books by Geoff King     books:       New Hollywood Cinema Geoff King Columbia University Press, 2002 What is "New Hollywood"? The "art" cinema of the Hollywood "Renaissance" or the corporate controlled blockbuster? The introverted world of Travis Bickle or the action heroics of Indiana Jones, Buzz Lightyear, and Maximus the Gladiator? Innovative departures from the "classical" Hollywood style or superficial glitz, special effects, and borrowings from MTV? Wholesale change or important continuities with Hollywood´s past? The answer suggested by ...             Donnie Darko (Cultographies) Geoff King Wallflower Press, 2007 With its gothic tale of a troubled teen haunted by visions of a figure in a Halloween rabbit suit, Donnie Darko was among the first cult movie phenomena of the twenty-first century, making debut director Richard Kelly Hollywood hot property before he reached his thirtieth birthday. This study narrates the film's journey from box-office bemusement through word of mouth success to the recent director's cut of the film, and also discusses fans' ...             American Independent Cinema Geoff King Indiana University Press, 2005 "Geoff King's important book stands with the best scholarship I have seen on this vital, constantly evolving subject." -- David Sterritt, author of The Films of Alfred Hitchcock The independent sector has produced many of the most distinctive films to have appeared in the U.S. in recent decades. From sex, lies and videotape in the 1980s to The Blair Witch Project and New Queer Cinema in the 1990s and the ultra--low budget digital video features ...             Tomb Raiders and Space Invaders: Videogame Forms and Contexts Geoff King, Tanya Krzywinska I. B. Tauris, 2006 This book focuses on key formal aspects of video games and the experiences and pleasures offered by the activities they require of the player. A wide range of games are considered, from first-person shooters to third-person action-adventures, strategy, sports-related and role-playing games. Lively and accessible in style, this book is written for both an academic readership and the wider audience of gamers and those interested in popular ...             Film Comedy Geoff King Wallflower Press, 2002 What exactly is film comedy and what is the basis for its widespread appeal? Film Comedy uses formal, socio-historical and industrial perspectives to answer this question. What, for example, is the basis of the appeal of gross-out comedy in films such as There´s Something About Mary and American Pie ? What is the relationship between comedy and narrative, from early silent slapstick to the performance of actors such as Steve Martin and Jim ...             ScreenPlay1 review Wallflower Press, 2002 A great selection of topics, very professional The first thing I would like to make clear in this review is something that the contributing authors make clear in every paper: the content of this book is not an attempt by film scholars to colonize game studies. I was delighted to see papers about specific games by academics who had actually played the games. Each paper is refreshingly different from the last, but they have all been ...             Science Fiction Cinema: From Outerspace to Cyberspace (Short Cuts)1 review Geoff King, Tanya Krzywinska Wallflower Press, 2000 short and sweet This book is overall interesting, to the point and condenses a lot of film theory in a small space. However, the anaylsis of the science fiction film is a bit on the thin side. A better book would be Screening Space, or Alien Zone II ed. by Kuhn             Brilliant Baby Names: How to Choose a Name That You and Your Child Will Love for Life1 review Geoff King Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008 The best book I found for choosing a baby name Before your child is about to be born you can be worried about giving your child the best start you possibly can. This book gives lots of names and their supposed meaning, like all the baby name books, but what makes this one special is the section on the psychological impact of a name. People are judged by their names and, as this book makes clear, it matters what someone is called (apparently ...             Indiewood, USA: Where Hollywood meets Independent Cinema (International Library of Cultural Studies) Geoff King I. B. Tauris, 2009 Indiewood is the place where Hollywood and the American independent sector meet, where lines blur and two very different kinds of cinema come together in a striking blend of creativity and commerce. This is an arena in which innovative, sometimes challenging cinema reaches out to the mainstream. Or, alternatively, a zone of duplicity and compromise in which the ?true? heritage of the indie sector is co-opted as an offshoot of Hollywood. ...             Mapping Reality: An Exploration of Cultural Cartographies Geoff King Palgrave Macmillan, 1996 An original and wide-ranging study of the mappings used to impose meaning on the world, Mapping Reality argues that maps create rather than merely represent the ground on which they rest. From the history of cartography to mappings of culture, sexuality and nation, Geoff King draws on an extensive range of materials including mapping imposed in the colonial settlement of America, the Cold War, Vietnam and the events since the collapse of the ...             Lost in Translation (American Indies) Geoff King Edinburgh University Press, 2010 Elusive, subtle, and atmospheric, Lost in Translation was one of the indie hits of 2004, but what was the basis of the film's appeal and how exactly was it marked as distinctly independent? Considering industrial factors, such as strategies in funding and release, to the role of star performance and formal qualities, including the film's low key narrative structure and impressionistic use of visual imagery and sound, this book provides an ...             Sehen, Staunen, Wissen: Die Kunst des Bauens. Vom Rohbau bis zum letzten Pinselstrich. Philip Wilkinson, Dave King, ... Gerstenberg, 1995             Spectacular Narratives: Hollywood in the Age of the Blockbuster (Cinema and Society) Geoff King I. B. Tauris, 2001 What makes today's Hollywood films so successful? Is it the sheer scale of special effects that gives films like "Jurassic Park" or "The Matrix" their mass audience appeal? Geoff King looks at the underexplored dynamic relationship between narrative and spectacle in contemporary Hollywood cinema. He uses the myth of the American frontier against a range of Hollywood filmsand drawes examples from the digital-effects-based and virtual-reality ...             Building Philip/ King, Dave (PHT)/ Dann, Geoff (PHT)/ King, Dave (ILT)/ Dann, Geoff (ILT) Wilkinson Dk Pub, 2000             The Secrets of Selling: How to win in any sales situation (Financial Times Series)3 reviews Geoff King Trans-Atlantic Publications, Inc., 2009 Outstanding for selling and winning...... thanks! Wow what a book...I happened to see this book at a sales convention in EMEA........the best book I have ever seen for helping drive sales......I would absolutely recommend this to anyone trying to motivate and get their sales teams going! The info here in this book is reallly valuable....What the previous reviewer may have missed in his comment re "spelling" is that this is written in British ...              search for books american, blockbuster, brilliant, building, cartographies, contexts, cultographies, cultural, cyberspace, exploration, financial, hollywood, independent, indiewood, international, invaders, letzten, narratives, outerspace, pinselstrich, raiders, science, screenplay, selling, situation, spectacular, staunen, studies, translation, videogame books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen DVD: Albert Schweitzer: Called to Africa home  impressum - about us