The Wizard of Oz (BFI Film Classics)
British Film Institute, May 1992. Trade Paperback. The author briefly recounts the making of The Wizard of Oz and discusses its plot, music, and themes. More
British Film Institute, May 1992. Trade Paperback. The author briefly recounts the making of The Wizard of Oz and discusses its plot, music, and themes. More
Frederick Ungar Publishing Co, January 1965. Paper Back. More
E.P. Dutton, December 1968. First Edition. Cloth. First/first in price clipped dustjacket with darkened margins & spine. Red cloth boards with smudges to boards visible in strong light. Black and sandstone oragne lettering on spine. Stains/soiling top textblock edge. Slgihtly dust stained bottom edge. Tight binding at bottom but somewhat..... More
Mariner Books, October 1987. Paper Back. More
Hal Leonard Corp, July 1998. Trade Paperback. Foreword by Jeremy Irons, preface by Adrian Lyne. Based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, Schiff tells the astounding story behind the most controversial movie of our time. 75 movie stills. "Like Nabokov's novel, it is an eloquent tragedy laced with wit and..... More
Harper, February 2023. Hardcover. The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes drama. America does not have royalty. It has the Academy Awards. For..... More
Assouline, December 2019. Oversized Hardcover. Martin Scorsese has long been revered as one of our greatest living directors; his career spans more than 50 years and includes some of the most celebrated American gangster films--from Mean Streets to Casino and, of course, Goodfellas. His latest foray into the genre is..... More
ABRAMS, September 2016. Hardcover. Stone himself serves as guide to this no-holds-barred retrospective--an extremely candid and comprehensive monograph of the renowned and controversial writer, director, and cinematic historian in interview form. Over the course of five years, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone (Midnight Express, Scarface, Platoon, JFK, Natural Born Killers..... 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
Studio, December 1989. Limited. Oversized Hardcover. Number 265 of an edition limited to 300 copies SIGNED BY EDITOR TED SENNETT AND BILL HANNAH AND JOE BARBERA. Bound in gilt-titled denim cloth in matching slipcase, housed in publisher's original cardboard shipping box. Covers show some rubbing, but otherwise book is in..... 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
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
Wallflower Press, March 2006. Trade Paperback. Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City is a valuable introduction to one of the most influential of film movements. Exploring the roots and causes of neorealism, particularly the effects of the Second World War, as well as its politics and style, Mark Shiel examines..... 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
Columbia University Press, April 2014. Hardcover. Iris Barry (1895-1969) was a pivotal modern figure and one of the first intellectuals to treat film as an art form, appreciating its far-reaching, transformative power. Although she had the bearing of an aristocrat, she was the self-educated daughter of a brass founder and..... More
Prima Lifestyles, September 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Written in a cinematic style, the real story of the Warner brothers has all the drama of a big-screen production--a rags-to-riches immigrant story with tension and strife among four brothers, love and marriage, death and divorce, plotting and betrayal. 32 page photo insert..... 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
Multimedia Systems Group, October 2005. Trade Paperback. This book analyzes the Megahit Movies, those films which have generated more than $250 million in North American Box Office receipts. It presents principles of story construction that can be used to develop popular movies by providing an analysis of cinematic techniques. It..... More
Penguin Books, April 1966. Mass Market PaperBack. Binding a bit tender. Previous owner's name. Cover gauged about 7/8 of the way down on front, with hole boring through to the first 15 pages, not affecting text. More
Hawthorn Books, June, 1974. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo in heavily edgeworn, marginally darkened dustjacket, with especially worn at top & bottom of spine. Curl to top edge. Front flap is not cllipped. Quarter bound: black cloth covered spine with white lettering on spine. White paper covered boards with marginal darkening. Michaele..... More
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, July 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. An intimate memoir by the controversial and outspoken Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about his complicated New York childhood, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such films as Platoon, Midnight Express, and Scarface. Before the international success of Platoon in..... 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
Doubleday, January 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo in dustjacket with cllipped front spine. Quarter bound: black cloth spine with stamped gold lettering & off-white paper (embedded w/fibers) covered boards. Tangerine colored end pages front and back. Inscribed & signed: 'To Elizabeth from her friend, love, Mary Stuart' on ffep. [462..... 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