with loss of pension should they become involved with the film industry, the relationship shifted when a forgotten pioneer of public relations, Percy Fearnley, was appointed to the role of Metropolitan Police Public Information Officer in 1945. Fearnley was the first-ever journalist to take up this role and, through him, the Metropolitan Police embarked on a series of collaborations with the highest echelons of postwar British cinema, including J. Arthur Rank, Ealing Studios and Gainsborough Studios. Using newly-declassified internal Metropolitan Police and Home Office correspondence, Alexander Charles Rock tells the story of the Metropolitan Police's project to manipulate the British film industry into producing propaganda under the guise of mainstream entertainment cinema. In doing so he offers a radical re-reading of the context of production of a number of canonical British films such as The Blue Lamp(1950), I Believe In You (1952) and Street Corner (1953).
The History of German Literature on Film
A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE This book tells the story of German-language literature on film, beginning with pioneering motion picture adaptations of Faust in 1897 and early debates focused on high art as mass culture. It explores, analyzes and contextualizes the so-called 'golden age' of silent cinema in the 1920s, the impact of sound on adaptation practices, the abuse of literary heritage by Nazi filmmakers, and traces the role of German-language literature in exile and postwar films, across ideological boundaries in divided Germany, in New German Cinema, and in remakes and movies for cinema as well as television and streaming services in the 21st century. Having provided the narrative core to thousands of films since the late 19th century, many of German cinema's most influential masterpieces were inspired by canonical texts, popular plays, and even children's literature. Not being restricted to German adaptations, however, this book also traces the role of literature originally written in German in international film productions, which sheds light on the interrelation between cinema and key historical events. It outlines how processes of adaptation are shaped by global catastrophes and the emergence of nations, by materialist conditions, liberal economies and capitalist imperatives, political agendas, the mobility of individuals, and sometimes by the desire to create reflective surfaces and, perhaps, even art. Commercial cinema's adaptation practices have foregrounded economic interest, but numerous filmmakers throughout cinema history have turned to German-language literature not simply to entertain, but as a creative contribution to the public sphere, marking adaptation practice, at least potentially, as a form of active citizenship.
Thai Cinema
One of the fastest growing and most internationally renowned cinemas in Southeast Asia is that of Thailand. In the first ever book devoted solely to this major centre of creative filmmaking, experts on contemporary and historic Thai film provide a timely overview and discussion of key films, directors and current movements in the region in a comprehensive encyclopaedia format. What many critics, analysts and scholars have retrospectively christened `New Thai Cinema' began to take shape in the late 1990s when national film moved away from its position as lower-class and provincial entertainment and became a firm fixture in Bangkok multiplexes and festivals worldwide. This book will provide information on the influential figures behind the films - up to and succeeding the 1997 watershed film Dang Bireley's and Young Gangsters that began the breakaway movement - as well as detailing and explaining the traditions of popular and art-house genres specific to Thailand. Featuring contributions on Thai visionaries such as Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Wisit Sasanatieng and providing rare insight into early Thai cinema, this is an essential scholarly guide to a vibrant aspect of Southeast Asian cinema - its history, industry and aesthetic trends - for scholars and students alike.
Where Is Abbas Kiarostami?
When Abbas Kiarostami suddenly passed away in July 2016, he was already an iconic figure in world cinema--and his reputation as a master filmmaker has only grown since. In this book, celebrated scholar Hamid Dabashi offers a new way of looking at Kiarostami's artworld, one that questions the very idea of film philosophy. Dabashi's authoritative account of the philosophical resonances of Kiarostami's oeuvre offers an iconoclastic critique of the field's Eurocentrism and, in vivid prose, makes the case for a new method of appreciating the work of this essential figure. The result is a provocative perspective on the totality of Kiarostami's legacy that, with deep roots in Iranian aesthetic and Persian poetic and philosophical traditions, overcomes film's provincial preoccupation with its Western heritage and charts a new path forward for film-philosophy.
Slander!
