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3 Black Chicks Review Flicks: A Film and Video Guide with Flava!by Kamal Larsuel-UlbrichtISBN 006050871X (0-06-050871-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: '3 Black Chicks Review Flicks: A Film and Video Guide with Flava!'Book summary:When The Diva, Bams, and Cass looked around for reviews that reflected their own experience and found hardly any, they decided to take matters into their own hands, to let Hollywood know that Blacks spend money on movies beyond Boyz 'N the Hood wannabees.
Whether they are reviewing the blockbusters, "Flicks That Made Bank," or the films with Black Oscar nominees, 3 Black Chicks Review Flicks is a peerless and hilarious source of film criticism and movie trivia. Before you rent your next video or buy a new DVD, check out what they have to say on:
Monster's Ball
Like it or not, Berry was beautiful without meaning to be, vulnerable without trickery, emotive without melodrama. And that Billy Bob fella wasn't half bad himself.The Green Mile
"Magical Negro Alert!" At the onset, it appears as if this is yet another movie about a white savior of a Black man. I saw it as the exact opposite... They don't get much better than this.All About Eve
Eve wasn't doing anything that a good ass kicking wouldn't fix -- it should have been called "All About a Beat Down."...It's the perfect movie to put on one Saturday afternoon.Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Willy Wonka is 60 percent Ghettofabulous, 55 percent psychedelic, 20 percent Pythonesque...and 100 percent good. [via]More editions of 3 Black Chicks Review Flicks: A Film and Video Guide with Flava!:
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The Alchemy Of Mirrormaskby Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean, Lisa HensonISBN 0060823798 (0-06-082379-8)
Hardcover, Harper Design Intl
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Alchemy Of Mirrormask'Book summary:An oversized, lavishly produced book, The Alchemy of MirrorMask takes readers inside the making of the feature film and allows them to experience the creative process. Animated by Dave McKean and written by Neil Gaiman, MirrorMask combines animation and live action with a compelling storyline to take the cinematic experience to a stunning new level.
MirrorMask is the story of Helena, a fifteen-year-old girl who works for her family's circus. She juggles, sells popcorn, and longs to run away and join the "real world." Helena also dreams, and one day she wakes up to find herself in a strange new world populated by mysterious creatures&a dream world where she embarks on an amazing journey.
Each chapter in The Alchemy of MirrorMask begins with an introduction by McKean and Gaiman and then guides readers through the different types of visuals used to create the film, including sketches, paintings, storyboards, 3-d models, photographs, texture maps, frame blow-ups, and more. Also included are photos taken on the set and during McKean's travels to Venice, Prague, Trieste, Warsaw, and other places that provided inspiration for MirrorMask. Gaiman and McKean's insightful commentary sheds light on the film's journey from concept to screen.
Gaiman and McKean fans, cinema buffs, and visual art enthusiasts will all delight in The Alchemy of MirrorMask, a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the making of an extraordinary film.
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Alfred Hitchcock: A Life In Darkness And Lightby Patrick McGilliganISBN 0060988274 (0-06-098827-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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America in the Dark: Hollywood and the Gift of Unrealityby David ThomsonISBN 0091313708 (0-09-131370-8)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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American Picture Palaces: The Architecture of Fantasyby David NaylorISBN 013026329X (0-13-026329-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Ariel Ascending: Writings About Sylvia Plathby Paul AlexanderISBN 0060911751 (0-06-091175-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Art of Watching Filmsby Joseph M. Boggs, Dennis W. PetrieISBN 0072556269 (0-07-255626-9)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlinby Laurence BergreenISBN 0140103988 (0-14-010398-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testamentby Derek JarmanISBN 009177067X (0-09-177067-X)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Charles Laughton, a Difficult Actorby Simon CallowISBN 0099589311 (0-09-958931-1)
Hardcover, Vintage
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Childhood Daysby Satyajit Ray, Bijoya RayISBN 0140250794 (0-14-025079-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Childhood Days'Book summary:Who was Satyajit Ray, writer, director, music composer and artist? Where did he make his beginnings? Who were the people he grew up with? In this charming collection of stories from Ray's childhood and film-making days, we get a glimpse into the life of a man who appeared serious and aloof to the world, and find a different, more accessible Ray humorous, tender, affectionate. He tells us about his first taste of an ice cream, his initial understandings of the principles of photography, and the teasing he had to endure in school because of his famous father and grandfather. With unassuming grace he writes about his vast, talented family, where each member had his or her special quirks and eccentricities.
