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The first book published on Laszlo Kovacs, ASC, a cinematographer who changed the face of filmmaking by taking it out of the studios and on the road. With more than 60 feature films to his credit, Laszlo Kovacs, ASC is one of the top cinematographers in the motion picture industry. From the American Cinematographer magazine comes this definitive look at the work of one of the innovators in motion picture photography, whose films include such classics as Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The King Of Marvin Gardens, Shampoo, Ghostbusters and New York, New York. This book features a new foreword by Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC, introductory essay by Ray Zone, Kovacs on the making of Easy Rider, working with Martin Scorsese on New York, New York, behind the scenes on Ghostbusters, filming the western The Lone Ranger, special effects for Multiplicity, and Jack Frost, Kovacs on lighting and a comprehensive filmography.
Analyzing neighbourly relations in multicultural societies, this book develops a concept of good neighbourhood and argues that cultural capital in various forms is the determining variable in building good-neighbourly relations. This work breaks new ground by offering a conceptual integration of different, mutually interdependent forms of capital: intercultural capital, cross- cultural social capital and multicultural capital. These forms of capital are linked to different educational and cultural policies of the state as well as to civil society involvement at different levels of implementation. Grounded in extensive fieldwork, the book not only provides critical insights into neighbourly r...
Through conversations held with fifteen of the most accomplished contemporary cinematographers, the authors explore the working world of the person who controls the visual look and style of a film. This reissue includes a new foreword by cinematographer John Bailey and a new preface by the authors, which bring this classic guide to cinematography, in print for more than twenty-five years, into the twenty-first century.
Stephen I, Hungary's first Christian king (reigned 997-1038) has been celebrated as the founder of the Hungarian state and church. Despite the scarcity of medieval sources, and consequent limitations on historical knowledge, he has had a central importance in narratives of Hungarian history and national identity. This book argues that instead of conceptualizing modern political medievalism separately as an 'abuse' of history, we must investigate history's very fabric, because cultural memory is woven into the production of the medieval sources. Medieval myth-making served as a firm basis for centuries of further elaboration and reinterpretation, both in historiography and in political legiti...
Medical and Health Sciences is a component of Encyclopedia of Biological, Physiological and Health Sciences in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. These volume set contains several chapters, each of size 5000-30000 words, with perspectives, applications and extensive illustrations. It carries state-of-the-art knowledge in the fields of Medical and Health Sciences and is aimed, by virtue of the several applications, at the following five major target audiences: University and College Students, Educators, Professional Practitioners, Research Personnel and Policy Analysts, Managers, and Decision Makers and NGOs.