Film - History & Criticism
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The Worst We Can Find: Mst3k, Rifftrax, and the History of Heckling at the Movies
$40.43 Add to cartThe Worst We Can Find looks at how “riffing” of films came about, the history of the shows, and why what could be an annoying habit in the theater has become a long-lasting franchise in entertainment
- Author: Sherman, Dale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 149306391X
- Language: English
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You Couldn’t Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation
$16.00 Add to cartYou can quote lines from Sixteen Candles (“Last night at the dancemy little brother paid a buck to see your underwear”), your iPod playlist includes more than one song by the Psychedelic Furs and Simp… [more below]
- Author: Gora, Susannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 22 2011
- ISBN10: 0307716600
- Language: English
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Audience-Ology: How Moviegoers Shape the Films We Love
$17.99 Add to cartDiscover the fascinating and secretive process of audience testing of Hollywood movies through these firsthand stories from famous filmmakers, studio heads, and stars.
Audience-ology takes you to one- Author: Goetz, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1982186747
- Language: English
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Ghostbusters: The Ultimate Visual History
$50.00 Read moreWHO YOU GONNA CALL? The Ghostbusters saga has been thrilling fans around the world for over three decades, from the original movies to the animated shows, comics, video games, toys, and other collecti… [more below]
- Author: Wallace, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 27 2015
- ISBN10: 1608875105
- Language: English
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The Cinema House and the World: The Cahiers Du Cinema Years, 1962-1981
$34.95 Read moreThe writings of one of the greatest film critics of his generation on the auteur approach of the French New Wave to a more structural examination of film.
One of the greatest film critics of his gener- Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
- Author: Daney, Serge
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1635901618
- Language: English
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Picture
$17.95 Read moreA classic look at Hollywood and the American film industry by The New Yorker‘s Lillian Ross, and named one of the “Top 100 Works of U.S. Journalism of the Twentieth Century.”
Lillian Ross worked at Th- Author: Ross, Lillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1681373157
- Language: English
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Celluloid Adventures 4 Science Fiction Thrills…Horror Chills
$20.00 Add to cartAn overdue look at movies, that with one exception, were box-office failures.These movies cover a span of 35 years, from 1943 to 1978, and represent
the wide range of themes and ideas that science fict
- Author: Anez, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: August 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1644301350
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Walt Disney
$21.99 Add to cartThis is not only a fascinating account of Walt Disney’s own significant artistic creations, but also an insightful history of the hugely successful entertainment behemoth he created. Disney, the man,
- Author: Robb, Brian J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 09 2014
- ISBN10: 076245475X
- Language: English
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The Sound of Music Family Scrapbook: The Von Trapp Children and Their Photographs and Memorabilia
$34.95 Add to cartThe Sound of Music Family Scrapbook celebrates one of the best-loved musicals of all time, and the seven actors who played the Von Trapp children. It’s filled with their recollections of that magical
- Series: Y
- Author: Bronson, Fred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1787391787
- Language: English
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Eraserhead
$17.95 Add to cartA surreal and darkly humorous vision, David Lynch’s Eraserhead (1977) has been recognised as a cult classic since its breakout success as a midnight movie in the late 1970s.
Claire Henry’s study of th- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Henry, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: May 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1839025603
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Candy: The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco
$24.99 Add to cart“A definitive portrait of the madness of big-time moviemaking” (Newsweek), now the basis for the new season of TCM’s hit podcast, “The Plot Thickens”
When Brian De Palma agreed to allow Julie Salamon- Author: Salamon, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 07 2005
- ISBN10: 0306811235
- Language: English
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The Story of Hollywood: An Illustrated History
$35.00 Read moreBefore the film industry arrived, Hollywood was filled with quaint bungalows, and churches dedicated to teetotalism. Movies shattered Hollywood’s tranquillity, and brought wealth and glamorous movie s… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Gregory Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 403
- Publish Date: October 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0977629929
- Language: English
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The World of Tim Burton
$35.00 Add to cartA colossal expedition into the mind of Tim Burton through over 200 pieces of rare and unpublished behind-the-scenes materials
From Beetlejuice to Batman, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to Alice in W
- Author: Burton, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 8836656099
- Language: English
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The Exorcist
$15.95 Read moreInspired by an alleged real case of demonic possession in 1949, The Exorcist became an international phenomenon on its release in 1973. A blockbusting adaptation of a best-selling novel, it was praise
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Kermode, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1839021713
- Language: English
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Spirited Away
$17.95 Add to cartSpirited Away, directed by the veteran anime film-maker Hayao Miyazaki, is Japan’s most successful film, and one of the top-grossing ‘foreign language’ films ever released. Set in modern Japan, the fi
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Osmond, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1838719520
- Language: English
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The Making of the Wizard of Oz
$24.99 Add to cartReleased in conjunction with the 75th-anniversary DVD release of The Wizard of Oz, this book is the definitive story of how one of America’s most beloved movies was made and a marvelous, unprecedented… [more below]
- Author: Harmetz, Aljean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1613748329
- Language: English
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The Color of Pixar: (History of Pixar, Book about Movies, Art of Pixar)
$32.50 Add to cartBold and beautiful, this volume presents hundreds of film stills from the Pixar archives in a glorious spectrum of color. Starting with bright white images and seamlessly flowing through the colors of… [more below]
- Series: Disney Pixar X Chronicle Books
- Author: Kratter, Tia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 1452159203
- Language: English
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The Red Shoes
$17.95 Read moreEndlessly fascinating, dark and bright, The Red Shoes (1948) employs every branch of the cinematic arts to sweep the audience off its feet, invigorated by the transcendence of art itself, only to lea
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Hutchinson, Pamela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1839026065
- Language: English
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Separate Cinema: The First 100 Years of Black Poster Art
$55.00 Add to cartA visual feast, these images recount the diverse and historic journey of the Black film industry from the earliest days of Hollywood to the present day
This magnificent volume is a celebration of the f
- Author: Kisch, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1909526061
- Language: English
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Bresson on Bresson: Interviews, 1943-1983
$19.95 Add to cartNow in paperback, a collection of interviews with a French cinematic titan–covering subjects such as adaptation, the effects of capitalism on art, and the importance of intuition–selected from a per… [more below]
- Author: Bresson, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1681377802
- Language: English