In this volume, Ray also shares some of his experiences while shooting Pather Panchali his epic debut, and subsequent films, particularly for children. He describes how an entire field of kaash flowers was eaten up by cows before he could shoot his famous scene with the train in Pather Panchali; and how a circus tiger let loose in a bamboo grove chased away a group of curious onlookers in the blink of an eye.
Frank and funny, these stories written originally for the Bengali children's magazine Sandesh, are an essential read for all Ray enthusiasts as well as those who want to know Ray, the writer and film-maker, better.
Translated from the Bengali by Bijoya Ray. [via]More editions of Childhood Days:
The Cinema As Artby Ralph Stephenson, Guy PhelpsISBN 0140119817 (0-14-011981-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Clockwork Orangeby Anthony BurgessISBN 0091683815 (0-09-168381-5)
Softcover, Hutchinson
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Cult Movies 2by Danny PearyISBN 0091544416 (0-09-154441-6)
Softcover, Vermilion
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Dwight Macdonald on Moviesby Dwight MacDonaldISBN 0132211505 (0-13-221150-5)
Hardcover, Prentice-Hall
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The Encyclopedia of Bad Tasteby Michael Stern, Jane SternISBN 0060921218 (0-06-092121-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Encyclopedia of Bad Taste'Book summary:America's premiere scholars of popular culture present a hilarious tribute to the all-time highs of lowbrow taste. The Sterns offer the definitive sourcebook of the world's favorite cultural extremes and faux pas. 350 photos, 50 in full-color. [via]
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The Encyclopedia of Horror Moviesby Phil Hardy, Tom Milne, Paul WillemenISBN 0060961465 (0-06-096146-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Essential Bond: The Authorized Guide to the World of 007by Lee Pfeiffer, Dave WorrallISBN 0060505613 (0-06-050561-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Bond name is synonymous with high-tech gadgets, beautiful women, deadly spies, and action-packed, death-defying adventure. There's no one else like him around. There have been nearly twenty films about him, there are more than sixty Web sites dedicated to him, and it's estimated that more than a quarter of the planet has seen at least one Bond film.
Now, fans can enter the world of 007 like never before, with this meticulously researched guide examining all the top secret details of the cinematic Bond missions. Officially endorsed by the Bond film producers, it features fascinating facts and behind-the-scenes stories, as well as more than 250 rare production photos, cinema posters, and product advertisements.
It's all here: the missions, the gadgets, the vehicles, the legendary villains, the exotic locals, and the even more exotic Bond women. You can meet the directors, writers, stunt men, and technicians who have contributed to the success of the series and have stories of their own to tell. Additionally, there is a unique chapter devoted to the legacy of James Bond, with an overview of the thrillers and spoofs inspired by 007 over the years, as well as a fitting tribute to Mr. Bond's literary father, Ian Fleming. [via]
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Film: An International History of the Mediumby Robert SklarISBN 0130340499 (0-13-034049-9)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Film As Film: Understanding and Judging Moviesby V.F. PerkinsISBN 0140214771 (0-14-021477-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Film History: An Introductionby Kristin Thompson, David BordwellISBN 0070384290 (0-07-038429-0)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Film History: An Introduction'Book summary:Written by two of the leading film scholars, Film History: An Introduction, is the long-awaited, comprehensive survey that not only acknowledges the contributions of Hollywood and films from other U.S. sources, but broadens its scope to examine filmmaking internationally. As with the authors' bestselling Film Art, Fifth Edition, concepts and events are illustrated with actual frame enlargements, giving students more realistic points of reference than competing books that use publicity stills. Any serious film scholar -- professor, undergraduate, or graduate student -- will want to see and keep Film History. [via]
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Film, Form and Cultureby Kolker. Robert P.ISBN 0072902272 (0-07-290227-2)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Film, Form, and Cultureby Robert Phillip KolkerISBN 0072407158 (0-07-240715-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Film, Form, and Culture'Book summary:The Film, Form, and Culture CD-ROM serves as a multimedia glossary or dictionary to ANY film text. It is available separately, and it can be packaged at a discount with any McGraw-Hill film title.
