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Non-Fiction Book ReviewsPage Two of TwoVideohound's Independent Film Guide by Monica SullivanVisible Ink Press, Nov., 1997.Trade paperback, 450 pages. ISBN: 1578590183. Ordering information: Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk 
Videohound's Independent Film Guide will certainly please movie
fans. The book provides comprehensive reviews to over 800 movies
made independently of the Hollywood Studios. These include the
films: Dirty Dancing, Fargo, The Thing Called Love
and Trainspotting
just to name a few. The guide also includes photographs and
information on the film including year made, rating, actors,
director(s) and writer(s), interesting sidebars and useful indexes
by cast, directors and distributors. The book rates the movies
from one to four bones and includes a WOOF! rating for the least
valued movies, with four bones being the highest rated review.
Of course, as editor Monica Sullivan points out, "even
the WOOF!s can be great fun, if you're in the mood for them."
This is a wonderful guide to Independent Films. This book will appeal to movie lovers, movie critics and to those looking for some great movies to rent that they may have overlooked in the past. Webster's New World Dictionary of Media & Communications by Richard WeinerMacMillan, July, 1996.Trade Paperback, 678 pages. ISBN: 0028606116 Ordering information: Amazon.com. | Amazon.co.uk 
How well do you know the jargon in the world of new media? Concerned
about not knowing what a Foley editor (from television and
screenwriting), a GOAT (used by the New Yorker), croquis
(from the fashion design world) or a duckfoot quote (English
punctuation term) is? Help is on the way! The vastly expanded
and revised edition of the New Media Dictionary is a comprehensive
guide of technical and slang terms in 28 fields including
advertising, computer, film, journalism, marketing, printing,
public relations, publishing, radio, telecommunications, television
and theater. With 35,000 entries, this dictionary is invaluable
for professionals in the media, communications, journalism and
broadcast fields as well as to freelancers, writers, students and
film and media buffs. The dictionary also includes a mountain of
other crucial information such as postal information, typography,
word origins, nicknames, common errors, library science and computer
terms and much more. Written by public relations expert and
lexicographer Richard Weiner, the founder of the public relations
firm that launched The Cabbage Patch Kids, this dictionary is
one you'll want to keep handy. A must-have for those in the media
and communications fields.
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