Film
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If They Move… Kill ‘Em!: The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpah
$22.00 Add to cartThe only major biography of Sam Peckinpah in print, David Weddle’s If They Move…Kill ‘Em! tells the wild story of Peckinpah’s life with novelistic verve and does justice to one of the most important… [more below]
- Author: Weddle, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 18 2000
- ISBN10: 0802137768
- Language: English
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Cinematography
$27.00 Add to cartThe Essential Guide to the Cameraman’s Craft
Since its initial publication in 1973, Cinematography has become the guidebook for filmmakers. Based on their combined fifty years in the film and televis… [more below]- Author: Malkiewicz, Kris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: July 05 2005
- ISBN10: 074326438X
- Language: English
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Cinema Symbolism 2: More Esoteric Imagery in Popular Movies
$32.95 Add to cartFinally The much anticipated sequel to Cinema Symbolism is here Cinema Symbolism 2: More Esoteric Imagery in Popular Movies explores the hidden symbolism and esoteric imagery in such movies as Crims
- Author: Sullivan, Robert W., IV
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 668
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0692847359
- Language: English
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Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh
$29.95 Read moreThis new edition updates Mike Leigh’s career to his most recent films, Mister Turner and the epic masterpiece Peterloo.
Five-time Oscar nominee and BAFTA winner, the only British director to have won- Author: Leigh, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0571353827
- Language: English
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Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen
$26.99 Add to cartA fully updated edition of David J. Skal’s Hollywood Gothic, “The ultimate book on Dracula” (Newsweek).
The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the moder- Author: Skal, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 18 2004
- ISBN10: 0571211585
- Language: English
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A Hard Day’s Work: Storyboards and Stories of 12 Select Films and Television Shows
$48.00 Read moreWarren Drummond, a masterful Storyboard Artist to major directors in Hollywood shares his illustrious Storyboards and fantastic stories of his experiences on set with major directors such as Ron Howar… [more below]
- Author: Drummond, Warren K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0578335557
- Language: English
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History of Film
$25.95 Add to cartIn this lively and up-to-date analysis, David Parkinson traces the evolution of the moving image from the earliest shadow shows to the digital filmmaking of the twenty-first century. Covering the key … [more below]
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Parkinson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: October 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0500204101
- Language: English
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes: From Science to the Supernatural, the Many Mysteries of Indiana Jones
$15.95 Add to cartCould you really use a bullwhip to swing across a chasm? Or rip out a man’s heart without killing him? At last, here is the book that finally answers the Indiana Jones-related questions that have trou… [more below]
- Author: Gresh, Lois H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0470225564
- Language: English
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French Cinema: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIt is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until World War 1, when they were supplanted by Hollywood, the French cinema industry encompas… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Andrew, Dudley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0198718616
- Language: English
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From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy
$27.99 Read more“From culture writer and GQ contributor Scott Meslow, an in-depth celebration of the romantic comedy’s modern golden era and its role in our culture, tracking the genre from its heyday in the ’80s and… [more below]
- Author: Meslow, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0063026295
- Language: English
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Murder by Design: The Unsane Cinema of Dario Argento
$50.00 Add to cartThis book covers the films of Dario Argento, Italy’s acknowledged master of horror and suspense, has made a career out of exploring the macabre poetry of images of violent death. He did not, however,
- Author: Howarth, Troy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1644301156
- Language: English
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Shining Glory
$18.00 Add to cartTerrence Malick’s stunning film The Tree of Life is a modern Job story, an exploration of suffering and glory, an honest look at strife within a Texas family in the 1950s. In Shining Glory, Peter J. L… [more below]
- Author: Leithart, Peter J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: August 06 2013
- ISBN10: 162032413X
- Language: English
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As If!: The Oral History of Clueless as Told by Amy Heckerling and the Cast and Crew
$20.99 Add to cartWill we ever get tired of Clueless? Ugh, as if!Acclaimed pop culture journalist Jen Chaney celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the classic film’s release in the first book of its kind, weaving tog… [more below]
- Author: Chaney, Jen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 07 2015
- ISBN10: 1476799083
- Language: English
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How Not to Make a Short Film: Secrets from a Sundance Programmer
$19.99 Add to cartAnyone can make a short film, right? Just grab some friends and your handheld and you can do it in a weekend or two before being accepted to a slew of film festivals, right? Wrong. Roberta Munroe scre… [more below]
- Author: Munroe, Roberta Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 20 2009
- ISBN10: 1401309542
- Language: English
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Christopher Lee: The Loneliness of Evil
$30.00 Add to cartWhen Sir Christopher Lee passed away at the age of 93 in 2015, it was truly the end of an era. He was the last of the great horror stars.
This book is a comprehensive overview of Lee’s work in the hor… [more below]
- Author: Mosley, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1644301288
- Language: English
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Strong Female Character
$19.95 Read more- Author: Flint, Hanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 271
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1804440000
- Language: English
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Abbas Kiarostami: Interviews
$25.00 Add to cartThe cinephile community knows Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016) as one of the most important filmmakers of the previous decades. This volume illustrates why the Iranian filmmaker achieved critical acclaim … [more below]
- Series: Conversations with Filmmakers (Hardcover)
- Author: Raesch, Monika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: April 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1496844874
- Language: English
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Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr
$34.00 Add to cartHedy Lamarr’s exotic beauty was heralded across Europe in the early 1930s. Yet she became infamous for her nude scenes in the scandalous movie Ecstasy. Trapped in a marriage to one of Austria’s muniti
- Author: Shearer, Stephen Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 125004183X
- Language: English
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Accidental Genius: An Oral History of the Room
$18.95 Add to cartAccidental Genius features intimate and laugh-out-loud commentary from The Room cast and crew, including interviews from its star Greg Sestero.
What a story indeed! A rollicking recollection of experi… [more below]
- Author: J. Rausch, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1955904960
- Language: English
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The Hollywood Standard – Third Edition: The Complete and Authoritative Guide to Script Format and Style (Library Edition)
$49.95 Add to cartIntended to be kept at a screenwriter’s fingertips, The Hollywood Standard provides what even the best script software can’t: clear, concise instructions and hundreds of examples to take the guesswork
- Author: Riley, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1615933565
- Language: English
