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Scribner, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed on a tipped-in page by Mary-Louise Parker. 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
Columbia University Press, November 2013. Trade Paperback. Imagine watching an action film in a small-town cinema hall in Bangladesh, and in between the gun battles and fistfights a short pornographic clip appears. This is known as a cut-piece, a strip of locally made celluloid pornography surreptitiously spliced into the reels..... 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
Oxford University Press, USA, October 2013. Trade Paperback. Unique and often startling encounters between music and the moving image in the films of Stanley Kubrick are trademarks of his style; witness the powerful effects of Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra in 2001: A Space Odyssey and of Beethoven's 9th Symphony in..... More
Columbia University Press, November 2013. Trade Paperback. Cinematic Appeals follows the effect of technological innovation on the cinema experience, specifically the introduction of widescreen and stereoscopic 3D systems in the 1950s, the rise of digital cinema in the 1990s, and the transition to digital 3D since 2005. Widescreen cinema promised..... More
University of Texas Press, December 2002. Trade Paperback. Astaire and Rogers, Tracy and Hepburn. Just the mention of their names evokes the powerful chemistry between these screen couples, which utterly transcended the often formulaic films in which they appeared together. Indeed, watching the synergistic flow of energy between charismatic screen..... 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
University of Texas Press, July 2008. Trade Paperback. Authoring a film adaptation of a literary source not only requires a media conversion but also a transformation as a result of the differing dramatic demands of cinema. The most critical central step in this transformation of a literary source to the..... More
University of Texas Press, March 2015. Trade Paperback. Frederick Aldama's The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez (2014) was the first full-scale study of one of the most prolific and significant Latino directors making films today. In this companion volume, Aldama enlists a corps of experts to analyze a majority of Rodriguez's..... 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
William Morrow & Company, April 2022. Hardcover. A New York Times bestseller! Celebrated actor, personality, and all-around nerd, Wil Wheaton updates his memoir of collected blog posts with all new material and annotations as he reexamines one of the most interesting lives in Hollywood and fandom--and now for the first..... 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
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
University of Georgia Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first. Octavo. In dustjacket with slight edgewear. Blue textured paper covered boards with gold lettering. Mildly bruised corners of front board top & bottom. Scattered occasionally with lightly pencilled tick marks and side notes. Tightly bound. [487 pages]. More
Ecco, April 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. A New York Times bestseller A candid, compulsively readable, hilarious, and heartbreaking memoir of resilience and redemption by comedic genius Molly Shannon At age four, Molly Shannon's world was shattered when she lost her mother, baby sister, and cousin in a car accident with..... More
Cambridge University Press, November 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. This collection of essays explores the literary and cinematic implications of translating Austen's prose into film. It considers how prose fiction and cinema differ; how mass commercial audiences require changes to script and character; and how continually remade films evoke memories of..... 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