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iUniverse KEVIN KEARNEY Audio Artist Sound Designer Analogue Location Sound Recordist
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iUniverse The Producers Profiles in Frustration
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iUniverse The Soundies Book A Revised and Expanded Guide
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Hampstead Enterprises Risky Business Financing Distributing Independent Films Second Edition
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Tom Marcoux Media, LLC Darkest Secrets of Making a Pitch for Film and Television How You Can Get a Studio Executive Producer Name Actor or Private Investor to Say Yes Volume 6 Darkest Secrets by Tom Marcoux
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The Curb Lonely Spirits and the King
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Star Trek The Ferengi Rules Of Acquisition Star Trek Deep Space Nine
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Clarissa Jacobson I Made A Short Film Now WTF Do I Do With It a guide to film festivals promotion and surviving the ride
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Lexington Books Films and Dreams
Book SynopsisFilms and Dreams considers the essential link between films and the world of dreams. To discuss dream theory in the context of film studies means moving from the original, clinical context within which dream theory was originally developed to an environment established by primarily aesthetic concerns. Botz-Bornstein deals with dreams as ''self-sufficient'' phenomena that are interesting not because of their contents but because of the ''dreamtense'' through which they deploy their being. A diverse selection of films are examined in this light: Tarkovsky''s anti-realism exploring the domain of the improbable between symbolization, representation and alienation; Sokurov''s subversive attacks on the modern image ideology; Arthur Schnitzler''s shifting of the familiar to the uncanny and Kubrick''s avoidance of this structural model in Eyes Wide Shut; and Wong Kar-Wai''s dreamlike panorama of parodied capitalism.Trade Review[Botz-Bornstein] displays a masterful degree of familiarity and understanding, not only of the concept in question but also of the concept's historical relativity....Film and Dreams contains a great deal of vital argument, which for formalist and psychoanalytic scholars of film should provide a great deal of impetus for much needed discussion. * Screening The Past, June 2008 *Botz-Bornstein's books display a superior capacity to engage—with rigour, application and insightfulness—in research projects dedicated to customarily neglected philosophical topics. In an English-speaking academic world dominated by over-specialization and institutionalized narrow-mindedness, Thorsten Botz-Bornstein's Films and Dreams brings a breath of fresh air. * Parallax Magazine, June 2009 *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Dreamtense and the Art of Film Chapter 2 Chapter 1. From Formalist Ostranenie to Tarkovsky's 'Logic of Dreams' Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Space and Dream: Heidegger's, Tarkovsky's, and Caspar David Friedrich's Landscapes Chapter 4 Chapter 3. On the Blurring of Lines: Alexander Sokurov Chapter 5 Chapter 4. Ingmar Bergman and Dream After Freud Chapter 6 Chapter 5. A Short Note on Nordic Culture and Dreams Chapter 7 Chapter 6. From "Ethno-Dream" to Hollywood: Schnitzler's Traumnovelle, Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, and the Problem of "Deterritorialization" Chapter 8 Chapter 7. Wong Kar-wai and the Culture of the Kawaii Chapter 9 Chapter 8. Aesthetics and Mysticism: Plotinus, Tarkovsky and the Questions of 'Grace' Chapter 10 Chapter 9. Image and Allegory: Tarkovsky and Benjamin Chapter 11 Chapter 10. Ten Keywords Concerning Filmdream: Surrealism, Expressionism, Superimposition, Daydream, The Uncanny, Dream Transfers, Dream Colors, Dream Realism, Dream Rituals, Dream Certitudes
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Simon And Schuster Group USA Sleazoid Express
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Touchstone Books Creative Filmmaking from the Inside Out
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Little, Brown Book Group Al Pacino A Life On The Wire
Book SynopsisWhilst Al Pacino''s astonishing performaces have established him as one of the greatest actors of our time, Andrew Yule reveals that he has spent most of his life at war with himself. A traumatic childhood, years of grinding poverty and an inability to sustain relationships with, amongst others, Jill Calyburgh, Tuesday Weld and Diane Keaton have lead to a turbulent, unstable private life - a life nearly destroyed by an apparently hopeless alcohol addiction.International success after The Godfather only served to intensify the crushing personal pressures on Pacino, and he has since had to live with some of the worst career moves in the history of Hollywood. Combining intensive research with extraordinarily frank interviews with Pacino''s closest friends and associates, Andrew Yule strips away the wall of secrecy behind which the reclusive star has hidden and paints a startlingly intimate portrait of a truly remarkable personality.
