Individual actors Books
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Paul Verhoeven Interviews
Book SynopsisAfter a robust career in the Netherlands as the country's most successful director, Paul Verhoeven built an impressive career in America with controversial blockbusters. Paul Verhoeven: Interviews covers every phase of the director's career, beginning with Dutch newspaper interviews dating back to 1968 and ending with previously unpublished interviews dedicated to his most recent work.
£22.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi J. J. Abrams Interviews
Book SynopsisThroughout his career, J.J. Abrams has dedicated his life to storytelling and worked tirelessly to become one of the best-known and most successful creators in Hollywood. The thirty interviews collected in this volume span Abrams's entire career, covering his many projects from television and film to video games and theatre.
£22.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Robert Taylor Male Beauty Masculinity and
Book SynopsisRobert Taylor was a central figure of Hollywood's classical era. In Robert Taylor: Male Beauty, Masculinity, and Stardom in Hollywood, Gillian Kelly investigates the initial construction and subsequent developments of Taylor's star persona across his thirty-five-year career.
£81.75
University Press of Mississippi Robert Taylor
Book SynopsisBecause of his lengthy screen resume that includes almost eighty appearances in such movies as Camille and Waterloo Bridge, as well as a marriage and divorce to actress Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor was a central figure of Hollywood's classical era. Despite this, he can be regarded as a 'lost' star, an interesting contradiction given the continued success he enjoyed during his lifetime.In Robert Taylor: Male Beauty, Masculinity, and Stardom in Hollywood, author Gillian Kelly investigates the initial construction and subsequent developments of Taylor's star persona across his thirty-five-year career. By examining concepts of male beauty, men as object of the erotic gaze, white American masculinity, and the unusual longevity of a career initially based on looks, Kelly highlights how gender, masculinity, and male stars and the ageing process affected Taylor's career. Placing Taylor within the histories of both Hollywood's classical era and mid-twentieth-century
£29.21
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Jafar Panahi Interviews
Book SynopsisIranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi is as famous for his remarkable films as for his courageous defiance of Iran's state censorship. In sparkling, lively interviews, Panahi reveals his influences, politics, and filmmaking practices, and explains the challenges he faces while working within (and often around) Iran's heavily restricted film industry.
£23.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Barbara Kopple Interviews
Book SynopsisBarbara Kopple has established herself as one of the most prolific filmmakers of her generation. Her projects have ranged from documentaries to feature films to an educational series for kids. Through it all, Kopple has made herself available for many print and broadcast interviews. The most revealing of these are brought together in this volume.
£23.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Stan Brakhage Interviews
Book SynopsisCollects eight of Stan Brakhage's most important interviews in which the filmmaker describes his conceptual frameworks; his theories of vision and sound; the importance of poetry, music, and the visual arts in relation to his work; his concept of the muse; and the key influences on his art-making.
£22.50
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Tyler Perry Interviews
Book SynopsisA career-spanning volume, Tyler Perry: Interviews collects sixteen interviews, ranging from the early 2000s to 2018. Once a destitute and struggling playwright, Tyler Perry (b.1969) is now a multimedia phenomenon and one of the most lucrative auteurs in Hollywood.
£23.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Charles Burnett Interviews
Book SynopsisCharles Burnett (b. 1944) is a groundbreaking African American filmmaker and one of America's finest directors, yet he remains largely unknown, and few filmgoers have seen his films or heard of Burnett. The interviews in this volume explore this paradox and collectively shed light on the work of a rare film master.
£24.71
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Blake Edwards Interviews
Book SynopsisHighlights how Blake Edwards created the hugely successful Pink Panther franchise; his long partnership with award-winning composer Henry Mancini; his principles of comedy as influenced by the comic greats of film history, especially silent comedies; his marriage and film collaborations with Julie Andrews; and his unique philosophy of life.
£23.96
University Press of Mississippi Wes Craven Interviews
Book SynopsisThese interviews trace Wes Craven's life and career, from his upbringing in a strict religious family and his life as an academic to his years toiling in exploitation cinema. The volume also chronicles Craven's ascendancy as an independent director, his work within the studio system, and his eventual triumph in mainstream cinema.
£24.71
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Claude Chabrol Interviews
Book SynopsisThe seventeen interviews in this volume, most of which have been translated into English for the first time, offer new insights into Claude Chabrol's remarkably wide-ranging filmography, providing a sense of his attitudes and ideas about a number of subjects.
