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Ben Stiller directs and stars in this reimagining of the classic
James Thurber story. Walter Mitty (Stiller) escapes his mundane and
lonely life by disappearing inside his own head, where his
daydreams consist of heroic acts and fantastic adventures in which
he always gets the girl (Kristen Wiig). When his job at Life
magazine is endangered by ongoing changes in technology, Walter
takes it upon himself to save his career by embarking on a
real-life adventure beyond even his own imagination...
* Uniquely focuses on achieving customer satisfaction with the
hotel and event industries, giving step-by-step practical guidance.
* Integration of case studies, author voice boxes, and example
forms and documents for the standardization of procedures key to
achieving customer satisfaction, informed by extensive professional
experience of both authors put into the context of existing
theoretical frameworks. * Inclusion of underexplored areas such as
employee empowerment, customer delight, over-promising, cultural
implications and contractual issues in customer satisfaction.
The Practical Guide to Understanding and Raising Hotel
Profitability offers a comprehensive, easy-to-follow breakdown of
how to understand profit and loss accounts for hotels. It offers
practical advice on how to maximise the profits of this
customer-facing business and improve performance results. Chapters
cover every aspect of the profit and loss account including
marketing, accommodation, food and beverage sales, quality,
budgeting, event sales, and all the corresponding costs involved.
It explains all the relevant KPIs and industry quirks within the
profit and loss document as well as industry benchmarks to equip
the reader with the skills to attend high level meetings, complete
finance-based assignments and ultimately run their own business.
Valuable tips from leading professionals within the industry are
included throughout, giving advice on how to improve hotels'
financial results and positively influence net profit through
everyday actions. Packed full of practical case studies and written
in an easy-to-read-style, this book is essential reading for
hospitality students and current hospitality and hotel managers.
Olivier Assayas is best known as a filmmaker, yet cinema makes
only a late appearance in this volume. "A Post-May Adolescence" is
an account of a personal formation, an initiation into an
individual vision of the world. It is, equally, a record of
youthful struggle. Assayas' reflective memoir takes the reader from
the massive cultural upheaval of France in May 1968 to the
mid-1990s, when the artist made his first autobiographical film
about his teenage years, "L'Eau froide." The movement of thought
and creation known as Situationism is the golden thread that
connects and, in part, inspires his memoir. This book also includes
two essays by Assayas on the aesthetic and political legacy of Guy
Debord, who played a decisive role in shaping the author's
understanding of the world and his path towards an extremely
personal way of making films. "A Post-May Adolescence" was first
published in French in 2005. Its expanded English edition makes a
valuable companion to the first English-language monograph on
Assayas' body of work, "Olivier Assayas," edited by Kent Jones,
also published by the Austrian Film Museum.
While there is no shortage of of books on the environment there are
few introductory texts that outline the social theory that informs
human geographical approaches to the interactions between ecology
and society. Students arriving at university often lack the
understanding of history, economics, politics, sociology and
philosophy that contemporary human geography requires. Environments
in a Changing World addresses this deficit, providing foundation
knowledge in a form that is accessible to first year students and
applied to the understanding of both contemporary environmental
issues and the challenge of sustainability. Students are challenged
to develop and defend their own ethical and political positions on
sustainability and respond to the need for new forms of ecological
citizenship.
Loss of biodiversity is one of the great environmental challenges
facing humanity but unfortunately efforts to reduce the rate of
loss have so far failed. At the same time, these efforts have too
often resulted in unjust social outcomes in which people living in
or near to areas designated for conservation lose access to their
territories and resources. In this book the author argues that our
approach to biodiversity conservation needs to be more strongly
informed by a concern for and understanding of social justice
issues. Injustice can be a driver of biodiversity loss and a
barrier to efforts at preservation. Conversely, the pursuit of
social justice can be a strong motivation to find solutions to
environmental problems. The book therefore argues that the pursuit
of socially just conservation is not only intrinsically the right
thing to do, but will also be instrumental in bringing about
greater success. The argument for a more socially just conservation
is initially developed conceptually, drawing upon ideas of
environmental justice that incorporate concerns for distribution,
procedure and recognition. It is then applied to a range of
approaches to conservation including benefit sharing arrangements,
integrated conservation and development projects and market-based
approaches such as sustainable timber certification and payments
for ecosystem services schemes. Case studies are drawn from the
author's research in Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Laos, Bolivia, China
and India.
* Uniquely focuses on achieving customer satisfaction with the
hotel and event industries, giving step-by-step practical guidance.
* Integration of case studies, author voice boxes, and example
forms and documents for the standardization of procedures key to
achieving customer satisfaction, informed by extensive professional
experience of both authors put into the context of existing
theoretical frameworks. * Inclusion of underexplored areas such as
employee empowerment, customer delight, over-promising, cultural
implications and contractual issues in customer satisfaction.
