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CTS-I Certified Technology Specialist-Installation Exam Guide
The Most Complete CTS-I Exam Study System
Published with InfoComm International, CTS-I Certified Technology Specialist-Installation Exam Guide provides comprehensive coverage of all exam objectives on the leading internationally recognized certification for audiovisual installation professionals. Each chapter features learning objectives, best practices, diagrams, photos, and chapter review questions with in-depth explanations. Designed to help you prepare for the CTS-I exam, this authoritative resource also serves as an essential on-the-job reference.
Covers all CTS-I exam objectives, including how to:
- Manage an AV project
- Interpret audiovisual documentation
- Conduct pre-installation activities
- Route, pull, and terminate cable
- Mount AV equipment
- Build and wire racks
- Install audio systems
- Install video systems
- Verify systems
- Work with networks
- Perform system closeout
Electronic content includes:
- Official CTS-I practice exam
- Links to a library of installation and AV math videos
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AirbrushTech: Learn to Custom Paint and Airbrush
Airbrush-Tech-Live was launched and went online early 2006. It welcomed all artists and encouraged them to participate in the groundbreaking new media format of Digital Interactive. Airbrush-Tech-Live was created because of a need to improve over previous publications that have been geared towards teaching various art forms. In a short amount of time, the digital magazine became one of the leading places for artists to gather and became hugely popular around the world. The Digital Magazine ran strong until 2010 when it was closed due to the collapse of the custom paint & airbrushing industry. Assembled in this book are many of the stories and educational step-by-step articles that were once a part of one the largest resource centers on the Internet for airbrush artists, fine artists, pinstripers and custom painters. The contents within are designed to quickly advance a beginner to a pro. The step-by-step articles have been written by award winning artists, Steven Craig, Denise Thurston, Mike Learn, Jason Jewett, Armando Huerta and many others. It takes many years to obtain the experience and expertise that is included in this book that will be beneficial to anyone from not having to learn by trial and error. Inside are in depth features on Professional Bodywork, Paint Repair and Color Sanding & Buffing show winning finishes. There are airbrushing tutorials for beginners, and advanced step-by-step articles for serious professionals such as how to paint special effects as faux metal grinding, wood grain, Crystal Effect and Chrome. Also inside are many illustrating lessons to have you painting like a master of the airbrush. We take a tour of the world famous Coast Airbrush Facility, teach you how to start up a money making business doing temporary airbrushed tattoos, and interviews with world renowned Artists Mike Learn and Armando Huerta. Plus… there is much, much more inside that is beneficial to anyone serious or tinkering with Custom Paint & Airbrushing.Read more
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Stress Relieving Color by Numbers for Adults Coloring Book: Amazing Patterns of Animals, Mandalas Landscape An Adult Activity Book
Looking for an antidote to stress?
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Adults Coloring Book” This coloring book for adults will immerse you in a world of
creativity and relaxation as you bring to life captivating patterns of animals, mandalas, and
landscapes. Designed with teens, adults and seniors in mind, this activity book offers a
therapeutic escape from the pressures of everyday life.◆Features Of Color By
Numbers For Adults:- Diverse Patterns: This adult coloring book for
women and men explores a wide variety of intricate patterns, including animals, mandalas, and
landscapes, ensuring there’s something to suit every mood and preference. - Color
by Numbers: One can effortlessly follow the color-coded numbers, allowing you to create
stunning artwork without the stress of choosing colors. - Stress Relief: This
book belongs to the category of coloring books for adults relaxation that engages you in a
calming and meditative activity that helps reduce stress, anxiety, and promote
mindfulness. - High-Quality Paper: Our book is printed on premium paper,
ensuring your colors won’t bleed through, and your finished creations can be framed or
displayed. - Artistic Fulfillment: Experience the satisfaction of completing
beautiful works of art, boosting your self-esteem and sense of accomplishment This adult
coloring book for men and women is meticulously created to release stress and
anxiety.
◆Benefits Of Color By Numbers For
Adults:- Relaxation and Stress Reduction: Coloring by numbers is a
proven way to unwind, relax, and de-stress, making it an ideal activity for busy adults seeking
tranquility. - Artistic Expression: This Adult color by number coloring book
will make you enjoy the therapeutic benefits of creative expression without the pressure of
choosing colors or creating designs from scratch. - Mindfulness and Focus:
Coloring engages your mind, fostering mindfulness and improving concentration, making
it an excellent tool for mindfulness practice. - Beautiful Keepsakes: Once
completed, your colored artworks can be proudly displayed or shared, serving as a reminder of
your creative journey. - Perfect Gift for Any Occasion: Whether it’s a birthday,
New Year’s celebration, Christmas, or Halloween present, this coloring book makes a
thoughtful and versatile gift for friends and loved ones. - Ideal for Travel: Take
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the coloring adventure on the road! This activity book for adults is a fantastic companion for
long road trips and airplane journeys, offering a creative and relaxing activity to pass the time
while traveling. - Versatile Enjoyment: Whether you’re seeking a solo artistic
escape or a delightful group activity, our coloring book offers a versatile and enjoyable
experience for adults of all ages.