A meditative, research-driven narrative dive into the history of Malayan filmmakingAn experimental novel intertwining 1950s Malayan film scripts and film narratives, a fictionalized autobiographic diary, film theory and more, Slander! brings voice to the culture of Southeast Asia's Hollywood counterpart.
Contemporary Art Cinema Culture in China
How do contemporary Chinese audiences access art cinema? What are the alternative channels for the distribution and exhibition of art cinema in China? How is Chinese art cinema changing with the booming of internet media and commodity culture in the 21st century? To answer these questions, Xiang Fan explores the dynamic networks of art cinema in China in the 21st century, highlighting the cultural practices of intermediaries such as independent programmers, internet critics, and fan translators. Offering insights gleaned from original ethnographic research, Fan reveals how these intermediary practitioners think about cinema, negotiate judgement and appreciation, construct a discourse of value and taste, and most importantly, constitute a coordinated and interrelated network for the sharing of art cinema. She argues that although their motivation was derived from a cinephilia seeking to forge an alternative mode of distribution and reception, the 'new' cinema culture they have produced simultaneously negotiates a subtly complicit relationship with authoritative and market forces. In doing so, she offers an original interdisciplinary perspective on contemporary art cinema culture in Chinese society.
Czechoslovak cinema Czech cinema
Czechoslovak cinema experienced a golden age in the 1960s, both in qualitative terms and in terms of international recognition, when it won two successive Oscars for Best Foreign Film and made the festival circuit with a bang and admiration that included awards and hype at Cannes. This phase began in the early 1960s and had a precise end; the day the Warsaw Pact tanks invaded the country, putting an end to the Prague Spring. From this moment on, some filmmakers remained in the country, filming in much more difficult conditions, while others, as is customary after an authoritarian coup, went into exile, mainly to Hollywood, where only Milos Forman managed to pursue a remarkable career. Ricardo Luiz de Souza works on Czechoslovak cinema, emphasising the 1960s, i.e. its golden age, but he also pays attention to films that were produced later and that sometimes managed to match the great films produced at the time.
Beyond Virtual Production
Beyond Virtual Production brings together a range of creative practice research projects that have been undertaken in The Void, an early-adopter university-based virtual production studio at Flinders University in South Australia.From a cross-disciplinary short virtual production film, to a VR simulation of the last 100 seconds of life of earth, to the live performance of the virtual band Big Sands, to augmented and extended reality, to archaeological projects, this collection captures the potential applications of virtual production technology and provides a framework for cross-disciplinary work and industry collaborations both in a university context and beyond. It offers insight into the development of virtual production courses and encompasses research into theories of performance, liveness, methods for co-creation, gender in virtual production careers, and object digitization and its representation while highlighting significant pathways of industry partnerships alongside experimental art practices.Creative technology and interdisciplinary practitioners, researchers, students, and teachers will find inspiration and practical guidance in these chapters.
Stories In Motion
Transform Chaos into Cinematic Mastery with Stories in Motion: The Filmmaker EntrepreneurAre you a filmmaker struggling to balance creativity with the demands of running a business?Do you find yourself overwhelmed by budgets, crew management, and the endless logistics of production?Ever wonder how to navigate the chaos of filmmaking while staying true to your artistic vision?Leif is a young, ambitious filmmaker who thought he could survive in the industry on passion alone. Living in a cluttered apartment and juggling dreams with reality, He is all about the art of storytelling - until he's thrown into the uncharted waters of film production's business side. His journey is one of discovery, resilience, and transformation, revealing the harsh but exhilarating realities of being a filmmaker and an entrepreneur.Stories in Motion gives a raw and humorous account of the ups and downs of filmmaking, peeling back the layers of what it truly takes to bring a creative vision to life. And through Leif's experiences, you'll discover what it actually takes to not just survive but thrive in the demanding world of film.How to manage a film crew without losing your sanity...Master the art of pitching to investors, even with a limited budget...Strategies to navigate the constant chaos of film production...Insights into crowdfunding and securing funding for your dream project...Tested ways to balance creativity with practical business needs...The importance of a supportive network and collaboration...Inspiration from real-life examples of overcoming setbacks in filmmaking...It's time to embrace the journey, learn from the setbacks, and fuel your next project with the wisdom of those who've been in the trenches.
