This volume provides the latest outcomes of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) research. It discusses AR and VR's applications in various industries such as tourism, hospitality, events, fashion, entertainment, retail, education and gaming. The papers presented cover the most significant topics in the fields of AR and VR for researchers and practitioners, approaching them from a business and management perspective.
Opinionated, wry and engaging, this collection of memoirs, short essays and reflections paints a revealing picture of the film world. Beresford has a keen sense of the absurd, and is by turns genial, acerbic, bridge-burningly indiscreet and poignant. More diffuse than his debut memoir 'Josh Hartnett Definitely Wants to Do This', this collection of fragments is no less funny or trenchant.
These personal, in-depth interviews with colleagues, friends and family members of Rainer Werner Fassbinder offer anecdotes and insights into the director and his work.
China in the Mix is the first comprehensive investigation of Chinese film, expressions and culture from an acoustic angle in post-Socialist China. Xiao shows how complex, evolving uses of sound in film and media reflect and engage cultural and socio-historical shifts in contemporary China and the increasingly networked world.
Clint Eastwood's movies have presented sympathetic narratives of characters enduring personal trauma as they turn to violence to survive calamity or sustain social order. In this collection of new essays, contributors examine his films as studies on PTSD that expose the social conditions that tolerate or trigger traumatization and imagine a way through individual and collective trauma.
This is a reprint of the immensely successful Early Color (2008), which presented Saul Leiter's body of color photography in book form for the first time. Leiter's photographs of New York are subtle, often abstract compositions of lyrical, eloquent color.
Hou Hsiao-hsien's richly nuanced films combine multiple forms of tradition with a unique cinematic approach to space and time. This volume includes contributions from significant collaborators and critics, as well as conversations with the director himself.
In this book of myth, memoir and modern-day mentors (from fashion designers to lawyers), Blackie faces the wasteland of Western culture, the repression of women, and the devastation of our planet. It is a powerful exploration of the female relationship with the landscape, and challenges facing modern women.
Mennel illustrates queer cinematic aesthetics by tracing lesbian and gay representation in films that emerged at historical turning points in the twentieth century. Queer Cinema : schoolgirls, vampires and gay cowboys offers an introduction to gay and lesbian film history, and contributes to an academic discussion about queer subversion of mainstream film.
This picture book was developed from storyboards and concept art for a short film. Set inside a sushi train restaurant, each 'chapter' in the three part love story is told in a different animation style: 8 bit, stop motion and paper cut-out animation.
The Best Film I Never Made : and other stories about a life in the arts by 
Chaos as Usual : conversations about Rainer Werner Fassbinder by 
China in the Mix : cinema, sound, and popular culture in the age of globalization by 
She, Me & Sashimi by