Escape the stresses of daily life and start on a
creative journey with our “Stress Relieving Color by Numbers for Adults Coloring
Book.”This book provides the perfect opportunity to explore, express
yourself, and find serenity through art.★Rediscover the joy of coloring
for adults!★Read more
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Happy Birthday Year Journal, Happy Birthday, 11: Emoji Happy 11th Birthday Journal Notebook, Birthday Emojis Journal for 11 Year Old Girls, Writing, … Girl!: Volume 11 (Memory…
Cute Emoji Activity Journal to Write & Draw in!Journaling is One of the Best Activities Young Children can Start. A Keepsake Memory Book for Special Thoughts, Drawings, Ideas, Doodles, Stories throughout the Year. Fun Way to Document Every Birthday Year and Watch the Development of Your Child, New Interests, Friends, Activities and Hobbies. Encourage Children to Begin Now, to Develop Good Writing and Journaling Skills
- Matte finish Cover Design
- Printed on White Paper
- 60# paper stock
- Travel Size, Perfect Backpack Size 6″ x 9″, 120 Lined & Framed Pages for Writing, Drawing, Sketching, & Doodling!
- Girl Emoji Birthday Journal
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Fun, Practical & Unique Gift for the Birthday Girl!
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Airbrush How-to with Mickey Harris (Air Skool)
“With over 35 years of experience under his belt, Mickey Harris is the ideal author to share with new and experienced airbrush artists what he’s learned in a lifetime of airbrush work. Harris’ new book starts with a little history, how he and a small group of his peers began to use the airbrush without any masks to paint T-shirts, motorcycles, hot rods and human bodies. Next comes Harris’ take on what makes a good airbrush, followed by some of the strokes that make up the foundation of any good airbrush painting. The chapter titled: How to Make a Living with an Airbrush, is Mickey’s version of Business 101 for airbrush artists. The rest of the book is given over to twelve airbrushing sequences. Each one starts with a sketch and ends with a completed mural or graphic painted on a panel, a truck or maybe a hot rod. Mickey’s captions explain each image: how he mixes paint to achieve the best viscosity, how the airbrush itself is adjusted, and how he blends the colours to create those beautiful fades. Over 400 images spread across 144 pages, with Mickey’s first person captions, help make this book the next best thing to a one-on-one seminar with Mickey in his own shop. ”Read more
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50 Fabulous Animals: Adult Colouring Book 2 with Birds, Rabbits, Horses, Dogs, Cats, Wild Animals & much more (The Fabulous Collection)
If you love adult colouring books, then you will love this Animals Adult Colouring Book.
It is a fabulous collection of relaxing and easy-to-colour patterns for you to express your creativity and make masterpieces. Included are 50 animals filled with patterns or mandalas: loveable cats and dogs, jungle animals, wild birds and much more!
- Single-sided pages: every image is placed on its own black-backed page to reduce bleed-through.
- Various patterns from easy to intricate: keeping you excited and inspired to colour.
- Perfect for every skill level: you can colour every page however you want and there is no wrong way to colour.
- Perfect with your choice of colouring tools: crayon, gel pens, markers and coloured pencils.
- Premium gloss cover finish
- Large format 22cm x 28cm pages (8.5 x 11 in)
Colouring books make wonderful gifts at any time of the year or special occasion such as Birthdays, Christmas, Mothers Day and more.
Grab one today and start colouring your stresses away.
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The Art of Simon Bisley
The Art of Simon Bisley’s is one of the first complete collections showcasing and highlighting the artwork of this young artist. Feauturing over 100 of the coolest paintings from various projects. Simon Bisley’s paintings is Art to drool over and keep forever.Read more
£12.30The Art of Simon Bisley
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The New Scratchboard: Materials and Techniques for Today’s Artist
This volume begins with a look at the history of scratch art from petroglyphs, sgraffito and scrimshaw to the state of the medium today, with an emphasis on how surfaces, tools and techniques have enlarged the artistic vocabulary of artists working with scratchboard. The main focus of the book is an in-depth, step-by-step description of the three basic scratchboard techniques: the traditional scratching onto an ink-blacked surface; India ink on a white clay surface; and acrylics on a white clay surface. A final section presents a wide variety of other media that can be used on a clay surface, including airbrush, gouache, watercolour, casein, coloured pencil, tempers, coloured inks, lithography inks, encautic, oils, and printing techniques such as monotypes, offset lithography, serigraphs, and those that are computer generated.Read more
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Magic Ocean: A Creative Adult Coloring Book
Magic Ocean is a relaxing coloring book perfect for unleashing your creativity and inner artist. There are 38 original detailed illustrations by artist Karen Sue Chen of Karen Sue Studios. The intricate drawings are inspired by ocean critters, coral reefs, and zen. Let the stress relieving patterns take you to a world of relaxation and imagination. Embrace the calm and connect with your inner artist using pens, markers, crayons, or coloring pencils. The pages are printed on a single side, so there is no bleed through.
