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Cambridge University Press Interpreting the Moving Image
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Cambridge University Press Crime Films Genres in American Cinema
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Cambridge University Press Ingmar Bergmans Persona Cambridge Film Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press The Making of American Audiences
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cognitive Semiotics of Film
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Cambridge University Press Beyond Aesthetics
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Cambridge University Press beyondaesthetics
Book SynopsisBeyond Aesthetics brings together philosophical essays addressing art and related issues by one of the foremost philosophers of art at work today. Countering conventional aesthetic theories - those maintaining that authorial intention, art history, morality and emotional responses are irrelevant to the experience of art - NoÃl Carroll argues for a more pluralistic and commonsensical view in which all of these factors can play a legitimate role in our encounter with art works. Throughout, the book combines philosophical theorizing with illustrative examples including works of high culture and the avant-garde, as well as works of popular culture, jokes, horror novels, and suspense films.Trade Review"Beyond Aesthetics is but the latest in a series of important works in which Carroll undertakes to expose the shortcomings of traditional and conventional modes of interpretation and appreciation." Journal of Aesthetic EducationTable of ContentsForeword Peter Kirvy; Introduction; Part I. Beyond Aesthetics: 1. Art and interaction; 2. Beauty and genealogy of art theory; 3. Four concepts of aesthetic experience; Part II. Art, History, and Narrative: 4. Art, practice, and narrative; 5. Identifying art; 6. Historical narratives and the philosophy of art; 7. On the narrative connection; 8. Interpretation, history and narrative; Part III. Interpretation and Intention: 9. Art, intention, and conversation; 10. Anglo-American aesthetics and contemporary criticism: intention and the hermeneutics of suspicion; 11. The intention of fallacy: defending myself; 12. Intention and interpretation: the debate between hypothetical and actual intentionalism; Part IV. Art, Emotion, and Morality: 13. Art, narrative, and emotion; 14. Horror and humor; 15. The paradox of suspense; 16. Art, narrative, and moral understanding; 17. Moderate moralism; 18. Simulation, emotions, and morality; Part V. Alternative Topics: 19. On jokes; 20. The paradox of junk fiction; 21. Visual metaphor; 22. On being moved by nature; 23. Emotion, appreciation, and nature.
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Cambridge University Press On the Waterfront
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Cambridge University Press Myth Mind and the Screen
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Cambridge University Press Jane Austen on Screen
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Cambridge University Press On the Waterfront Cambridge Film Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Myth Mind and the Screen
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Cambridge University Press Jane Austen on Screen
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Cambridge University Press John Fords Stagecoach Cambridge Film Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press America on Film
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Cambridge University Press Understanding Cinema
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Cambridge University Press Indelible Shadows
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Cambridge University Press Film Structure and the Emotion System
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Cambridge University Press The I of the Camera
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Cambridge University Press Horror Film and Psychoanalysis
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Cambridge University Press Australian Cinema After Mabo
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film
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Cambridge University Press When Opera Meets Film Cambridge Studies in Opera
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Cambridge University Press Entertainment Industrialised
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Cambridge University Press Anthroposcreens
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Cambridge University Press Women Modernists and Fascism
Book SynopsisModernism both influenced and was fascinated by the rhetorical and aesthetic manifestations of fascism. In examining how four artists and writers represented fascist leaders, Annalisa Zox-Weaver aims to achieve a more complex understanding of the modernist political imagination. She examines how photographer Lee Miller, filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, writer Gertrude Stein and journalist Janet Flanner interpret, dramatize and exploit Hitler, GÃring and PÃtain. Within their own artistic medium, each of these modernists explore confrontations between private and public identity, and historical narrative and the construction of myth. This study makes use of extensive archival material, such as letters, photographs, journals, unpublished manuscripts and ephemera, and includes ten illustrations. This interdisciplinary perspective opens up wider discussions of the relationship between artists and dictators, modernism and fascism, and authority and representation.Table of ContentsIntroduction: occupations; 1. In her image: Leni Riefenstahl's cinematic Hitler; 2. Stein's secret sharers: great men and modernist authority; 3. 