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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

  • Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood

    Edited by Lincoln Geraghty ...
    With its sprawling celebrity homes, the Walk of Fame and the iconic sign on the hill, Hollywood is truly the land of stars. Glamorous and larger-than-life, many of the most memorable motion pictures of all time have emanated from its multimillion-dollar film industry, which exports more films per capita than that of any other nation. Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood lays out the ... Read more

    RM 112.99

  • The Griffith Project, Volume 2

    Films Produced in January-June 1909

    by Paolo Cherchi Usai ...
    Silent film director D.W. Griffith is the subject of this study. Only a small group of his more than 500 films are subject to analysis. The creative output of Griffiths from 'Professional Jealousy' (1907) to 'The Struggle' (1931) is explored. ... Read more

    RM 412.89

  • World Film Locations: New York

    Edited by Scott Jordan Harris ...
    Be they period films, cult classics or elaborate directorial love letters, New York City has played – and continues to play – a central role in the imaginations of filmmakers and moviegoers worldwide. The stomping grounds of King Kong, it is also the place where young Jakie Rabinowitz of The Jazz Singer realizes his Broadway dream. Later, it is the backdrop against which taxi driver Travis Bickle ... Read more

    RM 70.79

  • 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

    RM 70.79

  • 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

    You Must See Before You Die 2011

    by Steven Jay Schneider ...
    Series series 1001
    "I have, by the way, seen 943 of the 1001 movies, and am carefully rationing the remaining titles to prolong my life." - Roger Ebert"1001 ways to give cinema new scope." - The HeraldExpert critics in each genre of film, from romance to horror and sci-fi, have once again painstakingly revised this list of essential must see-movies, cut and added films to bring the must-watch list bang up to date ... Read more

    RM 80.39

  • 2009, un año de CINE NOSTRUM

    by Francisco Javier Rodríguez Barranco ...
    Series Book 1 - 5 y acción
    En este libro se analiza el cine español en el norte de África y el cine árabe en el sur de España, referido al año 2009 porque en él se cumple el 400 aniversario de la expulsión de los moriscos de los reinos de España. Por otro lado, 2009 fue el año en que el Instituto Cervantes tomó el relevo del Festival de Málaga de Cine Español en la organización del Festival de Cine Español de Tánger, así ... Read more

    RM 23.48 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Political Movies

    An Annotated Filmography of Feature Films

    by James Combs ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
    Essays here explore the relationship between politics and explicitly political feature films from the beginning of the movie industry to World War I, and for each decade through to the 1980's. The included filmography is particularly useful. Originally published in 1990, the method of inquiry put forward in this text is nonetheless extendable to the decades following its publication. ... Read more

    RM 250.88

  • Jean-Luc Godard. Pensar entre imágenes

    by Gonzalo de Lucas, Núria Aidelman ...
    Translated by Javier Bassas, Natalia Ruiz ...
    Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022) consagró toda su vida al cine. Primero como espectador y crítico, y después como cineasta, su legado es una de las cumbres del siglo xx. Además de su extensa y heteróclita obra —entre sus más de doscientas películas se encuentran algunos hitos de la historia de las imágenes en movimiento como Al final de la escapada, Pierrot el loco, Yo te saludo, María, Histoire(s) du ... Read more

    RM 90.13

  • 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

    RM 98.79

  • The Toho Studios Story

    A History and Complete Filmography

    by Stuart Galbraith IV ...
    Since its inception in 1933, Toho Co., Ltd., Japan's most famous movie production company and distributor, has produced and/or distributed some of the most notable films ever to come out of Asia, including Seven Samurai, Godzilla, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, Kwaidan, Woman in the Dunes, Ran, Shall We Dance?, Ringu, and Spirited Away. While the western world often defines Toho by its iconic ... Read more

    RM 883.79

  • Star Wars Episodes IV-VI (SparkNotes Film Guide)

    by SparkNotes ...
    Series series SparkNotes Film Guide
    Star Wars Episodes IV-VI (SparkNotes Film Guide)Making the reading experience fun!SparkNotes Film Guides are one-stop guides to great works of film–masterpieces that are the foundations of filmmaking and film studies. Inside each guide you’ll find thorough, insightful overviews of films from a variety of genres, styles, and time periods. Each film guide contains:Information about the director and ... Read more

    RM 17.69

  • Zbigniew Preisner's Three Colors Trilogy

    A Film Score Guide

    by Nicholas W. Reyland ...
    Series series Film Score Guides
    Director Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors trilogy-Blue (1993), White (1993), and Red (1994)-is one of the great achievements of European film. A meditation on liberty, equality, and fraternity, these three films marked the culmination of the director's career, as well as the zenith of one of the most important creative collaborations in 20th-century cinema-between Kieslowski, scriptwriter ... Read more