Ink illustrations in this coloring book for adults include:
- Ocean creatures
- Sea shells
- Nature designs including coral reefs
- Whales and fish
- Stress relieving patterns
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A Time for Love
The author recalls her spartan life in a National Children’s Home and the pain of being abandoned by the mother she adored. Her misery made her determined to succeed and when, as a teenager, she left home and moved to London, she found work as a model. But it was as an actress that she was to make her name, in such films as “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning”, “The Entertainer” and “Alfie”. Professional success assured, Shirley Anne Field was having fun. She remembers dinners with David Niven, Frank Sinatra and Warren Beatty and tells of her friendships with Steve McQueen, Dudley Moore and Albert Finney and of her marriage to racing-driver Charlie Crichton-Stuart. But the hurt of her childhood was never far from the surface and after receiving a telephone call in 1978, telling her that her mother was alive and wanted to see her, she finally found the love and comfort for which she had always yearned.Read more
£31.10A Time for Love
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Your Face Here: British Cult Movies Since the Sixties
The definitive guide to the history and location of Britain’s most famous cult movies, from A Hard Day’s Night to Trainspotting, with dozens of new interviews, unseen photographs, maps and film sites – and how to find them.
“You’re a big man, but you’re in bad shape”; “I demand to have some booze!”; “Choose Life…”
A Hard Day’s Night, If, Performance, A Clockwork Orange, Get Carter, The Wicker Man, Quadrophenia, Withnail & I, Naked, Trainspotting…
In the 1990s an industry has grown up around certain British cult movies – soundtracks, videos, internet sites and fully-fledged cinema reissues. The makers of these films have become icons of cool, revered throughout the worlds of film, music and fashion. But what makes these films into lifestyles? Your Face Here will tell you why and how.
Ali Catterall and Simon Wells have talked to writers, filmmakers and eyewitnesses, and scouted dozens of location sites to create the definitive history of and guide to over thirty years of British cult movies. Fully illustrated.
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The Ultimate French Vocabulary Codeword Collection: Make learning French vocabulary fun. The complete French Vocabulary code word puzzle book for … clever kids (French…
Test your French vocabulary in an exciting puzzle format!
This book contains 45 themed Codeword puzzles on a variety of French vocabulary topics.
Can you name Weather terms?
How about the parts of the Human Body?
Do you know your Food vocabulary?Codeword’s (also known as Codecracker, Codebreaker, Cross Reference and Cipher Crosswords) are a challenging alternative to Sudoku and traditional Crosswords. A completed crossword is provided with each square corresponding to a letter. You are given three decoded starter letters and your task is to complete the puzzles using your skills, judgement and knowledge of your favorite vocabulary.
Each puzzle includes a tracking grid and an alphabetical list to keep track of the matched letters and the remaining letters that still need to be found.
Note: This is level 3 (challenging) in our French Vocabulary puzzle collection. The topics and answers are in French. Level 1 and 2 will be available soon
This book makes an ideal gift for:
Mum, Dad, Grandma, Grandpa, Cousins, Brother, Sister, Aunt, Uncle, Niece, Nephew and Teacher
Christmas stocking filler
Travel book to occupy some time for long tripsCover: Softcover Glossy
Layout: 68 White Pages including 45 puzzles and solutions
Size: 6 X 9 inches
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Sex, Class and Realism: British Cinema 1956-1963 (British Film Institute)
Hugely impressive in its scope, with introductory chapters on social history, the film industry and theories of realism, this indispensable history of these vital years contains unusually fresh discussions of films justly regards as important, alongside those unjustly ignored. The extensive filmography which accompanies Sex, Class and Realism will also prove to be an invaluable reference source in the teaching of British cinema history.Read more
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The Hammer Story: Revised and Expanded Edition
The only authorised history of Hammer Films draws on exclusive access to the company’s archive of stills and paperwork to give the complete history of the company and its leading figures, a film-by-film analysis of its horror and fantasy titles, and the most complete Hammer filmography ever published.
