Films, cinema Books
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Book SynopsisThough most sitcoms don't joke about crack addiction, abortion, and racism, "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" turns these subjects into comedy goldmines. This title provides an opportunity to extend the show experience through reimagining some favorite plot lines and the further development of backstory.
£16.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Testimony The Legacy of Schindlers List and the
Book SynopsisFew films have resonated through the years as Schindler's List has. Released in December 1993, it won seven Oscars. It inspired Steven Spielberg to create one of the world's most important visual history resources. This book commemorates that legacy.Trade ReviewAn informative coffee table book for film buffs and those interested in Jewish history. -- Kirkus
£40.00
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Charlton Heston
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£17.09
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Seduction Sex Lies and Stardom in Howard Hughess
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Guaranteed to engross anyone with any interest at all in Hollywood, in movies, in #MeToo and in the never-ending story of men with power and women without.” — New York Times Book Review “The stories Longworth uncovers—about Katharine Hepburn and Jane Russell, yes, but also Ida Lupino and Faith Domergue and Anita Loos—are so rich, so compelling, that they urge you to question how much else in history has been lost within the swirling vortex of Great Men.” — Atlantic “A compelling and relevant must-read.” — Entertainment Weekly “A first-rate work of cultural curation, in which Longworth combs the countless stacks of Hollywood memoirs and biographies, with a focus on the pathological predations of Howard Hughes, Texas millionaire, starmaker and film producer.” — USA Today (four stars) “An astute and entertaining takedown of the movie industry, the press and the multimillionaire turned wannabe filmmaker Howard Hughes. Hardly anyone emerges from the pages of Seduction unblemished by selfishness and greed once they are touched by the movie business and its promise of wealth, power and fame.” — Associated Press “From the force behind the You Must Remember This podcast comes a book exploring the glamour of classic Hollywood cinema through the lens of Texas business magnate, filmmaker (Hell’s Angels, Scarface), and notorious womanizer Howard Hughes—think a Harvey Weinstein–esque character decades before #MeToo.” — Vanity Fair “Longworth blasts through the seductive narratives propagated by men in the film business to uncover the dark stories underneath.” — The Cut “Vibrant… A compulsive page-turner… Much of Seduction reads like a long overdue act of redress, repositioning women into the more central positions where they belong.” — Los Angeles Times “Longworth pulls back the curtain on Hollywood’s golden age to reveal, through the stories of some of the actresses pursued by legendary millionaire mogul Howard Hughes, its dark and lasting legacy of power inequity, harassment, and abuse.” — Bustle “Seduction reads like a scandal sheet tempered with primary and secondary research.” — Los Angeles Review of Books “A candid portrait of the multifaceted millionaire…As his romantic tastes shifts from known quantities — like Hepburn, Rogers and Gardner — to powerless unknowns, Seduction reveals the root of Hughes’s interest in women: a desire to exert total control, rather than true affection.” — Washington Post “Audacious and welcome.” — Sight and Sound “Jam-packed with Hollywood scandal and history.” — Refinery 29 “Karina Longworth loves Hollywood the way it ought to be loved — mercilessly. She is a skeptic without cynicism, a feminist without apology, and in Seduction she has found the great subject that her essential podcast has long promised” — James Kaplan, author of Sinatra “An entertaining and timely tour of early Hollywood mores and manipulation. No matter how much you think you know about golden age Hollywood, Longworth serves up fascinatingly fresh perspective on the ways male desire and power shaped movie mythology.” — Joy Press, author of Stealing the Show “Full of insight...illuminating and memorable.” — Booklist “A history that shows clearly how powerful men exploited actresses long before the #MeToo movement began. Hollywood historian Longworth has mined memoirs, biographies, magazines, newspapers, and archives to create an entertaining, gossip-filled portrait of the film capital’s golden age… A lively—and often sordid—Hollywood history.” — Kirkus Reviews “Throughout this densely researched and lively book the siren song of the new medium of film is heard.” — Cineaste
£15.75
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Inside the Magic The Making of Fantastic Beasts
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£17.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Star Trek The Book of Lists
