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Agee on Film: Criticism and Comment on the Moviesby James AgeeISBN 0375755292 (0-375-75529-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968by Andrew SarrisISBN 0306807289 (0-306-80728-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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- The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968: ISBN 0226735001 (0-226-73500-1)
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The American Film Industryby Tino BalioISBN 0299098745 (0-299-09874-5)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Film Industry'Book summary:[via]Upon its original publication in 1976, The American Film Industry was welcomed by film students, scholars, and fans as the first systematic and unified history of the American movie industry. Now this indispensible anthology has been expanded and revised to include a fresh introductory overview by editor Tino Balio and ten new chapters that explore such topics as the growth of exhibition as big business, the mode of production for feature films, the star as market strategy, and the changing economics and structure of contemporary entertainment companies. The result is a unique collection of essays, more comprehensive and current than ever, that reveals how the American movie industry really worked in a century of constant change-from kinetoscopes and the coming of sound to the star system, 1950s blacklisting, and today's corporate empires.
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The Ancient World in the Cinemaby Jon SolomonISBN 0300083378 (0-300-08337-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Art of Alfred Hitchcock: Fifty Years of His Motion Picturesby Donald SpotoISBN 0385418132 (0-385-41813-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Ava Gardner: Love Is Nothingby Lee ServerISBN 0312312105 (0-312-31210-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969by William MannISBN 0142001147 (0-14-200114-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Biographical Dictionary of Filmby David ThomsonISBN 0394581652 (0-394-58165-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Bottom Feeders: From Free Love to Hard Coreby John HubnerISBN 0385512996 (0-385-51299-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Bottom Feeders : From Free Love to Hard Core: the Rise and Fall of Counter-Culture Gurus Jim and Artie Mitchellby John Hubner, FinleyISBN 038542261X (0-385-42261-X)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Wellesby Frank BradyISBN 0385267592 (0-385-26759-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Complete Film Dictionaryby Ira KonigsbergISBN 0140513930 (0-14-051393-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywoodby Mick LasalleISBN 0312284314 (0-312-28431-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Cult Moviesby Danny PearyISBN 0385281862 (0-385-28186-2)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning Hollywood's Master of the Macabreby David J. Skal, Elias SavadaISBN 0385474067 (0-385-47406-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning Hollywood's Master of the Macabre'Book summary:Although Tod Browning directed the 1931 classic Dracula and some of Lon Chaney's best movies, he is better known today for Freaks, which effectively sank his film career. Judging from the evidence in Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning: Hollywood's Master of the Macabre, this probably wouldn't have mattered to him. Authors David J. Skal (Screams of Reason and The Monster Show) and Elias Savada faced a difficult task in recounting the life of a man who "reveled in disturbing and provoking the public ... from a position of obsessive privacy," apparently caring nothing for posterity or even his reputation during his lifetime. Because Browning chose to reveal so little of his private self, any biography of him must by default focus on his career--which is itself strange and unsettling.
As a filmmaker, Browning established a reputation as a teller of pessimistic, even perverse tales, often featuring physically deformed characters (Chaney's specialty), which doubtless reflected his youthful experiences performing in carnival sideshows. Following the enormous success of Dracula, he assembled a cast of real sideshow performers to make Freaks, which appalled nearly everyone and was quickly removed from circulation. He soon found himself being quietly pushed out of filmmaking, and spent his final years leading a reclusive, slightly paranoid existence.
