Words on Screen

Author: Michel Chion
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023154345X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 301

Book Description
Michel Chion is well known in contemporary film studies for his innovative investigations into aspects of cinema that scholars have traditionally overlooked. Following his work on sound in film in Audio-Vision and Film, a Sound Art, Words on Screen is Chion's survey of everything the seventh art gives us to read on screen. He analyzes titles, credits, and intertitles, but also less obvious forms of writing that appear on screen, from the tear-stained letter in a character's hand to reversed writing seen in mirrors. Through this examination, Chion delves into the multitude of roles that words on screen play: how they can generate narrative, be torn up or consumed but still remain in the viewer's consciousness, take on symbolic dimensions, and bear every possible relation to cinematic space. With his characteristic originality, Chion performs a poetic inventory of the possibilities of written text in the film image. Taking examples from hundreds of films spanning years and genres, from the silents to the present, he probes the ways that words on screen are used and their implications for film analysis and theory. In the process, he opens up and unearths the specific poetry of visual text in film. Exhaustively researched and illustrated with hundreds of examples, Words on Screen is a stunning demonstration of a creative scholar's ability to achieve a radically new understanding of cinema.

Words and Images on the Screen

Author: Ágnes Pethő
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443806277
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 405

Book Description
The screen has never been merely a canvas for the images to be displayed but also – to quote Jean-Luc Godard – “a blank page”, a surface for inscriptions and a “stage” for all kinds of linguistic occurrences be their audible or visual. Word did not come into the world of cinema at the time of the talkies but has been a primordial medial “companion” that has shaped the cinematic experience from its very beginnings. This volume offers a collection of essays that question the role of words and images in the context of moving pictures covering a wide area of their interconnectedness. How can we analyse literary adaptations? What is the role of adaptations in the evolution of specific national cinemas? In what way are written texts used in films? Is the model of the word and image relations used in silent films still applicable today? What major paradigms can be discerned within the multiplicity of ways Jean-Luc Godard’s cinema plays with words and images? Are these models of modernist or postmodern cinema reflected in films of other directors like R. W. Fassbinder? How do avant-garde works deal with the word and image debate? What are the connections of animation or computer games with verbal text and narrative? What is the phenomenon of jet-setting and how does it connect to the ideological implications of the relations between the culture of books and films? What happens when Hamlet is completely rewritten reflecting the ideology of late capitalism? What happens from the point of view of literariness or rejection of literariness when films are made vehicles of national propaganda? How do words get mediated through images? These are some of the questions addressed in the present volume by in-depth case studies of cinematic intermediality or more general surveys regarding cinema’s long lasting liaisons with language or literature.

Words Onscreen

Author: Naomi S. Baron
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199315760
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
In Words Onscreen, Naomi Baron offers a fascinating and timely look at how technology affects the way we read.

This Beautiful Day

Author: Richard Jackson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481441396
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Undaunted by the rainy weather, three children take their happiness outside and seem to chase the clouds away as they jump, skip, and dance together.

Screen Kids

Author: Gary Chapman
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 0802499031
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 170

Book Description
Has Technology Taken Over Your Home? In this digital age, children spend more time interacting with screens and less time playing outside, reading a book, or interacting with family. Though technology has its benefits, it also has its harms. In Screen Kids Gary Chapman and Arlene Pellicane will empower you with the tools you need to make positive changes. Through stories, science, and wisdom, you’ll discover how to take back your home from an overdependence on screens. Plus, you’ll learn to teach the five A+ skills that every child needs to master: affection, appreciation, anger management, apology, and attention. Learn how to: Protect and nurture your child’s growing brain Establish simple boundaries that make a huge difference Recognize the warning signs of gaming too much Raise a child who won’t gauge success through social media Teach your child to be safe online This newly revised edition features the latest research and interactive assessments, so you can best confront the issues technology create in your home. Now is the time to equip your child with a healthy relationship with screens and an even healthier relationship with others.

My Name Is Elizabeth!

Author: Annika Dunklee
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1554535603
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26

Book Description
Kids will relate to Elizabeth's fervent wish to be called by her proper name.

Organizational and Social Perspectives on Information Technology

Author: Richard Baskerville
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0387355057
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 521

Book Description
The articles in this book constitute the proceedings papers from the IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference, "IS2000: The Social and Organizational Perspective on Research and Practice in Information Technology," held June 1 0-12, 2000, in Aalborg, Denmark. The focus of the conference, and therefore this book, is on the basic aim of the working group, namely, the investigation of the interrelationships among four major components: information systems (IS), information technology (IT), organizations, and society. This basic social and organizational perspective on research and practice in information technology may have evolved substantially since the founding ofthe group, for example, increasing the emphasis on IS development. The plan for the conference was partially rooted in the early WG 8.2 traditions, in which working conferences were substantially composed of invited papers. For IS2000, roughly half of the paper presentations were planned to be invited; the remaining half were planned to be double-blind refereed in response to a "Call For Papers." Invited papers were single-blind reviewed in order to provide the authors with pre-publication feedback and comments, along with the opportunity to revise their papers prior to its final incorporation in this book.

Mouse Count

Author: Ellen Stoll Walsh
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152002664
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
Ten mice outsmart a hungry snake. Board book.

A Dictionary of Electrical Words, Terms and Phrases

Author: Edwin James Houston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1010

Book Description

Alice

Author: Mark Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780951911679
Category : Children's plays
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
A children's musical with up to eighteen songs, in two acts. Based on the original story of 'Alice's adventures in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll, retold in song and dance, drama and narrative. For children aged 7-14 (KS 2-3). Adaptable for younger children. Duration of songs approx. 45 minutes.