Cengage Learning 534509886 A Complete Guide to BrassInstruments and Technique with CDROM Book with CD ROM MultimedAudio

This authoritative guide, now in its second edition, provides the pedagogical, historical, acoustical, and technical material necessary for the successful instruction of brass. Chapters discuss the historical development of individual brass instruments and focus on technique, including guidance for teachers of brass instruments and a complete method for brass playing. Individual instrument chapters include lists of recommended study material and reference sources. Reflecting the latest research, this new edition discusses tone production and includes a revised and expanded discussion of mouthpiece design. It also features new material on teaching brass instruments to beginners and includes an updated discography, bibliography, and list of sources for instruments and music. Featuring numerous musical examples and exercises, A Complete Guide to Brass is an invaluable, up-to-date guide to brass instruments. Scott Whitener is associate professor of music at Rutgers University, where he received his doctorate in education.

Theater Experience, by Wilson, 11th Edition

The ideal theatre appreciation text for courses focusing on theater elements, The Theatre Experience encourages students to be active theatre-goers as they learn about the fundamentals of a production. By addressing the importance of the audience, Wilson brings the art of performance to life for students who may have little experience with the medium. Two new chapters and added Global Cross-Currents boxes throughout greatly expand the text's coverage of global theatre, while revised coverage of theatrical design and production exposes students to the latest processes, techniques, and technologies in the field. Along with an extended box program and dynamic new photos, these elements combine to provide an engaging, current, and comprehensive introduction to the world of theatre.

Cengage Learning 534642950 Rock and RollAn Introduction Bound Book

ROCK AND ROLL: AN INTRODUCTION, 2nd Edition has been completely reconceived and rewritten, to take advantage of online delivery of recorded music. The discussion in this edition is even more focused on rock as music and stresses perceptive listening. This in turn permits more extensive discussion of stylistic connections and contrasts and ways in which the music reflects and shapes society and culture. An extensive and representative play list of 115 rock-era songs is discussed.

A Survey of Choral Music, 1st Edition

In this brief text, Homer Ulrich offers students a history of choral music that is as rich and fascinating as the genre itself. Emphasizing those works that represent historical or stylistic turning points, A SURVEY OF CHORAL MUSIC begins several centuries before the invention of the genre and takes students all the way into the twentieth century. Ulrich's descriptive discussions mix history and analysis with explication of musical structures, text sources and treatments, and kinds of texture. The text offers a useful glossary, bibliography, and list of music sources-as well as appendices that provide several principal types of sacred texts (including Requiem Mass, Te Deum, and Magnificat) for quick reference.

Musicians Guide to Theory and Analysis - With CD

Emphasizing real music and music-making, The Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis gives students the hands-on tools they need to learn how music works. Theoretically current and pedagogically innovative, the Musician's Guide series uses the phrase model approach to show students how music works in context. With a focus on real music literature that students know and play, it shows how music theory relates directly to practice and performance. The Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis includes all topics essential to first- and second-year theory for music majors, from fundamentals to post-tonal theory and analysis. Please note that this version of the ebook does not include access to any media or print supplements that are sold packaged with the printed book.

Techniques and Materials of Music: From the Common Practice Period Through the Twentieth Century

Designed to serve as a primary text for the first two years of college music theory, TECHNIQUES AND MATERIALS OF MUSIC covers all the basics of composition-including harmony, melody, and musical form. The authors present essential materials of common-practice music and an overview of 20th century techniques. Numerous hands-on exercises promote students' memorization and retention of key concepts. And the text's concise outline format, which has been enhanced for this edition, allows instructors maximum flexibility in choosing which materials, concepts, and techniques to emphasize in their course. An e-Workbook in PDF format provides more than 200 pages of exercises to complement TECHNIQUES AND MATERIALS OF MUSIC, 7th Edition.

