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Since its first publication in 1969, Pioneers of Modern Typography has been the standard guide to the avant-garde origins of modern graphic design and typography. In this essential reference, Herbert Spencer shows how new concepts in graphic design in the early decades of the twentieth century had their roots in the artistic movements of the time in painting, poetry, and architecture. Spencer examines the "heroic" period of modern design and typography, the beginning of which he traces to the publication in Le Figaro of the Italian artist Manetti's Futurist manifesto. He discusses the work of such "pioneers" as El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. He examines the artistic background of the new concepts in graphic design, and traces the influences of futurism, Dadaism, de Stijl, suprematism, constructivism, and the Bauhaus. His text is profusely illustrated with examples of the new typography, shown in genres that range from posters and magazine covers to Apollinaire's "figurative poetry."
This revised edition, which follows the revised and redesigned edition of 1983, includes a foreword by design critic Rick Poyner that discusses the important contributions to the history of graphic design made by Herbert Spencer.
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Compact yet thorough survey.......2007-08-02
Picked up this book used just because it contained so many interesting examples of European graphic design from the first half of the 20th century. I wasn't disappointed by the text. Spencer paints a good picture of who influenced whom, who was meeting with whom, where, and when. What struck me was how seriously these individuals took typography and design. They thought they could fundamentally change society, change governments. I guess governments thought so too, as some were imprisoned by the Nazis and one, H.M. Werkman, was executed.
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I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie is a collection of more than 200 of Ebert's most biting and entertaining reviews of films receiving a mere star or less from the only film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize. Ebert has no patience for these atrocious movies and minces no words in skewering the offenders.Witness:Armageddon * (1998) - The movie is an assault on the eyes, the ears, the brain, common sense, and the human desire to be entertained. No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.The Beverly Hillbillies* (1993) - Imagine the dumbest half-hour sitcom you've ever seen, spin it out to ninety-three minutes by making it even more thin and shallow, and you have this movie. It's appalling.North no stars (1994) - I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it.Police Academy no stars (1984) - It's so bad, maybe you should pool your money and draw straws and send one of the guys off to rent it so that in the future, whenever you think you're sitting through a bad comedy, he could shake his head, chuckle tolerantly, and explain that you don't know what bad is.Dear God * (1996) - Dear God is the kind of movie where you walk out repeating the title, but not with a smile.The movies reviewed within I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie are motion pictures you'll want to distance yourself from, but Roger Ebert's creative and comical musings on those films make for a book no movie fan should miss.
Customer Reviews:
A funny funny funny book.......2006-11-06
This compilation of some the movies that Roger Ebert gave negative reviews to is worthy reading.
Some of the movies here are just plain bad. Reading Ebert sound off on them is priceless.
In many instances, the movies succumb to the cliches examined in Ebert's "Little Movie Glossary" such as the "talking gunman" in which the villain holds a gun on somebody and talks at legnth when he should be shooting. Other movies are just unique in their own awful way.
Some of Ebert's comments are downright hilarious. In a review of "Mad Dog Time", he calls it "the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank screen for the same length of time". He said about the critically lambasted "Patch Adams" that the film made him want to spray the screen with Lysol.
Film bombs such as "The Lonely Lady" and "Exit to Eden", among others, get what's coming to them. This book is the flipside to Ebert's "Great Movies" series, and is just as recommended by me as those books are.
No clue.......2006-07-29
This book proves--once again--that Roget Ebert has no business being a movie critic.
Hilarious.......2005-11-28
First of all, this book is hilarious. Roger's reviews are fantastic, especially the review of "Airport '77".
However, that's not why I'm writing this review. The reason I'm writing this review is to point out how unbelievably hypocritical the last reviewer is. I hope, sincerely, that this all a sick joke.
Go ahead and sift through the illiterate semi-coherent ramblings that comprise his body of criticism here on Amazon. You can tell a lot of the things he's reviewing, he didn't actually watch, read or listen to, except of course for all the comic books and Star Trek.
Roger Ebert reinvented the modern critic. He's not a third-rate hack, churning out drivel, basking in the eerie glow of a PC monitor in his mom's basement. He seems to have the puritanical bent of a censor-loving Sunday school marm and at the same time bashes conservative political books.