Organisations and environmental approaches
With the advent of market transformations and the emergence of new management models, organisations have realised the importance of the environmental aspect. Nowadays, the environmental degradation caused to the environment is no longer acceptable, after all, it is from the environment that the material inputs that become goods to be consumed are extracted. Therefore, it is inseparable that goods and services are possible to meet current needs, but at the same time, a compatible balance must be sought that allows future generations to also enjoy this right. Therefore, this work presents a brief perception of the environmental paradigm, within the studies carried out, and encourages discussions on the subject.
LEXX Unauthorized, Series 3
LEXX Unauthorized, Series 3 - It's Hot and It's Cold. The continuing story of Kai, an undead assassin, Zev, a combination of love slave and cluster lizard, Stanley Tweedle, a hapless security guard and 790, a robot head, careening through space together in the LEXX, a stolen, planet destroying, biological warship shaped like a dragonfly. The third series sees a radical reinvention of the show into a thirteen episode serial, as the LEXX falls into a stationary orbit between two warring planets, Fire and Water, which are really Heaven and Hell. Special Bonus - A behind the scenes look at the principal Creators and Stars of the show. LEXX was one of the strangest and most wildly surreal space operas ever conceived, owing as much to Luis Bunuel and Alejandro Jodorowsky as to to Star Trek and Star Wars. It was unique and unforgettable, mixing black comedy and absurdism with epic drama, and an astonishing visual sense. Backstage, the story of the creation of the series was even more extraordinary, a tale of regional Atlantic film makers, renegade artists, cult film makers, wild experimentation, Canadian cultural nationalism, German entrepreneurs, new computer generated imagery technologies and backstage chaos intersecting in wildly unpredictable ways, to create truly exotic images and stories. The product of years of research and dozens of interviews, this is a 'must buy' for any fan of the show itself or of science fiction movies television generally, and an eye opening insight into film and television production, especially Canadian and international productions.
Maverick Secrets
At a city-run Senior Center in San Antonio, a multicultural group of seniors is playing Texas Hold'Em poker and chatting. These casual friends have developed a habit to gather mornings to play cards before the Center's free lunch service begins. They overhear an old Western being broadcast on TV monitors from the nearby exercise area. They discuss how Westerns unconsciously influenced them as children to hold biased attitudes about cultural minorities, women's roles, and openly-carried firearms.Bonnie is a Jewish, divorced woman who moved to South Texas from back East and is fascinated by the contrasted cultures.Mashawn is a Black man, married guardian of his pre-teen grandson whose father is incarcerated. This Center is near his child's school.Valinda is a Black, single, wheelchair-bound diabetic woman, who in younger days danced on the TV show, Soul Train. Her daughter was shot to death by an abusive boyfriend. Keith, of Irish extraction, is native Texan, a married, retired military man. He became an expert card player in the service and also developed passions for gun ownership and game hunting.Lupe, a married Mexican-American woman, has lived with her family in Tejas for many generations, since the first migrations of Canary Islanders and Spaniards in the 1600s.Maverick Secrets. Decoding Early TV Westerns is a dramatic script developed by Catherine Lee, funded in 2024 with a Literary Arts grant to her as an Individual Artist from the City of San Antonio, Texas, Department of Arts & Culture. It is extensively notated and contains bibliographies of both Works Cited and Research Consulted for opinions expressed by the characters.
LEXX Unauthorized, Series 2
LEXX Unauthorized, Series 2 - The Light At the End of the Universe. LEXX, one of the strangest and most wildly surreal space operas ever conceived. In the second series, our intrepid crew travels from the Dark Zone back to the Light Universe, searching for a new home, or at least a good time, while in their wake a mysterious force is destroying the universe. Featuring detailed information on the production of both made and unmade episodes based on extensive interviews with cast and crew.