Film: an Introduction

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Thinking Through Communication - Sarah Trenholm - Paperback

Praised for its? teachability,? Thinking Through Communication provides an excellent, balanced introduction to basic theories and principles of communication, making sense of a complex field through a variety of approaches. In an organized and coherent manner, Thinking Through Communication covers a full range of topics from the history of communication study to the methods used by current communication scholars to understand human interaction. The book explores face-to-face communication in a variety of traditional contexts: interpersonal, group, organizational, public, intercultural, computer-mediated communication and the mass media Written in a clear, lively style, Trenholm's overall approach including her use of examples and interesting illustrations helps develop a better understanding of communication as a field of study and an appreciation for ways in which communication impacts our daily lives.

Business And Professional Communication In The Global Workplace

What communication skills are essential in today's global economy? BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION IN THE GLOBAL WORKPLACE, Third Edition, considers the changes occurring in professional communication today, while also presenting a strong theoretical foundation of organizational communication. Featuring coverage of the most up-to-date skill set available, the book reflects the rapid changes due to the global economy, advances in information technology, and an increasingly diverse workforce. The authors' engaging narrative style, the unique CCCD model (Choosing, Creating, Coordinating, and Delivering) for building presentation competencies, and an integrated companion website combine to provide a definitive resource on professional communications.

Film: A Critical Introduction (3rd Edition)

Film: A Critical Introduction provides readers with the skills needed to successfully critique and analyze film and teaches strategies for translating ideas about film into written criticism and analysis. Intricate discussions of the current issues in film theory, from sound production to documentaries, keep readers? perspectives on film fresh and informed. Part I introduces readers to the importance of film analysis, offering helpful strategies for discerning the way films produce meaning. Part II examines the fundamental elements of film, including narrative form, mise en sc ne, cinematography, editing, and sound, and shows how these concepts can be used to interpret films. Part III frames the debates around ideological criticism, national and transnational cinema, and genre and auteur theory that animate contemporary film scholarship.

Intercultural Communication: A Reader, 13th Edition

This eye-opening reader explores how communication values and styles can be similar or different for members of various cultures and communities. INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION: A READER focuses on practical strategies you can use to communicate more effectively in a variety of contexts, including interpersonal, rhetoric, group, business, education, health care, and organizational. This broad-based, highly engaging reader, compiled by the authors who defined the course, includes a balanced selection of articles-some commissioned solely for this text-that discusses the classic ideas that laid the groundwork for this field, as well as the latest research and ideas. Material is presented in such a way that you can read, understand, and then apply course concepts to your own life.

Music of the Twentieth Century: Style and Structure

MUSIC OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY provides an effective introduction to modern music using clear, comprehensive language. The author weaves together history, theory, and analysis to bring to life both the stylistic evolution of music since 1900 and the new principles by which this music is organized.

Cengage Learning 495916072 Anthology for Musical Analysis Bound Book

A landmark collection of over 200 complete musical compositions and movements, ranging from the Middle Ages to the present, Anthology for Musical Analysis offers first- and second-year music theory students a wealth of illustrations of chords, voice-leading techniques, and forms, plus some material for figured-bass realization and score reading. In addition, this book provides ample material for both a full-year course in the analysis of musical forms and a one-semester course in twentieth-century techniques. Because this book takes no theoretical position, it is adaptable to any theoretical approach and to any type of curriculum, including those that combine theory study with music literature and the history of musical style. About This Edition New Feature The new edition features new repertoire, including pieces by Giacomo Carissimi, J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Fr d ric Chopin, Giuseppe Verdi, Johannes Brahms, Gabriel Faur, Arnold Schoenberg, Sergei Prokofiev, Aaron Copland, Dmitri Shostakovich, Elliott Carter, and Milton Babbitt. Additional Features The website will include pieces that instructors can use to supplement the course. Two indexes serve as "example finders," locating by page and measure number many examples in the music of chords, harmonic and contrapuntal devices, musical forms and genres, and many other technical elements. Instructors will find this feature particularly useful to quickly find examples of what they want to teach. Each musical form (e.g, sonata form, rondo, variations, fugue, etc.) is represented by numerous examples progressing from simple to complex, providing students with a wide range of pieces to study. A glossary of foreign terms and expressions adds cultural context and defines relevant vocabulary for students. Burkhart includes works from more than 50 different composers and more than 200 complete musical compositions, providing a thorough sampling of styles for comparison and selections from which to choose. Although arranged chronologically, the pieces can be taught in the order that best suits the instructor's needs. See this title's supplement: Harmony and Voice Leading (Fourth Edition)