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£19.00
HarperCollins Publishers Inc All That Heaven Allows A Biography of Rock Hudson
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£26.09
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The History of the World According to Facebook
Book SynopsisTrade Review“I think Abraham Lincoln would find this book funny. Right after he decided Facebook was a huge waste of time.” — Justin Halpern, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sh*t My Dad Says
£14.00
HarperCollins No Judgment
£15.29
HarperCollins Publishers Inc So Fetch
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£22.50
Penguin Publishing Group My First Movie Twenty Celebrated Directors Talk
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£999.99
Penguin Random House India Satyajit Ray Miscellany
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£17.09
University of Chicago Press Conjugations Marriage and Form in New Bollywood
Book SynopsisTakes a look at Hindi films and movie trends - the decline of song-and-dance sequences, the upgraded status of the horror genre, and the rise of the multiplex and multi-plot - to demonstrate how these relationships exemplify different formulas of contemporary living.Trade Review"This dazzling and wide-reaching book will be of interest to scholars not only in cinema studies, but more generally, those interested in postcoloniality, feminism and gender, and the nation-state in South Asia." (Jigna Desai, University of Minnesota)"
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press An Amorous History of the Silver Screen Shanghai
Book SynopsisIllustrates the cultural significance of film and its power as a vehicle for social change. This book reveals the intricacies of the cultural movement and explores its connections to other art forms such as photography, drama, and literature. It looks at the cultural history of Chinese through the lens of this seminal moment in Shanghai cinema.Trade Review"An Amorous History of the Silver Screen will be an instant classic. This lively yet rigorous work of original scholarship reconfigures the field of Chinese silent cinema. It constitutes an exciting new work at the cutting edge of the emergent transnational field of Chinese cinema studies." - Chris Berry, editor of Chinese Films in Focus"
£999.99
University of Illinois Press Replications
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A new addition to the study of film history as collective unconscious. Telotte puts our cultural obsession with artificial humans on the stand... Offers complex insights into many robotic gems." -- Hotwired
£24.05
MO - University of Illinois Press Film Adaptation in the Hollywood Studio Era
Book SynopsisA contribution to literary adaptation studies, this book shifts the focus away from determining a film's allegiance to the original source and redirects the conversation to the industrial choices, audience responses, and socio-cultural factors that contribute to the construction of the cinematic text.Trade Review"Guerric DeBona's new book makes a powerful case that film adaptations are shaped as much by contextual forces as by their literary forbears. Once it is as widely read as it deserves to be, adaptation studies will never be the same.”--Thomas Leitch, author of Film Adaptation and Its Discontents: From Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ"Recommended."--Choice
£28.07
University of Illinois Press The Living and the Undead
Book SynopsisA cunning investigation of the monstrous in classic and modern horrorTrade Review"Fascinating studies of nineteenth- and especially twentieth-century horror narratives. . . . A book which frequently displays great subtlety and insight."--Library Journal"Highly recommended as a source book for those interested in the horror genre. In addition, Waller's book provides a critical abundance of empirical data for any scholar concerned with genre studies, history, adaptation, narrativity, and intertextuality."--Wide Angle"A fascinating account of the changing trends in vampire fiction. . . . People truly interested in horror literature and films will find Waller's book invaluable."--West Coast Review of Books"This is a book for those who want a fruitful method to approach the analysis of monster narratives."--Journal of the Fantastic in the ArtsTable of ContentsPREFACE vi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii INTRODUCTION 1. Stories of the Living and the Undead 3 PART ONE: The Moral Community and the King-Vampire 2. Into the Twentieth Century 29 PART TWO: Dracula Retold 3. Dracula: The Vampire Play (1927), Dracula (1931), and Dracula (1979) 77 4. Horror of Dracula, Hammer's Dracula Films, El Conde Dracula 113 5. Dracula (1973) and Count Dracula (1977) 146 PART THREE: The Sacrifice of the Pure-Hearted Seer 6. Nosferatu, A symphony of Horror and Nosferatu the Vampyre 177 PART FOUR: Legions of the Undead 7. The Invasion of America 233 8. Land of the Living Dead 272 CONCLUSION 9. Resolution, Violence, Survival 331 APPENDIX: Precis of Dracula: The Vampire Play 361 INDEX 363
