Daniel North Livres

As blockbusters employ ever greater numbers of dazzling visual effects and digital illusions, this book explores the material roots and stylistic practices of special effects and their makers. Gathering leading voices in cinema and new media studies, this comprehensive anthology moves beyond questions of spectacle to examine special effects from the earliest years of cinema, via experimental film and the Golden Age of Hollywood, to our contemporary transmedia landscape. Wide-ranging and accessible, this book illuminates and interrogates the vast array of techniques film has used throughout its history to conjure spectacular images, mediate bodies, map worlds and make meanings. Foreword by Scott Bukatman, with an Afterword by Lev Manovich.

Harry Stant accepts a profitable charter flight contract in Phoenix, Arizona, and stumbles into an international crisis. Of course, Harrys friends know that he couldnt be involved in an assassination of a visiting Prince from an important oil supplying country at the Grand Canyon. No one knows of the hit that the President and his long-time friend, and Director of CIA, engineered. It was a feat of malignant stupidity since they did not have a firm grasp of the local political scenery and failed to recognize the popularity of the Iraqi Prince. Harry has neither experience nor interest in national politics, let alone international intrigue. His only concern is for the welfare of his kids and the monthly bills for his flying service. He accepts the help of a former student and FBI agent, Heather Northrop, to make a risky flying odyssey across the country to find the contents of a locker with the key to his innocence.

100 Facts Explorers presents a detailed look at the whole of exploration for children aged 7+, from the amazing travels of the Ancient Greeks and Egyptians to the quests to reach the North Pole and the scaling of the highest peaks.