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
Columbus Books, January 1987. Paper Back. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine un-creased; Pages free of markings; An excellent copy. More
Grove Press, January 1994. Trade Paperback. Playwright David Mamet's brilliant debut as a film director, House of Games is a psychological thriller in which a young woman psychiatrist falls prey to an elaborate and ingenious con game by one of her patients, who entraps her--with her own subconscious connivance--in a...... More
Angel City Press, April 2007. First Edition. Oversized Hardcover. This collection of hand-painted poster art features many pieces by highly collectible artists. It tells the visual story of the movie posters painted by artists who were commissioned by theatre owners in their communities. Over 150 of these posters are displayed..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, February 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. The critically acclaimed biographer of Louise Brooks draws on hitherto unavailable material, including Garbo's notebooks, letters, and an astonishing set of 100 tape-recorded conversations, plus interviews with Garbo's surviving friends and family, to create a superb and compelling portrait of the unforgettable..... More
CAPRICCI, November 2011. Paper Back. {8 & 1/2 x 9 & 1/2'} Back cardstock cover with white lettering. Trade paperback with internal text printed on special heavy stock. Melies Star Film emblem embossed on front cover panel. Moderate shelf wear. {192 pages]. More
Prentice Hall, June 1981. Trade Paperback. Octavo with moderate shelf wear. Clean text. Blue on grey cover design. [466 pages]. More
Oxford University Press, USA, January 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. In Holding My Own in No Man's Land, a series of pieces written in the twenty years since the publication of From Reverence to Rape, Haskell once again explores the relationship between women and men, and between the movies and those..... More
University of California Press, February 1986. Reprint. Paper Back. Here are five comic masterpieces by Preston Sturges, who has been called "Hollywood's greatest writer-director, with emphasis on the former." The scripts are drawn from the great period between 1939 and 1944, which Andrew Sarris called "one of the most brilliant..... More
St Martins Pr, January 1986. Oversize Softcover. More
Random House UK, February 2000. First Edition. Cloth. Still Memories is an intimate look at the family of actor John Mills, his wife, Mary Hayley Bell and his three children, Juliet, Hayley and Jonathan. It is also a testament to his prodigious talent as a photographic artist. "From the Trade..... More
Crown Publishers, April 1971. Reprint. Cloth. 8th printing. Octavo. In clipped jacket with sun-bleached spine. Grey cloth covered boards with brown lettering along spine. Previous owner's name stamped lower right corner of front pastedown. 200 B/W Photos.[208 pages]. More
Crown Publishers, March 1972. Reprint. Cloth. 5th printing. In edgeworn DJ with damp staining and clipped front flap. Light blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Top edge worn with 3 small spots worn through to card boards beneath. Previous owner's address stamp lower right corner of FFEP..... More
Delilah Communications / Putnam Publishing, 1983. First Thus. Paper Back. Oblong octavo.{11 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/2'}. Mild edgewear to cardstock cover. Rubber stamped 'P' top textblock edge spine side. [159 pages]. More
Crown Pub, January 1973. Reprint. Cloth. 2nd printing. Octavo. In shelfworn dustjacket. Seafoam green cloth covered boards with black lettering along spine. Mild darkened board edges. Rust stain from paper clip top edge of front board. Tanning/foxing to end papers. [207 pages]. More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 1995. First Edition. Paper Back. The invention of moving pictures is almost certainly the most powerful shaper of the unique consciousness of the modern age. For almost a century now we have all been at the movies, and our brains are overcrowded with the..... More
Grove/Atlantic, November 1992. Oversized Hardcover. Jacket clipped. More
Warner Books, August 1989. Oversized Hardcover. Bookplate. Minor shelfwear to book. Jacket has a closed tear near bottom of spine. Wrapped for future protection. More
Henry Holt & Company, March 1989. Hardcover. An easy-to-use guide to over 2,000 non-English-language films released in the U.S. and the United Kingdom. Each film is listed by both its original and English title, and each entry includes a synopsis, a brief but informative critical appraisal, and full credits. More
Old Castle, January 2001. Paper Back. More
Kabalcı Yayınevi, January 1999. Flexible Boards. More
University of California Press, November 2014. Oversized Hardcover. David Lynch is internationally renowned as a filmmaker, but it is less known that he began his creative life as a visual artist and has maintained a devoted studio practice, developing an extensive body of painting, prints, photography, and drawing. Featuring work..... More
Harper Celebrate, January 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Aristotle. Socrates. Descartes. And now, Chenoweth. (How about some women, am I right?) From television actress, Broadway star, and New York Times bestselling author Kristin Chenoweth comes I'm No Philosopher, But I Got Thoughts, an inspiring high-design, colorful book featuring philosophical-ish musings on..... More
Routledge, 2010. Paper Back. Music in Horror Film is a collection of essays that examine the effects of music and its ability to provoke or intensify fear in this particular genre of film. Frightening images and ideas can be made even more intense when accompanied with frightening musical sounds, and..... More
Knopf Publishing Group, November 2004. Oversize Softcover. For almost thirty years, David Thomson's "Biographical Dictionary of Film" has been not merely "the finest reference book ever written about movies" (Graham Fuller, "Interview"), not merely the "desert island book" of art critic David Sylvester, not merely "a great, crazy masterpiece" (Geoff..... More
