Pantheon, December 1986. Trade Paperback. 7 essays by leading media critics explore the politics and social implications of television. ."..An important step into the past wasteland era of writing about the tube." - NYT Book Review. More
Limelight Editions, July 2004. Trade Paperback. (Limelight). ..".the definitive life. I don't think it will ever be superseded ... It is scholarly yet readable, the fullest, most objective and factually detailed book on virtually every aspect of Buster's career and personality: artistic, financial, and pyschological ... full of the most..... More
Harper Perennial, January 2008. Trade Paperback. The First Complete Guide to Asian Film Asian cinema has never been more popular than it is today. In recent years, films such as Spirited Away, Hero, Kung Fu Hustle, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon have made surprising inroads into the American box office..... More
Chicago Review Press, October 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Silent film superstar Douglas Fairbanks was an absolute charmer. Irrepressibly vivacious, he spent his life leaping over and into things, from his early Broadway successes to his marriage to the great screen actress Mary Pickford to the way he made Hollywood his..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2000. Paper Back. This new edition, revised and expanded to discuss all of Kubrick's films including Eyes Wide Shut again received the approval of the reclusive director, who before his death allowed the use of illustrations taken directly from his films' frames. The result..... More
Allyn & Bacon, September 2005. Oversize Softcover. Substantially revised for the Sixth Edition, A History of Film is a comprehensive international survey of film from its beginnings to the present. This text highlights the contributions of major film-producing countries, significant filmmakers, and their films within social, artistic, economic, and technological..... More
Distributed by Hippocrene Books, January 1981. Trade Paperback. As is. Coffee rings on front cover. Some underlining and marginalia in the first quarter of the book. Moderate shelf wear. More
Oxford University Press, March 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Celebrated critic William Arrowsmith did not sit on the fence when it came to Michelangelo Antonioni, the inspired Italian director of such classic films as L'avventura, Blow-up, and Eclipse. "Let me be clear about what I think," Arrowsmith told an audience assembled..... More
Harper, October 2019. Hardcover. Based on new and revelatory material from Brando's own private archives, an award-winning film biographer presents a deeply-textured, ambitious, and definitive portrait of the greatest movie actor of the twentieth century, the elusive Marlon Brando, bringing his extraordinarily complex life into view as never before. The..... More
HAWTHORN. January 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed to previous owner and signed by William A. Wellman on title page. Foxing to the edges. Dust jacket is chipped, shelf worn. More
Praeger, February 2006. Hardcover. William Wild Bill Wellman was not Paramount Pictures' first choice to direct the World War I epic Wings (1927), but as a former aviator and war hero, he was the right choice. Despite months waging epic battles of his own with studio executives, Wild Bill managed..... More
