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Download or read book Contemporary American Independent Film written by Chris Holmlund and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology addresses the salient aesthetic, ideological and economic determinants of independent American cinema over the past three decades.

Download or read book Monstrous Nature written by Robin L. Murray and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Godzilla, a traditional natural monster and representation of cinema’s subgenre of natural attack, also provides a cautionary symbol of the dangerous consequences of mistreating the natural world—monstrous nature on the attack. Horror films such as Godzilla invite an exploration of the complexities of a monstrous nature that humanity both creates and embodies. Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann demonstrate how the horror film and its offshoots can often be understood in relation to a monstrous nature that has evolved either deliberately or by accident and that generates fear in humanity as both character and audience. This connection between fear and the natural world opens up possibilities for ecocritical readings often missing from research on monstrous nature, the environment, and the horror film. Organized in relation to four recurring environmental themes in films that construct nature as a monster—anthropomorphism, human ecology, evolution, and gendered landscapes—the authors apply ecocritical perspectives to reveal the multiple ways nature is constructed as monstrous or in which the natural world itself constructs monsters. This interdisciplinary approach to film studies fuses cultural, theological, and scientific critiques to explore when and why nature becomes monstrous.

Download or read book Assembly Bill written by California. Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Art of Troma written by Fred Van Lente and published by Dynamite Entertainment. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over FORTY YEARS, Troma Studios has blazed its own bloody, slime-covered trail, making movies their own damn way! From The Toxic Avenger to The Class Of Nuke ‘Em High to Poultrygeist to Tromeo And Juliet, Lloyd Kaufman never compromised, waving his independent freak-flag freely, and helped jumpstart the careers of luminaries such as James Gunn, Trey Parker, Eli Roth, Oliver Stone and countless others! How, you might ask, did a couple of rebels with almost no cash manage to make a library of a THOUSAND films? You’ll have to pick up this incredible collection to find out, featuring never-before-seen film stills, rare posters, candid interviews, and buckets and buckets and BUCKETS of fake blood…

Download or read book Planet Earth is Scorchio written by Neville Bagnall and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2024-11-07 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old KATTY and her younger brother JAKE are the 'Enviro Kids'. MUM and DAD do their parenting duties by leaving the kids go on a trip into space! More time for Mum to cook her chocolate brownies in peace. COMMANDER CARLOS flies the space shuttle, zipping in and out of the burning beaming sunrays streaming through the holes in the ozone layer. The Aliens, KLIPP and KLOPP, frown disapprovingly at the human intruders invading their space. Katty and Jake are on a mission. The battle is on against the filthy pollutants. MISS VIOLET, the science teacher, eagerly searches to stop the pollutants. Katty and Jake spacewalk to squirt gooey gunk to fill in the ozone layer holes. The Earth's air is too hot and sweaty... Scorchio! Katty is one small girl in a very big world. There are a handful of suspects and a lot more baddies. All aboard the journey of discovery, where nothing is as it seems! The Earth is overheating; time is running out. Seriously! The ozone layer needs fixing; the Sun is scorching our planet. A mystery story that is not actually a mystery. Get it? Oh, you defo will get it. After returning from the Amazon rainforest, Katty and Jake join their schoolteacher, Miss Violet in a perilous journey into space to investigate the damage to the ozone layer. Readers get various perspectives including that of pollutants and a couple of nosey aliens. With these elements, the story, like the first, has many aspects that are enjoyed by children in the current market. Again, the biggest strength of the author's writing is the conviction behind how children can be part of shaping a better and greener future. The educational value of the story is clear and therefore could easily be used in schools to teach children the science around the ozone layer, greenhouse gases and global warming. Overall, it's a fun story about family but also about standing up for the environmental issues you believe in.

Download or read book Direct Your Own Damn Movie written by Lloyd Kaufman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Independent Directing Bible that will fit in your back pocket! (If you have an extremely large pocket ...) Have you always wanted to direct a movie, but don't know how to start? Want to know how to get your first directing job? What do directors even do, anyway? Legendary director Lloyd Kaufman, creator of The Toxic Avenger, reveals 40 years worth of maverick cinematic know-how! Direct Your Own Damn Movie! will be your step-by-step roadmap on the journey through: * Scriptwriting * Pre-production * Casting * Managing your set * Post-production * Distribution Master the art of directing the easy way! There is no better way to become a director than by following the instruction and wisdom of an actual successful film director, not someone who just talks about it. Featuring expert advice from: Eli Roth (Grindhouse, Hostel) Jenna Fischer (LolliLove) Stan Lee (co-writer Spider-Man, Fantastic Four) Ron Jeremy (credits cannot be printed here) Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) James Gunn (Dawn of the Dead, Slither) ... and many more! WARNING! Do not read this book if you suffer from motion sickness, or are about to operate heavy machinery. This book is not for the faint of heart, the good of taste, or those who might be pregnant. * There's more to directing than a cool-looking chair. Renegade director Lloyd Kaufman reveals all! * Includes interviews with a host of luminaries on mistakes and disasters from their early film careers * Learn the ten directing commandments of Lloyd Kaufman, plus the all-important 11th: forget the first 10 and direct your own damn movie!