The CD-ROM illustrates film elements and concepts with QuickTime clips from a wide variety of classic films: Citizen Kane, Battleship Potemkin, Rear Window, The Plow That Broke the Plains, Vertigo, and many more. This new version adds modules on Sound and Genre to provide an even stronger tool for film study. [via]
Flashback: A Brief History of Filmby Louis Giannetti, Scott EymanISBN 0131874578 (0-13-187457-8)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flashback: A Brief History of Film'Book summary:Consolidating major figures and film movements into their decade of greatest influence or prestige, this no-nonsense book offers a generously illustrated, concise, and very readable history of fiction movies with an emphasis on American cinema. Eclectic in methodology and written in a plain English style that audiences can relate to, it examines the full scope of traditional film history and criticism, viewing film as both an art and an industry as it mirrors popular audience values, social ideologies, and historical epochs. Film discussions include titles such as Forrest Gump, Jurassic Park, There's Something About Mary, Face Off, the Lion King, Saving Private Ryan, Good Will Hunting, Pulp Fiction, Choosing Amy, The Piano, Menace II Society, Sweet Hereafter, The English Patient, Sense and Sensibility, Shakespeare in live, The Full Monty, The Crying Game, Life is Beautiful, and like Water for Chocolate. For anyone who enjoys going to, and thinking about, the movies. [via]
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Focus on Shoot the Piano Playerby Leo BraudyISBN 0138096325 (0-13-809632-5)
Hardcover, Prentice-Hall
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George Cukor: A Double Lifeby Patrick McGilliganISBN 0060975202 (0-06-097520-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Halliwell's Who's Who in the Moviesby Leslie Halliwell, John WalkerISBN 0060935073 (0-06-093507-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies'Book summary:Now in its 14th edition, this classic movie reference, formerly known as The Filmgoer's Companion, has informed and delighted film fans for more than 30 years. Opinionated, witty, and packed with more information per square inch than any other film guide, Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies is as wonderfully unclassifiable as it is impossible to put down.
Who's Who remains a treasure trove of information on who's who and what's what in the movies. Its more than 11,000 entries illuminate the stars of yesterday and today, as well as the bit players and character actors, directors, producers, writers, cinematographers, composers, and all the other talent involved in making movies. You'll find sections on movie sequels, series, and remakes; themes and genres; technical terms; studios and production companies; cinema around the world; year-by-year listings of Oscar winners and other major awards; a brief history of the movies from their beginnings until today; and much more.
This thoroughly revised and updated edition features hundreds of new entries, and once again spices up the proceedings with scores of "quotable quotes," ranging from the revealing to the revolting, which, in addition to being exceedingly entertaining, add a human dimension missing from every other guide to the facts and figures. Upholding the outstanding tradition of Leslie Halliwell, editor John Walker delivers the lively humor and keen insight that have always been the hallmarks of Halliwell's. [via]
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Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies : The Bestselling Encyclopedia of Film, Actors, Directors, Producers, and Writersby Leslie L. HalliwellISBN 0060534230 (0-06-053423-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies : The Bestselling Encyclopedia of Film, Actors, Directors, Producers, and Writers'Book summary:Now in its 15th edition, this classic movie reference, formerly known as The Filmgoer's Companion, has informed and delighted film fans for more than thirty years. Opinionated, witty, and packed with more information per square inch than any other film guide, Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies is as wonderfully unclassifiable as it is impossible to put down.
Who's Who remains a treasure trove of information on who's who and what's what in the movies. Its more than 12,000 entries illuminate the stars of yesterday and today as well as the bit players and character actors, directors, producers, writers, cinematographers, composers, and all the other talent involved in making movies. You'll find sections on movie sequels, series, and remakes; themes and genres; technical terms; studios and production companies; cinema around the world; year-by-year listings of Oscar winners and other major awards; and a brief history of the movies from Chaplin to Carrey, Garbo to Kidman, Capra to Cameron.
This updated edition features hundreds of new entries and offers scores of "quotable quotes," ranging from the revealing to the revolting; in addition to being exceedingly entertaining, they add a human dimension missing from every other guide to film facts and figures. Upholding the outstanding tradition of Leslie Halliwell, editor John Walker delivers the lively humor and keen insight that have always been the hallmarks of Halliwell's.
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Hello, I Must Be Going: Groucho and His Friendsby Charlotte ChandlerISBN 0140052224 (0-14-005222-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Hollywood Genres: Formulas Filmmaking and the Studio Systemby Thomas SchatzISBN 0075536234 (0-07-553623-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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Hollywood Vs America: Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Valuesby Michael MedvedISBN 006016882X (0-06-016882-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Hollywood Vs. Americaby Michael MedvedISBN 0060924357 (0-06-092435-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hollywood Vs. America'Book summary:Why does our popular culture seem so consistently hostile to the values that most Americans hold dear? Why does the entertainment industry attack religion, glorify brutality, undermine the family, and deride patriotism?