Established in 1934, Hammer Films is one of the most renowned and prolific independent production companies in the world. Hammer’s productions encompass almost every genre, but it remains best known for the groundbreaking reinvention of cinematic horror that was a phenomenon on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1950s. The unique formula that became known as Hammer Horror was perfected in such classics as The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Dracula (1958) and The Mummy (1959). Over the next 20 years numerous sequels and similarly acclaimed films such as The Devil Rides Out (1968) made Hammer one of the most recognisable filmmaking brands in the world. The Hammer Story is the only authorised history of the company and was compiled with unlimited access to its archive. The book is lavishly illustrated with rare promotional material and previously unpublished photographs. Now with an additional 32 pages continuing the story of Hammer as it came back from the dead in 2007 and began producing new horror films for a modern audience, including:
• Wake Wood (2009) – Hammer Films’ first theatrical release for 30 years
• Let Me In (2010) – directed by Matt Reeves
• The Resident (2011) – starring Oscar-winner Hilary Swank and Hammer legend Sir Christopher Lee
• The Woman in Black (2012) – starring Daniel Radcliffe
• The Quiet Ones (2014) – starring Jared Harris
• The Woman in Black: Angel of Death (2015) – starring Helen McCrory
• The Lodge (2019) – directed by Veronika Franz and Severin FialaRead more
£26.20£28.50The Hammer Story: Revised and Expanded Edition
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British Trash Cinema
BRITISH TRASH CINEMA is the first overview of the wilder shores of British exploitation and cult paracinema from the 1950s onwards. From obscure horror, science fiction and sexploitation, to art-house camp, Hammer’s prehistoric fantasies and the worst British films ever made, author I.Q. Hunter draws on rare archival material and new primary research to take us through the weird and wonderful world of British trash cinema. Beginning by outlining the definitions of trash films and their place in British film history, Hunter explores topics including: Hammer’s overlooked fantasy films, the emergence of the sexploitation film in the 1950s and 60s, the sex industry in the 1970s, Ken Russell’s high camp Gothic and erotic adaptations since the 1980s, gross-out comedies, revenge films, and contemporary straight-to-DVD horror and erotica.Read more
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Brief Encounters: Lesbians and Gays in British Cinema, 1930-71 (Film studies)
An examination of lesbian and gays in British cinema, this book explores a range of lesbian and gay screen images from such diverse films as “Soldiers of the King”, “Pygmalion”, “Dangerous Moonlight”, “Blithe Spirit”, “Brief Encounter”, and “The Servant”, revealing a vital, varied and sensuous cinema. Arranged chronologically, and examining performers, directors and over 150 famous, half-remembered and forgotten films, the book forms a celebration of the contribution of gays and lesbians to British cinema culture. It includes an appendix of gay men’s reactions to “Victim”, the landmark Dirk Bogart film.Read more
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Cinemas in Britain: 100 Years of Cinema Architecture
Despite an uneven history in terms of its popularity, the cinema continues to play an important role in British culture and cinema buildings are a vital part of communities across the country. This fascinating book is a comprehensive examination of the history of the cinema building in Britain, from its 19th-century origins right up to the present day.Read more
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Sixties British Cinema (The History of British Film)
British films of the 1960s are undervalued. Their search for realism has often been dismissed as drabness and their more frivolous efforts can now appear just empty-headed. Robert Murphy’s ‘Sixties British Cinema’ is the first study to challenge this view. He shows that the realist tradition of the late ’50s and early ’60s was anything but dreary and depressing, and gave birth to a clutch of films remarkable for their confidence and vitality: ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Kind of Loving,’ and ‘A Taste of Honey’ are only the better known titles. ‘Sixties British Cinema ‘revalues key genres of the period – horror, crime, and comedy – and takes a fresh look at the ‘swinging London’ films, finding disturbing undertones that reflect the cultural changes of the decade. Now that our cinematic past is constantly recycled on television, Murphy’s informative, engaging, and perceptive review of these films and their cultural and industrial context offers an invaluable guide to this neglected era of British cinema.Read more
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Come and See: The Beguiling Story of the Tyneside Cinema
‘It might be the most beautiful cinema I ‘ve ever seen’ The writer Jon Ronson recently put into words what many people feel about the Tyneside Cinema. Build as a News Theatre in the 1930s, it contains myriad examples of recently restored Persian and art deco design, but its beauty isn t merely physical. It also has the most striking history, people by some extraordinary characters. This richly illustrated book recreates that history not just of the Tyneside, but the first 100 years of cinema itself. It is a beguiling story.Read more
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Seventies British Cinema
Seventies British Cinema provides a comprehensive re-evaluation of British film in the 1970s. The decade has long been written off in critical discussions as a ‘doldrums’ period in British cinema, perhaps because the industry, facing near economic collapse, turned to ‘unacceptable’ low culture genres such as sexploitation comedies or extreme horror. The contributors to this new collection argue that 1970s cinema is ripe for reappraisal: giving serious critical attention to populist genre films, they also consider the development of a British art cinema in the work of Derek Jarman and Peter Greenaway, and the beginnings of an independent sector fostered by the BFI Production Board and producers like Don Boyd. A host of highly individual directors managed to produce interesting and cinematically innovative work against the odds, from Nicolas Roeg to Ken Russell to Mike Hodges. As well as providing a historical and cinematic context for understanding Seventies cinema, the volume also features chapters addressing Hammer horror, the Carry On films, Bond films of the Roger Moore period, Jubilee and other films that responded to Punk rock; heritage cinema and case studies of key seventies films such as The Wicker Man and Straw Dogs. In all, the book provides the final missing piece in the rediscovery of British cinema’s complex and protean history. Contributors: Ruth Barton, James Chapman, Ian Conrich, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Christophe Dupin, Steve Gerrard, Sheldon Hall I. Q. Hunter, James Leggott, Claire Monk, Paul Newland, Dan North, Robert Shail, Justin Smith and Sarah Street.Read more