Download or read book Titaaniiiuuum written by Neville Bagnall and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘We are so tiny we poison the plants and starve the fish of oxygen. Oh, and we get breathed into children’s lungs. You, Toxie, might not think we are bad, but we are called pollutants for a reason,’ she seethed with gritted teeth. – Tamin (pollutant). ‘Firstly, I wouldn’t encourage the children to jump out of a moving vehicle, Mrs. Hawkins,’ she grinned sympathetically. ‘Please feel free to boot the little darlings out once you have stopped in the drop-off marked areas.’ – Miss Violet (teacher). Katty Sheehan’s family is always chaotic – especially with her little brother – the annoying ‘know-it-all’ Mummy’s boy, Jake, and then there’s Mum’s obsession with cooking and hiding chocolate brownies. Really? Katty is one small girl in a very big world who makes an unexpected discovery. There are a handful of suspects and a lot more baddies. All aboard the journey of discovery, where nothing is as it seems! As Katty, Jake and Miss Violet fight to save a polluted planet, can they unravel the truth about the harm and misery and find a way to bring the polluters to justice? Everything is spinning out of control. Can anyone really stop the mutant ninja pollutants? Time is running out. Seriously. Time is running out fast. Many lives are at stake. A mystery story that is not actually a mystery! Get it? Oh, you defo will get it.

Download or read book Beginnings written by Horton Foote and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-04-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1939, Horton Foote, "the Chekhov of the small town," has chronicled with compassion and acuity the experience of American life both intimate and universal. His adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and his original screenplay Tender Mercies earned him Academy Awards. He has won a Pulitzer Prize, the Gold Medal for Drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for Drama, and the President's National Medal of Arts. Beginnings is the story of Foote's discovery of his own vocation. He didn't always want to write. When he left Wharton, Texas, at the age of sixteen to study at the Pasadena Playhouse, Foote aspired to be an actor. He remembers the terror and excitement of leaving home during the Depression, his early exposure to the influences of German theater, and the speech lessons he took to "cure" him of his Southern drawl. He eventually arrives in New York to search for acting jobs and to study with some of the great Russian and American teachers of the 1930s. But after mixed results on the stage, he finally recognizes his true passion, writing. From Martha Graham to Tennessee Williams, from Agnes de Mille to Lillian Gish, Horton collaborates with great artists in both dance and theater. The world he describes of fierce commitment and passion regardless of financial rewards is both captivating and inspiring. Through it all Horton maintains his genuine Southern charm, and he often travels home to Wharton, the town that nurtured him as a storyteller and has inspired his writing for the past sixty years. From one of the most moving and distinctive voices of our time, Beginnings is a rare, personal look at a fascinating era in American life, and at the making of a writer.

Download or read book All I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger written by Lloyd Kaufman and published by Berkley Trade. This book was released on 1998 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Troma films have shocked, appalled, and inspired a generation of filmmakers, from Quentin Tarantino to Kevin Smith. Now legendary Troma co-founder Lloyd Kaufman tells the story of the demented genius behind this outrageous independent film studio.

Download or read book Jewel written by Bret Lott and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1991 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother fights for the dignity of her youngest daughter against the backdrop of a pure and simple way of life in the backwoods of Mississippi in 1943.

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Download or read book Produce Your Own Damn Movie written by Lloyd Kaufman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often low-budget filmmakers get thrown into the position of being not only the director, but their own producer. Using tips from the finest washed-up has-been producers in the business, this book will give the low-budget filmmaker practical tools for getting a movie shoot started, and keeping it going until it is supposed to end. From budgeting concerns to production-damaging acts of God, all will be discussed.

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Download or read book The Gorehound s Guide to Splatter Films of the 1980s written by Scott Aaron Stine and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews of The Gorehound's Guide to Splatter Films of the 1960s and 1970s: "recommended"--Booklist; "exhaustive...useful"--ARBA; "a solid reference work"--Video Watchdog; "bursting with information, opinion and trivia...impeccably researched"--Film Review; "interesting and informative"--Rue Morgue; "detailed credits...entertaining"--Classic Images. Author Scott Aaron Stine is back again, this time with an exhaustive study of splatter films of the 1980s. Following a brief overview of the genre, the main part of the book is a filmography. Each entry includes extensive technical information; cast and production credits; release date; running time; alternate and foreign release titles; comments on the availability of the film on videocassette and DVD; a plot synopsis; commentary from the author; and reviews. Extensive cross-referencing is also included. Heavily illustrated.

Download or read book The Vespers written by Philip Ridley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever struggled to find the perfect monologue? Do you want to lose yourself in an unforgettable story? Do you want to be...transported? Philip Ridley's The Vespers is a major work by a major writer. 100 original, self-contained monologues for actors (and readers) of all genders, all ages, and all levels of experience. Varying in length, style and structure – from the surreally comic to the heartbreakingly tragic – this is an essential toolkit for any actor (or anyone who enjoys a good story) with an introduction by Cath Badham, Lecturer in Performance at the University of Derby, UK.