'A face inappropriate to fame': Janet Flanner, the 'Fuhrer' profiles, and the image of the fascist leader; 4. Berchtesgaden is burning: Lee Miller, iconicity, and the demise of the Nazi leader; Conclusion: from monster to muse; Bibliography; Index.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Young Orson The Years of Luck and Genius on the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Young Orson] takes the directorial hero from his birth to the threshold of 'Citizen Kane.' I've only just started it and can so far confess to fascination and pleasure; the wealth of detail and the measured tempo are up to the Shakespearean complexity of Welles's character." -- New Yorker "McGilligan's Orson is a Welles for a new generation...McGilligan's book vibrates with uncertainty and risk, and it hums with the possibility that talented people actually can realize their dreams in the forms they choose." -- BookForum "No one writes biographies of film legends like Patrick McGilligan... It is a meticulous recreation of Welles's life and achievement up to 1941." -- Daily Beast "Welles's native brilliance and his ascent from producing plays as a boy at the Todd School to his conquest of New York theater and radio as an adult has seldom been documented with more clarity." -- Library Journal (starred review) "To read this book is to be taken with just how much meaningful work [Welles] packed into his youth, and awestruck by the self-assurance with which he approached his burgeoning career... With McGilligan's superb biography, we have the definitive portrait of Welles in his youth." -- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review "Engrossing ... Exhaustively researched but well-paced and stuffed with beguiling detail, this is a vivid, sympathetic portrait of Welles's youthful promise and achievement, before the misfires and compromises of his later years." -- Publishers Weekly "A richly detailed, often nuanced study of Welles' life and work. It's a welcome addition to the burgeoning shelf of books on one of America's most distinctive talents... Although Young Orson reads easily, it is powered by an evenhanded, almost scholarly rigor." -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Must reading for anyone interested in the history of film." -- Mark Levine, Booklist (starred review) "Exhaustively researched but well-paced and stuffed with beguiling detail, this is a vivid, sympathetic portrait of Welles's youthful promise and achievement, before the misfires and compromises of his later years." -- Publishers Weekly "An indefatigable reporter and masterful biographer, McGilligan has unearthed endless revelations that will change our view of Welles's. This book is a constant joy to read, showing that the truth about Welles's upbringing and youthful artistic triumphs is even more remarkable than the legend." -- Joseph McBride, author of What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? and Searching for John Ford "No other biographer has done such a superb job of investigating Orson Welles's Midwestern origins and dazzling early success. McGilligan convincingly refutes untruths and myths that others have accepted. This is by far the best book on the most formative period of Welles's life." -- James Naremore, author of The Magic World of Orson Welles "A prodigious and illuminating account of the extraordinary life of Orson Welles up to when he turned from theater and radio to launch his fabled movie career. McGilligan blends valuable new reporting with insights from existing sources to draw a bold portrait of the master that can fairly be called definitive." -- George Stevens, Jr., producer and founder of the American Film Institute "In many ways,Young Orson is my favorite of all the Welles biographies to date. The overall portrait of Welles's character and background that emerges, uncharacteristically sympathetic, is both dense and persuasive - and a page-turning pleasure to read." -- Jonathan Rosenbaum, author of Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Reading the Silver Screen A Film Lovers Guide to
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[One of] This Seasons Best Books on Hollywood" -- The New York Times Book Review We need more books like Thomas Foster's Reading the Silver Screen. A book like this one helps to bridge gaps between academic study and general knowledge. In this case, however, it also offers an important corrective for academic study. -- PopMatters
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Oscar Wars
Book SynopsisThe road to the Oscars may be golden, but it’s paved in blood, sweat, and broken hearts.In Oscar Wars, Michael Schulman chronicles the remarkable, sprawling history of the Academy Awards and the personal dramas—some iconic, others never-before-revealed—that have played out on the stage and off camera.Trade Review"On Oscar night, the true intrigues, hysterics and heartbreaks aren’t just in the films being honored, but in the behind the scenes jockeying for the awards. Schulman has the perfect eye and ear for the telling and entertaining dramas and light comedies leading up to Oscar victory." — Graydon Carter, former editor in chief of Vanity Fair and founder of Air Mail "Michael Schulman’s book about the Oscars is just delicious—fast-paced and fun but also a serious, well-reported piece of cultural history. With wit and an impeccable sense of timing, Schulman appreciates the glamour without sugar-coating the grit. Entertaining and informative, the book provides welcome escapism without guilt." — Julie Salamon, author of The Devil’s Candy “A spirited, occasionally dishy history of the [Oscars], touching on the award's most notable controversies and existential questions." — New York Times “Educational and gleefully gossipy, this industry tell-all is a wildly entertaining ride.” — Buzzfeed “Richly entertaining, deeply researched . . . written with a reporter’s rigor and a breezy prose style. . . . This is one of the best recent books about the film