Components of a Film
Filmmaking is a form of art aimed to convey messages to people, through animation or live-action storytelling. Also known as a movie or a motion picture, a film is composed of different elements, such as production, direction, acting, and musical scoring, that work together to create a complex form of entertainment. The main concept of filmmaking is the portrayal of scenes, usually based on a certain plot, and arranging these scenes to convey a story.
Today, movies have already become major forms of entertainment for many people. Many people want to watch the latest movies released by filmmakers and producers. Movies have captured the interest of the people by creating an avenue for sharing common emotions through varied genres such as horror, comedy, suspense, and drama. These are genres that filmmakers use to entertain and interest viewers.
A movie does not become interesting to viewers without effective dialogue and excellent cinematography. These compose the soul of a movie. Dialogue pertains to the way the movie’s message is delivered. There are lots of movies that interest viewers by having creative scripts, while other movies convey messages even merely through the depiction of scenes.
Unlike classic movies with limited visual effects, modern movies can deliver simple and vague messages through the use of advanced visual effects. Movies of powerful language usually create an impact on the audience, which eventually builds the movies’ value when watched in theatres. To
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On the other hand, cinematography may greatly affect the way the movie’s theme is portrayed, through the depiction of scenes as the movie progresses. Climactic portions of the movie often contain the most impressive instances of cinematography. Most film directors are recognized because of this particular factor; viewers may be interested to watch in movies in theaters or
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To assess expert opinions on their work, most filmmakers also opt to hold private viewing for reputable film critics. The opinions of these film experts and critics, when published on the Web, or in magazines and newspapers, can persuade people to pay to watch these movies in theaters. People may just opt to wait for lackluster or mediocre movies to become available on
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X-posed $7.56 In the few years since her spectacular debut caused a storm upon it’s release, Adele has been breaking records with success after success. She continues raise the bar all the while pushing the boundaries of what can be expected of a British singer-songwriter. With her latest album she has taken her incredible talent even further, topping charts around the world, securing her position as a global p… |
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Art of Storytelling $6.72 Slick Rick boasts that he makes hip-hop that creates memories, and it’s an apt description for an album that nostalgically recalls a different age of hip-hop. Unfortunately, the blast back to the past is mostly the result of an album that just sounds old–as if it’s been collecting dust in Def Jam’s attic for a while, what with Clark Kent’s bare-bones production that pushes a boring formula of sim… |
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Storyteller: The Complete Anthology 1964-1990 $48.95 This 65-song, 4-CD set covers all phases of this rooster-coiffed rocker in appropriate style, with a 24-page booklet/discography and all the hits: Maggie May; Tonight’s the Night; You’re in My Heart; Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?; Downtown Train , and much more…. |
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Common Bonds – Storytelling in the Classroom [VHS] This sample video illustrates the variety of approaches to storytelling used by teachers, and also the connections that can be made between stories, pupils’ own experiences and the curriculum…. |
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The Fall $9.95 Roger Ebert proclaimed it “one of the most extraordinary films I’ve ever seen,” and there’s no denying the avalanche of wild images in The Fall: grand castles, desert vistas, elephants swimming in the open ocean. Commercial and music-video director Tarsem has piled these visions into an elaborate remake of an obscure Bulgarian film, Yo Ho Ho, which is anchored in (but by no means limited to) a qui… |
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My Family Tree Child’s 24-Page Journal with BONUS Stickers $11.95 This Family Tree journal will help your child develop their creative writing skills in a fun way – often with little help from Parents! This kit is designed to give your child an outlet for their creative story telling ideas, and will provide wonderful keepsakes that your child (and their parents) will treasure forever. Also available in this series is the All About Me! 22-page journal (Search Ama… |
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Evening Storytelling $59.99 Evening Storytelling Wall Decal by . Product size approximately 24 x 32 inches. Available at Art.com. Embrace your Space – your source for high quality fine art posters and prints. |
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The Art of Storytelling By Spaulding, Amy $83.28 Author: Spaulding, Amy E. Subtitle: Telling Truths Through Telling Stories Publication Date: 2011/02/28 Number of Pages: 210 Binding Type: Hardcover Language: English Depth: 0.75 Width: 6.50 Height: 9.50 |
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The Art of Storytelling: Creative Ideas for Preparation and Performance $15.95 “Nothing will ever replace the active pleasure of telling and listening to stories. Only a live storyteller can impart to a tale that very human touch that brings a gleam of understanding to the listener’s eye. The wonderful world of storytelling is revealed in this resource manual for beginners and seasoned performers. Many ideas for finding, writing, adapting and presenting stories are included. Three parts including: Choosing Stories to Tell, Developing Original Ideas and Presenting the Story. Story examples and exercises are given throughout. Each chapter is concluded with discussion questions and activities. A comprehensive textbook for oral interpretation. Sample chapters: What Is Storytelling?: Choosing a Story to Tell; Types of Stories and Where to Tell Them; The Situation, Audience and Location; Analyzing the Story; Ideas from Experience; Creating Character.” |
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The Leaders Guide to Storytelling By Denning, Stephen $33.14 How leaders can use the right story at the right time to inspire change and action This revised and updated edition of the bestselling book A Leaders Guide to Storytelling shows how storytelling is one of the few ways to handle the most important and difficult challenges of leadership: sparking action, getting people to work together, and leading people into the future. Using myriad illustrative examples and filled with howto techniques, this book clearly explains how you can learn to tell the rightstory at the right time. Stephen Denning has won awards from Financial Times, The Innovation Book Club, and 800CEOREAD The book on leadership storytelling shows how successful leaders use stories to get their ideas across and spark enduring enthusiasm for change Stephen Denning offers a handson guide to unleash the power of the business narrative Author: Denning, Stephen Subtitle: Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative Publication Date: 2011/03/08 Number of Pages: 348 Binding Type: Hardcover Language: English Depth: 1.50 Width: 6.25 Height: 9.25 |
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The New Digital Storytelling By Alexander, Bryan $74.95 Explains the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling, weaving images, music, text, audio, video, and music together. This book describes the narrative creation process with personal video, blogs, podcasts, digital imagery, multimedia games, social media, and augmented reality. Author: Alexander, Bryan Subtitle: Creating Narratives With New Media Publication Date: 2011/04/07 Number of Pages: 275 Binding Type: Hardcover Language: English Depth: 1.00 Width: 6.25 Height: 9.25 |
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Storytelling $3.99 As in his earlier screenplays, Todd Solondz peers deeply into the underside of American suburban life and concerns in Storytelling, with sometimes shocking, sometimes hilarious, results. The film is in two parts: “Fiction” deals with the relationship between students and their black teacher in a college creative writing class while hammering away in decidedly non-PC fashion at the most sensitive social and political concerns of our time: race, sex, prejudice against the disabled. “Nonfiction” follows the attempts of an underachieving documentary filmmaker to capture the day-to-day life of an underachieving high-school student and his family – with surprisingly horrifying results. The film – which stars John Goodman and Julie Hagerty as the parents in the second part of the movie – caused something of a sensation when it was first shown at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2001. |
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Preaching as Art: Biblical Storytelling for a Media Generation $16.99 “Today’s postmodern world prefers mystery over logic, impression over rationale, aesthetic beauty over practicality, and symbolism over obvious answers. We live in an art-enriched, art-minded world. For ministers, this rebirth of creativity and imagination opens the door for exciting possibilities. Scripture itself is an art form. The story of our Christian faith is woven together with the mystery, imagination, creativity, and beauty that characterize the very mind of God. No other book contains more murder plots, love stories, betrayals, adulterous affairs, heroic feats, tragedies, triumphs, and redemptive endings than the Bible. Preaching as Art challenges pastors and speakers to use the Bible and its colorful imagery and literary brilliance to celebrate God’s amazing story. It encourages preachers to invite their listeners to dialogue with them, to experience the Bible stories as they are being told; and by doing so, participate in the very nature and image of God. Author Darius Salter provides practical ideas, sermon illustrations, examples, and a variety of media options to help speakers enrich and transform their messages into art forms that will help listeners appreciate the artistry of Scripture and encounter God as never before.” |
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Storytelling By Greene, Ellin/ Del Negro, Janice/ Zipes, Jack David (FRW) $91.7 Surveys the history of storytelling as practiced in United States libraries and offers practical guidelines for selecting material, preparing oneself and ones audience, presenting stories, and planning programs. Author: Greene, Ellin/ Del Negro, Janice/ Zipes, Jack David (FRW) Subtitle: Art and Technique Publication Date: 2010/01/12 Number of Pages: 455 Binding Type: Hardcover Language: English Depth: 1.25 Width: 6.50 Height: 9.50 |
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Storytelling Time By Jones, Arthur F. (EDT)/ Ganje, Lucy Annis (EDT) $62.13 Author: Jones, Arthur F. (EDT)/ Ganje, Lucy Annis (EDT) Subtitle: Native North American Art from The Collections at the University of North Dakota Publication Date: 2010/03/16 Number of Pages: 242 Binding Type: Hardcover Language: English Depth: 1.00 Width: 10.25 Height: 12.25 |
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Storytelling (DVD) $21.95 From Todd Solondz, the critically acclaimed director of Welcome to the Dollhouse comes a film comprised of two separate stories set against the sadly comical terrain of college and high school, past and present. Following the paths of its young hopeful/troubled characters, it explores issues of sex, race, celebrity and exploitation. |
