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  • Cinema Speculation

    Instant New York Times bestsellerThe long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: a deliriously entertaining, wickedly intelligent cinema book as unique and creative as anything by Quentin Tarantino.In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously ... Read more

    $16.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda

    by Carrie Rickey ...
    The first major biography of the French filmmaker hailed by Martin Scorsese as “one of the Gods of cinema.”Over the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any female filmmaker, Agnès Varda (1928–2019) wrote and directed some of the most acclaimed films of her era, from her tour de force?Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), a classic of modernist cinema, to the beloved documentary?The Gleaners ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Anime

    A History

    Japanese animation is at the nexus of an international multimedia industry worth over $23.6 billion a year, linked to everything from manga to computer games, Pokémon and plushies. In this comprehensive guide, Jonathan Clements chronicles the production and reception history of the entire medium, from a handful of hobbyists in the 1910s to the Oscar-winning Spirited Away and beyond.Exploring the ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Ghosts of My Life

    Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

    by Mark Fisher ...
    This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that we are haunted by futures that failed to happen. Fisher searches for the traces of these lost futures in the work of David Peace, John Le Carré, Christopher Nolan, Joy Division... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Awake in the Dark

    The Best of Roger Ebert

    by Roger Ebert ...
    A collection of greatest film reviews from a critic who “understands how to pop the hood of a movie and tell us how it runs” (Steven Spielberg).Pulitzer Prize–winning film critic Roger Ebert wrote movie reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times for over forty years. His wide knowledge, keen judgment, and sharp sense of humor made him America’s most celebrated film critic—the only one to have a star ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Time of My Life

    Dirty Dancing

    by Andrea Warner ...
    Series Book 13 - Pop Classics
    An engaging exploration into the enduring popularity of Dirty Dancing and its lasting themes of feminism, activism, and reproductive rightsWhen Dirty Dancing was released in 1987, it had already been rejected by producers and distributors several times over, and expectations for the summer romance were low. But then the film, written by former dancer Eleanor Bergstein and starring Jennifer Grey ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • How to Write Dazzling Dialogue

    The Fastest Way to Improve Any Manuscript

    Series Book 5 - Bell's Knockout Fiction Series
    There is one sure-fire way of improving your novel fast ...You may know the fundamentals of how to write fiction. You may be more than competent in plot, structure and characters. But if your dialogue is dull it will drag the whole story down.On the other hand, if your dialogue is crisp and full of tension it immediately grabs the reader. And if that reader is an agent or editor, sharp dialogue ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Studio

    In 1967, John Gregory Dunne asked for unlimited access to the inner workings of Twentieth Century Fox. Miraculously, he got it. For one year Dunne went everywhere there was to go and talked to everyone worth talking to within the studio. He tracked every step of the creation of pictures like "Dr. Dolittle," "Planet of the Apes," and "The Boston Strangler." The result is a work of reportage that, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Golden Girls Forever

    An Unauthorized Look Behind the Lanai

    by Jim Colucci ...
    Includes 30 pages of bonus material!The complete, first-ever Golden Girls retrospective, packed with hundreds of exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes and never-before-revealed stories, more than two hundred color and black-and-white photos, commentary, and more.They were four women of a certain age, living together under one roof in Miami—smart and strong Dorothy, airhead Rose, man-hungry belle ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Complete Screenwriting Course

    A complete guide to writing, developing and marketing a script for TV or film

    Designed to take you from the moment you first put your pen to paper to pitching and selling your completed screenplay, this is one of the most inspiring books on screenwriting you'll ever read.Practical exercises will teach you the craft of writing for film and television, both mainstream and independent, the art of building your own plots, characters, dialogue and scenes. It gives you the skills ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Anatomy of Genres

    How Story Forms Explain the Way the World Works

    by John Truby ...
    A guide to understanding the major genres of the story world by the legendary writing teacher and author of The Anatomy of Story, John Truby.Most people think genres are simply categories on Netflix or Amazon that provide a helpful guide to making entertainment choices. Most people are wrong. Genre stories aren’t just a small subset of the films, video games, TV shows, and books that people ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Writing Compelling Dialogue for Film and TV

