Dvd and Video Guide 2007


Book Description

Now in an all-new updated edition, a concise guide to the video and DVD market provides in the most recent year's edition more than four hundred new entries, a star-based rating system, cast and director indexes, an Academy Award winner list, and more than eighteen thousand reviews. Simultaneous. 35,000 first printing.




The Ultimate Field Guide to Digital Video


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"[This book] helps you learn to think like a film-maker [and] takes you step-by-step through the process of making better films."--Back cover.




The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs and Dvds Yearbook 2004/5


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More than an essential companion to the complete "Penguin Guide to Compact Discs" (1999), the "Yearbook 2000/1" reviews hundreds of brand new CDs and takes a closer look at some of the more unusual areas of the classical-music repertoire.




Electronics Buying Guide 2007


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This invaluable reference combines shopping advice, setup guidance, and user tips for all things electronic.




Clinical Skills Survival Guide


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Review book for the exam that emphasizes the exam process rather than specific facts. It includes a DVD showing clinical scenarios and examples of correct and incorrect behaviors to help you hone your clinical skills. In addition to this more realistic and appropriate approach to the exam, the book covers the history of the clinical skills exam and the use of standardized patients. It provides guidance on the essential elements of the exam history taking; physical examination; and communication skillsand outlines how to prepare for the exam and how to conduct yourself during the actual examination.




The Fantastic Made Visible


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Fantasy and science fiction began in print, and from the first films to the latest blockbusters, print stories have provided the inspirations, the ideas, and in some cases the detailed blueprints. Adaption Studies has long been an area of intense debate in literature and film studies, but no single work has ever approached fantasy and science fiction texts as unique and important areas of inquiry by themselves. The Fantastic Made Visible with 16 fresh essays is the first book to do exactly that. From the earliest adaptations of Jules Verne, Robert A. Heinlein, and Shakespeare to recent films based on The Hobbit, Planet of the Apes, and The Hunger Games, this book offers a wide range of critical approaches and films from around the world.




Developing an Outstanding Core Collection


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Carol Alabaster focuses on developing a collection with high-quality materials while saving time and money.




The never-ending Brief Encounter


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This is a book for all those who have been absorbed and moved by Brief Encounter in the seventy or so years since its first appearance. It explores the central relationship of the film, where two people who fall unexpectedly in love come to realise that there is more to life than self-gratification. Mores have undoubtedly changed, for better or worse, but that essential moral choice has never lost its power. While acknowledging this, the book goes further in an effort to account for the way the film has passed into the wider culture. People born decades after its first appearance are now adept at picking up references to it, whether a black-and-white scene in a much later film or a passing joke about a bald man in a barber’s shop.




VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever


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Reviews movies that are available on DVD or tape. Each entry includes title, alternate title, one-to four-bone rating, year released, MPAA rating, brief review, length, format, country of origin, cast, technical personnel, awards and made-for-television/cable/video designations.




Film and Television After DVD


Book Description

Film and Television after DVD argues that DVD technology is part of a shift that heralds a new age for film and television, critically examining the implications of DVD technology for key concerns within the fields of television, film and new media studies.