Film - History & Criticism
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A City Full of Hawks: On the Waterfront Seventy Years Later–Still the Great American Contender
$32.95 Add to cart“Journalist Rebello delivers a meticulous account of On the Waterfront’s bumpy path to the silver screen…. Rebello gamely traces how real-life political drama combined with rank Hollywood gamesmansh
- Author: Rebello, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1493077805
- Language: English
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The Art of the B Movie Poster
$49.95 Add to cartExploding off the page with over 1,000 of the best examples of exploitation, grindhouse, and pulp film poster design comes The Art of the B-Movie Poster, a collection of incredible posters from low-bu… [more below]
- Author: Newell, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1584238038
- Language: English
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You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out!: Life Lessons from the Movie A Christmas Story
$21.18 Add to cartFor the first time, author Quentin Schultze, who taught storytelling with screenwriter Jean Shepherd, reveals the “secret” parables that Shepherd included in his screenplay for A Christmas Story. Now
- Author: Schultze, Quentin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: June 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1937532011
- Language: English
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Recording Broadway: A Life in Cast Albums
$45.00 Add to cart“Grammy Award-winning producer Shepard throws open the door to the recording booth in his exuberant and fine-grained debut memoir…. Broadway aficionados will find plenty to enjoy.” – Publishers Week
- Author: Shepard, Thomas Z.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 149308125X
- Language: English
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Blazing Saddles Meets Young Frankenstein: The 50th Anniversary of the Year of Mel Brooks
$29.95 Read moreAn in-depth look at the 1974 releases of Mel Brooks’s Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein that will leave cinephiles enthralled.
1974 was a busy year for Mel Brooks. Although still recovering after
- Author: Hallenbeck, Bruce G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1493078003
- Language: English
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Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean
$29.95 Read moreA fresh and long-overdue reassessment of James Dean, examining his life and legacy as a queer man.
Although he died at a heartbreakingly young age and appeared in only a handful of movies, James Dean r
- Author: Colavito, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1493085654
- Language: English
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Rome Open City
$15.95 Read moreThis study examines Rome Open City and its place in Roberto Rossellini’s career. The film is based on events that took place in Nazi occupied Italy 1944, one year before the film was made. The author … [more below]
- Series: BFI Film Classics #55
- Author: Forgacs, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: December 27 2000
- ISBN10: 0851708048
- Language: English
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show FAQ: Everything Left to Know about the Campy Cult Classic
$19.99 Read moreThe Rocky Horror Picture Show FAQ is the in-depth story of not only the legendary stage show and movie but of a unique period in theatrical history – in the movie’s UK homeland as well as overseas. Ro… [more below]
- Series: FAQ
- Author: Thompson, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: February 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1495007472
- Language: English
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The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure
$22.95 Add to cartThis thrilling anthology celebrates the power of desire, bringing together personal essays, manifestos, and scholarly research, turning the spotlight on an industry where feminism is thriving.
The Fem
- Author: Taormino, Tristan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 19 2013
- ISBN10: 155861818X
- Language: English
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On the Waterfront
$15.95 Read more“I could have been a contender, I could have been somebody.” So speaks the haunted former boxer Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) to his brother Charley (Rod Steiger) in a scene from On the Waterfront (Eli… [more below]
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Braudy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 30 2005
- ISBN10: 184457072X
- Language: English
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100 Cult Films
$36.95 Read moreSome films should never have been made. They are too unsettling, too dangerous, too challenging, too outrageous and even too badly made to be let loose on unsuspecting audiences.
Yet these films, from- Series: Screen Guides
- Author: Mathijs, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 20 2011
- ISBN10: 1844574083
- Language: English
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Gone with the Wind: The Great American Movie 75 Years Later
$27.95 Read moreSeventy-five years after America fell in love with the cinematic classic Gone with the Wind, LIFE revisits the making of the award-winning movie and gives readers a rare look into the film’s captivati… [more below]
- Author: The Editors of Life
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 1618930702
- Language: English
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Tokyo Story
$15.95 Add to cartThis BFI Film Classics study of Tokyo Monogatari/Tokyo Story (1953) reveals the making, meaning and legacy behind Ozu Yasujiro’s masterpiece.
Ozu’s moving family drama is universally acknowledged as o- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Phillips, Alastair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1911239236
- Language: English
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Sunset Boulevard
$17.95 Read moreBilly Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard was a critical and commercial success on its release in 1950 and remains a classic of film noir and one of the best-known Hollywood films about Hollywood. Both its open
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Cohan, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1839024089
- Language: English
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Mean Streets
$17.95 Read moreMean Streets was Martin Scorsese’s third feature film, and the one that confirmed him as a major new talent. On its premiere at the New York Film Festival in 1973, the critic Pauline Kael hailed the f
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Matheou, Demetrios
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1839022957
- Language: English
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All the President’s Men
$17.95 Read moreAlan J. Pakula’s political thriller All the President’s Men (1976) was met with immediate critical and commercial success upon its release, finishing second at the box office and earning seven Academy
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Ray, Robert B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1839024046
- Language: English
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The Wes Anderson Collection: Isle of Dogs
$40.00 Read moreThe Wes Anderson Collection: Isle of Dogs takes readers behind the scenes of the beloved auteur’s stop-motion animated film.
Foreword by movie/TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz
Introduction by Every Frame- Series: Wes Anderson Collection
- Author: Wilford, Lauren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1419730096
- Language: English
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Point Blank
$17.95 Read moreJohn Boorman’s Point Blank (1967) has long been recognised as one of the seminal films of the sixties, with its revisionary mix of genres including neo-noir, New Wave, and spaghetti western. Its lasti
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Wilson, Eric G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 07 2023
- ISBN10: 183902576X
- Language: English
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Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan
$33.82 Read moreNamed a Best Book of the Year by Financial Times
“Singular, stylish and slightly intoxicating in its scope.”
—Rolling StoneAcclaimed media critic J. Hoberman’s masterful and majestic exploration of t
- Author: Hoberman, J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1595580069
- Language: English
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Heathers: A Novel Approach to Cinema
$15.95 Read moreWhat’s your damage?
In 1989, Michael Lehmann’s black comedy Heathers drew a line in the sand, rebuffing the sweetness and optimism of John Hughes’ more popular fare with darkness and death. Launching- Series: Deep Focus
- Author: Bowie, John Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 14 2011
- ISBN10: 1593764065
- Language: English
