Exploring the struggle of communication, this book delves into the challenges of expressing oneself when words seem trapped. It highlights the transformative power of perspective, suggesting that a shift in how one views their situation can unlock the ability to articulate thoughts and feelings. Through this journey, readers are encouraged to find their voice and overcome the barriers that hinder self-expression.
Dorothy's ruby slippers. Michael Myers' hockey mask. Marilyn Monroe's billowy white dress. Indiana Jones' trusty fedora. These objects are synonymous with the films they appear in. These so-called screengems have become icons of popular culture, and, at long last, a book has come along that sorts and chronicles fifty of them. This book presents an incisive discussion of fifty of the most significant objects in cinema history and explores these items' importance within their respective films and the popular imagination. Composed of selections from the popular 'Screengem' feature in 'Big Picture' magazine, this book surveys objects from a range of genres, from the birth of cinema to the present day
The special relationship between a child and his grandmother is depicted in this sumptuous book by an award-winning team.Inspired by memories of his childhood, Jordan Scott's My Baba's Garden explores the sights, sounds and smells experienced by a child spending time with their beloved grandmother (Baba). He visits her every day and finds her hidden in the steam of boiling potatoes, a hand holding a beetroot, a leg opening a cupboard, an elbow closing the fridge, humming like a night full of bugs when she cooks. This is a stunning ode to the special relationship between grandmother and grandchild, needing few words, but rooted deeply in ritual, touch and feeling.
A poem timed to our internal clocks, a poem in perpetual remove, in preposterous love.
Draw Manga Style offers step-by-step drawings for the basic elements, character concepts, and visual effects of anime and manga.
An extraordinarily beautiful city that has been celebrated, criticized, and studied in many films, San Francisco is both fragile and robust. Gathering more than forty short pieces on specific scenes from San Franciscan films, this book includes essays on topics that dominate the history of filmmaking in the city.
World Film Locations: New York is a visually compelling and incisively written examination, and celebration, of New York's unique place in cinema. Essays focusing on quintessential New York filmmakers like Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and those of the Beat movement are presented alongside others on key features of the New York landscape and role of the city in the imaginations of filmmakers and viewers. Over 45 reviews of location-specific scenes from films made and set in New York present a varied and thought-provoking collage of the city onscreen. Some scenes are iconic - King Kong scaling the Empire State Building - while others show the often un-discussed extent of New York's role in filmmaking. The book is illustrated throughout with evocative, scene-specific screengrabs, stills of filming locations as they appear now and city maps that include location information for those keen to follow the 'cinematic trail' of this most photographed city, making World Film Locations: New York a guide for film fans wishing to tour New York either physically or in the imagination.
This richly written, frank, part-satirical and highly accessible account of one man's journey brings to life a moment in time. Each generation faces new challenges, but history turns in cycles. This book is a treasure trove of lessons, losses and small wins. Wisdom in troubled times.