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Harnessing the Technicolor Rainbow
Like Dorothy waking up over the rainbow in the Land of Oz, Hollywood discovered a vivid new world of color in the 1930s. The introduction of three-color Technicolor technology in 1932 gave filmmakers a powerful tool with which to guide viewers' attention, punctuate turning points, and express emotional subtext. Although many producers and filmmakers initially resisted the use of color, Technicolor designers, led by the legendary Natalie Kalmus, developed an aesthetic that complemented the classical Hollywood filmmaking style while still offering innovative novelty. By the end of the 1930s, color in film was thoroughly harnessed to narrative, and it became elegantly expressive without threate...
The End of Greed
The consumer culture in which we are immersed urges us to acquire as many things and experiences as our incomes will allow. But what if our habit of acquiring more is simply a modern manifestation of greed? In this book Scott Higgins shows how consumerism is damaging to your relationship with God, saps your capacity to be generous, exploits people in poorer countries, wreaks havoc on the planet and inflicts suffering on animals. He issues a call to another way of being, to Christ-shaped consuming that embodies love for God, people, the planet and our fellow creatures. With simple, practical suggestions, this book will help you combat the corrosive effects of greed and join in God's mission of creating a better world.
Too Heavy to Become Sky
Scott Higgins's first book, Too Heavy to Become Sky, brings us spare, plain, haunting poetry of love, loss, and humanity in an indifferent universe. Higgins is ultimately concerned with human mortality and human loneliness in the worldthe world unvarnished, defined by alienation and longing, yet redeemed by the miracle of shared lives and the hidden currents that connect us.
Arnheim for Film and Media Studies
Rudolf Arnheim (1904-2007) was a pioneering figure in film studies, best known for his landmark book on silent cinema Film as Art. He ultimately became more famous as a scholar in the fields of art and art history, largely abandoning his theoretical work on cinema. However, his later aesthetic theories on form, perception and emotion should play an important role in contemporary film and media studies. In this enlightening new volume in the AFI Film Readers series, an international group of leading scholars revisits Arnheim’s legacy for film and media studies. In fourteen essays, the contributors bring Arnheim’s later work on the visual arts to bear on film and media, while also reassess...
The Joy Experiments
A new perspective on developing shared joy in urban spaces. Our divided society is quickly reaching crisis level. We are no longer able to sustain social and economic prosperity nor ensure democracy. Fuelling this crisis is a growing sense of social isolation caused by the divisive nature of social media and the decline of infrastructure that used to bring communities together. But there is hope for rebuilding our collaborative society, and it is found in our mid-sized urban areas. These towns and cities offer a scale that can tangibly change the quality of our lives and an intimacy that allows us to influence what our communities can become. Changing cities can change the world! In The Joy Experiments, real estate developer Scott Higgins and creative mind Paul Kalbfleisch use their own mid-sized city-building experiences to present a new way for citizens to engage with their city, and an urban planning strategy that prioritizes infrastructure for the human spirit.
Whiteness of the Whale
On the heels of cult favorite Too Heavy to Become Sky, Scott Higgins delivers Whiteness of the Whale-a diary of madness and memory from the Covid fog. "The first time I read this book I felt a low electrical pulse flow through my brain. It's almost a living thing that reveals a different side of itself each time one picks it up-it is unsettling. Beautiful words. Beautiful brain. I love this writer." Polly O'/MamaUK
Matinee Melodrama
Long before Batman, Flash Gordon, or the Lone Ranger were the stars of their own TV shows, they had dedicated audiences watching their adventures each week. The difference was that this action took place on the big screen, in short adventure serials whose exciting cliffhangers compelled the young audience to return to the theater every seven days. Matinee Melodrama is the first book about the adventure serial as a distinct artform, one that uniquely encouraged audience participation and imaginative play. Media scholar Scott Higgins proposes that the serial’s incoherent plotting and reliance on formula, far from being faults, should be understood as some of its most appealing attributes, he...
Be Love
How do we respond to a world where a child is hungry, a pregnant woman dies because she is too poor to afford medical care, a family lives in a slum? We feel compelled to do something, but what? Be Love shares five ways you can take action to make a difference. The answers may surprise you. One thing is sure, they will change you. Here you'll discover how to move beyond occasional acts of kindness to a just lifestyle, in which you discover God doing more than you ever imagined in you and through you to bring blessing to people living in poverty.
Buffalo City Directory
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