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  • Avatar The Way of Water The Visual Dictionary

    by Joshua Izzo, Zachary Berger, Dylan Cole, Reymundo Perez, Ben Procter ...
    Dive into the depths of Avatar: The Way of Water with this definitive guide.Created in close collaboration with James Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment and written by experts who worked on the film, this authoritative book is packed with stunning exclusive details. This must-have visual guide showcases the characters, creatures, vehicles, weapons, and locations from the latest adventure in ... Read more

    RM 111.89

  • Akira Kurosawa

    A Viewer's Guide

    by Eric San Juan ...
    The career of acclaimed filmmaker Akira Kurosawa spanned more than five decades, during which he directed more than thirty movies, many of them indisputable classics: Rashomon, Ikiru, Seven Samurai, The Hidden Fortress, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo, among others. During the height of his creative output, Kurosawa became one of the most influential and well-known directors in the world, inspiring ... Read more

    RM 149.79

  • The story of Paul

    by Latigo Bayne ...
    List of ContentsSCENE 1:Not again.—-------------8SCENE 2:I can't keep doing this—--------------------17SCENE 3:A funeral. —-----------21SCENE 4:Where's the bed? —-----29SCENE 5:Wha... do you want?—---34SCENE 6:I'll go sleep somewhere else. ---------------41SCENE 7:Wait, Anan. I just remembered something. —-------50SCENE 8:We can't stay here all night. —-----------------------59SCENE 9:What's wrong ... Read more

    RM 98.02

  • 300 Horror Adventure Films Reviewed

    by Steve Hutchison ...
    Steve Hutchison reviews 300 horror adventure films and ranks them. Each article includes a picture of the main antagonist, a release year, a synopsis, a star rating, and a review. ... Read more

    RM 11.72

  • The Animator inside of You:How to Make Stop Motion and Clay Animation Basic Tricks and Tips

    by Chris Capps ...
    The Animator Inside of You, How To Make Stop Motion and Clay Animation Basic Tricks and Tips by Chris Capps a homeschool father,is a great resource whether you are a beginner or more advanced animator. With over 50 pages Capps writes about tools, props, and equipment used for animating, entering contests, picking out a star for your animation project, explains frame rate, introduces many tips and ... Read more

    RM 19.56

  • Drive-Ins of Colorado

    by Michael Kilgore ...
    Drive-Ins of Colorado is the ultimate guide to the history of every drive-in theater in the state from 1947 to the present. Includes dozens of full-color photos, intermission stills, and amazing anecdotes.Written by Michael Kilgore, the West's foremost drive-in theater researcher, recognized by the Library of Congress. Contains a foreword by Joe Bob Briggs, America's foremost, nationally ... Read more

    RM 39.17 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • David Lynch

    by Michel Chion ...
    Michel Chion's study of the film and television work of David Lynch has become, since its first English publication in 1995, the definitive book on one of America's finest contemporary directors. In this new edition Chion brings the book up-to-date to take into account Lynch's work in the past ten years, including the major features 'Lost Highway, The Straight Story,' and 'Mulholland Drive. 'Newly ... Read more

    RM 142.79

  • Horror Movies of the Millennium (2020)

    20 Years of Fear

    by Steve Hutchison ...
    Included in this book are reviews of the 5 best horror films for each year between 2000 and 2019, and reviews of the top 10 horror movies released in the same period.Each entry includes a picture of the antagonist, a star rating, a synopsis, and a three-paragraph review. ... Read more

    RM 11.72

  • Long Take

    by Akira Kurosawa ...
    Translated by Anne McKnight ...
    A multifaceted portrait of the great Japanese directorFor years, Akira Kurosawa resisted writing about himself. “It would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies,” he said. “In other words, take myself, subtract movies, and the result is zero.” The memoir he finally started serializing in 1978, Something like an Autobiography, ended with Rashomon, the film that launched him on the world’s ... Read more

    RM 70.49

  • The Encyclopedia of Hammer Films

    by Chris Fellner ...
    Dracula and Frankenstein. Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. These are just a few of the icons of Hammer Films.To horror fans, the name “Hammer” conjures visions of hissing vampires and buxom beauties in low-cut negligees. But Britain’s Hammer Film Productions, Ltd., was much more than just a fright factory. For more than thirty years, the company turned out neatly crafted entries in a variety of ... Read more

    RM 613.29

  • An Annotated Bibliography for Taiwan Film Studies

    Edited by Jim Cheng, James Wicks, Sachie Noguchi ...
    Compiled by two skilled librarians and a Taiwanese film and culture specialist, this volume is the first multilingual and most comprehensive bibliography of Taiwanese film scholarship, designed to satisfy the broad interests of the modern researcher. The second book in a remarkable three-volume research project, An Annotated Bibliography for Taiwan Film Studies catalogues the published and ... Read more

