Film - History & Criticism
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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 Add to cartThe 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
$25.00 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
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Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood’s Darkest and Best Kept Secrets
$10.99 Add to cart“Kenneth Anger has fashioned a delicious . . . box of poisoned bonbons. Picking through the slag heap of the Hollywood dream factory, he] has put together a truly prodigious anthology of star-studded… [more below]
- Author: Anger, Kenneth
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 15 1981
- ISBN10: 0440153255
- Language: English
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No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of a League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood
$29.00 Add to cartNational Bestseller
The inside story of how A League of Their Own–one of the most beloved baseball movies of all time–developed from an unheralded piece of American history into a perennial cinemat- Author: Carlson, Erin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 0306830183
- Language: English
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The Stanley Kubrick Archives
$25.00 Read moreIn 1968, when Stanley Kubrick was asked to comment on the metaphysical significance of 2001: A Space Odyssey, he replied: “It’s not a message I ever intended to convey in words. 2001 is a nonverbal ex
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Castle, Alison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 15 2016
- ISBN10: 3836555824
- Language: English
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The Golden Screen: The Movies That Made Asian America
$40.00 Add to cartFrom a New York Times bestselling author, this groundbreaking book celebrates and examines the history of Asian Americans on the big screen, exploring how iconic films have shaped Hollywood, represent
- Author: Yang, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0762482222
- Language: English
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Pandora’s Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV
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“Biskind’s saga about the rise and fall of prestige television explains, in punchy, propulsive prose, how we went from Tony Soprano to Ted Lasso.” —New Yorker
- Author: Biskind, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0062991663
- Language: English
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The Art of Princess Mononoke
$35.00 Add to cartThe art, from conception to release, of the classic Hayao Miyazaki film Princess Mononoke, including a look at Miyazaki’s original art and the use of computer graphics technology in the film.
The late- Series: Art of Princess Mononoke
- Author: Miyazaki, Hayao
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 26 2014
- ISBN10: 1421565978
- Language: English
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Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
$40.00 Read moreThe author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful
- Author: Schulman, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0062859013
- Language: English
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Cinema Speculation
$35.00 Add to cartInstant New York Times bestseller
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: a deliriously entertaining, wickedly inte
- Author: Tarantino, Quentin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0063112582
- Language: English
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The Power of Film
$27.95 Add to cartBreaking News!
One of America’s most distinguished film professors provides the defi
The Power of Film will air on April 10th, 2024 on TCM.
All six episodes will air on this date!
Make sure you tune in.- Author: Suber, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: September 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 1932907173
- Language: English
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The Art of Spirited Away
$35.00 Add to cartThe Fantasy Continues
The Art of Spirited Away collects color illustrations of Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi) for the first time in an English edition This book includes paintings and- Series: Spirited Away
- Author: Miyazaki, Hayao
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 25 2002
- ISBN10: 1569317771
- Language: English
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The James Bond Archives. “No Time to Die” Edition
$100.00 Add to cart“Bond, James Bond.” Since Sean Connery uttered those immortal words in 1962, the most dashing secret agent in the history of cinema has been charming and thrilling audiences worldwide. This impeccably
- Author: Duncan, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: January 13, 2023
- ISBN10: 383658932X
- Language: English
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Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
$32.00 Add to cart“Very smart and entertaining . . . dishy-yet-earnest . . . Gefter shows why Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? hit the ’60s like a torpedo.”–NPR, Fresh Air
“Raucous, unpredictable, wild, and affecting.”–- Author: Gefter, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 13, 2024
- ISBN10: 1635579627
- Language: English
