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1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
by Ethan De Seife, Steven Jay Schneider, Edward Buscombe, Linda Badley, Geoff Andrew, Tom Charity, Kathryn Bergeron, Joanna Berry, Garrett Chaffin-Quiray, Travis Crawford, Adrian Danks

ISBN 0764157019 (0-7641-5701-9)
Hardcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc

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"You played it for her, Sam. Now, play it for me." Everybody loves a good movie, and Casablanca is just one of the classics described in this, the ultimate book about movies! This volume's expert team of authors spans a full century of production, concisely describing 1001 of the best films from around the world. The listings are dramatically augmented with memorable photos, both in color and black and white. The book is a chrono-logical survey covering the best cinematic dramas, comedies, westerns, musicals, suspense and horror films, gangster classics, films noir, sci-fi epics, documentaries, and adaptations of novels and stage plays. Starting in 1902 with the French production, Le voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon) and the famous 1903 American short, The Great Train Robbery, this immensely enjoyable read moves forward chronologically. Film fans review the 1920s silent classics of D. W. Griffith and the comedies of Chaplin and Keaton, then go on to the era of sound films, beginning in 1927 with Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer. Soon to follow were von Sternberg's 1931 classic with Marlene Dietrich, Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel), the Bela Lugosi portrayal of Dracula, and the inimitable King Kong. Other highlights from the 1930s include screwball comedies like It Happened One Night and Bringing Up Baby, the elegant song-and-dance fests that paired Astaire and Rogers, the crazy antics of the Marx Brothers, and the classic Warner Brothers gangster films where James Cagney, George Raft, and Edward G. Robinson were brought to justice in the final reel. In the 1940s, The Maltese Falconand Casablanca made Humphrey Bogart a household name--and spanning nearly a half-century, from the 1930s to the '80s, Alfred Hitchcock's suspense classics thrilled millions. Also well represented are the post-World War II European New Wave directors, including Pasolini, Fellini, and Antonioni from Italy, Resnais and Truffaut from France, and many others. Here too in words and photos are the classic westerns, from epics starring John Wayne and Gary Cooper to those in which Clint Eastwood shot it out with the bad and the ugly. --And certainly not to be overlooked are the great musicals, from Singin' in the Rain to Chicago.Readers who open this book to any page will find a major film described with a complete list of credits, an essay summarizing its story line and screen-history, and still shots of some of the film's memorable scenes. At the back of the book, both an alpha-betical index and a genre index will help readers find any film they're looking for in a hurry. Collectors of DVDs and video tapes will find this volume a must for their bookshelf, but even casual moviegoers will enjoy browsing through this big, entertaining reference book. For students of cinema, for discerning film buffs, for general moviegoers, and for readers who enjoy reminiscing over unforgettable lines of dialogue, here's the best place to start. [via]
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1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
by Lucy Summers, Edward Buscombe, Linda Badley, Geoff Andrew, Kathryn Bergeron, Joanna Berry

ISBN 0764159070 (0-7641-5907-0)
Hardcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc

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Updated with brand-new entries to describe the most recent major motion pictures, this critically-acclaimed volume spans more than a century of moviemaking, concisely describing 1001 of the best films from around the world. New in this edition are entries to describe such film hits as Lord of the Rings, Mystic River, Farenheit 9/11, and Million Dollar Baby. But in fact, this volume's team of critics goes back to 1902, describing such films as The Great Train Robbery, and progressing chronologically across the decades to cover the best cinematic dramas, comedies, westerns, musicals, suspense and horror films, gangster classics, films noir, sci-fi epics, documentaries, and adaptations of novels and stage plays made by filmmakers around the world. Each entry includes a full list of cast and credits, awards won by the film, an essay summarizing the story line and screen-history, and still shots of the film's memorable scenes. At the back of the book, both an alphabetical index and a genre index will help readers find any film they're looking for. Movie fans will find descriptions of great musicals like Singing in the Rain, westerns like High Noon, science-fiction classics like Star Wars, dramas like Chinatown and Schindler's List, and international classics from master directors who include Fellini, Antonioni, Resnais, Truffaut, Eisenstein, Kurosawa, and many others. Here is a volume that belongs in the personal library of film buffs, movie reviewers, collectors of DVDs-and every reader who enjoys reminiscing over great movies of the past and present. Hundreds of movie still shots in color and black and white. "... a great motivating guide to cinema. After reading one of its engaging, often profound entries on a missed film, you want to ... rent it. Best of all, it includes international, silent, animated, and recent films."
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Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting
by William Goldman

ISBN 0446391174 (0-446-39117-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub

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Now available as an ebook for the first time!