While there is no shortage of of books on the environment there are
few introductory texts that outline the social theory that informs
human geographical approaches to the interactions between ecology
and society. Students arriving at university often lack the
understanding of history, economics, politics, sociology and
philosophy that contemporary human geography requires. Environments
in a Changing World addresses this deficit, providing foundation
knowledge in a form that is accessible to first year students and
applied to the understanding of both contemporary environmental
issues and the challenge of sustainability. Students are challenged
to develop and defend their own ethical and political positions on
sustainability and respond to the need for new forms of ecological
citizenship.
The Practical Guide to Understanding and Raising Hotel
Profitability offers a comprehensive, easy-to-follow breakdown of
how to understand profit and loss accounts for hotels. It offers
practical advice on how to maximise the profits of this
customer-facing business and improve performance results. Chapters
cover every aspect of the profit and loss account including
marketing, accommodation, food and beverage sales, quality,
budgeting, event sales, and all the corresponding costs involved.
It explains all the relevant KPIs and industry quirks within the
profit and loss document as well as industry benchmarks to equip
the reader with the skills to attend high level meetings, complete
finance-based assignments and ultimately run their own business.
Valuable tips from leading professionals within the industry are
included throughout, giving advice on how to improve hotels'
financial results and positively influence net profit through
everyday actions. Packed full of practical case studies and written
in an easy-to-read-style, this book is essential reading for
hospitality students and current hospitality and hotel managers.
Loss of biodiversity is one of the great environmental challenges
facing humanity but unfortunately efforts to reduce the rate of
loss have so far failed. At the same time, these efforts have too
often resulted in unjust social outcomes in which people living in
or near to areas designated for conservation lose access to their
territories and resources. In this book the author argues that our
approach to biodiversity conservation needs to be more strongly
informed by a concern for and understanding of social justice
issues. Injustice can be a driver of biodiversity loss and a
barrier to efforts at preservation. Conversely, the pursuit of
social justice can be a strong motivation to find solutions to
environmental problems. The book therefore argues that the pursuit
of socially just conservation is not only intrinsically the right
thing to do, but will also be instrumental in bringing about
greater success. The argument for a more socially just conservation
is initially developed conceptually, drawing upon ideas of
environmental justice that incorporate concerns for distribution,
procedure and recognition. It is then applied to a range of
approaches to conservation including benefit sharing arrangements,
integrated conservation and development projects and market-based
approaches such as sustainable timber certification and payments
for ecosystem services schemes. Case studies are drawn from the
author's research in Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Laos, Bolivia, China
and India.
In the wake of the explosion in the production of essay films over
the last 25 years and its subsequent theorization in scholarly
literature, this volume seeks to historicize these intertwined
developments within the 'long duree' of the 20th century and into
the 21st. By raising the issue of 'beyond the essay film', this
collection seeks not only to acknowledge the influential
predecessors of this - in the view of many critics, the most
interesting type of contemporary filmmaking - but also to speculate
about its possible transformation as we move forward into the
uncharted waters of the 21st - digital - century. Beyond the Essay
Film focusses on three specific axes that underpin and shape the
articulation of the essay film as a specific cultural form -
subjectivity, textuality, and technology - to explore how changes
along and across these dimensions affect historical shifts within
the essay-film practice and its relation to other types of cinema
and neighbouring art forms.
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Casa De Mi Padre (Spanish, DVD)
Will Ferrell, Diego Luna, Pedro Armendáriz Jr, Genesis Rodriguez, Efren Ramirez, …
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Will Ferrell stars in this parody of a 1970s Mexican telenovela
B-movie, complete with intentional continuity errors, bad acting
and dodgy edits. Black sheep of the family Armando Alvarez
(Ferrell) welcomes the return to the family ranch of his prodigal
younger brother Raul (Diego Luna), but is jealous of Raul's
beautiful fiancée Sonia (Genesis Rodriquez). As he struggles to
come to terms with his own feelings for Sonia, he must face a more
pressing threat in the form of Mexico's most feared drug lord, Onza
(Gael Garcia Bernal), who has set his sights on the ranch.
The major essays of the distinguished and prolific Australian-born
film critic Adrian Martin have long been difficult to access, so
this anthology, which collects highlights of his work in one
volume, will be welcomed throughout film studies. Martin offers
indepth analysis of many genres of films while providing a broad
understanding of the history of cinema and the history of film
criticism and culture. These vibrant, highly personal essays,
written between 1982 and 2016, balance breadth across cinema theory
with almost encyclopedic detail, ranging between aesthetics,
cinephilia, film genre, criticism, philosophy, and cultural
politics. Mysteries of Cinema circumscribes a special cultural
period that began with the dream of critique as a form of poetic
writing, and today arrives at collaborative experiments in
audiovisual essays. Throughout these essays, Martin pursues a
particular vision of what cinema has been, what it is, and what it
still could be.