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Storytelling By Sherman, Josepha (EDT) $498.51 A collection of informative entries providing a definitive and fascinating study of the wide world of storytelling. Author: Sherman, Josepha (EDT) Subtitle: An Encyclopedia of Mythology and Folklore Publication Date: 2008/08/11 Binding Type: Hardcover Language: English Depth: 2.50 Width: 9.00 Height: 13.75 |
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Melissa & Doug Storytelling Paper Pad $12.95 The Melissa & Doug Storytelling Paper Pad is designed for original illustrations and storytelling. Each piece of paper includes a blank section and a lined section for original creations. Each pad includes 50 sheets of premium heavy-weight white bond paper. It’s ideal for pencils, markers, paints, chalk, or crayons! |
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Storytelling Organizations By Boje, David M. $80.03 Explores how narrative and storytelling is an important part of an organizations strategy, development and learning processes. With examples from Nike, McDonalds and Disney, this book shows how the theory that underpins organizational storytelling connects with storytelling in everyday organizational life. Author: Boje, David M. Publication Date: 2008/10/23 Number of Pages: 282 Binding Type: Paperback Language: English Depth: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Height: 9.00 |
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Improving Your Storytelling By Lipman, Doug $21.87 Discusses methods of storytelling, and encourages the storyteller to think on their feet, by using facial expressions, voice control, timing, hand movements, style, imagery, and other details that enhance a taletelling session Author: Lipman, Doug Series Title: American Storytelling Subtitle: Beyond the Basics for All Who Tell Stories in Work or Play Publication Date: 1999/06/01 Number of Pages: 219 Binding Type: Paperback Language: English Depth: 0.50 Width: 5.75 Height: 8.50 |
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Creative Storytelling By Zipes, Jack David $51.43 Describes classroom storytelling and outlines the process for teachers to follow, and includes variations of fairy tales Author: Zipes, Jack David Subtitle: Building Community Changing Lives Publication Date: 1995/11/01 Number of Pages: 267 Binding Type: Paperback Language: English Depth: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Height: 9.00 |
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Dancing with Words: Storytelling as Legacy, Culture, and Faith $14 “Jesus built relationships with people through simple, clear stories. And we are people of the story, seeking to name and share our stories in nearly everything we do. Dancing With Words provides help for all church leaders–both clergy and lay–to explore the history and importance of storytelling in faith development and to acquire basic storytelling skills. Through an understanding of the history of storytelling and of storytellers as keepers of beliefs, traditions, history, and values, you will find new meaning in the stories and storytellers of the Bible and of the Christian faith, learn what makes a good story, discover your own style as a storyteller, learn the techniques of effective storytelling, and practice creating stories from your own experience. Let the dance begin” |
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The United States of Storytelling By Keding, Dan $83.37 Collects true stories and legends from western states, ranging from the Hispanic legend of La Llorona to the Dakota War of 1862. Author: Keding, Dan Series Title: United States of Storytelling Subtitle: Folktales and True Stories from the Western States Publication Date: 2010/07/26 Number of Pages: 254 Binding Type: Hardcover Language: English Depth: 0.75 Width: 7.00 Height: 10.00 |
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An Experience of Spirit: Spirituality and Storytelling $14.95 “This book looks at how the use of story can capture and embody our spiritual experiences. whether human or divine. It is a collection of meditations on how God initiates all experiences and how we respond to God’s initiative through our relationship with the Divine One. The stories challenge us to reflect more deeply on how we encounter the Spirit in our religious traditions as well as in the personal experiences of our lives. Thomas More Press originally published this book in 1983 under the title An Experience Named Spirit. It’s beauty and meaning is still relevant for today.” |
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The Power of Storytelling By Holtje, Jim $24.74 An international public relations pro explains how to write attentiongetting, inspirational business communications through the use of personal stories that help strengthen the message and features anecdotes from Bill Gates, Ted Turner, Steve Jobs and more. Original. Author: Holtje, Jim Subtitle: Captivate, Convince, or Convert Any Business Audience Using Stories from Top CEOs Publication Date: 2011/12/06 Number of Pages: 314 Binding Type: Paperback Language: English Depth: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Height: 8.25 |
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Teacher Created Materials 10011 Grandfathers Storytelling $21.84 In this reader s theater script a young boy and his family talk about what happened on the night the boy was born as well as how the boy overcame the challenges of blindness. The boy asks his grandfather to retell the stories and to help him remember them so he can carry them with him even after his grandfather is gone. The social studies connection relates to the oral storytelling traditions of the American Indians. Author: Jennifer Overend Prior. Format: Paperback. Pages: 24. Publish Date: August 03 2005. Publisher: Teacher Created Materials. Language: English. Grade: 34. |
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Preaching: The Art of Narrative Exposition $5.99 Because they are speaking to a younger society more attuned to lively dialogue and visual images, pastors need a fresh wineskin for a timeless message of redemption. Calvin Miller, who has preached and equipped preachers for decades, offers a volume of helpful insights for pastors to deliver the heart of the gospel via the Jesus-endorsed vessel of compelling storytelling. For the working pastor, Miller’s crash course on preaching is a welcomed study. |
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The Art of the Tell By Guber, Peter $31.64 The founder of Mandalay Entertainment draws on hundreds of interviews with business and entertainment leaders as well as forefront intellectuals in an anecdotal guide that reveals how to use purposeful storytelling skills to promote professional success. Author: Guber, Peter Subtitle: Connect, Persuade, and Triumph With the Hidden Power of Story Publication Date: 2011/03/01 Number of Pages: 255 Binding Type: Hardcover Language: English Depth: 1.25 Width: 6.25 Height: 9.50 |
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The Elements of Storytelling for Writers By Rubie, Peter $30.84 Author: Rubie, Peter Series Title: Wiley Books for Writers Series Subtitle: How to Write Compelling Fiction Publication Date: 1996/02/01 Binding Type: Paperback Language: English Depth: 0.50 Width: 6.25 Height: 9.00 |
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Digital Storytelling By Miller, Carolyn Handler $45.18 Author: Miller, Carolyn Handler Subtitle: A Creators Guide to Interactive Entertainment Publication Date: 2008/04/03 Number of Pages: 479 Binding Type: Paperback Language: English Depth: 1.25 Width: 7.50 Height: 9.25 |
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Documentary Storytelling By Bernard, Sheila Curran $44.15 Author: Bernard, Sheila Curran Subtitle: Creative Nonfiction on Screen Publication Date: 2010/08/31 Number of Pages: 368 Binding Type: Paperback Language: English Depth: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Height: 9.00 |
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Evening Storytelling 12×18 Giclee On Canvas $77.63 Series: ChinaArtist: UnknownPeriod: Source country: TaiwanSource Year: 192312 inch by 18 inch Giclee print on Canvas.All files are stored digitally and are ready for reproduction. The quality is closely monitored to ensure professional results.This item is custom made per order. |
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Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative By Eisner, Will $29.3 Author: Eisner, Will Subtitle: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist Publication Date: 2008/08/25 Number of Pages: 169 Binding Type: Paperback Language: English Depth: 0.75 Width: 8.00 Height: 10.00 |
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Storytelling Through Animation By Wellins, Mike $51.31 Author: Wellins, Mike Series Title: Graphics Publication Date: 2005/03/30 Number of Pages: 435 Binding Type: Paperback Language: English Depth: 1.25 Width: 7.50 Height: 9.25 |
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Organizational Storytelling for Librarians By Marek, Kate $83.37 Author: Marek, Kate Subtitle: Using Stories for Effective Leadership Publication Date: 2011/01/01 Number of Pages: 105 Binding Type: Paperback Language: English Depth: 0.25 Width: 6.25 Height: 9.25 |
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Cinematic Storytelling By Van Sijll, Jennifer $30.84 Author: Van Sijll, Jennifer Subtitle: The 100 Most Powerful Film Conventions Every Filmaker Must Know Publication Date: 2005/08/01 Number of Pages: 257 Binding Type: Paperback Language: English Depth: 0.75 Width: 11.00 Height: 7.50 |
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Melody House WZ304 Monkey Tales Storytelling Board Prop Set $27.43 These eight colorful props are designed for use with the Monkey Tales Storytelling Board and will provide you with new and exciting ways to teach when used in conjunction with the suggested Character Sets. The props are printed on glosscoated thick paper stock and attach to the board with Velcro backing. They are also sold separately. |
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Black Preaching : The Recovery Of A Powerful Art $18 “Learn how black culture and preaching style empower black congregations—and what methods all preachers should know. In this one-volume collection of The Recovery of Preaching and Black Preaching, Mitchell shows you how to add power and vision to your sermons through storytelling, imagination, and other aspects of preaching style that are rooted in black culture. .” |
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Personal Effects: Dark Art $3.99 Personal Effects follows the extensive notes of therapist Zach TaylorÂ’s investigation into the life and madness of Martin Grace, an accused serial killer who claims to have foreseen, but not caused, his victimsÂ’ deaths. ZachÂ’s investigations start with interviews and art sessions, but then take him far from the hospital grounds – and often very far from the reality that we know. The items among GraceÂ’s personal effects are the keys to understanding his haunted past, and finding the terrifying truth Grace hoped to keep buried: Call the phone numbers: youÂ’ll get a characterÂ’s voicemail. . Google the characters and institutions in the text: youÂ’ll find real websites. Examine the art and other printed artifacts included inside the cover: if you pay attention, youÂ’ll find more information than the characters themselves discover Personal Effects, the ultimate in voyeuristic storytelling, represents a revolutionary step forward in changing the way people interact with novels. |
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Reconnecting God’s Story to Ministry: Cross-Cultural Storytelling at Home and Abroad $12.99 “Oftentimes, we think stories are for children. But using the Bible as evidence, we see that God communicated His truth to men and women of all cultures, time, and places by way of many small stories forming one large story. While possessing a rich heritage of storytelling, too many evangelicals have forfeited this vital skill. Tom Steffen’s aim is to help readers recapture the most natural, universal, and effective means of evangelismdiscipleship that existsstorytelling. This book is not just theoryit provides practical help by identifying the roles and tasks that are necessary to become an effective storyteller in another culture. Steffen offers creative tools and introduces practical ways to increase many of the storytelling skills for evangelismdiscipleship. He moves us beyond linear gospel outlines, Western logic and organization, and individual responses to traditional evangelism rituals, to a mode of communication that respects the audience, making it easy for them to grasp what they have heard and to pass it on to others with minimal loss of content. By reconnecting storytelling to ministry, readers will be more comfortable in sharing the gospel, both at home and abroad.” |
