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  • The Filmmaker's Handbook

    A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age: Fifth Edition

    by Steven Ascher, Edward Pincus ...
    The authoritative guide to producing, directing, shooting, editing, and distributing your video or film. Whether you aspire to be a great filmmaker yourself or are looking for movie gifts, this comprehensive guide to filmmaking is the first step in turning a hobby into a career.Widely acknowledged as the “bible” of video and film production, and used in courses around the world, The Filmmaker’s ... Read more

    €4.49

  • Acting for Film (Second Edition)

    by Cathy Haase ...
    "It will not disappoint . . ." —Ian McKellen, from the ForewordAn Authoritative Training Manual for Film Actors and Teachers“In today's entertainment industry of buff bodies and beautiful faces, it's easy to think that a couple of sit-ups and high cheek bones can create a movie legend,” writes film veteran Cathy Haase. However, she adds, what the actor really must have are “technique, craft, and a ... Read more

    €15.77

  • Movies in Our Time

    Hollywood Mirrors and Mimics the Twentieth Century

    by Jacqueline T. Lynch ...
    Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s reflected their era—and sometimes created it.Today, classic films are the moving image scrapbooks of collective memory, but when they were shown long ago in downtown movie palaces or neighborhood second-run movie houses, they were, as much as the newsreels, a catalogue of current events.Movies in Our Time – Hollywood Mirrors and Mimics the Twentieth ... Read more

    €4.28 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Turner Classic Movies Presents Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide

    From the Silent Era Through 1965: Third Edition

    by Leonard Maltin ...
    The definitive guide to classic films from one of America's most trusted film criticsThanks to Netflix and cable television, classic films are more accessible than ever. Now co-branded with Turner Classic Movies, Leonard Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide covers films from Hollywood and around the world, from the silent era through 1965, and from The Maltese Falcon to Singin’ in the Rain and Godzilla, ... Read more

    €7.29

  • The Tangibly Reel 1980s Movie Quiz

    The Tangibly Reel Movie Quiz, #1

    by S. A. Burke ...
    Series Book 1 - The Tangibly Reel Movie Quiz
    Cinema of the 1980s was very commercially focused on the one hand and yet, paradoxically, incredibly inventive on the other. The 1970s had smashed up the cookie-cutter machines and though the following decade began with a very noticeable transition which brought with it the returning armies of accountants and bottom-liners, the creatives were certainly still allowed to make their own individual ... Read more

    Free

  • Elizabeth Taylor, A Passion for Life

    The Wit and Wisdom of a Legend

    by Joseph Papa ...
    A beautiful, illustrated, keepsake volume of quotations by the legendary Elizabeth Taylor"Passion is the ingredient in me that has made me who I am. It's my passion for life...my passion for passion that has made me never give up." -- Elizabeth TaylorFrom the time she appeared in National Velvet, the film that skyrocketed her to international fame at age twelve in 1944, until her death in 2011, ... Read more

    €8.25

  • Independent Film Producing

    How to Produce a Low-Budget Feature Film

    by Paul Battista ...
    The number of independent films produced each year has almost doubled in the past decade, yet only a fraction will succeed. If, like many filmmakers, you have no industry connections, little to no experience, and a low or ultra-low budget, this outsider’s guide will teach you what you need to know to produce a standout, high-quality film and get it into the right hands. Written by an entertainment ... Read more

    €15.77

  • Top Ten Movie Lists 1

    by Shirrel Rhoades ...
    Your favorite movies ranked by a movie maestro. Best in a genre? Biggest flubs? Worst performances? Nothing about the cinema escapes this fascinating collection of Top Tens. Hours of entertainment for less than the cost of a pack of gum. ... Read more

    €1.46

  • Le cri de la mouette

    by Emmanuelle Laborit ...
    J'ai poussé des cris, beaucoup de cris. Parce que je voulais m'entendre et que les sons ne me revenaient pas.Mes appels ne voulaient rien dire pour mes parents. C'étaient, disaient-ils, des cris aigus d'oiseau de mer. Alors, ils m'ont surnommée la mouette.Et la mouette criait au-dessus d'un océan de bruits qu'elle n'entendait pas, avec la sensation d'être enfermée derrière une énorme porte, qu ... Read more

    €8.99

  • Cinema and Ireland

    by Kevin Rockett, Luke Gibbons, John Hill ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
    This was the first comprehensive study of film production in Ireland from the silent period to the present day, and of representations of Ireland and ‘Irishness’ in native, British, and American films. It remains an authority on the topic. The book focuses on Irish history and politics to examine the context and significance of such films as Irish Destiny, The Quiet Man, Ryan’s Daughter, Man of ... Read more

    €59.90

  • Oh Hollywood

    Stuff On Movies From A Film Geek

    by Dominic Leslie ...
    Series series Movie Geek
    We spend a huge fortune on going to the cinema to see the latest blockbuster but have you wondered about how these films are made? Or what sequels nearly got made but never did? Well if you have, this book is for you.Did you know that a member of the British Royal Family nearly appeared in a film. Find out which one by reading this book.Did you ever wonder how Walt Disney managed to pay for the ... Read more

    €4.99

  • The New Biographical Dictionary Of Film 6th Edition

    by David Thomson ...
    With more than one hundred new entries, from Amy Adams, Benedict Cumberbatch and Cary Joji Fukunaga to Joaquin Phoenix, Mia Wasikowska and Robin Wright, and completely updated, here from David Thomson - 'The greatest living writer on the movies' (John Banville, New Statesman); *'*Our most argumentative and trustworthy historian of the screen' (Michael Ondaatje) - is the latest edition of The New ... Read more