In this explosive book, one of the nation's best known film critics examines how Hollywood has broken faith with its public, creating movies, television, and popular music that exacerbate every serious social problem we face, from teenage pregnancies to violence in the streets.
Michael Medved powerfully argues that the entertainment business follows its own dark obsessions, rather than giving the public what it wants: In fact, the audience for feature films and network television has demonstrated its profound disillusionment in recent years, with disastrous consequences for many entertainment companies. Meanwhile, overwhelming numbers of our fellow citizens complain about the wretched quality of our popular culture--describing the offerings of the mass media as the worst ever. Medved asserts that Hollywood ignores--and assaults--the values of ordinary American families, pursuing a self-destructive and alienated ideological agenda that is harmful to the nation at large and to the industry's own interests.
In hard-hitting chapters on "The Attack on Religion," "The Addiction to Violence," "Promoting Promiscuity," "The Infatuation with Foul Language," "Kids Know Best," "Motivations for Madness," and other subjects, Medved outlines the underlying themes that turn up again and again in our popular culture. He also offers conclusive evidence of the frightening real-world impact of these messages on our society and our children.
Finally, Medved shows where and how Hollywood took a disastrous wrong turn toward its current crisis, and he outlines promising efforts both in and outside the industry to restore a measure of sanity and restraint to our media of mass entertainment.
Sure to elicit strong response, whether it takes the form of cheers of support or howls of enraged dissent, Hollywood vs. America confronts head-on one of the most significant issues of our times.
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How to Write a Movie in 21 Days: The Inner Movie Methodby Viki KingISBN 0062730665 (0-06-273066-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Write a Movie in 21 Days: The Inner Movie Method'Book summary:No book can find your ideas for you, but this one provides a great service in helping you discover and develop a story, and to come up with the completed script. King helps you learn to think cinematically, in the language of the movies, and to keep asking the essential questions as they work: What's the story? Who is the story about? Do you care about the characters? Does anyone? King also tries to help you survive not just the structural pitfalls that can derail a script, but also the mental or emotional whirlpools that can prevent any artist from finishing a project. [via]
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James Cameron's Titanicby James Cameron, Douglas Kirkland, Ed W. MarshISBN 0067575161 (0-06-757516-1)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'James Cameron's Titanic'Book summary:James Cameron's Titanic is a book conceived on the epic scale of the movie--not only do the massive page size and sky-high production values of the book do justice to the big ship, they give Kate Winslet's titanic hats an impact comparable to what the big screen gives them. It's also fun to get the effect of exploring a set as vast, complex, and fiscally and physically dangerous as the one Cameron created for Titanic the film. He is Hollywood's answer to Ahab, so he deserves a great big book.
Nor will fans be disappointed to hear Winslet break character--she plays an upper-class lass from the stuffiest circles--and explain how she helped her costar prepare for their first scene together, in which she stripped for her dishy portrait. "I was naked in front of Leo on the first day of shooting," says Winslet in the book. "She had no shame with it," says DiCaprio, who apparently despises shame. "She wanted to break the ice a little beforehand, so she flashed me. I wasn't prepared for that, so she had one up on me. I was pretty comfortable after that."
While the stars were getting acquainted and the wild-eyed director was figuring out historically unprecedented ways of blending live footage with computer imagery ("Cheat the size of the tugboats 10 percent smaller ... It will make the ship look even more majestic as it leaves Southampton!"), the core cast of 150 extras was taking a crash course in manners. Etiquette coach and choreographer Lynne Hockney even taught the Core (as they were called) that there was a proper way to laugh. "It was the Gilded Age, a time of the grand hostess, lavish parties and tireless pleasure-seeking," Hockney says in the book. "And each social class was scrambling to reach the one above it. This made proper behavior terribly important.... You cannot slouch in a corset, for example. You perch." One wishes there was a frame or two from the Hockney film running on a tape loop in the wardrobe building, Titanic Etiquette: A Time-Traveler's Guide. If it were available for sale, people would be buying it.
