Film - History & Criticism
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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
$29.17 Add to cartIn 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 Read moreFrom 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
$32.50 Read moreA NEW YORKER BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SELECTION
“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
$116.67 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
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Godzilla FAQ: All That’s Left to Know about the King of the Monsters
$24.95 Read moreGODZILLA FAQ: ALL THATS LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT THE KING OF THE MONSTERS
- Series: FAQ
- Author: Solomon, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1495045684
- Language: English
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Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film – Updated Edition
$19.95 Add to cartFrom its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the populari
- Series: Princeton Classics #15
- Author: Clover, Carol J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 26, 2015
- ISBN10: 0691166293
- Language: English
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Isn’t She Great: Writers on Women Led Comedies from 9 to 5 to Booksmart
$17.99 Add to cartA love letter to women-led comedies.
Based on Elizabeth Teets’s program series called “Isn’t She Great” at the Hollywood Theater, this anthology is a collection of the most beloved female-centric come
- Author: Teets, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 1960869019
- Language: English
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The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film
$35.00 Read more“A marvelous bombshell of a book, by one of our most formidably knowledgeable and insightful writers on film, it is filled with surprises and witty asides. Though Thomson is quick to pounce on the hyp
- Author: Thomson, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0063041413
- Language: English
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C’Mon, Get Happy: The Making of Summer Stock
$35.00 Read moreIn their third and final screen teaming, Judy Garland and Gene Kelly starred together in the MGM musical Summer Stock. Despite its riveting production history, charismatic lead actors, and classic mus
- Author: Fantle, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496838394
- Language: English
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Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema
$27.00 Read moreThe definitive account of Blaxploitation cinema–the freewheeling, often shameless, and wildly influential genre–from a distinctive voice in film history and criticism
In 1971, two films grabbed the- Author: Henderson, Odie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1419758411
- Language: English
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The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation
$70.00 Add to cartThe most complete book on the subject ever written, this is the fascinating inside story by two long-term Disney animators of the gradual perfecting of a relatively young and particularly American art… [more below]
- Series: Disney Editions Deluxe
- Author: Thomas, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 19 1995
- ISBN10: 0786860707
- Language: English
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Warner Bros.: 100 Years of Storytelling
$40.00 Read moreIn this official centennial history of the greatest studio in Hollywood, unforgettable stars, untold stories, and rare images from the Warner Bros. vault bring a century of entertainment to vivid life… [more below]
- Author: Vieira, Mark A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 762482370
- Language: English
