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Do you find yourself singing in the shower, pretending your shampoo bottle is your microphone and your towel is your guitar? Do you tap out drum rhythms with your pen at work? Now you can channel your musical energy using The MacAddict Guide to Making Music with GarageBand, the Mac software program that can turn you into a virtual recording star. MacAddict's focused, no-olds-barred approach is evident in this musical tutorial. Learn about pre-recorded loops that enable you to sound like you're singing with a symphony orchestra even if you can't actually play a single instrument. Or, if you are instrumentally-inclined, you will also learn how to hook up your instruments to record your own sound and later use GarageBand to edit and mix it for truly professional results. MacAddict is the authoritative voice in the Mac community and The MacAddict Guide to Making Music with GarageBand is the only book they endorse. It is sure to become the only book you'll need to learn how to unleash your inner rock star.
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GarageBand helps you turn your Mac into a fully-functional recording studio. The newest member of the iLife suite comes with pre-recorded loops utilizing hundreds of musical instruments to enable you to sound like a symphony orchestra or a one-man band. GarageBand ships with only limited documentation and that's where this book fills the gap. The MacAddict Guide to Making Music with GarageBand shows you how to create, perform and record your own music, even if you can't read a note or play an instrument - you can easily produce tunes that sound like you can! If you are musically inclined, this book shows you how to hook up your instruments and record your own sound, then you can mix it with as many other instruments as you want for a truly professional result. Once you have your tunes mixed to perfection, you can use them to score your iMovie projects, your iPhoto slide shows, and your iDVD projects. The MacAddict Guide to Making Music with GarageBand teaches you how to do all of that - and much more!
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Just The Basics, Ma'am.......2007-04-13
After fooling around with GarageBand for a month I was hoping to find a book of "tricks and tips" to further my exploration. Unfortunately this book isn't it -- it covers just the entry-level instructions I'd already figured out.
Maybe the authors knew more than they're telling, but there's nothing in this book which couldn't be gleaned from reading the help files.
Hey, You. Make a Joyful Noise........2004-08-25
You wanna make noises, NOW, that are as cool as you need 'em to be?
Ask Jay.
He'll guide you past those few little rocks and bumps in GarageBand that might otherwise pop a hole in your Creative Ship...How much memory do I _really_ need? What does that menu _really_ mean? C'mon, I wanna make NOISES!!!
And Jay will let you know. And you will be a noisemaker, and you will no longer be able to blame your parents because they wouldn't let you have an accordion.
Much Love to you loud people,
Great Respect to Jay,
The Fat Man
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With a strong emphasis on media convergence throughout, this book helps readers develop a system-wide view of the interacting social, historical, economic, and technological forces at work in today's rapidly evolving mass media. Written by two highly regarded scholars and teachers, this book goes beyond other textbooks to help readers understand where, how, and why they fit into the contemporary media environment. Too often, mass communication texts rely only on popular publications or on academic research. In this interactive text, they have combined the concrete practice of journalism with empirical research, enabling students to comprehend the impact of the dynamic media that are an integral part of our lives today. Folkerts and Lacy guide readers through today's whirlwind of mass communication by providing them with the information and critical thinking skills necessary to consider objectively the media and its roles in their lives.
For anyone interested in gaining knowledge of the media.
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Media in your Life is Must Reading for Mass Com Students.......2000-05-24
This book is an excellent introduction to mass media in America. It is one of the few attempts around to draw together a look at the various forms of mass communications--from MTV to the movies to the Internet. While intended for the college student, it also is a good reference for anyone seeking to understand the rapidly changing media landscape in America.
Media in your Life is Must Reading for Mass Com Students.......2000-05-24
This book is an excellent introduction to mass media in America. It is one of the few attempts around to draw together a look at the various forms of mass communications--from MTV to the movies to the Internet. While intended for the college student, it also is a good reference for anyone seeking to understand the rapidly changing media landscape in America.
