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  • Directed By Milos Forman

    An Oral History of His Life and Films

    Often known as “ the master of human comedy,” Miloš Forman was a man of many faces and multiple talents. He acted, wrote, and directed. He made documentaries and political satire, but also biopics, musicals, and adaptations of almost operatic proportion. This comprehensive book explores all of Forman' s work— from his early Czech films Black Peter (1964), Loves of a Blonde (1965), and The Firemen' ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Paradise, Volume 3

    The Trash Project

    by Ken Hollings ...
    The third and final volume of Ken Hollings’ personal reflections on Trash Aesthetics.In Paradise, Hollings tells the story of three kings who squandered everything they had in a grandiose spectacle of waste.King Ludwig II of Bavaria, "King of Rock 'n' Roll" Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson, the "King of Pop," all shared the same doomed innocence. Their lives and early deaths were connected ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Giant Love

    Edna Ferber, Her Best-selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film

    by Julie Gilbert ...
    A book that explores the great American novelist and playwright Edna Ferber, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Ficton, whose work was made into many Academy Award-winning movies; the writing of her controversial, international best-selling novel about Texas, and the making of George Stevens’ Academy Award winning epic film of the same name, Giant.The stupendous publication of Edna Ferber's Giant in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Falling in Love at the Movies

    Rom Coms from the Screwball Era to Today

    Series series Turner Classic Movies
    Prepare to swoon, ugly cry, laugh, and fall in love with this officially licensed exploration of the impact and legacy of one of film's most beloved genres from Turner Classic Movies: the rom-com.Romantic comedies have had an incredible influence on popular culture, shaping everything from how we think of relationships to fashion. Often swept aside in film history, these movies are thought of as ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Sensual Laboratories

    Light Shows, Experimental Film, and Psychedelic Art

    An innovate counter-history that places the liquid light show at the heart of a new understanding of experimental audio-visual art in the 1960s.Throughout the 1960s the liquid light show was the quintessential mode of countercultural expression: live, interactive, collaborative, acid-bright, and ephemeral. Flowering in coffee bars and discotheques, they quickly became synonymous with the wildest ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • Believe

    The Untold Story Behind Ted Lasso, the Show that Kicked Its Way into Our Hearts

    by Jeremy Egner ...
    The definitive book on the TV show Ted Lasso, written by New York Times journalist and editor Jeremy Egner, celebrating the show’s improbable rise and cultural impact while never losing sight of the heart, friendship, and passion that have made it an enduring favorite for the agesWhen Ted Lasso first aired in 2020, nobody—including those who had worked on it—knew how a show inspired by an ad, ... Read more

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  • Box Office Poison

    Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops

    by Tim Robey ...
    **A riotous and revealing story of Hollywood’s most spectacular flops and how they ended careers, bankrupted studios and changed film history."Failure fascinates, for all the reasons that success is a drag…”**From grand follies to misunderstood masterpieces, disastrous sequels to catastrophic literary adaptations, Box Office Poison tells a hugely entertaining alternative history of Hollywood, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials

    by Violet Lucca ...
    An illustrated monograph on the work of legendary writer/director David Cronenberg, master of body horror and cinematic provocateur behind films such as The Fly, Scanners, Naked Lunch, Eastern Promises, and Crimes of the FutureDavid Cronenberg’s films have long enjoyed a cult following, pushing the boundaries of taste, blending high art with horror, and straddling the commercial and the cutting ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • Alfred Hitchcock All the Films

    The Story Behind Every Movie, Episode, and Short

    Organized chronologically and covering every short film, television episode, and classic film that the "Master of Suspense" directed over the course of his illustrious, 60-year career, Alfred Hitchcock All the Films draws upon years of research to tell the behind the scenes stories of how each project was conceived, cast, and produced, down to the creation of the costumes, the search for perfect ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

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  • Tarantino

    by Dan Jolin ...
    Series series Pocket Film Guides
    Quentin Tarantino is one of the most iconic and best loved movie directors of the last two decades. Whether he's shooting up the Deep South, slicing through the Japanese underworld, blasting Nazi-occupied France or taking a flamethrower to '60s Los Angeles, Tarantino is a director who combines a radical vision with a sense of history: making movies precisely the way he wants, to celebrate the ... Read more

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  • The Coen Brothers

    by Dan Jolin ...
    Series series Pocket Film Guides
    Gangster movie, Western, film noir, rom com, screwball, musical, even the Biblical epic... There are few genres left untouched and untwisted by sibling visionaries Joel and Ethan Coen. Since 1984's Blood Simple, the inscrutable brothers have effortlessly forged their own cinematic path, avoiding prevailing trends while crafting bold, stylish and witty movies that feel fresh and distinctive despite ... Read more

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  • 101 Fascinating Canadian Film and TV Facts

    by Thom Ernst ...
    Series Book 3 - 101 Fascinating Facts
    101 lesser-known stories to delight Canadian cinema and television fans.Did you know who performed the first on screen nude scene in a Canadian feature? What David Cronenberg film was raided for obscenity? What famous American television host credits SCTV as his sole inspiration for comedy? Why Oliver Reed was arrested while shooting The Brood? What iconic Canadian television series was syndicated ... Read more

