Robert Altman: The Oral Biography (Repost)

Robert Altman: The Oral Biography by Mitchell Zuckoff
2010 | 576 Pages | ISBN: 0307387917 | EPUB | 15 MB

Robert Altman—visionary director, hard-partying hedonist, eccentric family man, Hollywood legend—comes roaring to life in this rollicking oral biography. After an all-American boyhood in Kansas City, a stint flying bombers in World War II, and jobs ranging from dog tattoo entrepreneur to television director, Robert Altman burst onto the scene in 1970 with M*A*S*H. He reinvented American filmmaking, and went on to produce such masterpieces as McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Nashville, The Player, Short Cuts, and Gosford Park. In Robert Altman, Mitchell Zuckoff has woven together Altman’s final interviews; an incredible cast of voices including Meryl Streep, Warren Beatty, Paul Newman, among scores of others; and contemporary reviews and news accounts into a riveting tale of an extraordinary life.

Robert Brack - Tolonen 01 - Rechnung mit einer Unbekannten

Robert Brack – Tolonen 01 – Rechnung mit einer Unbekannten
German | Pendragon | 2016 | EPUB | Pages 254 | ASIN: B01D8XSJDU | 15.71 Mb

Tolonen ist sturzbetrunken. Auf einem Presseball wird er um Mitternacht 40. Das stürzt ihn in eine tiefe Sinnkrise. Alkohol und eine Wette mit seinem Kollegen Kreissberg sollen helfen, den Abend zu überstehen. Allerdings geht die Rechnung nicht auf. Tolonen torkelt nach Hause und muss hilflos zusehen, wie die Schauspielerin Hanna Marenka, mit der er gerade noch geflirtet hatte, direkt vor seinen Augen entführt wird. Filmriss!

Am nächsten Morgen wacht der Journalist schwer verkatert auf. Da kommen ihm die zwei seltsamen Gestalten, die sich als Mormonen ausgeben, gerade recht. Merkwürdig nur, dass sie über seine Eskapaden bestens informiert sind. Mit nachlassenden Kopfschmerzen kehrt allmählich sein Erinnerungsvermögen zurück. Tolonens Neugier ist geweckt. Doch gerade, als er erste Spuren verfolgt, taucht Hanna Marenka wieder auf der Bildfläche auf. Der Fall scheint gelöst zu sein. Wären da nicht die vermeintlichen Mormonen und weitere dubiose Gestalten, die ihn in die Mangel nehmen

Robert Hirsch - Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Equipment, Ideas, Materials, and Processes

Robert Hirsch – Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Equipment, Ideas, Materials, and Processes
2008 | ISBN: 0240810139 | English | 300 pages | PDF | 32 MB

Serious imagemakers have come to trust and depend on this resource of innovative, traditional, and alternative photographic processes to enhance their technical knowledge, create astonishing pictures, and raise their visual consciousness.

This book offers new links between analog and digital photography by featuring clear, step-by-step instructions on topics ranging from making digital negatives, to using infrared film and toners, to alternative process techniques including salt prints, ambrotypes, kallitypes, Vandyke Brownprints, gumoil, gum bichromate, platinum and palladium processes, and more.

This edition showcases the thought-provoking work of more than 140 international artists including Peter Beard, Dan Burkholder, Carl Chiarenza, Michael Kenna, Dinh Q. Lê, Joe Mills, Andrea Modica, Bea Nettles, France Scully and Mark Osterman, Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, Holly Roberts, Martha Rosler, Mike and Doug Starn, John Sexton, Brian Taylor, Jerry Uelsmann, and Joel Peter Witkin as well as other major and emerging talents. Image captions explain how each artist technically realized their vision and concept.

Robert Bird - Andrei Rublev (BFI Film Classics) [Repost]

Robert Bird – Andrei Rublev (BFI Film Classics)
2008 | ISBN: 184457038X | English | 87 pages | PDF | 5.7 MB

Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) was one of the great poets of world cinema. A fiercely independent artist, Tarkovsky crafted poignantly beautiful films that have proven inscrutable and been bitterly disputed. These qualities are present in abundance in Andrei Rublev (1966), Tarkovsky’s first fully mature film. Ostensibly a biographical study of Russia’s most famous medieval icon-painter, Andrei Rublev is both lyrical and epic, starkly naturalistic and allegorical, authentically historical and urgently topical. While much remains mysterious in Andrei Rublev, critics have recently begun to reappraise it as a groundbreaking film that undermines comfortable notions of life and spirituality. Robert Bird’s multifaceted account of Andrei Rublev extends this reevaluation of Tarkovsky’s radical aesthetic by establishing the film’s historical context and presenting a substantially new reading of key scenes. Bird definitively establishes the film’s tortured textual history, which has resulted in two vastly different versions. He relates the film to traditions in Russian art and intellectual history, but finally his analysis focuses on Andrei Rublev as a visual and narrative artwork that treats profound existential questions by challenging conventional notions of representation and vision.