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Arts Education Ideas OTLMDRUM Drumming and Storytelling with Mary Knysh $65 IDEAS is a multifaceted organization dedicated to educational excellence in and through the arts. Specializing in integrated and artsinfused literacy curriculum we provide educational tools and toys. Our mission is to enhance the lives of children and their grownups in deep and meaningful ways. We publish high quality texts and media products related to integrated curriculum artsinfused curriculum early literacy and music/arts education. Our authors include Dr. Susan Snyder and master teachers from across the United States. Publications bridge the gap between theory and practice and are designed to have immediate use in homes and classrooms. This interactive DVD shows you how to: introduce drumming basics in a variety of ways that include found sound instruments body percussion vocal sounds and more. Teach drumming and storytelling in ways that encourage creativity and flexibility between students and teachers. Develop basic rhythmic concepts and skills that intuitively guide students toward their own improvisational compositions. Integrate music movement visual arts and drama to enhance storytelling and comprehension. Participate in the excitement of the creative process in action |
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101 Healing Stories For Kids And Teens $57.5 A comprehensive guide to understanding and using storytelling in therapy with kids and teens George Burns is a highly experienced clinician with the remarkable ability to create, discover, and tell engaging stories that can teach us all the most important lessons in life. With 101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens, he strives especially to help kids and teens learn these life lessons early on, providing them opportunities for getting help and even learning to think preventively. Michael D. Yapko, PhD ] Author of Breaking the Patterns of Depression and Hand-Me-Down Blues George Burns takes the reader on a wonderful journey, balancing metaphor, good therapeutic technique, and empirical foundations during the trip. Given that Burns utilizes all three aspects of the Confucian story referred to in the book teaching, showing, and involving readers should increase their understanding of how stories can be used therapeutically. Richard G. Whiteside, MSW ] Author of The Art of Using and Losing Control and Working with Difficult Clients: A Practical Guide to Better Therapy A treasure trove for parents and for professionals in the child-development fields. Jeffrey K. Zeig, PhD ] Director, The Milton H. Erickson Foundation Stories can play an important and potent role in therapy with children and adolescents helping them develop the skills to cope with and survive a myriad of life situations. In many cases, stories provide the most effective means of communicating what kids and teens might not want to discuss directly. 101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens provides straightforward adviceon using storytelling and metaphors in a variety of therapeutic settings. Ideal for all who work with young people, this unique resource can be combined with other inventive and evidence-based techniques such as play, art, music, and drama therapies as well as solution focused, hypnot |
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101 More Favorite Play Therapy Techniques $54.87 New – Separated into seven categories for easy reference, the techniques within each chapter are applied to practice situations in a concise format for easy reference and use. The interventions illustrated include Storytelling, to enhance verbalizations in children; Expressive Art, to promote children’s coping ability by using various art mediums; Game Play, to help children express themselves in a playful environment; Puppet Play, to facilitate the expression of conflicting emotions; Play Toys |
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101 More Favorite Play Therapy Techniques $54.87 Used – Separated into seven categories for easy reference, the techniques within each chapter are applied to practice situations in a concise format for easy reference and use. The interventions illustrated include Storytelling, to enhance verbalizations in children; Expressive Art, to promote children’s coping ability by using various art mediums; Game Play, to help children express themselves in a playful environment; Puppet Play, to facilitate the expression of conflicting emotions; Play Toys |
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150 Projects to Strengthen Your Photography Skills: Essential Techniques, Exercises, and Projects for Aspiring Photographers $12.47 Used – Titles in Barronas ” Aspire Series ” offer students of the arts self-teaching tutorials in the form of progressively more challenging projects for them to complete. Carefully structured lessons encourage students to develop their own styles and aspire toward professional careers. In this book, author John Easterby describes photography as the art of storytelling through visual images. Focusing primarily on digital photography, he discusses cameras of different types and sizes and the uses |
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150 Projects to Strengthen Your Photography Skills: Essential Techniques, Exercises, and Projects for Aspiring Photographers $8.99 New – Titles in Barronas ” Aspire Series ” offer students of the arts self-teaching tutorials in the form of progressively more challenging projects for them to complete. Carefully structured lessons encourage students to develop their own styles and aspire toward professional careers. In this book, author John Easterby describes photography as the art of storytelling through visual images. Focusing primarily on digital photography, he discusses cameras of different types and sizes and the uses |
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20 More Prayer Lessons for Children $5 New – From the authors of “20 Prayer Lessons for Children”, here are 20 more fun and faith-filled ways to teach children to pray. Each simple and direct lesson centers around an activity designed to bring out a particular prayer theme. Activities include drama, dance, games, music, storytelling, and art. |
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20 More Prayer Lessons for Children $2.5 Used – From the authors of “20 Prayer Lessons for Children”, here are 20 more fun and faith-filled ways to teach children to pray. Each simple and direct lesson centers around an activity designed to bring out a particular prayer theme. Activities include drama, dance, games, music, storytelling, and art. |
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20 More Prayer Lessons for Children $5 Used – From the authors of “20 Prayer Lessons for Children”, here are 20 more fun and faith-filled ways to teach children to pray. Each simple and direct lesson centers around an activity designed to bring out a particular prayer theme. Activities include drama, dance, games, music, storytelling, and art. |
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20 More Prayer Lessons for Children $5 Used – From the authors of “20 Prayer Lessons for Children”, here are 20 more fun and faith-filled ways to teach children to pray. Each simple and direct lesson centers around an activity designed to bring out a particular prayer theme. Activities include drama, dance, games, music, storytelling, and art. |
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20 More Prayer Lessons for Children $5 New – From the authors of “20 Prayer Lessons for Children”, here are 20 more fun and faith-filled ways to teach children to pray. Each simple and direct lesson centers around an activity designed to bring out a particular prayer theme. Activities include drama, dance, games, music, storytelling, and art. |
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20 More Prayer Lessons for Children $5 Used – From the authors of “20 Prayer Lessons for Children”, here are 20 more fun and faith-filled ways to teach children to pray. Each simple and direct lesson centers around an activity designed to bring out a particular prayer theme. Activities include drama, dance, games, music, storytelling, and art. |
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20 More Prayer Lessons for Children $5 Used – From the authors of “20 Prayer Lessons for Children”, here are 20 more fun and faith-filled ways to teach children to pray. Each simple and direct lesson centers around an activity designed to bring out a particular prayer theme. Activities include drama, dance, games, music, storytelling, and art. |
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50 Early Childhood Literacy Strategies $23.2 50 Early Childhood Literacy Strategies is the answer to the early childhood teacher's dilemma of how to teach reading to children 3, 4, and 5 years of age as mandated by the state and national governments. This book presents an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand approach involving young children's own emergence into the world of speaking and listening, reading and writing. Teachers will quickly learn what picture books and activities to use with children, how to use them, and how children can benefit from their use. They will learn what to expect as young children's writing emerges from scribbles to pictures and real words. Finally, they will come to terms with the concept of emergent literacy as it appears in preschool children and evolves into conventional literacy as it is taught in elementary school.A brief introduction to each strategy–Discussing the literacy concept associated with the strategy and what the particular strategy teaches. Sets the stage for students understanding of when, how, and with whom to use each strategy – supplies the background needed to create additional strategies to reinforce each lesson. Use of materials, content, and activities found in most early childhood classrooms–Blocks, chalk, crayons, computers, cooking, dolls, dramatics, finger paints, puppets, scissors, storytelling, etc. Makes the books' strategies immediately useful for prospective teachers' first classrooms – allows these fifty ideas to serve as templates for hundreds of additional strategies.Photos, children's art, and pupils' actual writing samples–Accompanying each strategy. Offer a genuine picture of each strategy's desired outcome – illustrate real children's authentic literacy efforts and show actual children actively engaged in each strategy. |
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A Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling $2.38 Used – This text provides a history of how Yiddish storytelling became the politics of rescue for successive generations of displaced Jewish artists, embodying their fervent hopes and greatest fears in the languages of tradition. Its protagonists are modern writers who returned to storytelling in the hope of harnessing the folk tradition and who created copies that are better than the original. When the cultural revolution failed – as it did for Rabbi Nahman of Bratslaw in the summer of 1806, I. |
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A Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling $118.8 New – “A Bridge of Longing” is a compelling history of how Yiddish storytelling became the politics of rescue for successive generations of displaced Jewish artists, embodying their fervent hopes and greatest fears in the languages of tradition. Its protagonists are modern writers who returned to storytelling in the hope of harnessing the folk tradition, and who created copies that are better than the original. When the cultural revolution failed–as it did for Rabbi Nahman of Bratslaw in the s |