No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the bestselling author of Marathon Man, Tinsel, Boys and Girls Together, and other novels, Goldman now takes you into Hollywood's inner sanctums...on and behind the scenes for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men, and other films...into the plush offices of Hollywood producers...into the working lives of acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman, and Hoffman...and into his own professional experiences and creative thought processes in the crafting of screenplays. You get a firsthand look at why and how films get made and what elements make a good screenplay. Says columnist Liz Smith, "You'll be fascinated. [via]
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The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies
by Vito Russo

ISBN 0060961325 (0-06-096132-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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When Vito Russo published the first edition of The Celluloid Closet in 1981, there was little question that it was a groundbreaking book. Today it is still one of the most informative and provocative books written about gay people and popular culture. By examining the images of homosexuality and gender variance in Hollywood films from the 1920s to the present, Russo traced a history not only of how gay men and lesbians had been erased or demonized in movies but in all of American culture as well. Chronicling the depictions of gay people such as the "sissy" roles of Edward Everett Horton and Franklin Pangborn in 1930s comedies or predatory lesbians in 1950s dramas (see Lauren Bacall in Young Man with a Horn and Barbara Stanwyck in Walk on the Wild Side), Russo details how homophobic stereotypes have both reflected and perpetrated the oppression of gay people. In the revised edition, published a year before his death in 1990, Russo added information on the new wave of independent and gay-produced films--The Times of Harvey Milk, Desert Hearts, Buddies--that emerged during the 1980s. --Michael Bronski [via]
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Down And Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, And The Rise Of Independent Film
by Peter Biskind

ISBN 0684862581 (0-684-86258-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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It wasn't so long ago that the Sundance Film Festival was an inconsequential event somewhere in Utah, and Miramax was a tiny distributor of music documentaries and soft-core trash. Today, of course, Sundance is the most important film festival this side of Cannes, and Miramax has become an industry giant, part of the huge Disney empire. Likewise, the directors who emerged from the independent movement, such as Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, and David O. Russell -- who once had to max out their credit cards to realize their visions on the screen -- are now among the best-known directors in Hollywood. Not to mention the actors who emerged with them, like Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Ethan Hawke, and Uma Thurman.
"Down and Dirty Pictures" chronicles the rise of independent filmmakers and of the twin engines -- Sundance and Miramax -- that have powered them. As he did in his acclaimed "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls," Peter Biskind profiles the people who took the independent movement from obscurity to the Oscars, most notably Sundance founder Robert Redford and Harvey Weinstein, who with his brother, Bob, made Miramax an indie powerhouse. Biskind follows Sundance as it grew from a regional film festival to the premier showcase of independent film, succeeding almost despite the mercurial Redford, whose visionary plans were nearly thwarted by his own quixotic personality. He charts in fascinating detail the meteoric rise of the controversial Harvey Weinstein, often described as the last mogul, who created an Oscar factory that became the envy of the studios, while leaving a trail of carnage in his wake. As in "Easy Riders," Biskind's incisive account is loaded with vibrant anecdotes andoutrageous stories, all of it blended into a fast-moving narrative. Redford, the Weinsteins, and the directors, producers, and actors Biskind profiles are the people who reinvented Hollywood, making independent films mainstream. But success invariably means compromise, and it remains to be seen whether the indie spirit can survive its corporate embrace.
Candid, mesmerizing, and penetrating, "Down and Dirty Pictures" is a must-read for anyone interested in the film world and where it's headed.
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
by Peter Biskind