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  • Movies with Balls

    The Greatest Sports Films of All Time, Analyzed and Illustrated

    **This irreverent, balls-out celebration of the greatest matchups in sports movie history includes analysis, maps and diagrams, and designed memorabilia, perfect for movie buffs and sports fans.Including Caddyshack, Rocky IV, White Men Can’t Jump and 23 more classic flicks!**If you’re the kind of fan who cheers every single time you watch Rocky beat Drago, or remembers who said “If you build it, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Moguls

    The Lives and Times of Film Pioneers Nicholas and Joseph Schenck

    The incredible true story of the most powerful brothers in Hollywood history—an wildly entertaining saga studded with glamorous stars, scandals, mobsters, murders, and one legendary blond bombshell. . . .They were the Godfathers of the Movies. Groundbreaking pioneers of the Hollywood Dream Factory, Joseph and Nicholas Schenck may not have been household names like the Warner brothers or Louis B. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Millennial Nasties: Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence

    Torture porn, shock-for-shock's sake, violence that doesn't serve the plot, and characters you hate - what was going on in the 2000s in horror cinema? And why were audiences hungry for it? Millennial Nasties takes a critical but appreciative look at an oft-ignored subset of horror. This book dissects the English-language horror films of the 2000s and the cultural events they were responding to. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • The De Palma Decade

    Redefining Cinema With Doubles, Voyeurs, and Psychic Teens

    Journey with award-winning documentarian and author Laurent Bouzereau through acclaimed director Brian De Palma’s renowned—and controversial—horror and thriller films that redefined cinema in the 1970s and early 80s with new interviews and fresh takes.Among a crop of fresh filmmakers including Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, and Francis Ford Coppola in the 70s, Brian De Palma—a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Bodies of Water

    Queer Aesthetics in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

    Series series SUNY series in Latin American Cinema
    Rivers, swimming pools, lakes, and oceans: these watery spaces recur with remarkable frequency in recent queer Latin American cinema, urging us to question the intimacies between queerness and the aquatic. Unpredictable and uncontrollable, water reflects a natural fluidity in our sexual desires and orientations; it is both a space and a substance, one in which bodies surrender themselves to the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Witches Run Amok

    The Oral History of Disney's Hocus Pocus

    The oral history of Disney’s Hocus Pocus, one of the most beloved Halloween movies of all time.In July 1993, Disney’s Hocus Pocus, starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy, did not immediately find success, with box office numbers falling far below what was envisioned. Yet somehow the Halloween movie released in the middle of the summer to little fanfare has become an enduring ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Future Was Now

    Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982

    From legendary entertainment journalist and author of Caddyshack comes a rollicking history of 1980s cinema—how eight legendary sci-fi films changed Hollywood foreverIn the summer of 1982, eight science fiction films were released within six weeks of one another. E.T., Tron, Star Trek: Wrath of Khan, Conan the Barbarian, Blade Runner, Poltergeist, The Thing, and Mad Max: The Road Warrior changed ... Read more

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  • Ruins and Resilience

    The Longevity of Experimental Film

    by Karel Doing ...
    Series series Goldsmiths Press / Sonics Series
    Experimental film practice from an international and transdisciplinary perspective.Karel Doing is an experimental filmmaker and researcher who has worked across the globe with fellow artists and filmmakers, creating a body of work that is difficult to pinpoint with a simple catchphrase. In Ruins and Resilience he weaves autobiographical elements and critical reviews together with his wide ranging ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • ERASED

    An Actor of Color's Journey Through the Heyday of Hollywood

    by Loo Hui Phang ...
    Maximus Wyld had his heyday in 1940s-50s Hollywood. Of mixed race Black, Chinese and Native American descent, he was "the actor with a thousand faces” , essentially interpreting ethnic roles: Indian chief, Mexican revolutionary, oriental dandy... A veritable reinterpretation of the myth of American cinema through the prism of minorities, Erased reveals the political and social dimension of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Corpses, Fools and Monsters

    The History and Future of Transness in Cinema

    A radical history of transness in cinema, and an exploration of the political possibilities of its future.In the history of cinema, trans people are usually murdered, made into a joke, or viewed as threats to the normal order — relegated to a lost highway of corpses, fools, and monsters.In this book, trans film critics Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay take the reader on a drive down ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • From Havana to Hollywood

    Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary

    Series series SUNY series, Afro-Latinx Futures
    From Havana to Hollywood examines the presence or absence of Black resistance to slavery in feature films produced in either Havana or Hollywood—including Gillo Pontecorvo's Burn!, neglected masterpieces by Cuban auteurs Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Sergio Giral, and Steve McQueen's Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave. Philip Kaisary argues that, with rare exceptions, the representation of Black agency in ... Read more

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  • Moving Pictures

    A History of American Animation from Gertie to Pixar and Beyond

    by Darl Larsen ...
    Take a deep dive into the history of cinematic animation in the United States with the book that Publishers Weekly says is "a lively chronicle of a perennially evolving medium."Animated films started with simple sequential drawings photographed one at a time—little bits of comedic fluff to make amateur title scenes or surreal escapist sequences. Today, animation is a worldwide industry valued at ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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