Brian Price

Imagine finally living your American Dream, only to have a once in a generation pandemic f*ck it all up.After breaking up with his fiancé, Wyatt Lewis, a disillusioned millennial, escapes the East Coast to chase his wildest dreams in Southern California. The aspiring writer reunites with an old friend, Summer Harrison, while falling hard for the elusive and free-spirited Leah Murphy. Summer and Leah show Wyatt a dazzling lifestyle in San Diego littered with lavish parties, egregious drug use, and fake glamour. As Wyatt struggles to keep up with the Californians, he discovers he isn't the only one trying to drown his sorrows in paradise.A raw, romantic, and hilarious coming-of-age story, Last Chance California provides a snapshot of life for the millennial generation through the eyes of a sarcastic and stubborn narrator attempting to chase his American Dream in a world on the verge of a pandemic.

Last Chance California

Brian Price theorizes regret as an important political emotion that allows us to understand our convictions as habits of perception rather than as the signs of moral courage, teaches us to give up our expectations of what might appear, and prepares us to realize the steps toward changing institutions.

A Theory of Regret

Robert Bresson and radical politics

Neither god nor master

Aristotle and the Modern Scriptwriter

Classical Storytelling and Contemporary Screenwriting

Gazihan Alankus

Olena Lizina

Rakesh Mane

Vivek Nagarajan

Become an expert at C++ by learning all the key C++ concepts and working through interesting exercises Key FeaturesExplore C++ concepts through descriptive graphics and interactive exercisesLearn how to keep your development bug-free with testing and debuggingDiscover various techniques to optimize your codeBook Description C++ is one of the most widely used programming languages and is applied in a variety of domains, right from gaming to graphical user interface (GUI) programming and even operating systems. If you're looking to expand your career opportunities, mastering the advanced features of C++ is key. The book begins with advanced C++ concepts by helping you decipher the sophisticated C++ type system and understand how various stages of compilation convert source code to object code. You'll then learn how to recognize the tools that need to be used in order to control the flow of execution, capture data, and pass data around. By creating small models, you'll even discover how to use advanced lambdas and captures and express common API design patterns in C++. As you cover later chapters, you'll explore ways to optimize your code by learning about memory alignment, cache access, and the time a program takes to run. The concluding chapter will help you to maximize performance by understanding modern CPU branch prediction and how to make your code cache-friendly. By the end of this book, you'll have developed programming skills that will set you apart from other C++ programmers. What you will learnDelve into the anatomy and workflow of C++Study the pros and cons of different approaches to coding in C++Test, run, and debug your programsLink object files as a dynamic libraryUse templates, SFINAE, constexpr if expressions and variadic templatesApply best practice to resource managementWho this book is for If you have worked in C++ but want to learn how to make the most of this language, especially for large projects, this book is for you. A general understanding of programming and knowledge of using an editor to produce code files in project directories is a must. Some experience with strongly typed languages, such as C and C++, is also recommended.

Master the technique of confidently writing robust C++ code

Advanced C++

Angela Dalle Vacche

With case studies on such figures as Hitchcock, Godard and Almovodar, this anthology is devoted to the subject of colour in film and its history, production and technology. It is suitable for students starting a film studies course.

The Film Reader

Color

We've all seen that lone shopping cart sitting on the edge of a parking lot. Who goes and gets it and brings it home? Why are the mouths of catsup bottles so narrow? What will the new silence sound like? Droll, slightly dystopian, and delightfully wobbly, this collection of comic prose poems and short fiction by audio drama producer and playwright, Brian Price, is a fine introduction to his unique world of magic realism, stage monologue, and childhood memories. Perfect for public performance, private soliloquies, or just reading with your mouth full during lunch.

Monologues and Short Fiction

The Old Cart Wrangler, The New Silence, and Other Notions

John David Rhodes

Considers the films of Michael Haneke, who has emerged as a major figure in world cinema over the last fifteen years.

On Michael Haneke

Roger Hayman

A True History of Crouch End

Since we first arrived on the planet, we’ve been telling each other stories, whether of that morning’s great saber-tooth tiger hunt or the latest installment of the Star Wars saga. And throughout our history, despite differences of geography or culture, we’ve been telling those stories in essentially the same way. Why? Because there is a RIGHT way to tell a story, one built into our very DNA. In his seminal work Poetics, Aristotle identified the patterns and recurring elements that existed in the successful dramas of his time as he explored precisely why we tell stories, what makes a good one, and how to best tell them. In Classical Storytelling and Contemporary Screenwriting, Brian Price examines Aristotle’s conclusions in an entertaining and accessible way and then applies those guiding principles to the most modern of storytelling mediums, going from idea to story to structure to outline to final pages and beyond, covering every relevant screenwriting topic along the way. The result is a fresh new approach to the craft of screenwriting—one that’s only been around a scant 2,500 years or so—ideal for students and aspiring screenwriters who want a comprehensive step-by-step guide to writing a successful screenplay the way the pros do it.

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