Showing results for "Digital Futures" in Film & TV

In How Star Wars Conquered the Universe, veteran journalist Chris Taylor traces the series from the difficult birth of the original film through its sequels, the franchise’s death and rebirth, the prequels, and the preparations for a new trilogy. Taylor provides portraits of the friends, writers, artists, producers, and marketers who labored behind the scenes to turn Lucas’s idea into a legend.

In the past decade, Hollywood has endured a cataclysm on a par with the end of silent film and the demise of the studio system. Stars and directors have seen their power dwindle, while writers and producers lift their best techniques from TV, comic books, and the toy biz. The future of Hollywood is being written by powerful corporate brands like Marvel, Amazon, Netflix, and Lego, as well as censors in China. Ben Fritz chronicles this dramatic shakeup with unmatched skill, bringing equal fluency to both the financial and entertainment aspects of Hollywood.

In this intensive, intimate, and anything-but-glamorous behind-the-scenes account, film insider and cinephile Paul M. Sammon explores how Ridley Scott used his creative genius to transform the work of science fiction's most uncompromising author into a critical sensation, a commercial success, and a cult classic that would reinvent the genre.

Former physicist Andrew Maynard threads together his love of science-fiction movies with his expertise on emerging technologies to engage, entertain, and make you think about the relationship between technology and society. Through the imagination and creativity of science-fiction movies, Maynard introduces listeners to the profound capabilities presented by new and emerging technologies, and the complex personal and societal challenges they present.

ENDLICH: ES LEBE CAPTAIN FUTURE, das Sachbuch zum Kult, als Hörbuch! Gelesen von Stefan Wendorf (Es lebe Star Trek) Vor vier Jahrzehnten machte sich "Captain Future" in seinem Überlichtraumschiff Comet in Deutschland auf den Weg, um die Galaxie vor machtgierigen Verbrechern und den Feinden der Freiheit zu schützen. Doch gibt es keinen Captain ohne Crew! So waren das lebende Gehirn, Professor Simon Wright und die Androiden Otto und Grag mit ihren niedlichen außerirdischen Haustieren Yiek und Oak stets mit an Bord.

The history of the films, cartoons, toys, and more: The Back to the Future series is a timeless collection that is greatly revered by all audiences. The beauty of this audiobook by Brad Gilmore is that it doesn't present the history of the film as textbook information. Gilmore discusses these films from a place of passion and so effectively reveals how the history behind the movies is just as engaging as the films themselves.

The abundant evidence suggests UFOs do exist and have been encountered for decades and that the earth is being visited by extraterrestrial entities. The question isn't are UFOs real, the question is what do they want? Why come to earth? Do they have an agenda we are not aware of? Explore this question further using fact based information and informed supposition. The conclusions may shock you.

Un futuro per l'Italia? Racconti di quotidiana resistenza in sei articoli di Repubblica: Il nuovo civismo senza odio, di Ezio Mauro; Manifestazioni, la nuova politica fatta dalle donne che la Sinistra non vede, di Lavinia Rivara; Il canto libero della pallavolo, muro all'ipocrisia, di Mattia Chiusano; Bentornata satira con la Tv delle ragazze: "Far ridere oggi è una vera sfida", di Silvia Fumarola; La seconda generazione debutta nel cinema italiano con "Bangla", di Arianna Finos; Cervelli in fuga negli atenei tedeschi, il primato degli italiani che ci dispiace, di Tonia Mastrobuoni.

The revelation that technologies believed to have existed for only 100 years, in reality, were engineered by early man centuries ago, has sent a shock wave throughout the scientific community. The discovery of what may be an ancient smart phone, a secret structure that can reverse aging, a working time machine based on Egyptian knowledge, and more showcase a stunning array of wondrous relics and machines that could not have possibly been devised by man, but with the assistance of intelligent beings not from this world.

Una trentina d'anni fa negli Stati Uniti si scopriva che spingendo una DeLorean a 88 miglia orarie, senza dimenticare di azionare il flusso canalizzatore, si poteva coronare un vecchio sogno dell'uomo mai tramontato, quello del viaggio nel tempo. Il 3 luglio 1985 era infatti arrivato nelle sale americane il primo capitolo della saga Back to the Future, una delle trilogie cinematografiche più amate degli ultimi anni.