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  • Yves Montand

    The Passionate Voice

    door Joseph Harriss ...
    Serie series Screen Classics
    Once described by the New York Times as "the quintessential French Romantic, half adventurer, half-intellectual," actor, singer, and political activist Yves Montand won the hearts of audiences around the world with a charisma and talent that transcended physical and linguistic borders.Born in Italy as Ivo Livi, Montand achieved international recognition for his singing and performances in films ... Meer lezen

    32,86 €

  • Jean Gabin

    The Actor Who Was France

    door Joseph Harriss ...
    Serie series Screen Classics
    When one thinks of the quintessential Frenchman, one likely pictures Jean Gabin (1904-1976). The son of music hall performers, the Paris-born actor grew up in the entertainment business. His onscreen debut in the 1930's marked the beginning of many memorable roles in films such as La Grande Illusion (1937) and Émile Zola's La Bête Humaine (1938). His performances would earn him international ... Meer lezen

    27,03 €

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  • Death in the City of Light

    The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris

    door David King ...
    The gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris.As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking down the elusive murderer in a twilight world of Gestapo, gangsters, resistance fighters, pimps, prostitutes, spies, and other ... Meer lezen

    5,71 €

  • The Typewriter and the Guillotine

    An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII

    door Mark Braude ...
    **ONE OF KIRKUS'S 20 BEST BOOKS OF JANUARYONE OF BOOK PAGE'S TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE MONTHThe "endlessly compelling" (NYT Book Review) untold story of a trailblazing Paris correspondent for The New Yorker, who sounded the alarm about the rise of fascism in Europe while becoming enmeshed in the sensational case of a German serial killer stalking the streets of the French capital on the eve of WWII.**In ... Meer lezen

    11,99 €

  • Death In The City Of Light

    The True Story of the Serial Killer Who Terrorised Wartime Paris

    door David King ...
    THE MOST AMAZING TRUE STORY SINCE AGENT ZIGZAGOCCUPIED PARIS, 1944.A swastika crowns the Eiffel Tower.Nazis march through the streets.And in the dark heart of the city, a madman is at work . . .At a chic Right Bank address, a horrific pile of dismembered bodies is discovered. The property's owner, well-to-do Dr Petiot, immediately becomes the prime suspect, but he has vanished without a trace.As ... Meer lezen

    3,99 €

  • Dreaming in French

    The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis

    door Alice Kaplan ...
    "Alice Kaplan's triple portrait of three iconic mid-century American women dazzles beyond our evergreen fascination with [their] wildly disparate lives." —Patricia Hampl, New York Times Notable authorA year in Paris . . . since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision—and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. Dreaming in French tells three stories ... Meer lezen

    13,03 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • The Story of Film

    door Mark Cousins ...
    An updated edition – with completely new chapters – of the most accessible and compelling history of the cinema yet published, and complements Mark Cousins' fascinating 15-hour film documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey.Filmmaker and author Mark Cousins shows how filmmakers are influenced both by the historical events of their times, and by each other. He demonstrates, for example, how Douglas ... Meer lezen

    28,55 €

  • The Big Screen

    The Story of the Movies

    door David Thomson ...
    "An engaging primer on film history" examining the rise of movies, their influence, and the technology that conveys them ( New York Times Book Review).The Big Screen tells the enthralling story of the movies and their signal role in modern life: their rise and spread, their remarkable influence over us, and the technology that made the screen—smaller now, but ever more ubiquitous—as important as ... Meer lezen

    12,29 €

  • Expatriate Paris

    A Cultural and Literary Guide to Paris of the 1920s

    door Arlen J. Hansen ...
    Paris has long been a storied center of art and culture, and of romance, but in the 1920s its magnetism was especially irresistible. From around the world writers, artists, and composers steamed in, to visit or linger, some to reside. For travelers, Francophiles and the curious, this gossipy retrospective of expatriate life in Paris in the 1920s is a mosaic of quick glimpses—Sarah Bernhardt ... Meer lezen

    12,29 €

  • The Film Encyclopedia

    The Complete Guide to Film and the Film Industry

    Ephraim Katz's The Film Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive single-volume encyclopedia on film and is considered the undisputed bible of the film industry. Completely revised and updated, this seventh edition features more than 7,500 A–Z entries on the artistic, technical, and commercial aspects of moviemaking, including:Directors, producers, actors, screenwriters, and cinematographers;Styles, ... Meer lezen

    13,03 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • The Unspeakable Crimes of Dr. Petiot

    door Thomas Maeder ...
    The chilling true story of a serial killer who preyed on men, women, and children desperate to escape Nazi-occupied Paris.On March 11, 1944, police were called to investigate foul-smelling smoke pouring from the chimney of an elegant private house near the Arc de Triomphe. In the basement of 21 rue Le Sueur, they made the first of many gruesome discoveries: a human hand dangling from the open door ... Meer lezen

    7,20 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • The Films in My Life

    From a cinematic grand master, "one of the most readable books of movie criticism, and one of the most instructive" ( American Film Institute).An icon. A rebel. A legend. The films of François Truffaut defined an exhilarating new form of cinema for moviegoers the world over. But before Truffaut became a great director, he was a critic who stood at the vanguard, pioneering an innovative way to view ... Meer lezen

    12,29 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus