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  • Blaxploitation Films

    Fully updated to include Baadassss and The Hebrew Hammer and to cover the deaths of Isaac Hayes and Rudy Rae Moore In the early 1970s a type of film emerged that featured all-black casts; really cool soul, R 'n' B, and disco soundtracks; characters sporting big guns, big dashikis, and even bigger 'fros; and had some of the meanest, baddest attitudes to shoot their way across the screen. An ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Neo-noir

    Directors discussed include the Coen Brothers, David Lynch, Michael Mann, Christopher Nolan, Steven Soderbergh, and Quentin Tarantino A world-weary detective, a seductive femme fatale, a mysterious murder—these elements of classic film noir live again in more recent hardboiled detective films from Chinatown to Sin City. But the themes and styles of noir have also spilled over into contemporary ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Boring-Ass Life (Revised Edition)

    The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith

    by Kevin Smith ...
    NOW UPDATED WITH THE ‘INS AND OUTS’ OF MAKING ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO, AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!Anything but boring, Kevin Smith shares his x-rated thoughts in his diary, telling all in his usual candid, heartfelt and irreverent way!Kevin Smith pulls no punches in this hard-hitting, in-your-face exposé of, er, his rather dull and uneventful life… well, not always dull. In between watching his TiVo, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Bioética y cine

    De la narración a la deliberación

    Series Book 5 - Bioética Básica Comillas
    Este libro pretende mostrar el encuentro entre bioética y cine con el trasfondo de un interés formativo, educativo. En los tres primeros capítulos del libro, el autor intenta responder a la pregunta ¿Cuáles son las razones para utilizar el cine en la formación en bioética? En el capítulo cuarto, Tomás Domingo, propone un método sencillo, cuyo objetivo es promover la deliberación mediante la ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Life And Opinions Of Maf The Dog, And Of His Friend Marilyn Monroe

    Meet Maf: The hilariously opinionated, well-read, politically scrappy, and complex canine companion to Marilyn Monroe.In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog. His name was Mafia Honey, or Maf for short. Born in the household of Vanessa Bell, brought to the United States by Natalie Wood’s mother, and given as a Christmas present to Marilyn the winter after she separated from ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $7.99 USD

  • Danny Boyle

    Interviews

    Edited by Brent Dunham ...
    Series series Conversations with Filmmakers Series
    A humble man from humble beginnings, Danny Boyle (b. 1956) became a popular cinema darling when Slumdog Millionaire won big at the 2009 Academy Awards. Prior to this achievement, this former theater and television director helped the British film industry pull itself out of a decades-long slump. With Trainspotting, he proved British films could be more than stuffy, period dramas; they could be ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Art of Plotting

    Add Emotion, Suspense, and Depth to your Screenplay

    The complete, clear guide to creating compelling plots for film-Integrate plot, characterization, and exposition to make stories real- Examples from new and classic movies examine great plots in actionPlot must be as much about the emotions of the characters as it is about the events of the story.That’s the message of The Art of Plotting, which teaches screenwriters how to integrate plot, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • American Film in the Digital Age

    Series series New Directions in Media
    This eclectic, yet comprehensive analytical overview of the cataclysmic changes in the American film industry since 1990 shows how they have collectively resulted in a new era—The Digital Age.The American film industry has entered a new era. American Film in the Digital Age traces the industrial changes since 1990 that have brought us to this point, namely: the rise of media conglomerates, the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Tilfældets gaver

    Tekster om at lave

    by Jørgen Leth ...
    Jørgen Leth er en institution i det danske filmmiljø og har bl.a. været en stor inspiration for Lars von Trier. Han har skabt en række stilskabende spille- og dokumentarfilm, f.eks.Det perfekte menneske (1967)Det gode og det onde (1975)Notater om kærligheden (1989)og de klassiske dokumentarfilm om cyklingStjernerne og vandbærerne, (1972)En forårsdag i Helvede</e... ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Show Me the Funny!

    At the Writers' Table with Hollywoods Top Comedy Writers

    Enjoy a unique glimpse into the intelligent and quirky inner workings of the comedic mind! This special e-version of Show Me the Funny! presents 28 top comedy screenwriters--including three bonus interviews not in the original print book--from the revered figures of televisions “Golden Age” to todays favorite movie jokesters. Authors Desberg and Davis put an innovative spin on the traditional ... Read more

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  • The Art of the Moving Picture

    Series series Modern Library Movies
    "In the field of film aesthetics, it is the first important American work, still important--The Art of the Moving Picture is astonishing."--Stanley KauffmannWritten in 1915, The Art of the Moving Picture by poet Vachel Lindsay is the first book to treat movies as art. Lindsay writes a brilliant analysis of the early silent films (including several now lost films). He is extraordinarily prescient ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Village Voice Film Guide

    50 Years of Movies from Classics to Cult Hits

    by Village Voice ...
    For decades the Village Voice set the benchmark for passionate, critical, and unique film coverage. Including reviews by some of America’s most respected critics, The Village Voice Film Guide compiles spirited landmark reviews of the Voice’s selection of the 150 greatest films ever made. Collecting some of the best writing on film ever put on paper, this is a perfect book for film buffs. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Criminology, Deviance, and the Silver Screen

    The Fictional Reality and the Criminological Imagination

    by J. Frauley ...
    This text argues for the usefulness of fictional realities for criminological theorizing and analysis. It illustrates that a creative and critical social scientific practice requires craft norms rather than commercial norms that threaten to completely colonize higher education. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Hollywood Book of Breakups

    "Half of all marriages end in divorce--and then there are the really unhappy ones."--Joan RiversDo you suppose that the person who first said "Life is stranger than fiction" might have had Hollywood marriages in mind? Why watch a romantic film starring a leading man and a leading lady when their real-life romances are so much more interesting? It seems that a celebrity's latest film can have a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lo spirito d'America

    Translated by Lattanzi C. ...
    Stan Laurel, prima ancora di far coppia con Oliver Hardy, già aveva sperimentato il "gioco di squadra" condividendo la stanza nientemeno che con Charlie Chaplin: la leggenda narra che Charlot suonasse il violino per coprire il rumore delle fritture illegali di Stanlio. Gracie Alien, star della radio, era terrorizzata dall'apparire in pubblico e George Burns era il suo perfetto complemento. Il mito ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dean & Me. (Una storia d'amore)

    Translated by Lo Porto T. ...
    Series Book 3 - Di Profilo
    Dean Martin e Jerry Lewis. Semplicemente la coppia comica più famosa di sempre. La loro è stata una storia d'amore a tutti gli effetti e, come ogni love story che si rispetti, non è rimasta estranea a sentimenti quali odio e gelosia. Jerry Lewis rompe gli indugi e si racconta per la prima volta, regalando al pubblico la testimonianza scritta di uno dei momenti topici della comicità internazionale. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Riso kosher

    Translated by Olivieri Sangiacomo A. ...
    Series series Che storia!
    Forse non lo sapete, ma il 70% dei comici americani ha origini ebraiche. Inutile che pensiate a dei comedian statunitensi a caso per provare a smentire quanto appena affermato: Woody Allen, Jerry Lewis, Mel Brooks, Jerry Seinfeld o Billy Crystal, giusto per citarne qualcuno, sono ebrei. E potremmo ancora continuare a lungo. Del resto, quando hai alle spalle secoli di persecuzione, è meglio ... Read more

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  • Who the Hell's in It

    Conversations with Hollywood's Legendary Actors

    Peter Bogdanovich, known primarily as a director, film historian and critic, has been working with professional actors all his life. He started out as an actor (he debuted on the stage in his sixth-grade production of Finian’s Rainbow); he watched actors work (he went to the theater every week from the age of thirteen and saw every important show on, or off, Broadway for the next decade); he ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Faber Pocket Guide to Musicals

    by James Inverne ...
    With hit TV shows picking the leads in productions of Oliver! and The Sound Of Music, and smash musicals like Hairspray and Wicked all the West End rage, musical theatre is as popular as it's ever been. James Inverne provides an indispensable guide to his top one hundred greatest shows of all time - and ten of the worst. Whether you know your Pal Joey from The Producers, your West Side Story from ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Adventures of Cinema Dave in the Florida Motion Picture World

    The Adventures of Cinema Dave is a celebration of films from the turn of the recent century. Dave Montalbano, alias Cinema Dave, wrote over 500 film reviews and interviewed Hollywood Legends such as Fay Wray, Louise Fletcher, Dyan Cannon and new talent like Josh Hutcherson, Jane Lynch and Courtney Ford. With South Florida as his home base, Cinema Dave details his growing involvement with the Fort ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Peter Bogdanovich's Movie of the Week

    52 Classic Films for One Full Year

    A FRONT-ROW SEAT TO A YEAR'S WORTH OF MUST-SEE FILMSDirector, producer, screenwriter, author, actor, and film critic, Peter Bogdanovich knows movies. Now, in this unique new book, he shares his passion with a connoisseur's insight and delight by inviting the reader to join him for a year at the movies--fifty-two weeks, fifty-two films, fifty-two reasons to watch. Which films does Peter Bogdanovich ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Blood Money

    A History of the First Teen Slasher Film Cycle

    Scholars have consistently applied psychoanalytic models to representations of gender in early teen slasher films such as Black Christmas (1974), Halloween (1978) and Friday the 13th (1980) in order to claim that these were formulaic, excessively violent exploitation films, fashioned to satisfy the misogynist fantasies of teenage boys and grind house patrons. However, by examining the commercial ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Crisis of Gender and the Nation in Korean Literature and Cinema

    Modernity Arrives Again

    Crisis of Gender and the Nation in Korean Literature and Cinema is about the changing constructs of modernity, masculinity, and gender relations and discourses in Korean literature and cinema during the crucial decades of the colonial and postcolonial era, based on close historical examination and a wide-ranging theoretical foundation that look at both western and Korean language sources. It ... Read more

    $92.99 USD

  • A Research Guide to Film and Television Music in the United States

    Unlike traditional music, film music sources are often difficult to locate and do not follow the patterns that researchers are trained to identify. Although there have been several self-described introductions to the field and articles that summarize the problems and state of research, there is no resource that gathers together all of the basic information that is vital to film music research. In ... Read more

    $62.99 USD