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British Film Editors: The Heart of the Movie
‘Most of the Directors I’ve worked with needed someone to talk to who is deep inside the heart of the movie’ – Mick Audsley, Film Editor. Film editing is understood by the industry to be one of the most crucial contributions to film-making. World-class British editors such as Antony Gibbs and Anne Coates have received recognition of their importance in Hollywood and experienced British Editors have important roles in a surprising number of major American movies.This book attempts to explain this most elusive of roles by allowing editors to describe in their own words what they do and to bring them into the critical and public spotlight. It is the most comprehensive survey of its kind to date and is based upon interviews with many distinguished editors who have worked on films as diverse as “Blade Runner” and “Carry on Up the Khyber”, “Die Hard 2” and “Blow Up”, “American Beauty” and “Performance”. “The British Film Editor” also provides a detailed history of editing, together with extensive filmographies.Read more
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A Divided Life
An autobiography of Bryan Forbes, describing his turbulent years as head of production of EMI. The author also recollects his friendships with such stars as Graham Greene, Peter Sellers, Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis and Terence Rattigan.Read more
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Rock ‘N’ Film: Cinema’s Dance With Popular Music
For 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 cultural empowerment with its usefulness for the capitalist media industries, Rock ‘N’ Film explores how the music’s contradictory potentials were reproduced in various kinds of cinema, including major studio productions, minor studios’ exploitation projects, independent documentaries, and the avant-garde.
These include Rock Around the Clock and other 1950s jukebox musicals; the films Elvis made before being drafted, especially King Creole, as well as the formulaic comedies in which Hollywood abused his genius in the 1960s; early documentaries such as The T.A.M.I. Show that presented James Brown and the Rolling Stones as the core of a black-white, US-UK cultural commonality; A Hard Day’s Night that marked the British Invasion; Dont Look Back, Monterey Pop, Woodstock, and other Direct Cinema documentaries about the music of the counterculture; and avant-garde films about the Rolling Stones by Jean-Luc Godard, Kenneth Anger, and Robert Frank.
After the turn of the decade, notably Gimme Shelter, in which the Stones appeared to be complicit in the Hells Angels’ murder of a young black man, 1960s’ music-and films about it-reverted to separate black and white traditions based respectively on soul and country. These produced blaxploitation and Lady Sings the Blues on the one hand, and bigoted representations of Southern culture in Nashville on the other. Ending with the deaths of their stars, both films implied that rock ‘n’ roll had died or even, as David Bowie proclaimed, that it had committed suicide. But in his documentary about Bowie, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, D.A. Pennebaker triumphantly re-affirmed the community of musicians and fans in glam rock.
In analyzing this history, David E. James adapts the methodology of histories of the classic film musical to show how the rock ‘n’ roll film both displaced and recreated it.
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Cheer Up!: British Musical Films, 1929-1945
The first book to deal exclusively with the British musical film from the very beginning of talking pictures in the late 1920s through the Depression of the 1930s up to the end of World War II. Cheer Up! is the first book to deal exclusively with the British musical film from the very beginning of talking pictures in the late 1920s through the Depression of the 1930s up to the end of World War II. The upsurge in production at British studios from 1929 onwards marked the real birth of a genre whose principal purpose was to entertain the British public. This endeavour was deeply affected by the very many emigres escaping Nazi Germany, who flooded into the British film industry during this decade, as the genre tried to establish itself. The British musical film in the 1930s reflects a richness of interest. Studios initially flirted with filming what were essentially stage productions plucked from the West End theatre but soon learned that importing a foreign star was a box-office boost. Major musical stars including Jessie Matthews, Richard Tauber and George Formby established themselves during this period. From its beginning, the British musical film captured some of the most notable music-hall performers on screen, and its obsession with music-hall persisted throughout the war years. Other films married popular and classical music with social issues of poverty and unemployment, a message of social integration that long preceded the efforts of the Ealing studios to encourage a sense of social cohesion in post-war Britain. The treatmentof the films discussed is linear, each film dealt with in order of its release date, and allowing for an engaging narrative packed with encyclopaedic information.Read more
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The British ‘B’ Film
This is the first book to provide a thorough examination of the British ‘B’ movie, from the war years to the 1960s. The authors draw on archival research, contemporary trade papers and interviews with key ‘B’ filmmakers to map the ‘B’ movie phenomenon both as artefact and as industry product, and as a reflection on their times.Read more
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Threads of Time: Recollections
Director Peter Brook reveals the myriad sources driving his lifelong passion for finding the most expressive way to tell a story. Over the years we watch his metamorphosis from traditionalist to radical innovator, witnessing his expanding field of vision and sense of dramatic possibility.For fifty years, Peter Brook’s opera, stage, and film productions have held audiences spellbound. His visionary directing has created some of the most influential productions in contemporary theater. Now at the pinnacle of his career, Brook has given us his memoir, a luminous, inspiring work in which he reflects on his artistic fortunes, his idols and teachers, his philosophical path and personal journey. In this autobiography, the man The New York Times has called “the English-speaking world’s most eminent director” and The London Times has named “theater’s living legend” reveals the myriad sources behind his lifelong passion to find the most expressive way of telling a story. Whether in India’s epic “Mahabharata” or a stage adaptation of Oliver Sak’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, South Africa’s “Woza Albert” or “The Cherry Orchard,” Brook’s unique blend of practicality and vision creates unforgettable experiences for audiences worldwide.