£29.06
MIT Press Ltd WBCN and the American Revolution How a Radio
Book SynopsisHow Boston radio station WBCN became the hub of the rock-and-roll, antiwar, psychedelic solar system.While San Francisco was celebrating a psychedelic Summer of Love in 1967, Boston stayed buttoned up and battened down. But that changed the following year, when a Harvard Law School graduate student named Ray Riepen founded a radio station that played music that young people, including the hundreds of thousands at Boston-area colleges, actually wanted to hear. WBCN-FM featured album cuts by such artists as the Mothers of Invention, Aretha Franklin, and Cream, played by announcers who felt free to express their opinions on subjects that ranged from recreational drugs to the war in Vietnam. In this engaging and generously illustrated chronicle, Peabody Award–winning journalist and one-time WBCN announcer Bill Lichtenstein tells the story of how a radio station became part of a revolution in youth culture.At WBCN, creativity and countercultural politics ruled:
£32.40
Zondervan Pugtato Babysits the Snouts
Book SynopsisWhat do you get when you cross imaginative and loveable characters, enchanting and inspiring illustrations and a giggle-inducing story? ...Pugtato, a simple, good spud and a hilarious mashup of pet and vegetable characters by the inimitable illustrator Sophie Corrigan! Join Pugtato as he takes on the job of babysitting the Brussels Snouts.Pugtato thinks babysitting will be easy … how much trouble can baby Brussels Snouts get into? But as the day unfolds, the rambunctious little Snouts decide to show Pugtato they are not little babies, and prove that size doesn’t matter when it comes to having lots of fun with your good spuddies.Pugtato Babysits the Snouts delivers: A delightful, giggle-inducing, rhyming, read-aloud story perfect for kids ages 4-8 Imaginative, silly pet and vegetable mashups such as Pugtato, Tomatoad, Carrat, Cowbbage, Croccoli, Unicorn on the Cob and more! A beautiful, eye-catching coverTrade ReviewPugtato finds his inner child when he babysits a trio of young mischief-makers. Pugtato--who has the face of a pug, two tiny arms, and a spud body--agrees to watch three little Brussels snouts, who resemble green piglets, while their parents shop. He has little idea how energetic and creative these wee ones are. When Pugtato tries to carry them, they declare that they're not babies and carry him instead. All set to work painting potted plants with some artichicks; the snouts add adornments like pompoms and sequins. When a yellow bell pupper passes by, skipping rope with a length of twine, the snouts declare they need to try it, too. With a long piece of twine, they fashion a tightrope; Pugtato cycles across it on a bicycle with the snouts holding on. Next comes a splashfest, triggered by the antics of some baby croccolis. One of the snouts finds a hose and turns a bucket into a nifty pool. Pugtato doesn't want to swim without a bathing suit, so the snouts fashion him a big diaper. After so much activity, Pugtato falls asleep. When he wakes, the snout parents are back, and the little snouts want to know if they can babysit Pugtato again. Corrigan's text, relayed in rhyming couplets, is a punny delight, and her cute pictures have a childlike feel. Children who may never have imagined that veggies could be made so adorable might well find themselves looking at their dinner plates with new eyes. Pugtato is ridiculously appealing. Wordplay and antics geared to the very young funny bone. * Kirkus Reviews, July 15, 2021 *
£22.20
Hachette Books Home Work A Memoir of My Hollywood Years
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£17.09
Random House USA Inc The Essential Guide to Warfare Star Wars
Book SynopsisTHE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE ULTIMATE INTERGALACTIC BATTLEFIELD Like many a great epic, Star Wars is rooted in a rich history of armed conflict. Now, for the first time, the facts, figures, and fascinating backstories of major clashes and combatants in the vast Star Wars universe have been documented in one fully illustrated volume. Extensively researched and inventively written, Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare combines action-filled narrative with encyclopedic knowledge that: • explores notable military units and groups• traces the development of significant armaments and technologies• profiles key warship classes, ground units, and manufacturers• provides capsule biographies of great military leaders• presents eyewitness troopers’ accounts of combat• plus—enough additional profiles, intel, history, and lore to span the cosmos! Encompassing all of the Star Wars media, including the legendary films, the hit TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the bestselling books, comics, and videogames, and packed with original full-color artwork, Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare is a conquering achievement.