Then he bashes Roger Ebert for all the things he's guilty of and being the guy he's clearly jealous of.
God bless the Internet for giving every moron a voice.
Roger Ebert's Movie Megacheese.......2004-09-08
Roger Ebert, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie (Andrews McMeel, 2000)
The question that kept going through my mind while I was reading this book was, "why did he choose these particular reviews?" I had assumed it was a complete listing of two-star-and-lower films until I re-read the back, which specifically says it's a selection. Why on earth didn't he bury some of these, or use this as a chance to apologize for some of the blunders here? He trashes some acknowledged classics here (Blue Velvet, for example, or Jarmusch's Dead Man), and his reiteration of those reviews, unchanged, seems to telegraph that he's standing his ground.
That said, the rest of them are great. Dave Barry blurbs on the back, "he makes some of these movies sound so bad that now I've got to see them." Indeed. Ebert takes no prisoners here, relentlessly exposing some of the worst films you are likely ever to see. (Oddly, from what I remember of Siskel and Ebert's show, though, there's not a single Dog of the Week in the book. I was quite looking forward to reading Ebert's print reviews of Motel Hell, Soup for One, and Pink Floyd: The Wall, all of which I greatly enjoyed, and all of which were Dogs of the Week.)
My main problem with the book (aside from not acknowledging the greatness of a few obvious films) is that there are some reviews where it seems obvious he wasn't paying much attention to the movie; the odd factual error here and there about what's going on, or not interpreting a piece of the film where the intended interpretation is so obvious a half-blind six-year-old could figure it out. After all, Hollywood is rarely known for its subtlety.
A good collection, though, and sure to add a few stinkers to Bad Movie Night. *** ½
Unnecessary. .......2004-09-06
Roger Ebert is a great movie reviewer and he is the most famous film critics in The United States, but this book will be an unnecessary waste of money. To find all these reviews, a film lover just has to go to Ebert's website on the Internet. There, the reader will find all these reviews and many more!
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Do you: Ever wonder if you have been cheated at poker? Have any idea how much it goes on? Know about collusion, sleight-of-hand, marked cards and chip dumping? Cheating in poker is more common than people care to believe. Although most cheating occurs in private games that do not follow strict gaming procedures, it is also common in regulated card rooms, casinos and even online. There are many ways to cheat, some subtle, some not so subtle. Richard Marcus knows about them all. Ten years ago poker was a minority interest. The advent of online play has changed all that - poker is now big business. Millions of players play every day, both live and online. If you are one of them you will want to ensure that the games you play in are clean. This book will tell you how cheaters operate, what methods they use and how to spot them. Table of Contents: Introduction: Why this book? Chapter One: Poker cheating: Its been going on for ages and not about to stop. Chapter Two: The underworld of legal casino poker. Chapter Three: It happens here, there, everywhere. Chapter Four: Underneath the tournament tables. Chapter Five: The Underworld Series of Poker.The granddaddy of crooked tournament play. Chapter Six: Crooked Fingers in World Series Ring Games. Chapter Seven: Online-Oncrime. Chapter Eight: For those of you who play at home. Beware of best friends who are your poker night enemies. Chapter Nine: The top ten poker scams of all time. Chapter Ten: Where will it go from here.
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'Must' reading for anyone who enjoys the game.......2007-06-03
Over the past few years the game of poker (especially the forms known as Texas Hold'em) has become more popular and widespread than ever. Now almost every casino in the country has its Poker Rooms, and every week television viewers can watch poker tournaments -- which further inspires them to play in home games, online games, and aspire to make the 'final table' at gaming casinos. But as with any other game of skill and chance where money is wagered, won, and lost, there are those who cheat their fellow players. The many ways of cheating at poker range from the subtle to the obvious, and include collusion, slight-of-hand, marked cards, and chip dumping. Now poker expert Richard Marcus has provided aspiring poker players with an exhaustive manual focused on the phenomena of cheating at poker, how to insure any game they enter is an honest one, and how to spot cheating when it occurs whether it is a local game among friends, on the part of strangers in a regulated card room, or even in such massive and televised tournaments as the World Series of Poker that takes place annual in Las Vegas. Informed, informative, and thoroughly 'reader friendly, Richard Marcus practical and definitive study "Dirty Poker" should be considered 'must' reading for anyone who enjoys the game, and most especially for those who aspire to become professional poker players themselves.
