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The Writer's Guide to Psychology: How to Write Accurately about Psychological Disorders, Clinical Treatment and Human Behavior eBooks & eLearning

Posted by l3ivo at April 13, 2022

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Tokyo Olympiad (1965) [The Criterion Collection #155] (Repost) Movies

Posted by angus77 at Oct. 11, 2014

A spectacle of magnificent proportions, Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad ranks among the greatest documents of sport ever committed to film. Utilizing glorious widescreen cinematography, Ichikawa examines the beauty and rich drama on display at the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo, creating a catalogue of extraordinary observations that range from the expansive to the intimate. The glory, despair, passion, and suffering of Olympic competition are rendered with lyricism and technical mastery, culminating in an inspiring testament to the beauty of the human body and the strength of the human spirit.

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Personal Views: Explorations in Film (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series) eBooks & eLearning

Posted by Nice_smile) at Sept. 16, 2015

Robin Wood, the renowned scholarly critic and writer on film, has prepared a new introduction and added three essays to his classic text Personal Views.

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Tokyo Olympiad (1965) [The Criterion Collection #155] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at July 29, 2011

A spectacle of magnificent proportions, Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad ranks among the greatest documents of sport ever committed to film. Utilizing glorious widescreen cinematography, Ichikawa examines the beauty and rich drama on display at the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo, creating a catalogue of extraordinary observations that range from the expansive to the intimate. The glory, despair, passion, and suffering of Olympic competition are rendered with lyricism and technical mastery, culminating in an inspiring testament to the beauty of the human body and the strength of the human spirit.

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The John Ford Film Collection (2006) [ReUp] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Oct. 6, 2012

The John Ford Film Collection (2006)
The Informer / Mary of Scotland / The Lost Patrol / Cheyenne Autumn / Sergeant Rutledge
3xDVD9 + 2xDVD5 | ISO | NTSC 4:3 / 16:9 | Total: 554 mins | Total: 25,35 Gb
Audio: English; French (in Sergeant Rutledge only) | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War, Crime, Western | USA

WHV celebrates on of the true masters of American cinema with the release of The John Ford Collection. Four-time Academy Award's-Winning director John Ford is perhaps best known for his Westerns and collaborations with John Wayne, however, this Ford collection runs the gamut of genres and shows the diversity and genius of John Ford at his most impressive. Featured here will be the DVD debuts of five classic titles - all will be exclusive to the five-disc boxed set.

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Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film eBooks & eLearning

Posted by Rare-1 at April 29, 2015

Now brought completely up to date, the new edition of this classic work on documentary films and filmmaking surveys the history of the genre from 1895 to the present day. Withthe myriad social upheavals over the past decade, documentaries have enjoyed an international renaissance; here Barnouw considers the medium in the light of an entirely new political and social climate. He examines as well the latest filmmaking technology, and the effects that video cassettes and cable television are having on the production ofdocumentaries. And like the previous editions, Documentary is filled with photographs, many of them rare, collected during the author's travels around the world. Covering thefull course of the documentary from Louis Lumiere's first effort to recent landmark productions such as Shoah, this book makes the growing importance of a unique blend of art and reality accessible and understandable to all film lovers.

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