Michael Betancourt: 12 books
by Michael Betancourt
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
In his latest book, Michael Betancourt explores the nature and role of typography in motion graphics as a way to consider its distinction from static design, using the concept of the ‘reading-image’ to model the ways that motion typography dramatizes the process of reading and audience recognition...
Title Sequences as Paratexts
Narrative Anticipation and Recapitulation
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
In his third book on the semiotics of title sequences, Title Sequences as Paratexts, theorist Michael Betancourt offers an analysis of the relationship between the title sequence and its primary text—the narrative whose production the titles credit. Using a wealth of examples drawn from across film...
Beyond Spatial Montage
Windowing, or the Cinematic Displacement of Time, Motion, and Space
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Beyond Spatial Montage: Windowing, or the Cinematic Displacement of Time, Motion, and Space offers an extended discussion of the morphology and structure of compositing, graphic juxtapositions, and montage employed in motion pictures. Drawing from the history of avant-garde and commercial cinema,...
Synchronization and Title Sequences
Audio-Visual Semiosis in Motion Graphics
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Synchronization and Title Sequences proposes a semiotic analysis of the synchronization of image and sound in motion pictures using title sequences. Through detailed historical close readings of title designs that use either voice-over, an instrumental opening, or title song to organize their visuals—from...
by Michael Betancourt
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2019
This book explores the question of realism in motion pictures. Specifically, it explores how understanding the role of realism in the history of title sequences in film can illuminate discussions raised by the advent of digital cinema.
Ideologies of the Real in Title Sequences, Motion Graphics...
Glitch Art in Theory and Practice
Critical Failures and Post-Digital Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Glitch Art in Theory and Practice: Critical Failures and Post-Digital Aesthetics explores the concept of "glitch" alongside contemporary digital political economy to develop a general theory of critical media using glitch as a case study and model, focusing specifically on examples of digital...
Semiotics and Title Sequences
Text-Image Composites in Motion Graphics
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Title sequences are the most obvious place where photography and typography combine on-screen, yet they are also a commonly neglected part of film studies. Semiotics and Title Sequences presents the first theoretical model and historical consideration of how text and image combine to create meaning...
Yondering
The First Borgo Press Book of Science Fiction Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
This is one of a series of anthologies of science fiction and mystery stories by Borgo Press writers that are being distributed at cost as both ebooks and paperback volumes. The first volume in the sequence, Yondering, includes a baker's dozen of original and reprint tales by fourteen writers.
In...
by Peter David, Esther Friesner, Diane Carey
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2002
Like a strand of mutating DNA, a deadly conspiracy winds its way through the Alpha Quadrant, even as it stretches across several years of Starfleet history. This special omnibus volume contains the entire bestselling saga-by some of Star Trek's most popular authors:
Book One: Infection
John Gregory...
The Second Mystery Megapack
25 Modern & Classic Mystery Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
The Second Mystery Megapack selects 25 more tantalizing mystery tales, by modern and classic authors. Included are: FUNNY STUFF, by Ron Goulart PIT ON THE ROAD TO HELL, by John Gregory Betancourt WHAT IS COURAGE? by Mack Reynolds JUST THE FACTS, by Meg Opperman TEN GRAINS OF SAND, by Christopher B. Booth...
CIO Best Practices
Enabling Strategic Value With Information Technology
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
CIO BEST PRACTICES
Enabling Strategic Value with Information Technology
SECOND EDITION
For anyone who wants to achieve better returns on their IT investments, CIO Best Practices, Second Edition presents the leadership skills and competencies required of a CIO addressing comprehensive...
Television and the Self
Knowledge, Identity, and Media Representation
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Sitting prominently at the hearth of our homes, television serves as a voice of our modern time. Given our media-saturated society and television’s prominent voice and place in the home, it is likely we learn about our society and selves through these stories. These narratives are not simply entertainment,...