Film - History & Criticism
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The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
$93.33 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 Add to cartLike 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 Read moreThe 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
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Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art
$20.95 Add to cartThe story of filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki’s life and work, including his significant impact on Japan and the world–“an essential work in anime scholarship.” (Angelica Frey, Hyperallergic)
A thirtieth-ce- Author: Napier, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0300248598
- Language: English
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The All-American Cowboy Cookbook: Home Cooking on the Range
$16.99 Add to cartWhether they are riding the range under a blazing Texas sun or a cool Montana moon, or working on a hollywood sound stage, cowboys and cowgirls can work up a hearty appetite. Real cowboys can ride, sh
- Author: Beck, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 26, 2000
- ISBN10: 1558533656
- Language: English
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Hollywood: The Oral History
$37.50 Read moreThe real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine Hepburn, Meryl Streep, Harold Lloyd, and nearly four hundred others, assembled from the American Film
- Author: Basinger, Jeanine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: November 8, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063056941
- Language: English
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Film Noir
$29.17 Add to cartWhether it’s Double Indemnity, Kiss Me Deadly, or The Big Sleep, roam a screen world of dark and brooding elegance with this essential handbook to Film Noir. From private eyes and perfect crimes to co
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Silver, Alain
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: August 25 2017
- ISBN10: 3836561697
- Language: English
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The Art of Horror Movies: An Illustrated History
$45.00 Add to cartThis revised edition of The Art of Horror Movies includes more films, rare images, and in-depth explorations to bring this award-winning book completely up to date, cementing its position as the defin
- Author: Jones, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1493063251
- Language: English
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Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors
$16.95 Add to cartA kaleidoscopic study of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, and mystery, Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman’s long-awaited- Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
- Author: Penman, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 02, 2023
- ISBN10: 163590188X
- Language: English
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Save Me a Seat!: A Life with Movies
$18.99 Add to cartRick Winston’s lifelong love of movies led to the creation of one of Vermont’s leading cultural institutions, the Savoy Theater in Montpelier, Vermont. With humor and heart, he takes us behind the sce
- Author: Winston, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: 29-Aug-23
- ISBN10: 1578691281
- Language: English
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Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties: The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher–Te
$40.00 Add to cartA fascinating look at Hollywood’s most turbulent decade and the demise of the studio system–set against the boom of the post-World War II years, the Cold War, and the atomic age–and the movies that … [more below]
- Author: Hirsch, Foster
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 307958922
- Language: English