business. It is surely the best book about Hollywood’s biggest night.” — Wall Street Journal “This thorough, fascinating history of the Academy Awards captures the brutal battles, rivalries and behind-the-scenes dramas from the organization's inception to the slap heard around the world.” — USA Today "I devoured this book! Even for a pop culture obsessive like myself, it floored me in terms of how much I didn’t know about the history of Hollywood and the Academy Awards. The patterns it finds across the decades is surprising and delightful. Equally insightful and dishy, it is a must read for anyone interested in the shocking, absurd, thrilling and fascinating inner workings of the Hollywood machine." — Billy Eichner, comedian “More than a mere journey through Academy Awards history, this book is a trip through Hollywood’s power struggles.” — Washington Post "In an era of Hollywood upheaval, Michael Schulman turns out to be the perfect host for the Oscars. Deeply sourced, insightful and wildly entertaining, Oscar Wars traces the history of Hollywood’s biggest night from the demise of silent films through the camp debacle of Snow White, the Miramax insurgency and the pandemonium of 'the slap.' At once clear-eyed and dishy, this is the ideal resource for anyone who has always wanted to sneak backstage." — Emily Nussbaum, author of I Like to Watch “Schulman provides just what we need as the same old love-hate drama plays out yet again for Oscar fans and shunners alike: a rich array of unflattering but spellbinding stories about the feuds and failures of judgment that the Academy has thus far managed to weather. . . . A sparkling compendium of show-business anecdotes as well-researched as they are dishy.” — Atlantic “In an exhaustively detailed history oriented around a dozen or so pivotal ceremonies, [Schulman’s] astute analyses reveal these glam-a-paloozas to be telling case studies integral to understanding the past and gaining perspective on the present . . . . With his slew of colorful mini-biographies and juicy Tinseltown anecdotes, Schulman poses a sharp retort to the nagging question of why we bother keeping the Oscars around. Who in their right mind would want to give them up?” — Guardian “…[told] with acuity and fitting brio…. Oscar Wars is, among other things, a study of American moviemaking …. a combat narrative, laced with tales of valor and defeat, conquest and submission….” — The Nation “Thorough research with an eye for drama in this highly entertaining history of the Academy Awards. . . . The behind-the-scenes perspectives don’t skimp on juicy trivia while the connections Schulman draws to larger societal issues illustrate the power and limitations of cinema to reflect and drive change. This will thrill cinephiles.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Rich, deeply reported. . . . This Oscars history mixes all the expected glitz and glamour with enough industry intrigue to power an award-winning drama.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Michael Shulman is one of the great profile-writers of our time, and one of our best writers, period . . . What Schulman, a student of personality, could accomplish in a study of the Oscars—that most official of personality contests—is limitless. It’s also just a perfect opportunity to spill so much celebrity gossip. I imagine devouring this book poolside, while sipping on a blue drink; a big umbrella overhead, a little umbrella in my glass.” — The Millions "This lively, gossip-rich account is ideal reading for cineastes." — Library Journal (starred review) “[A] unique talent for capturing Hollywood madness…you’re sure to find something of intrigue in Schulman’s comprehensive volume on that glittering, golden show, birthplace of the Moonlight fiasco and the slap heard ’round the world.” — Elle “…just in time for awards-show junkies to inject this delicious (and meticulously researched) bitchery straight into their veins.” — Entertainment Weekly "Endlessly fascinating . . . . the highly detailed stories function like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, each revealing part of the bigger picture. The author . . . clearly knows his subject, and his enthusiasm is thoroughly contagious. — Booklist "And the award for most entertaining read goes to . . . the glitz, glamour, and drama that make up this extensive history of one of Hollywood’s biggest nights . . . . Whether you religiously see all the nominated films year after year or are looking for a fun book to give to your pop culture obsessed bestie, you’re gonna wanna hit pre-order on this star-worthy read stat." — The Skimm "Who’s not fascinated with the Academy Awards and all the glamour attached to them—the red carpet, extravagant gowns, glittering jewels, debonair stars and sweet speeches? . . . Schulman . . . goes behind the pomp in Oscar Wars to reveal the real stories behind the scenes, from cultural battles to industry intrigue. His insights and firsthand accounts make for fun reading." — Parade ". . . extraordinary and comprehensive . . . . . unlike any other Oscar history in print, rich with history, rife with insider stories, written with the kind of informal, confidential eloquence that has become a hallmark of [Schulman's] style. — Metro Weekly “Few have written more compellingly about the ego, campiness, politics, and intrigue of the Academy Awards than Michael Schulman . . . . filled with Schulman’s painstaking research and in-depth reporting….an exhilarating read for everyone from film critics to fans.” — Los Angeles Blade
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Elizabeth Taylor
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Penguin Putnam Inc Pictures at a Revolution Five Movies and the
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Oxford University Press Inc A Long Long Way