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A Double Scotch: How Chivas Regal and The Glenlivet Became Global Icons $31.95 Praise for A DOUBLE SCOTCH “A Double Scotch tells the tale of how two men from farming stock, George Smith and James Chivas, found themselves as central figures in the birth of the modern whisky industry and who by hard work, hard-nosed determination—and some luck—created what were to become known as ‘brands.’ The pace is fast, the tone light but punchy, witty, and informed. Pacult has also uncovered facts that have been ignored by other whisky scholars and along the way, punctures some of the myths which have sprung up around the drink. Pour yourself a dram and dive in.”—Dave Broom, Whisky journalist, United Kingdom “Clear, concise, informative, and full of wonderful personalities, A Double Scotch is a fascinating look at the distiller’s art and the business that supports it. F. Paul Pacult’s research is meticulous and his storytelling fluent. I enjoyed it mightily. What more could one want?”—David Wondrich Esquire “F. Paul Pacult has literally poured himself into his work (and, to be sure, his work into him). . . . A Double Scotch is as vital and aromatic as a wee dram sitting by the reader’s side. Make it a double!”—Duncan Christy Editorial Director, Sky magazine “Scotch whisky, Scotland’s gift to the world, developed, grew, and succeeded through the skill and tenacity of colorful and resourceful individuals. In A Double Scotch, these characters and the tribulations they had to overcome are brought to life, making the book a joy for all who wish to understand what has made Scotch whisky the global success it is today.”—Campbell Evans Scotch Whisky Association Edinburgh, Scotland |
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A Great Day $4.33 New – Two 8×8 storybooks feature classic images of Spider-Man as he battles evil villains for control of the world. Terrific art and storytelling will have boys reading both books over and over! |
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A Poetics for Screenwriters $21.68 Writing successful screenplays that capture the public imagination and richly reward the screenwriter requires more than simply following the formulas prescribed by the dozens of screenwriting manuals currently in print. Learning the how-tos is important, but understanding the dramatic elements that make up a good screenplay is equally crucial for writing a memorable movie. In A Poetics for Screenwriters, veteran writer and teacher Lance Lee offers aspiring and professional screenwriters a thorough overview of all the dramatic elements of screenplays, unbiased toward any particular screenwriting method.Lee explores each aspect of screenwriting in detail. He covers primary plot elements, dramatic reality, storytelling stance and plot types, character, mind in drama, spectacle and other elements, and developing and filming the story. Relevant examples from dozens of American and foreign films, including Rear Window, Blue, Witness, The Usual Suspects, Virgin Spring, Fanny and Alexander, The Godfather, and On the Waterfront, as well as from dramas ranging from the Greek tragedies to the plays of Shakespeare and Ibsen, illustrate all of his points. This new overview of the dramatic art provides a highly useful update for all students and professionals who have tried to adapt the principles of Aristotle’s Poetics to the needs of modern screenwriting. By explaining why good screenplays work, this book is the indispensable companion for all the how-to guides. |
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A Sketchy Past: The Art of Peter de Seve $60.47 New – In this exquisite monograph, world-renowned illustrator and character designer Peter de Sve shows his favorite published and unpublished works. Inventive, eccentric, and often irreverent, they represent a lifetime of drawing . . . a very sketchy past. The imagery that springs from his pen marries colorful personalities with expert storytelling, and wild flights of imagination with a masterly drawing technique that harkens back to a bygone era of impeccable draftsmanship and craft. Copiousl |
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A Song to the Creator: Traditional Arts of Native American Women of the Plateau $3.22 Used – Among Native American Plateau people, women are important culture bearers. Women are responsible for passing spiritual values from one generation to the next by many means, including manual art forms, stories, and songs. In this book, edited by Lillian A. Ackerman, chapters are devoted to the traditional Plateau arts of storytelling, basket weaving, hide working, embroidery, and music.The Plateau culture area lies between the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Cascade Mountains on the we |
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A Song to the Creator: Traditional Arts of Native American Women of the Plateau $139.13 New – Among Native American Plateau people, women are important culture bearers. Women are responsible for passing spiritual values from one generation to the next by many means, including manual art forms, stories, and songs. In this book, edited by Lillian A. Ackerman, chapters are devoted to the traditional Plateau arts of storytelling, basket weaving, hide working, embroidery, and music.The Plateau culture area lies between the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Cascade Mountains on the wes |
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A Song to the Creator: Traditional Arts of Native American Women of the Plateau $2.5 Used – Among Native American Plateau people, women are important culture bearers. Women are responsible for passing spiritual values from one generation to the next by many means, including manual art forms, stories, and songs. In this book, edited by Lillian A. Ackerman, chapters are devoted to the traditional Plateau arts of storytelling, basket weaving, hide working, embroidery, and music.The Plateau culture area lies between the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Cascade Mountains on the we |
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A Sudden Change of Heart $3.94 Used – In the blockbuster storytelling tradition that is Barbara Taylor Bradford’s hallmark, here is an extraordinary novel about a remarkable young woman who finds a new life when her old one shatters. Laura Valiant is a successful art historian, running her own company. She and her husband, Doug, a Wall Street lawyer, share an idyllic marriage. But Laura’s trust in her husband is shaken when she discovers he has a secret life apart from her — a life which will rock their love. Clare Benson |
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Academic Literacy for English Learners $19.95 When children look at works of art they tell stories, share experiences, imagine, and explore. This book provides teachers with the skills, and freedom, to design rich and open-ended art experiences for young children. The author looks at the work of a variety of artists and offers guidance for using these artworks as taking-off points for conversations and creativity with a range of materials. She demonstrates that using fine art reproductions in the early childhood curriculum allows children to construct their own meanings, teaches diversity, fosters thinking skills, and encourages storytelling. The text includes lesson plans, examples of activities, and photographs of children working and interacting with each other and with works of art. |
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Advanced Witchcraft $19.95 Living as a Witch is knowing that you are the magick. Advanced Witchcraft doesn”t contain any Wicca 101 information–it assumes that you”re already familiar with the nuts and bolts of the Craft. Instead, this book challenges you to think critically about your beliefs and practices, what they mean to you, how they”ve changed, and where you”re going. Along the way you”ll also learn many techniques for intermediate and advanced Witches including: -meeting your shadow -advanced warding and psychic self-defense -power animals, familiars, and shapeshifters -working the labyrinth and the maze -advanced tree spirituality -advanced augury and divination -magick and ritual using the fine arts of storytelling, dance, music, art, and drama -the art of Wishcraft -the healing arts -spirits and lost souls -banishing and closing portals -surviving the dark night of the soul |
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Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research. Volume 3, Perspectives on Cross-Cultural, Ethnographic, Brand Image, Storytelling, Unconscious Needs, and Hospitality Guest Research $120.33 Used – Volume 3 examines how research tools affect theory advances in culture and tourism research. Using visual narrative art to explicate unconscious thinking that shapes trip plans and visits, building tree diagrams of streams of antecedent conditions associating with extreme behavior (e.g., road rage, chronic casino gambling), and research methods that go beyond quantitative/qualitative taxonomies are examples of the unique themes covered in this volume. The papers focus on how to gain meani |
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Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research. Volume 3, Perspectives on Cross-Cultural, Ethnographic, Brand Image, Storytelling, Unconscious Needs, and Hospitality Guest Research $120.33 New – Volume 3 examines how research tools affect theory advances in culture and tourism research. Using visual narrative art to explicate unconscious thinking that shapes trip plans and visits, building tree diagrams of streams of antecedent conditions associating with extreme behavior (e.g., road rage, chronic casino gambling), and research methods that go beyond quantitative/qualitative taxonomies are examples of the unique themes covered in this volume. The papers focus on how to gain meanin |
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African Dance $32.95 Used – The ancient tradition of African dance has influenced dance styles all over the world. It is used to commemorate many annual ceremonies and activities, such as rites of passage and the harvest, and it is also an important form of recreation, religious expression, and storytelling. In African Dance, Second Edition, the varied cultures of Africa and their respective dances are explored, along with the effects that colonialism had on the art form. |
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African Dance $35 The ancient tradition of African dance has influenced dance styles all over the world. It is used to commemorate many annual ceremonies and activities, such as rites of passage and the harvest, and it is also an important form of recreation, religious expression, and storytelling. In African Dance, Second Edition, the varied cultures of Africa and their respective dances are explored, along with the effects that colonialism had on the art form. |
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Against Pain $9.72 Used – Short stories from the radiant “cute-brut” world of a truly remarkable artist “Against Pain “is the first collection of multipage anthology pieces by Ron Rege, Jr. The storytelling side of his expressive work is featured in these comic strips gathered from “McSweeney’s,” “The New York Times,” “Kramers Ergot,” “NON,” “Rosetta,” “Arthur,” “The Comics Journal,” and Drawn & Quarterly’s anthology. Suicide bombers, art appreciation, a Lynda Barry “cover,” and even a Tylenol-sponsored comic abou |
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Against Pain $10.98 New – Short stories from the radiant “cute-brut” world of a truly remarkable artist “Against Pain “is the first collection of multipage anthology pieces by Ron Rege, Jr. The storytelling side of his expressive work is featured in these comic strips gathered from “McSweeney’s,” “The New York Times,” “Kramers Ergot,” “NON,” “Rosetta,” “Arthur,” “The Comics Journal,” and Drawn & Quarterly’s anthology. Suicide bombers, art appreciation, a Lynda Barry “cover,” and even a Tylenol-sponsored comic about |