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A History of Artists’ Film and Video in Britain
In recent years the use of film and video by British artists has come to widespread public attention. Jeremy Deller, Douglas Gordon, Steve McQueen and Gillian Wearing all won the Turner Prize (in 2004, 1996, 1999 and 1997 respectively) for work made on video. This fin-de-siecle explosion of activity represents the culmination of a long history of work by less well-known artists and experimental film-makers. Ever since the invention of film in the 1890s, artists have been attracted to the possibilities of working with moving images, whether in pursuit of visual poetry, the exploration of the art form’s technical challenges, the hope of political impact, or the desire to re-invigorate such time-honoured subjects as portraiture and landscape. Their work represents an alternative history to that of commercial cinema in Britain – a tradition that has been only intermittently written about until now. This major new book is the first comprehensive history of artists’ film and video in Britain. Structured in two parts (‘Institutions’ and ‘Artists and Movements’), it considers the work of some 300 artists, including Kenneth Macpherson, Basil Wright, Len Lye, Humphrey Jennings, Margaret Tait, Jeff Keen, Carolee Schneemann, Yoko Ono, Malcolm Le Grice, Peter Gidal, William Raban, Chris Welsby, David Hall, Tamara Krikorian, Sally Potter, Guy Sherwin, Lis Rhodes, Derek Jarman, David Larcher, Steve Dwoskin, James Scott, Peter Wollen and Laura Mulvey, Peter Greenaway, Patrick Keiller, John Smith, Andrew Stones, Jaki Irvine, Tracy Emin, Dryden Goodwin, and Stephanie Smith and Ed Stewart. Written by the leading authority in the field, A History of Artists’ Film and Video in Britain, 1897-2004 brings to light the range and diversity of British artists’ work in these mediums as well as the artist-run organisations that have supported the art-form’s development. In so doing it greatly enlarges the scope of any understanding of ‘British cinema’ and demonstrates the crucial importance of the moving image to British art history.Read more
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Don’t Laugh at Me: An Autobiography By Norman Wisdom
Norman Wisdom was born in poverty in the East End. By the age of 12 he was a homeless tramp who had to beg and steal to eat. Eventually he joined the Army where he became a boxing champion and also discovered his true vocation as an entertainer. On leaving the Army he blew his savings on a trip to Hollywood where he bluffed his way in to see Charlie Chaplin, who predicted that Norman Wisdom would be the man to take his mantle. This little man in a tight suit and cloth cap was to make over 40 films and became Britain’s most successful comedian of the 1950s and early 1960s. His stories from this time revolve around film greats including Laurel and Hardy, Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson and John Wayne. His song, “Don’t Laugh At Me”, was in the top ten for nine months, hinting at a sadness behind all the success, and his wife Freda was to leave him when, as he says, she found someone tall and good-looking. Now Norman’s film career is reviving with the release of a new film called “Double X”.Read more
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British Film Studios: 763 (Shire Library)
A beautifully illustrated introduction to the history of British film-making and the leading studios, such as Ealing, Pinewood, Shepperton and Elstree.
The British film industry was already well established when Hollywood sprang to life in 1911, and has remained at the forefront of film-making ever since; from Cecil Hepworth and Alfred Hitchcock to Ridley Scott and Christopher Nolan, and all the innumerable artistic and technical titans in between, the UK has never been far from the cinematic vanguard. Originally flat theatrical sets on temporary stages (often in gardens!), early British studios could be found everywhere from Glasgow to Brighton, and by the 1920s elaborately lit indoor production stages had developed. Stiff competition from the ‘big five’ US studios led to seismic upheavals over the coming decades, yet names like Alexander Korda, Carol Reed, David Lean and Richard Attenborough attest to Britain’s enduring stature. From quintessentially British studios and productions – Gainsborough romances, Ealing comedies, Hammer horrors and many more – to the British role in blockbusting franchises like James Bond, Star Wars and Harry Potter, Kiri Bloom Walden here tells the century-long story of British film, illustrating it with colourful photographs of actors, directors and production staff at work.
