Film - History & Criticism
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Cinema Speculation
$21.00 Add to cart- Author: Tarantino, Quentin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0063112574
- Language: English
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The Making of Major League: A Juuuust a Bit Inside Look at the Classic Baseball Comedy
$15.95 Add to cartWith a foreword by Charlie Sheen.
A behind-the-scenes look at one of the greatest baseball movies ever.
If you love watching Major League, you’ll be fascinated by this inside story. Based on interviews
- Author: Knight, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 255
- Publish Date: May 29 2015
- ISBN10: 1938441648
- Language: English
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Contemporary Japanese Film
$29.95 Add to cartThis comprehensive look at Japanese cinema in the 1990s includes nearly four hundred reviews of individual films and a dozen interviews and profiles of leading directors and producers. Interpretive es… [more below]
- Author: Schilling, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0834804158
- Language: English
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Film Form: Essays in Film Theory
$20.99 Add to cartFrom Sergei Eisenstein, a legendary pioneer in filmmaking and director of Battleship Potemkin, Film Form collects twelve essays written between 1928 and 1945 that demonstrate key points in the develop… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Eisenstein, Sergei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0156309203
- Language: English
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So Deadly, So Perverse: Giallo-Style Films From Around the World, Vol. 3
$60.00 Add to cartThe giallo–a specifically Italian brand of lurid thriller–emerged in the 1960s and became a commercial force to be reckoned with throughout the 1970s. While not all of these films achieved the succe
- Series: So Deadly, So Perverse #3
- Author: Howarth, Troy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: May 31 2019
- ISBN10: 1644300575
- Language: English
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The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
$18.99 Add to cartNow a major motion picture–directed by and starring James Franco
From the actor who somehow lived through it all, a “sharply detailed…funny book about a cinematic comedy of errors” (The New York T- Author: Sestero, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 1476730407
- Language: English
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Godzilla on My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters
$19.99 Add to cartThis year, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of his first appearance on the screen, the original, uncut version of Godzilla was released in American theaters to the delight of Sci-Fi and B-Movie fans e
- Author: Tsutsui, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 15 2004
- ISBN10: 1403964742
- Language: English
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The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls, the untold, “richly detailed” story of the women of Walt Disney Studios, who shaped the iconic films that have enthralled generations (Margot L… [more below]
- Author: Holt, Nathalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 0316439142
- Language: English
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The Worst We Can Find: Mst3k, Rifftrax, and the History of Heckling at the Movies
$40.43 Add to cartThe Worst We Can Find looks at how “riffing” of films came about, the history of the shows, and why what could be an annoying habit in the theater has become a long-lasting franchise in entertainment
- Author: Sherman, Dale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 149306391X
- Language: English
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You Couldn’t Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation
$16.00 Add to cartYou can quote lines from Sixteen Candles (“Last night at the dancemy little brother paid a buck to see your underwear”), your iPod playlist includes more than one song by the Psychedelic Furs and Simp… [more below]
- Author: Gora, Susannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 22 2011
- ISBN10: 0307716600
- Language: English
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Audience-Ology: How Moviegoers Shape the Films We Love
$17.99 Add to cartDiscover the fascinating and secretive process of audience testing of Hollywood movies through these firsthand stories from famous filmmakers, studio heads, and stars.
Audience-ology takes you to one- Author: Goetz, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1982186747
- Language: English
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Ghostbusters: The Ultimate Visual History
$50.00 Add to cartWHO YOU GONNA CALL? The Ghostbusters saga has been thrilling fans around the world for over three decades, from the original movies to the animated shows, comics, video games, toys, and other collecti… [more below]
- Author: Wallace, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 27 2015
- ISBN10: 1608875105
- Language: English
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The Cinema House and the World: The Cahiers Du Cinema Years, 1962-1981
$34.95 Read moreThe writings of one of the greatest film critics of his generation on the auteur approach of the French New Wave to a more structural examination of film.
One of the greatest film critics of his gener- Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
- Author: Daney, Serge
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1635901618
- Language: English
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Picture
$17.95 Read moreA classic look at Hollywood and the American film industry by The New Yorker‘s Lillian Ross, and named one of the “Top 100 Works of U.S. Journalism of the Twentieth Century.”
Lillian Ross worked at Th- Author: Ross, Lillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1681373157
- Language: English
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Celluloid Adventures 4 Science Fiction Thrills…Horror Chills
$20.00 Add to cartAn overdue look at movies, that with one exception, were box-office failures.These movies cover a span of 35 years, from 1943 to 1978, and represent
the wide range of themes and ideas that science fict
- Author: Anez, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: August 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1644301350
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Walt Disney
$21.99 Add to cartThis is not only a fascinating account of Walt Disney’s own significant artistic creations, but also an insightful history of the hugely successful entertainment behemoth he created. Disney, the man,
- Author: Robb, Brian J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 09 2014
- ISBN10: 076245475X
- Language: English
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The Sound of Music Family Scrapbook: The Von Trapp Children and Their Photographs and Memorabilia
$34.95 Read moreThe Sound of Music Family Scrapbook celebrates one of the best-loved musicals of all time, and the seven actors who played the Von Trapp children. It’s filled with their recollections of that magical
- Series: Y
- Author: Bronson, Fred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1787391787
- Language: English
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Eraserhead
$17.95 Add to cartA surreal and darkly humorous vision, David Lynch’s Eraserhead (1977) has been recognised as a cult classic since its breakout success as a midnight movie in the late 1970s.
Claire Henry’s study of th- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Henry, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: May 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1839025603
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Candy: The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco
$24.99 Add to cart“A definitive portrait of the madness of big-time moviemaking” (Newsweek), now the basis for the new season of TCM’s hit podcast, “The Plot Thickens”
When Brian De Palma agreed to allow Julie Salamon- Author: Salamon, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 07 2005
- ISBN10: 0306811235
- Language: English
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The Story of Hollywood: An Illustrated History
$35.00 Add to cartBefore the film industry arrived, Hollywood was filled with quaint bungalows, and churches dedicated to teetotalism. Movies shattered Hollywood’s tranquillity, and brought wealth and glamorous movie s… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Gregory Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 403
- Publish Date: October 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0977629929
- Language: English