ISBN 0684857081 (0-684-85708-1)
Softcover, Touchstone Books

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Not only is Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls the best book in recent memory on turn-of-the-'70s film, it is beyond question the best book we'll ever get on the subject. Why? Because once the big names who spilled the beans to Biskind find out that other people spilled an equally piquant quantity of beans, nobody will dare speak to another writer with such candor, humor, and venom again.
Biskind did hundreds of interviews with people who make the president look accessible: Scorsese, Spielberg, Lucas, Coppola, Geffen, Beatty, Kael, Towne, Altman. He also spoke with countless spurned spouses and burned partners, alleged victims of assault by knife, pistol, and bodily fluids. Rather more responsible than some of his sources, Biskind always carefully notes the denials as well as the astounding stories he has compiled. He tells you about Scorsese running naked down Mulholland Drive after his girlfriend, crying, "Don't leave me!"; grave robbing on the set of Apocalypse Now; Faye Dunaway apparently flinging urine in Roman Polanski's face while filming Chinatown; Michael O'Donoghue's LSD-fueled swan dive onto a patio; Coppola's mad plan for a 10-hour film of Goethe's Elective Affinities in 3-D; the ocean suicide attempt Hal "Captain Wacky" Ashby gave up when he couldn't find a swimsuit that pleased him; countless dalliances with porn stars; Russian roulette games and psychotherapy sessions in hot tubs. But he also soberly gives both sides ample chance to testify.
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is also more than a fistful of dazzling anecdotes. Methodically, as thrillingly as a movie attorney, Biskind builds the case that Hollywood was revived by wild ones who then betrayed their own dreams, slit their own throats, and destroyed an art form by producing that mindless, inhuman modern behemoth, the blockbuster.
When Spielberg was making the first true blockbuster, Jaws, he sneaked Lucas in one day when nobody was around, got him to put his head in the shark's mechanical mouth, and closed the shark's mouth on him. The gizmo broke and got stuck, but the two young men somehow extricated Lucas's head and hightailed it like Tom and Huck. As Peter Biskind's scathing, funny, wise book demonstrates, they only thought they had escaped. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls : The Generation That Transformed Hollywood
by Peter Biskind

ISBN 0684809966 (0-684-80996-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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Not only is Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls the best book in recent memory on turn-of-the-'70s film, it is beyond question the best book we'll ever get on the subject. Why? Because once the big names who spilled the beans to Biskind find out that other people spilled an equally piquant quantity of beans, nobody will dare speak to another writer with such candor, humor, and venom again.
Biskind did hundreds of interviews with people who make the president look accessible: Scorsese, Spielberg, Lucas, Coppola, Geffen, Beatty, Kael, Towne, Altman. He also spoke with countless spurned spouses and burned partners, alleged victims of assault by knife, pistol, and bodily fluids. Rather more responsible than some of his sources, Biskind always carefully notes the denials as well as the astounding stories he has compiled. He tells you about Scorsese running naked down Mulholland Drive after his girlfriend, crying, "Don't leave me!"; grave robbing on the set of Apocalypse Now; Faye Dunaway apparently flinging urine in Roman Polanski's face while filming Chinatown; Michael O'Donoghue's LSD-fueled swan dive onto a patio; Coppola's mad plan for a 10-hour film of Goethe's Elective Affinities in 3-D; the ocean suicide attempt Hal "Captain Wacky" Ashby gave up when he couldn't find a swimsuit that pleased him; countless dalliances with porn stars; Russian roulette games and psychotherapy sessions in hot tubs. But he also soberly gives both sides ample chance to testify.
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is also more than a fistful of dazzling anecdotes. Methodically, as thrillingly as a movie attorney, Biskind builds the case that Hollywood was revived by wild ones who then betrayed their own dreams, slit their own throats, and destroyed an art form by producing that mindless, inhuman modern behemoth, the blockbuster.
When Spielberg was making the first true blockbuster, Jaws, he sneaked Lucas in one day when nobody was around, got him to put his head in the shark's mechanical mouth, and closed the shark's mouth on him. The gizmo broke and got stuck, but the two young men somehow extricated Lucas's head and hightailed it like Tom and Huck. As Peter Biskind's scathing, funny, wise book demonstrates, they only thought they had escaped. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Film Art
by David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson

ISBN 0072317256 (0-07-231725-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Education