On the other hand, there's always the movie. Or this book. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Lillian Gish: The Movies, Mr. Griffith and Meby Lillian GishISBN 0135364825 (0-13-536482-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Love, Sex, Death, and the Meaning of Life: Woody Allen's Comedyby Foster HirschISBN 0070290547 (0-07-029054-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiographyby Sidney PoitierISBN 0061357901 (0-06-135790-1)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography'Book summary:Sidney Poitier wrote The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography because he "felt called to write about certain values, such as integrity and commitment, faith and forgiveness, about the virtues of simplicity, about the difference between 'amusing ourselves to death' and finding meaningful pleasures--even joy." Yet Poitier's book does not speak from on high; its tone is conversational and endearingly self-critical. He begins the first chapter by recounting an evening spent channel-surfing and wondering, as most of us do at one time or another, "What am I doing with my time?" The spiritual reflections in The Measure of a Man are nonsectarian; Poitier's faith is clearly influenced by his experience in Christian churches, but he is not, strictly, Christian. Though idiosyncratic, his faith is disciplined and rigorous, informed by leaders as diverse as Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. Poitier's love--for himself, his family, and the world--infuses his recollections of his early life on Cat Island in the Bahamas and his memories of his stage and film career (including his Oscar-winning role in Lilies of the Field). Poitier has been rich and poor; he has been popular and despised; and his extremely varied experiences have made him a wise man, as he demonstrates with statements like this one: "[W]hat we do is stay within the context of what's practical, what's real, what dreams can be fashioned into reality, what values can send us to bed comfortably and make us courageous enough to face our end with character." [via]
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Midnight Moviesby Jonathan Rosenbaum, J. HobermanISBN 0060909900 (0-06-090990-0)
Softcover, Harper & Row
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Midnight Movies'Book summary:Here is the complete history of cult films, their makers, and their audience; an examination of how films become "midnight movies," and what keeps audiences coming back to see them over and over; an exploration of the connections between subversive film and the subcultures from which it emerges. Over 100 films discussed. 338 pages; b&w photos throughout; 6 x 9.25. [via]
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The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horrorby David J. SkalISBN 0140240020 (0-14-024002-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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My Antoniaby Willa Cather, John J. Murphy, Wladyslaw T. BendaISBN 0140187642 (0-14-018764-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
Piano Playersby Anthony BurgessISBN 0091651905 (0-09-165190-5)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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Quentin Tarantino: The Man and His Moviesby Jami BernardISBN 0060951613 (0-06-095161-3)
Softcover, Perennial
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Rudolph Valentinoby Alexander WalkerISBN 0140036156 (0-14-003615-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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Sex, Lies, and Videotapeby Steven SoderberghISBN 0060965266 (0-06-096526-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin De Siecleby Elaine ShowalterISBN 0140115870 (0-14-011587-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Sholay, the Making of a Classicby Anupama ChopraISBN 014029970X (0-14-029970-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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Stanwyckby Axel MadsenISBN 0061090670 (0-06-109067-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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A Star Is Born: The Making of the 1954 Movie and Its 1983 Restoratonby Ronald HaverISBN 0060972742 (0-06-097274-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Star Trek Movie Memoriesby William ShatnerISBN 0061093297 (0-06-109329-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Star Trek Movie Memories'Book summary:The sequel to the bestselling Star Trek Memories, documenting in deliciously lurid and candid detail all the behind-the-scenes shenanigans in the making of the six Star Trek movies, with on-the-scene reporting from the set of the seventh in which...Kirk dies!
Star Trek Movie Memories recounts all the chaos, creative turmoil, backstage politics, power plays and production nightmares that permeated every one of the six Star Trek movies, including the accumulated grudges that haven't yet mellowed with the passage of time. And the stories... Nicholas Meyer writing the script for Star Trek II in twelve days... Kirstie Alley doing her Leonard Nimoy imitation in an audition... How Kirk's love interest in Star Trek IV began as a role for Eddie Murphy, and you can imagine the rest (or maybe not).
