Understanding Movies provides valuable insight into how movies communicate and convey meaning to their audiences through a unique network of language systems and techniques. In a readable, accessible, and sometimes humorous manner, Understanding Movies engages students in the fascinating language of film and helps further their appreciation and understanding of why and how movi...(展开全部)

作者简介： 西德尼·吕美特（Sidney Lumet，1924—2011），好莱坞殿堂级导演，逾60年创作生涯横跨舞台剧、电视、电影领域，其中共拍摄电影作品45部，处女作《十二怒汉》便斩获柏林电影节金熊奖，其他代表作有《东方快车谋杀案》《长夜漫漫路迢迢》《热天午后》《电视台风云》等，共获50余项奥斯卡提名。2005 年，获颁奥斯卡终身成就奖。曾七次被美国导演工会（DGA）提名为最佳导演，并获得终身荣誉会员资格，及 DGA 最负盛名的奖项 D.W. 格里菲斯奖。1993年，获得美国国家艺术俱乐部（National Arts Club）颁发的终身成就奖。纽约现代艺术博物馆、美国运动影像博物馆、伦敦英国学院和巴黎的法国博物馆都曾为其举办过电影回顾展。 译者简介： 张文思，电影书籍译者，译有《生活本身：罗杰·伊伯特自传》《电影行话手册》《功夫熊猫艺术设定集》...(展开全部)

作者简介： 西德尼·吕美特（Sidney Lumet，1924—2011），好莱坞殿堂级导演，逾60年创作生涯横跨舞台剧、电视、电影领域，其中共拍摄电影作品45部，处女作《十二怒汉》便斩获柏林电影节金熊奖，其他代表作有《东方快车谋杀案》《长夜漫漫路迢迢》《热天午后》《电视台风云》等，共获50余项奥斯卡提名。2005 年，获颁奥斯卡终身成就奖。曾七次被美国导演工会（DGA）提名为最佳导演，并获得终身荣誉会员资格，及 DGA 最负盛名的奖项 D.W. 格里菲斯奖。1993年，获得美国国家艺术俱乐部（National Arts Club）颁发的终身成就奖。纽约现代艺术博物馆、美国运动影像博物馆、伦敦英国学院和巴黎的法国博物馆都曾为其举办过电影回顾展。 译者简介： 张文思，电影书籍译者，译有《生活本身：罗杰·伊伯特自传》《电影行话手册》《功夫熊猫艺术设定集》...(展开全部)

史蒂文•杰伊•施奈德（Steven Jay Schneider）是一位颇为内行的恐怖片鉴赏专家，其撰文著述、教学授课成果颇丰，涉及电影的方方面面，涵盖了审美学、心理分析，乃至血腥恐怖片的观赏乐趣。为编写《有生之年非看不可的1001部电影》及101系列电影丛书，他从世界各地集结了50余位最优秀的撰稿人、评论家、影评人、教授、影迷和电影人。这个团队由最出色的影评撰稿阵容组成，其成员既有巴黎《世界报》旗下的Jean-Michel Frodon，也有东京《潜流》杂志旗下的藤原敏史，其他成员分别来自《帝国》《视与听》《滚石》《纽约时报》《完全电影》《国际电影指南》《洛杉矶周报》《电影季刊》《华盛顿邮报》，以及CineAction, NME, Time Out, Filmmaker, Moviemaker等媒体。

This comprehensive introduction to the film industry focuses on three topics: how movies express meanings, how viewers understand those meanings, and how cinema functions globally as both an art and a business. Movies and Meaning examines both how filmmakers create images and sounds and the mechanisms and processes by which viewers make sense of images and stories on screen. Th...(展开全部)

Updated in a new 6th edition, Movies and Meaning is a comprehensive introduction to the film industry that focuses on three topics: how movies express meanings, how viewers understand those meanings, and how cinema functions globally as both an art and a business. It examines both how filmmakers create images and sounds and the mechanisms and processes by which viewers make sen...(展开全部)

This best-selling introductory nutrition text is praised for its approachable narrative, engaging presentation, and careful explanations. The new Twelfth Edition of Whitney and Rolfes' UNDERSTANDING NUTRITION takes the study of nutrition to a new level with an emphasis on active learning, assignable content, and integrated resources. From its beautiful and carefully developed a...(展开全部)

With Understanding Music and The Aesthetics of Music (1997) Roger Scruton set a new standard of rigour and seriousness in the philosophy of music. This collection of wide-ranging essays covers all aspects of the theory and practice of music, showing the significance of music as an expression of the moral life. The book is split into two parts, the first is devoted to the aesthe...(展开全部)

From Amazon: Nils J. Nilsson, Kumagai Professor of Engineering (Emeritus) in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University, received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford in 1958. He spent twenty-three years at the Artificial Intelligence Center of SRI International working on statistical and neural-network approaches to pattern recognition, co-inve...(展开全部)