The Reality Effect
Author: Joel Black
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780415937214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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The Graphic Imperative
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Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780977141906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice & the Environment, 1965-2005Sandra & David Bakalar GalleryMassachusetts College of ArtSeptember 14-November 11, 2005The Design Center at Philadelphia UniversityApril 3-May 23, 2006AIGA National Design CenterNew York, NYJune 15-August 18, 2006
Hope Is an Imperative
Author: David W. Orr
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 1597267007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author has championed the cause of ecological literacy in higher education, helping to establish and shape the field of ecological design, and working to raise awareness of the threats to future generations posed by humanity's current unsustainable trajectory.This volume brings together his most important works.
The Freshwater Imperative
Author: Robert J. Naiman
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2013-03-19
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1610910710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume summarizes the two-year effort of a working group of leading aquatic scientists sponsored by NSF, EPA, NASA, TVA, and NOAA to identify research opportunities and frontiers in freshwater sciences for this decade and beyond. The research agenda outlined focuses on issues of water availability, aquatic ecosystem integrity, and human health and safety. It is a consensus document that has been endorsed by all of the major professional organizations involved with freshwater issues.
The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture
Author: Victor Papanek
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2022-02-01
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 0500770719
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fresh edition of the sustainable design pioneer Victor Papanek’s classic and ever-relevant book examining the important role of design in combating climate change. Whether it’s horror at the plastic littering the world’s beaches or despair at the melting polar ice caps, the world is gradually waking up to the impending climate disaster. In The Green Imperative, Papanek argues for design that addresses these issues head-on. This means using materials that can be recycled and reused, no more pointless packaging, thinking about how products make us feel and engage all our senses, putting nature at the heart of design, working at a smaller scale, rejecting aesthetics for their own sake, and thinking before we buy. First published at the end of the twentieth century, this book offered a plethora of honest advice, clear examples, and withering critiques, laying out the flaws of and opportunities for the design world at that time. A quarter of a century on, Papanek’s lucid prose has lost none of its verve, and the problems he highlights have only become more urgent, giving today’s reader both a fascinating historical perspective on the issues at hand and a blueprint for how they might be solved.
Digital Storytelling
Author: Shilo T. McClean
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2008-09-26
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0262304198
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow digital visual effects in film can be used to support storytelling: a guide for scriptwriters and students. Computer-generated effects are often blamed for bad Hollywood movies. Yet when a critic complains that "technology swamps storytelling" (in a review of Van Helsing, calling it "an example of everything that is wrong with Hollywood computer-generated effects movies"), it says more about the weakness of the story than the strength of the technology. In Digital Storytelling, Shilo McClean shows how digital visual effects can be a tool of storytelling in film, adding narrative power as do sound, color, and "experimental" camera angles—other innovative film technologies that were once criticized for being distractions from the story. It is time, she says, to rethink the function of digital visual effects. Effects artists say—contrary to the critics—that effects always derive from story. Digital effects are a part of production, not post-production; they are becoming part of the story development process. Digital Storytelling is grounded in filmmaking, the scriptwriting process in particular. McClean considers crucial questions about digital visual effects—whether they undermine classical storytelling structure, if they always call attention to themselves, whether their use is limited to certain genres—and looks at contemporary films (including a chapter-long analysis of Steven Spielberg's use of computer-generated effects) and contemporary film theory to find the answers. McClean argues that to consider digital visual effects as simply contributing the "wow" factor underestimates them. They are, she writes, the legitimate inheritors of film storycraft.
Building the Collective
Author: Leah Dickerman
Publisher:
Published: 1996-05
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuilding the Collective showcases over 100 posters and other graphic works, representing the talents of a wide variety of artists, from the acclaimed to the anonymous. Color reproductions of works by Gustav Klutsis, Aleksandr Rodchenko, El Lissitzky, and the Stenberg brothers - as well as those of lesser-know but important designers such as Aleksandr Deineka, Viktor Deni, and Elena Semenova - are shown alongside posters created by "brigades" of designers who worked collectively and anonymously in the spirit of the times.
Zaprudered
Author: Øyvind Vågnes
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2012-08-24
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0292742584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner, Peter C. Rollins Book Award, 2012 As the fiftieth anniversary of the Kennedy assassination approaches, the traumatic aspects of the tragedy continue to haunt our perceptions of the 1960s. One reason for this lies in the home movie of the incident filmed by Abraham Zapruder, a bystander who became one of the twentieth century's most important accidental documentarians. The first book devoted exclusively to the topic, Zaprudered traces the journey of the film and its effect on the world's collective imagination. Providing insightful perspective as an observer of American culture, Norwegian media studies scholar Øyvind Vågnes begins by analyzing three narratives that are projections of Zapruder's images: performance group Ant Farm's video The Eternal Frame, Don DeLillo's novel Underworld, and an episode from Seinfeld. Subsequent topics he investigates include Dealey Plaza's Sixth Floor Museum, Zoran Naskovski's installation Death in Dallas, assassin video games, and other artifacts of the ways in which the footage has made a lasting impact on popular culture and the historical imagination. Vågnes also explores the role of other accidental documentarians, such as those who captured scenes of 9/11. Zapruder's footage has never yielded a conclusive account of what happened in Dealey Plaza. Zaprudered thoroughly examines both this historical enigma and its indelible afterimages in our collective imagination.
Thanos Imperative
Author: Dan Abnett
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
Published: 2011-09-28
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0785178910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe dangerous cosmic fissure known as The Fault has ripped opened a portal to the Marvel Universe, spilling out the demented forces of a horrific mirror universe where there is no death and life prevails unchecked - the Cancerverse! From this dark realm, the evil Lord Mar-Vell - a twisted version of the legendary Captain Marvel - leads his army to claim our universe for their own! Nova, the Silver Surfer, Quasar, Gladiator and more of the greatest cosmic champions of the Marvel Universal rise to stop them, but when even they cannot stop the forces of the Cancerverse, the fate of the universe lies in the hands of the cosmos' never-say-die underdogs, the Guardians of the Galaxy! Facing a threat like none other, Star-Lord and company cook up an all-or-nothing plan to bring their prisoner, the mad titan Thanos, into the Cancerverse to unleash hell! With everything on the line, the fate of the universe rests in the hands of one of Marvel's greatest villains!
The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media
Author: Carol Vernallis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 833
ISBN-13: 0190258179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection surveys the contemporary landscape of audiovisual media. Contributors from image and sound studies explore the history and the future of moving-image media across a range of formats including blockbuster films, video games, music videos, social media, experimental film, documentaries, video art, pornography, theater, and electronic music.
