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Bollyworld : Popular Indian Cinema Through A Transnational Lens

Publisher:
Year:2005
Pages:343
ISBN:0761933212

Book DescriptionThis volume brings together a group of international scholars to analyze the globalized networks of Indian cinema. It provides a critique of a common scholarly tendency in the field of popular cinema of defining Indian films in terms of their modernity and desire for nationhood. Bollyworld argues that Indian cinema cannot be understood in terms of this national paradigm, and must be more properly described as a field of visual and cultural production that interlinks sites as diverse as the cosmopolitan city of Bombay, the provincial region of Maharashtra, and countries such as Nigeria, Germany, South Africa and the United Kingdom. The twelve essays track the intra-national and trans-national movements of Bollywood cinema.Divided into three sections, the first discusses ...

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Stu Maschwitz. The DV Rebel's Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap

Publisher:Peachpit Press
Year:2007
Pages:320
ISBN:0321413644

Written by Stu Maschwitz, co-founder of the Orphanage (the legendary guerrilla visual effects studio responsible for amazing and award-winning effects in such movies as Sin City, The Day After Tomorrow, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), this book s a must-have for all those budding filmmakers and students who want to produce action movies with visual effects but don't have Hollywood budgets. The Orphanage was created by three twenty-something visual effects veterans who wanted to make their own feture films and discovered they could do this by utilizing home computers, off the shelf software, and approaching things artistically. This guide details exactly how to do this: from planning and selecting the necessary cameras, software, and equipment, t creating specific special ...

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Maryanne Vandervelde. Films and Friends : Starting and Maintaining a Movie Group

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Year:2004
Pages:208
ISBN:0312320795

Book Description The first guide to starting and maintaining a film group. If you've ever wanted to be in a film club but didn't know how to get started, choose films, and keep discussions going, this is the book for you. Here, Maryanne Vandervelde offers advice on how to deal with problems that might arise, including unforeseen pitfalls, uncooperative discussants, and scheduling conflicts. But it's the close friendships and fascinating discussions over the years that explain why her group is still going strong more than seven years after it was founded. She has compiled reflections on what they have learned, a breakdown of all the movies they've discussed, and suggestions for movie rentals, with accompanying issues and discussion topics to get the ball rolling. Fun and informative, ...

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charles Timmerman. The Everything Movie Crosswords Book: 150 A-list Puzzles That Film Fanatics Will Love (The Everything)

Publisher:
Year:2007
Pages:192
ISBN:1598692534

If you're a film buff and a crossword enthusiast, you'll easily find something to love in The Everything Movie Crosswords Book . Full of 150 challenging and fun puzzles with an emphasis on movie trivia, celebrity names, and classic film lore, The Everything Movie Crosswords Book will keep you busy for hours with clues from all genres, including: Bond: "The Living _______" (DAYLIGHTS) Career advice in "The Graduate" (PLASTICS) ___ Detoo ("Star Wars" android) (ARTOO) Repeated word in "The Shining" (REDRUM) These entertaining movie-themed crosswords test your knowledge of the films and stars you love to watch.