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“colin williamson”

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  • Drawn to Nature

    American Animation in the Age of Science

    by Colin Williamson ...
    How twentieth-century developments in science influenced the aesthetics of the burgeoning American cartoonWhat do technical renderings of plant cells in trees have to do with Disney’s animated opus Fantasia? Quite a bit, as it turns out: such emergent scientific models and ideas about nature were an important inspiration for Disney’s groundbreaking animated realism. In Drawn to Nature, Colin ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Thinking in the Dark

    Cinema, Theory, Practice

    by Murray Pomerance, R. Barton Palmer, Jeremy T. Blatter, Tom Gunning, Steven Woodward, Johannes von Moltke, Colin Williamson, Sarah Keller, Matthew Solomon0, Dominic Lennard1, Nathan Holmes2, William Brown3, William Rothman4, Dudley Andrew5, Will Scheibel6, Daniel Morgan7, Tom Conley8, Steven Rybin9, Alex Clayton0, Gilberto Perez1, Jonah Corne2, Kristen Hatch3 ...
    Today’s film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives—they’re just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to quote classic film theorist André Bazin. To students first encountering them, these theoretical lenses for viewing film can seem exhilarating, but also overwhelming.Thinking in the Dark introduces readers to twenty-one key theorists whose work has ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Hidden in Plain Sight

    An Archaeology of Magic and the Cinema

    by Colin Williamson ...
    Series series Techniques of the Moving Image
    What does it mean to describe cinematic effects as “movie magic,” to compare filmmakers to magicians, or to say that the cinema is all a “trick”? The heyday of stage illusionism was over a century ago, so why do such performances still serve as a key reference point for understanding filmmaking, especially now that so much of the cinema rests on the use of computers?To answer these questions, ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

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    Success on the Spectrum

    by Colin Williamson & Paul Munro ...
    Narrated by Colin Williamson ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 42 min

    Autism is often misunderstood by mainstream society. Colin takes us on a journey through the key moments in his life with undiagnosed Autism. The added struggles with Dyslexia, Dysgraphia & Dyscalculus are all part of who he is. There are sad times, funny times, times when he felt disdain for himself, but an underlying drive to carve out a life of normality is always there. A graduate of Edinburgh ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Lia Fáil

    by Colin Williamson, Paul Munro ...
    Narrated by Colin Williamson ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour

    This is the story of a stone, a very special stone that has shaped Scotland's national identity for centuries. From before the written word until modern day Colin takes us on an enchanted journey and mystery tour interweaving key characters and events throughout Scottish history. ... Read more

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    Movies, Media, and Beyond

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    Monaco's book was an instant classic when it first came out, and with new sections in its anniversary edition, is more essential than ever. A landmark in media studies, it is unique in its sophisticated understanding of both the art and technology of film. Molly Haskell, criticWhen it was first published in 1977, HOW TO READ A FILM established itself as a genuine classic in film studies and has ... Read more

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  • Film Fourth Edition

    A Critical Introduction

    by Tom Wallis, Maria Prammaggiore ...
    Updated and expanded for a new edition, this is the perfect starter text for students of film studies. Packed full of visual examples from all periods of film history up to the present, Film:A Critical Introduction illustrates film concepts in context and in depth, addressing techniques and terminology used in film production and criticism, and emphasising thinking and writing critically and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Film Studies, second edition

    An Introduction

    by Ed Sikov ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Film Studies is a concise and indispensable introduction to the formal study of cinema. Ed Sikov offers a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the essential elements of film form and systematically training the spectator to be an active reader and critic. He treats a number of fundamental factors in filmmaking, including editing, composition, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Cutting Rhythms

    Intuitive Film Editing

    by Karen Pearlman ...
    There are many books on the technical aspects of film and video editing. Much rarer are books on how editors think and make creative decisions.Filled with timeless principles and thought-provoking examples from a variety of international films, the second edition of Karen Pearlman’s Cutting Rhythms offers an in-depth study of the film editor’s rhythmic creativity and intuition, the processes and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero

    Edited by Angela Ndalianis ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    Over the last several decades, comic book superheroes have multiplied and, in the process, become more complicated. In this cutting edge anthology an international roster of contributors offer original research and writing on the contemporary comic book superhero, with occasional journeys into the film and television variation. As superheroes and their stories have grown with the audiences that ... Read more

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  • Studying Comics and Graphic Novels

    by Karin Kukkonen ...
    This introduction to studying comics and graphic novels is a structured guide to a popular topic. It deploys new cognitive methods of textual analysis and features activities and exercises throughout.Deploys novel cognitive approaches to analyze the importance of psychological and physical aspects of reader experienceCarefully structured to build a sequenced, rounded introduction to the ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

  • Not Here, Not Now

    Speculative Thought, Impossibility, and the Design Imagination

    by Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby ...
    What it means to design at a time when, for many people, the future seems to have become an impossibility.When reality fails us, what can designers do? Question design’s relationship to reality, as Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby do, in this exhilarating, yet thoughtful, journey to the edges of science, philosophy, and literature to find new ways of thinking about the possible—and about the meaning, ... Read more

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