£22.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Peter Weir Interviews
Book SynopsisThe first volume of interviews to be published on the esteemed Australian director. Although Weir has acquired a reputation of being guarded about his life and work, these interviews by archivists, journalists, historians, and colleagues reveal him to be a most amiable and forthcoming subject.Trade ReviewIt is the sort of historical document which will get more valuable over the years, and we should all be grateful to John C. Tibbetts for writing it.""- Kevin Brownlow
£23.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Nichols and May Interviews
Book SynopsisIn the late 1950s, Mike Nichols and Elaine May soared to superstar status as a sketch comedy duo in live shows and TV. After their 1962 breakup, both went on to long and distinguished careers in other areas of show business. This collection of twenty-seven interviews ranging over more than five decades tells their stories in their own words.
£22.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Kasi Lemmons Interviews
Book SynopsisCollects fifteen interviews that illuminate Kasi Lemmons's ability to challenge social expectations through film and actualize stories that broaden expectations of cinematic black femaleness and maleness. The interviews reveal Lemmons's passion to create art through film, intimately linked to her mission to push the boundaries imposed by Hollywood.
£22.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Sofia Coppola Interviews
Book SynopsisThe conversations compiled in this volume mark the filmmaker’s progression from dismissed dilettante to acclaimed auteur of among the most visually arresting, melancholy, and wryly funny films of the twenty-first century.
£78.40
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Otto Preminger Interviews
Book SynopsisPresents interviews from across Otto Preminger's career, providing fascinating insights into the methods and mindset of a wildly polarizing filmmaker. With remarkable candour, Preminger discusses his filmmaking practices, his distinctive film style, his battles against censorship, his clashes with film critics, and his turbulent relationships.
£23.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Sam Shepard
Book SynopsisThe famously private Sam Shepard gave a significant number of interviews over the course of his public life, and the interviewers who respected his boundaries found him to be forthcoming on a wide range of topics. The selected interviews here begin in 1969 when Shepard was twenty-six and end in 2016, eighteen months before his death.
£23.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Stuart Gordon Interviews
Book SynopsisThe first collection of interviews ever to be published on the director, Stuart Gordon: Interviews contains thirty-six articles spanning a period of fifty years. Bountiful in anecdote and information, these candid conversations chronicle the trajectory of a fascinating career - one that courted controversy from its very beginning.
£81.75
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Stuart Gordon Interviews
Book SynopsisThe first collection of interviews ever to be published on the director, Stuart Gordon: Interviews contains thirty-six articles spanning a period of fifty years. Bountiful in anecdote and information, these candid conversations chronicle the trajectory of a fascinating career - one that courted controversy from its very beginning.
£23.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Su Friedrich Interviews
Book SynopsisThe first volume dedicated exclusively to Su Friedrich and her work. The interviews collected here highlight the historical, theoretical, political, and economic dimensions through which Friedrich’s films gain their unique and defiantly ambiguous identity.
£22.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Green Mister Rogers Environmentalism in
Book SynopsisFred Rogers wrote the television scripts and music, performed puppetry, sang, hosted, and directed Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood for more than thirty years. This book centres on the show’s environmentalism, primarily expressed through his themed week ‘Caring for the Environment’, produced in 1990.
£22.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Louis Malle Interviews
Book SynopsisFeatures seventeen interviews, the majority translated into English for the first time, covering the entirety of Malle’s career. The collection demonstrates that Malle was a filmmaker who thought deeply about his choices as a director, the ideological implications of those choices, and the often-controversial themes treated in his films.
£22.52
University Press of Mississippi Bertrand Tavernier Interviews
Book SynopsisBertrand Tavernier was widely considered to be the leading light in a generation of French filmmakers who launched their careers in the 1970s. In this collection of interviews he discusses the arc of his career following in the lineage of the Lumiere brothers, in that his goal, like theirs, is to ""show the world to the world.
£23.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Asghar Farhadi
Book SynopsisThe winner of two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film in only five years, Asghar Farhadi has become Iran's most prominent director since the late Abbas Kiarostami. This volume offers a unique perspective into his career and sheds light on what Farhadi sees as his role and responsibilities as an Iranian filmmaker in a global age.
£19.90
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Terrence McNally
Book SynopsisCollects nineteen interviews with the celebrated playwright. In these interviews, one hears Terrence McNally reflect on theatre as the most collaborative of the arts, the economic pressures that drive the theatre industry, the unique values of music and dance, and the changes in American theatre over McNally’s fifty-plus year career.
£73.80
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Terrence McNally
Book SynopsisCollects nineteen interviews with the celebrated playwright. In these interviews, one hears Terrence McNally reflect on theatre as the most collaborative of the arts, the economic pressures that drive the theatre industry, the unique values of music and dance, and the changes in American theatre over McNally’s fifty-plus year career.
