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Hitchcock Revised Edition
by Francois Truffaut  Synopsis This is a revised edition of the author's Hitchcock (BRD 1968), his dialogue with the author. Indexes. This revised edition was published in France in 1983....
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Once Upon a Time in Italy: The Westerns of Sergio Leone
by Christophe Frayling Publisher Comments In the mid-1960s an unknown Italian film director named Sergio Leone was given $200,000 and some leftover film stock, and he went to make a Western. With an American TV actor named Clint Eastwood and a script based on a samurai epic, Leone wound up...
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Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
by Mark Harris Publisher Comments An epic account of how the revolution hit Hollywood, told through the stories of the five films nominated for the 1967 Academy Awards The year is 1963. The studios are churning out westerns, war movies, prudish sex comedies and overblown historical epics,...
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Pump'em Full of Lead (98 Edition)
by Marilyn Yaquinto Publisher Comments Series Editor: Frank Beaver, University of Michigan From the early cinematic career of Frank Capra to the psychologically revealing films of Martin Scorsese, the books in this series offer an authoritative guide to the study of film and its trends by...
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The Art of Italian Film Posters
by Mel Bagshaw Synopsis Italian cinema has produced some of the medium's most striking moments, films acclaimed as international classics that have defined, influenced and indeed created whole genres. Featuring over 250 posters from the early years of the twentieth century up...
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Notes on a Life
by Eleanor Coppola Publisher Comments Eleanor Coppola shares her extraordinary life as an artist, filmmaker, wife, and mother in a book that captures the glamour and grit of Hollywood and reveals the private tragedies and joys that tested and strengthened her over the past twenty years...
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Andy Warhol: Blow Job Andy Warhol: Blow Job (One Work)
by Peter Gidal Publisher Comments In Andy Warhol's silent black-and-white movie, Blowjob (1964), a youth is filmed as he is apparently being given the sex act named in the title. The 35-minute film is accentuated by the paucity of expression on the actor's face: we see only his head and...
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Bambi VS. Godzilla : on the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business (07 Edition)
by David Mamet Publisher Comments A subversive, inside glimpse of the complex world of the film industry provides candid descriptions of every aspect of filmmaking, from initial concept, to script, to screen, covering topics that range from "How Scripts Got So Bad" to "Hollywood Manners,"...
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From Betamax to Blockbuster: Video Stores and the Invention of Movies on Video
by Joshua M. Greenberg Publisher Comments The first video cassette recorders were promoted in the 1970s as an extension of broadcast television technology; a time-shifting device, a way to tape TV shows. Early advertising for Sony's Betamax told potential purchasers "You don't have to miss Kojak...
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American Cinema American Culture 2ND Edition
by John Belton Publisher Comments Ideal for Introduction to American Cinema courses, American Film History courses, and Introductory Film Appreciation courses focused on American Film, this text offers a cultural examination of the American movie-making industry, with particular...
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Contemporary Film Directors)
by Elizabeth Ezra Publisher Comments This is the first book on Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the popular and critically acclaimed director of films such as Amélie, Delicatessen, A Very Long Engagement, Alien Resurrection, and City of Lost Children. Jeunet's work exemplifies Europe's engagement...
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The Western
by David Carter Publisher Comments From the very beginnings of American cinema the Western has been a central genre, as the hazardous lives of the settlers, their conflict with Native Americans, the lawless frontier towns, outlaws, and cattle rustlers all found their way into the new...
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Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties (Arts & Politics of the Everyday)
by Steven Cohan Synopsis Author Steven Cohan draws on popular publicity to link narratives of masculinity and the personae of Hollywood's leading men like John Wayne, Cary Grant, Marlon Brando, Rock Hudson, and others. Cohan analyzes the gender and sexual masquerades of their...
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Mas! Cine Mexicano: Carteles Sensacionales del Cine Mexicano, 1957-1990
by Rogelio Agrasanchez Jr Synopsis Comedy, tragedy, scandal, and social issues collide in this sensational collection of Mexican film posters from the late 1950s to early 1990s, a dynamic and volatile period in Mexican cinema. Culling more than 150 of the most colorful and sometimes...
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Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942
by Thomas Cripps Publisher Comments Set against the backdrop of the black struggle in society, Slow Fade to Black is the definitive history of African-American accomplishment in film — both before and behind the camera — from the earliest movies through World War II. As he...
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The ABCs of Classic Hollywood
by Robert B. Ray Publisher Comments Speaking about the kind of filmmaking now known as Classic Hollywood, the most popular and influential cinema ever invented, Vincente Minnelli once gave away its secret: "I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden...
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Hollywood on Trial: McCarthyism's War Against the Movies
by Michael Freedland Publisher Comments This is the true story of how J. Parnell Thomas, chairman of the UnAmerican Activities Committee made a national name for himself by ruining the lives of hundreds of people in the movie industry. Two years later, Thomas would be jailed for embezzling...
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For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond
by Ben Macintyre Publisher Comments A riveting look into the world of James Bond and his creator, published on the centenary of Ian Fleming’s birth. In For Your Eyes Only, Ben Macintyre reveals where the world of Ian Fleming ends and the world of James Bond begins. Macintyre looks at...
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From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film
by Siegfried Kracauer Publisher Comments A landmark, now classic, study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic, "From Caligari to Hitler" was first published by Princeton University Press in 1947. Siegfried Kracauer--a prominent German film critic and member of Walter Benjamin's...
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Leading Men: The 50 Most Unforgettable Actors of the Studio Era
by Turner Classic Movie Publisher Comments Tough, sophisticated, witty, and handsome—from Rudolph Valentino to Buster Keaton, Cary Grant to Jimmy Stewart, Humphrey Bogart to Steve McQueen, each of the actors featured in this book brought a magnetic presence to the screen and made a powerful and...
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