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All the President’s Men

By: Robert B. Ray,Christian Keathley

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Alan J. Pakula's political thriller All the President's Men (1976) was met with immediate critical and commercial success upon its release, finishing second at the box office and earning seven Academy Award nominations. Through a close reading of key scenes, performances and stylistic decisions, Christian Keathley and Robert B. Ray show how the film derives its narrative power through a series of controlled oppositions: silence vs. noise; stationary vs. moving camera; dark vs. well-lit scenes and shallow vs. deep focus, tracing how these elements combine to create an underlying formal design crucial to the film's achievement. They argue that the film does not fit the auteurist model of New Hollywood film-makers such as Coppola and Scorsese. Instead, All the President's Men more closely resembles a studio-era film, the result of a collaboration between a producer (Robert Redford), multiple scriptwriters, a skilful director, important stars (Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman), a distinctive cameraman (Gordon Willis), an imaginative art director (George Jenkins) and ingenious sound designers, who together created an enduringly great film.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1839024054

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Last Man Out

Surviving the Burma-Thailand Death Railway

By: H. Robert Charles

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Last Man Out

Surviving the Burma-Thailand Death Railway

By: H. Robert Charles

From June 1942 to October 1943, more than 100,000 Allied POWs who had been forced into slave labor by the Japanese died building the infamous Burma-Thailand Death Railway, an undertaking immortalized in the film "The Bridge on the River Kwai." One of the few who survived was American Marine H. Robert Charles, who describes the ordeal in vivid and harrowing detail in Last Man Out. The story mixes the unimaginable brutality of the camps with the inspiring courage of the men, including a Dutch Colonial Army doctor whose skill and knowledge of the medicinal value of wild jungle herbs saved the lives of hundreds of his fellow POWs, including the author.

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250

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Motorbooks

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076032820X

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9780760328200

The Structure of Complex Images

By: Robert B. Ray

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The Structure of Complex Images

By: Robert B. Ray

After over a century of existence, the cinema still has its mysteries. Why, for example, is the job we call movie stardom unlike any other in the world? How do films provide so much unconcealed information that we fail to notice? What makes it hard to define what counts as “acting”? How do movies like Casablanca and Breathless store the film and world histories of their generations? How can we reconcile auteurism’s celebration of the movie director’s authority with the camera’s automatism? Why have the last four decades of film criticism so often neglected such questions? After beginning with an overview of film studies, this book proposes a shift from predictable theoretical approaches to models that acknowledge the perplexities and mysteries of the movies. Deriving methods from cinephilia, Wittgenstein, Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, Eleanor Duckworth, V. F. Perkins, and James Naremore, Robert B. Ray offers close readings that call attention to what we have missed in such classic films as La Règle du Jeu, It Happened One Night, It’s a Wonderful Life, Vertigo, Holiday, The Philadelphia Story, Casablanca, Breathless, and Tickets.

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Springer Nature

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3030406318

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9783030406318

How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies

By: Robert B. Ray

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How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies

By: Robert B. Ray

He is a member of The Vulgar Boatmen, whose records include You and Your Sister, Please Panic, and Opposite Sex.ContentsForeword by James NaremoreImpressionism, Surrealism, and Film Theory: Path Dependence, or How a Tradition in Film Theory Gets LostThe Bordwell Regime and the Stakes of KnowledgeSnapshots: The Beginnings of PhotographyTrackingHow to Start and Avant-GardeHow to Teach Cultural StudiesThe Best Way to Understand PostmodernismThe Mystery of Edward HopperFilm and LiteratureConclusion

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Indiana University Press

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0253214386

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9780253214386

Walden X 40

Essays on Thoreau

By: Robert Beverley Ray

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Walden X 40

Essays on Thoreau

By: Robert Beverley Ray

Adopting Henry David Thoreau's own compositional method, the author presents 40 brief essays from the details of Walden.

