History Through the Lens

History Through the Lens
Author: S. Theodore Baskaran
Publisher: UN
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2009
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

THEODORE BASKARAN weaves the magic and matter of South Indian films into a rich tapestry of readable essays. They cover such topics as early cinema in the south, trade unionism in South Indian film industry, and the need for historicizing southern cinema. Baskaran also investigates how Tamil cinema is struggling to get free from the legacy of company drama and the persistence of stage features. While his sharper focus rests on Tamil cinema, this collection will interest historians and students of Indian film, and the general readers who look for a sprightly introduction to the world of South Indian films. Chapter titles include.

National Geographic U. S. History

National Geographic U. S. History
Author: National Geographic School Publishing, Incorporated
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018
Genre:
ISBN: 9781337111935

National Geographic U.S. History America Through the Lens is a new United States History program for high school. This new program integrates literacy with content knowledge through support for reading, writing, and critical thinking skills. It includes National Geographic Learning's Modified Text feature (on MindTap) providing content at two grades levels below the on-level content. The program presents manageable two- and four-page lessons, following a clear unit-chapter-lesson organization. It views history as an exploration of identity and a celebration of cultural heritage and diversity. Featured in this stunning new program are National Geographic Explorers, along with National Geographic maps, images, and photography.

A History of the Photographic Lens

A History of the Photographic Lens
Author: Rudolf Kingslake
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 347
Release: 1989-11-22
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0080508170

The lens is generally the most expensive and least understood part of any camera. In this book, Rudolf Kingslake traces the historical development of the various types of lenses from Daguerre's invention of photography in 1839 through lenses commonly used today.From an early lens still being manufactured for use in low-cost cameras to designs made possible through such innovations as lens coating, rare-earth glasses, and computer aided lens design and testing, the author details each major advance in design and fabrication. The book explains how and why each new lens type was developed, and why most of them have since been abandoned. This authoritative history of lens technology also includes brief biographies of several outstanding lens designers and manufacturers of the past.

Art History Through the Camera's Lens

Art History Through the Camera's Lens
Author: Helene E. Roberts
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1134304382

Photography of art has served as a basis for the reconstruction of works of art and as a vehicle for the dissemination and reinterpretation of art. This book provides the first definitive treatment of the subject, with essays from noted authorities in the fields of art history, architecture, and photography. The essays explore the many meanings of photography as documentation for the art historian, inspiration for the artist, and as a means of critical interpretation of works of art. Art History Through the Camera's Lens will be important reading for students, historians, librarians, and curators of the visual arts.

U. S. History

U. S. History
Author: National Geographic School Publishing, Incorporated
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018-07-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781337111911

This is the Student Edition for America Through the Lens, a Grade 11 U.S. History Survey program covering Beginnings to the Present.

Through the Lens of History

Through the Lens of History
Author: Erik Daarstad
Publisher:
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2015-10-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781879628496

The autobiography of cinematographer Erik Daarstad, whose distinguished 60-year career in documentary films has followed the long arc of history.

Asian America Through the Lens

Asian America Through the Lens
Author: Jun Xing
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1998
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780761991762

In Asian America Through the Lens, Jun Xing surveys Asian American cinema, allowing its aesthetic, cultural, and political diversity and continuities to emerge.

Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?

Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?
Author: Brian Fies
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2012-08-15
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1613122691

Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?, the long-awaited follow-up to Mom's Cancer, is a unique graphic novel that tells the story of a young boy and his relationship with his father. Spanning the period from the 1939 New York World's Fair to the last Apollo space mission in 1975, it is told through the eyes of a boy as he grows up in an era that was optimistic and ambitious, fueled by industry, engines, electricity, rockets, and the atom bomb. An insightful look at relationships and the promise of the future, award-winning author Brian Fies presents his story in a way that only comics and graphic novels can. Interspersed with the comic book adventures of Commander Cap Crater (created by Fies to mirror the styles of the comics and the time periods he is depicting), and mixing art and historical photographs, this groundbreaking graphic novel is a lively trip through a half century of technological evolution. It is also a perceptive look at the changing moods of our nation-and the enduring promise of the future. Praise for Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? “A graphic novel that looks like TV’s “Futurama” bred with The Golden Age of Comic Books, Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? is at times charming, at times sad and foreboding, and always thought provoking.” —Air & Space Smithsonian "A hopelessly optimistic moon-age daydream"—The Village Voice “An exceptional and highly engaging experience.” —The Miami Herald "Whatever Happened To The World Of Tomorrow is a very special book that will speak to you on so many levels. And at the end of it, when you sit there and think on what you’ve just read, it may even make you, like it did me, realise that Fies’ vision of our past and his hope for the future is something we can all share in. Quite brilliant."—Richard Bruton, forbiddenplanet.co.uk F&P level: Y

Americans Through the Lens

Americans Through the Lens
Author: Sandra Forty
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press (CA)
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781571455499

The photographs in this book, some nearly 150 years old, chronicle the American people from the last years of slavery & the Civil War to the present.

Historical Archaeology Through a Western Lens

Historical Archaeology Through a Western Lens
Author: Mark Warner
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2017-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1496200373

A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The mythic American West, with its perilous frontiers, big skies, and vast resources, is frequently perceived as unchanging and timeless. The work of many western-based historical archaeologists over the past decade, however, has revealed narratives that often sharply challenge that timelessness. Historical Archaeology Through a Western Lens reveals an archaeological past that is distinct to the region—but not in ways that popular imagination might suggest. Instead, this volume highlights a western past characterized by rapid and ever-changing interactions between diverse groups of people across a wide range of environmental and economic situations. The dynamic and unpredictable lives of western communities have prompted a constant challenging and reimagining of both individual identities and collective understandings of their position within a broader national experience. Indeed, the archaeological West is one clearly characterized by mobility rather than stasis. The archaeologies presented in this volume explore the impact of that pervasive human mobility on the West—a world of transience, impermanence, seasonal migration, and accelerated trade and technology at scales ranging from the local to the global. By documenting the challenges of both local community-building and global networking, they provide an archaeology of the West that is ultimately from the West.