Readers of Dark Carnival should not expect to come away with a very clear picture of the intentionally shadowy Browning. Skal and Savada do an admirable job of showing us both the demanding "sadist" and the "great humanist" described by his colleagues, but for the most part, Browning's own thoughts and feelings must remain mysterious--which is just what he wanted. Dark Carnival includes photo sections, a genealogy, and filmographies that incorporate contemporary reviews. --Mary V. Burke [via]
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David Lean: A Biographyby Kevin BrownlowISBN 0312168101 (0-312-16810-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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David O. Selznick's Hollywoodby Ronald HaverISBN 0394425952 (0-394-42595-2)
Hardcover, Knopf
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Directing the Documentaryby Michael RabigerISBN 0240806085 (0-240-80608-5)
Softcover, Focal Pr
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Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Filmby Erik BarnouwISBN 0195078985 (0-19-507898-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Film Language: A Semiotics of the Cinemaby Christian Metz, Michael TaylorISBN 0226521303 (0-226-52130-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Film Language: A Semiotics of the Cinema'Book summary:A pioneer in the field, Christian Metz applies insights of structural linguistics to the language of film.[via]
"The semiology of film . . . can be held to date from the publication in 1964 of the famous essay by Christian Metz, 'Le cinéma: langue ou langage?'"Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Times Literary Supplement
"Modern film theory begins with Metz."Constance Penley, coeditor of Camera Obscura
"Any consideration of semiology in relation to the particular field signifying practice of film passes inevitably through a reference to the work of Christian Metz. . . . The first book to be written in this field, [Film Language] is important not merely because of this primacy but also because of the issues it raises . . . issues that have become crucial to the contemporary argument."Stephen Heath, ScreenMore editions of Film Language: A Semiotics of the Cinema:
Film Technique and Film Actingby Vsevolod Illarionovich PudovkinISBN 0394174577 (0-394-17457-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Frank Capra : The Catastrophe of Successby Joseph McBrideISBN 0312263244 (0-312-26324-4)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Moviesby Molly HaskellISBN 0226318850 (0-226-31885-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garlandby Gerald ClarkeISBN 0385335156 (0-385-33515-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland'Book summary:Like his renowned Capote, Clarke's Get Happy is an addictively readable bio of an addict genius. We learn that it wasn't just the Hollywood moguls who mangled Judy Garland's soul. Yes, MGM's Louis B. Mayer did paw her teenage breasts, exacerbate her insecurity by calling her "my little hunchback," feed her uppers and downers ("bolts and jolts"), and repel the U.S. drug czar's personal attempt to get her into rehab. But the true villain was Judy's diabolical stage mom, Ethel Gumm, who fed her pills at age 9. Judy's heart belonged to her daddy, a kindly theater owner cursed with pederastic yearnings that evidently got the family run out of various towns, once by a man named Doc Savage. Daddy died young, and Judy kept hooking up with older men, including two probably gay husbands, one of whom cheated on her with her daughter Liza's husband. Her first best girlfriend in Hollywood (and probable lover) turned out to be a studio spy. She knew at least one of her agents, nicknamed Loeb and Leopold, robbed her blind, but since betrayal was everybody's way of life, she just laughed it off--and died dead broke. Judy cheated on Liza's dad (and her own great director) Vincente Minnelli, with still-handsome Orson Welles, who was cheating on Rita Hayworth. "People like me don't grow up easily," Judy once said. Most people in this book deserved to go up in flames, but only nice Margaret Hamilton, playing the Wicked Witch of the West, actually did so in a filming accident. She recovered; Judy didn't. It's fascinating to read about Judy's self-immolating life. But for a jolt of joy afterward, I prescribe the CD Judy at Carnegie Hall. Clarke lets you know what the songs cost, and what they mean. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywoodby Diana McLellanISBN 0312283202 (0-312-28320-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood'Book summary:The debut volume from the new L.A. Weekly imprint at St. Martin's Press, Diana McLellan's witty and penetrating study of the golden age of Hollywood sapphism will delight the armchair detective as well as the lavender movie buff. Thanks to McLellan's obsessive sleuthing, The Girls offers not only the most detailed biography of Mercedes de Acosta, seducer of the stars, but provides tantalizing evidence of an early affair in Germany between Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo, women who in later life claimed never to have met. Much of the book is devoted to Garbo--another sign of the author's good taste--and revelations abound. Sadly, the golden age gave way to McCarthyism. Even the "gayest" of Hollywood lesbians retreated into the closet, or, like de Acosta, left for Europe. McLellan tracks their disappearance in the 1950s and 1960s against the first stirrings of the gay rights movement, providing a satisfying conclusion to a fascinating but not always happy tale. --Regina Marler [via]
