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Alton, John

Fitchett, Gary

Aldridge, Kathleen

McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Limited

Few cinematographers have had as decisive an impact on the cinematic medium as John Alton. Best known for his highly stylized film noir classics T-Men, He Walked by Night, and The Big Combo, Alton earned a reputation during the 1940s and 1950s as one of Hollywood's consummate craftsmen through his visual signature of crisp shadows and sculpted beams of light. No less renowned for his virtuoso color cinematography and deft appropriation of widescreen and Technicolor, he earned an Academy Award in 1951 for his work on the musical An American in Paris. First published in 1949, and long out of print since then, Painting With Light remains one of the few truly canonical statements on the art of motion picture photography, an unrivalled historical document on the workings of the postwar, American cinema. In simple, non-technical language, Alton explains the job of the cinematographer and explores how lighting, camera techniques, and choice of locations determine the visual mood of film. Todd McCarthy's introduction, written especially for this edition, provides an overview of Alton's biography and career and explores the influence of his work on contemporary cinematography.

Painting With Light

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

University of California Press

Few cinematographers have had as decisive an impact on the cinematic medium as John Alton. Best known for his highly stylized film noir classics T-Men, He Walked by Night, and The Big Combo, Alton earned a reputation during the 1940s and 1950s as one of Hollywood's consummate craftsmen through his visual signature of crisp shadows and sculpted beams of light. No less renowned for his virtuoso color cinematography and deft appropriation of widescreen and Technicolor, he earned an Academy Award in 1951 for his work on the musical An American in Paris. First published in 1949, Painting With Light remains one of the few truly canonical statements on the art of motion picture photography, an unrivaled historical document on the workings of postwar American cinema. In simple, non-technical language, Alton explains the job of the cinematographer and explores how lighting, camera techniques, and choice of locations determine the visual mood of film. Todd McCarthy's introduction provides an overview of Alton's biography and career and explores the influence of his work on contemporary cinematography and the foreword, written expressly for this edition by award-winning cinematographer John Bailey, explores Alton’s often contentious relationships with colleagues, the American Society of Cinematographers, and the movie industry itself.

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Autonomic Intelligence: Pathway to the Pulsatile Self and Sustainable Health introduces readers to concepts and practices that enhance “Autonomic Intelligence” or AuI: the ability to build and stockpile health by working the autonomic nervous system. The book helps readers expand their AuI by providing a fully illustrated, concise, and understandable overview of the relationship between the autonomic nervous system and the cardiovascular and immune systems and the role that relationship plays in both good and poor health. The overview includes the latest research on the "autonomic cardiovascular and immune systems" and an explanation of a promising, non-invasive technique for measuring their strength and weakness. Halfway through the book, readers are introduced to Reflective Exercise (RE): a simple routine that can be learned via streaming video available at www.pulsatileinternational.com or Amazon Video Direct. RE transforms the autonomic nervous system into a sensory organ, producing the “Reflective Response” (RfR), a pulsatile sensation in the body that allows for real-time control over cardiovascular and immune function. The author asserts that the RfR “may turn out to be the greatest, least known, and most poorly understood healing effect the world has ever seen” and offers both scientific and anecdotal evidence to back his assertion. The book’s final section gives a vivid account of the history of the RfR and its impact on his own serious health problems.

Autonomic Intelligence: : Pathway to the Pulsatile Self and Sustainable Health

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

Pulsatile International Books

Set in the American deep south of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, THE BOOK OF THE GREAT BORDER portrays extraordinary characters living in extraordinary times. Emory Oveson has an obsessively complex vision that takes him from his London home to North America, where he wanders southward in search of answers until he arrives in the Georgia Territories. There he finds an Indian woman from a strange, magical tribe so closely allied with nature that it rejects all languages and cultures, including those of the the Muscogulgans or "Creeks," the dominant tribe of the region. Once the couple unite, they settle into an odd but fulfilling frontier life until seething conflict between the Creeks and the ever-encroaching Americans boils over into America's first and most influential race war. In the midst of documented events that ultimately led to the near-extinction of American Indians, the political rise of Andrew Jackson, and the deep south's justification for African slavery, the couple are dragged into the conflict and forced to choose sides. Though the horrors they witness are emotionally devastating, they wrest meaning from suffering through Emory's theory of "The Great Border," the place where conditions in nature heighten the metaphysical laws of attraction and conflict that destroy and transform their world.

The Book of the Great Border

Literature & Fiction

United States

Independently published

Living Qigong is one of the first truly accessible books on this important healing tradition. The book presents a narrative description of the author's own studentship under a Chinese Qigong master. Then, drawing on Western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, and Eastern philosophy, the author shows how the fundamental principles of health and healing in Qigong are also found in the traditional medical practices of other cultures. He also offers easy-to-follow descriptions of the eight essential Qigong movements, accompanied by numerous photographs, so that readers can begin to practice Qigong for themselves.

Living Qigong: The Chinese Way to Good Health and Long Life

Exercise & Fitness

Shambhala

Unified Fitness: A 35-Day Exercise Program for Sustainable Health: Western and Chinese Fitness Solutions to Chronic Health Problems

Unified Fitness: A 35-Day Exercise Program for Sustainable Health

Hampton Roads Publishing

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