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Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (64 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Language
English
Description
Action! With this entertaining nonfiction book, readers are taken behind the scenes to find out what is needed to make a film. From the director to the actor, the director of photography to the costume designer, children will be fascinated to learn about the various aspects of motion pictures. With its vivid images, informational text, and impressive facts, this nonfiction title will have readers engaged through the entire book as they discover amazing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (x, 279 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Imagining Afghanistan examines how Afghanistan has been imagined in literary and visual texts that were published after the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent U.S.-led invasion-the era that propelled Afghanistan into the center of global media visibility. Through an analysis of fiction, graphic novels, memoirs, drama, and film, the book demonstrates that writing and screening "Afghanistan" has become a conduit for understanding our shared post-9/11...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes a first-person account and behind-the-scenes look at the making of the cult classic film filled with never-before-told stories, exclusive photographs, and interviews with costars Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Mandy Patinkin, as well as author and screenwriter William Goldman, producer Norman Lear, and director Rob Reiner.
Series
Publisher
Berghahn
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
"Audiences for contemporary German film and television are becoming increasingly transnational, and depictions of German cultural history are moving beyond the typical post-war focus on German's problematic past. Entertaining German Culture explores this radical shift, building on recent research into transnational culture to argue that a new process of internal and external cultural reabsorption is taking place through areas of mutually assimilating...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 452 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The author of The Butler and Showdown examines 100 years of Black movies--using the struggles and triumphs of the artists, and the films themselves, as a prism to explore Black culture and the civil rights movement in America. Beginning in 1915 with D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation--which glorified the Ku Klux Klan and became Hollywood's first blockbuster--Wil Haygood gives us an incisive, fascinating, little-known history, spanning more than...
Author
Series
Publisher
ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxix, 237 pages).
Language
English
Description
"More than a history of Western movies, The American West on Film intertwines film history, the history of the American West, and American social history into one unique volume"--
18) Sports on film
Author
Series
Publisher
ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
"Sports on Film intertwines film history, the history of American sports, and American social history into one unique volume"--
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