£30.60
Random House USA Inc Jedi vs. Sith Star Wars The Essential Guide to
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£22.91
Random House USA Inc All That Is Bitter and Sweet
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£15.29
WW Norton & Co Well Always Have Casablanca The Legend and
Book SynopsisA Los Angeles Times bestseller A New York Times Book Review “Editor’s Choice” Selection “Even the die-hardest Casablanca fan will find in this delightful book new ways to love the movie they were certain they could never love more.” —Sam Wasson, best-selling author of Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.Trade Review"We'll Always Have Casablanca is a hugely readable and entertaining look at how Casablanca came to be, and how it came to be such an indelible part of American pop culture." -- Chris Foran - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"Combining trenchant analysis of the film’s poetic and political power with a well-researched and playful account of its legacy, We’ll Always Have Casablanca is a necessary book and perhaps even an urgent one." -- Noah Gittell - Los Angeles Review of Books"Anyone interested in the magic of movies will relish this book." -- Tavo Amador - Bay Area Reporter"Fascinating… [and] profoundly relevant." -- Rebecca Prime - Los Angeles Times"A treasure trove of facts and anecdotes." -- Peter Biskind - New York Times Book Review"Observant and astute.… Isenberg makes some insightful contributions to Casablanca lore." -- Gerald Bartell - Washington Post"An insightful, revelatory new book." -- Paul Teetor - Los Angeles Weekly"Hugely entertaining." -- David Mikics - Tablet"As Noah Isenberg details in his excellent new book We’ll Always Have Casablanca, the 1942 film is a case study of how history gets depicted for popular entertainment, but it is also a powerful example of how the Hollywood machine produced work that intersected with political commitment while still holding fast to its romantic conventions." -- Michael S. Roth - Chronicle of Higher Education"Four out of four stars.… Isenberg’s great contribution is tying together the production [of Casablanca] and its legacy." -- Bill Desowitz - USA Today"Noah Isenberg brings an appropriate passion to his pop analysis of [Casablanca], along with a delight of details and some savvy reassessments." -- John Anderson - Newsday"Isenberg gives us… a rich miscellany of material that will delight fans of both the film and Hollywood’s golden era. His research is clearly second to none." -- Lucy Scholes - Times Literary Supplement
£13.29
Ten Speed Press Working Actor Breaking in Making a Living and
Book SynopsisVeteran character actor David Dean Bottrell draws on his 35+ tumultuous years of work in the entertainment industry to offer a guide to breaking in, making a living, and making a life in the fabulous trenches of show business. Covers every facet of the business, including: - Capturing the perfect headshot - Starting (and maintaining) your network - Picking an agent - Audition do’s and don’ts - Joining the union(s): SAG-AFTRA and Actors Equity Association (AEA) - On stage vs on screen - Paying the bills - Self-promotion - Late bloomers -
£13.29
Penguin Books Ltd Of Mice and Magic
Book SynopsisWhether you’re seeking movie gifts or something for the history buffs in your life, this comprehensive guide to animation and cartoons has it all. In this one-of-a-kind definitive history of American animated cartoons, renowned film critic and historian Leonard Maltin presents the most extensive filmography on cartoons ever compiled. In this revised and updated edition of Of Mice and Magic, Leonard Maltin not only recreates this whole glorious era from the silent days through the Hollywood golden age to Spielberg’s An American Tail, he traces the evolution of the art of animation and vividly portrays the key creative talents and their studios. This definitive history of American animated cartoons also brings Maltin’s many fans up to date on the work being done today at the Walt Disney and Warner Bros. studios, and other developments in the world of animation.Drawing on colorful interviews with many of the American cartTrade Review"Informative and delightful … wonderful personal observations … Maltin has presented a history both readable and captivating." —The Hollywood Reporter"Lovingly detailed … wonderfully written … an excellent book." —New York Times Book Review"The most complete history of animation available." —Los Angeles Times"Maltin is an impressive archivist and a lively chronicler." —Publisher's WeeklyTable of ContentsThe silent era; Walt Disney; Max Fleischer; Paul Terry and Terrytoons; Walter Lantz; Ub Iwerks; the Van Beuren Studio; Columbia - Charles Mintz and Screen Gems; Warner Bros; MGM; Paramount/Famous Studios; UPA; The rest of the story. Filmographies by studios: the Walt Disney cartoons; the Max Fleischer cartoons; Terrytoons; the Walter Lantz cartoons; the Ub Iwerks cartoons; the Van Beuren cartoons; the Columbia/Screen gems cartoons; the Warner Bros cartoons; the MGM cartoons; the Paramount/Famous Studios cartoons; the UPA cartoons. Academy Award Nominees and Winners.
