This is a book about the genius Japanese artist Katsuhiro Otomo (b. 1954). Best-known for the Akira manga of 1982-90 and the Akira movie of 1988, Otomo is also an all-round artist.
Jeremy Robinson merges the science of Crichton with the horror of King in this fresh take on the post-apocalypse, creating a true worst-case scenario for GMO crops.
The volume brings together scholars from across the Americas to address the complex evolution of political and policy media spaces as they are studied from a range of perspectives.
JACKIE COLLINS
QUEEN OF THE BLOCKBUSTER NOVEL
By Jeremy Mark Robinson
Romance ¿ sex ¿ glamour ¿ glitter ¿ Hollywood ¿ fame ¿ fashion ¿ crime ¿ murder ¿ sleaze thrills ¿ and lots of money. A survey of the fiction of Jackie Collins, the undisputed Queen of Hollywood and the blockbuster novel. Jackie Collins is a master storyteller. Collins can tell a story brilliantly, and she possesses that magical element that readers appreciate and publishers...
PASOLINI
IL CINEMA DI POESIA/ THE CINEMA OF POETRY
By Jeremy Mark Robinson
A new critical study of the Italian filmmaker and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975). The focus is the cinema of Pasolini, which includes The Gospel According To Matthew (his best-known film), the controversial Salo, the 'trilogy of life' movies based on Middle Ages texts (Chaucer, Boccaccio and the 1001 Nights), adaptations of ancient world plays (Medea and Oedipus ...
TSUI HARKTHE DRAGON MASTER OF CHINESE CINEMAA Critical StudyBy Jeremy Mark RobinsonTsui Hark is the dragon master of Chinese cinema (Stephen Teo calls Tsui a 'lion dancer among film directors'). Yes - a master, a lion dancer, a sifu, a wizard, a dragon. Tsui Hark is a one-man film industry - as a glance as his list of credits will show, along with setting up his own film company in 1983, Film Workshop. Tsui Hark directs movies like a force of ...
THE GHOST IN THE SHELL BOOKVOLUME 2: ANIMÉA Critical Study by Jeremy Mark RobinsonThis is a study of the adaptations of Ghost In the Shell by Masamune Shirow (real name Masanori Ota, born in 1961, Kobe, Japan). Shirow is a Japanese artist best known for Ghost In the Shell, Appleseed and Dominion: Tank Police. Masamune Shirow is one of the great creators in the world of Japanese manga and animé - his works have been the basis of several importa...
JACKIE COLLINSQUEEN OF THE BLOCKBUSTER NOVELBy Jeremy Mark RobinsonRomance ¿ sex ¿ glamour ¿ glitter ¿ Hollywood ¿ fame ¿ fashion ¿ crime ¿ murder ¿ sleaze thrills ¿ and lots of money. A survey of the fiction of Jackie Collins, the undisputed Queen of Hollywood and the blockbuster novel. Jackie Collins is a master storyteller. Collins can tell a story brilliantly, and she possesses that magical element that readers appreciate and publishers se...
Singularity is the final book in Robinson's epic Infinite Timeline, bringing together favorite characters from a vast world of standalone novels in a massive crossover that wraps up a 1.3-million-word saga. Cherry Bomb, an A.I. made human-and immortal-is out for revenge against her creator, Will, who left her on the Galahad, a ship full of unholy monsters, traversing the universe from beginning to end, ad infinitum. Countless years pass, givin...
THE ECSTATIC CINEMA OF TONY CHING SIU-TUNGBy Jeremy Mark RobinsonTony Ching Siu-tung (b. 1953) started out as an actor and stuntman, working in movies in the late 1960s and 1970s, he moved into television as martial arts co-ordinator, in the late 1970s and thru the 1980s (where on several historical TV series), he moved up to directing movies with 1983's Duel To the Death. This book is fully illustrated in colour. Tony Ching Siu-tung's two sig...
IMMORAL TALES
WALERIAN BOROWCZYK
POCKET MOVIE GUIDE
By Jeremy Robinson
Walerian Borowczyk (1923-2006) is one of cinema's great talents. Quite simply, there is no filmmaker quite like 'Boro'. Borowczyk's films have an astonishing, magical quality. They reach a place very rare in contemporary cinema, and are quite unlike the films of any other auteur. Borowczyk's films create their own space, with imagery, sounds and music of a really exceptiona...
SALO, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOMPIER PAOLO PASOLINIPOCKET MOVIE GUIDEBy Jeremy Mark RobinsonA new critical study of the Italian filmmaker and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini's most controversial movie, Salò, o Le 120 Giornate di Sodoma (1975). Salo is a challenging film in every way. Critics at the time (and since) have found Salo difficult to sit through or unwatchable. Salo transposed the novel The 120 Days of Sodom (1785) by the Marquis de Sade (174...
THE BEAST
WALERIAN BOROWCZYK
By Jeremy Robinson
Walerian Borowczyk (1923-2006) is one of cinema's great talents. Quite simply, there is no filmmaker quite like 'Boro'. Borowczyk's films have an astonishing, magical quality. They reach a place very rare in contemporary cinema, and are quite unlike the films of any other auteur. Borowczyk's films create their own space, with imagery, sounds and music of a really exceptional power. La Bête (a.k.a...
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEWPIER PAOLO PASOLINIPOCKET MOVIE GUIDEBy Jeremy Mark RobinsonA new critical study of the Italian filmmaker and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini's best-known movie, The Gospel According To Matthew (1964), widely regarded as the finest film about Christ, and one of the great religious movies. Pier Paolo Pasolini's other works in cinema include the controversial Salo, the 'trilogy of life' movies based on Middle Ages texts (...
KURT JACKSON
PAINTING - SKY - SEA- LIGHT - LAND - CORNWALL
BY JEREMY ROBINSON
LARGE PRINT EDITOIN
A new book about the British landscape painter Kurt Jackson (b. 1961). This new edition includes a text which has been completely updated. There are also many new illustrations. including photographs taken for this new edition. EXTRACT FROM CHAPTER 4: One of Kurt Jackson's appealing concepts is that the ocean is one of the last true wildernesses l...
In all the days since my kidnapping, breaking and transformation into a hunter at the hands of the half-human, half-demon Nephilim, my life has been a mass of chaotic actions and reactions to the horrors of the Antarctic underworld. I have battled unnatural monsters, fled for my life, and sacrificed everything-or thought I had, when I stepped through the gates of Tartarus. Every choice I have made was in response to forces beyond my control, l...
This is a study of the adaptations of the art of Masamune Shirow (real name Masanori Ota, born in 1961, Kobe, Japan), a Japanese artist best known for Ghost In the Shell, Appleseed and Dominion.
William Chanokh is immortal... and he's trapped on the Galahad, an interstellar starship on a never-ending journey through open space. His only companions are Capria-mortal and in cryo-sleep-and Gal, an artificial intelligence, and the love of his life, with whom he spends every waking moment in the 'Great Escape, ' a virtual paradise."--Provided by publisher.