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Against Pain $24.95 Short stories from the radiant cute-brut world of a truly remarkable artist Against Pain is the first collection of multipage anthology pieces by Ron Reg, Jr. The storytelling side of his expressive work is featured in these comic strips gathered from McSweeney’’s, The New York Times, Kramers Ergot, NON, Rosetta, Arthur, The Comics Journal, and Drawn & Quarterly’’s anthology. Suicide bombers, art appreciation, a Lynda Barry cover, and even a Tylenol-sponsored comic about pain are brought together under the theme of suffering andhow people cope with it. Against Pain also includes the alt-comics zine classic Boys a twenty-two-page collaborative comic–considered by many to be Reg ‘’s finest work–illustrating the lust life of a friend in explicitly honest and hilarious detail. |
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Agayuliyararput: Kegginaqut, Kangiit-Ilu = Our Way of Making Prayer $26.95 Drawing on the remembrances of elders who were born in the early 1900s and saw the last masked Yup’ik dances before missionary efforts forced their decline, Agayuliyararput is a collection of first-person accounts of the rich culture surrounding Yup’ik masks. Stories by thirty-three elders from all over southwestern Alaska, presented in parallel Yup’ik and English texts, include a wealth of information about the creation and function of masks and the environment in which they flourished. The full-length, unannotated stories are complete with features of oral storytelling such as repetition and digression; the language of the English translation follows the Yup’ik idiom as closely as possible. Reminiscences about the cultural setting of masked dancing are grouped into chapters on the traditional Yup’ik ceremonial cycle, the use of masks, life in the qasgiq (communal men’s house), the suppression and revival of masked dancing, maskmaking, and dance and song. Stories are grouped geographically, representing the Yukon, Kuskokwim, and coastal areas. The subjects of the stories and the masks made to accompany them are the Arctic animals, beings, and natural forces on which humans depended. This book will be treasured by the Yup’ik residents of southwestern Alaska and an international audience of linguists, folklorists, anthropologists, and art historians. |
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Alabama 24/7 $2.49 From the Publisher: Following the success of The New York Times bestseller America 24/7, DK is publishing 50 books that showcase the best photographs from each state – all to be published on the same day. Each individual book includes 95% new photography and is a unique peronal expression of state pride. About the Author: Rick Smolan and David Elliott Cohen are the original creators of the best selling Day in the Life series and have been responsible for the most successful photography books in history including the New York Times #1 best seller A Day in the Life of America. Smolan and Cohen’s ambitious and imaginative projects combine storytelling with state-of-the art-technology and have appeared numerous times on the covers of Time, Newsweek, Fortune and US News & World Report. Smolan and his wife Jennifer Erwitt are Co-Directors Against All Odds Productions, based in Sausalito California. Fortune Magazine honored Against All Odds calling them ‘One of the 25 Coolest Companies in America’. Smolan and Erwitt’s award winning projects include: From Alice to Ocean, Passage to Vietnam, 24 Hours in Cyberspace, One Digital Day and The Planet Project. Cohen is President of Western Arts Management based in Ross California. His award winning books include The Circle of Life, The Now and Then series, One Year Off and A Day in the Life of Africa. |
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Albums Produced By Ty Fyffe, including: Come Home With Me, 2000 B.c. (before Can-i-bus), The B. Coming, The Art Of Storytelling, The Seventh Seal (rakim Album), Back On My B.s., All Money Is Legal, Before I Self Destruct, Back Up Off Me!, Wu-massacre $13.87 Hephaestus Books,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Hephaestus Books |
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American Indians the First Nations: Native North American Life, Myth and Art $1 Used – This handsomely illustrated introduction to North America’s diverse indigenous cultures explores the powerful relationship between Native Americans and the land–a connection that is preserved in a rich tradition of storytelling. Presented here, in words and pictures, is a wealth of native artistry–beautifully decorated objects fashioned out of every conceivable gift of nature. Here, too, are themes that have long fired the imagination: creation stories; dreams and visions; epic hero and |
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Ancient Rome at the Cinema: Story and Spectacle in Hollywood and Rome $78 Filmgoers have long embraced the storied performances, elaborate sets, and epic productions behind film recreations of ancient Rome. Using this fascination with the trappings of realism that fuels our love for historical films, Ancient Rome at the Cinema offers an engaging and lucid portrait of the worlds created in such Roman historical epics as Ben-Hur, Spartacus, Gladiator, and Fellini’s Satyricon. Covering both the commercial and the avant-garde, this volume demonstrates how cinematic versions of Ancient Rome have been able to captivate us, inscribing their versions of the city and its history onto our imagination. Though particular emphasis is placed on the tension between narrative and spectacle in these films, the author uses both film theory and criticism in order to examine the ways in which historical drama creates the past through storytelling and visual effects, culminating in an engaging historical analysis of the art form. |
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Anime and Philosophy $19.95 Anime and Philosophy focuses on some of the most-loved, most-intriguing anime films and series, as well as lesser-known works, to find what lies at their core. Astro Boy, Dragon Ball Z, Ghost in the Shell, and Spirited Away are just a few of the films analyzed in this book. In these stories about monsters, robots, children, and spirits who grapple with the important questions in life we find insight crucial to our times: lessons on morality, justice, and heroism, as well as meditations on identity, the soul, and the meaning — or meaninglessness — of life. Anime has become a worldwide phenomenon, reaching across genres, mediums, and cultures. For those wondering why so many people love anime or for die-hard fans who want to know more, Anime and Philosophy provides a deeper appreciation of the art and storytelling of this distinctive Japanese culture. |
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Anthropomorphism $63.2 New – Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics to non-human creatures and beings, phenomena, material states and objects or abstract concepts. Examples include animals and plants and forces of nature such as winds, rain or the sun depicted as creatures with human motivation able to reason and converse. The term derives from the combination of the Greek nthrpos, “human” and morph, “shape” or “form.” It is strongly associated with art and storytelling where it has ancient roots |
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Anthropomorphism $63.2 Used – Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics to non-human creatures and beings, phenomena, material states and objects or abstract concepts. Examples include animals and plants and forces of nature such as winds, rain or the sun depicted as creatures with human motivation able to reason and converse. The term derives from the combination of the Greek nthrpos, “human” and morph, “shape” or “form.” It is strongly associated with art and storytelling where it has ancient root |
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Arab Folktales from Palestine and Israel $25.45 In Arab Folktales from Palestine and lsrael, a collection of twenty-eight tales gathered in Palestine and Israel and one of Patai’s last books, Patai explores this rich cultural tradition. He studies tales from three separate times: those recorded by a German scholar in 1910-11, those read over Jerusalem Radio in the winter of 1946-47, and those recorded by the Israeli scholar Yoel Perez in 1982-84.Providing insight into Arab culture, Patai offers extensive notes and commentary on particular Arabic phrases and images, as well as the ways of speaking and thinking found among the Arab population, especially the Bedouins, in Palestine and lsrael. Patai also places the stories in the context of global folktales, and traces the transformations in the art of storytelling. |
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Art Heals $22.95 The field of art therapy is discovering that artistic expression can be a powerful means of personal transformation and emotional and spiritual healing. In this book, Shaun McNiff, a leader in expressive arts therapy for more than three decades, reflects on a wide spectrum of activities aimed at reviving art’s traditional healing function. In chapters ranging from Cultivating Imagination and The Practice of Creativity in the Workplace to Rock and Roll, Ecstatic Transformation, and Shamanism, he illuminates some of the most progressive views in the rapidly expanding field of art therapy.- The practice of imagination as a powerful force for transformation- A challenge to literal-minded psychological interpretations of artworks ( black colors indicate depression ) and the principle that even disturbing images have inherent healing properties- The role of the therapist in promoting an environment conductcive to free expression and therapeutic energies- The healing effects of group work, with people creating alongside one another and interacting in the studio- Total expression, combining arts such as movement, storytelling, and drumming with painting and drawing |
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Art Of Storytelling (Explicit Version) $13.98 Art Of Storytelling (Explicit Version) |
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Art Of Storytelling(Explicit Version) $9.33 Art Of Storytelling(Explicit Version) |
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Art as Medicine $3.99 Used – McNiff introduces his pioneering methods of using the creative arts to renew and heal the imagination, such as interpretation through performance and storytelling, collaborative creation, and dialoguing with paintings, as opposed to talking about paintings. 30 halftones. |
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Art of Hellboy $19.28 New – This stunning two-hundred-page hardcover looks at the evolution of Mike Mignola’s art over ten years on his award-winning, soon-to-be-a-major-motion-picture, creator-owned comics series. Featuring previously unpublished art, unused and unfinished covers, and drawing upon ten years of sketchbooks, The Art of Hellboy provides the ultimate inside look at Mignola’s design, storytelling, and color work. Page after page of never-before-seen art reveals the labor involved in creating one of comic |
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Art of Robotech $19.95 A must-have for Robotech fans-a full-color tie-in to the new film! Premiering in 1985, Robotech is fondly remembered for its transforming fighter jets, distinctive red logo, and pop-idol heroine. Now twenty-, thirty-, and forty-something fans await the further adventures and ever-expanding lines of merchandise in Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles. The year is 2044. The people of Earth are finally free from their alien occupiers and prepare to search for Admiral Hunter’s missing fleet. But a deadly new adversary threatens to test the limits of the Expeditionary Force’s use of Shadow Technology. . . Included here is everything fans are looking for-series history, plot, character, and mecha guides, plus page after page of detailed film art and drawings-assembled by the film’s director and other production insiders. The film is due for theatrical release in 2006 by FUNimation, with a major DVD release to follow. Robotech is the flagship work of Harmony Gold USA, one of the industry’s top studios, and the film marks the return of the much-discussed series of the 1980s that helped create the anime market outside Japan. Known for his manga/anime style of storytelling, Shadow Chronicles director Tommy Yune broke into the mainstream comic industry in 1999 as writer and artist of the critically acclaimed Speed Racer: Born to Race, followed by Racer X and Danger Girl: Kamikaze. Yune is based in Los Angeles. Carl Macek is an anime veteran and was executive producer of the original Robotech series. |