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Film Art is often assigned to college students taking their first film class. Authors David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson do not follow the traditional method of teaching film art through a close analysis of individual films. Instead, they provide an overview of the major issues students confront when they watch movies. In clear, straightforward prose, the authors describe and dissect the complexities of filmmaking, film narrative, film form, and film technique. This book serves as a fine introduction not only to the field of film studies, but also to the theories and concerns of two of the most important scholars in that field. [via]
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Film Art: An Introduction
by Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell

ISBN 0071215921 (0-07-121592-1)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill

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Film Art is often assigned to college students taking their first film class. Authors David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson do not follow the traditional method of teaching film art through a close analysis of individual films. Instead, they provide an overview of the major issues students confront when they watch movies. In clear, straightforward prose, the authors describe and dissect the complexities of filmmaking, film narrative, film form, and film technique. This book serves as a fine introduction not only to the field of film studies, but also to the theories and concerns of two of the most important scholars in that field. [via]
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Film Art: An Introduction
by David Bordwell

ISBN 0071140735 (0-07-114073-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill

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Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, david bordwell's and kristin thompson's film art has been the most respected introduction to the analysis of cinema. While continuing to provide the best introduction to the fundamentals of serious film study, the seventh edition has been extensively re-designed in full color greatly enhancing the text's visual appeal and overall accessibility to today's students. Throughout the text, all images presented are frame enlargements as opposed to production stills or advertising photos. Supported by a text-specific cd-rom with video clips, an instructor's manual, and text-specific website, film art can also be packaged with the award-winning film, form, and culture cd-rom [via]
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Film Encyclopedia
by Ephraim Katz, Fred Klein, Ronald Dean Nolen

ISBN 0060742143 (0-06-074214-3)
Softcover, Harper Resource

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This is the basic reference guide to the international cinema. Put it next to your TV and VCR and you'll be able to answer the questions that inevitably arise when you watch a movie: "What other films has she been in?"; "Haven't I heard that director's name before?"; and "What in tarnation is a gaffer?" The Film Encyclopedia contains biographies and filmographies of actors, directors, producers, and cinematographers, as well as screenwriters, editors, musical directors, production designers, and critics. You can look up films by nationality and find a history of a given country's contribution to the art. Technical data is also indexed, so you can read not only about film stock and the apparatus of the camera, but also about the duties of the gaffer, the key grip, and the best boy. The book's introduction states that Ephraim Katz, who died in 1992, set out to write "the most comprehensive one-volume encyclopedia of world cinema ever published in the English language." The Film Encyclopedia contains more information than any other single-volume film reference and is also the best written movie guide of its kind. Because most of the entries were written by Katz himself, reading this book is like talking to a witty and learned film historian who has devoted his life to understanding--and loving--the cinema. [via]
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The Film Encyclopedia: The Most Comprehensive Encyclopedia of World Cinema in a Single Volume
by Ephraim Katz, Fred Klein, Ronald Dean Nolen

ISBN 0062737554 (0-06-273755-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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This is the basic reference guide to the international cinema. Put it next to your TV and VCR and you'll be able to answer the questions that inevitably arise when you watch a movie: "What other films has she been in?"; "Haven't I heard that director's name before?"; and "What in tarnation is a gaffer?" The Film Encyclopedia contains biographies and filmographies of actors, directors, producers, and cinematographers, as well as screenwriters, editors, musical directors, production designers, and critics. You can look up films by nationality and find a history of a given country's contribution to the art. Technical data is also indexed, so you can read not only about film stock and the apparatus of the camera, but also about the duties of the gaffer, the key grip, and the best boy. The book's introduction states that Ephraim Katz, who died in 1992, set out to write "the most comprehensive one-volume encyclopedia of world cinema ever published in the English language." The Film Encyclopedia contains more information than any other single-volume film reference and is also the best written movie guide of its kind. Because most of the entries were written by Katz himself, reading this book is like talking to a witty and learned film historian who has devoted his life to understanding--and loving--the cinema. [via]
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Film Form
by Sergei Eisenstein