Communication Between Cultures, by Samovar, 7th Edition

This bestselling intercultural communication text gives readers an understanding and appreciation of different cultures and helps them develop practical skills for improving their communication with people from other cultures. COMMUNICATION BETWEEN CULTURES is renowned for being the only text on the market to consistently emphasize religion and history as key variables in intercultural communication. Packed with the latest research and filled with numerous compelling examples that force readers to examine their own assumptions and cultural biases, this book helps students understand the subtle and profound ways culture affects communication. The book is divided into four interrelated parts: Part I introduces the study of communication and culture; Part II focuses on the ability of culture to shape and modify our view of reality; Part III puts the theory of intercultural communication into practice; and Part IV converts knowledge into action.

Small Group and Team Communication (5th Edition)

Praised for its writing style, research base, and range of topics covered, Small Group and Team Communication develops issues of diversity, ethics, technology and the organizational use of groups and teams within a systems theory framework. Clearly organized and logically presented, this book provides the opportunity for outstanding discussions of critical issues. Harris and Sherblom effectively integrate real-world examples, hypothetical situations, social science theories, and scholarly research into a unified discussion of small group and team communication. Through extensive examples, case studies, and exercises, Small Group and Team Communication engages the reader and guides them from theoretical discussions into application and experience of the concepts presented.

Crossroads: Multicultural Roots of Americas Popular Music -With CD

Innovative and lively, this comparative and integrative study of the multicultural music of the United States explores the music of Native Americans, European Americans, African Americans, Latino Americans, and Asian Americans-the five broad groups that constitute American society and that have complex, unique, and often intermingled musical traditions that are reflected in contemporary American music. It features a blended historical/social, ethnic, and musical approach; strong contemporary focus; and coverage of a wide variety of musical styles. Music in Multicultural America. Native American Music Traditions. The Roots of European/Anglo-American Music Traditions. The Roots of African American Music Traditions. The Roots of Hispanic/Latino Music Traditions. The Blues. Jazz. Gospel. Cajun and Zydeco. Country. The Urban Folk Revival. The Ethnic and Racial Roots of Rock 'n' Roll. Motown, Soul and Funk. Tejano, Banda, and Contemporary Mexican. Caribbean and Salsa. Asian American Music. Hip-Hop and Rap. For anyone interested in American Popular Music.

Music: An Appreciation Brief Edition with 5-CD Set

Whether from a concert stage or in front of a classroom, Roger Kamien knows how to connect with an audience. It is his unique combination of a performer's musical sensibility and a teacher's understanding of what works with students that has made that has made the Brief Edition of Music: An Appreciation the most widely-used text of its kind. The book's impeccable scholarship, clear presentation of musical elements and history, carefully chosen repertoire of musical selections, and insightful listening guides have been its hallmarks from the first edition.

Theatre (9th Edition) by Cohen, Robert [Paperback]

This lively introduction to theatre offers equal measures of appreciation of theatrical arts, history of performance, and descriptions of the collaborative theatrical crafts. The author s enthusiasm for and knowledge of the current theatre, highlighted by contemporary production shots from around the world, put the students in the front row. The text includes extensive excerpts from seven plays: Prometheus Bound, Oedipus Tyrannos, The York Cycle, Romeo and Juliet, The Bourgeois Gentleman, The Three Sisters, and Happy Days, as well as shorter excerpts from The Rover and A Doll's House.

