Pop Arts / Pop Culture
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Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa
$24.95 Read moreThe first comprehensive biography of the director behind Godzilla and other Japanese sci-fi classics
Ishiro Honda was arguably the most internationally successful Japanese director of his generation, w
- Author: Ryfle, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500410
- Language: English
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The Making of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
$85.00 Read moreJust as Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi completed the most successful cinematic trilogy of its generation, perhaps of all time, this splendid thirtieth-anniversary tribute completes New York … [more below]
- Series: Star Wars
- Author: Rinzler, J. W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0345511468
- Language: English
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Grave of the Fireflies
$17.95 Read moreOn its release in 1988, Grave of the Fireflies riveted audiences with its uncompromising drama. Directed by Isao Takahata at Studio Ghibli and based on an autobiographical story by Akiyuki Nosaka, the
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Wit, Alex Dudok de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: May 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1838719245
- Language: English
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When Harry Met Sally …
$15.95 Add to cartWhen Harry Met Sally (1989) is one of the definitive romantic comedies and has had an enormous impact on the development of the genre since its release. With an illuminating scene-by-scene analysis, T
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: McDonald, Tamar Jeffers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 25 2015
- ISBN10: 1844579077
- Language: English
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Opium for the Masses: Harvesting Nature’s Best Pain Medication
$18.95 Read moreContrary to general belief, there is no federal law against growing P. somniferum.–Martha Stewart Living
Regarded as ‘God’s own medicine, ‘ preparations of opium were as common in the Victorian medici
- Author: Hogshire, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1932595465
- Language: English
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Free to Be…You and Me
$24.99 Add to cartThis is the book we all know and love by Marlo Thomas and her friends-brought to new life with brand new illustrations to captivate and inspire a new generation of readers on a journey of the heart. W… [more below]
- Author: Marlo Thomas and Friends
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 14 2008
- ISBN10: 0762430605
- Language: English
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Directing Great Television: Inside Tv’s New Golden Age
$29.95 Add to cartSharing his own process honed over a decades-long career, Emmy-nominated director Dan Attias brings you into the actual experience of directing series television. Whether it’s the high-stakes pressure… [more below]
- Author: Attias, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1615933298
- Language: English
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Bill & Ted’s Most Excellent Movie Book: The Official Companion
$25.00 Add to cartThe Official companion to all three bodacious Bill & Ted films.
Bill S. Preston Esquire and Theodore ‘Ted’ Logan (Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves) were the stars of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bi
- Author: Shapiro, Laura J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1787394417
- Language: English
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Back from the Future: A Celebration of the Greatest Time Travel Story Ever Told
$19.95 Add to cartA Fan’s Look at the Back to the Future Franchise
“Brad Gilmore’s book not only offers new perspectives and a deeper understanding of Back to the Future, it reminds us why we fell in love with it in the
- Author: Gilmore, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1642502057
- Language: English
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Cut to the Chase: Writing Feature Films with the Pros at UCLA Extension Writers’ Program
$24.00 Add to cartMillions of people dream of writing a screenplay but don’t know how to begin, or are already working on a script but are stuck and need some targeted advice. Or maybe they have a great script, but no … [more below]
- Author: Venis, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 06 2013
- ISBN10: 1592408109
- Language: English
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Change Your Brain
$12.95 Add to cartThis book tells the inside story of Leary’s early LSD research at Harvard. Known throughout the world as the guru who encouraged an entire generation to “turn on, tune in, and drop out,” he draws on w… [more below]
- Series: Leary, Timothy
- Author: Leary, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 21 2000
- ISBN10: 1579510175
- Language: English
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Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat: The Making of Roger Rabbit
$30.00 Add to cartWho Framed Roger Rabbit emerged at a nexus of people, technology, and circumstances that is historically, culturally, and aesthetically momentous. By the 1980s, animation seemed a dying art. Not even
- Author: Anderson, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1496822331
- Language: English
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Japanese Cult Cinema: Films From the Second Golden Age Selected Essays & Reviews
$12.99 Add to cartJapanese Cult Cinema: Films from the Second Golden Age is a collection of film reviews and in-depth essays exploring some of the best from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s.
During the period between t
- Author: Upton, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: May 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1399952277
- Language: English
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Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema
$26.95 Add to cartOffers user-friendly knowledge and stimulating exercises to help compose story, develop characters and create emotion through skillful creation of the sound track.
- Author: Sonnenschein, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: June 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0941188264
- Language: English
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Making Documentary Films and Videos: A Practical Guide to Planning, Filming, and Editing Documentaries
$25.99 Add to cartThe classic guide to making documentaries, now revised and expanded for today’s filmmaker
The second edition of Making Documentary Films and Videos fully updates the popular guidebook that has given r- Author: Hampe, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 10 2007
- ISBN10: 080508181X
- Language: English
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From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film
$27.95 Add to cartAn essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticism
First published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an undisputed landmark study of the ric- Series: Princeton Classics #43
- Author: Kracauer, Siegfried
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 0691191344
- Language: English
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Ubik: The Screenplay
$13.95 Add to cart“An accident has occurred. Joe Chip and his colleagues–all but one of them–have narrowly escaped an explosion at a moon base. Or is it the other way round? Did Joe and the others die, and did the on… [more below]
- Author: Dick, Philip K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 17 2012
- ISBN10: 0547572697
- Language: English
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The Apocalypse Now Book
$19.99 Add to cartThe making of Francis Ford Coppola’s epic, based on unprecedented access to his private archives
The movie took years to be filmed and edited, and was the subject of endless stories, rumors, and spec- Author: Cowie, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 07 2005
- ISBN10: 0306810468
- Language: English
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Scorsese by Ebert
$19.00 Add to cartRoger Ebert wrote the first film review that director Martin Scorsese ever received–for 1967’s I Call First, later renamed Who’s That Knocking at My Door–creating a lasting bond that made him one of
- Author: Ebert, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0226182037
- Language: English
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The Writers’ Room Survival Guide: Don’t Screw Up the Lunch Order and Other Keys to a Happy Writers’ Room
$29.95 Add to cartWriters’ rooms can be a heaven or hell,
depending on a few things. The best rooms foster inclusive and productive
creative flow. The worst create a toxic stew of bad feelings and doubt. Both
kinds- Author: Levy, Niceole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1615933468
- Language: English
