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Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A History of Pictures takes young readers on an adventure through art history. From cave paintings to video games, this book shows how and why pictures have been made, linking art to the human experience. Hockney and Gayford explain each piece of art in the book, helping young minds to grasp difficult concepts. The book tracks the many twists and turns toward artistic invention, allowing readers to fully appreciate how and why art has changed and...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times Bestseller
The epic true story of Dunkirk—now a major motion picture, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, and starring Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy, and Mark Rylance
In 1940, the Allies had been beaten back by the Nazis across France to the northern port of Dunkirk. In the ultimate race against time, more than 300,000 Allied soldiers were daringly evacuated across the Channel.
...Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
A novel moving picture presentation of Australia early in the 20th century. The film starts with the 1896 Melbourne Cup race, the 1900 multimedia event "Soldiers of the Cross" and the 1906 hour-long feature The Story of the Kelly Gang. It moves through ethnographic and actuality films, newsreels and features to the 1920 features Robbery Under Arms and The Sentimental Bloke. Using extracts from productions as well as stills, contemporary press reports...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Largely unchanged for more than a century, the projection of photochemical film faces an uncertain future in the digital age. The practice of handing and projecting film is in danger of being lost; and the role of film projectionist is nearing extinction.. THE DYING OF THE LIGHT explores at the history and craft of motion picture presentation through the lives and stories of the last generation of career projectionists. By turns humorous and melancholic,...
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The making of pictures has a history going back perhaps 100,000 years to an African shell used as a paint palette. Two-thirds of it is irrevocably lost, since the earliest images known to us are from about 40,000 years ago. But what a 40,000 years, explored here by David Hockney and Martin Gayford in a brilliantly original book. They privilege no medium, or period, or style, but instead, in 16 chapters, discuss how and why pictures have been made,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Espanol
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Español
Description
"La epica historia real de Dunkerque ahora una Gran Pelicula escrita y dirigida por Christopher Nolan, y protogonizada por Kenneth Branah, Tom Hardy y Mark Rylance. En 1940, en el Puerto frances de Dunkerque, mas de 300,000 tropas alliadas atrapadas fueron damaticamente rescatadas de la destruccion a manos de la Alemania Nazi por una extraordinaria evacuacion maritime. La verdadera historia do los soldados, marineros, aviadores y civiles implicados...
16) Tom Jones
Series
Criterion collection volume 910
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In the early 1960s, at the height of the British New Wave, director Tony Richardson and playwright John Osborne set out for more fanciful territory than the gritty realism of the movement they'd helped establish. Tom Jones brings a theatrical flair to Henry Fielding's canonical eighteenth-century novel, boisterously chronicling the misadventures of the foundling of the title (Albert Finney, in a career-defining performance), whose easy charm seems...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When an advanced canine and his adopted son use their time traveling WABAC machine, events in history spiral out of control to disastrous and comical results. It's up to this most unexpected of father-son teams to somehow put things back on track before the space-time continuum is irreparably destroyed.
"...It's hard to resist the bespectacled brainiac dog and his beloved boy."--USA Today.
"A smart, funny and beautifully designed feature ..."--New...
Publisher
Arkansas Writers' Project
Pub. Date
©1994
Language
English
Description
One of the most entertaining Arkansas histories was put together during the Great Depression by a group of writers and photographers through a government made-work program called the Arkansas Writers' Project. These days, a different Arkansas Writers' Project is a private publishing company in Little Rock which for 20 years has published the Arkansas Times, first as a monthly magazine and now as a weekly newspaper. The only connection between the...
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