Download or read book Bicycle Stunt Riding written by Jason Glaser and published by Capstone. This book was released on 1999 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history, equipment, and contemporary practice of bicycle stunt riding.
Download or read book Stunt written by Claudia Dey and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugenia Ledoux wakes one morning to a note on the kitchen table: "Gone to save the world. Sorry. Yours, Sheb Woolly Ledoux. Asshole." Eugenia is nine years old, a synaesthesiac and a tightrope walker. She adores her father and his lunatic charms; she loves that he takes her fishing in the middle of the night and calls her Stunt. Sheb has always promised he'll one day take her to the moonscape of northern Ontario, where astronauts train; instead he writes a note, blows up a shoulder-pad factory, and leaves. His heartbroken daughter is left behind with her mother, the sharp-edged former ingenue Mink, and her sister, the death-obsessed and hauntingly beautiful Immaculata. After a fake funeral for Sheb, Mink vanishes too. Eugenia and Immaculata, left alone, double in age overnight. Immaculata becomes a swan-like giantess, and soon finds her calling caring for Leopold, a diseased and irresistible malcontent down the street. Eugenia, however, stays the same: dark and diminutive, and bereft. She finds herself a bicycle and sets off to track down her father, encountering an astronaut and a waitress named Cupid along the way. Stunt is the first novel by one of Canada's most acclaimed playwrights. Like synaesthetic Eugenia, your senses will be addled as Dey's words take on colours, tastes, and smells, somehow coming to mean more than you thought they did; they depict, with compassionate hilarity and luminous heartbreak, the love between a girl and her father.
Download or read book Movie Stunts and Special Effects written by Geoffrey M. Horn and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2006-12-15 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how stunt performers, camera trickery, and computer graphics are used to create illusions of reality in movies.
Download or read book Hollywood Stunt Performers 1910s 1970s written by Gene Scott Freese and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biographical dictionary shines the spotlight on several hundred unheralded stunt performers who created some of the cinema's greatest action scenes without credit or recognition. The time period covered encompasses the silent comedy days of Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, the early westerns of Tom Mix and John Wayne, the swashbucklers of Douglas Fairbanks, Errol Flynn, and Burt Lancaster, the costume epics of Charlton Heston and Kirk Douglas, and the action films of Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, and Charles Bronson. Without stuntmen and women working behind the scenes the films of these action superstars would not have been as successful. Now fantastic athletes and leading stunt creators such as Yakima Canutt, Richard Talmadge, Harvey Parry, Allen Pomeroy, Dave Sharpe, Jock Mahoney, Chuck Roberson, Polly Burson, Bob Morgan, Loren Janes, Dean Smith, Hal Needham, Martha Crawford, Ronnie Rondell, Terry Leonard, and Bob Minor are given their proper due. Each entry covers the performer's athletic background, military service, actors doubled, noteworthy stunts, and a rundown of his or her best known screen credits.
Download or read book Stunt written by Michael Deforge and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunt double is hired by an actor to serve as his doppelgänger in order to sabotage his career.
Download or read book Jack s Stunt Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surviving Stunts and Other Amazing Feats written by Patrick Catel and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True stories of amazing feats that daredevils do to entertain their audiences.
Download or read book Dangerous Stunts written by Jonny Zucker and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full Flight non-fiction is a series of books for reluctant readers. Want to be on TV? Find out all about Stunt Artists and Escape Artists in this exciting guide to the world of Dangerous Stunts! From Bond movies to Martial Arts, Houdini to David Blaine, there's something for everyone inside.