Fun stories - a few exaggerations perhaps...?.......2007-05-30
Loved the book, and would recommend it to anyone who likes a story about a good poker hustle. Poker has been somewhat synonamous with cheating since the days of the Wild West, and cheating has evolved alongside the technology of the day. Marcus tells some fun stories, even though I suspect him of embellishing here and there. It also should be noted, though, that cheating at poker isn't a gauranteed way to come out on top. Let's take collusion, for example, where two players signal each other as to what their hands are. While it provides a small EDGE, it still doesn't guarantee victory, because the intended victim might still have a huge hand himself. Same goes for chip-passing away from the table, or chip-dumping to accomplices during the tournament itself. In major tournaments (which, by the way, Marcus thinks he is "exposing" for the first time to the poker masses, when I think most people who play tournaments are aware exists to some extent) -- first of all, it's hard to get away with because most casinos require all chips to be left on the table, even during breaks, and you risk getting thrown out of a tournament if you're caught. But even if you're able to successfully pass a few chips to an accomplice. It represents only a small edge, whereas Marcus describes it as an automatic path to winning the entire tournament. I guess that sums up my only complaint with the book...Marcus tries to present the poker world as CRAWLING with cheats at every turn, almost suggesting that anyone who DOESN'T cheat simply doesn't stand a chance. But I think the reality is quite different...sure there are cheats sprinkled throughout the poker world, as in any walk of life, but I think they represent a tiny percentage of players. Why? Because cheating -- at least cheating productively -- is HARD. Much harder, in fact, than simply learning a solid, winning strategy.
I like that Marcus devoted a full chapter to ONLINE play, because that really is the present and future of poker. Seems like everyone is playing online these days, and the anonymity of the internet introduced a whole new array of cheating possibilities. But the fact off the matter is that online play is, in my opinion, much SAFER an environment because of the technologies used by sites to identify cheaters. Unlike in live casinos, the poker sites have records of every single hand played on their site, so can easily investigate suspicious play between two players (e.g. chip-dumping or soft-playing), and obviously makes impossible things like card-marking or chip-passing. In fact, I'm just recently getting back into the online scene; after the UIGEA legislation passed last year, a few sites no longer let me play, but there are plenty of sites that continue to serve the American poker market -- I just didn't know how to deposit after Neteller stopped serving the U.S., but there are plenty of alternatives I found after a little internet research -- the PokerSavior site (google for it) lists the US-friendly sites and compatible deposit methods. It will be interesting, of course, to see how the online scene changes in the coming months...with so much money at stake, there's no doubt that would-be crooks will try anything and everything...maybe even enough material for Marcus to write a sequel!
Good.......2007-03-22
Gift for Dad again.. this time he says "it's okay". Not too many things he didn't already know.
Dirty Poker.......2007-03-10
It is hard to know if this author knows his facts. There is one small part about thoroughbred horseracing and his facts in that area are not right. When an author gets the one thing you really know about wrong, it is hard to believe that he is right in the areas you do not know as much about.
Arrogant tone, and rather full of himself.......2006-09-20
Simply put, can you trust a book written by a man who made his living telling lies and cheating people out of money? I feel like I was cheated out my money by buying this book! Shame on me! ;)
Book Description
Hop on Pop showcases the work of a new generation of scholars—from fields such as media studies, literature, cinema, and cultural studies—whose writing has been informed by their ongoing involvement with popular culture and who draw insight from their lived experiences as critics, fans, and consumers. Proceeding from their deep political commitment to a new kind of populist grassroots politics, these writers
challenge old modes of studying the everyday. As they rework traditional scholarly language, they search for new ways to write about our complex and compelling engagements with the politics and pleasures of popular culture and sketch a new and lively vocabulary for the field of cultural studies.
