John Alton

John Alton

Author: Leon Lewis

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2020-07-22

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1476639043

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Devoted to his craft--sometimes to the detriment of his reputation--cinematographer John Alton (1901-1996) was sought after by such directors as Vincente Minnelli, Richard Brooks and Anthony Mann but was disdained by others of comparable talent. An auteur in the truest sense, Alton established a landmark body of work described by Variety film critic Todd McCarthy as "The essence, and ultimate example, of film noir ... logically created by a cinematographer, not a director." This collection of new essays by filmmakers and film scholars explores the central role Alton's distinctive style of "painting with light" played in formulating the aesthetics of noir, as well as his contributions to other genres.


John Alton

John Alton

Author: Leon Lewis

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2020-08-10

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1476666261

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Devoted to his craft--sometimes to the detriment of his reputation--cinematographer John Alton (1901-1996) was sought after by such directors as Vincente Minnelli, Richard Brooks and Anthony Mann but was disdained by others of comparable talent. An auteur in the truest sense, Alton established a landmark body of work described by Variety film critic Todd McCarthy as "The essence, and ultimate example, of film noir ... logically created by a cinematographer, not a director." This collection of new essays by filmmakers and film scholars explores the central role Alton's distinctive style of "painting with light" played in formulating the aesthetics of noir, as well as his contributions to other genres.


Living Qigong

Living Qigong

Author: John Alton

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13:

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An accessible presentation of the philosophy and practice of the traditional Chinese martial art known as qigong, a form of meditative exercise aimed at promoting good health, this book contains easy-to-follow descriptions of the eight essential movements, accompanied by numerous photos. 100 photos. 30 illustrations.


Utah's Black Hawk War

Utah's Black Hawk War

Author: John Alton Peterson

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13:

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Indian tribes involved in the Blackhawk War included the Utes, Uinta and Goshute Indian tribes.


Alton's Paradox

Alton's Paradox

Author: Nicolas Poppe

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2021-09-01

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 1438485050

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Alton's Paradox builds upon extensive archival and primary research, but uses a single text as its point of departure—a 1934 article by the Hungarian American cinematographer John Alton in the Hollywood-published International Photographer. Writing from Argentina, Alton paradoxically argues of cine nacional, "The possibilities are enormous, but not until foreign technicians will take the matter in their hands and with foreign organization will there be local industry." Nicolas Poppe argues that Alton succinctly articulates a line of thought commonly held across Latin America during the early sound period but little explored by scholars: that foreign labor was pivotal to the rise of national film industries. In tracking this paradox from Hollywood to Mexico to Argentina and beyond, Poppe reconsiders a series of notions inextricably tied to traditional film historiography, including authorship, (dis)continuation, intermediality, labor, National Cinema, and transnationalism. Wide-angled views of national film industries complement close-up analyses of the work of José Mojica, Alex Phillips, Juan Orol, Ángel Mentasti, and Tito Davison.


Bumped Into Love

Bumped Into Love

Author: John Alton Flippin

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-08-22

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781723113147

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Nobody knows what can happen any given day, or moment, that can forever change his or her life. Such was the case one day for this middle-aged interior designer, John. His usual wait for the signal at the northeast corner of 13th and Willow streets suddenly required him to respond to a different kind of signal. It is his response to this kind of signal that forever changed his life involving twin sisters who caused a ripple effect of new emotions and unexpected adventures.


My Father's Tears

My Father's Tears

Author: John Updike

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2009-06-02

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0307272028

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A sensational collection of stories of the American experience from the Depression to the aftermath of 9/11, by one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. John Updike mingles narratives of Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel: “Personal Archaeology” considers life as a sequence of half-buried layers, and “The Full Glass” distills a lifetime’s happiness into one brimming moment of an old man’s bedtime routine. High-school class reunions, in “The Walk with Elizanne” and “The Road Home,” restore their hero to youth’s commonwealth where, as the narrator of the title story confides, “the self I value is stored, however infrequently I check on its condition.” Exotic locales encountered in the journeys of adulthood include Morocco, Florida, Spain, Italy, and India. The territory of childhood, with its fundamental, formative mysteries, is explored in “The Guardians,” “The Laughter of the Gods,” and “Kinderszenen.” Love’s fumblings among the bourgeoisie yield the tart comedy of “Free,” “Delicate Wives,” “The Apparition,” and “Outage.”


Sea Change

Sea Change

Author: Sylvia Earle

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2021-08-16

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 1623499054

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In 1952, at age sixteen, Sylvia Earle—then a budding marine biologist—borrowed a friend’s copper diving helmet, compressor, and pump and slipped below the waters of a Florida river. It was her first underwater dive. Since then, Earle has descended to more than 3,000 feet in a submersible and, despite beginning at a time when few women were taken seriously as marine scientists, has led or participated in expeditions totaling more than 7,000 hours underwater, and counting. Equal parts memoir, adventure tale, and call to action, Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans has become a classic of environmental literature, at once the gripping adventure story of Earle’s three decades of undersea exploration, an insider’s introduction to the dynamic field of marine biology, and an urgent plea for the preservation of the world’s fragile and rapidly deteriorating ocean ecosystems. Featuring a gallery of color photographs and a new preface by Earle, this new edition of Sea Change arrives at a uniquely pivotal time when its message is needed more than ever before. She writes, “I want to share the exhilaration of discovery, and convey a sense of urgency about the need for all of us to use whatever talents and resources we have to continue to explore and understand the nature of this extraordinary ocean planet.” Her message is clear: how we treat the oceans now will determine the future health of the planet—and our species.


The History of the County of Dublin

The History of the County of Dublin

Author: John D'Alton

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781017685022

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