We can't shoot good pictures without good lighting, no matter how good the newest cameras are. Shooting under available light gives exposure, but lacks depth, contrast, contour, atmosphere and often separation. The story could be the greatest in the world, but if the lighting is poor viewers will assume it's amateurish and not take it seriously. Feature films and TV shows, commercials and indus…
In his first fully illustrated work, David Thomson breaks new ground by focusing in on a series of moments—which his readers will also experience in beautifully reproduced imagery—from seventy-two films across a 100-year-plus span. An indispensable counterpart to both his classic Biographical Dictionary of Film (called “a miracle” by Sight and Sound) and his lauded recent history, The B…
Calling on his unique perspective as playwright, screenwriter, and director of his own critically acclaimed movies like House of Games, State and Main, and Things Change, David Mamet illuminates how a film comes to be. He looks at every aspect of directing—from script to cutting room—to show the many tasks directors undertake in reaching their prime objective: presenting a story that will b…
Etnografi adalah seni dan ilmu yang menggambarkan sebuah kelompok atau budaya. Gambaran tersebut bisa jadi tentang sebuah kelompok suku kecil di berbagai daerah eksotis atau sebuah kelas menengah di pinggir kota. Tugasnya pun mirip seperti reporter investigasi, yang mewawancarai orang yang relevan, mengulas catatan, bobot kredibilitas pendapat seseorang terhadap yang lain, mencari hubungan deng…
This book examines recent changes in media education and in young people’s lives, and provides an accessible set of principles on which the media curriculum should be based, with a clear rationale for pedagogic practice. David Buckingham is one of the leading international experts in the field - he has more than twenty years' experience in media education as a teacher and researcher. This…
According to David Mamet, a film director must, above all things, think visually. Most of this instructive and funny book is written in dialogue form and based on film classes Mamet taught at Columbia University. He encourages his students to tell their stories not with words, but through the juxtaposition of uninflected images. The best films, Mamet argues, are composed of simple shots. The gr…
"A sampling of recent theory work from twelve of the more interesting scholars concerned with communication in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia. . . . The book is consistently more sociological than most work in communication studies. . . . I know of no other book that would be more useful in graduate sociology courses to address the relation between communication and social ord…
Diterjemahkan dari Media, culture and politics in Indonesia. Buku ini berisikan tentang pemahaman teks media sebagai rekaman/ catatan; di satu sisi sebagai sebuah budaya nasional dan hegemoni politik yang dikonstruksikan orde baru, dan di sisi lain sebagai aspirasi politik dan budaya yang kontradiktif dan menyimpang. Buku ini berisikan tentang lembaga dan kebijakan yang menentukan tontonan atau…
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