The essays cover a wide and colorful array of subjects including pro wrestling, the computer games Myst and Doom, soap operas, baseball card collecting, the Tour de France, karaoke, lesbian desire in the Wizard of Oz, Internet fandom for the series Babylon 5, and the stress-management industry. Broader themes examined include the origins of popular culture, the aesthetics and politics of performance, and the social and
cultural processes by which objects and practices are deemed tasteful or tasteless. The commitment that binds the contributors is to an emergent perspective in cultural studies, one that engages with popular culture as the culture that "sticks to the skin," that becomes so much a part of us that it becomes increasingly difficult to examine it from a distance. By refusing to deny or rationalize their own often contradictory identifications with popular culture, the contributors ensure that the volume as a whole reflects the immediacy and vibrancy of its objects of study.
Hop on Pop will appeal to those engaged in the study of popular culture, American studies, cultural studies, cinema and visual studies, as well as to the general educated reader.
Contributors. John Bloom, Gerry Bloustein, Aniko Bodroghkozy, Diane Brooks, Peter Chvany, Elana Crane, Alexander Doty, Rob Drew, Stephen Duncombe, Nick Evans, Eric Freedman, Joy Fuqua, Tony Grajeda, Katherine Green, John Hartley, Heather Hendershot, Henry Jenkins, Eithne Johnson, Louis Kaplan, Maria Koundoura, Sharon Mazer, Anna McCarthy, Tara McPherson, Angela Ndalianis, Edward O’Neill, Catherine Palmer, Roberta Pearson, Elayne Rapping, Eric Schaefer, Jane Shattuc, Greg Smith, Ellen Strain, Matthew Tinkhom, William Uricchio, Amy Villarego, Robyn Warhol, Charles Weigl, Alan Wexelblat, Pamela Robertson Wojcik, Nabeel Zuberi
Customer Reviews:
Mind-Sharpening.......2007-05-13
Admittedly, I got this book because of Stephen Duncombe's essay on zine culture in which I am mentioned, but I did in fact read it from cover to cover and was fully absorbed throughout. The authors have taken on the difficult task of offering perspectives on what it all means to have a popular culture and to be a part of it. The danger, of course, lies in writing from such an academic perspective that the essays could become completely meaningless to anyone not an academic scholar. But, I am happy to say that the essays consistently maintain a level-headed, practical attitude and do not insist on meanings that could be seen as peculiar or irrelevant.
Instead, you get a comprehensive look at everything from pro-wrestling to talk shows, television sit-coms to zines, and much more. The writing is sensible and leaves it up to the reader to draw final conclusions. A general theme is to not take popular culture too seriously and to understand that as consumers, we have the power to shape it. Further, popular culture is not always what it seems and high-flying rhetoric is used by big business and politicians to manipulate consumers for profit. Of course, we know that, but the essays offer us clues as to the process and how we can be more aware of how we are being manipulated.
The book is a long read if you do so cover-to-cover. But the essays themselves read fast. Although some people may wish to read only some of them, I highly recommend the whole book as there are a lot of insights offered into the topics covered as well as bits and pieces of information that allow you to walk away feeling knowlegeable about the topics covered.
Henry Jenkins is brilliant........2004-08-13
Why more people don't know his name is beyond me. Maybe its because of his haircut?
In all seriousness, reading the man's work is like waking up and realizing that you've been dreaming. He lifts the veil off the world we live in, the media stream that we swim in, and he illuminates its basic nature better than anyone I have ever read. He also has the great advantage of not being a "fogey", in other words he's not mystified by popular culture, he UNDERSTANDS it. He KNOWS why we like certain videogames and movies and doesn't berate the world for it, rather he simply looks at the underpinnings of those desires. Great stuff. Read all his works - and then visit VIDEOTOPIA because Professor Jenkins references it and it's cool.
Giving Pop Culture Its Due!.......2003-02-24
An outrageously eclectic collection of essays about the world we live in, finally turning a legible as well as legitimate critical eye towards our cultural organism - and some of the weird and wonderful sprouts. A book to take your mind off of the nasty habits of humanity (like war) and set you thinking about the wonderful weird stuff we do every day.
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- Posters: A Concise History (World of Art)
- Primer of Visual Literacy
- Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House: Writings 1973-1994
- Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History after Postmodernism
- reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow
- Retail Desire: Design Display and Visual Merchandising
- Robert Rauschenberg: Breaking Boundaries
- Ron Mueck: Catalogue Raisonne
- Searching for the Perfect Beat: Flyer Designs of the American Rave Scene
- Shanghai Girl Gets All Dressed Up
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