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Lights, Camera Jemuru - Adventures of a Film-Maker in Ethiopia is the remarkable true-life story of a high-flying adman who swapped his expense account lifestyle in London to go and teach in a back-street community film school, Gem TV, in Addis Ababa. Bob Maddams spent years living and working in Ethiopia and filming took him and the Gem TV filmmakers all over the country; from shanty towns and famine feeding stations to the rock hewn churches of Lalibela and the source of the Blue Nile.

Extraordinario director de cine italiano, sus películas 'Il conformista', 'The Sheltering Sky (El cielo protector), Little Buddha (Pequeño Buda) y especialmente, The Last Emperor (El último emperador) que ganó nueve premios Óscar en 1988, son el corolario de un tipo de cine caracterizado por un esmerado uso de la cámara y del montaje, y el trabajo de la fotografía con finalidades simbólicas.

The Aspiring Actor's Handbook is written for curious and want-to-be actors, and designed to help them make informed decisions about pursuing an acting career. Veteran actresses Molly Cheek and Debbie Zipp have culled the wit and wisdom of a wide array of successful actors from Dee Wallace to Beth Grant, to bring aspiring and new actors the kind of mentoring perspective so many in the business wish they had had when they were starting out.

Fue un notable director de cine español naturalizado mexicano. La gran mayoría de su vasta obra cinematográfica fue realizada en México y Francia y es considerado, por unanimidad de los críticos, como uno de los más importantes y originales directores de la historia del cine.

Molding a Jurassic Universe is a collection of essays exploring the space where nostalgia and geek culture collide, all through the lens of Jurassic Park and the Jurassic Park franchise. The 21 essays muse on traumatized heroes, dinosaur martyrdom, the ethical implications of having a theme park full of extinct creatures brought back to life, cynicism as form and function in filmmaking, a shaving cream can as a foundation to worldbuilding, and more.

La biografía de este actor y director de cine estadounidense, que saltó a la fama al dirigir y actuar al lado de Peter Fonda en la película Easy Rider: Buscando mi Destino de 1969, la serie "24”, o Máxima Velocidad, en un audiolibro que estamos seguros, le gustará de principio a fin.

Músico, cantautor y director de teatro chileno, y procedente de una familia campesina de Ñuble, se convirtió en un referente internacional de la canción reivindicativa y de cantautor. Fue torturado y asesinado en el antiguo Estadio Chile (que después fue denominado Estadio Víctor Jara) por fuerzas represivas de la dictadura de Augusto Pinochet, poco después del golpe militar que derrocó al gobierno de Salvador Allende, el 11 de septiembre de 1973.

¿Existe alguien que no lo considere un genio del cine? Allan Stewart Königsberg, su verdadero nombre, es como la figura condensada de todo el séptimo arte. Además de notable director, es guionista, actor, músico, escritor y ganador del premio Óscar en múltiples ocasiones. Hoy es uno de los personajes más respetados, influyentes y prolíficos de la era moderna.

While many academic and scholarly works have given insight into The Master of Suspense, have you ever wondered how the casual moviegoer or television viewer relates to Alfred Hitchcock or his cinematic work? This is your chance to go inside a more accessible look into the legendary filmmaker by going into the average fan's perspective. It is a brief, yet informative look into why the casual viewer loves Hitchcock's work and how he or she interprets and enjoys his films.

In recent years, many have buzzing about the emerging phenomenon that are web series. Some say they are the future of the entertainment industry while others feel they are nothing more than a fad. What will become of web series is anyone’s guess. Yet this book contains insight into past, present, future, and what it may mean for web series.

Get on TV!, Jacquie Jordan brings her expert advice straight to you - the entrepreneurs, experts, authors, and future reality stars looking to land a television spot....Jacquie Jordan has been involved in booking, supervising or producing over 10,000 television guests, as well as coaching countless people on how to get on air.

Una ácida crónica vital que el autor dedica a las dos pasiones que han marcado su vida: el fútbol y el teatro. Humor, vivencias, deporte y arte se dan la mano en este audiolibro inolvidable que, en última instancia, habla de todos nosotros.

I sine stærkt underholdende erindringer fortæller Woody Allen om et liv som instruktør, standupkomiker, forfatter, musiker og skuespiller - og som familiefar og ægtemand. Et ofte tumultarisk liv, der tager sin begyndelse i Brooklyn, New York. Allen giver et levende indblik i sin 60 år lange filmkarriere, fra klassikerne "Annie Hall", "Manhattan og Hannah og hendes søstre" og frem til nyere film som "Midnight in Paris" og "A Rainy Day in New York".

Geboren wurde er 1935 in Brooklyn: mit sechzehn begann Woody Allen seine lebenslange künstlerische Karriere, als Witzeschreiber für Zeitungen. Schreiben sollte er auch später: Drehbücher, Theaterstücke, Storys für den New Yorker. Dazu kam bald eine Karriere als Stand-up-Comedian, als Schauspieler und dann als einer der bedeutendsten Regisseure unserer Zeit. Seit sechs Jahrzehnten steht Woody Allen vor und hinter der Kamera, macht er Filme, mehr als fünfzig sind es geworden.

Défier les lois de la physique avec "Ant-Man", et celles de l'anatomie avec "Godzilla". S'aventurer aux abords d'un trou noir... et y plonger avec "Interstellar". Communiquer avec les aliens comme dans "Premier Contact". Se retrouver seul sur Mars et tenter d'y survivre. Étudier Prometheus et s'interroger sur l'origine et l'évolution des espèces extraterrestres.

In an evolving networked era, social-issue documentaries like Blackfish are art for civic imagination and social critique. In Story Movements, producer and scholar Caty Borum Chattoo explores how documentaries disrupt dominant cultural narratives through complex, creative, often investigative storytelling. 

Danny Plotnick showcases the history of Super 8 filmmaking in this must-listen audiobook. Super 8 offers a detailed look at the beloved medium - one not only embraced by suburban dads, the target audience of the format, but by the art world, punk rockers, and ultimately popular culture. Filmmakers who got their start in Super 8 include Robert Zemeckis, Jim Jarmusch, Todd Haynes, Sam Raimi, Wes Anderson, and Alex Gibney.

Despite increasing corporate mergers and bottom-line thinking, the entertainment business will never function like a bank or an insurance company because it is an industry rooted in imagination. Rules are meant to be broken. The best work is often produced in an environment where plans change by the minute and nothing seems to make sense. To wit, those who choose this profession must alter preconceived notions of work itself, sometimes discovering that fantasy and horror describe both movie genres and life on the job.

When F. W. Murnau brought Nosferatu to the screen in 1922, he ushered in the bloody reign of cinema’s most venerable villain - the vampire. Nocturnal, fanged and insatiable for human blood, the vampire has infected the public consciousness like no other movie monster. In this illustrated pocket guide, Charles Bramesco goes vampire hunting across a century of cinema, stalking around lonely Transylvanian castles, dusty New York apartments and rain-soaked Washington woods to discover why the vampire has become cinema’s most enduring villain.

This is the Commemorative Edition of one of the most trusted and respected nonfiction books about Walt Disney ever written! Includes 4 commemorative essays and an endnotes section with insightful passages from 15 Disney historians and authors to provide further context for modern audiences. Walt...