Communicating in Small Groups: Principles and Practices

Known for its wealth of practical, relevant, and up-to-date information, Communicating in Small Groups balances the principles of small group communication with real world applications. With an emphasis on real world examples, technology, and ethical collaboration, the 10th edition of Communicating in Small Groups: Principles and Practices helps students enhance their performance in groups and teams, while giving them insight in to why group and team members communicate as they do. Extensive coverage of critical thinking, reasoning, and fallacies? including the latest research findings about the use of creative methods to solve problems and Case Studies to practice applying the latest research to relevant scenarios? allows students to test some of the best approaches for dealing with all types of situations that arise in a group environment. Excellent discussion of the business world includes examples of business applications, leadership, and meetings to prepare students for group work outside of the classroom. The? Virtual Communication? feature helps students identify applications of collaboration, meetings, groups and teams, and technology. Collaborating Ethically? feature enables students to connect ethical principles with each aspect of working in groups. Tips for dealing with difficult group and team members give students strategies they can use immediately. Focus on structuring problem-solving discussions provides tools and techniques that help students handle this common group situation effectively.

The Wadsworth Anthology Of Drama, Brief Edition

The boldest and most distinguished introduction to drama available today, W.B. Worthen's pace-setting text continues to provide exciting plays usefully situated within their historical and cultural contexts. Based on the best-selling WADSWORTH ANTHOLOGY OF DRAMA, the Brief Edition provides many of the important elements of that anthology but in a more streamlined form.

Cengage Learning 534514995 Voice and Articulation Bound Book

Crannell's text offers students a chance to both learn and do. First, students read to discover how their vocal apparatus works and find ways to recognize a variety of speech patterns. Then, as they practice with the numerous and varied exercises provided in the text, they develop the skills needed for personal and professional success.

Creative Drama In The Classroom And Beyond (Paperback)

Encouraging both teacher and student imagination and expression, the seventh edition of this classic text helps future teachers integrate drama into elementary school classrooms and introduces students to a variety of genres and strategies, including mime, play structure, improvisation, and using drama the special education curriculum. Unlike other texts, McCaslin focuses on drama as an art form as well as a teaching tool. The seventh edition features broader coverage of middle school, high school, and adult learners.

Cengage Learning 495572187 Piano for the Developing Musician#44; Media Update with Resource Center Printed Access Card Book With Online Product

Coauthors Martha Hilley and Lynn Freeman Olson have created an intuitive, flexible text that synthesizes keyboard skills, music theory, and creativity in every chapter, all while coordinating with theory curriculum. Designed for the music major that must pass a piano proficiency before graduating, PIANO FOR THE DEVELOPING MUSICIAN, Sixth Edition, provides you with a wealth of performance music for honing your piano skills. Music from the Baroque period through the 21st century gives you a variety of compositions for practicing different performance styles. Authors Hilley and Olson also focus on improvisation, striving to encourage your creativity at the keyboard. PIANO FOR THE DEVELOPING MUSICIAN, Sixth Edition, includes over 500 sound files in both MIDI and MP3 formats. These files will help you learn individual parts of duets, multi-keyboard scores, and ensemble pieces; self-assess your functional skill preparation; and assist in developing a more efficient practice process. The MP3 file format may be found on the dedicated website and can be easily downloaded for use in your practice sessions. This website also includes additional materials as well as tutorials to assist with text content. The pedagogical approach of PIANO FOR THE DEVELOPING MUSICIAN, Sixth Edition, is comprehensive, enabling you to build on the fundamental skills taught early in the book. You will find a strong correlation with your theory curriculum.