£22.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Sofia Coppola Interviews
Book SynopsisThe conversations compiled in this volume mark the filmmaker’s progression from dismissed dilettante to acclaimed auteur of among the most visually arresting, melancholy, and wryly funny films of the twenty-first century.
£18.86
University Press of Mississippi To Dance to Live
Book SynopsisThalia Mara's story spans the history of dance in the twentieth century and the rise of the arts in her adopted city of Jackson, Mississippi. To Dance, to Live: A Biography of Thalia Mara gives the first full account of a life devoted to the arts.
£21.56
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Starmaker David O. Selznick and the Production
Book SynopsisReveals the mechanisms by which David O. Selznick and his collaborators discovered and promoted new stars and describes how these personalities were marketed, whether for financial gain or symbolic recognition and prestige.
£26.06
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Christian Petzold
Book SynopsisThe first book to document how one of Germany’s best-known directors thinking about his work has evolved over the course of a quarter of a century, spanning his days as a flailing student filmmaker in the early 1990s in postunified Germany to 2020, when his reputation as one of world cinema’s most respected auteurs has been firmly enshrined.
£73.80
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Christian Petzold Interviews
Book SynopsisThe first book to document how one of Germany’s best-known directors thinking about his work has evolved over the course of a quarter of a century, spanning his days as a flailing student filmmaker in the early 1990s in postunified Germany to 2020, when his reputation as one of world cinema’s most respected auteurs has been firmly enshrined.
£20.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi M. Night Shyamalan Interviews
Book SynopsisWith interviews spanning from 1993 through 2022, M. Night Shyamalan: Interviews is the first survey of conversations with the filmmaker to cover the broad spectrum of his life and career. This collection includes interviews with renowned American film journalists such as Jeff Giles, Carrie Rickey and Stephen Pizzello.
£81.75
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi M. Night Shyamalan
Book SynopsisWith interviews spanning from 1993 through 2022, M. Night Shyamalan: Interviews is the first survey of conversations with the filmmaker to cover the broad spectrum of his life and career. This collection includes interviews with renowned American film journalists such as Jeff Giles, Carrie Rickey and Stephen Pizzello.
£19.90
University Press of Mississippi Dorothy Arzner
Book SynopsisThrough dozens of interviews, a detailed chronology and filmography, and a selection of Dorothy Arzner's own writings - including her unfinished autobiography this volume offers major insights into and an in-depth examination of the life and career of one of the few women to direct films during Hollywood's Golden Age.
£77.35
Authorhouse Pigtails Presley Pepper
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£21.80
Lexington Books Transnational Cinematic and Popular Music Icons
Book SynopsisTransnational Cinematic & Popular Music Icons: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, & Queen Latifah, 1917-2017 centers twentieth and twenty-first century black-transnational stereotypes, celebrities, and symbols Lena Horne''s, Dorothy Dandridge;s, and Queen Latifah's transnational popular cultural struggles between domination and autonomy, with a particular emphasis on their films and popular music. Linking each performer to twentieth century U.S., African-American, and global gender histories and noting the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, class, and empire in their overlapping transnational biographies, Transnational Cinematic & Popular Music Icons: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, & Queen Latifah, 1917-2017 connects Horne, Dandridge, and Latifah to each other and legacies of Hollywood stereotypes and popular music's internationally-routed politics. Through a close reading of Horne''s, Dandridge''s, and Latifah's films and popular music, the performers tie to historic black-transnatTable of ContentsIntroduction – Transnational Border Crossers: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, & Queen Latifah Chapter One – Lena Horne: Black-Transnational Icon, Trailblazer, & Stereotype Chapter Two – Dorothy Dandridge: “Bronze Goddess,” “Tragic Mulatto,” & Transnational Film Star Chapter Three – Queen Latifah: Racial, Gender, Sexual, & Transnational Power Broker Conclusion – Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, & Queen Latifah: Racial, Global Gender, Sexual, Cinematic, & Popular Music Border Crossers Appendix – Filmographies and Discographies
£76.50
Simon & Schuster The Life and Times of Mickey Rooney