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Art of Storytelling: Easy Steps to Presenting an Unforgettable Story $16.99 Walsh,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Moody Publishers |
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Art of Storytelling: Easy Steps to Presenting an Unforgettable Story $12.74 John Walsh,NOOKbook (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Moody Publishers |
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Artists on Comic Art $10.67 In-depth interviews with comics art legends reveal the secrets of translating comics script to graphic storytelling for the first time. Technique, style, layouts, approach, pencilling, inking… no facet of the artist’s craft is left unexplored, and this is just the beginning. Salisbury gets to grips with the lively creative genius behind the pencil and ink, presenting an unparalleled insight into the widescreen mind of the comic book artist. Revealing, instructional, shocking and humorous, Artists on Comics Art has something for comics fans, budding artists and hardened professionals alike. Features interviews with: Brian Bolland, J Scott Campbell, Steve Dillon, Dave Gibbons, Bryan Hitch, Jim Lee, Dave McKean, Frank Miller, Joe Quesada, John Romita Jr and Alex Ross. |
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As If the World Really Mattered: Poems $12.95 Art Goodtimes is legendary along the Southern Rockies as poet, performer, ritualist, Rainbow Tribe, and Green Party activist. In her introduction, deep ecologist Dolores LaChapelle describes him as part of the bardic tradition which shows us how nature and human consciousness are but different aspects of one consciousness. Bards put mind and body together within the whole of nature. In As if the World Really Mattered, we find poems that joyfully expound on the natural world and our relationship to it. Lyrical but root essential, Goodtimes speaks as one of the ancient storytellers–wise and sly. These poems could have been sung underground in the caves of Lascaux or atop a rock in a sacred grove. Political at heart, Goodtimes opposes the alienation of industrial culture from our interdependent life on earth. Much of his work has only been published in chapbooks, broadsides, bundles, and various ephemera. This is his first major collection. Poet Tree, as my friend Kush would say, with all its rich history/herstory, springs from storytelling. It is an art that allows us humans to speak, not just for ourselves but for the world around us in all its illusive facets–poor matchstick, poppycock, immortal diamond. For me, poetry’s simplicit is its charm. No techno gimmicks, celluloid tricks. No dazzling mechanical arrays. Just voice–expressed as language, that tantalizingly accessible chameleon whose shape runs the gamut from the mundane to the divine, from the idiotic to the elegant. –from the author’s Preface |
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Batman Black & White $9.99 Used – An artistic masterpiece of storytelling and imagery, BATMAN: BLACK & WHITE VOL. 2 gathers an assortment of award-winning creators to craft dark and engaging tales of Gotham’s sworn protector. The second in an anthology series, this noir-flavored volume craftily utilizes the stark contrast of pure black and white illustrations to capture the depth and intensity of the Darkknight Detective. Featuring 21 short stories and a beautiful gallery of sketches and fine art, this visually powerful b |
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Batman Illustrated – Volume 1 $24 Used – During the late 1960s, after years of the Caped Crusader being portrayed as a lighthearted character, legendary artist Neal Adams created a graphic and atmospheric design that updated Batman’s image and revitalized the hero. Reprinting the critically acclaimed illustrator’s earliest work, this first book in a series of three showcases the revolutionary art and influential storytelling style that returned Batman to his darker roots and heavily influenced his modern look. Presenting eight c |
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Batman Illustrated – Volume 1 $47.09 New – During the late 1960s, after years of the Caped Crusader being portrayed as a lighthearted character, legendary artist Neal Adams created a graphic and atmospheric design that updated Batman’s image and revitalized the hero. Reprinting the critically acclaimed illustrator’s earliest work, this first book in a series of three showcases the revolutionary art and influential storytelling style that returned Batman to his darker roots and heavily influenced his modern look. Presenting eight cl |
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Beatrice and Virgil $4.52 From the award-winning, bestselling author of Life of Pi comes another ingenious, provocative, and mesmerizing new novel that explores big questions about humanity-about who we are and what we are capable of doing in order to survive. Fate can take many forms. For Henry, it arrives in an envelope from a stranger containing a story by Flaubert, a play featuring two characters named Beatrice and Virgil, and a note signed Henry, with an address in the same city. From the moment Henry finds the address and steps into a taxdermist’s shop, a place unlike anywhere he has ever been, his life is changed. In this extaordinary feat of storytelling, Yann Martel poses enduring questions about life and art, truth and deception, responsibility and complicity. Just as with Life of Pi, Martel’s wit, pathos, and probing humanity, are sure to hold readers in thrall. |
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Beatrice’s Spell: The Enduring Legend of Beatrice Cenci $16.29 BEATRICE CENCI WAS EXECUTED UNDER PAPAL DECREE IN Rome in September of 1599. She was said to be sixteen, and hauntingly beautiful. Her crime was the murder of her father, a member of one of the great Roman families, but his cruel treatment of Beatrice, including incestuous rape, moved the people of the city to take her side. Weeping crowds lined the streets, and a special mass is still held in Rome on the anniversary of her death. Beatrice’s patricide, occurring at a time when Papal Law was a farce played out in the service of the rich and the powerful, became an object of fascination for writers and artists who saw in the young woman an incarnation of their own intimate torments. Through Belinda Jack’s exquisite understanding of literature, history, and psychology, we discover how Shelley, Hawthorne, Melville, Artaud, and others fall under Beatrice’s spell in their writings and their lives, often at the price of damaging their reputation and even their sanity. Storytelling and literary criticism come together in this beautifully researched work, revealing the fragility and passions of those great masters of literature and art who tried to discover in Beatrice’s motives the meaning of their own lives. |
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Best-Loved Stories Told at the National Storytelling Festival $170.04 New – The National Storytelling Festival, a celebration of America’s rich and varied storytelling tradition–held each year in Jonesborough, Tennessee–has become the spearhead for a national revival of this venerable art form. Jack tales, tall tales, scary stories, folktales–all these and more are offered in this exciting collection of over 40 stories. |
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Beyond the Epic $39.95 Two-time Academy Award winner Sir David Lean (1908?1991) was a prominent director in the world of twentieth-century cinema, responsible for such classics as The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago, and Lawrence of Arabia. British-born Lean asserted himself in Hollywood as a major artistic voice with his epic storytelling and panoramic depictions of history, but he was also a highly skilled film editor in Great Britain before he became a director who brought an art-house sensibility to big market films. Lean’s approach to filmmaking was far different from that of his contemporaries. He carefully chose his projects and, as a result, directed only sixteen films in a span of more than forty years. Those films, however, are some of the landmarks of motion-picture history. In addition to his epics, Lean also made adaptations of well-known novels, including Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, and A Passage to India, and plays, including Brief Encounter. Using elements of both biography and film criticism, author Gene D. Phillips examines the screenplays and production histories central to Lean’s body of work and interviews actors and other directors who worked with Lean. Phillips also explores Lean’s lesser-studied films, such as The Passionate Friends, unearthing new details. This in-depth examination of Lean in a cultural, historic, and cinematic context makes Beyond the Epic truly unique?a vital assessment of a great director’s artistic process and his place in an evolving film industry. |
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Beyond the Epic: The Life and Films of David Lean $29.46 New – Two-time Academy Award winner Sir David Lean (1908-1991) was a prominent director in the world of twentieth-century cinema, responsible for such classics as The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago, and Lawrence of Arabia. British-born Lean asserted himself in Hollywood as a major artistic voice with his epic storytelling and panoramic depictions of history, but he was also a highly skilled film editor in Great Britain before he became a director who brought an art-house sensibility to |
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Beyond the Rim: A collection of strange and twisted Tales $19.95 Fantasy Master Art Wiederhold combines his storytelling talents with those of Charles Sutphen and Norman Huff in this neat collection of short, bizarre tales. Beyone the Rim takes the reader from the jungles of Vietnam to haunted houses and the wars between multi-galactic corporations of the distant future. This is without doubt one of the best and most eclectic anthologies ever assembled. |
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Bible Journeys Holiday Club: A Five-day Holiday Club Plan for Small Churches $11.5 Used – Provides five two-hour programmes for a holiday club or stand-alone activity days for holiday periods, offering material for a range of practical activities including storytelling, games, art and craft, drama, discussions, music, cookery and Bible teaching, as well as ideas for an act of worship following a holiday club or stand-alone workshop. |
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Bible Journeys Holiday Club: A Five-day Holiday Club Plan for Small Churches $11.5 New – Provides five two-hour programmes for a holiday club or stand-alone activity days for holiday periods, offering material for a range of practical activities including storytelling, games, art and craft, drama, discussions, music, cookery and Bible teaching, as well as ideas for an act of worship following a holiday club or stand-alone workshop. |
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BioShock 2 (Special Edition) $44.99 Step back into the unforgettable world of Rapture in BioShock 2, the next installment in the franchise that has won more than 50 Game of the Year Awards. Developed by 2K Marin, 2K Australia and Digital Extremes, BioShock 2 provides players with the perfect blend of explosive first person shooter combat, compelling storytelling and intense multiplayer. Special Edition includes: 164-page hardcover art book 3 Bioshock 2 Posters Orchestral Bioshock 2 Soundtrack on CD Orchestral Bioshock 2 Soundtrack on a 180g vinyl LP |