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I. B. Tauris & Company The Plays and Films of Bahram Beyzaie
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Celebrity Bromance and Comradery Capital in Asia
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AuthorHouse Either Everything Was Wrong from the Git Go or Right From the Start
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Running Press,U.S. Frog and Toad Are Doing Their Best A Parody
Book SynopsisAt home, work, and out in our ever-changing world, we're all just doing our best. In this modern parody, Frog and Toad are here to commiserate and lend some laughter.Full of wry humor and deep compassion for our modern vulnerabilities, the stories in Frog and Toad Are Doing Their Best perfectly capture the heartwarming authenticity of Lobel’s famous amphibian friends while revealing razor-sharp truths about the world we live in today. Through Frog and Toad, we see the anxieties that are woven throughout our everyday existence, from our well-meaning but often-failed attempts at practicing self-care to our struggle to balance the gifts and burdens of technology. Toad ponders a variety of questionable schemes to pay off his credit cards, while Frog spends too much time scrolling through the newsfeed on his phone. But despite their daily frustrations and existential concerns, they know that having a friend to share life’s burdens makes ev
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Running Press Book Publishers CrissCross
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Crown New York The Movie Lovers Guide The Ultimate Insider Tour of Movie New York
Book SynopsisThe classic guide to who-did-what-where in New York, on- and off-screen, including: Classic film and TV locations: Marilyn Monroe’s infamous Seven Year Itch subway grating . . . the deli where Meg Ryan famously faked an orgasm in When Harry Met Sally . . . the diner where Courteney Cox (in Friends) and Kirsten Dunst (in Spider-Man) waitressed . . . Men in Black’s Manhattan headquarters . . . The Godfather mansion on Staten Island…the Greenwich Village apartment where Jack Nicholson terrorized Greg Kinnear in As Good as It Gets . . . Ghostbusters’ Tribeca firehouse . . . Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow’s A Perfect Murder palazzo . . . the landmark West Side building that housed Tom Cruise in Vanilla Sky and Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby . . . the Greenwich Village apartment of Friends . . . Will & Grace’s Upper West Side building . . .
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Crown The Great Movies II
Book SynopsisContinuing the pitch-perfect critiques begun in The Great Movies, Roger Ebert's The Great Movies II collects 100 additional essays, each one of them a gem of critical appreciation and an amalgam of love, analysis, and history that will send readers back to films with a fresh set of eyes and renewed enthusiasm—or perhaps to an avid first-time viewing. Neither a snob nor a shill, Ebert manages in these essays to combine a truly populist appreciation for today's most important form of popular art with a scholar's erudition and depth of knowledge and a sure aesthetic sense. Once again wonderfully enhanced by stills selected by Mary Corliss, former film curator at the Museum of Modern Art, The Great Movies II is a treasure trove for film lovers of all persuasions, an unrivaled guide for viewers, and a book to return to again and again.Films featured in The Great Movies II12 Angry Men · The Adventures of Robin Hood · Ali
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Wildside Press Structuring Time Notes on Making Movies
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Scarecrow Press Straight from the Horses Mouth
Book SynopsisNow in Paperback! Ronald Neame''s autobiography takes its title from one of his best-loved films, The Horse''s Mouth (1958), starring Alec Guinness. In an informative and entertaining style, Neame discusses the making of that film, along with several others, including In Which We Serve, Blithe Spirit, Brief Encounter, Great Expectations, Tunes of Glory, I Could Go on Singing, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Scrooge, The Poseidon Adventure, and Hopscotch. Straight from the Horse''s Mouth provides a fascinating, first-hand account of a unique filmmaker, who began his career as assistant cameraman on Hitchcock''s first talkie, Blackmail, and went on to direct Maggie Smith, Judy Garland, Walter Matthau, and many other prominent performers. The book includes tales of the on-and-off-the-set antics of comedian George Formby, and original accounts of his experiences working with Noel Coward and David Lean. This is not simply an autobiography, but rather a history of British cinema from the 1Trade ReviewRonald Neame's life story reads like a veritable Who's Who of the movie business. * The Director's Guild Of America *The name Ronald Neame should be a household word...A virtual who's-who history of the film business, here and in England, since the beginning of sound films...it's a book that deserves a read by anyone interested in the endlessly fascinating process of filmmaking, especially those who, like Neame, pursue their passion with class, style and wit. * The Hollywood Reporter *Both amusing and informative...Cinematographers will delight in the many colorful stories Neame