Released in 1984, "Once Upon a Time in America" was the final work
of Sergio Leone, best known for Speghetti Westerns such as "The
Good, the Bad and the Ugly". This "testament film" marries the
director's flamboyant, expressionistic style to a story full of
profound melancholy and regret. Tracing the lives of a gang of
Jewish hoods from their childhood in the New York streets of the
1920s, "Once Upon a Time in America" centres on the relationship
between Noodles (Robert de Niro) and Max (James Woods) - an intense
friendship destroyed by time, the shifting tides of political
history, and mutual betrayal. This study details the film's
genesis, its production history and its different versions, and
considers it within the context of Leone's evolution as a grand
cinema stylist. It illuminates his themes, his method and his
aesthetic, and judges his impact upon subsequent generations of
filmmakers the world over. Adrian Martin is film critic for "The
Age" (Australia). He has won the Bryon Kennedy Award (Australian
Film Institute, 1993) and the 1997 Pascall Prize for Critical
Writing.
Reflecting upon his experience making his 2010 feature film
Mothers, a cinematic triptych interweaving three narratives that
are each, in their own way, about the often tenuous lines between
truth and fiction, and one of which actually morphs into a
documentary about the aftermath in a small Macedonian town where
three retired cleaning women were found raped and killed in 2008
and the murderer turned out to be the journalist covering the story
for a major Macedonian newspaper, the Oscar-nominated
Macedonian-born and New York-based writer-director Milcho
Manchevski writes that, "Most of us look at films differently or
accept stories in a different way if we believe that they are true.
We watch a documentary film in a different way from the way we
watch a drama. We read a magazine article in a different way from
the way in which we read a short story. Sometimes, we even treat a
film that employs actors differently than a regular drama because
we were told that it is based on something that really happened. We
treat these works based on truth or reporting on the truth in
different ways. Why? What is it in our relation to reality or in
our relation to what we perceive to be reality that makes us value
a work of artifice (an art piece) differently depending on our
knowledge or conviction of whether that work of artifice is based
on events that really took place?" In this extended essay, or
letter, Manchevski ruminates the different ways in which both
filmmakers and audiences create, experience, and absorb the
cinematic narrative with a certain trust and faith in the artwork
to render, not the factual truth, per se, but the importantly
shared experience of trusting "the plane of reality created by the
work itself," such that "we trust its inner logic and integrity, we
have faith in what happens while we give ourselves to this work of
art." Truth becomes a question of what artist and audience can see
and feel together: what feels real becomes the world we inhabit.
The book also includes an Afterword, "Truth Approaches, Reality
Affects," by internationally renowned film scholar Adrian Martin.
This wonderful collection consists of 50 school-based assembly
stories about characters that Key Stage 2 pupils can relate to.
Each story links to a moral theme/value. Topics range from learning
from experience, listening and cooperation to achievement,
determination and courage. The stories can be used at specific
times of the year, when issues arise, or whenever you are suddenly
called upon to do an assembly.
In this concise study, Nicole Brenez argues for Abel Ferrara's
place in a line of grand inventors who have blurred distinctions
between industry and avant-garde film, including Orson Welles,
Monte Hellman, and Nicholas Ray. Rather than merely reworking genre
film, Brenez understands Ferrara's oeuvre as formulating new
archetypes that depict the evil of the modern world. Focusing as
much on the human figure as on elements of storytelling, she argues
that films such as Bad Lieutenant express this evil through
visionary characters struggling against the inadmissible
(inadmissible behavior, morality, images, and narratives).
Este libro presenta tres zonas por las cuales el creyente tendra
que atravesar a medida que avanza en su vida espiritual, y tres
enemoigos a los que tendra que enfrentarse. A traves de estos
terrenos y de los adversarios que en ellos habitan: la serpiente,
el escorpion y el leon, el autor nos revela a que asechanzas
temibles estaremos expuestos y las consecuencias que traeria para
nuestra vida cristiana, dejarnos derrotar por ellos. Pero tambien
nos muestra las armas con las que combatirlas y alcanzar la
victoria
Paralelismo entre dos aves antagonicas, el avestruz, que representa
el liderazgo negativo, en decadencia y mal enfocado, desprovisto de
la direccion de Dios; y la representacion de un liderazgo positivo,
caracterizado magistralmente en las Escrituras con el ejemplo del
aguila, cuyas caracteristicas representan el liderazgo disenado por
Dios.
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