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Time Out 1000 Films to Change Your Life (Time Out Guides)

Time Out 1000 Films to Change Your Life (Time Out Guides)

by Time Out

Over 1,000 films are listed in this visually arresting, full-color celebration of the silver screen. Film personalities, including actors, directors, cinematographers, and animators, write about their favorite films from a variety of angles. Martin Scorsese, Nicole Kidman, and Nick Hornby are among those who weigh in. Writers are matched to suitable (or sometimes surprising) themes and genres within the wider... (more)

If You're Talking to Me, Your Career Must Be in Trouble: Movies, Mayhem, and Malice

If You're Talking to Me, Your Career Must Be in Trouble: Movies, Mayhem, and Malice

by Joe Queenan

Now in paperback--the hilarious and scandalous book that skewered Hollywood. Infamous Tinsel Town journalist-"hatchetman" Joe Queenan presents the interviews and essays that made him persona non grata among Hollywood's stars and movie moguls.

Cinema (DK Eyewitness Guides)

by Richard Platt

Part of a series of reference books that give detailed information on a wide variety of subjects and interests. This book is a visual guide to the history of the cinema - its technology and development from the first silent movies to epic, contemporary films. The history starts from the cinema's early precursors such as Javanese shadow puppets, the Magic Lantern and Edward Muybridge's experiments with the... (more)

What Happens Next: A History of American Screenwriting

What Happens Next: A History of American Screenwriting

by Marc Norman

Screenwriters have always been viewed as Hollywood’s stepchildren. Silent-film comedy pioneer Mack Sennett forbade his screenwriters from writing anything down, for fear they’d get inflated ideas about themselves as creative artists. The great midcentury director John Ford was known to answer studio executives’ complaints that he was behind schedule by tearing a handful of random pages from his script and tossing... (more)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

by Ken Kesey

An inmate of a mental institution tries to find the freedom and independence denied him in the outside world.

The reel world : scoring for pictures

by Jeffrey C. Rona

This how-to guide takes you inside the world of creating music for film and television, focusing on key concerns such as: ensuring musical aesthetics, using the most effective technology and techniques, and understanding the business side of things. Packed with case studies and insiderÕs tips, this book lets you learn by example. Also teaches how to nurture positive relationships with music editors, directors,... (more)

Notes on a Scandal

by Zoe Heller

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Now a Major Motion Picture Schoolteacher Barbara Covett has led a solitary life until Sheba Hart, the new art teacher at St. George's, befriends her. But even as their relationship develops, so too does another: Sheba has begun an illicit affair with an underage male student. When the scandal turns into a media circus, Barbara decides to write an account in her friend's... (more)

Me CheetaCheeta

Me Cheeta

An Autobiography

by Cheeta

by Joe Queenan

In this wickedly funny book, Joe Queenan is back in the movie theater, heckling the stars, directors, producersand audiencesthat define todays film industry. Setting out to torment innocent moviegoers, Queenan is in top formand loving itin this fun-filled, hilarious new collection of tirades and escapades in the absurd world of celluloid.

MahanaTi Savithri venditera samragni

by Pallavi ravipati

Queen of south Indian silver screen Savithri's life is brought out vividly in this biography.

Halliwell's Filmgoer's CompanionLeslie Halliwell

Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion

by Leslie Halliwell

Short Films - How to make and Distribute them

Short Films - How to make and Distribute them

by Nathan Parker

Jaws

by Peter Benchley

"Relentless terror." The Philadelphia Inquirer. The classic, blockbuster thriller of man-eating terror that inspired the Steven Spielberg movie and made millions of beachgoers afraid to go into the water. Experience the thrill of helpless horror again -- or for the first time! From the Paperback edition.

Something Like An Autobiography (Vintage)

Something Like An Autobiography (Vintage)

by Akira Kurosawa

Translated by Audie E. Bock. "A first rate book and a joy to read.... It's doubtful that a complete understanding of the director's artistry can be obtained without reading this book.... Also indispensable for budding directors are the addenda, in which Kurosawa lays out his beliefs on the primacy of a good script, on scriptwriting as an essential tool for directors, on directing actors, on camera placement, and... (more)

The Reader

by Bernhard Schlink, Carol Brown Janeway

Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany. When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover--then she inexplicably disappears. When... (more)

Footsteps in the Fog: Alfred Hitchcock's San Francisco

Footsteps in the Fog: Alfred Hitchcock's San Francisco

by Jeff Kraft

A celebration of the San Francisco films of Alfred Hitchcock, this book examines the master director's familiarity with Northern California and how it greatly influenced his decision to use the Bay Area location in several of his landmark motion pictures. More importantly, this book shows how San Francisco was often the source of inspiration for many of these same cinema classics. The masterpieces that are... (more)

On Movies (A Da Capo paperback)Dwight MacDonald

On Movies (A Da Capo paperback)

by Dwight Macdonald

Lacrimae Rerum: Ensayos Sobre Cine Moderno y Ciberespacio (Referencias (Debate))

Lacrimae Rerum: Ensayos Sobre Cine Moderno y Ciberespacio (Referencias (Debate))

by Slavoj Zizek

Beyond Brokeback: The Impact of a Film

by Members of the Ultimate Brokeback Forum

Beyond Brokeback is a sampling of deeply moving personal stories prompted by Annie Proulx's short story Brokeback Mountain and the Ang Lee film which it inspired; a movie in which the ravages of self-denial are portrayed with unique frankness and realism. These stories, selected from contributions to an online forum dedicated to Brokeback Mountain at davecullen.com, describe the fears, hopes and aspirations of... (more)

Upstaged: Making Theatre in the Media Age

Upstaged: Making Theatre in the Media Age

How can theatre thrive in a culture dominated by film and television? Interviews with stage actors, playwrights, theatre directors and others, including Julie Taymor, Tony Kushner, Anna Deavere Smith, Peter Hall, Wallace Shawn, Frank Rich, Simon Callow, Maggie Gyllenhaal, David Leveaux, Adrian Lester, Nicholas Hytner, Paul Scofield and Robert Brustein. Ever since the introduction of the "talkies" in the... (more)

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by Time Out

by Joe Queenan

by Richard Platt

by Marc Norman

by Ken Kesey

by Jeffrey C. Rona

by Zoe Heller

An Autobiography

by Cheeta

by Joe Queenan

by Pallavi ravipati

by Leslie Halliwell

by Nathan Parker

by Peter Benchley

by Akira Kurosawa

by Bernhard Schlink, Carol Brown Janeway

by Jeff Kraft

by Dwight Macdonald

by Slavoj Zizek

by Members of the Ultimate Brokeback Forum