Microc/OS-II: The Real-Time Kernel with CDROM
This updated edition describes the design and implementation of the MicroC/OS-II real-time operating system and offers an extremely detailed and highly readable design study useful to students.
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Microc/OS-II: The Real-Time Kernel with CDROM
This updated edition describes the design and implementation of the MicroC/OS-II real-time operating system and offers an extremely detailed and highly readable design study useful to students.
The Undercut Reader: Critical Writing on Artists' Film and Video
"The Undercut Reader" is a collection of writing and visual works drawn from "Undercut," the only U.K. magazine dedicated to artists' film and video between 1980 to 1990, combined with newly commissioned articles by leading critics in the field. "…
Brad Pitt: The Rise to Stardom
This updated glimpse into the life and career of Brad Pitt offers additional photos and 32 new pages of biographical information. 100 photos, some in color.
Don Owen: Notes on a Filmmaker and His Culture
Don Owen, perhaps best known as the director of the seminal 1964 feature "Nobody Waved Goodbye," is one of the central figures in the development of English-Canadian cinema. Owen spent much of his career at the National Film Board of Canada, …
The Horror Genre: From Beelzebub to Blair Witch
comprehensive introduction to the history and key themes of the genre. The main issues and debates raised by horror, and the approaches and theories that have been applied to horror texts are all featured. In addressing the evolution of the …
Re-Viewing the Passion: Mel Gibson's Film and Its Critics
Record-setting ticket sales. Heated controversy. Sold-out viewings for church groups. And feuding critics. Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" has grossed over $500,000,000 in the US alone, and it is still going strong. In "Re-Viewing the …
The Cinema, or the Imaginary Man
When The Cinema, or The Imaginary Man first appeared in 1956, the movies and the moviegoing experience were generally not regarded as worthy of serious scholarly consideration. Yet, French critic and social theorist Edgar Morin perceived in the …
In this fascinating behind-the-lens look at the contemporary documentary, some of the most influential filmmakers of modern times — including D. A. Pennebaker, Albert Maysles, and Susan Froemke share their views on storytelling techniques, …
Deleuze ascribes this shot to the condition of postwar Europe: the situations and spaces 'we no longer know how to describe'— buildings deserted but inhabited, cities undergoing demolition or reconstruction—and the new race of characters who …
The Cinema of John Carpenter: The Technique of Terror
John Carpenter is a seminal figure in the history of horror and science fiction filmmaking. His work in these genres has been highly influential in their ongoing development. This book gives Carpenter's output the sustained critical treatment it …
Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation
"Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation" looks closely at the art and style of male and female performance in film. Relating performance to other filmic aspects, such as editing and camera movement and how to appreciate closely …
The Libertine tells the story of the Earl of Rochester, friend and confidant of Charles II and the most notorious rake of his age. He was an anti-monarchist Royalist, an atheist who converted to Christianity and a lyric poet who revelled in …
Liquid Metal: The Science Fiction Film Reader
"Liquid Metal" brings together a great number of what are regarded to be the 'seminal' essays that have opened up the study of science fiction to serious critical interrogation. It is divided into eight distinct themed sections, including the …
King Pulp: The Wild World of Quentin Tarantino
Examines the personal life and the professional work and success of the director of Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown.
Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture
Xena, Buffy, Lara Croft. WWF, "The Sopranos," "Witchblade," "La Femme Nikita," The women of pop culture are center stage and as tough as ever. "Action Chicks" is a groundbreaking collection highlighting the heroines we've grown to worship. What …
Technical Film and TV for Nontechnical People
This guide makes the technical ins and outs of TV and film simple! Readers will find details on set arrangement, camera angles, microphone positioning, and more, all written in an accessible, jargon-free style.
Reading Hollywood: Spaces and Meanings in American Film
This book examines the treatment of space and narrative in a selection of classic films including "My Darling Clementine," "It's a Wonderful Life," and "Vertigo," Deborah Thomas employs a variety of arguments in exploring the reading of space and …
Orlando Bloom: Wherever It May Lead
Packed with glossy photos and film stills, this comprehensive biography of the star of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "Pirates of the Caribbean" offers a fascinating look at the young actor whose legions of fans continue to grow with each …
In Touch, Laura U. Marks develops a critical approach more tactile than visual, an intensely physical and sensuous engagement with works of media art that enriches our understanding and experience of these works and of art itself. These critical, …
The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow: Hollywood Transgressor
Kathryn Bigelow has undoubtedly been one of Hollywood's most significant female players, well known in popular terms for films such as "Point Break" and "Blue Steel," yet relatively unexplored in academia. Soundbites about women and guns and …
"The Czechoslovak New Wave" was originally published in 1985 and was quickly established as the world's leading authoritative English-language text. A study of the most significant movement in post-war Central and East European cinemas, it …
Animation: Genre and Authorship
"Animation: Genre and Authorship" is an overview of the distinctive language of animation, its production processes, and the particular questions about who makes it, under what conditions and with what purpose. Arguably, animation provides the …
Ooh l la! Take a trip back in time to the early days of French cinema with the scenes reproduced in this funny and charming flip book. A collaboration between The Museum of Modern Art and the film company Gaumont Cin math que, here is a reel …
Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes, and Passions
Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions examines the variety of concerns and practices that have comprised the long history of avant-garde film at a level appropriate for undergraduate study. It covers the developments of experimental film-…
Ooh l la! Take a trip back in time to the early days of French cinema with the scenes reproduced in this funny and charming flip book. A collaboration between The Museum of Modern Art and the film company Gaumont Cin math que, here is a reel …
Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film
Avant-garde films are often dismissed as obscure or disconnected from the realities of social and political history. Jeffrey Skoller challenges this myth, arguing that avant-garde films more accurately display the complex interplay between past …
Footsteps in the Fog: Alfred Hitchcock's San Francisco
Footsteps in the Fog is a celebration of the San Francisco films of Alfred Hitchcock. The master director's familiarity with Northern California greatly influenced his decision to use Bay Area locations in several of his landmark motion pictures, …
The Complete E-Commerce Book: Design, Build & Maintain a Successful Web-Based Business
Although the dot-com bubble has burst, that doesn't mean e-commerce is dead. This books shows how to build a successful e-commerce operation, incorporating careful planning of the customer experience, effective design, cutting-edge programming, …
The Cinema of Ken Loach: Art in the Service of the People
"The Cinema of Ken Loach" examines the connection between art and politics that distinguishes the work of this leading British film director, whose work includes such landmarks of British cinema as "Kes," "Land and Freedom," and "Bread and Roses,"…
The Star System: Hollywood's Production of Popular Identities
Looks at the development and changing organization of the star system in the American film industry. Tracing the popularity of star performers from the early "cinema of attractions" to the Internet universe, Paul McDonald explores the ways in …