    RM 511.69

  • One Hundred Indian Feature Films

    An Annotated Filmography

    by Shampa Banerjee, Anil Srivastava ...
    First Published in 1989. One Hundred Indian Films attempts to bring together a representative selection from the first talkies to the present day. The book originated as a project under the National Film Heritage programme at the Centre for Development of Instructional Technology in Delhi, along with the efforts to build up a collection of Indian cinema at the United States Library of Congress. ... Read more

    RM 278.32

  • The Dazzling Diva

    Meryl Streep's Impactful Acting Legacy

    by Emily Hope v ...
    Dive into the captivating world of Meryl Streep, a woman who has captivated audiences for decades with her unparalleled talent and transformative acting. "The Dazzling Diva" is more than just a biography; it's an exploration of Streep's artistic journey, her cultural impact, and the indelible mark she has left on the world of film.From her humble beginnings to her iconic performances in Hollywood ... Read more

    RM 26.23 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Making of Casino Royale (1967)

    by Michael Richardson ...
    Series Book 2 - Telos Movie Classics
    The most detailed and comprehensive account ever published of the making of the most bizarre James Bond film ever!  ... Read more

    RM 21.35

  • Chronology of the Birth of Cinema, 1833–1896

    by Deac Rossell ...
    Written from an international perspective, this account of the origins of the cinema begins in 1833 with the introduction of optical toys for reproducing movement and ends with a thorough examination of the first full year of projected moving pictures in 1896. Comprehensive and verifiable, with citations that support each individual entry, the book examines the events that culminated in the ... Read more

    RM 50.79 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rotten Tomatoes: Rotten Movies We Love

    Cult Classics, Underrated Gems, and Films So Bad They're Good

    by Editors of Rotten Tomatoes ...
    Hook. Wet Hot American Summer. Valley of the Dolls. There are some movies that defy traditional critical assessment -- films that are panned by reviewers, but that go on to become beloved classics and cult phenoms anyway.Ever been crushed to learn your favorite movie -- or a new one you're dying to see -- has been given the big green splat from Rotten Tomatoes' infamous Tomatometer? The site's ... Read more

    RM 43.39

  • Performance

    by Colin MacCabe ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, and starring James Fox, Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg, Performance was filmed in 1968, but not released until 1970. When its studio backers saw the director's cut, they were so shocked by the film's sexual explicitness and formal radicalism that attempts were made to destroy the negative. In his study of the film, Colin MacCabe draws on extensive ... Read more

    RM 60.19

  • Spinegrinder

    The Movies Most Critics Won’t Write About

    by Clive Davies ...
    First came video and more recently high definition home entertainment, through to the internet with its streaming videos and not strictly legal peer-to-peer capabilities. With so many sources available, today’s fan of horror and exploitation movies isn’t necessarily educated on paths well-trodden — Universal classics, 1950s monster movies, Hammer — as once they were. They may not even be ... Read more

    RM 84.59

  • The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film

    Edited by Ian Aitken ...
    The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film is a fully international reference work on the history of the documentary film from the Lumière brothers' Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1885) to Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 (2004).Previously published in three volumes, entries have been edited and updated for the new, concise edition and three new entries have been added on: ... Read more

    RM 258.72

  • The Future of Memory

    A History of Lossless Format Standards in the Moving Image Archive

    by Jimi Jones, Marek Jancovic ...
    Series series The History of Media and Communication
    A new generation of video standards promises lossless storage of digital objects for future generations. Jimi Jones and Marek Jancovic document the development and adoption of JPEG 2000, FFV1, MXF, and Matroska while investigating the social and material aspects of their design and the forces driving their journeys from niche to ubiquity.Drawing on interviews with archivists and developers, Jones ... Read more

    RM 56.39

  • Math Goes to the Movies

    by Burkard Polster, Marty Ross ...
    Mel Gibson teaching Euclidean geometry, Meg Ryan and Tim Robbins acting out Zeno's paradox, Michael Jackson proving in three different ways that 7 x 13 = 28. These are just a few of the intriguing mathematical snippets that occur in hundreds of movies. Burkard Polster and Marty Ross pored through the cinematic calculus to create this thorough and entertaining survey of the quirky, fun, and ... Read more

    RM 131.69

  • Native Americans in the Movies

    Portrayals from Silent Films to the Present

    by Michael Hilger ...
    Since the early days of the silent era, Native Americans have been captured on film, often in unflattering ways. Over the decades, some filmmakers have tried to portray the Native American on screen with more balanced interpretations—to varying degrees of success. More recent films such as The New World, Flags of Our Fathers, and Frozen River have offered depictions of both historical and ... Read more

    RM 437.09

  • 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

    RM 262.64

  • Action Movie Freak

    by Katrina Hill ...
    Written by woman of action Katrina "Action Flick Chick" Hill, Action Movie Freak is packed with spine-tingling excitement and thrilling moments that make action movies a beloved genre for those who crave crashing cars, exploding buildings, and faces getting kicked six ways to Sunday. With badass heroes that ain't got time to bleed, women warriors, thrilling chases and outrageous fisticuffs, Action ... Read more

    RM 42.49