Theatrical Improvisation: Short Form, Long Form, and Sketch-Based Improv

Theatrical Improvisation provides an in-depth analysis of short form, long form, and sketch-based improv-tracing the development of each form and the principles that define and connect the styles of performance. Brimming with original interviews from leaders in the field such as Ron West, Charna Halpern, John Sweeny and Margaret Edwartowski, Theatrical Improvisation presents straightforward improvisational theory, history, and trends. Includes easy-to-follow resources on teaching improvisation, with assessment tools, exercises, games, and classroom assignments to enable instructors to incorporate and assess improv in the classroom. Leep offers a practical, essential, and engaging guide for anyone who wants to better understand the art, teach, or perform improvisation.

Acting: Onstage and Off, 6th Edition

Demonstrating how offstage performance can be effectively adapted for the theatre, as well as how onstage training can be applied toward leading a full life outside the theatre, ACTING: ONSTAGE AND OFF is a humorous yet informative book that discusses the interplay between life on and off the stage. You'll learn everything from the phases of actor training to body-relaxation techniques.

Wagners Ring Cycle and the Greeks (Hardcover)

Through his reading of primary and secondary classical sources, as well as his theoretical writings, Richard Wagner developed a Hegelian-inspired theory linking the evolution of classical Greek politics and poetry. This book demonstrates how, by turning theory into practice, Wagner used this evolutionary paradigm to shape the music and the libretto of the Ring cycle. Foster describes how each of the Ring's operas represents a particular phase of Greek poetic and political development: Das Rheingold and Die Walkeure create epic national identity in its earlier and later stages respectively; Siegfried expresses lyric personal identity; and Geotterdammerung destructively culminates with a tragi-comedy about civic identity. This study sees the Greeks through the lens of those scholars whose work influenced Wagner most, focusing on epic, lyric, and comedy, as well as Greek tragedy. Most significantly, the book interrogates the ways in which Wagner uses Greek aesthetics to further his own ideological goals"-Provided by publisher.

Music: The Art of Listening, by Ferris, 8th Edition

Music: The Art of Listening weaves the story of great music into the fabric of cultural and social history to provide the reader with a context for developing appreciation. In a clear and accessible format, Jean Ferris and new coauthor Larry Worster introduce music from across several centuries, helping the listener develop techniques to fully appreciate music along the way. Using listening guides, insights into the composers, and illustrations from other arts, Music: The Art of Listening provides every student with a way to engage with great music and to carry that engagement into their wider listening world.

Harmony, by Piston, 5th Edition

This fifth edition of Harmony marks the forty-fifth year of its successful use. Years after Walter Piston's death, his students and their students can still take great pride in the enduring vitality of his teaching. By now it is plain that the book is different from what it used to be, but its essential approach and its basic substance remain as they were. The major departure of the fourth edition was the addition of seven new chapters, including four on the complicated subject of harmony after common practice, which had not been discussed in the first three editions. However, then as now, the core of the book remains the exhaustive treatment of common-practice harmony, the subject of most one-year or two-year courses in tonal harmony. In the present edition, the entire text has been carefully revised with a view to clarifying the language and illuminating the essential principles. Wherever possible, the text has been "opened up" to allow the reader to adopt a more leisurely pace through what had been a terse and detailed presentation. The results will also be perceived in the more spacious design of this edition. New exercises have been added to the early chapters as well as some fresh music examples. There is an entirely new chapter on musical texture that serves to clear up many difficult points encountered by the beginning student. Another innovation is the rearrangement of the chapters dealing with harmonic rhythm and the structure of the phrase as well as the inclusion of a short summary of analytical method. This book has long been known as an introductory textbook, but because of its comprehensive range, it also serves as an invaluable reference book. The acquisition of an consummate knowledge of composers' practice the goal of any study of harmony is admittedly an endless assignment. Ars longa, vita brevis, but consolation may be derived from the thought that intellectual and artistic rewards are to be found at all stages along the way.