Download or read book Movie Stunts Special Effects written by Andrew Lane and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout film history, one of the fundamental fantasies portrayed on screen has been the kind of physical action few of us could ever experience in real life. The image of an 'every man' engaged in hand-to-hand, mortal combat, defending his family or even the world population against an overwhelming and malevolent force, speaks to our most primal instincts and thus became a mainstay of movie entertainment. In order to translate these deep-seated fantasies to the screen, filmmakers have been developing special skills and crafts for over 100 years. It is these skills that make 'movie magic' and have allowed audiences to take part in the primal hopes and fears we all possess. Movie Stunts & Special Effects: A Comprehensive Guide to Planning and Execution is designed to inform filmmakers on how to plan for and utilize these crafts by engaging and empowering filmmakers to better communicate with stunts and effects practitioners, and thereby enabling them to more fully realize their vision. Director/Producer Andrew Lane surveys fights, use of weapons, cars and vehicles, falls, the use of pyrotechnics, atmospheric effects, bullet hits, wounds and blood, among many other categories. Factors such as cost, time to implement, safety accommodations, and assessing the competence of those employed to plan and execute stunts and special effects are numerous and very specific. Each topic in Movie Stunts & Special Effects is examined using narrative explanations, extensive interviews with world-renowned experts. Various stunts and special effects will be explored in the context of how they are best captured by a camera and then editorially constituted in the final product.
Download or read book Stunt Double written by Aileen Weintraub and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 2003 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the work done by stunt doubles, who are specially trained to take the place of actors and actresses during dangerous scenes in movies and television shows.
Download or read book Stunts of Late Nineteenth Century New York written by Kirstin Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stunts of Late Nineteenth- Century New York: Aestheticised Precarity, Endangered Liveness examines the emergence of stunts in the media, politics, sport and art of New York at the turn of the twentieth century. This book investigates stunts in sport, media and politics, demonstrating how these risky performances tapped into anxieties and fantasies concerning work, freedom, gendered/ raced/ classed bodies and the commodifi cation of human life. Its case studies examine bridge jumping, extreme walking contests, stunt journalists such as Nellie Bly, and cycling feats including Annie Londonderry’s round- the- world venture. Supported by extensive archival research and Performance Studies theorisations of precarity, liveness and surrogation, Smith theorises an under- examined form which is still prevalent in art, politics and commerce, to show what stunts reveal about value, risk and human life. Suitable for scholars and practitioners across a range of subjects, from Performance Studies to gender studies, to media studies, Stunts of Late Nineteenth- Century New York explores how stunts turned everyday precarity into a spectacle.
Download or read book 101 Stunts for Principals to Inspire Student Achievement written by Frank Sennett and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sennett's user-friendly book outlines 101 motivational stunts, accompanied by successful case studies, that educators can employ to creatively inspire and motivate students to higher academic achievement.
Download or read book A Daredevil s Guide to Stunts written by Steve Goldsworthy and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2013 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes the activities of stunt men and women, their various stunts in and out of the movies, safety precautions, and famous stunt people"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Stunts written by Sara Green and published by Bellwether Media. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Cruise performed his own stunts for the film Mission Impossible: The Ghost Protocol, which included dangling 1,700 feet from the world’s tallest building! Students will explore the extreme amount of planning, equipment, training, and expertise that goes into the stunts performed in films as they dive into this action-packed title.
Download or read book Mind Blowing Movie Stunts written by Joe Tougas and published by Raintree. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Movies are a great source of entertainment. Many times, the best parts of movies are the mind-blowing stunts! Readers will be fascinated, educated and astounded by some of the most amazing movie stunts in recent history.
Download or read book Humorous Political Stunts written by Majken Jul Sørensen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of anti-conscription activists break into a prison, demanding to be jailed together with their friend already locked up because of his beliefs. Clowns from the rebel clown army mimic police sent to control political protests. Visiting Santas hand out presents taken from shop shelves without the approval of the shopping centre management. These are examples of humorous political stunts - public actions, hoaxes and happenings that confront systems of power. This book contains many amusing stories of such stunts, showing the boldness and creativity of the activists. Interviews and documents are used to show how humour can facilitate outreach, mobilisation and a culture of resistance. Humorous Political Stunts combines insights from the fields of nonviolence and humour studies and makes theoretical contributions to each area.
Download or read book Extreme Movie Stunts written by Don Rauf and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stunt performers in movies and television use their athletic ability to bring pulse-racing action to the screen. This book introduces readers to the thrilling world of stunt work, revealing how these daring acts are safely carried out for the screen. Readers learn about the technical aspects of the work, such as the equipment performers use, as well as their workout regimens to stay in shape for their physically demanding jobs. Readers also learn about the precautions taken to keep everyone safe on the set. This book will thrill anyone interested in what goes on behind the action scenes.