With stories and quotes from the principles that have never before been uttered in public, this will deliver a truly unprecedented behind-the-scenes view of the Trek films that will amaze even the most avid Trekker. And on top of it all, the hardcover will be published in time for the seventh film, which will present the perfect opportunity to tie the old crew and stars including Robert Wise, Ricardo Montalban, Christopher Lloyd, Christopher Plummer, Christian Slater to Patrick Stewart and the cast of The Next Generation. The torch will be passed, and William Shatner will tell us all about how it feels as his character is killed off in the film's finale. [via]
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The Stepford Wivesby Ira LevinISBN 0060738197 (0-06-073819-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Study guide to Accompany American Cinema/American Cultureby John BeltonISBN 007004466X (0-07-004466-X)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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The Tao of Bruce Leeby Davies MillerISBN 009977951X (0-09-977951-X)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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There Must Be a Lone Ranger: The American West in Film and in Realityby Jenni CalderISBN 0070096074 (0-07-009607-4)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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The Third Manby Graham GreeneISBN 0140286829 (0-14-028682-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Time Out Film Guideby Tom MilneISBN 0140127003 (0-14-012700-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Time Out Film Guide 2002by John PymISBN 0140293957 (0-14-029395-7)
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Time Out Film Guide 2005by John PymISBN 0140265643 (0-14-026564-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time Out Film Guide 2005'Book summary:A film reference book with a distinctly British flavor, the Time Out Film Guide is a collection of capsule reviews written originally for the London magazine Time Out. Its commentary is more lengthy and detailed than that of most other guides, and while some of its critics summarize too much of their movies' plots, their critical remarks are engaging and provocative. The Time Out Film Guide features contributions from scores of movie critics who sometimes spar with one another: compare the book's two assessments of Blade Runner. The reviewers cover many European and Asian movies you won't find in other movie guides. This is the only film book where you can find remarks on Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, and Forrest Gump alongside reviews of major films not widely released in America, such as Samuel Beckett and Buster Keaton's Film, Akira Kurosawa's Madadayo, and Michelangelo Antonioni's Identification of a Woman. The Time Out Film Guide also contains a great number of terrific appendices and indices. In fact, it is this book's lists of films by genre, by major film-producing country, by actor, director, and general subject that make it a necessary reference tool for movie lovers. [via]
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Softcover, Penguin USA - Time Out Film Guide 2005: ISBN 0140294147 (0-14-029414-7)
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The Time Out Film Guide/the Definitive A-Z Directory of over 10,000 Filmsby Tom MilneISBN 014017513X (0-14-017513-X)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Time Out Interviews, 1968-1998by Frank BroughtonISBN 0140279636 (0-14-027963-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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True Storiesby D ByrneISBN 0140092307 (0-14-009230-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Trust No One : The Official Third Season Guide to the X-Filesby Brian LowryISBN 0061053538 (0-06-105353-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Understanding Moviesby Louis GiannettiISBN 0131890980 (0-13-189098-0)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Understanding Movies'Book summary:Helps readers understand how the many languages of film work together to create meaning. Louis Giannetti organizes Understanding Movies around the key elements of filmmaking, including cintematography, Mise en Scène, movement, editing, sound, acting, drama, casting, story, screenwriting, ideology, and theory. He synthesizes every element through a complete case study: Citizen Kane. This book's ideas are illuminated with hundreds of high-quality still photos, more than 70 in full color, taken from movies such as The Matrix, Almost Famous, jackass the movie, Chicago, Lord of the Rings, Mystic River, and Traffic. New in this edition: a full section on contemporary special effects and computer generated imagery (CGI); up-to-the-minute information on new developments in film technology; more coverage of recent films and filmmakers; more ethnic diversity (including new material on the Islamic cinema); and more lavish use of color and high-quality paper. An updated Companion Website contains animations, video clips from interviews with movie professionals, and Research Navigator access to New York Times film reviews. For everyone who wants to understand the artistry and meaning of the movies.
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Vampires & Violets: Lesbians in Filmby Andrea WeissISBN 0140231005 (0-14-023100-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Princeby Marc EliotISBN 0061007897 (0-06-100789-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Way You Wear Your Hatby Bill ZehmeISBN 0060931752 (0-06-093175-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Ways of Seeingby John BergerISBN 0140135154 (0-14-013515-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ways of Seeing'Book summary:[via]John Bergers Classic Text on Art
John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has.
"Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of the professional art critics . . . He is a liberator of images: and once we have allowed the paintings to work on us directly, we are in a much better position to make a meaningful evaluation" Peter Fuller, Arts Review
"The influence of the series and the book . . . was enormous . . . It opened up for general attention to areas of cultural study that are now commonplace" Geoff Dyer in Ways of Telling
Winner of the 1972 Booker Prize for his novel, G., John Peter Berger (born November 5th, 1926) is an art critic, painter and author of many novels including A Painter of Our Time, From A to X and Bentos Sketchbook. 
When the Shooting Stops, the Cutting Begins: A Film Editor's Storyby Ralph RosenblumISBN 014005698X (0-14-005698-X)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines, Hollywood's First Openly Gay Starby William J. MannISBN 0140275681 (0-14-027568-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Writers in Hollywood 1915-1951by Ian HamiltonISBN 0060162317 (0-06-016231-7)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Las Peliculas De Mi Vida: Una Novelaby Alberto FuguetISBN 0060733667 (0-06-073366-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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