Artistry in Stone: Great Structures of Ancient Egypt
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ISBN: 1590186613
ISBN-13: 9781590186619
Format: Library Binding, 112pp
Publisher: Cengage Gale
Pub. Date: May 2005
Age Range: 12 and up
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The Artistry of Anger
ISBN:
0807853488ISBN-13:
9780807853481Format:
Paperback‚ 264ppPublisher: University of North Carolina Press‚ ThePub. Date: March 2002Series:
Gender and American Culture Series...
Burlesque: Legendary Stars of the Stage
Synopsis
They were temptresses of tease and specialists in seduction-bawdy and beautiful burlesque performers. Expertly twirling their tassels, these sexy stage professionals took cues from their vaudeville and variety show predecessors. Remembering...
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea : Stories
The winner of the Pushcart Prize, the Kafka Award, and the National Book Award, Ursula K. Le Guin has created a profound and transformational literature. The award-winning stories in A Fisherman of the Inland Sea range from the everyday to the outer...
Alan's War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope
Synopsis
“When I was eighteen, Uncle Sam told me he’d like me to put on a uniform and go off to fight a guy by the name of Adolf. So I did.”
When Alan Cope joined the army and went off to fight in World War II, he had no idea...
Hoosiers
Editorial Reviews
Nothing moves the sports purist like the charge of the underdog. The more improbable, the better. And in Hoosiers, director David Anspaugh's wonderful celebration of the sporting spirit, a small-town Indiana high school basketball team...
Alfred Hitchcock called the silent film "the purest form of cinema," and the ten silent films he directed between 1925 and 1929 reveal the young director's mature artistry. Hitchcock's silents are often said to be the work of a talented amateur in an era of antiquated instruments and poor technique- the director experimented with myriad points of view, unique camera angles and movements
The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968
SynopsisThe auteur theory, of which film criticAndrew Sarris was the leading American proponent, holds that artistry in cinema can be largely attributed to film directors, who, while often working against the strictures of studios, producers, and...
Antonio Triana And The Spanish Dance, Vol. 6
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This book also traces the evolution of the Spanish Dance technique, marked as it is by a turbulent history.Antonio Triana was a dancer of mature artistry, dignity and power. His physical and technical achievements went beyond what is...
Clint Eastwood: Billion Dollar Man
Synopsis
At 75, Clint Eastwood appears to be at the top of his game. His latest film, Million Dollar Baby, garnered four Oscars, including Best Director and Best Motion Picture--reprising his triumph with Unforgiven. Now, drawing on exclusive interviews...
Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard (Hardcover)
Starred Review. Comprehensive and fascinating, this critical biography of one of the leading filmmakers of the French New Wave, Jean-Luc Godard, by New Yorker editor and film critic Brody offers the significant events and achievements of the cinematic innovator who combined an eye-opening concoction of art, politics, music, personal values and social mores.
Clint Eastwood: Billion Dollar Man
SynopsisAt 75, Clint Eastwood appears to be at the top of his game. His latest film, Million Dollar Baby, garnered four Oscars, including Best Director and Best Motion Picture--reprising his triumph with Unforgiven. Now, drawing on exclusive interviews with Eastwood, biographer Douglas Thompson looks at the life and artistry of one of Hollywood's most revered stars.Over four decades, Clint...
Leni Riefenstahl: A Life
SynopsisDancer, actress, mountaineer, and director Leni Riefenstahl’s uncompromising will and audacious talent for self-promotion appeared unmatched—until 1932, when she introduced herself to her future protector and patron: Adolf Hitler. Known internationally for two of the films she made for him, Triumph of the Will and Olympia, Riefenstahl’s demanding and obsessive style introduced...
Bowie in Berlin: A New Career in a New Town Thomas Jerome Seabrook
Bowie in Berlin: A New Career in a New Town
Thomas Jerome Seabrook
Wydawca: JAWBONE PR
Oprawa: miękka
Język: Angielski
Rok wydania: 2008
Liczba stron: 320
ISBN-13: 9781906002084
ISBN-10: 1906002088
The American Cinema
Synopsis
The auteur theory, of which film criticAndrew Sarris was the leading American proponent, holds that artistry in cinema can be largely attributed to film directors, who, while often working against the strictures of studios, producers, and...
Samuel Colt Arms, Art, and Invention Houze Herbert G. Cooper Carolyn C.
Samuel Colt Arms, Art, and Invention
Autor: Houze Herbert G.; Cooper Carolyn C.
Język książki: english
Oprawa: Twarda
Data wydania: 2006
Wydawca: YALE UNIV PR
Ilość stron: 260
Redakcja: Kornhauser Elizabeth Mankin
ISBN-13: 9780300111330
ISBN-10: 0300111339
The Winchester Model 52: Perfection in Design
Herbert G. Houze
Gunsmoke and Saddle Leather: Firearms in the Nineteenth-Century American West
Charles G. Worman
Fraggle Rock - The Complete Second Season
Editorial Reviews
We must welcome the DVD release of Fraggle Rock's second season with loud huzzahs as we further explore Jim Henson's subterranean world, accessed through a hole in the workshop wall of the unwitting human, Doc. Here, fun-loving...
Fraggle Rock - The Complete Second Season
Editorial ReviewsWe must welcome the DVD release of Fraggle Rock's second season with loud huzzahs as we further explore Jim Henson's subterranean world, accessed through a hole in the workshop wall of the unwitting human, Doc. Here, fun-loving Fraggles...
Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher: Reflections
From the PublisherShortlisted for the 2008 Kraszna-Krausz Award for the Best Moving Image Book. Known for their repeating motifs and signature tropes, the films of Ingmar Bergman also contain extensive variation and development. In these reflections on Bergman's artistry and thought, Irving Singer discerns distinctive themes in Bergman's filmmaking, from first intimations in the early work to...
Boost
Synopsis
Sam Hill steals cars. Not just any cars, but collectible cars, rare works of automotive artistry. Sam's a specialist, and he's made a good life for himself in Albuquerque, NM.
Things change one night after he steals a primo 1965...
Passion of Christ
Editorial Reviews
Mel Gibson�s controversial but undeniably compelling account of the last hours of Jesus Christ is nothing if not correctly titled: The word �passion� is derived from a Latin term for pain and suffering. And that�s exactly what...
