- Comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of the biology of all marine mammals - Provides a phylogenetic framework that integrates phylogeny with behavior and ecology - Features chapter summaries, further readings, an appendix, glossary and an extensive bibliography - Exciting new color photographs and additional distribution maps Marine Mammals: Evolutionary Biology, Third Edition ...(展开全部)

Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-86) was considered by many to be one of Russia's most influential filmmakers, despite an output of only seven feature films in 20 years. He was revered by such luminaries as Bergman and Kurosawa for his use of long takes, languid pacing, and meditations on spirituality and the human soul - as can be seen in his best known films, "Andrei Rublev" (1964-66) ...(展开全部)

"For me, each shot is a living thing, with a breath of its own, that consists of inhaling and exhaling. this is a process that cannot accept my interference. it must have a natural opening and fading." Deeply rooted in the soil and culture of his native Greece, in its history, and in its contemporary political upheavals, Theo Angelopoulos (b. 1935) has chosen to make all his fi...(展开全部)

Over nearly sixty years, Agnès Varda (b. 1928) has given interviews that are revealing not only of her work, but of her remarkably ambiguous status. She has been called the “Mother of the New Wave” but suffered for many years for never having been completely accepted by the cinematic establishment in France. Varda's first film, La Pointe Courte (1954), displayed many of the cha...(展开全部)

"The assembly of pieces of i-- lm to create fright is the essential part of my job, just as a painter would, by putting certain colours together, create evil on canvas." Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) was one of the most interviewed directors in the history of i-- lm. Among the hundreds of interviews he gave, those in this collection catch him at key moments of transition in his ...(展开全部)

Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-86) was considered by many to be one of Russia's most influential filmmakers, despite an output of only seven feature films in 20 years. He was revered by such luminaries as Bergman and Kurosawa for his use of long takes, languid pacing, and meditations on spirituality and the human soul - as can be seen in his best known films, "Andrei Rublev" (1964-66) ...(展开全部)

Here, in his own colorful, slangy words, is the true American Dream saga of a self-proclaimed "film geek," with five intense years working in a video store, who became one of the most popular, recognizable, and imitated of all filmmakers. His dazzling, movie-informed work makes Quentin Tarantino's reputation, from his breakout film, Reservoir Dogs (1992), through Kill Bill: Vol...(展开全部)