Product Description: As blockbusters employ ever greater numbers of dazzling visual effects and digital illusions, this book explores the material roots and stylistic practices of special effects and their makers.    Gathering leading voices in cinema and new media studies, this comprehensive anthology moves beyond questions of spectacleto examine special effects from the earliest years of cinema, via experimental film and the Golden Age of Hollywood, to ourcontemporary transmedia landscape...read more

Product Description: Begin a voyage of discovery with world-famous explorers! Discover everything you need to know about explorers with this brilliant book. One hundred facts, fantastic illustrations, and hilarious cartoons reveal all aspects of exploration, while fun quizzes test your knowledge.

Product Description: The camera supposedly never lies, yet film's ability to frame, cut and reconstruct all that passed before its lens made cinema the pre-eminent medium of visual illusion and revelation from the early twentieth century onwards. This volume examines film's creative history of special effects and trickery, encompassing everything from George Méliès' first trick films to the modern CGI era...read more

Product Description: Many British films never make it to the screen. Obstacles of finance, censorship, distribution or creative breakdown can appear in their way, and they might even fail to get beyond the script stage. This book collects new essays by leading scholars that use archival resources to reconstruct the stories behind a range of films by prominent film-makers...read more

Product Description: This hugely successful series is now available in a new smaller flexi format. The tried and tested formula of 100 sequential facts motivates children to read these books from start to finish. From cover to cover, beautifully detailed artwork will mean that even the most reluctant of readers will be totally absorbed by the fun activities, such as projects and quizzes...read more

Presents an autobiography by a leading player in 1199/SEIU, New York's Health and Human Service Union, and a key strategist in the union's fight for recognition and higher wages for thousands of low-paid hospital workers. (view table of contents)