Another Opening, Another Show: An Introduction to the Theatre

Designed for non-majors, this introductory text is a practical guide to theatre-what it is and how to enjoy it. Its survey of the theatre landscape is enlivened by behind-the-scenes stories from the two authors-one an actor/director and the other a costume designer. Exercises at the ends of chapters (unique to this text) prompt students to reflect on their own experiences with theatre.

Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance, 2nd Edition

Preserving the organization of the first edition, Computer Music, second edition, is otherwise completely rewritten to reflect the current state of the relationship between computer technology and music composition. Emphasizing the basics of computers, digital audio, and psychoacoustics, the new edition serves as a through introduction to the hardware and software, as well as a readable primer on theories of sound production and acoustics. The authors offer clear, practical overviews of programming languages, the Macintosh and the PC platforms, real-time synthesizers, speech-synthesis, digital filtering, artificial intelligence, and much more all with the goal of providing students and professionals with an ideal sourcebook and textbook for electronic composition. Charles Dodge is visiting professor of music at Dartmouth College. Thomas Jerse is a principal engineer with the Boeing Defense and Space Group and former technical director of the Center for Electronic Music at Brooklyn College.

Structure of Singing: System and Art in Vocal Technique

Combining the physical, technical, and artistic aspects of singing, the author applies current findings in medicine, acoustics, phonetics, and speech therapy to the singer's needs. The text demonstrates the scientific basis of exercises and vocalises, covering all major areas of vocal technique.

Creative Jazz Improvisation (4th Edition)

This well-organized book combines all of the techniques that jazz musicians practice into a comprehensive whole. It covers practice patterns and scales in all keys and tempos, transcribing solos of master improvisers, learning the jazz repertoire, and playing with other musicians. Chapter topics include how to practice, creatively improvise, and teach improvisation; major innovators; important contributors; women in jazz; chord substitutions; scales; and form. Each chapter also contains theory and ear exercises. Applicable to any instrument-or a classroom of varied instruments-this book is for jazz students and professionals at all levels of proficiency.

On Piano Playing: Motion, Sound, and Expression, by Sandor

Points out common errors pianists make, shows the correct way to play basic technical patterns, and gives exercises for improving coordination, strength, and flexibility.

Teaching Music: Managing the Successful Music Program

Designed for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in music education, in-service music education teachers, church musicians, and private music teachers, this practical text offers a comprehensive program for organizing and managing the non-instructional functions of a successful music education program. Teaching Music, second edition, offers a means of anticipating and alleviating organizational and administrative problems in music education in as practical a manner as possible. Additionally, the new edition is thoroughly revised to reflect the newest developments in testing and evaluation. It provides clear, useful advice for in-service teachers and music education students about implementing and adhering to the MENC National Standards for Music Education. Darwin Walker is professor emeritus of music education at South Dakota State University. Dr. Walker is a frequent adjudicator, clinician, and music education consultant, and guest conductor in schools throughout the Midwest and Canada. He is a member of College Band Directors National Association, Music Educators National Conference, the National Band Association, and Music Teachers National Association. "This textbook should go a long way toward orienting the prospective music teacher to the realities of school music programs.[Walker] offers down-to-earth suggestions on pacing rehearsals, disciplining students, asking the principal for operating funds, designing music facilities, scheduling music classes, testing students, and abiding by copyright laws." - American Music Teacher, on the first edition

Film History: An Introduction, by Thompson, 3rd Edition

Written by two of the leading scholars in film studies, Film History: An Introduction is a comprehensive, global survey of the medium that covers the development of every genre in film, from drama and comedy to documentary and experimental. As with the authors' bestselling Film Art: An Introduction (now in its eighth edition), concepts and events are illustrated with frame enlargements taken from the original sources, giving students more realistic points of reference than competing books that rely on publicity stills. .The third edition of Film History is thoroughly updated and includes the first comprehensive overviews of the.

Foundations of Music Education, by Abeles, 2nd Edition

This text focuses on issues that affect the teaching and learning of music in the 1990s and beyond. Issues concerning the history, philosophy, sociology, psychology, function of music education and educators and the relationship between theory and practice in music teaching are explored.