relates about filmmaking in this engaging autobiography, and it's required reading for anyone interested in the history of British film. * American Cinematographer *Yours is an extraordinary life, and I found the book enthralling. It encompasses so much of our film history, and for you to have mastered three great film crafts, to have worked with Hitch, Coward, Lean, Guinness, Powell, and Pressburger, even Garland and Formby, and to have been responsible for such magnificent films as The Horse's Mouth, Tunes of Glory, and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie places you firmly in the pantheon of great British filmmakers. -- George Perry * London Times *a charming memoir. -- Kenneth Turan * Los Angeles Times *Any career that spans across eight decades is quite an achievement, particularly a career that's been so consistently distinguished and adventurous, a career of such passionate pursuits. More than a career, really—a Life. * Martin Scorsese *You'll enjoy his book. * The Veteran *Given that Neame collaborated with the likes of David Lean and Noel Coward, he recalls some impressive anecdotes, the choicest of which can be found in his consistently engrossing autobiography. Told in a gentlemanly style, the book provides a valuable first hand record of what it was like to work in the British Film industry in the Thirties and Forties. As for Neame's experiences in Hollywood, they're the icing on the already delicious cake. * Film Review, (Uk) *Intriguing...I couldn't put it down and read it all in one sitting, as David Lean, who features very heavily would have said 'A bloody good read.' * British Society of Cinematographers Newsletter *Long-overdue, revealing, and extremely readable * Academy *An inside story, not about one man, but about the entire fascinating industry in which he worked. * British Heritage *An invaluable history of British cinema from the 1920s through the 1960s. * Culturevulture.Net *Table of ContentsPart 1 Foreword Part 2 Foreword Part 3 Introduction Chapter 4 1 Miss World Chapter 5 2 Blackmail Chapter 6 3 Beryl Chapter 7 4 The Elstree Fire Chapter 8 5 Quota Quickies Chapter 9 6 Major Barbara Chapter 10 7 Noël Coward Chapter 11 8 Cineguild Chapter 12 9 Hollywood Chapter 13 10 Expectations Chapter 14 11 The Academy Chapter 15 12 Take My Life Chapter 16 13 Passionate Friends Chapter 17 14 Crashing On Regardless Chapter 18 15 The Magic Box Chapter 19 16 The Card Chapter 20 17 The Million Pound Note Chapter 21 18 The Man Who Never Was Chapter 22 19 Windom's Way Chapter 23 20 Alec Guinness Chapter 24 21 Tunes of Glory Chapter 25 22 Judy Garland Chapter 26 23 Ron Pon Chapter 27 24 Mister Moses Chapter 28 25 Gambit Chapter 29 26 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Chapter 30 27 Scrooge Chapter 31 28 The Poseidon Adventure Chapter 32 29 Losses and Gains Chapter 33 30 Walter Matthau Chapter 34 31 Donna Part 35 Appendix A: The Films of Ronald Neame Part 36 Appendix B: Awards and Honors Part 37 Acknowledgments Part 38 Index
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Scarecrow Press The A to Z of Russian and Soviet Cinema
Book SynopsisFilm lovers all over the world are familiar with the masterpieces of Eisenstein and Tarkovsky. These directors'' unique achievements were embedded in a powerful process that began under Russia''s last tsar and underwent several periods of blossoming: the bourgeois cinema in the 1910s, the revolutionary avant-garde in the 1920s, the Thaw in the 1950s, and the awakening of national cinemas in the 1960s and 1970s. The A to Z of Russian and Soviet Cinema is the first reference work of its kind in the English language devoted entirely to the cinema of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the post-Soviet period, including both the cinematic highlights and the mainstream. The cinemas of the former Soviet republics, including Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Georgia, Lithuania, and Latvia, are also represented with their most influential artists. Through a chronology, an introduction essay, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on filmmakers, performers, cinematograp
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Scarecrow Press Composing for the Cinema
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMorricone is a distinguished Italian film composer with more than 400 scores to his credit, including The Untouchables, Fistful of Dollars, and Ripley's Game. Miceli is a musicologist. Their book–a series of insightful/inspiring lectures on the uses/aesthetics of cinema scores–constitutes a short course in the rigors of film music composition. The authors mix examples and caveats to young composers, saying that a course cannot teach film composition. Attention to synesthesia--partnering of sounds and colors–is a necessity, and irrational choices should be eschewed ('the most inadmissible thing is to resort to asynchronism or incoherent juxtapositions'). Discussion of the process–consultations, directors, viewings, style, and premix/final mix–are intercut with 'seminars' about solving specific problems; the authors use experimental film edits to stimulate youthful composers' imaginations. Morricone argues for strict attention to the psychological dimensions of the film's characters; he provides examples from Hitchcock (Morricone's metacinematician), Ridley Scott, and the Traviani brothers. Morricone's observations include the ideas that mediated scenes (in which music carries character reactions) are essential and that 'tone color is one of a film composer's most important means of expression.' Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty/professionals. * CHOICE *
