#123 - Gene D.Phillips - Beyond the Epic

Author or Editor: Gene D.Phillips
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2006
Pages: 545
Size: 13.5MB

Two-time Academy Award winner Sir David Lean (1908-1991) was a prominent director in the world of twentieth-century cinema, responsible for such classics as The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago, and Lawrence of Arabia. British-born Lean asserted himself in Hollywood as a major artistic voice with his epic storytelling and panoramic depictions of history, but he was also a highly skilled film editor in Great Britain before he became a director who brought an art-house sensibility to big market films.

Lean's approach to filmmaking was far different from that of his contemporaries. He carefully chose his projects and, as a result, directed only sixteen films in a span of more than forty years. Those films, however, are some of the landmarks of motion-picture history. In addition to his epics, Lean also made adaptations of well-known novels, including Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, and A Passage to India, and plays, including Brief Encounter.

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#122 - Stuart Redman - English Vocabulary in Use - Pre Int and Intermediate

Author or Editor: Stuart Redman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997
Pages: 265
Size: 5.0MB

I learned to write by listening and, later, by reading; I learned to write by writing; I learned to write by teaching others how to write. I didn’t so much write this book as remember it; what you have here is everything I haven’t forgotten of what’s come to me from a life lived in sentences— most of them other people’s.

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#121 - Mark Tredinnick - Writing Well

Author or Editor: Mark Tredinnick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Pages: 239
Size: 1.0MB

I learned to write by listening and, later, by reading; I learned to write by writing; I learned to write by teaching others how to write. I didn’t so much write this book as remember it; what you have here is everything I haven’t forgotten of what’s come to me from a life lived in sentences— most of them other people’s.

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#120 - Peter Ward - Picture Composition for Film and Television

Author or Editor: Peter Ward
Publisher: Focal Press
Published: 2003
Pages: 264
Size: 9.07MB

In the last years of the nineteenth century, moving pictures were viewed in penny arcades on Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope. This peepshow allowed the solo viewer to crank a handle, peer into a darkened box and watch in fascination the dim flickering silent representations of movement. This was quickly supplanted by projected images, but the mystery of a miniature world continued to have a strong attraction. After 45 years as a cameraman, I am still intrigued by a similar magic whenever I look through a viewfinder. There is a concentration of the field of view into a small intense, two-dimensional image that is quite unlike normal perception.

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#119 - A.J. Bishop - Didactics of Mathematics as a Scientific Discipline

Author or Editor: A.J. Bishop
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 2002
Pages: 467
Size: 4.29MB

Since the work of the International Commission for Mathematics Instruction (ICMI) at the beginning of this century, nobody can challenge the fact that scientific work has been done in the field of teaching and learning mathematics. This research work has been carried out by mathematicians, psychologists, educational scientists, mathematics teacher trainers, and mathematics teachers themselves. However, scientific communication on these issues long remained in its infancy, particularly on an international level; much work was done in isolation; and it was rare to find people who considered that they belonged to a separate scientific discipline, independent from mathematics or educational science.

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#118 - Cathy Haase - Acting for film

Author or Editor: Cathy Haase
Publisher: Allworth Press
Published: 2003
Pages: 215
Size: 1.82MB

Acting for Film is a book about acting in motion pictures and the techniques that can be used to act in front of the camera. It’s written to the actor, which is what I am, and discloses some of the approaches to film acting that have been prevalent in American movies. Being an actor, I have a very practical, yet personal approach to things. Whatever the technique or philosophy is, it has to work for me in the field; it has to work when the camera is rolling. Every actor is a unique instrument that only he or she knows how to play, so my advice to you is, take everything in, keep what works for you, and leave the rest for later.

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#117 - Michael McCarthy and Felicity O'Dell - English Vocabulary in Use - Elementary

Author or Editor: Michael McCarthy and Felicity O'Dell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999
Pages: 168
Size: 4.26MB

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