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"The first book to tell the story of the postwar expanded cinema that would inspire the now ubiquitous presence of the moving image in contemporary art. In the 1950s and 1960s, the rise of television caused movie theaters to lose their monopoly over the moving image. Andrew V. Uroskie argues that it was this cultural displacement, rather than any formal or technological innovation, that lay at the origins of the expanded cinema."--Back cover

"Since the advent of cinema more than a hundred years ago, visual art has tended to be perceived as if it were in motion, and as the century ends, we notice that artists create less often in fresco or carved stone and more on film or tape, on the dance stage, or in the ever changing, ever moving medium of clothes. In this collection of writing that ranges over art of this and other centuries with unusual depth of historical insight, critic Anne Hollander...

Draws on interviews with top Hollywood writers as well as up-and-coming novices to trace the process from conception to script to film, in an account that documents the evolution of twenty-five screenplays.

A six part mini-series that explores the various technical positions that form a film production crew. Describes the hierarchy of positions within each department and looks at specific functions of each job. The art department segment describes the functions of the production designer, the art director, and the painting coordinator; the set decoration segment describes the functions of the set decorator, the buyer, the set dresser, and the on-set...

Charting artmaking in London, Beijing, and along the United States-Mexico border, this season follows an international mix of innovative visual artists - including Anish Kapoor and Xu Bing - as they create big and bold photographs, paintings, sculptures, films, performances and public artworks that respond to the places where they live and work.

"Bollywood is one of the most prolific film industries in the world. Based in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), the industry churns out hundreds of films each year-primarily melodramatic films with music and elaborately choreographed dance routines. Bollywood's popularity is quickly spreading across the globe, and, beyond the films themselves, Bollywood has made it way into global popular culture. Global Bollywood brings together leading scholars to examine...

This volume brings together a group of international scholars to analyze the globalized networks of Indian cinema. It provides a critique of a common scholarly tendency in the field of popular cinema of defining Indian films in terms of their modernity and desire for nationhood. Bollyworld argues that Indian cinema cannot be understood in terms of this national paradigm, and must be more properly described as a field of visual and cultural production...

Describes the characters, settings, costume design, technology, and computer rendering of the motion picture, and includes exclusive storyboards and interviews with the film's crew.