Thursday, November 3, 2011

The Hurt Locker

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The official book tie-in to the critically acclaimed, original war thriller, directed by Kathryn Bigelow (K-19: The Widowmaker, Near Dark, Strange Days, Point Break) and written by Mark Boal (In the Valley of Elah), portraying the nerve-wracking missions of a military bomb squad in Baghdad.

One of the most highly touted war films in recent memory, The Hurt Locker is a riveting, extraordinary story of courage and survival on the Baghdad bomb squad, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, from a script by journalist and screenwriter Mark Boal, who researched the material by traveling to the war in Iraq, where he was embedded with a U.S. Army bomb squad in 2004. Boal’s screenplay, a fictional tale inspired by real events, follows the layered, co! mplex relationship between three soldiers who are thrown together in the crucible of combat, and stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, and Evangeline Lilly, with Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes, and David Morse.

In addition to the complete shooting script, this Newmarket Shooting Script® Book includes an exclusive introduction by Kathyrn Bigelow, a 16-page color photo section, production notes, storyboards, and complete cast and crew credits.
This digital document is an article from Commonweal, published by Commonweal Foundation on September 11, 2009. The length of the article is 1382 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: War as narcotic: 'The Hurt Locker'.(Screen)(Critical essay)
Author: Richard Alleva
! Publication: Commonweal (Magazine/Jo! urnal)Date: September 11, 2009
Publisher: Commonweal Foundation
Volume: 136 Issue: 15 Page: 24(2)

Article Type: Critical essay

Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage LearningThis digital document is an article from CineAction, published by CineAction on June 22, 2010. The length of the article is 7483 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Explosive structure: fragmenting the new modernist war narrative in The Hurt Locker.
Author: Douglas A. Cunningham
Publication: CineAction (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2010
Publisher: CineAction
Issue: 81! Page: 2(9)

Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage LearningThis digital document is an article from Sojourners Magazine, published by Sojourners on June 1, 2010. The length of the article is 497 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Violence resistance.(ONFILM)(Shutter Island and The Hurt Locker )(Movie review)
Author: Gareth Higgins
Publication: Sojourners Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2010
Publisher: Sojourners
Volume: 39 Issue: 6 Page: 39(1)

Article Type: Movie review

Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage LearningThis digital document is an article from The! Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM), published by The Santa F! e New Me xican on July 29, 2009. The length of the article is 635 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: 'HURT LOCKER' PRODUCER LAUDS FILM CREW - AND N.M. INDUSTRY.(Main)
Author: Unavailable
Publication: The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM) (Newspaper)
Date: July 29, 2009
Publisher: The Santa Fe New Mexican
Page: A-1

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The Newmarket Shooting Script® Sets offer a value-priced opportunity for screenplay lovers to build their collection. Each book within the set includes a facsimile of the film’s actual shooting script, plus exclusive extras, such as introductions by or interviews with the fil! mmakers, notes on the film’s production, selected movie stills, and complete cast and crew credits.

This set collects the Newmarket Shooting Script® books for the three most recent Best Picture Oscar® winners:

The King's Speech: 4 Academy Awards®, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. Features introduction by screenwriter David Seidler on his own childhood stuttering and the long journey to get the film made, and full-color photo section.

The Hurt Locker: 6 Academy Awards®, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. Features introduction by director Kathryn Bigelow, production notes, storyboards, and full-color photo section.

Slumdog Millionaire: Academy Award® winner for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. Features foreword by screenwriter Simon Beaufoy, introduction by and Q & A with director Danny Boyle, and full-color photo section.
War is a drug. Nobody knows t! hat bett er than Staff Sergeant James, head of an elite squad of soldiers tasked with disarming bombs in the heat of combat. To do this nerve-shredding job, it’s not enough to be the best: you have to thrive in a zone where the margin of error is zero, think as diabolically as a bomb-maker, and somehow survive with your body and soul intact. Powerfully realistic, action-packed, unrelenting and intense, The Hurt Locker has been hailed by critics as “an adrenaline-soaked tour de force” (A.O. Scott, The New York Times) and “one of the great war movies.” (Richard Corliss, Time)The making of honest action movies has become so rare that Kathryn Bigelow's magnificent The Hurt Locker was shown mostly in art cinemas rather than multiplexes. That's fine; the picture is a work of art. But it also delivers more kinetic excitement, more breath-bating suspense, more putting-you-right-there in the danger zone than all the brain-dead, visually incoherent wrecking derbies hogg! ing mall screens. Partly it's a matter of subject. The movie focuses on an Explosive Ordnance Disposal team, the guys whose more or less daily job is to disarm the homemade bombs that have accounted for most U.S. casualties in Iraq. But even more, the film's extraordinary tension derives from the precision and intelligence of Bigelow's direction. She gets every sweaty detail and tactical nuance in the close-up confrontation of man and bomb, while keeping us alert to the volatile wraparound reality of an ineluctably foreign environment--hot streets and blank-walled buildings full of onlookers, some merely curious and some hostile, perhaps thumbing a cellphone that could become a trigger. This is exemplary moviemaking. You don't need CGI, just a human eye, and the imagination to realize that, say, the sight of dust and scale popped off a derelict car by an explosion half a block away delivers more shock value than a pixelated fireball.

