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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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Adele Reinhartz. Scripture on the Silver Screen

Publisher:
Year:2003
Pages:256
ISBN:0664223591

Book Description"Surely the extensive and broad-ranging use of the Bible in popular films demonstrates how important it is that everyone know something about the Bible, or at least acquire some basic familiarity with its contents. . . . Knowledge of the Bible is important not only for understanding the masterpieces of Western civilization; looking at Hollywood films through the lens of the Bible also reveals the importance of scripture for our ability to appreciate popular culture." ?from the Introduction Eloquently written and meticulously researched, Scripture on the Silver Screen offers all students of scripture?whether in an academic classroom or at home?an inviting new way to further their biblical literacy. By exploring theways the Bible and its contents are appropriated in ...

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

Publisher:
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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Robert C. Bulman. Hollywood Goes to High School: Cinema, Schools, and American Culture

Publisher:
Year:2004
Pages:191
ISBN:0716755416

Book Description Hollywood Goes to High School explores the high school film genre and American culture at large. In this brief supplemental book, Robert Bulman separates high school films into three analytical categories and explores how theyreflect America's preoccupation with individualism and its ambivalent feelings about wealth and inequality. By looking at this genre as more than just entertainment, Bulman shows how these films reflect American attitudes toward education, social class,and adolescence. Hollywood Goes to High School can be incorporated into a variety of courses in sociology, education, history, anthropology, American studies, and film studies.