ISBN 0156309203 (0-15-630920-3)
Softcover, Harcourt

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After D.W. Griffith, the most important figure in the history of the international cinema is Sergei Eisenstein. Both men died in 1948, but Eisenstein left a double legacy: not only was he one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, but he was also a magnificent film theorist, perhaps the most important one ever. This book of his essays, superbly translated and edited by Jay Leyda, reprints some of his most vital writings on the art of the cinema, including articles on the language and structure of the movies, the differences between theater and film, and the author's efforts to adapt Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy for the screen. In "The Cinematic Principle and the Ideogram," Eisenstein analyzes the written symbols of the Japanese language as a model for film editing. "Dickens, Griffith, and the Film Today," one of the author's most famous pieces, speaks of Griffith as a Dickensian director and then argues for a kind of filmmaking that transcends Griffith's literal style in order to touch its audience on an ideological and metaphorical level. This volume also includes the notorious "statement" on sound movies, which argues against the use of synchronous sound and in favor of jarring, contrapuntal audio that Eisenstein believed would add new dimensions to the talking picture. Idiosyncratic, engrossing, and brilliant, Eisenstein's essays will inspire you to reevaluate everything you thought you knew about the movies. [via]
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Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings
by Marshall Cohen, Gerald Mast

ISBN 0195024982 (0-19-502498-2)
Softcover, Oxford University Press

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Brought up to date with an expanded range of selections, extended historical coverage, and a dedicated pluralistic commitment, the third edition of this highly popular text on film aesthetics features major additions of contemporary topics in film theory--including psychoanalytic, feminist, and Marxist approaches--and new essays on television, horror films, and experimental movie making.
Of the 53 selections, 13 are new. The section "Kinds of Film" has been retitled "Film Genres" and concentrates exclusively on the distinctions within a single type of film: classical Hollywood narrative cinema. The final section, now called "Film: Psychology, Society, and Ideology" is substantially revised to take into account film's relationship to its consumers: how films shape or reflect cultural attitudes, reinforce or reject dominant modes of cultural thinking, and stimulate or frustrate people's needs and drives. Throughout the book chapter introductions have been rewritten to reflect today's concerns.
Current and comprehensive, the book that The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism called "the best collection available on the disparate comments in the fields of film theory and criticism" is now even better. [via]
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Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings
by Gerald Mast, Leo Braudy, Marshall Cohen

ISBN 0195063988 (0-19-506398-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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The fourth edition of this classic resource is updated to illustrate the most recent approaches in film theory, including semiotic and structuralist imperatives, Marxist historical and Freudian psychoanalytic analysis, and feminist and deconstructionist views, and each section has been revised to show the impact of new thinking on matters such as film language, the film medium, and the film artist. More than half of the contents are new, providing a broad survey of thinking about film over the past eight decades. A comprehensive text for students of film, it is also an invaluable resource for courses in semiotics and modern culture and media. [via]
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Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings
by Leo Braudy, Marshall Cohen

ISBN 0195158172 (0-19-515817-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Since publication of the first edition in 1974, Film Theory and Criticism, previously edited by Gerald Mast, Marshall Cohen, and Leo Braudy, has been the most widely used and cited anthology of critical writings about film. Extensively revised and updated, this fifth edition is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in film theory and criticism. Featuring both classic texts and cutting-edge essays from almost a century of thought and writing about the movies, it includes 19 articles new to this edition and new introductions for the individual sections. The sections themselves have been reformulated to help lead readers into a richer understanding of what the movies have and can accomplish both as individual works and as contributions to what has been called "the art form of the twentieth century." Building upon the wide range of selections and the extensive historical coverage that marked previous editions, this collection stretches from the earliest attempts to define the cinema to the most recent efforts to place film in the context of psychology, sociology, and philosophy and to explore issues of gender and race. A newly conceived section on Film Narrative and the Other Arts has been added, the section on Film Genre has been reorganized to include a special focus on the horror film, and a new subsection of essays addresses the issue of film spectatorship. This volume also features new and more accurate translations of the important essays of Sergei Eisenstein and gives more space to such important theorists as André Bazin and Christian Metz. [via]
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A History of Narrative Film
by David A. Cook

ISBN 0393978680 (0-393-97868-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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History of Film that has been narrated orally or in writing. [via]
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Hitchcock
by Francois Truffaut, Helen G. Scott

