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The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend
The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend
by Glenn Frankel
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In 1836 in East Texas, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches. She was raised by the tribe and eventually became the wife of a warrior. Twenty-four years after her capture, she was reclaimed by the U.S. cavalry and Texas Rangers and... (read more)

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Zona: A Book about a Film about a Journey to a Room (Vintage)
Zona: A Book about a Film about a Journey to a Room (Vintage)
by Geoff Dyer
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There is no other writer at work today like the award-winning Geoff Dyer. Here he embarks on an investigation into Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, the masterpiece of cinema that has haunted him since he first saw it thirty years ago.... (read more)

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Sometimes a Great Movie: Paul Newman, Ken Kesey and the Filming of the Great Oregon Novel
Sometimes a Great Movie: Paul Newman, Ken Kesey and the Filming of the Great Oregon Novel
by Matt Love
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In June 1970, the biggest movie star in the world traveled to the Oregon Coast to film an epic novel about a defiant family of loggers written by a home grown counterculture hero. The star was Paul Newman. The author was Ken Kesey. The story was... (read more)

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The Art of the Matrix
The Art of the Matrix
by Spencer Lamm and Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski
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To create his epic Avatar, James Cameron and his crew had to invent the tools needed to achieve a transforming vision. The story of their journeyfrom Avatars conception to its realization on the screenis an epic in itself.   The Making of Avatar... (read more)

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Fat, Drunk, and Stupid: The Inside Story Behind the Making of Animal House
Fat, Drunk, and Stupid: The Inside Story Behind the Making of Animal House
by Matty Simmons
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In 1976 the creators of National Lampoon, Americas most popular humor magazine, decided to make a movie. It would be set on a college campus in the 1960s, loosely based on the experiences of Lampoon writers Chris Miller and Harold Ramis and Lampoon... (read more)

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Twilight: Director's Notebook: The Story of How We Made the Movie Based on the Novel by Stephenie Meyer
Twilight: Director's Notebook: The Story of How We Made the Movie Based on the Novel by Stephenie Meyer
by Catherine Hardwicke
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A personal, behind-the-scenes look at the making of the blockbuster film Twilight from groundbreaking director Catherine Hardwicke This intimate full-color notebook, designed to replicate the one director Catherine Hardwicke kept on and off the set... (read more)

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Steve Schapiro. Taxi Driver
Steve Schapiro. Taxi Driver
by Paul Duncan
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Previously unseen photographs from Scorseses masterpiece Taxi Driver has long been regarded as a cinematic milestone, and Robert DeNiros portrait of a trigger-happy psychopath with a mohawk is widely believed to be one of the greatest performances ever... (read more)

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Lust, Caution: The Story, the Screenplay, and the Making of the Film
Lust, Caution: The Story, the Screenplay, and the Making of the Film
by Eileen Chang and Wang Hui Ling and James Schamus
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To me, no writer has ever used the Chinese language as cruelly as Zhang Ailing (Eileen Chang), and no story of hers is as beautiful or as cruel as "Lust, Caution." Eileen Chang's thrilling short story "Lust, Caution"--a devastating... (read more)

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Amores Perros (BFI Modern Classics)
Amores Perros (BFI Modern Classics)
by Paul Julian Smith
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Amores Perros (2000) speaks to an international audience while never oversimplifying its local culture. This study of this film opens up that culture, revealing the film's relationship to television soap operas, pop music and contemporary debates about... (read more)

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Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History
by Yunte Huang
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Hailed as "irrepressibly spirited and entertaining" (Pico Iyer, Time) and "a fascinating cultural survey" (Paul Devlin, Daily Beast), this provocative first biography of Charlie Chan presents American history in a way that it has never been told before... (read more)

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Buster Keaton's Sherlock JR. (Cambridge Film Handbooks)
Buster Keaton's Sherlock JR. (Cambridge Film Handbooks)
by Andrew Horton
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Each Cambridge Film Handbook focuses on a single film from a variety of theoretical, critical and contextual perspectives. This "prism" approach is designed to give students and general readers valuable background and insight into the cinematic, artistic,... (read more)

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Harry Potter and Philosophy (Popular Culture and Philosophy #9)
Harry Potter and Philosophy (Popular Culture and Philosophy #9)
by David Baggett
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Harry Potter has put a spell on millions of readers, and they all want to find out more about the deeper meaning of his adventures. In "Harry Potter and Philosophy," 17 experts in the field of philosophy unlock some of Hogwarts' secret panels, uncovering... (read more)

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I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski: Life, the Big Lebowski, and What Have You
I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski: Life, the Big Lebowski, and What Have You
by Bill Green and Will Russell and Ben Peskoe and Scott Shuffitt
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The ultimate fan's guide to the Coen Brothers' cult classic, with an introduction by the Dude himself, Jeff Bridges.   To some The Big Lebowski is just a movie, to others it's THE MOVIE. Over the past several years the movie has developed a massive... (read more)

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War Horse (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebook)
War Horse (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebook)
by Steven Spielberg
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Brimming with more than 140 dramatic images, this is the stunning, visual companion to Steven Spielberg's epic adventure, set in rural England and Europe, about a young man and his horse and their separate journeys through the battlefields of the First... (read more)

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The Real Animal House: The Awesomely Depraved Saga of the Fraternity That Inspired the Movie
The Real Animal House: The Awesomely Depraved Saga of the Fraternity That Inspired the Movie
by Chris Miller
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The creator of Animal House offers a hilarious memoir of fraternity life, based on the National Lampoon essays that inspired the iconic comedy film, recounting the real-life story of the outrageous exploits, pranks, and friendships of the zany members of... (read more)

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The Silence of the Lambs
The Silence of the Lambs
by Yvonne Tasker
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In this study, Yvonne Tasker explores the way the film weaves together gothic, horror and thriller conventions to generate both a distinctive variation on the cinematic portrayal of insanity and crime, and a fascinating intervention in the sexual... (read more)

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On the Road: The Official Movie Companion
On the Road: The Official Movie Companion
by Mk2 Media
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Jack Kerouac's seminal novel On the Road is now a major motion picture starring Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams, and Viggo Mortensen. Decades in the making, Jack Kerouac's classic novel of freedom and longing on... (read more)

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Studying the Devil's Backbone (Studying Films)
Studying the Devil's Backbone (Studying Films)
by James Rose
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The Devil's Backbone (2001) is a Gothic film written and directed by Guillermo del Toro ( Pan's Labyrinth, 2006). The story centers on a ghost that haunts an isolated orphanage during the Spanish Civil War. Studying The Devil's Backbone explores the... (read more)

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A Good Year: Portrait of the Film Based on the Novel by Peter Mayle (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks)
A Good Year: Portrait of the Film Based on the Novel by Peter Mayle (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks)
by Ridley Scott
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The official tie-in to the movie directed by Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe and Albert Finney--a Twentieth Century Fox release. <BR>Love, laughter, wine, and the glorious landscape of Provence abound in this movie from director Ridley Scott... (read more)

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Snakes on a Plane: The Complete Quote Book
Snakes on a Plane: The Complete Quote Book
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Snakes on a Planeis a national phenomenon! Now you can relive all the slithering and hissing lethal terror with pulse-pounding action stills-and memorable quotes from the most original spine-tingling thriller of the decade! Including frighteningly fun... (read more)

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