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Random House USA Inc Sick in the Head
Book SynopsisBefore his name became synonymous with a new style of comedy; before he had written, directed, or produced his first movie or TV show; before he and his roommate Adam Sandler were performing stand up at dive bars in LA; before all that, Judd Apatow was a kid in Syosset, Long Island who was utterly obsessed with comedy. At 16, he started hosting a radio show for his local high school station, and he would call up the biggest comics of the day - comics like Jerry Seinfeld, Jay Leno, Steve Allen, Sandra Bernhard; none of whom, by the way, had any idea they were talking to a kid in his parents'' garage -- and talk to them about what got them into comedy, and what made them stay in. Thirty years later, Apatow is still that comedy nerd, and still interviewing comics about what drives them and why they do what they do. That obsession has made him one of the most recognizable and influential comedic filmmakers working today. This book is a collection of 30 years worth of conversations -- always funny, often poignant, and incredibly intimate -- that not only span Apatow''s career, but his adult life. Featuring interviews with luminaries like Mel Brooks and Chris Rock and modern icons like Louis CK and Amy Schumer, this is a book for fans of comedy, from the nerdiest fan of all--
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University Press of Kentucky You Aint Heard Nothin Yet Interviews with Stars
Book SynopsisJournalists James Bawden and Ron Miller spent their careers interviewing the greatest stars of Hollywood's golden age. In You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet, Bawden and Miller return with a new collection of rare interviews with iconic film stars including Henry Fonda, Esther Williams, Buster Keaton, Maureen O'Sullivan, Walter Pidgeon, and many more.Trade ReviewThese interviews break through the silver screen and pull the reader into a privileged world. Bawden and Miller showcase the art of the interview."" - Robert Crane, coauthor of Crane: Sex, Celebrity, and My Father's Unsolved Murder"" You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet presents stimulating, informative interviews with a fascinating assortment of stars and leading character players from Hollywood's Golden Age."" - James Robert Parish, author of Hollywood Divas
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Wayne State University Press Writing in Light The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement Contemporary Film Television Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
Book SynopsisJoanne Bernardi offers a study of Japanese cinema's ""pure film movement"" era, recovering a body of lost film and establishing its significance in the development of Japanese cinema. Building on a wealth of original-language sources she examines how the movement challenged the industry.Trade ReviewIt is surely one of the greatest tragedies in the history of world cinema that virtually no Japanese films from the pre-World War I period survive and that almost nothing from the 1920s exists in anything like its original form. Laboring under this unfillable gap. Joanne Bernardi has done as much as anyone can to bring to life this crucial and fascinating era of Japanese cinema. Relying on a wealth of primary and secondary original-language sources in a manner unprecedented in the published literature on early Japanese cinema in English, she has impressively exhausted the written record to re-create these tragically lost films and what they meant for the development of the Japanese cinema. With this impressively and thoroughly researched volume, Bernardi instantly joins the ranks of Joseph L. Anderson and Hiroshi Komatsu as the foremost scholars of the Japanese silent cinema.
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Wayne State University Press South Korean Golden Age Melodrama
Book SynopsisImmediately following the Korean War, South Korea's film industry flourished with local production of high-quality films. This text addresses the appeal of particular film modes and aesthetics, especially melodrama. It examines genre in relation to articulation of nation and constructions of gender.
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Wayne State University Press There She Goes
Book SynopsisExamines the exchanges within and through feminist film culture to expand critical horizons in film scholarship. This book explores a variety of contextual factors that have shaped women's film making, from the conditions of production and circulation to engagement with various social movements.
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Wayne State University Press Comic Venus
Book SynopsisProvides a better understanding of women's experiences in the early twentieth century, and an appreciation of the unruly and boundary-breaking women who have followed. Comic Venus brings readers to understand comediennes and their impact on silent-era cinema, as well as their lasting influence on later generations of funny women.
