Broadway Entertainment E-books

By Alvin H. Marill

In October 1964, NBC aired the 1st made-for-television movie, See How They Run, starring John Forsythe, Jane Wyatt, Leslie Nielsen, and George Kennedy. within the greater than 40 years due to the fact, over 5,400 made-for-television movies and miniseries were produced. tv historian Alvin H. Marill has compiled a finished directory of each this type of motion pictures, which were assembled during this publication.

But this can be no mere checklist. The exhaustive entries cite every one film's unique community, airdate, and size of broadcast. besides a short precis, every one access additionally comprises huge construction credit (director, author, manufacturer, composer, director of images, and editor) and an entire forged (and personality) listing.

The first 4 volumes are prepared via decade(s):

Volume 1: 1964-1979
Volume 2: 1980-1989
Volume three: 1990-1999
Volume four: 2000-2004

Entries are prepared alphabetically for speedy entry, and every quantity additionally incorporates a chronology of movies produced in that interval. quantity five, the index, incorporates a checklist of every actor and director, in addition to resource fabric (books and plays).

From tv pilots like Prescription: Murder (1967), the movie that brought Peter Falk's Columbo, to epic miniseries comparable to Angels in America (2003), each movie has been stated, each actor pointed out, and each personality named. This continues to be a different project; there easily is not any different compendium love it. Movies Made for tv, 1964-2004 can be a useful source for students and historians of tv and pop culture, in addition to someone attracted to the medium.

By Anthony Slide

D. W. Griffith (1875-1948) is among the such a lot influential figures within the heritage of the movie. As director of The beginning of a country, he's additionally essentially the most debatable. He raised the cinema to a brand new point of paintings, leisure, and innovation, and even as he illustrated, for the 1st time, its capability to persuade an viewers and propagandize a cause.

Collected jointly listed here are nearly the entire "interviews" given via D. W. Griffith from the 1st in 1914 to the final in 1948. the various interviews be aware of particular movies, together with The start of a kingdom, Intolerance, and, so much considerably, Hearts of the realm, whereas others give you the director with a chance to expound on subject matters of non-public curiosity, together with the significance of right exhibition of his and other's movies, and his look for fact and sweetness on screen.

The interviews are taken from many assets, together with top newspapers, alternate papers, and fan magazines. they can be marked via humor and by means of a wish to please the interviewer and therefore the reader. Griffith won't were fairly keen about giving interviews, yet he turns out continually made up our minds to place on an excellent show.

Ultimately, D. W. Griffith: Interviews offers the reader with a special perception into the brain and filmmaking innovations of a director whose paintings and philosophy is as proper this present day because it was once whilst he used to be on the peak of his status within the 1910s and 1920s.

By Kenneth Chan

Chan appears to be like on the dramatic post-1997 surge in chinese language presence in Hollywood, specially in the course of the works of Ang Lee, John Woo, etc.

By Roberto Dillon

''This ebook makes a speciality of the background of games, consoles, and residential pcs from the very starting until eventually the mid-nineties, which all started a brand new period in electronic leisure. The textual content good points the main cutting edge video games and introduces the pioneers who built them. It deals short analyses of the main suitable video games from whenever interval. An epilogue covers the occasions and platforms that this golden age whereas the appendices contain a heritage of hand held video games and an summary of the retro-gaming scene''--Provided via publisher. Read more...

By Robert Bresson

By Flierl M., Girod B.

Video Coding with Superimposed Motion-Compensated indications: functions to H.264 and past captures contemporary advances in movement repayment for effective video compression. This publication investigates linearly mixed movement compensated indications, and generalizes the well-known superposition for bidirectional prediction in B-pictures. The variety of superimposed signs and the reference photo choice are very important facets of discussion.The program orientated a part of the publication employs the idea that to ITU-T advice H.263, and keeps with the advancements via superimposed motion-compensated signs for the rising criteria ITU-T advice H.264 & ISO/IEC MPEG-4 half 10. additionally, Video Coding with Superimposed Motion-Compensated signs: functions to H.264 and past discusses a brand new technique for wavelet-based video coding. This know-how is at the moment being investigated by way of MPEG, to advance a brand new video compression common for the mid-term future.The theoretical a part of Video Coding with Superimposed Motion-Compensated signs: purposes to H.264 and past presents a deeper figuring out of the underlying rules of superimposed motion-compensated signs. This publication contains greater than 2 hundred references, summarizes appropriate past paintings, and develops a mathematical characterization of superimposed motion-compensated indications. The derived information-theoretic functionality bounds allow a invaluable comparability of the investigated compression schemes.Video Coding with Superimposed Motion-Compensated indications: purposes to H.264 and past is designed for aprofessional viewers composed of researchers and practitioners in undefined. This publication is usually appropriate as a secondary textual content for graduate-level scholars in desktop technological know-how and engineering.

By Paul Varner

While the earliest filmgoers watched The nice educate Robbery in 1903, lots of them shrieked in terror on the final clip while one of many outlaws turns at once towards the digicam and fires a gun, possible, at once on the viewers. The puff of smoke was once surprising and it was once hand coloured in order that it regarded actual. this day, we will be able to glance again at that primitive motion picture and notice all of the parts of what might evolve into the Western style. probably it's the Western's early origins―The nice teach Robbery used to be the 1st narrative, advertisement movie―or its formulaic but exciting constitution that has made the Western so well known. regardless of the case might be, with the new good fortune of flicks like 3:10 to Yuma and The Assassination of Jesse James through the Coward Robert Ford, the Western seems to be in no possibility of disappearing.

The tale of the western is advised within the Historical Dictionary of Westerns in Cinema via a chronology, a bibliography, and an introductory essay. despite the fact that, it's the hundreds of thousands of cross-referenced dictionary entries on cinematographers; composers; manufacturers; movies like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Dances With Wolves, The reliable, The undesirable, and the Ugly, High Noon, The fantastic Seven, The Searchers, Tombstone, and Unforgiven; such actors as Gene Autry, Kirk Douglas, Clint Eastwood, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, and John Wayne; and administrators like John Ford and Sergio Leone that would have you ever attaining for this ebook time and again.

As we glance upward into the expanse of the evening sky, we percentage innovations of awe and admiration with Abraham, David and others within the pages of Scripture. Scientists comprehend extra approximately those mysteries now than ever sooner than. there's a grasp writer, and this universe is the paintings of His palms.