Robert Phillip Kolker - The Altering Eye: Contemporary International Cinema

Robert Phillip Kolker – The Altering Eye: Contemporary International Cinema
2009 | ISBN: 1906924031 | English | 348 pages | PDF | 11.3 MB

The Altering Eye covers a “golden age” of international cinema from the end of WWII through to the New German Cinema of the 1970s. Combining historical, political, and textual analysis, the author develops a pattern of cinematic invention and experimentation from neorealism through the modernist interventions of Jean-Luc Godard and Rainer Maria Fassbinder, focusing along the way on such major figures as Luis Buñuel, Joseph Losey, the Brazilian director Glauber Rocha, and the work of major Cuban filmmakers. Kolker’s book has become a much quoted classic in the field of film studies providing essential reading for anybody interested in understanding the history of European and international cinema. This new and revised edition includes a substantive new Preface by the author and an updated Bibliography.

Robert Altman"s Soundtracks: Film, Music, and Sound from M*A*S*H to A Prairie Home Companion (Repost)

Robert Altman’s Soundtracks: Film, Music, and Sound from M*A*S*H to A Prairie Home Companion By Gayle Sherwood Magee
2014 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 0199915962 | PDF | 21 MB

American director Robert Altman (1925-2006) first came to national attention with the surprise blockbuster M*A*S*H (1970), and he directed more than thirty feature films in the subsequent decades. Critics and scholars have noted that music is central to Altman’s films, and in addition to his feature films, Altman worked in theater, opera, and the emerging field of cable television. His treatment of sound is a hallmark of his films, alongside overlapping dialogue, improvisation, and large ensemble casts. Several of his best-known films integrate musical performances into the central plot, including Nashville (1975), Popeye (1980), Short Cuts (1993), Kansas City (1996), The Company (2003) and A Prairie Home Companion (2006), his final film. Even such non-musicals as McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) have been described as, in fellow director and protégé Paul Thomas Anderson’s evocative phrase, as “musicals without people singing.”

Robert Altman’s Soundtracks considers Altman’s celebrated, innovative uses of music and sound in several of his most acclaimed and lesser-known works. In so doing, these case studies serve as a window not only into Altman’s considerable and varied output, but also the changing film industry over nearly four decades, from the heyday of the New Hollywood in the late 1960s through the “Indiewood” boom of the 1990s and its bust in the early 2000s. As its frame, the book will consider the continuing attractions of auteurism inside and outside of scholarly discourse, by considering Altman’s career in terms of the director’s own self-promotion as a visionary and artist; the film industry’s promotion of Altman the auteur; the emphasis on Altman’s individual style, including his use of music, by the director, critics, scholars, and within the industry; and the processes, tensions, and boundaries of collaboration.

Robert Obert, "Pratique des normes IAS/IFRS 40 cas d"application" (repost)

Robert Obert, “Pratique des normes IAS/IFRS 40 cas d’application”
Publisher: Dunod | 2005 | ISBN: 2100485776 | French | PDF | 258 pages | 2.5 Mb

Cet ouvrage est le complément de l’ouvrage de base Pratique des normes IAS/IFRS dont la nouvelle édition est parue en septembre 2004. Il présente 40 cas d’application corrigés. L’objectif est de permettre aux professionnels et aux étudiants de maîtriser les principes et la mise en oeuvre des normes internationales. L’intégralité des normes est adoptée depuis mars 2004 et elles sont obligatoires depuis le 1er janvier 2005 pour les sociétés cotées.

Docteur en sciences de gestion, agrégé de techniques économiques de gestion et diplômé d’expertise comptable, R. Obert est professeur à l’université de Valenciennes dont il a notamment dirigé l’IUT et la MSTCF ; il est également maître de conférences au CNAMINTEC de Paris dont il a assumé la direction des études.