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The Art of WALL.E
Pixar Animation Studios, the innovators behind Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and Ratatouille, has again reinvented the genre with WALL E. When a robot searching for a connection finds EVE, a sleek female probe-droid from outer space, he embarks on an adventure-filled journey across the galaxy. Inspired by classic films, and a brave venture in its own right, WALL E is set to awe audiences this summer. The Art of WALL E includes more than 250 imaginative pieces of concept art, including storyboards, full-color pastels, digital and pencil sketches, character studies, color scripts, and more. The astute text—featuring quotes from the director, artists, animators, and production team—unearths the filmmakers' historical inspirations and reveals a studio confidently pushing the limits of animation..
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The Movie Business Book, Third Edition (Movie Business Book)
Drawing from a variety of experts in an industry that has seen major technological advances since the second edition, The Movie Business Book, Third Edition, offers the most comprehensive, authoritative overview of this fascinating, global business. A must-read for industry newcomers, film students and movie buffs, this new edition features key movers and shakers, such as Tom Rothman, chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment; Michael Grillo, head of Feature Film Production at DreamWorks SKG; Sydney Pollack; Mel Brooks; and many others. A definitive sourcebook, it covers nuts-and-bolts details about financing, revenue streams, marketing, DVDs, globalization, the Internet and new technologies. All of this -- and more -- is detailed in this new edition of the classic Movie Business Book..
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WALL-E: The Intergalactic Guide (Wall-E)
When Earth becomes too cluttered with trash, the humans jump into orbit and send down robots to clean up. This clean-up mission fails, except for the efforts of one, last little robot, Wall-E. When a robotic probe is sent to check on the clean-up robots, Wall-E falls deeply in love with the robot sent. Her name is Eve. Readers will love this essential guide to background info and extra glimpses into Wall-E's life on the trash-cluttered Earth. (c) 2008 Disney PIXAR.
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Film Studies: Critical Approaches
The most up-to-date critical guide available, Film Studies: Critical Approaches covers all the significant theories, debates, and approaches to the subject A team of international experts provides a clear and comprehensive overview of all the major theoretical and critical approaches involved in film analysis, including detailed coverage of established critical traditions--such as semiotics, feminism, and psychoanalysis--as well as important new areas of study such as film audiences and reception, queer theory, and identity politics. Chapter summaries and further reading lists help students to assimilate the material. Ideal for courses in film criticism and textual analysis, Film Studies: Critical Approaches guides students through the maze of theory to the heart of the subject..
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Principles of Robot Motion: Theory, Algorithms, and Implementations (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents)
Robot motion planning has become a major focus of robotics Research findings can be applied not only to robotics but to planning routes on circuit boards, directing digital actors in computer graphics, robot-assisted surgery and medicine, and in novel areas such as drug design and protein folding. This text reflects the great advances that have taken place in the last ten years, including sensor-based planning, probabalistic planning, localization and mapping, and motion planning for dynamic and nonholonomic systems. Its presentation makes the mathematical underpinnings of robot motion accessible to students of computer science and engineering, relating low-level implementation details to high-level algorithmic concepts..
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Edgar Cayce on Vibrations: Spirit in Motion
In spite of how the physical world may appear to the naked eye, science has proved that all of materiality consisting of atoms and therefore protons, neutrons, and electrons is in motion. Everything is a vibration. Even the body's five senses operate through the use of vibrations. However, vibrations encompass much, much more. This work explores how everything from consciousness to the material world is connected to vibration. It examines how we continue to create and shape those vibrations and how vibrations impact the world around us. Ultimately, it examines how all vibrations are essentially the one spirit in motion..
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The Oxford Guide to Film Studies
Comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date, The Oxford Guide to Film Studies is an indispensable guide to the study of film. Top international contributors provide an overview of the main disciplinary approaches to film studies, an explanation of the core concepts and methods involved in film analysis, a survey of the major issues and debates in the study of film, and critical discussion of key areas. Uniquely comprehensive, this book is suitable for any course on cinema or film studies..
Price: $40.00
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What I Really Want to Do On Set in Hollywood: A Guide to Real Jobs in the Film Industry
Go Hollywood--with a complete, insightful look at the biggest jobs on the movie set * One-stop shopping for anyone who wants to work in film * The only behind-the-scenes title that offers a detailed look at the industry * Explores more than 35 jobs! "What I really want to do is direct." Or is it? Find out for sure with this comprehensive overview of some of the most critical jobs on the Hollywood movie set, from boom operator to craft services manager. Each one makes a unique and valuable contribution to the production. What path did they take to get their jobs, and do they like them? Author Brian Dzyak untangles the different departments, reveals the jobs within the departments, and explains how they all interact with one another on a shot-by-shot basis. For each crew member, a "day in the life" is explored and explained. Find out what each job title really means, how to get it, how to do it, and how to move to the next level. .
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Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)
This book is designed as a text for graduate courses in stochastic processes. It is written for readers familiar with measure-theoretic probability and discrete-time processes who wish to explore stochastic processes in continuous time. The vehicle chosen for this exposition is Brownian motion, which is presented as the canonical example of both a martingale and a Markov process with continuous paths. In this context, the theory of stochastic integration and stochastic calculus is developed. The power of this calculus is illustrated by results concerning representations of martingales and change of measure on Wiener space, and these in turn permit a presentation of recent advances in financial economics (option pricing and consumption/investment optimization). This book contains a detailed discussion of weak and strong solutions of stochastic differential equations and a study of local time for semimartingales, with special emphasis on the theory of Brownian local time. The text is complemented by a large number of problems and exercises. .
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Videos That Teach 3: 75 More Movie Moments to Get Teenagers Talking (Videos That Teach)
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