ISBN 0671604295 (0-671-60429-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Any book-length interview with Alfred Hitchcock is valuable, but considering that this volume's interlocutor is François Truffaut, the conversation is remarkable indeed. Here is a rare opportunity to eavesdrop on two cinematic masters from very different backgrounds as they cover each of Hitch's films in succession. Though this book was initially published in 1967 when Hitchcock was still active, Truffaut later prepared a revised edition that covered the final stages of his career. It's difficult to think of a more informative or entertaining introduction to Hitchcock's art, interests, and peculiar sense of humor. The book is a storehouse of insight and witticism, including the master's impressions of a classic like Rear Window ("I was feeling very creative at the time, the batteries were well charged"), his technical insight into Psycho's shower scene ("the knife never touched the body; it was all done in the [editing]"), and his ruminations on flops such as Under Capricorn ("If I were to make another picture in Australia today, I'd have a policeman hop into the pocket of a kangaroo and yell 'Follow that car!'"). This is one of the most delightful film books in print. --Raphael Shargel [via]
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Hollywood Babylon
by Kathleen Anger

ISBN 0440153255 (0-440-15325-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Originally published in Paris, this is a collection of Hollywood's darkest and best kept secrets from the pen of Kenneth Anger, a former child movie actor who grew up to become one of America's leading underground film-makers. [via]
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Hollywood Babylon
by Kenneth Angler

ISBN 0517344084 (0-517-34408-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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Originally published in Paris, this is a collection of Hollywood's darkest and best kept secrets from the pen of Kenneth Anger, a former child movie actor who grew up to become one of America's leading underground film-makers. [via]
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How to Read a Film: The Art, Technology, Language, History and Theory of Film and Media
by James Monaco

ISBN 0195028066 (0-19-502806-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Sets movies in the contexts of their aesthetic and technological antecedents and reviews all important factors of and issues pertaining to contemporary film and television production and theory. [via]
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How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, and Multimedia Language, History, Theory
by James Monaco

ISBN 019503869X (0-19-503869-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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First published in 1977, this popular book has become the source on film and media. Now, James Monaco offers a revised and rewritten third edition incorporating every major aspect of this dynamic medium right up to the present.

Looking at film from many vantage points, How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia explores the medium as both art and craft, sensibility and science, tradition and technology. After examining film's close relation to such other narrative media as the novel, painting, photography, television, and even music, Monaco discusses those elements necessary to understand how films convey meaning and, more importantly, how we can best discern all that a film is attempting to communicate.

In a key departure from the book's previous editions, the new and still-evolving digital context of film is now emphasized throughout How to Read a Film. A new chapter on multimedia brings media criticism into the twenty-first century with a thorough discussion of topics like virtual reality, cyberspace, and the proximity of both to film. Monaco has likewise doubled the size and scope of his "Film and Media: A Chronology" appendix. The book also features a new introduction, an expanded bibliography, and hundreds of illustrative black-and-white film stills and diagrams. It is a must for all film students, media buffs, and movie fans. [via]
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If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of A B Movie Actor
by Bruce Campbell

ISBN 0312291450 (0-312-29145-0)
Softcover, LA Weekly Books

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My Chin Can Kill is a delightfully irreverent, yet oddly touching, epic of ambition and disappointment, fame and anonymity, and lots of fake blood. Told in Bruce's wry, sarcastic voice, it is a "Hollywood from the bleacher seats" look at his experiences in film and TV and at his status as a cult horror and sci-fi movie god. This man with the face of a matinee idol and the heart of a Three Stooge first attracted what has grown into an enormous cult following as the star of Sam Raimi's legendary Evil Dead trilogy of thriller-comedies. With tireless good humor and biting wit, Bruce acted, produced, and directed his way through a baker's dozen of "B" horror films and space operas before finally enjoying mainstream stardom on prime-time TV. Deeply earnest and fiercely funny, this book tells the story of an unlikely star who continues to lead a unique double life as cult movie icon and regular Joe.
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Incredibly Strange Films
by V. Vale

