The National Society of Film Critics on Movie Comedy
Penguin Books, December 1977. Paper Back. Previous owner's name. Bookstore stamp. Pages toned. More
Penguin Books, December 1977. Paper Back. Previous owner's name. Bookstore stamp. Pages toned. More
Rutgers University Press, May 1993. Paper Back. It was a surprise to everyone, including director Eric Rohmer, that My Night at Maud's was a success. The film violated almost all the rules of popular filmmaking. It had no crime, no explicit sex, no violence, and no action. As English Showalter..... More
University Press of Mississippi, January 2013. Hardcover. The 1969 film Ma Nuit chez Maud (My Night at Maud's) catapulted its shy academic film director, Eric Rohmer, born Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer (1920-2010), into the limelight and sold over a million tickets in France, earning a nomination for an Academy Award. Ma..... More
Smithsonian Institution Press, April 1995. Trade Paperback. Surveying the growth of local movie and vaudeville theaters from 1906 to 1916, Waller analyzes reform efforts and protest campaigns that concerned theater safety codes, Sunday film showings, censorship, and, most notably, the highly controversial screening of The Birth of a Nation. Providing..... More
St. Martin's Griffin, October 1989. Oversize Softcover. More
Chrysalis Books Group, October 1999. Oversize Softcover. More
Grand Central Publishing, July 1988. Trade Paperback. It is called, with deceptive simplicity, The Village. It is the world of tomorrow, or today. A man known only as Number 6 enters its storybook-like confines. He will learn, over and over again, that inside it there is no freedom, and from..... More
Applause Theatre & Cinema Book Publishers, April 2003. Hardcover. (Applause Books). The late Sir Alec Guinness, one of the great British actors of the 20th Century along with his fellow knights Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson, was known for his ability to slip, chameleon-like, into his roles. His..... More
Critical Vision, July 2003. Trade Paperback. Hopping vampires, seductive spirits and giant predatory tongues! Tsui Hark's "A Chinese Ghost Story "in 1987 gave many Western viewers their first taste of supernatural thrills, Oriental style. Yet the film was a comparatively late entry in a well-established genre. From Sammo Hung's "Spooky..... More
Creation Books, April 1999. Trade Paperback. Table of Contents Pink Generation: a brief history of japanese porno Pop Avant-Garde Violence: the films of koji wakamatsu Sadomania: the joys of torture Ai No Corrida: in the realm of the senses Abnormal Ward: the secret cinema of hisayasu sato Ultraviolence: sex, slaughter..... More
Newmarket Press, August 2002. Paper Back. This engaging and beautiful book includes the complete Academy Award-winning script and Thompson's own diaries detailing the production of the film, reviewed by Stanley Kauffmann in The New Republic as "vivid, funny, and gamy" Emma Thompson stars in and scripted this wonderful romantic comedy..... More
Scribner, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed on a tipped-in page by Mary-Louise Parker. More
University of Illinois Press, September 2013. Trade Paperback. Cultural productions in the Third Reich often served explicit propaganda functions of legitimating racism and glorifying war and militarism. Likewise, the proliferation of domestic and romance films in Nazi Germany also represented an ideological stance. Rather than reinforcing traditional gender role divisions..... More
Rutgers University Press, April 2014. Trade Paperback. Received the Distinction Honor for the 2016 C. Calvin Smith Book Award from the Southern Conference on African American Studies, Inc. In Hollywood, we hear, it's all about the money. It's a ready explanation for why so few black films get made--no crossover..... More
University of Texas Press, March 2007. Trade Paperback. After the death of James Dean in 1955, the figure of the teen rebel permeated the globe, and its presence is still felt in the twenty-first century. Rebel iconography-which does not have to resemble James Dean himself, but merely incorporates his disaffected..... More
University of Texas Press, September 2006. Trade Paperback. The "evil" Arab has become a stock character in American popular films, playing the villain opposite American "good guys" who fight for "the American way." It's not surprising that this stereotype has entered American popular culture, given the real-world conflicts between the..... More
Univ Of Minnesota Press, March 2014. Trade Paperback. East Asia largely functions as a single film and media market, but behind it exists a multifaceted world of coproduction crossing linguistic and national borders. In Coproducing Asia, Stephanie DeBoer guides readers through a rich genealogy of regional film and media coproduction..... More
BFI Publishing. Trade Paperback. As is. Light foxing on the edges of the print block. More
Hansen Publishing Group, LLC, November 2010. Paper Back. Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors takes a critical look at these eleven actors and their roles, bonded by their sustained artistic and professional association with Williams, specifically the success, and sometimes failure, of their interpretations of his characters for..... More
Dey Street Books, May 2016. Hardcover. "Irresistibly charming, acclaimed legal scholar Sunstein writes partly as a rigorous academic and partly as a helpless fanboy as he explores our fascination with Star Wars and what the series can teach us about the law, behavioral economics, history, and even fatherhood. This book..... More
Vintage, November 2012. Trade Paperback. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TOM STOPPARD Our most esteemed living playwright adapts the most famous love story ever written in the screenplay for the new Focus Features film Anna Karenina, directed by Joe Wright, starring Keira Knightley and Jude Law. Tolstoy's brilliant novel, tracing the..... More
McSweeney's, July 2012. Trade Paperback. For more information, visit McSweeneys.net In the summer of 2009 Miranda July was struggling to write her second screenplay, The Future, when she began to obsessively read the PennySaver classified ads. The iconic Los Angeles newsprint booklet served a computerless demographic?a quickly disappearing group, but..... More
Ballantine Books, March 2017. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the People's Choice Award winner for Favorite YouTube Star and host of NBC's A Little Late with Lilly Singh comes the definitive guide to being a bawse a person who exudes confidence, hustles relentlessly, and smiles genuinely because..... More
Knopf, May 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - Selma Blair has played many roles: Ingenue in Cruel Intentions. Preppy ice queen in Legally Blonde. Muse to Karl Lagerfeld. Advocate for the multiple sclerosis community. But before all of that, Selma was known best as ... a...... More
Simon & Schuster, 1968. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo paperback with moderate user wear including stains, darkening to cover. Creased mildly bowed spine. Large red previous dealer's stamp verso of front cover panel. Previous owner's name inked on this same page, as well as top right corner of title page..... More