Book SynopsisThe American cinema is one of the great myth-making machines of the last century and has been used to craft defining narratives of race. Films like Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind have promoted racist stereotypes and films like Get Out and BlacKkKlansman have worked to tear those same stereotypes down. Greg Garrett's new book suggests that looking to religious traditions can help us discern and correct our nationalnarratives of race and ultimately lead to reconciliation in a meaningful and lasting way.Trade ReviewThis book's dust jacket describes the author's method: "Greg Garrett brings [to bear] his signature brand of theologically motivated cultural criticism." ... The present volume looks at the representation of African Americans in six films: The Birth of a Nation (1915), Casablanca (1943), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), Do the Right Thing (1989), Crash (2004), and Get Out (2017). Garrett's "theologically motivated cultural criticism" amounts to a well-written, sensible description of each film, followed by an extended theological reflection. ... Garrett is not that interested in conversing with film scholars who write about race. Instead his framework is theological: "Love is the most important force in the universe, the power that animates it, and the power that animates us" (p. 104) * S. C. Dillon, CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Long, Long Way The Birth of a Nation: Seeing the Other as Subhuman Best Supporting Actors: Casablanca, Friendship, and the Beloved Community "That's the Glory of Love": Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and the Power of Love Do the Right Thing: Together Are We Going to Live? Crashing into Each Other: Crash as Multicultural Post-9/11 Fable Get Out: Black Bodies Matter Conclusion: Remembrance, Contrition, and Hope
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The University of Chicago Press An Archaeology of Sympathy The Sentimental Mode
Book SynopsisOffers an account of Dickens and early American film by tracing the unexpected history and intricate strategies of the sentimental mode and showing how it has been reimagined over the past three centuries. This title begins with a look at Frank Capra and the Capraesque in American public life.Trade Review"An Archaeology of Sympathy is cultural history of the first order. It unfolds thrillingly, as a kind of project of media archaeology, showing us in eye-opening ways the crucial roles that the sentimental mode accords to notions of virtual spectatorship and mediated feeling. I found myself fascinated by the historical argument about sentimentalism's relation to episodes of media shift. This book has changed the way I think about books and movies." (Deidre Lynch, University of Toronto)"
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The University of Chicago Press House Full Indian Cinema and the Active Audience
Book SynopsisIndia is the largest producer and consumer of feature films in the world, far outstripping Hollywood in the number of movies released and tickets sold every year. Cinema quite simply dominates Indian popular culture, and has for many decades exerted an influence that extends from clothing trends to music tastes to everyday conversations, which are peppered with dialogue quotes. With House Full, Lakshmi Srinivas takes readers deep into the moviegoing experience in India, showing us what it's actually like to line up for a hot ticket and see a movie in a jam-packed theater with more than a thousand seats. Building her account on countless trips to the cinema and hundreds of hours of conversation with film audiences, fans, and industry insiders, Srinivas brings the moviegoing experience to life, revealing a kind of audience that, far from passively consuming the images on the screen, is actively engaged with them. People talk, shout, whistle, cheer; others sing along, mimic, or dance; at
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The University of Chicago Press Transmedium Conceptualism 2.0 and the New Object
Book SynopsisIf you attend a contemporary art exhibition lately, you're unlikely to see much traditional painting or sculpture. Indeed, artists today are preoccupied with what happens when you leave behind assumptions about particular media such as painting, or woodcuts and instead focus on collisions between them, and the new forms and ideas that those collisions generate. Garrett Stewart in Transmedium dubs this new approach Conceptualism 2.0, an allusion in part to the computer images that are so often addressed by these works. A successor to 1960s Conceptualism, which posited that a material medium was unnecessary to the making of art, Conceptualism 2.0 features artworks that are transmedial, that place the aesthetic experience itself deliberately at the boundary between often incommensurable media. The result, Stewart shows, is art whose forced convergences break open new possibilities that are wholly surprising, intellectually enlightening, and often uncanny.
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University of Chicago Press Novel and Film Essays in Two Genres
Book SynopsisSince the late 1950s, writes James R. Lawler in his Foreword to this volume, Morrissette has stood as one of the most incisive explicators of the nouveau roman, of its past and present affiliations, of its interaction with the cinema. The influential essays collected in Novel and Film display a wide range of critical and analytic approaches to the narrative aspects of the two genres. For all the variety of their subjects, from constructional forms such as interior duplication and game play to intertextual parallels with mathematics and topology, these essays together define a unified critical perspective, one that has brought fresh precision to the analysis of narrative techniques and that continues to raise questions of prime importance to contemporary fiction. Included is a complete bibliography of Morrissette's scholarly works.