    €3.99

  • Histoire de ma vie - Mémoires

    Translated by Jean Rosenthal ...
    by Charles Chaplin ...
    L'homme derrière la lègende.Charles derrière Charlot ...Au cours de sa vie, Chaplin a accordé des centaines d'interviews, il a eu de nombreux biographes, mais c'est en écrivant lui-même Histoire de ma vie qu'il s'est livré et a laissé paraître l'homme derrière la légende.L'histoire de ce génie, dont les amis s'appelaient Douglas Fairbanks et Mary Pickford, Enrico Caruso, George Bernard Shaw, ... Read more

    €8.99

  • Les Perruches du soleil

    by Jacques Dochamps ...
    La vie d'un cinéaste bouleversée par le chant d'un chamane amazonienPropulsé par son métier aux quatre coins d'une planète tourmentée, plongé dans le désarroi par un projet d'adoption difficile, Jacques Dochamps voit sa vie basculer et ses certitudes s'effondrer. C'est en plein coeur de l'Amazonie, où il s'est rendu pour tourner un documentaire sur les Kichwas de Sarayaku, que l'espoir renaît en ... Read more

    €12.99

  • World Film Locations: Paris

    Edited by Marcelline Block ...
    'We’ll always have Paris,' Humphrey Bogart assures Ingrid Bergman in the oft-quoted farewell scene from Casablanca in which Bogart’s character, hard-hearted restaurateur Rick Blaine, bids former lover Ilsa Lund goodbye. The backdrop against which they first fell in love, Paris later serves as a reminder of their deep mutual longings. And with a host of different realisations by filmmakers from ... Read more

    €14.00

  • A Hard Day's Night

    Music on Film Series

    by Ray Morton ...
    Series series Music On Filments
    8-page color photo insert ... Read more

    Was €9.01 Now €7.82

  • How to Make DIY Videos for Fun or Profit Whether You are Doing it Yourself or Hiring a Team

    by Monique Littlejohn ...
    If you've watched, studied and loved DIY shows for years, perhaps you would make a good director and producer. It's easy to get the bug, but how to actually make it happen?The ability to share a process in pictures and teach people is a must, but so is the ability to see the project through from one end to the other. Once you have the basic tools and processes down, there doesn’t need to be hard ... Read more

    €2.99

  • The Encyclopedia of Epic Films

    by Constantine Santas, James M. Wilson, Maria Colavito, Djoymi Baker ...
    Soon after film came into existence, the term epic was used to describe productions that were lengthy, spectacular, live with action, and often filmed in exotic locales with large casts and staggering budgets. The effort and extravagance needed to mount an epic film paid off handsomely at the box office, for the genre became an immediate favorite with audiences. Epic films survived the ... Read more

    €173.08

  • Il cinema di Frank Darabont

    by Luigi Boccia, Nicola Lombardi, Giada Cecchinelli ...
    Saggi - saggio (93 pagine) - Un libro per conoscere a fondo Frank Darabont, il “regista kinghiano” per eccellenza, autore di film indimenticabili come Le Ali della Libertà, Il Miglio Verde e The MistLa carriera di Frank Darabont nasce sul finire degli anni Settanta come un sogno, improvviso e spiazzante, il grande sogno americano che ci ricorda ogni volta che nulla è impossibile. Il primo ... Read more

    €4.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Beginner's Guide to Extreme Horror

    by Jon Steffens, Ira Rat ...
    *Are you a horror fan who's seen every big-name slasher sequel and zombie flick you can find? Do you feel as though you've exhausted every option mainstream horror cinema has to offer? Looking to see just how dark, bleak, and ugly our beloved genre gets?Join Jon Steffens and Ira Rat for a trip through the gore-soaked wasteland of Extreme Horror. From n*crophilia and cannibalism to s*xual sadism so ... Read more

    €4.99

  • Un cuore grande così

    by Mario A. Rumor ...
    Saggi - saggio (543 pagine) - Una bimba che vive felice tra i pascoli delle montagne svizzere, un ragazzino genovese alla ricerca della mamma, un eroe d’altri tempi con una spada invincibile, un’orfanella che sogna di vivere come in un romanzo, due fratelli travolti dagli orrori della guerra. Sono alcuni dei personaggi più celebri di Isao Takahata, il maestro del cinema di animazione scomparso ... Read more

    €7.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Volume 4: Section 3, Part 2

    VIDEO NASTY FILES, #4

    by Malcolm Ashworth ...
    Series Book 4 - VIDEO NASTY FILES
    Under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959, a video shop didn't need a trial to lose its stock. If a magistrate agreed a tape was liable to deprave and corrupt, the copies could simply be declared forfeit and destroyed — no jury, no named defendant, and often no public record beyond a police log and a stripped shelf. It was the lower-bar, higher-volume side of Britain's video nasty panic ... Read more

    €13.49 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Darker than the Sun

    An Atlas of James Bond Movie Locations

    by Matthew Field, Ajay Chowdhury ...
    "For a Bond fan, the book should be required reading." – David Pitt, The Booklist"It belongs on any Bond fan's bookshelf." – Raymond Benson, Cinema RetroExplore the world of James Bond like never before with Darker Than the Sun, a visually rich travelogue charting 007’s journey through six decades of espionage, glamor. and adventure.Whether you're a lifelong Bond aficiona... ... Read more

    €21.59

  • Christopher Nolan

    The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work

    by Ian Nathan ...
    Series series Iconic Filmmakers Series
    This comprehensive and in-depth study delves into the life and works of one of modern films most celebrated, successful and intriguing auteurs, Christopher Nolan.‘What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea. Resilient…highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it’s almost impossible to eradicate.’ - Cobb, InceptionHow has Nolan become this ... Read more

    €27.19