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The Coiled Serpent: ‘So inventive that it makes other writing seem uncourageous’
A little girl throws up Gloria-Jean’s teeth after an explosion at the custard factory; Pax, Alexander, and Angelo are hypnotically enthralled by a book that promises them enlightenment if they keep their semen inside their bodies; Victoria is sent to a cursed hotel for ailing girls when her period mysteriously stops. In a damp, putrid spa, the exploitative drudgery of work sparks revolt; in a Margate museum, the new Director curates a venomous garden for public consumption.
In Grudova’s unforgettably surreal style, these stories expose the absurdities behind contemporary ideas of
work, Britishness and art-making, to conjure a singular, startling strangeness that proves the deft skill of a writer
at the top of her game.Read more
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A Gaudy Spree: The Literary Life of Hollywood in the 1930s When the West Was Fun
The author recounts his experiences when, in 1930, he traveled to California to be a screenwriter for Irving Thalberg and describes what Hollywood was like during that periodRead more
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The New Iranian Cinema: Politics, Representation and Identity
Iranian cinema is today widely recognized not merely as a distinctive national cinema, but as one of the most innovative in the world. Established masters like Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf have been joined by newcomers like Samira Makhmalbaf, Majid Majidi, Ja’far Qobadi and Bahman Qobadi, all directors whose films are screened to increasing acclaim in international festivals. This international stature both fascinates Western observers and appears paradoxical in line with perceptions of Iran as anti-modern. The largely Iranian contributors to this book look in depth at how Iranian cinema became a true ‘world cinema’. From a range of perspectives, they explore cinema’s development in post Revolution Iran and its place in Iranian culture.Read more
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Merchant of Dreams: Louis B.Mayer, M.G.M. and the Secret Hollywood
Louis B. Mayer, at the helm of the great film studio MGM, was the guardian of American ideals. He was the most patriotic and romantic of the film makers, creating a dream world for the public in his lavish and luxurious movies. The son of a penniless Russian immigrant, Louis B. Mayer became the most powerful and richest film tycoon in Hollywood. His was the imagination which launched a galaxy of stars, among them Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Judy Garland, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Vivien Leigh, Gene Kelly, Clark Gable and Jean Harlow. This biography is as much an account of their triumphs and tragedies as lt is of the brooding presence of Mayer.Read more
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Shocking Cinema of the 70s
This collection focuses on 1970s films from a variety of countries, and from the marginal to the mainstream, which, by tackling various ‘difficult’ subjects, have proved to be controversial in one way or another. It is not an uncritical celebration of the shocking and the subversive but an attempt to understand why this decade produced films which many found shocking, and what it was that made them shocking to certain audiences. To this end it includes not only films that shocked the conventionally minded, such as hard core pornography, but also those that outraged liberal opinion – for example, Death Wish and Dirty Harry. The book does not simply cast a critical light on a series of controversial films which have been variously maligned, misinterpreted or just plain ignored, but also assesses how their production values, narrative features and critical receptions can be linked to the wider historical and social forces that were dominant during this decade. Furthermore, it explores how these films resonate in our own historical moment – replete as it is with shocks of all kinds.Read more
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British Cinema and the Cold War: The State, Propaganda and Consensus (Cinema and Society)
Cinema was one of the Cold War’s most powerful instruments of propaganda. Movies blended with literary, theatrical, musical and broadcast representations of the conflict to produce a richly textured Cold War culture. Now in paperback, this timely book fills a significant gap in the international story by uncovering British cinema’s contribution to Cold War propaganda and to the development of a popular consensus on Cold War issues. Tony Shaw focuses on an age in which the ‘first Cold War’ dictated international (and to some extent domestic) politics. This era also marked the last phase of cinema’s dominance as a mass entertainment form in Britain. Shaw explores the relationship between film-makers, censors and Whitehall, within the context of the film industry’s economic imperatives and the British government’s anti-Soviet and anti-Communist propaganda strategies. Drawing upon rich documentation, he demonstrates the degree of control exerted by the state over film output. Shaw analyses key films of the period, including High Treason, which put a British McCarthyism on celluloid; the fascinatingly ambiguous science fiction thriller The Quatermass Experiment; the dystopic The Damned, made by one of Hollywood’s blacklisted directors, Joseph Losey; and the CIA-funded, animated version of George Orwell’s novel “Animal Farm”. The result is a deeply probing study of how Cold War issues were refracted through British films, compared with their imported American and East European counterparts, and how the British public received this ‘war propaganda’.Read more
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The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, Mca, and the Hidden History of Hollywood
The reviewer of the Boston Globe said point blank: “Over the years, I’ve read hundreds of books on Hollywood and the movie business, and this one is right at the top.” As the elusive, tyrannical head of the Music Corporation of America (MCA) until the 1990s, Lew Wasserman was the most powerful and feared man in show business for more than half a century. His career spanned the entire history of the movies, from the silent era to the present, and he was guru to Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, and Jimmy Stewart, and to a new generation of filmmakers beginning with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. For more than four years, Dennis McDougal interviewed over 350 people who knew the man with the giant dark horn-rimmed glasses,colleagues, relatives, rivals,and drew on tens of thousands of pages of documents to produce this extraordinary and first-ever portrait of a legend and his times, a book that the New York Times Book Review called “thoroughly reported and engrossing” and that the Daily News called, simply, “a bombshell.”Read more
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Cinema of Outsiders: The Rise of American Independent Film
A deep dive into the emergence and success of independent filmmaking in America
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller
The most important development in American culture of the last two decades is the emergence of independent cinema as a viable alternative to Hollywood. Indeed, while Hollywood’s studios devote much of their time and energy to churning out big-budget, star-studded event movies, a renegade independent cinema that challenges mainstream fare continues to flourish with strong critical support and loyal audiences.