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Indiana University Press

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0253356865

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The ABCs of Classic Hollywood

By: Robert Beverley Ray

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The ABCs of Classic Hollywood

By: Robert Beverley Ray

Speaking about the kind of filmmaking now known as Classic Hollywood, the most popular and influential cinema ever invented, Vincente Minnelli once gave away its secret: "I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things. They're things that the audience is not conscious of, but that accumulate." How would we go about finding those things? What method would enable us to retrieve them, and by doing so, to understand better how Hollywood films got made? The ABCs of Classic Hollywood attempts to answer those questions by looking closely at four movies from the 1930-1945 period when the American Studio System reached the peak of its economic and cultural power: Grand Hotel, The Philadelphia Story, The Maltese Falcon, and Meet Me in St. Louis. To avoid the predictable generalizations that have plagued Film Studies, Ray works with the movies' details, treated as initially mysterious, but promising, clues: e.g., Grand Hotel's coffin and room assignments; The Philadelphia Story's diving board and license plate PA55; The Maltese Falcon's clocks and missing bed; Meet Me in St. Louis's violinist and ribboned cat. By producing at least 26 entries for each of these films (one for every letter of the alphabet), Ray demonstrates that a movie's details contain the record of the work and ideas that produced them, the endless negotiation between commercial efficiency and seductive enchantment. In our unconscious memories, we recognize something in the movies, something tantalizing and just out of reach. This book unlocks those memories, making them conscious and explicit, so that they will help us understand the most powerful and important storytelling system ever designed.

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Oxford University Press

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0195322916

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A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1980

By: Robert B. Ray

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A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1980

By: Robert B. Ray

Robert B. Ray examines the ideology of the most enduringly popular cinema in the world--the Hollywood movie. Aided by 364 frame enlargements, he describes the development of that historically overdetermined form, giving close readings of five typical instances: Casablanca, It's a Wonderful Life, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Godfather, and Taxi Driver. Like the heroes of these movies, American filmmaking has avoided commitment, in both plot and technique. Instead of choosing left or right, avant-garde or tradition, American cinema tries to have it both ways. Although Hollywood's commercial success has led the world audience to equate the American cinema with film itself, Hollywood filmmaking is a particular strategy designed to respond to specific historical situations. As an art restricted in theoretical scope but rich in individual variations, the American cinema poses the most interesting question of popular culture: Do dissident forms have any chance of remaining free of a mass medium seeking to co-opt them?

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Princeton University Press

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0691216169

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9780691216164

Trivia Why's, Volume 4

By: Robert Jen,Robert Jen Publishing

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Trivia Why's, Volume 4

By: Robert Jen,Robert Jen Publishing

Trivia Why's will make you trivia wise with these great features: 1) Over 2,000 questions with multiple-choice answers are each accompanied by a related factoid. Why is this answer correct (and not that one)? Why else is this person famous (or infamous)? Why was this event historically significant? 2) By cycling through six standard genus categories, this book makes an excellent supplement to your favorite trivia board game while providing a healthy variety of topics for your reading pleasure. Answers are hidden from view while the questions are being read and appear in the same block on the same side of the book two pages later. 3) Every question and answer has been carefully researched for accuracy and recently updated to include the latest available data. Since trivia is a moving target, however, updates and corrections will be posted to the triviawhys.com web site.

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Sebesta Enterprises, Inc.

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0974900397

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9780974900391

Beginning AutoCAD 2006

By: Robert McFarlane

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Beginning AutoCAD 2006

By: Robert McFarlane

Beginning AutoCAD 2006 is a course based on learning and practising the essentials of 2D drawing using AutoCAD. Bob McFarlane's hands-on approach is uniquely suited to independent learning and use on courses. The focus on 2D drawing in one book ensures the reader gets a thorough grounding in the subject, with a greater depth of coverage than tends to be available from general introductions to AutoCAD. As a result, this book provides a true, step-by-step, detailed exploration of the AutoCAD functions required at each stage of producing a 2D drawing - an approach often not found in the many software reference guides available. The emphasis on learning through doing makes this book ideal for anyone involved in engineering, construction or architecture - where the focus is on productivity and practical skills. The author has also matched the coverage to the requirements of City and Guilds, Edexcel (BTEC) and SQA syllabuses. New features in AutoCAD 2006 are covered in this book including: DYN (dynamic input showing coordinate position and lengths - an important new feature of the latest AutoCAD software), as well as new commands in the Modify and Dimension tool set. The result is a useful refresher course for anyone using AutoCAD at this level, and those upgrading to the new software release. The course is also designed to be fully relevant to anyone using other recent releases, including AutoCAD 2005.

