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BOOKS
Renaissance
eLearning
Samantha Chapwick, Jimm Meloy
Pfeiffer Wiley
ISBN: 0787971472
This book is a constant source of inspiration. It looks at how popular
narratives – movies, books, television, theatre and so on,
can be emulated to make a more satisfying and effective learning
experience.
Advanced
Web-Based Training Strategies
Margaret Driscoll, Saul Carliner
Pfeiffer Wiley
ISBN: 0787969796
Good, practical book. Easy to follow with useful chapters on storytelling
and contextually based approaches.
The
Blended Learning Book
Josh Bersin
Pfeiffer Wiley
ISBN: 0787972967
There is lots of best practice in here and some useful stuff on
media selection.
The
13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear
Walter Moers
ISBN: 0099285320
A book written by a celebrated illustrator and cartoonist, described
by Rolling Stone as ‘A yarn of drollery, deeper meaning and
sheer lunacy’. A unique novel, Moers’ imagination is
brilliant.
The
Art of Looking Sideways
Alan Fletcher
Phaidon Press
ISBN: 0714834491
A virtually indescribable concoction of anecdotes, quotes, images
and bizarre facts that offers a wonderfully twisted vision of the
chaos of modern life. Fletcher is a renowned designer and art director
and the joy of The Art of Looking Sideways lies in its beautiful
design.
FILMS
AND TELEVISION
The Mighty Boosh
Julian Barratt and Neol Fielding
Genius. The Boosh combine surreal comedy, great music, animation,
fantastical sets and costume into a fairy-tale take on the world.
Populated by monsters, idiots and dreamers, you can never guess
where the Boosh will take you. I have massive respect for people
who are genuinely multi-talented.
Amelie
(2001)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
A charming fairy tale of a girl who decides to change the world
by changing the lives of the people she knows. The understated use
of special effects works really well here. Jeunet’s City of
Lost Children is also excellent.
Repo
Man (1984)
Alex Cox
Alex Cox's directorial debut is a wickedly funny and willfully bizarre
tale of disaffected punks, repo men and decomposing alien corpses.
I’ve always been fascinated by low budget films, and how you
don’t need a huge production budget if you’ve got a
good yarn.
Belleville
Rendez-vous (2003)
Sylvain Chomet
A sumptuously animated film with a cracking soundtrack. Filled with
inspired, twisted imagery, this nearly dialogue-free film is a crowd-pleaser
of unusual power, with the strange, measured pacing of a dream,
and a great soundtrack of bizarre alternate-reality '30s jazz.
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