    The Art & Craft of Raising Your Voice on Screen

    Writing Compelling Dialogue for Film and TV is a practical guide that provides you, the screenwriter, with a clear set of exercises, tools, and methods to raise your ability to hear and discern conversation at a more complex level, in turn allowing you to create better, more nuanced, complex and compelling dialogue.The process of understanding dialogue writing begins with increasing writers’ ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    by Mark Twain ...
    Mark Twain’s tale of a boy’s picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work has done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the ‘sivilizing’ Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous ‘Duke’ and ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Essentials of Screenwriting

    The Art, Craft, and Business of Film and Television Writing

    Hollywood's premier teacher of screenwriting shares the secrets of writing and selling successful screenplays in this perfect gift for aspiring screenwriters.Anyone fortunate enough to win a seat in Professor Richard Walter's legendary class at UCLA film school can be confident their career has just taken a quantum leap forward. His students have written more than ten projects for Steven Spielberg ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Tough Without a Gun

    by Stefan Kanfer ...
    Humphrey Bogart: it’s hard to think of anyone who’s had the same lasting impact on the culture of movies. Though he died at the young age of fifty-seven more than half a century ago, his influence among actors and filmmakers, and his enduring appeal for film lovers around the world, remains as strong as ever. What is it about Bogart, with his unconventional looks and noticeable speech impediment, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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

    From the Silent Era Through 1965: Third Edition

    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

    $12.99 USD

  • Caddyshack

    The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story

    “More fun to read than the movie was to watch… a scene-stealing book.”— The Washington PostAn Entertainment Weekly "Must List" selectionCaddyshack is one of the most beloved comedies of all time, a classic snobs vs. slobs story of working class kids and the white collar buffoons that make them haul their golf bags in the hot summer sun. It has sex, drugs and one very memorable candy bar, but the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Interactive Documentary

    Theory and Debate

    by Kate Nash ...
    Tracing continuities in digital and documentary practices, this book is a study of interactive documentary from the perspective of documentary culture. Exploring the dizzying array of new documentary forms that have emerged in the past ten years, the book is grounded in the analysis of multiple recent examples of digital documentary work, drawing out the key issues that the work raises.These ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Becoming Nick and Nora

    The Thin Man and the Films of William Powell and Myrna Loy

    by Rob Kozlowski ...
    As Nick and Nora Charles in the six Thin Man movies from 1934 to 1947, the team of William Powell and Myrna Loy showed that marriage didn’t have to mean the end of the romantic comedy. From the comedic delight that was the initial The Thin Man through its five sequels as well as eight other films (including the Oscar-winning The Great Ziegfeld and Manhattan Melodrama), Powell and Loy were cemented ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Digital Filmmaking Handbook

    Seventh Edition

    Series Book 1 - The Digital Filmmaking Handbook Presents
    Who hasn’t dreamed about making a movie? We'll show you how to navigate the world of independent filmmaking, from script to screen. The Digital Filmmaking Handbook will help you make the movie you've been dreaming about.For this edition, we’ve focused on soft skills: developing a project, writing a compelling story, working with actors, the special challenges of directing. After all, these are the ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • The Power of Film

    by Howard Suber ...
    America's most distinguished film professor provides the definitive A to Z course on the intricacies of film. Each entry in this remarkable book, which represents a lifetime of teaching film, has already inspired and educated several generations of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers and writers. This book examines the patterns and principles that make films popular and memorable, and will be useful ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties

    The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher--Television

    by Foster Hirsch ...
    A fascinating look at Hollywood’s most turbulent decade and the demise of the studio system—set against the boom of the post–World War II years, the Cold War, and the atomic age—and the movies that reflected the seismic shifts“The definitive book on 1950s Hollywood.” —Booklist“Lavish. . . insightful, rich, expansive, penetrating.” —KirkusHollywood in the 1950s was a period when the film industry ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Connecticut in the Movies

    From Dream Houses to Dark Suburbia

    Illeana Douglas has long been known for shining new light on forgotten films. Now the celebrated actress and film historian turns her focus to a heretofore unrecognized brand: the Connecticut movie! Told from the passionate perspective of the author who grew up here, and filled with behind-the-scenes stories as well as her own personal snapshots of the places where these films were made, Illeana ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Critical Race Theory and Bamboozled

    Series series Film Theory in Practice
    The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of film theory with interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for textual analysis. The third book in the series, Critical Race Theory and Bamboozled, offers a concise introduction to Critical Race Theory in jargon-free ... Read more

    $23.99 USD