LEXX Unauthorized, Backstage at the Dark Zone
LEXX Unauthorized, Backstage at the Dark ZoneThe Story of Kai, an undead assassin; Zev, a combination of love slave and cluster lizard, Stanley Tweedle, a hapless security guard, and 790 a lovestruck robot head, careening through space together in the LEXX, a stolen planet-destroying biological warship shaped like a dragonfly.The strangest and most wildly surreal space opera ever conceived, owing as much to Bunuel and Jodorowsky as to Star Trek and Star wars. Unique and unforgettable, LEXX mixed black comedy and absurdism with epic drama and an astonishing visual sensibility. The product of years of research and dozens of interviews, LEXX Unauthorized is a 'must buy' for any fan of the show itself or of science fiction movies and television generally. It is an eye opening window into film and television production.
Thriller TV Films
This is a reference book on 44 made for television films that were shown under the title Thriller. The book includes all films in original date of transmission order, complete cast lists, numerous photographs, directorial credits, and a story synopsis for each film. Thriller was originally broadcast between 1973 and 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast.
Empirical Narratives
This is not a conventional book; it is a collection of scholarly articles that present the author's scientific findings. The content of the book develops logically, transitioning from the conceptual and theoretical foundations of research to the analysis of data. Unfortunately, science is often misunderstood. The term "science" is employed with varying meanings and contexts by amateurs, journalists, politicians, scholars, and even scientists themselves. For some, science carries a prestigious connotation; for others, it represents true knowledge. Yet for others, it signifies the objective study of empirical phenomena.
Through the Camera Hole
This book explores a recurring pattern of Carrollian motifs from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There in three Alfred Hitchcock movies: Rebecca, Notorious, and Psycho. Alfred Hitchcock's cinematic oeuvre will be argued to be full of such Carrollian elements as dreams, falls, doors, and identity puzzles. Not only are they part of the director's iconography, but they also immerse the audience in the cinematic world and enhance psychological intensity. By examining the Carrollian elements in Hitchcock's movies through various cinematic techniques, this research seeks to offer a fresh perspective on Hitchcock studies. The Hitchcarrollian relationship will be defined in terms of adaptation studies as the most suitable framework to bridge Carroll and Hitchcock as representatives of literature and film, respectively. Additionally, this book is also interested in how Carrollian motifs, representing the "Hitchcockian unconscious" as a Victorian child, intertwine with his composite nationality within the framework of transnational studies.
Film/TV Director's Field Manual
"Unlock the secrets to directing in Rob Spera's remarkable Field Manual." - Meg LeFauve, Academy Award Nominee Inside Out"I learned so much from Rob, including deep truths about leadership and communication, that profoundly impacted my life." - Billy Ray, Writer/Director, Academy Award Nominee Captain Phillips"Deeply insightful, unnervingly concise, and, best of all, a fun read. Mattson Tomlin, Writer/Director, Mother/Android Writer The Batman IIRob Spera's anti-textbook for filmmakers identifies 70 fundamental core values of filmmaking distilled to their essence to inspire questions and ignite a thought process that will take your filmmaking to the next level. These central tenets of cinematic storytelling cut to the heart of the art and craft and will have a far-reaching impact on your films. Mr. Spera also includes a series of exercises to help explore the key maxims in his book.
Old Hollywood
What if there was a book that gives you all the information on Old Hollywood that you usually don't get? Not the long history and the biographies - but the little-known facts and interesting details about life, movies and business back then: The scandals and the feuds, the friendships and the family relations, the real names and the hidden talents, the business ventures and the endorsement deals, the injuries and health issues, the diet plans and workout regiments. And all that, ideally, presented in a snackable way. This book is exactly that. 

Expect to find information on stars like Bebe Daniels, Kay Francis, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Mae Murray, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, Paul Newman, Marilyn Monroe, Dorothy Dandridge, Jane Russell, Anna May Wong, Mae West and many more.