£27.20
Basic Books Talking Pictures How to Watch Movies
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£25.89
The University of Michigan Press MexCine
Book SynopsisOffers an accessibly written, multidisciplinary investigation of contemporary Mexican cinema that combines industrial, technical, and sociopolitical analysis with analyses of modes of reception through cognitive theory. Mex-Ciné aims to make visible the 21st-century Mexican film industry, its blueprints, and the cognitive and emotive faculties involved in making and consuming its corpus.
£72.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press That Was the Wild East
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£38.48
The University of Michigan Press Rudolf Arnheim
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£67.14
The University of Michigan Press Brushed in Light
Book SynopsisThe brushed word in films and film cultures of Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and PRC
£36.95
Thames and Hudson Ltd Moments that Made the Movies
Book SynopsisDavid Thomson is a British film critic and historian based in the USA and the author of more than twenty books. His reference works in particular Have You Seen...?: A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films and The New Biographical Dictionary of Film have been praised as works of high literary merit and eccentricity. John Banville called him the greatest living writer on the movies'.
£999.99
Thames and Hudson Ltd Moments that Made the Movies
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£37.95
Random House USA Inc Alfred Hitchcock
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£15.26
Diversified Publishing The Ride of a Lifetime
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A memoir of leadership and success: The CEO of Disney shares the ideas and values he embraced while reinventing one of the world’s most beloved companies and inspiring the people who bring the magic to life. AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEARRobert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company in 2005, during a difficult time. Competition was more intense than ever and technology was changing faster than at any time in the company’s history. His vision came down to three clear ideas: Recommit to the concept that quality matters, embrace technology instead of fighting it, and think bigger—think global—and turn Disney into a stronger brand in international markets. Today, Disney is the largest, most admired media company in the world, counting Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and 21st Century Fox among its properties. Under Iger’s leadership, Disney’s value grew nearly five times what it was, making Iger one of the most innovating and successful CEOs of our era.In The Ride of a Lifetime, Robert Iger answers the question: What are the qualities of a good leader? He shares the lessons he learned while running Disney and leading its 220,000-plus employees, and he explores the principles that are necessary for true leadership, including:• Optimism. Even in the face of difficulty, an optimistic leader will find the path toward the best possible outcome and focus on that, rather than give in to pessimism and blaming.• Courage. Leaders have to be willing to take risks and place big bets. Fear of failure destroys creativity. • Decisiveness. All decisions, no matter how difficult, can be made on a timely basis. Indecisiveness is both wasteful and destructive to morale. • Fairness. Treat people decently, with empathy, and be accessible to them. This book is about the relentless curiosity that has driven Iger since the day he started as the lowliest studio grunt at ABC. It’s also about thoughtfulness and respect, and a decency-over-dollars approach that has become the bedrock of every project and partnership Iger pursues, from a deep friendship with Steve Jobs in his final years to an abiding love of the Star Wars mythology. “The ideas in this book strike me as universal,” Iger writes. “Not just to the aspiring CEOs of the world, but to anyone wanting to feel less fearful, more confidently themselves, as they navigate their professional and even personal lives.”