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Goldwyn: A Biographyby A. Scott BergISBN 0345365828 (0-345-36582-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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A History of Narrative Filmby David A. CookISBN 0393978680 (0-393-97868-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Narrative Film'Book summary:History of Film that has been narrated orally or in writing. [via]
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Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage and Screenby David J. SkalISBN 0393308057 (0-393-30805-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Hollywood's Stephen Kingby Tony MagistraleISBN 0312293216 (0-312-29321-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studiesby Robert B. RayISBN 0253214386 (0-253-21438-6)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dimeby Roger Corman, Jim JeromeISBN 0306808749 (0-306-80874-9)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime'Book summary:In these pages Roger Corman, the most successful independent filmmaker in Hollywood relates his experiences as the director and/or producer of such low-budget classics Attack of the Crab Monsters, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Raven, The Man with the X-ray Eyes, The Wild Angels, The Trip, Night Call Nurses, Bloody Mama, Piranha, and many others. He also discusses his distribution of the Bergman, Fellini, and Truffaut movies that later won Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Film category. Corman alumniJohn Sayles, Martin Scorsese, Jack Nicholson, Vincent Price, Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Fonda, Joe Dante, and Jonathan Demme, among otherscontribute their recollections to give added perspective to Corman's often hilarious, always informative autobiography.[via]More editions of How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime:
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Humphrey Bogartby Alan G. BarbourISBN 0352300043 (0-352-30004-3)
Hardcover, W. H. Allen
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Indiscretions: Avant-Garde Film, Video, and Feminismby Patricia MellencampISBN 0253205875 (0-253-20587-5)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Jean Renoirby Andre Bazin, Francois TruffautISBN 0306804654 (0-306-80465-4)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jean Renoir'Book summary:This classic in the literature of cinema represents the convergence of the three leading figures of French film: Jean Renoir, universally considered the greatest French director; André Bazin, the outstanding French film critic and theorist; and François Truffaut, the pioneer of la nouvelle vague. Bazin left this examination of Renoirs films unfinished when he died in 1958; Truffaut collected and edited the essays, and added a comprehensive filmography in which Bazin, Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer, and other Cahiers du Cinéma regulars comment on the films. Here are brilliant insights into the whole of Renoirs oeuvre, from the avant-garde fantasy of La Petite Marchande dAllumettes, through the epic humanism of Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game, to the quiet grace of The River and the profound theatricality of The Golden Coach. Bazin shows why Renoir is the critical figure in the development of cinema since the silent era, and how he went beyond montage to give the art new expressive potential. Renoirs work constitutes one of the most fully and beautifully elaborated visions in contemporary art, and nowhere is this humanistic vision better illuminated than in this book.[via]More editions of Jean Renoir:
Keaton, the Man Who Wouldn't Lie Downby Tom DardisISBN 0140057013 (0-14-005701-3)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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A Life in Movies: An Autobiographyby Michael PowellISBN 0394559355 (0-394-55935-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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London Kills Meby Hanif KureishiISBN 0140168311 (0-14-016831-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Lost Worlds of 2001:Science Fiction: Science Fictionby Arthur Charles ClarkeISBN 0283979038 (0-283-97903-8)
Hardcover, Sidgwick and Jackson
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Macmillan International Film Encyclopediaby Catherine MarshallISBN 033390690X (0-333-90690-X)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Macmillan International Film Encyclopedia'Book summary:This is the book Hollywood can't live without! Containing over 7000 entries, "The Macmillan International Film Encyclopedia" is well-written, user-friendly, and bursting with essential data, famous stories and fascinating trivia. This new edition contains entirely new material; the editors Fred Klein and Ronald Dean Nolan have updated every page, giving more thorough coverage to the 'independent film' scene and adding new entries for all of the most current stars and trends, from Paul Thomas Anderson (dir: "Boogie Nights", "Magnolia") to Hilary Swank (Oscar for "Best Actress: Boys Don't Cry") and Hollywood's biggest movie ever, "Titanic". [via]
