Talking Pictures

Author: Ann Hornaday
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465094244
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 275

Book Description
A veteran film critic offers a lively, opinionated guide to thinking and talking about movies -- from Casablanca to Clueless Whether we are trying to impress a date after an art house film screening or discussing Oscar nominations among friends, we all need ways to look at and talk about movies. But with so much variety between an Alfred Hitchcock thriller and a Nora Ephron romantic comedy, how can everyday viewers determine what makes a good movie? In Talking Pictures, veteran film critic Ann Hornaday walks us through the production of a typical movie -- from script and casting to final sound edit -- and explains how to evaluate each piece of the process. How do we know if a film has been well-written, above and beyond snappy dialogue? What constitutes a great screen performance? What goes into praiseworthy cinematography, editing, and sound design? And what does a director really do? In a new epilogue, Hornaday addresses important questions of representation in film and the industry and how this can, and should, effect a movie-watching experience. Full of engaging anecdotes and interviews with actors and filmmakers, Talking Pictures will help us see movies in a whole new light-not just as fans, but as film critics in our own right.

Talking Pictures

Author: Marvin Heiferman
Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
Images flash across the screen. Photographs appear on walls, on cans, on the sides of buses, in magazines, books, newspapers, computers. We are bombarded with thousands of photographs each day: they are perhaps our major source of information, inspiration, and irritation. But what if you had to choose a single image out of that avalanche - one photograph that you couldn't stop thinking about, that changed your ideas, your aesthetics, your perception of reality? Seventy of the most interesting people of our era - both famous and unknown - were asked to choose that one image for Talking Pictures. The results are startling, profound, funny, and deeply revealing about our psychology and our times. From glossy fashion photography to devastating portraits of the Holocaust, from family snapshots to the shimmering artwork of master photographers such as Irving Penn, Andre Kertesz, and Imogen Cunningham, from Life magazine photo essays to a five-hundred-times magnification of the adhesive on a Post-it, the range of images in Talking Pictures reveals not only the strength of individual obsession and the power of history and imagination, but, more importantly, the peculiar truths about ourselves and our times that can be seen only in photographs.

Talking Pictures

Author: Horton Foote
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822214625
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76

Book Description
THE STORY: 1929, Harrison Texas. Myra Tolliver makes her living playing the live music for the silent pictures. She makes barely enough to survive, caring for herself and her teenage son, Pete. As borders in the home of the Jacksons, Myra supplemen

Talking Pictures

Author: Richard Corliss
Publisher: Overlook Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 440

Book Description

The Poet, The Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, A Wedding in St. Roch, The Big Box Store, The Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All

Author: C.D. Wright
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619321548
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 182

Book Description
"Wright shrinks back from nothing."—The Village Voice "Wright belongs to a school of exactly one."—The New York Times Book Review "Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle."—The New Yorker "C.D. Wright is one of America's oddest, best, and most appealing poets."—Publishers Weekly A companion to her astonishing collection of prose Cooling Time, C.D. Wright argues for poetry as a way of being and seeing, and calls it "the one arena where I am not inclined to crank up the fog machine." Wright's passion for the genre is pure inspiration, and in her hands the answer to the question of poetry is poetry. From "In a Word": I love the nouns of a time in a place, where a sack once was a poke and native skag was junk glass not junk and junk was just junk not smack and smack entailed eating with your mouth open, and an Egyptian one-eye was an egg, sunny side up, and a nation sack was a flannel amulet, worn only by women, to be touched only by women, especially around Memphis. Red sacks for love and green for money… C.D. Wright's most recent volume, One With Others, was a National Book Award finalist. Among her many honors are the Griffin Poetry Prize and a MacArthur Fellowship. She teaches at Brown University and lives outside of Providence, Rhode Island.

Talking Pictures

Author: Ellen Graham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982358580
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
A celebrated photographer for 40 years, Ellen Graham has worked with magazines across America, photographing some of the world's most talked-about people: actors, artists, performers, socialites, and the glitterati that we are all obsessed with. Graham's

How to Watch a Movie

Author: David Thomson
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1847658830
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 245

Book Description
From one of the most admired critics of our time, brilliant insights into the act of watching movies and an enlightening discussion about how to derive more from any film experience. Since first publishing his landmark Biographical Dictionary of Film in 1975 (now in its sixth edition), David Thomson has been one of the most trusted authorities on all things cinema. Now, he offers his most inventive exploration of the medium yet: guiding us through each element of the viewing experience, considering the significance of everything from what we see and hear on screen - actors, shots, cuts, dialogue, music - to the specifics of how, where, and with whom we do the viewing. With customary candour and wit, Thomson delivers keen analyses of a range of films from classics such as Psycho and Citizen Kane to contemporary fare such as 12 Years a Slave and All Is Lost, revealing how to more deeply appreciate both the artistry and manipulation of film, and how watching movies approaches something like watching life itself. Discerning, funny and utterly unique, How to Watch a Movie is a welcome twist on the classic proverb: Give a movie fan a film, she'll be entertained for an hour or two; teach a movie fan to watch, her experience will be enriched forever.

Pictures That Talk

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781578616046
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Improve social interaction skills!Pictures That Talk is designed to be used with the Talking Photo Album. Taken together, they improve student social interaction skills, increase independence and enhance communication between families and professionals who work with them. The ideas for making album pages are illustrated in full color. Use the book's suggestions for pictures, text and recorded messages or adapt the ideas to create your own.

Talking Pictures

Author: Ronald Madison
Publisher: Running Press Adult
ISBN: 9780762408030
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
Perfect for stimulating open discussion between parent and child, this warm and insightful guide uses movies as a vehicle for discussing sensitive issues with children aged 5 through 15. Combining the insight of a family therapist with the savvy of an expert in American film, Talking Pictures helps address difficult questions about divorce, marriage, family, love, gender identity, social ethics, separation and loss, friendship, death, illness, substance abuse, and more. Divided into four age ranges to ensure that films and topics are age-appropriate, the book offers pointers for starting discussion, conversational techniques to draw out the most recalcitrant child, and suggested films to watch together, all of them widely available at video rental outlets. Dr. Ronald Madison is a psychologist who has worked with families for more than 25 years, using film as a therapeutic tool for communication. Corey Schmidt is a freelance writer and film enthusiast.

Talking in Pictures

Author: Chelsea Peitz
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781544262543
Category : Internet marketing
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
"Snapchat was the app that launched the "camera first" revolution. Its' disruptive features out-innovated major social networks and inspired hundreds of millions of users to document their personal stories through the free broadcast network in their pockets. Snapchat allowed us to communicate through images and not just around them. It changed social media from merely documenting and preserving memories to an in-the-moment real time experience. It was authentic, personal and unlike any other social platform in existence"--Back cover.