Film - History & Criticism
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Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic
$21.00 Add to cart“Much more than a page-turner. It’s the first essential work of cultural history of the new decade.” –Charles Kaiser, The Guardian
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling- Author: Frankel, Glenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1250829496
- Language: English
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Rosemary’s Baby
$15.95 Add to cartRosemary’s Baby is one of the greatest movies of the late 1960s and one of the best of all horror movies, an outstanding modern Gothic tale. An art-house fable and an elegant popular entertainment, it
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Newton, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1844579522
- Language: English
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This Was Hollywood: Forgotten Stars and Stories
$29.00 Add to cartIn this one-of-a-kind Hollywood history, the creator of Instagram’s celebrated @ThisWasHollywood reveals the forgotten past of the film world in a dazzling visual package modeled on the classic fan ma… [more below]
- Series: Turner Classic Movies
- Author: Valderrama, Carla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0762495863
- Language: English
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Fiasco: A History of Hollywood’s Iconic Flops
$19.95 Add to cartIn Fiasco, longtime industry insider and acclaimed Hollywood historian James Robert Parish goes behind the scenes to tell the stories of 15 of the most spectacular movie megaflops of the past 50 years… [more below]
- Author: Parish, James Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0470098295
- Language: English
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Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartDocumentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty’s pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore’s anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9/11, from Dziga Vertov’s artful Soviet pr… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Aufderheide, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 28 2007
- ISBN10: 0195182707
- Language: English
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How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, and Beyond: Art, Technology, Language, History, Theory
$32.99 Add to cartRichard Gilman referred to How to Read a Film as simply “the best single work of its kind.” And Janet Maslin in The New York Times Book Review marveled at James Monaco’s ability to collect “an enormou… [more below]
- Author: Monaco, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: May 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0195321057
- Language: English
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Steve Schapiro. the Godfather Family Album. 40th Ed.
$30.00 Add to cart“It’s dangerous to be an honest man.”
— Michael Corleone, Godfather IIIAs special photographer on the sets and locations of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather trilogy, Steve Schapiro had the rem
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: Duncan, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 14 2020
- ISBN10: 3836580640
- Language: English
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The Film That Changed My Life: 30 Directors on Their Epiphanies in the Dark
$18.99 Add to cartThe movie that inspired filmmakers to direct is like the atomic bomb that went off before their eyes. The Film That Changed My Life captures that epiphany. It explores 30 directors’ love of a film the… [more below]
- Author: Elder, Robert K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1556528256
- Language: English
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The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
$80.00 Read moreGet closer than ever to the movie that changed the movies. This behind-the-scenes spectacular of 2001: A Space Odyssey sheds light on the lead actors, senior production designers, special-effects expe
- Author: Bizony, Piers
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 3836584379
- Language: English
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Movies (and Other Things)
$25.00 Add to cartINSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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“Paging through Serrano’s Movies (and Other Things) is like taking a long drive at night wit… [more below]- Author: Serrano, Shea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1538730197
- Language: English
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Esoteric Hollywood: Sex, Cults and Symbols in Film
$19.95 Read moreLike no other book before it, this work delves into the deep, dark and mysterious undertones hidden in Tinsel town’s biggest films. Esoteric Hollywood is a game-changer in an arena of tabloid-populate… [more below]
- Author: Dyer, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: December 22 2016
- ISBN10: 1634240774
- Language: English
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Age of Cage: Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career
$18.99 Read moreAn NPR “Books We Love” 2022
“Age of Cage might be the closest we will get to understanding the singular beauty of each of Nic Cage’s always electric performances. You are holding the Rosetta Stone for- Author: Phipps, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250848822
- Language: English
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The Art of Noir: The Posters and Graphics from the Classic Era of Film Noir
$40.00 Add to cartThe Art of Noir: The Posters and Graphics from the Classic Era of Film Noir is “a gloriously lurid collection” (Seattle Times) representing the visual black-and-white aesthetic of the genre.
“Temptre- Author: Muller, Eddie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: August 05 2014
- ISBN10: 1468307355
- Language: English
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Jessica Lange: An Adventurer’s Heart
$34.95 Read more- Series: Screen Classics
- Author: Uzarowski, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 813197252
- Language: English
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The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel
$50.00 Add to cartThis book, part of the New York Times bestselling The Wes Anderson Collection series, takes readers behind the scenes of the Oscar(R)-winning film The Grand Budapest Hotel with a series of interviews … [more below]
- Series: Wes Anderson Collection
- Author: Seitz, Matt Zoller
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1419715712
- Language: English
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What Do You Mean, Murder? Clue and the Making of a Cult Classic
$24.99 Add to cartWhen the film Clue came out in 1985, audiences were baffled. A movie based on a board game, with three different endings, and you had to pick which one to go see? Bad reviews compounded the problem, a… [more below]
- Author: Hatch, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1949024601
- Language: English
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Hitchcock
$30.00 Add to cartIconic, groundbreaking interviews of Alfred Hitchcock by film critic Fran輟is Truffaut–providing insight into the cinematic method, the history of film, and one of the greatest directors of all time… [more below]
- Author: Truffaut, Francois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 2, 1985
- ISBN10: 0671604295
- Language: English
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Easy Riders Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And Rock ‘n Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
$22.00 Add to cartWhen the low-budget biker movie Easy Rider shocked Hollywood with its success in 1969, a new Hollywood era was born. This was an age when talented young filmmakers such as Scorsese, Coppola, and Spiel… [more below]
- Author: Biskind, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 4, 1999
- ISBN10: 0684857081
- Language: English
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The Jaws Log
$17.99 Add to cartWinner of three Oscars and the highest-grossing film of its time, Jaws was a phenomenon, and this is the only book on how twenty-six-year-old Steven Spielberg transformed Peter Benchley’s number-one b
- Series: Shooting Script
- Author: Gottlieb, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 7, 2012
- ISBN10: 0062229281
- Language: English
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The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to ACT
$21.99 Add to cartNational Book Critics Circle Award Winner, Nonfiction
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORKER, TIME MAGAZINE, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, VOX, SALON, LIT HUB, AND VANITY FAIR “Entertainin- Author: Butler, Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1639730761
- Language: English
