Film - History & Criticism
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A Christmas Story: Behind the Scenes of a Holiday Classic
$29.95 Read more“The definitive book about Bob Clark’s 1983 classic holiday film.” — Parade
A delightful gift book with rare and previously unreleased photographs, behind-the-scenes insight, and interviews with the
- Author: Gaines, Caseen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1770411402
- Language: English
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Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
$24.99 Add to cartThe author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful
- Author: Schulman, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0062859021
- Language: English
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Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Wasson, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0063115441
- Language: English
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The Godfather Notebook
$98.99 Add to cartTHE PUBLISHING SENSATION OF THE YEAR FOR EVERY FILM FAN
The never-before-published edition of Francis Ford Coppola’s notes and annotations on The Godfather novel by Mario Puzo reveals the story behin- Author: Coppola, Francis Ford
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: December 20 2016
- ISBN10: 1682450740
- Language: English
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The Big Picture: Who Killed Hollywood? and Other Essays
$28.48 Add to cartWilliam Goldman, who holds two Academy Awards for his screenwriting (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President’s Men), and is author of the perennial best seller Adventures in the Scree… [more below]
- Series: Applause Books
- Author: Goldman, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: February 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1557834601
- Language: English
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So Deadly, So Perverse 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films Vol. 2 1974-2013
$49.95 Add to cartThe giallo–an Italian brand of thriller known for its stylish and lurid excesses–got its start in the cinema with the release of Mario Bava’s THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH in 1963. Other filmmakers exp
- Series: So Deadly, So Perverse #2
- Author: Howarth, Troy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1936168588
- Language: English
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So Deadly, So Perverse 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films
$49.95 Add to cartBeginning with the release of Mario Bava’s THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH in 1963, Italian filmmakers developed and perfected their own peculiar brand of mystery-thriller known as the giallo. Named after
- Series: So Deadly So Perverse #1
- Author: Howarth, Troy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: November 21 2018
- ISBN10: 1936168502
- Language: English
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The Little Book of the Godfather: I’m Gonna Make Him an Offer He Can’t Refuse
$8.95 Add to cartThe Godfather is a classic. Not just of Hollywood or America, but in worldwide cinema. Its legacy not only lives on in the 21st century, but it has also transcended its origins, today meaning more to
- Series: Little Books of Film & TV #11
- Author: Hippo! Orange
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1800693826
- Language: English
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Cinema of the 70s: 101 Iconic Movies
$29.99 Add to cartToday, over half a century later, great films are measured by those of the 70s. Has there been a more impactful 10-year period? For the first time, cinema reflected life and society, presenting both o
- Author: Foote, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 178675133X
- Language: English
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Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen
$20.99 Add to cartFrom a veteran culture writer and modern movie expert, a celebration and analysis of the movies of 1999–“a terrifically fun snapshot of American film culture on the brink of the Millennium….An abso… [more below]
- Author: Raftery, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 31 2020
- ISBN10: 1501175394
- Language: English
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Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents
$69.95 Add to cartRunning to 528 large-format pages, Nightmare USA is a veritable encyclopedia of grindhouse cinema – it’s one of the most acclaimed genre film books ever published, and after having Sold Out three time… [more below]
- Author: Thrower, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1903254469
- Language: English
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Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic
$21.00 Add to cart“Much more than a page-turner. It’s the first essential work of cultural history of the new decade.” –Charles Kaiser, The Guardian
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling- Author: Frankel, Glenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1250829496
- Language: English
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Rosemary’s Baby
$15.95 Read moreRosemary’s Baby is one of the greatest movies of the late 1960s and one of the best of all horror movies, an outstanding modern Gothic tale. An art-house fable and an elegant popular entertainment, it
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Newton, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1844579522
- Language: English
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This Was Hollywood: Forgotten Stars and Stories
$29.00 Add to cartIn this one-of-a-kind Hollywood history, the creator of Instagram’s celebrated @ThisWasHollywood reveals the forgotten past of the film world in a dazzling visual package modeled on the classic fan ma… [more below]
- Series: Turner Classic Movies
- Author: Valderrama, Carla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0762495863
- Language: English
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Fiasco: A History of Hollywood’s Iconic Flops
$19.95 Add to cartIn Fiasco, longtime industry insider and acclaimed Hollywood historian James Robert Parish goes behind the scenes to tell the stories of 15 of the most spectacular movie megaflops of the past 50 years… [more below]
- Author: Parish, James Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0470098295
- Language: English
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Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartDocumentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty’s pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore’s anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9/11, from Dziga Vertov’s artful Soviet pr… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Aufderheide, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 28 2007
- ISBN10: 0195182707
- Language: English
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How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, and Beyond: Art, Technology, Language, History, Theory
$33.99 Add to cartRichard Gilman referred to How to Read a Film as simply “the best single work of its kind.” And Janet Maslin in The New York Times Book Review marveled at James Monaco’s ability to collect “an enormou… [more below]
- Author: Monaco, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: May 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0195321057
- Language: English
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Steve Schapiro. the Godfather Family Album. 40th Ed.
$35.00 Add to cart“It’s dangerous to be an honest man.”
— Michael Corleone, Godfather IIIAs special photographer on the sets and locations of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather trilogy, Steve Schapiro had the rem
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: Duncan, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 14 2020
- ISBN10: 3836580640
- Language: English
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The Film That Changed My Life: 30 Directors on Their Epiphanies in the Dark
$18.99 Add to cartThe movie that inspired filmmakers to direct is like the atomic bomb that went off before their eyes. The Film That Changed My Life captures that epiphany. It explores 30 directors’ love of a film the… [more below]
- Author: Elder, Robert K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1556528256
- Language: English
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The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
$93.33 Read moreGet closer than ever to the movie that changed the movies. This behind-the-scenes spectacular of 2001: A Space Odyssey sheds light on the lead actors, senior production designers, special-effects expe
- Author: Bizony, Piers
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 3836584379
- Language: English