ISBN 1889307017 (1-889307-01-7)
Softcover, RE/Search

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This classic guide to little-known films neglected by the film-criticism establishment features interviews with Herschell Gordon Lewis, Russ Meyer, Ray Dennis Steckler, Ted V. Mikels, Larry Cohen, and others who dared to make independent feature films their way, without bowing to a committee or focus group. This is an oblique how-to manual, covering everything from financing, distribution, lighting, camerawork and acting, to publicity, marketing and screenwriting. Would-be filmmakers as well as scholars will find much inspiration and enlightenment in this volume, which has been used in college film classes. In-depth interviews focus on philosophy, while anecdotes entertain as well as illuminate theory. Lists of recommended films, an A-Z directory, and quotations are also included.
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Leonard Maltin's 2003 Movie & Video Guide
by Leonard Maltin

ISBN 0451206495 (0-451-20649-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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The newly updated edition-now with over 3,000 DVD listings-of the most authoritative film guide on the market. [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 1997
by Leonard Maltin, Alvin H. Marill, Bill Warren, Rob Edelman, Mike Clark, Luke Sader, Cathleen Anderson, Spencer Green

ISBN 0452276810 (0-452-27681-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA

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With 300 new movie entries, 1,000 more on videocassette, and laser disc listings, an enlarged index of leading performers and directors, and an updated list of mail-order sources, the 1997 edition of this perennial bestseller continues to be a "must" for every movie buff's bookshelf. The popular reference contains more than 19,000 capsule film reviews, including 300 new entries. Maltin also lists his top 100 films for family viewing. [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 1999
by Leonard Maltin

ISBN 0452279925 (0-452-27992-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA

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Widely acclaimed as the biggest, best, and most authoritative book in its field, "Leonard Maltin's 1999 Movie & Video Guide" is the quintessential guidebook to the movies. The author has added some 400 new film entries, bringing the total to more than 19,000, and kept pace with video and laserdisc releases, adding more than 1,000 listings in those categories.
Additional features include:
-- Updated and expanded indexes of leading performers and directors, listing their films reviewed in the book
-- Updated mail-order sources for purchase/rental of videocassettes and laser discs
-- Write-ups on every vintage film series, from Charlie Chart to Tarzan
-- Notes on widescreen films that are best seen in letter-box format
-- Leonard Maltin's selections of the 100 best films for family viewing
After 28 years in publication, "Leonard Maltin's 1999 Movie & Video Guide" continues to be the leading film guide on the market. More than four million copies have been sold. [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2000
by Leonard Maltin

ISBN 0452281237 (0-452-28123-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Film historian and critic Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 2000 is incredibly extensive, offering summaries and ratings of movies from Aaron Loves Angela to Zuma Beach. Each movie gets a wry comment from Maltin (the 1981 teen sex comedy Private Lessons is summed up as "a mild piece of sleaze") and a rating from "****" to "BOMB." The Movie and Video Guide 2000 is also meticulously updated--Maltin and his editors are careful to note the bit part appearances of actors who later became stars, allowing you to keep an eye peeled for Charlize Theron in Children of the Corn and Ben Affleck in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. If you're looking for that movie that you can't remember the name of but you know Laurence Fishburne was in it, fear not--there's also a star index in the back. The book has several other thoughtful features: a guide to the old wide-screen formats like Panavision and Vistascope; a list of 100 must-see films of the 20th century; and grouped box listings of movies that belong to the same series but don't start with the same word, saving a great deal of flipping around. This book is both a fun browser's read and a valuable helpmate at the video store. --Ali Davis [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2001
by Leonard Maltin

ISBN 0451201078 (0-451-20107-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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From Leonard Maltin, one of the leading authorities on American film, comes the latest edition of his enormously popular movie and video guide. Key features of this 2001 edition include:
-- Reviews of more than 20,000 films -- 300 new entries
-- Easy-to-read symbols indicating more than 15,000 films available on video -- including 1,000 new entries
-- Over 8,000 listings of films available on laser disc -- and more than 2,000 available on DVD
-- A revised index of leading actors and actresses
-- An updated list of mail-order sources for renting and buying videocassettes and discs
-- Maltin's exclusive list of the best family films of all time ... and much, much more. [via]
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- Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2001: ISBN 0452281873 (0-452-28187-3)
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Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2002
by Leonard Maltin

ISBN 0452282837 (0-452-28283-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Completely updated with new information-including 300 brand-new entries-this "indispensable" (New York Daily News) guide contains Maltin's exclusive list of the best family films of all time, an extensive index of stars, and thousands of videocassette, laserdisc, and DVD listings.

