Little, Brown and Company, December 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. The essential biography of the influential and beloved filmmaker George Lucas On May 25, 1977, a problem-plagued, budget-straining independent science-fiction film opened in a mere thirty-two American movie theaters. Conceived, written, and directed by a little-known filmmaker named George Lucas, the... More about George Lucas: A Life
Oxford University Press, March 2006. Trade Paperback. Almost all students have seen 2001, but virtually none understand its inheritance, its complexities, and certainly not its ironies. The essays in this collection, commissioned from a wide variety of scholars, examine in detail various possible readings of the film and its historical... More about Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey: New Essays
McPherson, August 2001. Trade Paperback. In the course of making nearly 400 films over the past 50 years, "Stan Brakhage" became synonymous with independent American filmmaking, particularly its avant-garde component. This major collection of writings draws primarily upon two long out-of-print books--Metaphors on Vision and Brakhage Scrapbook. Brakhage examines filmmaking... More about Essential Brakhage: Selected Writings on Film-Making
Turtle Island Foundation, January 1979. Paper Back. Clean, sound binding. Rubbing to cover. More about Film Biographies :Stan Brakhage
The Tears Corporation/Creation, October 1995. Trade Paperback. Film/Poetry. Opening with an essay on Robert Frank's Pull My Daisy ("The first truly Beat film" -- Jonas Mekas) and related interviews with Alfred Leslie and Frank, Jack Sargeant's encyclopedic survey of "Beat cinema" interlaces essays on seminal films and their milieux with..... More about Deathtripping: The Cinema of Transgression
Temple University Press, July 2005. Trade Paperback. Stan Brakhage: Filmmaker is a collection of essays, photographs, personal statements and reminiscences about the celebrate filmmaker, who died in 2003. The producer of some four hundred films, he is widely recognized as one of the great artists of the medium. His innovations... More about Stan Brakhage: Filmmaker (Wide Angle Books
Touchstone, November 2006. Trade Paperback. The revolutionary film Rebel Without a Cause has had a profound impact on both moviemaking and youth culture -- not only upon its 1955 release but on generations since. In Live Fast, Die Young, the complete story behind this groundbreaking film is revealed, vividly evoking... More about Live Fast, Die Young: The Wild Ride of Making Rebel Without a Cause
Modern Library, March 2000. Trade Paperback. "If 2001 has stirred your emotions, your subconscious, your mythological yearnings, then it has succeeded."--Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick's extraordinary movie 2001: A Space Odyssey was released in 1969. The critics initially disliked it, but the public loved it. And eventually, the film took its... More about The Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey (Modern Library Movies
MIT Press (MA), February 2014. Trade Paperback. A celebrated writer on contemporary art and queer culture argues that Andy Warhol's films enable us to see differently, and to see a different world. "We didn't think of our movies as underground or commercial or art or porn; they were a little... More about 'Our Kind of Movie': The Films of Andy Warhol
University of California Press, April 2012. Trade Paperback. Andy Warhol, one of the twentieth century's major visual artists, was a prolific filmmaker who made hundreds of films, many of them--Sleep, Empire, Blow Job, The Chelsea Girls, and Blue Movie--seminal but misunderstood contributions to the history of American cinema. In the... More about The Black Hole of the Camera: The Films of Andy Warhol
British Film Institute, July 2001. Trade Paperback. Author wrote bestselling bfi Publishing title David Lynch 'a joy to the reader of film criticism' Choice; 2001: A Space Odyssey to be re-released in cinemas in The Spring and highly likely to be the focus of much media attention in the new... More about Kubrick's Cinema Odyssey (2001
Leonine Productions, Llc, April 2010. Trade Paperback. More about Kubricks 2001: A Space Odyssey:How Patterns, Archetypes and Style Inform a Narrative
British Film Institute, August 2010. Trade Paperback. Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is widely regarded as one of the best films ever made. It has been celebrated for its beauty and mystery, its realistic depiction of space travel and dazzling display of visual effects, the breathtaking scope of... More about 2001: A Space Odyssey: A Space Odyssey (2010
Oxford University Press, February 2017. Trade Paperback. Film is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller's War Movies is the first book to focus on the genre that best defined the American director's career: the war film. It draws on previously unexplored archival materials, such as Fuller's Federal Bureau of Investigation files... More about Film is Like a Battleground
Wesleyan University Press, March 2008. Hardcover. A cigar-chomping storyteller who signaled "Action!" by shooting a gun, Samuel Fuller has been lionized as one of the most distinctive writer/directors ever to emerge from Hollywood. In such films as The Steel Helmet, Pickup on South Street, Shock Corridor, and The Big Red... More about The Films of Samuel Fuller: If You Die, I’ll Kill You (Wesleyan Film
Back Bay Books, May 2018. Trade Paperback. The New York Times bestselling, "hysterically funny and unsettlingly fascinating" (Jenny Lawson) guide to the secrets of Victorian womanhood. Have you ever wished you could live in an earlier, more romantic era? Ladies, welcome to the 19th century, where there's arsenic in your... More about Unmentionable
Back Bay Books, June 1995. Trade Paperback. In David Sedaris's world no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Liebowitz, and the National Enquirer, Sedaris's collection of stories and essays is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad... More about Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, August 2011. Hardcover. Since the late 1950s Stan Brakhage has been in the forefront of independent filmmaking. His body of work -- some seventy hours -- is one of the largest of any filmmaker in the history of cinema, and one of the most diverse. Probably... More about The Films of Stan Brakhage in the American Tradition of Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and Charles Olson
SUNY Press, February 2014. Hardcover. The director of such classic Hollywood films as In a Lonely Place, Johnny Guitar, and Rebel Without a Cause, Nicholas Ray nevertheless remained on the margins of the American studio system throughout his career, and despite his cult status among auteurist critics and cinephiles, he... More about Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground: Nicholas Ray in American Cinema (SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
University of Illinois Press, February 2018. Hardcover. If size counts for anything, Michael Bay towers over his contemporaries. His summer-defining event films involve extraordinary production costs and churn enormous box office returns. His ability to mastermind breathtaking spectacles of action, mayhem, and special effects continually push the movie industry as... More about Michael Bay (Contemporary Film Directors
University Press of Mississippi, March 2017. Hardcover. In this volume, editor Suranjan Ganguly collects nine of Stan Brakhage's most important interviews in which the filmmaker describes his conceptual frameworks; his theories of vision and sound; the importance of poetry, music, and the visual arts in relation to his work; his... More about Stan Brakhage: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series
Intellect Ltd, July 2018. Hardcover. Scholars have been studying the films of Stanley Kubrick for decades. This book, however, breaks new ground by bringing together recent empirical approaches to Kubrick with earlier, formalist approaches to arrive at a broader understanding of the ways in which Kubrick's methods were developed to... More about Understanding Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey: Representation and Interpretation
McFarland & Company, August 2014. Trade Paperback. Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is one of the most celebrated and significant films ever made. This book traces the movie's origins as a thriller novel through its evolution into a devastating black... More about Calling Dr. Strangelove: The Anatomy and Influence of the Kubrick Masterpiece
Documentext, June 2003. Hardcover. More about Telling Time: Essays of a Visionary Filmmaker
University Press of Mississippi, May 2012. Hardcover. "Show it! Two little words. It's better than five hundred words of discussion." In the early twentieth century, the art world was captivated by the totally original paintings of Henri Rousseau, who, seemingly without formal art training, produced works that astonished not only... More about Samuel Fuller: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series