    RM 288.79

  • James Cagney Films of the 1930s

    by James L. Neibaur ...
    One of the biggest stars of the golden age of Hollywood, James Cagney appeared in more than sixty films throughout his career. In addition to starring in the classics White Heat, Mister Roberts, and One, Two, Three, Cagney received the Academy Award for his performance as George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy. From his debut in Sinner’s Holiday to one of his many gangster portrayals in The ... Read more

    RM 350.29

  • Historical Dictionary of Film Noir

    by Andrew Spicer ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    Film noir-literally "black cinema"-is the label customarily given to a group of black and white American films, mostly crime thrillers, made between 1940 and 1959. Today there is considerable dispute about what are the shared features that classify a noir film, and therefore which films should be included in this category. These problems are partly caused because film noir is a retrospective label ... Read more

    RM 741.59

  • The Griffith Project, Volume 10

    Films Produced 1919-1946

    by Paolo Cherchi Usai ...
    No other silent film director has been so extensively studied as D. W. Griffith. However, only a small group of his more than five hundred films had been the subject of a systematic analysis. Now, for the first time in film studies, the complete creative output of Griffith - from 'Professional Jealousy '(1907) to 'The Struggle' (1931) - is explored in this multi-volume collection of contributions ... Read more

    RM 412.89

  • A Filmography of Cartomancy and Tarot 1980–1999

    by Emily E. Auger ...
    A Filmography of Cartomancy and Tarot 1980–1999 (68 films, numerous colour illus. and spread diagrams, indexes) is a catalog of such classics as Supergirl (1984), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), The Exorcist III (1990), Dead Alive (1992), Hideaway (1995), The Red Violin (1998), The Ninth Gate (1999), and more. The entries are arranged chronologically and each includes a brief plot description, ... Read more

    RM 20.19

  • 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

    RM 7.80

  • Hong Kong Cinema

    The Extra Dimensions

    by Stephen Teo ...
    This is the first full-length English-language study of one of the world's most exciting and innovative cinemas. Covering a period from 1909 to 'the end of Hong Kong cinema' in the present day, this book features information about the films, the studios, the personalities and the contexts that have shaped a cinema famous for its energy and style. It includes studies of the films of King Hu, Bruce ... Read more

    RM 142.79

  • A Year of Hitchcock

    52 Weeks with the Master of Suspense

    by Jim McDevitt, Eric San Juan ...
    Alfred Hitchcock's career spanned more than five decades, during which he directed more than 50 films, many of them indisputable classics: Notorious, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho, among others. In A Year of Hitchcock: 52 Weeks with the Master of Suspense, authors Jim McDevitt and Eric San Juan provide a comprehensive examination of Hitchcock's film-to ... Read more

    RM 67.69

  • Horizons West

    Directing the Western from John Ford to Clint Eastwood

    by Jim Kitses ...
    When first published in 1969, Horizons West was immediately recognised as the definitive critical account of the Western film and some of its key directors. This greatly expanded new edition is, like the original, written in a graceful, penetrating and absorbingly readable style. It provides definitive critical analysis of the six greatest film-makers of the Western genre: John Ford, Anthony Mann, ... Read more

    RM 428.79

  • Best Pick

    A Journey through Film History and the Academy Awards

    by John Dorney, Jessica Regan, Tom Salinsky ...
    A fascinating history of motion pictures through the lens of the Academy Awards, the Best Picture winners, and the box-office contenders.In Best Pick: A Journey through Film History and the Academy Awards, John Dorney, Jessica Regan, and Tom Salinsky provide a captivating decade-by-decade exploration of the Oscars. For each decade, they examine the making of classic films, trends and innovations ... Read more

    RM 82.79

  • Visions of Yesterday

    by Jeffrey Richards ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
    Film is an important source of social history, as well as having been a popular art form from the early twentieth century. This study shows how a society, consciously or unconsciously, is mirrored in its cinema. It considers the role of the cinema in dramatizing popular beliefs and myths, and takes three case studies – American populism, British imperialism, German Nazism – to explain how a nation ... Read more

    RM 250.88

  • The A24 New Wave

    Empowering Artists, Transforming Modern Cinema

    by Aaron West ...
    The A24 New Wave is the story of the foundation of the indie film powerhouse that championed new voices and transformed cinema. This comprehensive book explores the A24 way, their business practices, and the great cinema that changed the way movies are marketed and seen. Includes in-depth stories about filmmakers Barry Jenkins, Robert Eggers, Greta Gerwig, Sean Baker, Ari Aster, and so many more. ... Read more

    RM 78.37 or Free with Kobo Plus