Book SynopsisA definitive biography of the iconic actor and Hollywood legend Mickey Rooney (1920-2014) and his extravagant, sometimes tawdry life, drawing on never-before-seen excerpts from Rooney''s diary and exclusive interviews with Mickey, and with those who knew him best, including his heretofore unknown mistress of sixty years. I lived like a rock star, said Mickey Rooney. I had all I ever wanted, from Lana Turner and Joan Crawford to every starlet in Hollywood, and then some. They were mine to have. Ava [Gardner] was the best. I screwed up my life. I pissed away millions. I was #1, the biggest star in the world. Mickey Rooney began his career almost a century ago as a one-year-old performer in burlesque and stamped his mark in vaudeville, silent films, talking films, Broadway, and television. He acted in his final motion picture just weeks before he died at age ninety-three. He was an iconic presence in movies, the poster boy for American youth in the idyllic small-town 1930sTrade Review"Covers everything...Lertzman and Birnes are deeply and appropriately sympathetic biographers." -- The New York Times"A definitive biography of Hollywood legend Mickey Rooney...[T]his is a page-turner; many of the people portrayed are long gone, but there's enough tell-all entertainment to keep almost any reader pushing through." -- Publishers Weekly"Richard A. Lertzman and William J. Birnes have done their homework...If you’re looking for the definitive book on Mickey Rooney, this is it." -- Bookreporter"Lertzman and Birnes understand Rooney, presenting him as a colorful American guy who had it all, lost it all, regained it all, but no matter what, never gave up. It’s the story of a true professional, and a great read by anyone’s standards." -- Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies, Wesleyan University
£20.74
Simon & Schuster The Encore
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this heartrending, passionate, and surprisingly humorous account of the conjunction between art and death, Charity Tillemann-Dick gives us the performance of a lifetime." -- Andrew Solomon, New York Times bestselling author of The Noonday Demon and Far From the Tree"Like any great performer, Charity Tillemann-Dick captures her audience's heart right from the beginning. Her journey follows an improbable course from the majesty of the great Rocky Mountains, to the glittering concert halls of Europe, to the quiet rooms of grief and death. But she doesn’t end there. This intimate view into a courageous woman's long, dark night will remind you of the stars that light your bleakest hours, and make you grateful for every sunrise." -- Jill Biden“Is opera meaningful to society today? The Encore is a categorical answer: Yes. Each scene breathes new purpose into some of the greatest scores in history. The music of Charity Tillemann-Dick’s prose carries this impossible journey to an inspirational point of majesty and sacred beauty.” -- Denyce Graves-Montgomery, international opera singer, professor of Voice at Peabody Conservatory"This is the story of a genuine medical miracle, facilitated by the best of modern medicine. The Encore reminds us that art and science belong together, creating synergies that promote the deepest kind of healing." -- Dr. Toby Cosgrove, president & CEO, Cleveland Clinic“An uplifting story of overcoming significant odds to fulfill a dream.” * Kirkus Reviews *"Inspiring . . . a moving memoir." * Publishers Weekly *“As a testament to the power of faith, love, prayer, and music, this self-portrait of courage and grace under extreme pressure will engage and inspire.” * Booklist *“One of the best books I’ve ever read about the effects of chronic illness on the human spirit.” * Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal *
£13.60
Gallery Books Thank You for Coming to Hattiesburg
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£16.19
Scribner Book Company Wear and Tear The Threads of My Life
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£14.45
Simon & Schuster Apparently There Were Complaints
Book SynopsisEmmy Award-winning actress Sharon Gless tells all in this laugh-out-loud, juicy, “unforgettably memorable” (Lily Tomlin) memoir about her five decades in Hollywood, where she took on some of the most groundbreaking roles of her time.Anyone who has seen Sharon Gless act in Cagney & Lacey, Queer as Folk, Burn Notice, and countless other shows and movies, knows that she’s someone who gives every role her all. She holds nothing back in Apparently There Were Complaints, a hilarious, deeply personal memoir that spills all about Gless’s five decades in Hollywood. A fifth-generation Californian, Sharon Gless knew from a young age that she wanted to be an actress. After some rocky teenage years that included Sharon’s parents’ divorce and some minor (and not-so-minor) rebellion, Gless landed a coveted spot as an exclusive contract player for Universal Studios. In 1982, she stepped into the role of New York Pol
£13.54
Simon & Schuster Jimmy Buffett
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£16.19
Atria Books It Gets Worse
Book SynopsisShane Dawson, YouTube comedian and author of New York Times bestseller I Hate Myselfie, returns with a new uproariously funny essay collection.Trade ReviewPraise for I Hate Myselfie:“Though Shane is infamous for his biting wit and crude humor, I Hate Myselfie is as much heart as it is crass.... [It] proves that laughing at yourself can help overcome even the most embarrassing experiences.... Shane may 'hate his selfie,' but his millions of fans will love it.” * AccessHollywood.com *"This book is a haven for difference in a sea of more of the same with YouTuber books. The essay approach really worked for the book." * The Guardian *
£12.34
Gallery Books The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
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£15.29
Atria Books Boys Keep Swinging A Memoir
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£14.45
Gallery Books The Age of Bowie
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£16.20
37 Ink I Cant Make This Up
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£16.20