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Make Your Own Damn Movie: Secrets of a Renegade Directorby Lloyd Kaufman, Haaga. Trent, Adam JahnkeISBN 0312288646 (0-312-28864-6)
Softcover, LA Weekly Books
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The Making of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the Worldby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0393325539 (0-393-32553-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Making of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the Worldby Tom McGregorISBN 0393058654 (0-393-05865-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Meby Katharine HepburnISBN 0345410092 (0-345-41009-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Me: Stories of My Lifeby Katharine HepburnISBN 0345377702 (0-345-37770-2)
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A NEW YORK TIMES Notable Book of the Year
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Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothersby Simon LouvishISBN 0312283822 (0-312-28382-2)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Monster: Living Off the Big Screenby John Gregory DunneISBN 037575024X (0-375-75024-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Moviesby Robert SklarISBN 0394721209 (0-394-72120-9)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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Movie-Made America: A Social History of American Moviesby Robert SklarISBN 0394483278 (0-394-48327-8)
Hardcover, Random House
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Moviesby Gilbert AdairISBN 0141180846 (0-14-118084-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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My Dinner With Andreby Wallace Shawn, Andre GregoryISBN 039417948X (0-394-17948-X)
Softcover, Grove Press
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Narration in the Fiction Filmby David BordwellISBN 0299101746 (0-299-10174-6)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Moviesby Manny FarberISBN 0306808293 (0-306-80829-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Orson Welles: The Road to Xanaduby Simon CallowISBN 0140254560 (0-14-025456-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studiesby David Bordwell, Noel CarrollISBN 0299149447 (0-299-14944-7)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studiesby Noel Carroll, David BordwellISBN 0299149404 (0-299-14940-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Screenplayby Syd FieldISBN 0385339038 (0-385-33903-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Screenplay'Book summary:A generation of screenwriters has used Syd Field's bestselling books to ignite successful careers in film. Now the celebrated producer, lecturer, teacher, and bestselling author has updated his classic guide for a new generation of filmmakers, offering a fresh insider's perspective on the film industry today. From concept to character, from opening scene to finished script, here are easily understood guidelines to help aspiring screenwriters-from novices to practiced writers-hone their craft. Filled with updated material-including all-new personal anecdotes and insights, guidelines on marketing and collaboration, plus analyses of recent films, from American Beauty to Lord of the Rings-Screenplay presents a step-by-step, comprehensive technique for writing the screenplay that will succeed in Hollywood. Discover: ?Why the first ten pages of your script are crucially important ?How to visually "grab" the reader from page one, word one ?Why structure and character are the essential foundation of your screenplay ?How to adapt a novel, a play, or an article into a screenplay ?Tips on protecting your work-three legal ways to claim ownership of your screenplay ?The essentials of writing great dialogue, creating character, building a story line, overcoming writer's block, getting an agent, and much more. With this newly updated edition of his bestselling classic, Syd Field proves yet again why he is revered as the master of the screenplay-and why his celebrated guide has become the industry's gold standard for successful screenwriting. [via]
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Swanson on Swansonby Gloria SwansonISBN 0394506626 (0-394-50662-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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There and Back Again: An Actor's Taleby Sean Astin, Joe LaydenISBN 0312331479 (0-312-33147-9)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'There and Back Again: An Actor's Tale'Book summary:The fascinating memoir of a Hollywood life and an inside look at a life-changing role and the groundbreaking Lord of the Rings films that captured the imagination of movie fans everywhere.[via]
The Lord of the Rings is one of the most successful film franchises in cinematic history. Winner of a record eleven Academy Awards--a clean sweep--and breaking box office records worldwide, the trilogy is a breathtaking cinematic achievement and beloved by fans everywhere.