£24.00
Penguin Putnam Inc Phasers on Stun
Book SynopsisAn Esquire Best Book of 2022!Written with inside access, comprehensive research, and a down-to-earth perspective, Phasers on Stun! chronicles the entire history of Star Trek, revealing that its enduring place in pop culture is all thanks to innovative pivots and radical change. For over five decades, the heart of Star Trek’s pro-science, anti-racist, and inclusive messaging has been its willingness to take big risks. Across thirteen feature films, and twelve TV series—including five shows currently airing or in production—the brilliance of Star Trek is in its endless ability to be rethought, rebooted, and remade. Author and Star Trek expert Ryan Britt charts an approachable and entertaining course through Star Trek history; from its groundbreaking origins amid the tumultuous 1960s, to its influence on diversifying the space program, to its contemporary history-making turns with LGBTQ+ representation, this bo
£18.53
Random House USA Inc The Last Action Heroes
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£17.00
Alfred A. Knopf A Light in the Dark A History of Movie Directors
Book SynopsisFrom the celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film--an essential work on the preeminent, indispensable movie directors and the ways in which their work has forged, and continues to forge, the landscape of modern film.Directors operate behind the scenes, managing actors, establishing a cohesive creative vision, at times literally guiding our eyes with the eye of the camera. But we are often so dazzled by the visions on-screen that it is easy to forget the individual who is off-screen orchestrating the entire production--to say nothing of their having marshaled a script, a studio, and other people's money. David Thomson, in his usual brilliantly insightful way, shines a light on the visionary directors who have shaped modern cinema and, through their work, studies the very nature of film direction. With his customary candor about his own delights and disappointments, Thomson analyzes both landmark works and forgotten films from classic
£22.40
Alfred A. Knopf Acting Naturally
Book SynopsisFrom the celebrated film critic and author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, a fascinating look at some of the cinema’s finest actors and how they approach their craftOpen to any page and you’ll become enthralled by the...tales of forgotten film lore, childhood memories, sexy gossip.”—Philip Kaufman, directorMeryl Streep, Marlon Brando, Anthony Hopkins, Carey Mulligan. When we watch these remarkable actors in a performance, we see only Sophie, Stanley Kowalski, Hannibal Lecter, or Cassie from Promising Young Woman. How are they able to transform our world in this way? How and why do they do what they do?In Acting Naturally, David Thomson sheds light on the actors who have shaped the film industry. He shrewdly analyzes these stars—among them, James Dean, Nicole Kidman, Denzel Washington, Louise Brooks, Riz Ahmed, Sir Laurence Olivier, Viola Davis, and Jean Seberg—revealing how a sly smile, an extra-long pause, even a small gesture of the hand can draw in an audience. And he takes us behind the scenes to examine casting and all the other moments leading up to “Action!”Through intimate anecdote, humor, and the insight born of a lifetime watching and analyzing film, Thomson explores the real reasons why we go to the movies and looks at how they influence our lives. This book is not only necessary reading for an insider’s view of the industry but also a surprising investigation of the relationship between acting and living.
£24.00
Penguin Putnam Inc A Very Merry 90s Christmas
Book SynopsisCelebrate this holiday season with all your favourite 90s stars, icons, and pop-culture moments!
£10.44
DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) DC Cinematic Universe
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£26.19
DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Star Wars Mundos y escenarios Star Wars Complete Locations New Edition
£40.00
DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Star Wars The Blueprints
£42.50
Hal Leonard Corporation Buena Vista Social Club Piano Vocal Guitar
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£22.09
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group When Harry Met Sally
Book SynopsisThe complete screenplay of Rob Reiner's enormously funny and moving film, When Harry Met Sally—a romantic comedy about the difficult, frustrating, awful, funny search for happiness in an American city, where the primary emotion is unrequited love.A winner, a lavishly romantic lark, brimming over with style, intelligence and flashing wit. —Peter Travers, Rolling StoneWritten by Nora Ephron, author of screenplays for Silkwood and Heartburn (from her own bestselling novel)—When Harry Met Sally is as hilarious on the page as it is on the screen. The book includes an introduction by the author.
£13.13
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group MOVIE MADE AMERICA CULTURAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN MOVIES
Book SynopsisHailed as the definitive work upon its original publication in 1975 and now extensively revised and updated by the author, this vastly absorbing and richly illustrated book examines film as an art form, technological innovation, big business, and shaper of American values. Ever since Edison's peep shows first captivated urban audiences, film has had a revolutionary impact on American society, transforming culture from the bottom up, radically revising attitudes toward pleasure and sexuality, and at the same time, cementing the myth of the American dream. No book has measured film's impact more clearly or comprehensively than Movie-Made America.This vastly readable and richly illustrated volume examines film as art form, technological innovation, big business, and cultural bellwether. It takes in stars from Douglas Fairbanks to Sly Stallone; auteurs from D. W. Griffith to Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee; and genres from the screwball comedy of the 1930s t
£999.99
Chester Music Classical Chillout for Solo Piano Music
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£16.96
Phaidon Press Ltd The Misfits
Book SynopsisTells the story of the making of the legendary film The Misfits (1961).Trade Review"A must for photography and Monroe fans alike."—British Journal of Photography
£23.61