"A book you must buy." (Esquire)

"Head and shoulders about the rest." (The New York Times) [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2003
by Leonard Maltin

ISBN 0452283299 (0-452-28329-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA

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With over 19,000 reviews, including more than 14,000 video entries and 13,000 DVD and laserdisc listings, this work, by the film critic of television's "Entertainment Tonight", aims to be one of the most complete and up-to-date reference works on the subject. Features include: an up-to-date list of mail-order sources for buying renting videocassettes and discs; an index of leading performers; official motion picture code ratings; exact running times - a guide for taping and for discovering which movies have been edited; and reviews of little-known sleepers, foreign films, rarities and camp classics. [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2004
by Leonard Maltin

ISBN 0451209400 (0-451-20940-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Leonard Maltin is a film critic and resident film buff on USA television's "Entertainment Tonight". This guide presents his insightful criticism and provides an up-to-date listing of movies. It contains more than 18,000 reviews, including over 300 new entries, with over 13,000 video and 8000 DVD and laserdisc listings. It also includes an updated index of leading performers and a list of 50 films you "really ought to see". [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2005
by Leonard Maltin, Mike Clark, Luke Sader, Cathleen Anderson, Casey St Charnez, Alvin H. Marill, Bill Warren, Jerry Beck, Rob Edelman, Spencer Green, Michael Scheinfeld

ISBN 0451212657 (0-451-21265-7)
Softcover, Signet

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More than 18,000 capsule movie reviews, with more than 300 new entries. [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2006
by Leonard Maltin

ISBN 0451216091 (0-451-21609-1)
Softcover, Signet

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Entertainment, Pop Culture, Cinema [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2007
by Leonard Maltin

ISBN 0451219163 (0-451-21916-3)
Softcover, Signet

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On the Signet list for more than thirty years, and still the one to beat. Completely updated and expanded to include more than 17,000 entries, this is the one that has become standard. [via]
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Macmillan International Film Encyclopedia
by Catherine Marshall

ISBN 033390690X (0-333-90690-X)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan

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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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The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
by David Thomson

ISBN 0375709401 (0-375-70940-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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'This book is both more and less than history, a work of imagination in its own right, a piece of movie literature that turns fact into romance.' Gavin Lambert was reviewing the first edition of David Thomson's monumental work in 1975. In the eight years since the third edition was published, careers have waxed and waned, reputations been made and lost, great movies produced, trends set and scorned. This updated fourth edition has 30 entirely new entries and every original entry has been re-examined. Thus the roster of directors, actors, producers, screenwriters and cameramen is both historical and contemporary, with old masters reappraised in terms of how their work has lasted. Each of the 1,330 profiles is a keenly perceptive, provocative critical essay. Striking the perfect balance between personal bias and factual reliability, David Thomson - novelist, critic, biographer and unabashed film addict - has given us an enormously rich reference book, a brilliant reflection on the art and artists of the cinema. [via]
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Re-Search No 10: Incredibly Strange Films A Guide to Deviant Films
by Jim Morton

ISBN 0940642093 (0-940642-09-3)
Softcover, V/Search

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Incredibly Strange Films (Re/Search #10) is a functional guide to important territory neglected by the film-criticism establishment, spotlighting unhailed directors - Herschell Gordon Lewis, Russ Meyer, Larry Cohen and others - who have been critically consigned to the ghettos of gore and sexploitation films. In-depth interviews focus on philosophy, while anecdotes entertain as well as illuminate theory. The book also includes biographies, genre overviews, filmographies, bibliography, an A-Z of film personalities, articles, quotations, lists of recommended films, and sources. [via]
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Screenplay
by Syd Field

ISBN 156731239X (1-56731-239-X)
Hardcover, Fine Communications

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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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A Short Guide to Writing About Film
by Timothy Corrigan

ISBN 0673522997 (0-673-52299-7)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley

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Understanding Movies
by Louis Giannetti

ISBN 0131890980 (0-13-189098-0)
Softcover, Prentice Hall

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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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