Mighty Minutes
Mighty Minutes

Author: Jim Hall

Publisher: Random House Value Publishing

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13:

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Includes index. A historical overview of TV's bestloved commercials over the past thirtyfive years.

American Independent Cinema
American Independent Cinema

Author: Geoff King

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-09-08

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 0857737333

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The independent sector has produced many of the most distinctive films to have appeared in the US in recent decades. From 'Sex, Lies and Videotape' in the 1980s to 'The Blair Witch Project' and New Queer Cinema in the 1990s and the ultra-low budget digital video features of the 2000s, indie films have thrived, creating a body of work that stands out from the dominant Hollywood mainstream. But what exactly is 'independent' cinema? This, the first book to examine the question in detail, argues that independence can be defined partly in industry terms but also according to formal and aesthetic strategies and by distinctive attitudes towards social and political issues, suggesting that independence is a dynamic rather than a fixed quality. Chapters focus on distribution and relationships with Hollywood studios; narrative ('Clerks' and 'Slacker' to 'Pulp Fiction', 'Magnolia' and 'Memento') and other formal dimensions (from 'Blair Witch's' 'authenticity' to expressive and stylized camerawork and editing in work from Harmony Korine to the Coen brothers); approaches to genre and alternative socio-political visions.

Visiting Mrs. Nabokov
Visiting Mrs. Nabokov

Author: Martin Amis

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-01-26

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 0307777790

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A tantalizing collection of classic essays from one of the most gifted writers of his generation. • "The brainy, sarcastic, tender intelligence at the center of these pieces can make you laugh out loud: they can also move you to tears." —People Martin Amis brings the same megawatt wit, wickedly acute perception, and ebullient wordplay that characterize his novels. He encompasses the full range of contemporary politics and culture (high and low) while also traveling to China for soccer with Elton John and to London's darts-crazy pubs in search of the perfect throw. Throughout, he offers razor-sharp takes on such subjects as: American politics: "If history is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake, then the Reagan era can be seen as an eight-year blackout. Numb, pale, unhealthily dreamless: eight years of Do Not Disturb." Chess: "Nowhere in sport, perhaps in human activity, is the gap between the tryer and the expert so astronomical.... My chances of a chess brilliancy are the 'chances' of a lab chimp and a type writer producing King Lear." "His fascination with the observable world is utterly promiscuous: he will address a cathedral and a toilet seat with the same peeled-eyeball intensity." —John Updike

Insight into IELTS Cassette
Insight into IELTS Cassette

Author: Vanessa Jakeman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-09-30

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780521626606

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Insight into IELTS prepares candidates for the International English Language Testing System. The book is arranged by paper, so that teachers, or students working alone, can choose exactly which part of the exam they want to focus on.

America Again
America Again

Author: Stephen Colbert

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2012-10-02

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 0446583987

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Book store nation, in the history of mankind there has never been a greater country than America. You could say we're the #1 nation at being the best at greatness. But as perfect as America is in every single way, America is broken! And we can't exchange it because we're 236 years past the 30-day return window. Look around--we don't make anything anymore, we've mortgaged our future to China, and the Apologist-in-Chief goes on world tours just to bow before foreign leaders. Worse, the L.A. Four Seasons Hotel doesn't even have a dedicated phone button for the Spa. You have to dial an extension! Where did we lose our way?! It's high time we restored America to the greatness it never lost! Luckily, America Again will singlebookedly pull this country back from the brink. It features everything from chapters, to page numbers, to fonts. Covering subject's ranging from healthcare ("I shudder to think where we'd be without the wide variety of prescription drugs to treat our maladies, such as think-shuddering") to the economy ("Life is giving us lemons, and we're shipping them to the Chinese to make our lemon-flavored leadonade") to food ("Feel free to deep fry this book-it's a rich source of fiber"), Stephen gives America the dose of truth it needs to get back on track.

Art of Murder
Art of Murder

Author: Joe DiPietro

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9780822221975

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THE STORY: In a remote estate in the countryside of Connecticut, Jack Brooks, one of the most accomplished and eccentric painters of his generation, awaits the imminent arrival of his art dealer. But the visit is not a standard one, for Jack feels

Still Alice
Still Alice

Author: Lisa Genova

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2009-01-06

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1439116881

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Feeling at the top of her game when she is suddenly diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's Disease, Harvard psychologist Alice Howland struggles to find meaning and purpose in her everyday life as her concept of self gradually slips away. A first novel. Simultaneous.

God Love You
God Love You

Author: Fulton J. Sheen

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 1995-03-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0385174861

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Here is a rich selection of short, meaningful excerpts from the writings of Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. Forming a collection of landmarks along the way to spiritual peace, each paragraph in this book has been selected for the specific help and guidance it can bring in helping to make life worth living. These brief, perceptive selections from thirty of Bishop Sheen's books reveal a brilliant mind at work as it considers the affairs of men, both spiritually and temporally. Love, hate, frustration, passion, virtue, wisdom, peace--all that goes into the complexity of man's life on earth is considered with rare sensitivity and frequently penetrating humor.