Film - History & Criticism
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Chronology of Classic Horror Films: The 1940s
$30.00 Add to cartAuthor Donald Willis continues his insights into horror film history with his new tome on the 1940s. Yes, we had vampires and
the Frankenstein Monster, mummies, a new villain-the Wolf Man, dark moody
- Author: Willis, Donald C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1644301318
- Language: English
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Incredibly Strange Films
$25.00 Read moreIncredibly Strange Films is a functional guide to important territory neglected by the film-criticism establishment, spotlighting unhailed directors — Hershell Gordon Lewis, Russ Meyer, Larry Cohen, … [more below]
- Series: Re/Search #10
- Author: Vale, V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 1889307114
- Language: English
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Esoteric Hollywood II: More Sex, Cults & Symbols in Film
$19.95 Add to cartLike no other book before it, this work delves into the deep, dark, and mysterious undertones hidden in Tinsel town’s biggest films. Esoteric Hollywood is a game-changer in an arena of tabloid-populat… [more below]
- Author: Dyer, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: December 21 2018
- ISBN10: 1634241932
- Language: English
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It’s a Wonderful Life: A Memory Book
$20.99 Add to cartPaperback release of 2003 holiday bestseller which offers behind the scenes info on this holiday classic as well as current info on stars from the show.
- Author: Cox, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 139
- Publish Date: June 15 2005
- ISBN10: 1581824343
- Language: English
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The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir
$21.99 Add to cartFoster Hirsch’s Dark Side of the Screen is by far the most thorough and entertaining study of the themes, visual motifs, character types, actors, directors, and films in this genre ever published. Fro… [more below]
- Author: Hirsch, Foster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 25 2008
- ISBN10: 0306817721
- Language: English
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It’s a Wonderful Life: A Memory Book
$37.95 Add to cartPaperback release of 2003 holiday bestseller which offers behind the scenes info on this holiday classic as well as current info on stars from the show.
- Author: Cox, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: June 15 2005
- ISBN10: 163026363X
- Language: English
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The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
$85.00 Add to cartIn this lavish fortieth-anniversary tribute to the blockbuster film Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, New York Times bestselling author J. W. Rinzler draws back the curtain to reveal the i… [more below]
- Series: Star Wars
- Author: Rinzler, J. W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: October 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0345509617
- Language: English
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Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood
$22.99 Add to cartIn the pre-Code Hollywood era, between 1929 and 1934, women in American cinema took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality, led unapologetic careers,
- Author: Lasalle, Mick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 19 2001
- ISBN10: 0312284314
- Language: English
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The Winston Effect: The Art & History of Stan Winston Studio
$49.95 Add to cartFor over 30 years, Stan Winston and his team of artists and technicians have been creating characters, creatures and monsters for the silver screen, from The Terminator and the extraterrestrial monstr… [more below]
- Author: Duncan, Jody
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1845761502
- Language: English
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Action Scenarios: The Essential Guide to Action in Film
$24.99 Add to cartAction Scenarios: The Essential Guide to Action in Film examines all of the ways in which action is manifested in cinema, or what author Tico Romao calls the “action scenarios” of film. Loaded with de
- Author: Romao, Tico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1644040042
- Language: English
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The Western Reader
$44.93 Add to cartThis lavishly-illustrated collection of writings on western movies covers close to a century of American cinematic achievement and includes almost a half-century of essays, commentary, and interviews…. [more below]
- Series: Limelight
- Author: Rickman, Gregg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: August 01 2004
- ISBN10: 879102683
- Language: English
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Frightfest Guide to Exploitation Movies
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the moment motion pictures were invented, fearless entrepreneurs, poverty row profiteers and money-grabbing grifters gave cinemagoers what they truly craved…. the sex, horror and cheap thrills … [more below]
- Author: Jones, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1903254876
- Language: English
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The Film Sense
$18.99 Add to cartAn exploration of the film as a more expressive and profound medium. Includes an analysis of a sound-film sequence from Alexander Nevsky. “The most instructive discussion of the film art yet put betwe… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Eisenstein, Sergei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 17 2010
- ISBN10: 0156309351
- Language: English
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Cinema Speculation
$21.00 Add to cart- Author: Tarantino, Quentin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0063112574
- Language: English
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The Making of Major League: A Juuuust a Bit Inside Look at the Classic Baseball Comedy
$15.95 Read moreWith a foreword by Charlie Sheen.
A behind-the-scenes look at one of the greatest baseball movies ever.
If you love watching Major League, you’ll be fascinated by this inside story. Based on interviews
- Author: Knight, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 255
- Publish Date: May 29 2015
- ISBN10: 1938441648
- Language: English
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Contemporary Japanese Film
$29.95 Add to cartThis comprehensive look at Japanese cinema in the 1990s includes nearly four hundred reviews of individual films and a dozen interviews and profiles of leading directors and producers. Interpretive es… [more below]
- Author: Schilling, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0834804158
- Language: English
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Film Form: Essays in Film Theory
$20.99 Add to cartFrom Sergei Eisenstein, a legendary pioneer in filmmaking and director of Battleship Potemkin, Film Form collects twelve essays written between 1928 and 1945 that demonstrate key points in the develop… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Eisenstein, Sergei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0156309203
- Language: English
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So Deadly, So Perverse: Giallo-Style Films From Around the World, Vol. 3
$60.00 Add to cartThe giallo–a specifically Italian brand of lurid thriller–emerged in the 1960s and became a commercial force to be reckoned with throughout the 1970s. While not all of these films achieved the succe
- Series: So Deadly, So Perverse #3
- Author: Howarth, Troy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: May 31 2019
- ISBN10: 1644300575
- Language: English
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The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
$18.99 Add to cartNow a major motion picture–directed by and starring James Franco
From the actor who somehow lived through it all, a “sharply detailed…funny book about a cinematic comedy of errors” (The New York T- Author: Sestero, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 1476730407
- Language: English
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Godzilla on My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters
$19.99 Add to cartThis year, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of his first appearance on the screen, the original, uncut version of Godzilla was released in American theaters to the delight of Sci-Fi and B-Movie fans e
- Author: Tsutsui, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 15 2004
- ISBN10: 1403964742
- Language: English
