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Film and Television


Film and Television

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    Blackout

    Anthony Whyte
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    Paul Newman: A Life

    Shawn Levy
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    Sierra (adp) Harimann
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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Ultimate Sticker Book (Ultimate Sticker Books)
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Ultimate Sticker Book (Ultimate Sticker Books)
by Jo Casey
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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Ultimate Sticker Book includes more than 60 reusable stickers that bring to life Manny, Sid, Diego, Scrat, and the rest of the prehistoric animals from Ice Age Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (c) 2008 Twentieth Century Fox... (read more)

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Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo
Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo
by Werner Herzog
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One of the most revered filmmakers of our time, Werner Herzog wrote this diary during the making of Fitzcarraldo, the lavish 1982 film that tells the story of a would-be rubber baron who pulls a steamship over a hill in order to access a rich rubber... (read more)

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Cine Mexicano
Cine Mexicano
by Rogelio Agrasanchez
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Whether you appreciate the posters on their own or are inspired to seek out and experience the films they tout, Cine Mexicano will lead you into an exotic world that you won't soon forget.... (read more)

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Novelization
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The Horse Whisperer
The Horse Whisperer
by Nicholas Evans
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A forty-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path.  In a few terrible seconds the life of a family is shattered.  And a mother's quest begins -- to save her maimed daughter and a... (read more)

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The Reel Truth: Everything You Didn't Know You Need to Know about Making an Independent Film
The Reel Truth: Everything You Didn't Know You Need to Know about Making an Independent Film
by Reed Martin
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What's great about The Reel Truth isn't simply its usefulness, but its thoroughness. Martin doesn't gloss over the difficulties of the medium (filmmaking is a constant, uphill struggle, no matter how successful you are). Nor does he make any attempt to... (read more)

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Film Encyclopedia 6TH Edition
Film Encyclopedia 6TH Edition
by Ephraim Katz
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Ephraim Katz's The Film Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive single-volume encyclopedia on film and is considered the undisputed bible of the film industry. Completely revised and updated, this sixth edition features more than 7,500 A-Z entries on the... (read more)

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Actor Biographies
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Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
by Michael J. Fox
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There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Actor. Husband. Father. Activist. But readers of Always Looking Up will soon add another to the list: Optimist. Michael writes about the hard-won perspective that helped him see challenges as... (read more)

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Film History and Theory
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A Short Guide To Writing About Film
A Short Guide To Writing About Film
by Timothy J. Corrigan
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Doubling an introduction to film study and a practical writing guide, this brief text introduces students to film terms and the major film theories, enabling them to write more critically. Examples from newer movies provide a fresh list of references for... (read more)

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Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality
Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality
by Neal Gabler
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"A thoughtful, in places chilling, account of the way entertainment values have hollowed out American life." --"The New York Times Book Review <BR>From one of America's most original cultural critics and the author of Winchell, the story of how our... (read more)

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I Can't Believe I'm Still Single: Sane, Slightly Neurotic (But in a Sane Way) Filmmaker Into Good Yoga, Bad Reality TV, Too Much Chocolate, and a Litt
I Can't Believe I'm Still Single: Sane, Slightly Neurotic (But in a Sane Way) Filmmaker Into Good Yoga, Bad Reality TV, Too Much Chocolate, and a Litt
by Eric Schaeffer
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Eric Schaeffer has always believed that when the time was right and he was ready that he would find the Big One (an intelligent, sexy, loving wife). But his last girlfriend said no to his proposal, and since then he hasn't met anyone he wanted to have a... (read more)

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Book to Film | May 20, 2009

Chris Bolton: IMG Read It Before They Screen It: Papa Hemingway, Flow My Tears, and More



Kirk Ellis, who recently oversaw the award-winning HBO miniseries John Adams (based on the David McCullough biography), will follow that project... Continue »
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Review-a-Day | May 9, 2009

"Hello... Newman!"



Paul Newman: A Life by Shawn Levy Reviewed by Chris Bolton Powells.com A co-worker told me a story about a friend of hers who used to work for Paul... Continue »
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    Paul Newman: A Life

    Shawn Levy
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