If you can't make it to one of Bruce Block's legendary visual storytelling seminars, then you need his book! Now in full color for the first time, this best-seller offers a clear view of the relationship between the story/script structure and the visual structure of a film, video, animated piece, or video game. You'll learn how to structure your visuals as carefully as a writer...(展开全部)

The Visual Story offers students and professionals in cinematography, production design, directing and screenwriting a clear view of the relationship between the story/script structure and the visual structure of a film or video. An understanding of the visual components will serve as the guide in the selection of locations, set dressing, props, wardrobe, lenses, camera positi...(展开全部)

A tribute to an exceptional teacher and a study of the abstract visual relationships that were her lifelong pursuit. Rowena Reed Kostellow taught industrial design at Pratt Institute for more than 50 years and the designers she trained - and the designers they are training - have changed the face of American design. This volume reconstructs the series of exercises that led Kost...(展开全部)

This new edition of The Story of Film, published to coincide with the fascinating 15-hour film documentary airing in September 2011, updates the most accessible and compelling history of the medium yet published. Film critic, producer and presenter, Mark Cousins shows how film-makers are influenced both by the historical events of their times, and by each other. He demonstrates...(展开全部)

What do we see? We are visually conscious of colors and shapes, but are we also visually conscious of complex properties such as being John Malkovich? In this book, Susanna Siegel develops a framework for understanding the contents of visual experience, and argues that these contents involve all sorts of complex properties. Siegel starts by analyzing the notion of the contents ...(展开全部)

Why are the visual arts so important and what is it that makes their forms significant? Countering recent interpretations of meaning that understand visual artworks on the model of literary texts, Crowther formulates a theory of the visual arts based on what their creation achieves both cognitively and aesthetically. He develops a phenomenology that emphasizes how visual art gi...(展开全部)

斯洛文尼亚卢布尔雅那欧罗巴大学人文学院的哲学教授。他是爱尔兰皇家科学院院士，曾为牛津大学艺术史讲师，并为该校基督圣体学院成员。他在四所欧洲大学获得了正教授职位（其中包括德国不来梅雅格布大学和爱尔兰国立大学高威分校等），共出版了十七部涉及美学、二十世纪艺术与当代艺术领域的专著。克劳瑟教授最新出版的著作有Theory of the Art Object，以及两本有关后现代艺术的著作：Digital Art, Aesthetic Creation: The Birth of a Medium和Geneses of Postmodern Art: Technology as Iconology。

Media are poetic forces. They produce and reveal worlds, representing them to our senses and connecting them to our lives. While the poetic powers of media are perceptual, symbolic, social and technical, they are also profoundly moral and existential. They matter for how we reflect upon and act in a shared, everyday world of finite human existence. The Poetics of Digital Media ...(展开全部)

The identity and role of writing has evolved in the age of digital media. But how did writing itself make digital media possible in the first place? Lydia H. Liu offers here the first rigorous study of the political history of digital writing and its fateful entanglement with the Freudian unconscious. Liu's innovative analysis brings the work of theorists and writers back into ...(展开全部)