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Buddha at Bedtime: Tales of Love and Wisdom for You to Read with Your Child to Enchant, Enlighten and Inspire $18.31 Used – Growing up in the modern world, our children have to cope with an ever-increasing amount of stress, which can have a negative impact on their development. The ancient wisdom of Buddhism, with its emphasis on peace, mindfulness and compassion, is the ideal basis for helping any child to face these challenges with inner confidence and calm. Building on the age-old art of storytelling, this beautiful book re-tells 20 ancient Buddhist tales in a way that is thoroughly fun and accessible to ch |
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Buddha at Bedtime: Tales of Love and Wisdom for You to Read with Your Child to Enchant, Enlighten and Inspire $18.68 Used – Growing up in the modern world, our children have to cope with an ever-increasing amount of stress, which can have a negative impact on their development. The ancient wisdom of Buddhism, with its emphasis on peace, mindfulness and compassion, is the ideal basis for helping any child to face these challenges with inner confidence and calm. Building on the age-old art of storytelling, this beautiful book re-tells 20 ancient Buddhist tales in a way that is thoroughly fun and accessible to ch |
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Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction $7.5 Used – “In nine brilliant essays, Baxter displays his characteristic wit and intelligence as he muses about the influences of culture and politics on the art of storytelling”.–”Ploughshares”. |
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Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction $8.08 New – “In nine brilliant essays, Baxter displays his characteristic wit and intelligence as he muses about the influences of culture and politics on the art of storytelling”.–”Ploughshares”. |
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Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction $19.96 New – “In nine brilliant essays, Baxter displays his characteristic wit and intelligence as he muses about the influences of culture and politics on the art of storytelling”.–”Ploughshares”. |
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Business Stories 101: Restoring th e Art of Storytelling in the Business World $8.99 Joseph Lee,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Lulu.com |
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Call Me Princess $10.46 Used – A heartwarming tale of teen romance, Miss Taniguchi’s intricate art and true-to-life storytelling pull the reader into the story of Mako, a young freshman, as she is torn between her feelings for her first love, Yo, and newly arrived badboy, Ryu. It’s a classic love triangle told from a Japanese perspective. |
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Call Me Princess $19.94 New – A heartwarming tale of teen romance, Miss Taniguchi’s intricate art and true-to-life storytelling pull the reader into the story of Mako, a young freshman, as she is torn between her feelings for her first love, Yo, and newly arrived badboy, Ryu. It’s a classic love triangle told from a Japanese perspective. |
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Call Me Princess $11.55 New – A heartwarming tale of teen romance, Miss Taniguchi’s intricate art and true-to-life storytelling pull the reader into the story of Mako, a young freshman, as she is torn between her feelings for her first love, Yo, and newly arrived badboy, Ryu. It’s a classic love triangle told from a Japanese perspective. |
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Calling: A Song for the Baptized $10.32 New – Through the art of storytelling, this book shows readers ways to live out the ministry and calling of our baptismal promises. This book can be used by individuals who wish to reexamine their own baptismal promises, and the ministry that has emerged–or could emerge–through baptism. Foreword and study guide by John Westerhoff. |
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Calling: A Song for the Baptized $4.24 Used – Through the art of storytelling, this book shows readers ways to live out the ministry and calling of our baptismal promises. This book can be used by individuals who wish to reexamine their own baptismal promises, and the ministry that has emerged–or could emerge–through baptism. Foreword and study guide by John Westerhoff. |
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Catfish at the Pump: Humor and the Frontier $4 Used – Here’s a collection of the kind of humor that softened the hardships of pioneering on the Great Plains. Folklorist and humorist Roger Welsch has proven abundantly that the art of storytelling was practiced diligently by our plains ancestors. |
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Chimes of Freedom: The Politics of Bob Dylan’s Art $21.85 New – As Marqusee’s compelling new book makes clear, behind the anarchy and playfulness of Dylan’s imagery lie meanings that are charged with political and social concerns. Following his acclaimed study of Muhammad Ali, “Redemption Song, ” Marqusee demonstrates an engaging ability to fuse biography and politics, storytelling and original insight. |
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Chimes of Freedom: The Politics of Bob Dylan’s Art $12.49 New – As Marqusee’s compelling new book makes clear, behind the anarchy and playfulness of Dylan’s imagery lie meanings that are charged with political and social concerns. Following his acclaimed study of Muhammad Ali, “Redemption Song, ” Marqusee demonstrates an engaging ability to fuse biography and politics, storytelling and original insight. |
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Chimes of Freedom: The Politics of Bob Dylan’s Art $5.5 Used – As Marqusee’s compelling new book makes clear, behind the anarchy and playfulness of Dylan’s imagery lie meanings that are charged with political and social concerns. Following his acclaimed study of Muhammad Ali, “Redemption Song, ” Marqusee demonstrates an engaging ability to fuse biography and politics, storytelling and original insight. |
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Chinese Storytellers: Life and Art in the Yangzhou Tradition (C & T Asian Literature Series) $56.69 Integrating performances, interviews with contemporary storytellers, striking photographs, and historical background, Chinese Storytellers is a fascinating introduction to the living art of shuoshu–storytelling. This one-of-a-kind book includes a VCD of seven master storytellers performing their art in the Yangzhou dialect of Chinese. Exploring the cultural, historical, and political significance of Chinese storytelling, Chinese Storytellers takes us to Yangzhou, the town where one of the oldest branches in the tradition has flourished for centuries. In both book and VCD, we are led through Yangzhou’s ancient alleyways and teahouses to learn the settings and techniques used by storytellers during performance. We discover what a typical storytelling session is like, how one generation of storytellers teaches the next, and how storytelling has changed over the centuries. Interviews with contemporary masters of the art, accompanied by photographs capturing their performances and their everyday routines, afford a rare glimpse into the personal and professional lives of storytellers today. In both the book and VCD, selections from classics such as “Water Margin,” “Three Kingdoms” and “Journey to the West” are rendered in the unique style of each artist–capturing with color, drama, humor, and humanity these tales that appeal to people of all cultures. |
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Chris Crawford on Interactive Storytelling $39.99 As a game designer or new media storyteller, you know that the story is everything. However, figuring out how to tell it interactively-and in a way that keeps your audience coming back for more-can be challenging. Here to help you out (and to open your mind to ever more creative ways of producing those stories) is the man who created the cult publication The Art of Computer Game Design and who has devoted much of his career to that very topic: Chris Crawford. |
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Chronicles $29.95 From the Publisher: I’d come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else. So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles, Volume I, his remarkable, book exploring critical junctures in his life and career. Through Dylan’s eyes and open mind, we see Greenwich Village, circa 1961, when he first arrives in Manhattan. Dylan’s New York is a magical city of possibilities – smokey, nightlong parties; literary awakenings; transient loves and unbreakable friendships. Elegiac observations are punctuated by jabs of memories, penetrating and tough. With the book’s side trips to New Orleans, Woodstock, Minnesota and points west, Chronicles, Volume I is an intimate and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times. By turns revealing, poetical, passionate and witty, Chronicles: Volume One is a mesmerizing window on Bob Dylan’s thoughts and influences. Dylan’s voice is distinctively American: generous of spirit, engaged, fanciful and rhythmic. Utilizing his unparalleled gifts of storytelling and the exquisite expressiveness that are the hallmarks of his music, Bob Dylan turns Chronicles, Volume I into a poignant reflection on life, and the people and places that helped shape the man and the art. |
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Chronicles $15 From the Publisher: I’d come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else. So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles, Volume I, his remarkable, book exploring critical junctures in his life and career. Through Dylan’s eyes and open mind, we see Greenwich Village, circa 1961, when he first arrives in Manhattan. Dylan’s New York is a magical city of possibilities – smokey, nightlong parties; literary awakenings; transient loves and unbreakable friendships. Elegiac observations are punctuated by jabs of memories, penetrating and tough. With the book’s side trips to New Orleans, Woodstock, Minnesota and points west, Chronicles, Volume I is an intimate and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times. By turns revealing, poetical, passionate and witty, Chronicles: Volume One is a mesmerizing window on Bob Dylan’s thoughts and influences. Dylan’s voice is distinctively American: generous of spirit, engaged, fanciful and rhythmic. Utilizing his unparalleled gifts of storytelling and the exquisite expressiveness that are the hallmarks of his music, Bob Dylan turns Chronicles, Volume I into a poignant reflection on life, and the people and places that helped shape the man and the art. |
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Chronicles: Volume One By Bob Dylan $11.99 <P><I>”I’d come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.”</I><P>Bob Dylan’s <I>Chronicle: Volume One</I> explores the critical junctions in his life and career. Through Dylan’s eyes and open mind, we see Greenwich Village, circa 1961, when he first arrives in Manhattan. Dylan’s New York is a magical city of possibilities — smoky, nightlong parties; literary awakenings; transient loves and unbreakable friendships. Elegiac observations are punctuated by jabs of memories, penetrating and tough. With side trips to New Orleans, Woodstock, Minnesota and points west, <I>Chronicles: Volume One</I> is an intimate and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times.<P>Revealing, poetical, passionate and witty, <I>Chronicles: Volume One</I> is a mesmerizing window on Bob Dylan’s thoughts and influences. Dylan’s voice is distinctively American: generous of spirit, engaged, fanciful and rhythmic. Utilizing his unparalleled gifts of storytelling and the exquisite expressiveness that are the hallmarks of his music, Bob Dylan turns <I>Chronicles: Volume One</I> into a poignant reflection on life, and the people and places that helped shape the man and the art. |