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The Prisoner Handbook: An Unauthorized Companion
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The Prisoner: The Original Scripts
ASIN: 0752219685 |
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This year celebrates the 35th anniversary of the creation of The Prisoner series. The Prisoner was an enigmatic, Avengers-era drama starring Patrick McGoohan. Nothing quite like it has been seen on television since, and its cult following has mushroomed. With interviews from many of the original cast and an astonishing amount of inside information,this is a complete handbook to one of televisions most compelling series.
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American history has always been an irresistible source of inspiration for filmmakers, and today, for good or ill, most Americans'sense of the past likely comes more from Hollywood than from the works of historians. In important films such as The Birth of a Nation (1915), Roots (1977), Apocalypse Now (1979), and Saving Private Ryan (1998), how much is entertainment and how much is rooted in historical fact? In The Columbia Companion to American History on Film, more than seventy scholars consider the gap between history and Hollywood. They examine how filmmakers have presented and interpreted the most important events, topics, eras, and figures in the American past, often comparing the film versions of events with the interpretations of the best historians who have explored the topic.
Divided into eight broad categories -- Eras; Wars and Other Major Events; Notable People; Groups; Institutions and Movements; Places; Themes and Topics; and Myths and Heroes -- the volume features extensive cross-references, a filmography (of discussed and relevant films), notes, and a bibliography of selected historical works on each subject. The Columbia Companion to American History on Film is also an important resource for teachers, with extensive information for research or for course development appropriate for both high school and college students.
Though each essay reflects the unique body of film and print works covering the subject at hand, every essay addresses several fundamental questions:
• What are the key films on this topic?
• What sources did the filmmaker use, and how did the film deviate (or remain true to) its sources?
• How have film interpretations of a particular historical topic changed, and what sorts of factors -- technological, social, political, historiographical -- have affected their evolution?
• Have filmmakers altered the historical record with a view to enhancing drama or to enhance the "truth" of their putative message?
Customer Reviews:
Covers a huge range of subject........2007-04-01
Above all else the movies have to entertain. When they make movies about historical events, sometimes the movies are able to do an adequate, truthful story about what happened. At other times the story gets so 'Hollywooded' that any representation to the original event is purely coincidental. Sometimes there's a meeting point inbetween that you'd never guess.
Example: in 'The Flying Tigers,' there's a love story intermixed with the fighting. A nurse that was with them was asked if there was any truth to this at all. She replied, well, I was over there, there was this very good looking pilot. Why shouldn't there be relationships between young adults inbetween the fighting.
Another good example is the difference between the two 'Memphis Belle' movies. The 1944 documentary was dramatic as well as exciting. The 1990 version was so 'Hollywood' as to be silly.
This book breaks down American history into subject areas such as Eras, Wars, Notable People, Crime and the Mafia, Baseball, and many more. In each of these sections the book discusses the major films that apply.
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A Companion to Media Studies is a comprehensive collection that brings together new writings by some of the most respected canonical and contemporary media studies scholars. The result is a fascinating overview of the theories and methodologies that have produced this most interdisciplinary of fields. Leading essayists - from Denis McQuail, John Nerone, Margaret Gallagher, and Dan Schiller to Charles Whitney, James Ettema, Jennings Bryant, and Ellen Wartella - tackle a variety of concepts and controversies from qualitative and quantitative perspectives, and with specific attention to issues of globalization and difference.The Companion showcases some of the most exciting work currently underway on feminist media, media history, the future of theory, digital capitalism, power, agency, popular culture, race, and intellectual property, and is organized into six areas of study: foundations, production, media content, media audiences, effects, and futures. A Companion to Media Studies provides an accessible and comprehensive point of entry into this expansive and interdisciplinary field.
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The Modern Movement: A TLS Companion (The TLS Companions Series)
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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For the past ninety years the Times Literary Supplement has scrutinized, dissected, applauded, and occasionally disparaged the work of the twentieth century's leading writers. It has taken a major role in the making—and breaking—of literary reputations.
