Video photography – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Tue, 25 Feb 2025 06:52:56 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Video photography – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 Baz Luhrmann https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/baz-luhrmann/ Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=44269 Icons of Cinema: Baz Luhrmann explores the fascinating and flamboyant career of one of the world’s best-loved movie directors.

Famous for his lavish style and dramatic portrayal of tragedy and love, Luhrmann is known as Australia’s gem and his iconic work is instantly recognisable. Discover what makes a Luhrmann film – how he earned auteur status, the ingredients that comprise his signature style, the influences that led him to create each feature film and the themes he revisits most often in his work. You’ll learn how he uses music, dance, set design and costume to convey emotion and examine the human condition and how his interest in stage direction informed the style of his Red Curtain Trilogy.

Fully illustrated throughout with stunning photographs and movie stills, you’ll find a chapter dedicated to each major motion picture. It’s time to relive the magic of Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!, Australia, The Great Gatsby and Elvis.

]]> TikTok boom https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/tiktok-boom/ Thu, 06 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=33972 TikTok has taken over the world in just a few short years. What does its success mean for the future of technology? Journalist and author Chris Stokel-Walker tells the inside story of the Chinese app, with unprecedented access to key company figures.]]>

‘It is rare for a business analysis to read like a thriller – this one does.’  -  Azeem Azhar, Founder, Exponential View

‘Vital to understanding how[TikTok] works and the impact it’s having.’  – Damian Collins MP, former chairman of the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee

‘TikTok Boom is a must read for students, scholars, and policy makers.’  -  David Craig, Clinical Professor, USC Annenberg

A whole generation is hooked on TikTok. In just a few years, it’s raced ahead of WhatsApp and Instagram to become the biggest app in the world.

But how did it burst into life and overtake its rivals? Delving deep into its upstart origins, TikTok Boom charts the astonishingly rapid rise of China’s viral video app. It yields new insights into its culture, addictive algorithm, and influencer ecosystem. And it reveals the influence its owners in Beijing are having on hundreds of millions worldwide through the use of little-known content guidelines.

TikTok is the emerging battleground for a geopolitical tussle between East and West for control of social media. TikTok Boom is a rollercoaster business story bristling with ambition and drama.

Find out where TikTok came from and where it’s going. Find out how TikTok Works and whether it can work for you.
 
Reviews

‘A careful, detailed teardown of the people, culture and technology behind the world’s most dynamic social network. It is rare for a business analysis to read like a thriller – this one does.’  -  Azeem Azhar, Founder, Exponential View

‘It’s clear that Stokel-Walker’s strength is that he’s not just TikTok-literate, he’s TikTok-fluent. He knows the product, the people, and the entire ecosystem inside and out, and it is this familiarity that makes his telling so compelling, because he knows how to make you feel like you, too, are an insider in this strange new world.’ –  Rui Ma, founder, Tech Buzz China
 
‘Blending journalistic narrative with state-of-the-art academic research, no other author comes close to weaving this epic tale of the rise of China’s first global platform threatening Silicon’s Valley hegemony while operating as inflection point around the rise of one globe two Internet systems. This is a must read for students, scholars, and policy makers.’  -  David Craig, Clinical Professor, USC Annenberg

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