Cinema of Outsiders is the first and only comprehensive chronicle of contemporary independent movies from the late 1970s up to the present. From the hip, audacious early works of maverick David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch, and Spike Lee, to the contemporary Oscar-winning success of indie dynamos, such as the Coen brothers (Fargo), Quentin Tarentino (Pulp Fiction), and Billy Bob Thornton (Sling Blade), Levy describes in a lucid and accessible manner the innovation and diversity of American indies in theme, sensibility, and style.
Documenting the socio-economic, political and artistic forces that led to the rise of American independent film, Cinema of Outsiders depicts the pivotal role of indie guru Robert Redford and his Sundance Film Festival in creating a showcase for indies, the function of film schools in supplying talent, and the continuous tension between indies and Hollywood as two distinct industries with their own structure, finance, talent and audience.
Levy describes the major cycles in the indie film movement: regional cinema, the New York school of film, African-American, Asian American, gay and lesbian, and movies made by women. Based on exhaustive research of over 1,000 movies made between 1977 and 1999, Levy evaluates some 200 quintessential indies, including Choose Me, Stranger Than Paradise, Blood Simple, Blue Velvet, Desperately Seeking Susan, Slacker, Poison, Reservoir Dogs, Gas Food Lodging, Menace II Society, Clerks, In the Company of Men, Chasing Amy, The Apostle, The Opposite of Sex, and Happiness.
Cinema of Outsiders reveals the artistic and political impact of bold and provocative independent movies in displaying the cinema of “outsiders”-the cinema of the “other America.”Read more
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The Hammer Story: The Authorised History of Hammer Films
Fifty years ago, Hammer Films released their very first horror movie, The Quatermass Xperiment. The now-legendary British company went on to make such classics as The Curse of Frankenstein and Dracula (and their many sequels), making international stars out of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, changing the face of horror cinema, and inspiring a generation of Hollywood filmmakers, including the likes of George Lucas, Martin Scorsese and Tim Burton. Now, for the first time, Hammer have given their active backing to an authorised history of the company, and have provided unlimited access to their archives. The Hammer Story provides a film-by-film dissection, dripping with rare promotional material and previously unpublished photographs.Read more
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: 21 Great Bloomsbury Reads for the 21st Century
One of the most exhilarating periods in film history began with Dennis Hopper’s groundbreaking “Easy Rider” in 1969 and ended with Scorsese’s masterpiece “Raging Bull” in 1980, with Beverly Hills shrouded under a blanket of cocaine: at least, that’s how it seemed. Based on interviews with all the Hollywood players of the time, this is the story of creativity and excess in Hollywood, when Coppola, Bogdanovich, Scorsese, Lucas, Hopper, Altman and Spielberg were at the height of their powers. Recounted with refreshing candour, those involved talk about their rise to glory and the sex, drugs and money that made so many of them crash and burn.Read more
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The Producer’s Business Handbook: The Roadmap for the Balanced Film Producer (American Film Market Presents)
Gain a comprehensive understanding of the business of entertainment and learn to successfully engage in all aspects of global production with the revised and updated 4th edition of The Producer’s Business Handbook. Learn how to cultivate relationships with key industry players including domestic and foreign studios, agencies, attorneys, talent, completion guarantors, banks, and private investors.
This edition has been updated to include the latest opportunities presented by changing technology and their impact on the producer’s ability to brand, monetize, finance and globally release content. Also included is new information on audience, earning, distribution and funding opportunities created by the explosive growth of VR, AR, 360 and gaming, as well as the rapid conversion to OTT.
Additional features include:
- Completely updated production financing worksheets – an essential tool for producers;
- Expanded information for low-budget independent producers, internationally-based producers, producers using government funding, and film school students alike;
- Coverage of China’s changing entertainment landscape, including their entertainment consumption, their commitment to produce content for the big global territories, and more;
- New, full-color illustrations and graphics that provide a visual representation of complex topics.
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