Born in Taiwan, Ang Lee is one of cinema's most versatile directors whose ability to traverse cultural, national, and sexual boundaries has gained him worldwide recognition. His astonishingly diverse résumé shows him tackling culture clashes and globalization ( Eat Drink Man Woman, 1993), period drama ( Sense and Sensibility, 1995), blockbusters ( Hulk, 2003), and gay romance ( Brokeback Mountain, 2005). In this book, the first full-length study of Ang Lee's work, Whitney Crothers Dilley uses suggestive readings of gender and identity to uncover the enormous international appeal of this acclaimed contemporary director.

The colorist working in film and video is the individual responsible for breathing life into characters, bringing a mood into a scene, and making the final product polished and professional-looking. This craft is an art form that often takes years to perfect and many trial-and-error attempts at getting it right. Here to help both the newcomer and professional who needs to brush up on their skills is the first book to cover a wide variety of techniques that can be used by colorists, no matter what system they're using. Whether you're using a video editing package with a color correction tool built in (Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro) of a dedicated application (Apple Color, Assimilate Scratch, Baselight, or DaVinci), this book covers it all. From the most basic methods for evaluating and correcting an overall image, to the most advanced targeted corrections and creative stylizations typically employed, you'll find this highly organized book a solid reference that's easy to navigate. The accompanying DVD contains footage as well as cross-platform exercises and project files for readers to experiment with. After reading the techniques, readers will learn to apply the methods that all of the color correction applications use, how to problem-solve and trouble-shoot, how to maximize the effectiveness of each tool that's available, and they will discover how to creatively combine techniques and tools to accomplish the types of stylizations that colorists are often called upon to create. Praise for Color Correction Handbook: From Alexis Van Hurkman comes an up-to-date, most welcome, encyclopedic guide for colorists: Color CorrectionHandbook (Professional Techniques for Video and Cinema). The breadth of this work is almost impossibly ambitious: Van Hurkman embraces all the important topics, and the liberal use of illustrated examples, with accompanying waveforms and solutions from various platforms, succeeds in providing a single reference work for the colorist at almost any level of expertise...Colorists will find gaps in their knowledge are as well-served by this book as the aspiring colorist already under the tutelage of a master. Ron Lingelbach Colorist, Dolby Laboratories; Founder, TKcolorist Internet Group (TIG) Color correction is a complex and subtle craft. The student needs to sit next to professionals on a real jobs, and ask them continuously what they just did, and why they did it. The professional rarely has the time and the patience to answer newbie questions, and the earnest scholar quickly ends up outside the grading suite, wondering sadly whether there was an easier road to knowledge. Now, at last, there may be. Alex Van Hurkman's book comes with a DVD of example material you can load onto your color grading workstation. It covers many useful real examples, explaining what you might do to make the images look better, what is the easiest way to do it on any of the popular platforms, and even how to explain what you are doing to others. If you want to learn color correction, this book will make a difference. Dr Richard Kirk Colour Scientist, FilmLight Ltd Recipient of 2010 AMPAS Scientific and Engineering Award Van Hurkman covers the theory and the practical application of color-correction very well...it's always good to understand the theory of *why* the image looks good or bad and how it relates to photography, electronics, and physics. I have no doubt Van Hurkman's book is as close as we're going to get to a standard textbook for the world of color correction. If nothing else, I think it communicates the idea to neophyte filmmakers that there's far more to color-correction than just having the software or the box. It's *experience* that makes good color -- not the system. Highly recommended. --Marc Wielage/Senior Colorist Lowry Digital/Burbank

美国当今声名最为卓著的独立制片旗手，当属乔尔·科恩、伊桑·科恩，这对科恩兄弟了。当习惯于好莱坞大公司娱乐作品的观众们最初看到他们作品的时候，一时间很难明了影片在说什么，是在讲一个诡异的故事，是在揭示边缘人物的生活状态，还是表达一种卓尔不群的思想，还是关于政治历史的隐喻？而科恩兄弟作品带着魔幻色彩的黑色风格、与好莱坞娱乐片截然不同的叙事手法、夸张变形的人物和情节，营造了一个独具魅力的个人影像世界，与好莱坞主流电影也有着天差地远的区别。 科恩兄弟在美国电影圈之外占据了一席之地。但是，不能否认的是他们在美学层面上存在着一种模糊性。好莱坞在独立电影的鱼塘中寻找着新的人才，它可能孕育新一代的导演，自然地结合了独立电影的佼佼者与好莱坞电影的佼佼者，科恩兄弟的电影既不是商业产物，也不是现实主义或描绘家庭生活的影片。它是一种既不排斥表演也不排斥大制作的作者电影，体现了科恩兄弟现实的野心。

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