For Sean Astin, a Hollywood child (his mother is Patty Duke and stepfather is John Astin) who made his feature film debut at 13 in the 1980s classic The Goonies and played the title role in Rudy, the call from his agent about the role of Samwise Gamgee couldn't have come at a better time. His career was at a low point and choice roles were hard to come by. But his 18-month experience in New Zealand with director Peter Jackson and the cast and crew od The Lord of the Rings films would be more than simply a dream-come-true--it would prove to be the challenge of a lifetime.
There and Back Again: An Actor's Tale is the complete memoir of Sean Astin, from his early days in Hollywood to the role that changed his life. Though much has been written about the making of the films, including the techniques and artistry employed to bring Tolkien's vision of life and the various relationships between castmembers, the real story of what took place on the set, the harrowing ordeals of the actors and the unspoken controversy and backstage dealings have never been told.
Sean's experience and candid account of his time filming in New Zealand is unparalleled. More than a companion guide to the Ring films, There and Back Again filled with stories from the set and of the actors involved that have never been revealed before and is an eye-opening look from a Hollywood veteran at the blood, sweat and tears that went into the making of one of the most ambitious films of all time.More editions of There and Back Again: An Actor's Tale:
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Time Out Film Guideby Time OutISBN 0141013540 (0-14-101354-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time Out Film Guide'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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Time Out Film Guideby Tom MilneISBN 0140127003 (0-14-012700-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Time Out Film Guide 2005by John PymISBN 0140294147 (0-14-029414-7)
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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Understanding Moviesby Louis GiannettiISBN 0139363106 (0-13-936310-6)
Softcover, Prentice-Hall
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Softcover, Prentice Hall - Understanding Movies: ISBN 013945585X (0-13-945585-X)
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Visionary Film: The American Avant-gardeby P. Adams SitneyISBN 0195017617 (0-19-501761-7)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde 1943-2000by P. Adams SitneyISBN 0195148851 (0-19-514885-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde in the 20th Centuryby P. Adams SitneyISBN 019514886X (0-19-514886-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 1943-1978by P. Adams SitneyISBN 0195024869 (0-19-502486-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Who the Devil Made It? : Conversations with Legendary Film Directorsby Peter BogdanovichISBN 0345404572 (0-345-40457-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Without Feathersby Woody AllenISBN 0345336976 (0-345-33697-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Without Feathers'Book summary:The title of Woody Allen's second collection of New Yorker-style sprint humor is a sly comment on Emily Dickinson's famous quote, "Hope is the thing with feathers." Without Feathers delivers Allen's hopeless schlub persona--you remember, what he used to be before he was either a lecher or an auteur, depending on your politics. In addition to being as funny as anything published since, to read Without Feathers is to return to a simpler time, when being a fan of his work was common, not controversial.
Though each piece is funny, two of them are particularly notable examples of Allen's distinctive style (borrowed in large part from S.J. Perelman by way of the Borscht Belt, but distinctive, nevertheless)--"The Whore of Mensa" and "If the Impressionists Had Been Dentists." Here's an excerpt from the latter:
Mrs. Sol Schwimmer is suing me because I made her bridge as I felt it and not to fit her ridiculous mouth! That's right! I can't work to order like a common tradesman! I decided her bridge should be enormous and billowing, with wild, explosive teeth flaring up in every direction like fire! Now she is upset because it won't fit in her mouth! She is so bourgeois and stupid, I want to smash her! I tried forcing the false plate in but it sticks out like a star burst chandelier.
Without Feathers is fine, funny prose, from an American master. If you're a fan, seek it out immediately. It's a document from the days when Woody was not important, but merely hysterically funny. --Michael Gerber [via]
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