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Cities in the Sea $1.23 Used – In Cities in the Sea, Maura Stanton taps into the mysterious force of the fairy tale, with its fantastic images and magical narrative patterns. Her stories blur the boundaries between fairy tale and verite and comment on the art of storytelling. A range of characters–from a business man to a pianist, from a county coroner to a hardware store clerk, from a Greek immigrant to a Danish artist–come to discover that the past is a ruined kingdom, lost forever, but still a place to visit in wi |
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City of God $0.99 Used – Beginning in mystery–the theft of a large brass cross from St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church and its reappearance on the roof of the Synagogue for Evolutionary Judaism–this mordantly funny masterwork by the author of “Billy Bathgate” and “The Waterworks” emerges as a narrative of the 20th century written for the 21st. “Doctorow is a master of atmosphere . . . he knows the art of storytelling inside and out.”–”Newsweek.” |
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Comic Books: How the Industry Works $26.3 Used – This book is an insider’s guide to how the comic book industry works. You’ll learn how comic book superheroes are created and the deeper meanings they represent. You’ll follow the development of sequential art storytelling – from caveman wall paintings to modern manga and cinematic techniques. Here you will explore comics in all forms: those flimsy pamphlets we call comic books; thick graphic novels; Japanese manga; and blockbuster movies featuring epic battles between good and evil. But |
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Comic Books: How the Industry Works $26.3 New – This book is an insider’s guide to how the comic book industry works. You’ll learn how comic book superheroes are created and the deeper meanings they represent. You’ll follow the development of sequential art storytelling – from caveman wall paintings to modern manga and cinematic techniques. Here you will explore comics in all forms: those flimsy pamphlets we call comic books; thick graphic novels; Japanese manga; and blockbuster movies featuring epic battles between good and evil. But b |
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Comickers Art 3 $24.95 Comickers Art 3: Write Amazing Manga Stories delves deep into the creative process of manga storytelling, with detailed advice on how to take your own ideas and turn them into fluid and original stories. With beautiful full-color art and tons of helpful tips and tricks, this third volume in the Comickers Art series will inspire any manga fan to use their imagination to create entire worlds. With authentic instructions and original advice from the best manga creators–along with stunning illustrations from each featured artist–this book is a must-have tool for any aspiring manga artist. Including work from: Okama Hiroshi Kaieda Housen Eizou Shigeki Maeshima Miou Takaya |
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Comickers Art 3: Write Amazing Manga Stories $5.69 New – “Comickers Art 3: Write Amazing Manga Stories” delves deep into the creative process of manga storytelling, with detailed advice on how to take your own ideas and turn them into fluid and original stories. With beautiful full-color art and tons of helpful tips and tricks, this third volume in the Comickers Art series will inspire any manga fan to use their imagination to create entire worlds. With authentic instructions and original advice from the best manga creators–along with stunning |
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Complete Stories 1892-1898 $35 The 21 stories in Complete Stories 1892-1898 represent James at the peak of his storytelling powers. Among them are The Turn of the Screw , one of his most popular works, a terrifying exercise in psychological horror centering on the corruption of childhood innocence; The Real Thing , a playful consideration of the illusions of art and the paradoxes of authenticity; The Figure in the Carpet , The Death of the Lion , and The Middle Years , three very different expositions of the mysteries of authorship, embodying some of James’s most profound insights into the nature of his own art; The Altar of the Dead , a somber, ultimately wrenching meditation on the relation of the living to the dead; and In the Cage , an extended evocation of the inner life of a young woman trapped in a dehumanizing job at a postal-and-telegraph office. |
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Conjunctions: 42, Cinema Lingua: Writers Respond to Film $15 Now that the art of motion pictures has matured into its second century, Conjunctions has commissioned a diverse group of writers to respond—in poetry, fiction, and multi-genre works—to the countless cultural, historical, psychological, and theatrical aspects of the seductive flickering medium we watch in the dark. Cinema Lingua pays creative homage to the symbiosis between filmmaking and the written word. Our authors explore, rewrite, and celebrate all avenues of film, from its narrative plots to visual storytelling, from character to mood, from lighting to suspense. Each contributor presents defining visions of the movies and focuses the lens of writing on one of our liveliest modern art forms, from mainstream Hollywood to the most exotic corners of the experimental and avant-garde. A movie theater of the mind, Cinema Lingua’s contributors include Joyce Carol Oates, who explores the troubled relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and his leading ladies, Peter Straub writing on film noir, Peter Gizzi, who offers a multi-genre poem on silent film, Frederic Tuten, whose Never Never Land Near Marienbad is based on the Alain Resnais film, as well as works by Peter Hutton, Elizabeth Willis, Robert Coover, William H. Gass, Tan Lin, Kent Jones, Joshua Furst, and many others. |
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Contemporary Maine Fiction: An Anthology of Short Stories $7.42 More than an anthology, Contemporary Maine Fiction is a celebration of the quality and diversity of today’s fiction writing in Maine. Editor Wesley McNair has assembled 14 short stories for the collection, several of which are being published for the first time. Among the contributors to this anthology are Pulitzer Prize winners Richard Russo and Richard Ford and best-selling novelist and National Book Award winner Stephen King. Contemporary Maine Fiction offers both a celebration of Maine’s writers and the art of storytelling itself. |
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Conversations With Leslie Marmon Silko $22 Leslie Marmon Silko, one of America’s best known Native authors, was born in 1948 and grew up at Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico, of mixed Laguna, Mexican, and white ancestry. Her early short stories, poems, and brilliant first novel Ceremony (1977) earned her recognition as a star of the Native American Renaissance. In Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko, her readers will find both the power that fueled her early work and an update on her recent career.A MacArthur genius grant funded the beginnings of her second novel, Almanac of the Dead. This epic retelling of the 500-year history of the Americas took her ten years to complete. She intended her most recent book Gardens in the Dunes, a historical novel of the Victorian era, as a reward for her readers who survived the fury of Almanac of the Dead.Silko grants interviews rarely, but the sixteen included here are generously wide-ranging and deeply honest. They reflect her heritage of storytelling and give vivid accounts of her life experiences, her creative processes, and her forthright political views. As she speaks, she spins out descriptions of the living oral traditions, the communal relationships, and the desert landscape that are the sources of her inspiration.Before she decided to become a writer, Silko was a student in the Indian law program at the University of New Mexico. She has dedicated her life and career to the cause of justice for Native Americans. Her interviews, like her art, give voice to the silenced histories of the colonized peoples of the Americas and draw incisive connections between the abuses of the past and contemporary political corruption.The conversations included here reveal how Silko’s thoughtand writing have been influenced by American and British literature, Eastern philosophies, economics, politics, psychology, and physics. As she integrates these into her powerful works and her expansive interviews, she expresses a hopeful vision of global spiritual awakening. |
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Creepy Archives $28.54 Enter a world of the finest in scary storytelling and dazzling artwork! Creepy Archives Volume 5 continues the critically acclaimed series that throws back the dusty curtain on a treasure trove of amazing comics art and brilliantly blood-chilling stories. From the gorgeously painted full-color covers to the exquisite black-and-white interiors, this groundbreaking archival series resurrects some of the finest graphic storytelling ever printed. From The Rats in the Walls to It That Lurks, these are infamous tales to chill the blood. |
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Creepy Archives Volume 4 $32.87 New – Pulpy, smart, and scary, the stories in “Creepy” constituted some of the best short-form horror fiction ever told in comics. With legendary comics writer/editor Archie Goodwin both editing the magazine and crafting most of its storytelling, “Creepy” was at once a newsstand favorite with fright fans, and a vaunted showcase of fine comics art for serious fans of the art form. For decades, the only sources for these stories were the expensive, collectible, original issues. Now Dark Horse is c |
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Creepy Archives Volume 5 $28.54 New – Enter a world of the finest in scary storytelling and dazzling artwork! “Creepy Archives Volume 5″ continues the critically acclaimed series that throws back the dusty curtain on a treasure trove of amazing comics art and brilliantly blood-chilling stories. From the gorgeously painted full-color covers to the exquisite black-and-white interiors, this groundbreaking archival series resurrects some of the finest graphic storytelling ever printed. From “The Rats in the Walls” to “It That Lurk |
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Creepy Archives Volume 5 $27.16 Used – Enter a world of the finest in scary storytelling and dazzling artwork! “Creepy Archives Volume 5″ continues the critically acclaimed series that throws back the dusty curtain on a treasure trove of amazing comics art and brilliantly blood-chilling stories. From the gorgeously painted full-color covers to the exquisite black-and-white interiors, this groundbreaking archival series resurrects some of the finest graphic storytelling ever printed. From “The Rats in the Walls” to “It That Lur |
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Creepy Archives, Volume 4 $30 Used – Pulpy, smart, and scary, the stories in “Creepy” constituted some of the best short-form horror fiction ever told in comics. With legendary comics writer/editor Archie Goodwin both editing the magazine and crafting most of its storytelling, “Creepy” was at once a newsstand favorite with fright fans, and a vaunted showcase of fine comics art for serious fans of the art form. For decades, the only sources for these stories were the expensive, collectible, original issues. Now Dark Horse is |
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Cronicas, Volumen I $7.81 Used – By turns revealing, poetical, passionate and witty, Chronicles: Volume One is a mesmerizing window on Bob Dylan’s thoughts and influences. Through Dylan’s eyes and open mind, we see Greenwich Village, circa 1961, when he first arrives in Manhattan, a magical city of possibilities. Also, through his distinctively American voice and unparalleled gift for storytelling, we hear a poignant reflection on life, and the people and places that helped shape the man and the art. |
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