Lady Macbeth in America: From the Stage to the White House

Lady Macbeth has haunted American history since the conflicts of Shakespeare"s England spilled over into New England"s real witch hunts. To reveal how Lady Macbeth entered American politics as an icon for the First Lady, this investigation focuses on the prominent actresses in the role, how they performed, and their effect on audiences anxious about the country"s First Lady and her influence over the President-especially at times of war. Smith ably shows how the various Lady Macbeths have both reflected and shaped the image their contemporaries have of the ambitious political wife, producing parallels that converge dramatically in twentieth-century witch hunts.

Analyzing Schubert (Hardcover)

When Schubert's contemporary reviewers first heard his modulations, they famously claimed that they were excessive, odd and unplanned. This book argues that these claims have haunted the analysis of Schubert's harmony ever since, outlining why Schubert's music occupies a curiously marginal position in the history of music theory. Analyzing Schubert traces how critics, analysts and historians from the early nineteenth century to the present day have preserved cherished narratives of wandering, alienation, memory and trance by emphasizing the mystical rather than the logical quality of the composer's harmony. This study proposes a new method for analyzing the harmony of Schubert's works. Rather than pursuing an approach that casts Schubert's famous harmonic moves as digressions from the norms of canonical theoretical paradigms, Suzannah Clark explores how the harmonic fingerprints in Schubert's songs and instrumental sonata forms challenge pedigreed habits of thought about what constitutes a theory of tonal and formal order.

The Technique of Orchestration and CD Recording Package

Designed primarily as a text for beginning orchestration courses, but includes material for advanced study and may serve as a reference. As in the earlier editions, the emphasis is on the practical fundamentals of orchestration. The Sixth Edition has been expanded and revised to reflect new developments in instruments and orchestral practice, and a new listening compact disc has been added that contains selected examples of orchestration.

Understanding Movies (12th Edition)

Updated in a new 12th edition, this book is organized around the elements of film and provides readers valuable insight into how movies communicate and convey meaning to their audiences. This book engages readers in the fascinating language of film and helps further their appreciation and understanding of why and how movie watchers respond as they do to different films. From Slumdog Millionaire to Transformers. this book provides readers with a new way of looking at films that are familiar to them through contemporary coverage

Communication and Human Behavior (5th Edition)

Communication and Human Behavior offers students a broad introduction to the study of communication which is expansive yet integrated, that links theory to practice, and that is rigorous yet readable. Neither a watered-down treatment of the subject nor a how-to text, this new edition presumes that the study of communication in human affairs is a complex phenomenon with important and far-reaching effects. Employing a thorough description of a variety of approaches and using the cohering insights of systems theory, Communication and Human Behavior presents to students the broad and colorful landscape of the field, outlines the history of communication study, and focuses on communication as a basic life process.

Acting One (5th Edition) by Cohen, Robert [Paperback]

Used to teach beginning acting on more campuses than any other text, Acting One covers the basic elements of realistic acting in twenty-eight lessons? all based on experiential exercises. The text covers basic skills such as talking, listening, tactical interplay, physicalizing, building scenes, and making good choices.

Changing Journalism By Witschge, Tamara/ Phillips, Angela/ Lee-Wright

Journalism is in transition. Irrevocable decisions are being made, often based on flimsy evidence, which could change not only the future of journalism, but also the future of democracy. This book, based on extensive research, provides the opportunity to reflect upon these decisions and considers how journalism could change for the better and for the good of democracy. It covers: the business landscape work and employment the regulatory framework audiences and interaction the impact of technology on practices and content ethics in a converged world The book analyses research in both national and local journalism, broadsheet and tabloid papers, and broadcast, newspaper and online journalism, drawing comparisons between these different outlets in the field of news journalism, thus making this essential reading for scholars and students of journalism and media studies.