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  • Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir

    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Lighting performs essential functions in Hollywood films, enhancing the glamour, clarifying the action, and intensifying the mood. Examining every facet of this understated art form, from the glowing backlights of the silent period to the shaded alleys of film noir, Patrick Keating affirms the role of Hollywood lighting as a distinct, compositional force.Closely analyzing Girl Shy (1924), Anna ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

    Series series 21st Century Film Essentials
    This engaging study of Alfonso Cuarón's 2004 film demonstrates why it is an essential work of twenty-first-century cinema.Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is an elegant exemplar of contemporary cinematic trends, including serial storytelling, the rise of the fantasy genre, digital filmmaking, and collaborative authorship. With craft, wonder, and wit, the film captures the most engaging ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cinematography

    Series series Behind the Silver Screen Series
    How does a film come to look the way it does? And what influence does the look of a film have on our reaction to it? The role of cinematography, as both a science and an art, is often forgotten in the chatter about acting, directing, and budgets. The successful cinematographer must have a keen creative eye, as well as expert knowledge about the constantly expanding array of new camera, film, and ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • The Dynamic Frame

    Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood

    Series series Film and Culture Series
    The camera’s movement in a film may seem straightforward or merely technical. Yet skillfully deployed pans, tilts, dollies, cranes, and zooms can express the emotions of a character, convey attitude and irony, or even challenge an ideological stance. In The Dynamic Frame, Patrick Keating offers an innovative history of the aesthetics of the camera that examines how camera movement shaped the ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • The Dynamic Frame

    Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood

    Series series Film and Culture Series
    The camera’s movement in a film may seem straightforward or merely technical. Yet skillfully deployed pans, tilts, dollies, cranes, and zooms can express the emotions of a character, convey attitude and irony, or even challenge an ideological stance. In The Dynamic Frame, Patrick Keating offers an innovative history of the aesthetics of the camera that examines how camera movement shaped the ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Film Noir and the Arts of Lighting

    Series series Techniques of the Moving Image
    More than any other set of films from the classical era, the Hollywood film noir is known for its lighting: the cast shadows, the blinking street signs, the eyes sparkling in the darkness. Each effect is rich in symbolism, evoking a world of danger and doppelgangers. But what happens if we set aside the symbolism? This book offers a new account of film noir lighting, grounded in a larger theory of ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Audiobook

    Pray for Us Sinners

    A Novel of the Irish Troubles

    Narrated by John Keating ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - Stories of the Irish Troubles

    Unabridged

    12 hours 55 min

    A British Army bomb-disposal expert goes undercover to try to identify the source of the bombs being used by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Pray for Us Sinners, a thrilling novel by New York Times bestseller Patrick TaylorIn Belfast in 1973 the Troubles are raging. Two Ulstermen. Two sides. On one, British Army bomb-disposal officer Marcus Richardson; on the other, Davy MacCutcheon, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Transnational Cinematography Studies

    Transnational Cinematography Studies introduces new perspectives to the discipline of film and media studies. First, this volume focuses on a crucial yet largely unexplored area in film and media studies: the substantial communication between critical studies of cinema and film production practices. This book integrates theories and practices of cinematographic technology. Secondly, Transnational ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Audiobook

    An Irish Country Doctor

    Narrated by John Keating ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Irish Country Books

    Unabridged

    10 hours 55 min

    An Irish Country Doctor from bestselling author Patick Taylor is a charming and engrossing tale that will captivate readers from the very first page—and leave them yearning to visit the Irish countryside of days gone by.Barry Laverty, M.B., can barely find the village of Ballybucklebo on a map when he first sets out to seek gainful employment there, but already he knows that there is nowhere he ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Universal Access and Assistive Technology

    Proceedings of the Cambridge Workshop on UA and AT ’02

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The first Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology (CWUAAT) was held at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in March 2002. It was inspired by the earlier, highly successful Cambridge Workshops on Rehabilitation Robotics organised by the late Robin Jackson. Robin was the founder of Rehabilitation Research at Cambridge which now continues in the Engineering Design Centre within the ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Audiobook

    Home Is the Sailor

    An Irish Country Doctor Story

    Narrated by John Keating ...
    Series Audiobook 8.5 - Irish Country Books

    Unabridged

    1 hour 59 min

    Fans of Patrick Taylor's bestselling Irish Country novels know Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly as the irascible senior partner of a general practice in the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo.But there was a time, shortly after arriving in Ballybucklebo, that Dr. O'Reilly was not widely accepted by the villagers. This touching short story tells of how O'Reilly, with a little help, began to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    A Dublin Student Doctor

    An Irish Country Novel

    Narrated by John Keating ...
    Series Audiobook 6 - Irish Country Books

    Unabridged

    15 hours 30 min

    Patrick Taylor's devoted readers know Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly as a pugnacious general practitioner in the quaint Irish village of Ballybucklebo. Now Taylor turns back the clock to give us a portrait of the young Fingal—and show us the pivotal events that shaped the man he would become.In the 1930s, fresh from a stint in the Royal Navy Reserve, and against the wishes of his disapproving ... Read more

    $32.99 USD