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The Art of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge is the only book to provide an inside look at the magic behind the Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge themed lands at Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World Resort, documenting the art and innovations that led to the creation of Galaxy’s Edge. Featuring hundreds of full-color concept artworks, sketches, blueprints, photographs, and more, the book will reveal Walt Disney Imagineering’s creative process.
Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge invites guests to explore Black Spire Outpost, located on the remote Outer Rim planet Batuu―a spaceport bustling with First Order and Resistance activity where guests can interact with droids, creatures, and fan-favorite characters. Alongside Black Spire Outpost’s vibrant cantina and marketplace, a new and original score composed by John Williams accompanies guests as they seek out the land’s two major attractions: Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run, which allows guests to commandeer the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy, and Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance, in which guests find themselves in the crossfire of a ferocious battle between the Resistance and the First Order.
Exclusive interviews with the key creative minds who shaped the lands’ design provide commentary on what it’s like to dream and then build a life-size Star Wars adventure.
Plus, the book offers an inside look at the upcoming Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser experience, a first-of-its-kind immersive two-night adventure.
Newly revised and updated, "Film Lighting "is an indispensible
sourcebook for the aspiring and practicing cinematographer, based
on extensive interviews with leading cinematographers and gaffers
in the film industry.
Film lighting is a living, dynamic art influenced by new
technologies and the changing styles of leading cinematographers. A
combination of state-of-the-art technology and in-depth interviews
with industry experts, "Film Lighting "provides an inside look at
how cinematographers and film directors establish the visual
concept of the film and use the lighting to create a certain
atmosphere.
Kris Malkiewicz uses firsthand material from the experts he
interviewed while researching this book. Among these are leading
cinematographers Dion Beebe, Russell Carpenter, Caleb Deschanel,
Robert Elswit, Mauro Fiore, Adam Holender, Janusz Kaminski, Matthew
Libatique, Rodrigo Prieto, Harris Savides, Dante Spinotti, and
Vilmos Zsigmond. This updated version of "Film Lighting" fills a
growing need in the industry and will be a perennial, invaluable
resource.
From early twentieth-century stag films to 1960s sexploitation
pictures to the boom in 1970s "porno chic," adult cinema's vintage
forms are now being reappraised by a new generation of historians,
fans, preservationists, and home video entrepreneurs-all of whom
depend on and help shape the archive of film history. But what is
the present-day allure of these artifacts that have since become
eroticized more for their "pastness" than the explicit acts they
show? And what are the political implications of recovering these
rare but still-visceral films from a less "enlightened,"
pre-feminist past? Drawing on media industry analysis, archival
theory, and interviews with adult video personnel, David Church
argues that vintage pornography retains its retrospective
fascination precisely because these culturally denigrated texts
have been so poorly preserved on political and aesthetic grounds.
Through these films' ongoing moves from cultural emergence to
concealment to rediscovery, the archive itself performs a
"striptease," permitting tangible contact with these corporeally
stimulating forms at a moment when the overall physicality of media
objects is undergoing rapid transformation. Disposable Passions
explores the historiographic lessons that vintage pornography can
teach us about which materials our society chooses to keep, and how
a long-neglected genre is primed for serious rediscovery as more
than mere autoerotic fodder.
Producing for Film and Television offers a comprehensive overview
of the different stages of film production, from development of an
idea to delivery, distribution and festival entry. Written from the
producer's point of view, the book guides the reader through each
stage of the process, offering helpful tips, industry guidance and
example paperwork. Supported with over fifty illustrations and
photographs, this new book includes advice on copyright and working
with writers; pitching your idea; the roles within production
teams; post-production work and marketing and distribution. With
helpful information on industry terms and timeframes, this
essential guide is aimed at film students and aspiring producers
who want a greater understanding of the role of the independent
producer or is planning their own production, whether feature
length, short film or drama series.
Danny Dyer is Britain's most popular young film star. Idolized by
Harold Pinter and with his films having taken nearly $50 million at
theUK box office, Dyer is the most bankable star in British
independent films with one in 10 of the country's population owning
one of his films on DVD. With iconic performances in such cult
classicsas "The Business," "The Football Factory," "Dead Man
Running," "Outlaw," and now "Vendetta," Dyer is oneof the most
recognizable Englishmen in the world. For the first time, and with
its subject's full cooperation, this book chronicles his film
career in depth, combining production background with critical
analysis to paint a fascinating picture of the contemporary British
film industry and its brightest star. Packed with anecdotes from
co-stars and colleagues, as well as contributions from the man
himself, "The Films of Danny Dyer" is the ultimate companion to the
work of Britain's grittiest star.
Marvel Studios has provided some of the biggest worldwide cinematic
hits of the last eight years, from Iron Man (2008) to the
record-breaking The Avengers (2012), and beyond. Having announced
plans to extend its production of connected texts in cinema,
network and online television until at least 2028, the new
aesthetic patterns brought about by Marvel's 'shared' media
universe demand analysis and understanding. The Marvel Studios
Phenomenon evaluates the studio's identity, as well as its status
within the structures of parent Disney. In a new set of readings of
key texts such as Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of
the Galaxy and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the thematics of superhero
fiction and the role of fandom are considered. The authors identify
milestones from Marvel's complex and controversial business
history, allowing us to appraise its industrial status: from a
comic publisher keen to exploit its intellectual property, to an
independent producer, to successful subsidiary of a vast
entertainment empire.
The Multilingual Screen is the first edited volume to offer a
wide-ranging exploration of the place of multilingualism in cinema,
investigating the ways in which linguistic difference and exchange
have shaped, and continue to shape, the medium's history. Moving
across a vast array of geographical, historical, and theoretical
contexts-from Japanese colonial filmmaking to the French New Wave
to contemporary artists' moving image-the essays collected here
address the aesthetic, political, and industrial significance of
multilingualism in film production and reception. In grouping these
works together, The Multilingual Screen discerns and emphasizes the
areas of study most crucial to forging a renewed understanding of
the relationship between cinema and language diversity. In
particular, it reassesses the methodologies and frameworks that
have influenced the study of filmic multilingualism to propose that
its force is also, and perhaps counterintuitively, a silent one.
While most studies of the subject have explored linguistic
difference as a largely audible phenomenon-manifested through
polyglot dialogues, or through the translation of monolingual
dialogues for international audiences-The Multilingual Screen
traces some of its unheard histories, contributing to a new field
of inquiry based on an attentiveness to multilingualism's work
beyond the soundtrack.
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