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Routledge

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0750669578

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9780750669573

Chemistry of the Environment

By: Ronald A. Bailey,Herbert M. Clark,James P. Ferris,Sonja Krause,Robert L. Strong

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Chemistry of the Environment

By: Ronald A. Bailey,Herbert M. Clark,James P. Ferris,Sonja Krause,Robert L. Strong

Emphasizing new science essential to the practice of environmental chemistry at the beginning of the new millennium, Chemistry of the Environment describes the atmosphere as a distinct sphere of the environment and the practice of industrial ecology as it applies to chemical science. It includes extensive coverage of nuclear chemistry, covering both natural environmental sources and anthropogenic sources, their impacts on health, and their role in energy production, that goes well beyond the newspaper coverage to discuss nuclear chemistry and disposal in a balanced and scientifically rational way. - This is the only environmental chemistry text to adequately discuss nuclear chemistry and disposal in a balanced and scientifically rational way. - The overall format allows for particular topics to be omitted at the discretion of the instructor without loss of continuity. - Contains a discussion of climate history to put current climate concerns in perspective, an approach that makes current controversy about climate change more understandable.

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Elsevier

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0080488471

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9780080488479

Photographic Enforcement of Traffic Laws

By: Robert R. Blackburn,Daniel T. Gilbert,National Cooperative Highway Research Program

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Photographic Enforcement of Traffic Laws

By: Robert R. Blackburn,Daniel T. Gilbert,National Cooperative Highway Research Program

This synthesis will be of interest to state and local highway agency administrative and executive officers, enforcement agency personnel, attorneys, traffic engineers, and others concerned with managing and enforcing traffic laws at all levels of government. It will also be of interest to manufacturers and marketers of automated speed enforcement (ASE) technology. The synthesis describes the requirements, applications, effectiveness, and issues related to the use of ASE technology. This report of the Transportation Research Board describes the various types of ASE technology as applied in several localities, including descriptions of operational requirements and performance characteristics of these technologies. The synthesis also discusses how citations are processed, and examines the legal and acceptability issues related to ASE technology and public views on these actions. The various technologies on the market at the time of preparation of this synthesis are also described. It should be noted that, as with any application of public surveillance technology, officials are well advised to exercise proper cautions when employing such enforcement procedures.

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0309058600

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9780309058605

Kentucky Place Names

By: Robert M. Rennick

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Kentucky Place Names

By: Robert M. Rennick

From the wealth of place names in Kentucky, Rennick has selected those of some 2,000 communities and post offices. These places are usually the largest, the best known, or the most important as well as those with unusual or inherently interesting names. Including perhaps one-fourth of all such places known in the state, the names were chosen as a representative sample among Kentucky's counties and sections. Kentucky Place Names offers a fascinating mosaic of information on families, events, politics, and local lore in the state. It will interest all Kentuckians as well as the growing number of scholars of American place names.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813144019

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9780813144016

Fundamentals of Physics, Extended

By: David Halliday,Robert Resnick,Jearl Walker

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Fundamentals of Physics, Extended

By: David Halliday,Robert Resnick,Jearl Walker

The 10th edition of Halliday's Fundamentals of Physics, Extended building upon previous issues by offering several new features and additions. The new edition offers most accurate, extensive and varied set of assessment questions of any course management program in addition to all questions including some form of question assistance including answer specific feedback to facilitate success. The text also offers multimedia presentations (videos and animations) of much of the material that provide an alternative pathway through the material for those who struggle with reading scientific exposition. Furthermore, the book includes math review content in both a self-study module for more in-depth review and also in just-in-time math videos for a quick refresher on a specific topic. The Halliday content is widely accepted as clear, correct, and complete. The end-of-chapters problems are without peer. The new design, which was introduced in 9e continues with 10e, making this new edition of Halliday the most accessible and reader-friendly book on the market. WileyPLUS sold separately from text.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118230612

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9781118230619

All the President’s Men

By: Robert B. Ray,Christian Keathley

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All the President’s Men

By: Robert B. Ray,Christian Keathley

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1839024062

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All the President’s Men

All the President’s Men

Last Man Out

Last Man Out

The Structure of Complex Images

The Structure of Complex Images

How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies

How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies

Walden X 40

Walden X 40

The ABCs of Classic Hollywood

The ABCs of Classic Hollywood

A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1980

A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1980

Trivia Why's, Volume 4

Trivia Why's, Volume 4

Beginning AutoCAD 2006

Beginning AutoCAD 2006

Chemistry of the Environment

Chemistry of the Environment

Photographic Enforcement of Traffic Laws

Photographic Enforcement of Traffic Laws

Kentucky Place Names

Kentucky Place Names

Fundamentals of Physics, Extended

Fundamentals of Physics, Extended

All the President’s Men

All the President’s Men

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