The setting may be Iraq in 2004, but ! it could just as well be Thermopylae; The Hurt Locker i! s no "Ir aq War movie." Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal--who did time as a journalist embed with an EOD unit--align themselves with neither supporters nor opponents of the U.S. involvement. There's no politics here. War is just the job the characters in the movie do. One in particular, the supremely resourceful staff sergeant played by Jeremy Renner, is addicted to the almost nonstop adrenaline rush and the opportunity to express his esoteric, life-on-the-edge genius. The hurt locker of the title is a box he keeps under his bunk, filled with bomb parts and other signatory memorabilia of "things that could have killed me." That none of it has killed him so far is no real consolation. In this movie, you never know who's going to go and when; even high-profile talent (we won't name names here) is no guarantee. But one thing can be guaranteed, and that is that almost every sequence in the movie becomes a riveting, often fiercely enigmatic set piece. This is Kathryn Bigelow's best film! since 1987's Near Dark. It could also be the best film of 2009. --Richard T. Jameson

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The Places and Spaces of Fashion, 1800-2007 brings together art, design, fashion, and a much neglected con! cern for its spatial realities. The spaces and places of fashion have often been overlooked in the writing of fashion history and visual culture. More often than not, however, these environments mitigate, control, inform, and enhance how fashion is experienced, performed, consumed, seen, exhibited, purchased, appreciated and of course displayed. Space, as this volume attempts to illustrate, is itself a representational strategy on par with and influencing the visibility and visuality of fashion. Innovative and challenging, the essays in this volume explore various physical and conceptual spaces, moving from physical environments to the two-dimensional with paintings, illustrations, and photographs to chart similarities, differences, and complex nuanced relationships between environments, fashion, identities, and visuality. The volume also navigates various sites (both permanent and temporary) of production, circulation, exhibition, consumption, and promotion of fashion tha! t define meaning and knowledge about a culture or individual b! y provid ing for a bond between embodied consumers/spectators and fashion objects. The Places and Spaces of Fashion, 1800-2007 is a compelling project with a thematic, theoretical, and historiographic approach that is at once both focused yet far-reaching and original in its implications. The volume engages with questions attending to the ‘modern condition’ by seamlessly weaving interdisciplinary discussions of the visual with material culture to explore the spatial dimension(s) of fashion. Some of the essays explore new and exciting spaces while others offer compelling revisionary analyses of relatively known sources

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This basic text explores the advertising and promotion methods used by fashion professionals and the role each method plays in the industry.Between the first decade of the 20th century, when women were still locked into figure-shaping corsets, to the last years of the millennium, when sexy sweats and low-rise jeans became must-have status items, fashion evolved from a luxury enjoyed by the highest echelon of society to a global business that whisks trends off the runway and into the stores before the last supermodel has left the catwalk. From full skirts to miniskirts and morning coats to leisure suits, men's and women's clothing design evolved so rapidly ! that it was all one could do to keep up and stay in style. Each decade is now associated with definable fashions, short-lived fads and signature silhouettes. And in recent decades, retro has become de rigueur, as designers continually recycle the past for modern-day inspiration.

Featuring over 500 ads from the Jim Heimann Collection, these fashion advertisements from 1900 to 1999 give readers a stylish retrospective on the century that defined, redefined, and reinterpreted fashion as we now know it. Arranged by decade and bursting with illustrations, the book's introduction, chapter text, and year-by-year timelines explore major trends in fashion--from a specialty business to the mass market. Highlighted throughout the book are the historical events, key magazines, the influence of movies and pop culture, and important trends, brands, and retailers. Whether you're a clothes horse or a fashion amateur, this visual history will provide a comprehensive guide to the evo! lution of 20th-century style.* Studies the influence of brandi! ng withi n the fashion industry* Studies the influence of branding within the fashion industry1920's Original Antique Vintage Clothing Poster PRINTED BY: Lithographed in USA Dec 28thAGE: c. 1920'sCONDITION: B+, Linen Mounted, some mild creasing and restored scuff, unobtrusive unless scrutinized very closely, displays beautifullyNOTE: This poster depicts a well dressed couple in twenties 1920's vintage fashion. It states "Careful identification insures complete return. Let the Laundry do it." It depicts a very stylish twenties couple in flapper, art deco era clothing. A new concept for the 1920's. We have never seen this piece before. Great for the laundry room, or for a laundromat, laudramat. Beautiful, uncommon and ready for framing! We only have this one. Size: 21.5 x 37 inchesUSPS Priority Shipping in USA is included, and we have a 100% approval policy. We want you to be happy with your poster purchase. A COA (Certificate of Authenticity) ! is included with each poster purchase. We've been selling original antique posters on the web since 1995. You'll deal directly with gallery owner Debra in your purchase.

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