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New York University Press Dreaming of Fred and Ginger Cinema and Cultural Memory
Book SynopsisOne of the leading voices in cultural studies today examines the habits of British cinema audiences in the 1930s to reveal the role that cinema played in shaping their lives.Trade Review"Annette Kuhn explores the significance of memories of 1930s filmgoing to study patterns of remembrance and their potential causes. This is an exceptional example of the value of ethnohistory and psychological theory combined with speculation about the meanings of cinema in lives. It sets important standards in researching memories of movies." -Janet Staiger "The main spine of this book stems from a comprehensive series of interviews with subjects recalling their experiences of 1930s cinemagoing. Your feel the breath of life in these spectators, a rarity in film studies, thanks to the painstaking work contracting the interview subjects and recording and tabulating their testimony." -JUMPCUT
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Aesthetics and Film Continuum Aesthetics Series
Book SynopsisA philosophical study of the historically dominant form of moving image media. It is suitable for students of aesthetics and cinema, as well as those interested in philosophy and the art of film.Trade Review'Clear and engaging, compact and balanced, this book provides an up-to-date introduction to some of the central issues in the philosophy of film. I can thoroughly recommend it.' Berys Gaut, Reader in Philosophy, University of St Andrews, UK'A clear and comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of film. This book will be a great resource for students as well as philosophers interested in learning about recent developments in the philosophy of film.' Thomas Wartenberg, Professor of Philosophy, Mount Holyoke College, USATable of ContentsPreface; 1. Film as Art; 2. Realism; 3. Authorship; 4. The Language of Film; 5. Narration in the Fiction Film; 6. The Thinking Viewer; 7. The Feeling Viewer; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Vanderbilt University Press Jungle Fever
Book SynopsisThe sinister “jungle” - that ill-defined and amorphous place where civilization has no foothold and survival is always in doubt - is the terrifying setting for countless works of the imagination. In Jungle Fever, Charlotte Rogers goes deep into five books that first defined the jungle as a violent and maddening place.Trade Reviewa stunningly erudite and insightful critical and historical interdisciplinary analysis"" - Hispania""Jungle Fever takes us on a fascinating excursion into the colonial and postcolonial tropics where we find Conrad and Malraux in the company of Alejo Carpentier, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jorge Luis Borges, and Wilson Harris - with many surprises lurking along the way."" - Vera Kutzinski, author of Against the American Grain""Jungle Fever isolates, in the novelistic subgenre of the jungle book, a deep strand involving disease, which is at the source of its creative impulse, and where these adventure novels carry out a compelling critique of modern imperialism. Cutting across the English, Latin American, and French traditions this book is a model of the comparative approach."" - Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature, Yale University, and author of Myth and Archive
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Early Cinema Space Frame Narrative
Book SynopsisThomas Elsaesser teaches Film and English at the University of East Anglia and is the author of the prizewinning New German Cinema: A History (1989).Adam Barker is series producer on Channel Four's The Media Show and has written about the economics and aesthetics of cinema for Screen Finance, Sight and Sound and other journals.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Stars
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Women in Film Noir
Book SynopsisE. Ann Kaplan is Professor of English at the Stony Brook University, New York, USA, where she also directs the Humanities Institute.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Griffith Project Films Produced in July December 1909 v 3
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Death of Cinema History Cultural Memory and the Digital Dark Age
Book SynopsisPaolo Cherchi Usai is Senior Curator of the Motion Picture Department at George Eastman House and Director of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation. He is the author of Burning Passions (bfi, 1994) which was published in a revised edition by the bfi in 2000, entitled Silent Cinema: An Introduction.
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University of Tennessee Press Religion In Film
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers The Art of Looking in Hitchcocks Rear Window
Book SynopsisTHE ART OF LOOKING
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Film Noir Reader 4 The Crucial Films and Themes
Book SynopsisFILM NOIR READER 4
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American Cinematographer Anton Wilsons Cinema Workshop 4TH Edition
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American Cinematographer American Cinematographer Manual 9th Ed Vol II 2
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Nigel Ostrer The Ostrers and Gaumont British
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Splendid Books Limited Catching Bullets Memoirs of a Bond Fan
Book SynopsisCatching Bullets: Memoirs of a Bond Fan is a wonderfully funny and touching memoir by author and Bond fan Mark O''Connell whose grandfather Jimmy was a chauffeur for Eon Productions. So while Jimmy was driving around the likes of Cubby Broccoli, Roger Moore and Sean Connery, young Mark also hitched a ride and so his infatuation with all things Bond took hold.Set against a backdrop of the Thatcher era, Duran Duran songs and his own closeted adolescence, O''Connell takes the reader on a humorous, filmic journey where Bond films fire like Bullets.Barbara Broccoli, co-Producer of the Bond movies, calls his memoir ''a completely unique...perspective on the franchise'' ''...a wholly original take on a subject that has been written about so many times with most authors covering the same topics over and over again. O''Connell''s book offers a total
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Allenwood Press Worlds Coolest Movie Star
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