3-D Hollywood
Simon & Schuster, November 1992. First Edition. Oversized Hardcover. Foxing on first and last page. Date written in pen on front endpaper. No 3D glasses supplied (does not say if they were ever included). More
Film/TV
Alien Saga Poster Collection
Insight Editions, July 2013. Paper Back. The slavering xenomorph from the Alien movies has been stalking the big screen for more than thirty years now, leaving a trail of haunting imagery in its wake. This indispensable poster collection brings together not only striking stills from films such as Alien, Aliens..... More
George Cukor: Hollywood Master
Edinburgh University Press, August 2015. Hardcover. George Cukor is one of the studio era's most famous and admired directors, with many of the American cinema's most beloved classics to his credit, including The Women, Gaslight, Adam's Rib, A Star is Born, and My Fair Lady to his credit. Not himself..... More
Harmony Korine: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series)
University Press of Mississippi, November 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Harmony Korine: Interviews tracks filmmaker Korine's stunning rise, fall, and rise again through his own evolving voice. Bringing together interviews collected from over two decades, this unique chronicle includes rare interviews unavailable in print for years and an extensive, new conversation..... More
Joss Whedon's Dollhouse: Confounding Purpose, Confusing Identity (Science Fiction Television)
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, May 2014. Hardcover. Although it lasted barely more than a season, Dollhouse continues to intrigue viewers as one of Joss Whedon's most provocative forays into television. The program centered on men and women who have their memories and personalities repeatedly wiped and replaced with new ones..... More
Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground: Nicholas Ray in American Cinema (SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema)
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
The Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey (Modern Library Movies)
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
One Step Beyond Forever!: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family...Continued Yet Again
HarperCollins Publishers, October 2005. Oversize Softcover. Filled with fun facts, quirky quotes, and memorable moments, The Simpsons One Step Beyond Forever: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family (Seasons 13 and 14) guarantees a gaggle of giggles and guffaws for the most devoted fan or even the occasional viewer of..... More
Rebel Without a Cause: Approaches to a Maverick Masterwork (SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema)
SUNY Press, September 2005. Trade Paperback. Five decades after the production and initial release of Rebel Without a Cause, this book examines both the complicated historical moment in which the film was made as well as its continuing and pervasive influence on film today. The contributors track how the film..... More
Samuel Fuller: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series)
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
Stan Brakhage: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series)
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
Crypt 33: The Saga of Marilyn Monroe - The Final Word
Citadel, June 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Name in ink on the front endpaper. More
Nabokov's Dark Cinema
Oxford University Press, November 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong duodecimo (12mo.) in price clipped, edgeworn dustjacket. Half inch tears to back jacket panel (2 top edge abd one bottom). Black (faux-leather) boards with gold lettering on spine. Bumped lower righthand corner. Burgundy end papers. Foxing/spotting to white flyleaf pages &..... More
The Murder of Monty Woolley
Madras Press, May 2013. Paper Back. More
The Hollywood Professionals, Vol 6, Capra, Cukor, Brown
A.S. Barnes/The Tantivy Press, February 1980. Cloth. Edgeworn jacket. NOT price clipped. Black cloth with white lettering on spine. Clean text. Solid binding. More
The Literary Angel: Essays on Influences and Traditions Reflected in the Joss Whedon Series
McFarland, July 2010. Paper Back. The fictionalized Los Angeles of television's Angel is a world filled with literature--from the all-important Shansu prophecy that predicts Angel's return to a state of humanity to the ever-present books dominating the characters' research sessions. This collection brings together essays that engage Angel as a...... More
Marilyn, mon amour: The private album of Andre de Dienes, her preferred photographer
St. Martin's Press, January 1985. First American. Oversized Hardcover. Corners lightly bumped on jacket. Foxing on cloth cover and endpapers. Date written in pen on front endpaper. More
De Toth on De Toth: Putting the Drama in Front of the Camera (Directors on Directors)
Faber & Faber, March 1997. Trade Paperback. Provides a survey of the career of one of Hollywood's great mavericks - Andre de Toth. This title focuses on his film-making career. It tells of his work on Lawrence of Arabia and on Superman, as well as reveals how a one-eyed director..... More
The Afterlife of Genre: Remnants of the Trauerspiel in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Punctum Books, February 2014. Paper Back. 12mo. Gently read. Clean, sound, no markings. More
Polanski: His Life and Films
Hamish Hamilton, January 1982. Trade Paperback. More
Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker
Hachette Books, March 2020. Hardcover. Film and television director Barry Sonnenfeld's outrageous and hilarious memoir traces his idiosyncratic upbringing in New York City, his breaking into film as a cinematographer with the Coen brothers, and his unexpected career as the director behind such huge film franchises as The Addams Family..... More
Dont Look Back (BFI Film Classics)
British Film Institute, July 2016. Paper Back. Dont Look Back, a documentary film of Bob Dylan's 1965 England tour, is recognised as a landmark work in the field of documentary film-making, contributing to the cultural life of an era. This text examines the aesthetic, thematic and social dynamics of the..... More
Nicholas Ray: An American Journey
Faber & Faber, May 1993. Hardcover. This is a biography of Nicholas Ray - one of the most distinctive directors in America in the 1950s. Films like They Live by the Night, In a Lonely Place, Johnny Guitar and Bigger than Life reveal the psychic ills of the 1950s more..... More