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The University of Chicago Press Public Enemies Public Heroes Screening the
Book SynopsisA study of Hollywood gangster films. This book examines their controversial content and how it was subjected to continual moral and political censure. Combining film analysis with archival material, the study shows how the industry circumvented censure.
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University of Illinois Press Feeling Modern The Eccentricities of Public Life
Book SynopsisA new look at modernism's relationship to human feeling and the public sphereTrade Review"A rethinking of what constitutes modernist feeling. . . . Recommended."--Choice “Feeling Modern is handsomely written, and Nieland betrays a more fine-grained sensibility than many of his professional peers.”--Modernism/Modernity
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MIT Press Ltd The Language of New Media
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University of Wisconsin Press Narration in the Fiction Film
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Little, Brown & Company Shit Actually The Definitive 100 Objective Guide
Book SynopsisOne of the 'Best Books of 2020' by NPR's Book Concierge**Your Favorite Movies, Re-Watched** New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author Lindy West was once the in-house movie critic for Seattle's alternative newsweekly The Stranger, where she covered film with brutal honesty and giddy irreverence. In Shit, Actually, Lindy returns to those roots, re-examining beloved and iconic movies from the past 40 years with an eye toward the big questions of our time: Is Twilight the horniest movie in history? Why do the zebras in The Lion King trust Mufasa-WHO IS A LION-to look out for their best interests? Why did anyone bother making any more movies after The Fugitive achieved perfection? And, my god, why don't any of the women in Love, Actually ever fucking talk?!?!From Forrest Gump, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, and Bad Boys II, to Face/Off, Top Gun, and
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Presidio Press The Essential Guide to Characters Revised Edition
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Fragments
Book SynopsisFragments is an eventan unforgettable book that will redefine one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century and that, nearly fifty years after her death, will definitively reveal Marilyn Monroe''s humanity.Marilyn''s image is so universal that we can''t help but believe we know all there is to know of her. Every word and gesture made headlines and garnered controversy. Her serious gifts as an actor were sometimes eclipsed by her notorietyand by the way the camera fell helplessly in love with her.Beyond the headlinesand the too-familiar stories of heartbreak and desolationwas a woman far more curious, searching, witty, and hopeful than the one the world got to know. Now, for the first time, readers can meet the private Marilyn and understand her in a way we never have before. Fragments is an unprecedented collection of written artifactsnotes to herself, letters, even poemsin Marilyn''s own handwriting, never before published, along with rarel
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Random House USA Inc Hollywood Animal
Book SynopsisJoe Eszterhas had everything Hollywood could offer. A combination of insider and rebel, he saw and participated in the fights, the deals, the backstabbing, and all the sex and drugs. But here, in his candid and heartwrenching memoir, we see the rest of the story: the inspiring account of the child of Hungarian immigrants who, against all odds, grows up to live the American Dream. Hollywood Animal reveals the trajectory of Eszterhas's life in gripping detail, from his childhood in a refugee camp, to his battle with a devastating cancer. It shows how a struggling journalist became the most successful screenwriter of all time, and how a man who had access to the most beautiful women in Hollywood ultimately chose to live with the love of his life in a small town in Ohio. Above all, it is the story of a father and a son, and the turbulent relationship that was an unending cycle of heartbreak. Hollywood Animal is an enthralling, provocative memoir: a moving celebration of the human spirit.
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WW Norton & Co The Big Lebowski
Book SynopsisA firsthand account of how this extraordinary cult movie was made by the Oscar-winning Coen brothers.
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WW Norton & Co Film Analysis
Book SynopsisFifty essays on fifty films—by a who’s-who of film studies.
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WW Norton & Co Shakespeare and Film
Book SynopsisThe book also includes a glossary of film and critical terminology as well as annotated selected bibliographies and filmographies.Trade Review"For teachers who have found their casual references to dolly shots and whip pans met with stupefied gazes, Shakespeare and Film will seem an answer to a pedagogical prayer." -- Todd Borlick - Literature/Film Quarterly"Crowl’s prose is pitched perfectly to the undergraduate ear: limpid, but not platitudinous, authoritative, yet never condescending." -- Todd Borlick - Literature/Film Quarterly
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