In The Modern Movement, John Gross has assembled an entertaining selection of 155 articles and reviews about and by the great figures of literary modernism. The focus is on twelve key modernist writers: W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, Virginia Wolf, W. H. Auden, Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Franz Kafka. Another section gathers ten reviews and articles by Eliot and Woolf on then current writers and writing. In addition, there are more general articles on literary trends and issues by such prominent writers and critics as Anthony Burgess, Wallace Stevens, Anthony Powell, and Erich Heller.
This fascinating array reveals early opinions on what have come to be the classics of modernist literature. Readers will be treated to astute and often surprising opinions of their favorite writers on the most important literature of this century.
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The Columbia Companion to American History on Film
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Hollywood As Historian: American Film in a Cultural Context
ASIN: 023111222X |
Book Description
American history has always been an irresistible source of inspiration for filmmakers, and today, for good or ill, most Americans'sense of the past likely comes more from Hollywood than from the works of historians. In important films such as The Birth of a Nation (1915), Roots (1977), Apocalypse Now (1979), and Saving Private Ryan (1998), how much is entertainment and how much is rooted in historical fact? In The Columbia Companion to American History on Film, more than seventy scholars consider the gap between history and Hollywood. They examine how filmmakers have presented and interpreted the most important events, topics, eras, and figures in the American past, often comparing the film versions of events with the interpretations of the best historians who have explored the topic.
Divided into eight broad categories -- Eras; Wars and Other Major Events; Notable People; Groups; Institutions and Movements; Places; Themes and Topics; and Myths and Heroes -- the volume features extensive cross-references, a filmography (of discussed and relevant films), notes, and a bibliography of selected historical works on each subject. The Columbia Companion to American History on Film is also an important resource for teachers, with extensive information for research or for course development appropriate for both high school and college students.
Though each essay reflects the unique body of film and print works covering the subject at hand, every essay addresses several fundamental questions:
• What are the key films on this topic?
• What sources did the filmmaker use, and how did the film deviate (or remain true to) its sources?
• How have film interpretations of a particular historical topic changed, and what sorts of factors -- technological, social, political, historiographical -- have affected their evolution?
• Have filmmakers altered the historical record with a view to enhancing drama or to enhance the "truth" of their putative message?
Customer Reviews:
Indispensable Reference for Film and/or History Studies.......2005-02-20
The purpose of this book is to supply a perspective on the following: how films belong to the eras in which they are made;
how films reflect the times as historical documents; how sponsors use motion pictures and television to influence history or our understanding of the past.
Close attention is devoted to the existing historical wisdom on a topic, drawing from the work of historians and other social scientists; the pertinent films on the subject are then tested in relation to the historiography of the time in which they were made as well as in relation to our understanding of the issues, today. All of this work is done without an axe to grind or a theory to vindicate.
This book should be near the desk of every history teacher from the high schools to universities. Because our understanding of the past is so intertwined with the media record, we need all the help we can get to untangle the facts from the fictions--or, at least to discern the differences in interpretations.
The book emerges from the work of a journal called "Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies," a publication which has been active since 1970 and is an affiliated society of the American Historical Association. The journal provides a continuing interest in these issues and should also be a resource at schools. Biennial meetings offer a great opportunity for teachers to experience the work of those committed to such studies. A compendium of such information is available at www.filmandhistory.org.
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The Abc-Clio Companion to the Media in America (ABC-Clio American History Companions)
Daniel Webster Hollis , and
Webster Daniel, III Hollis
Manufacturer: ABC-Clio Inc
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Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies (Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies)
Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishing Limited
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A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies is the first single volume survey of current discussions taking place in this rapidly developing area of study.The Companion breaks new ground for scholarship on gender and sexuality. Recognizing the multidisciplinary nature of the field, the editors gather new essays by established and emerging scholars, addressing the politics, economics, history, and cultural impact of sexuality. The book engages the future of Queer Studies by asking what sexuality stands in for, what work it does, and how it continues to structure discussions in various academic disciplines as well as contemporary politics.
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- The Science of James Bond: From Bullets to Bowler Hats to Boat Jumps, the Real Technology Behind 007's Fabulous Films
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