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In this vivid and accessible new account of the dawn of film in Britain, internationally respected film historian and curator Bryony Dixon introduces us to Britain's first cinematic pioneers - an eclectic mix of chemists, engineers, photography...

In this engaging and readable book, Peter Decherney tells the story of Hollywood, from its nineteenth-century origins to the emergence of internet media empires. He recounts how the studio system rose out of the ashes of Thomas Edison's trust to create...

The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni provides an overview of the Italian director's life and work, and examines six of his most important and intellectually challenging films. L'avventura, La notte, and L'eclisse, released in the early 1960s, form the...

"Movie Speak won't guarantee you a job, but having a knowledge of the industry terms will fool everyone into thinking you own the place." - Steven Spielberg "Finally a book that celebrates the process-the dynamic web of people, technique, and...

Explore all that Vulcan has to offer in an interactive guidebook. Drawing on 50 years of Star Trek TV shows, films, and novels to present a comprehensive guide to Spock's iconic home world, it covers every significant region, with historical,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904764717Author Lester FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 664gDimensions(mm) 238mm *...

Aardman Animations are, unquestionably, one of the biggest success stories in animated films: their masterpieces include Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run and Shaun the Sheep, as well as much-loved characters such as Morph. Cracking Animation is...

Do you believe in monsters? We dare you to take a look inside this cursed tome containing some of the most iconic and obscure monsters from the history of cinema. Cower in fear of Count Dracula and his dreaded children of the night. Abandon hope as...

Cult Cinema: an Introduction presents the first in-depth academic examination of all aspects of the field of cult cinema, including audiences, genres, and theoretical perspectives. Represents the first exhaustive introduction to cult cinemaOffers a...

What did Basil Fawlty fail to avoid mentioning? Why did Sybil keep snagging her cardies? Where was Polly on the night of the Great Wedding Anniversary disaster? This book presents the scripts for the show's classic episodes.Book InformationISBN...

It has been more than fifty years since John Waters filmed his first short on the roof of his parents' Baltimore home. Over the following decades, Waters has developed a reputation as an uncompromising cultural force not only in cinema, but also in...

One day you're the sexiest man alive, and another day your face is like a flattened road-killed bird in the worst mug shot of all time. In a career spanning five decades, Nick Nolte has endured the rites of Hollywood celebrity. Rising from obscurity to...

Through films that alternate between containment, order, and symmetry on the one hand, and obsession, explosiveness, and a lack of control on the other, Chantal Akerman has gained a reputation as one of the most significant filmmakers working today. Her...

The Internet isn't all cat videos. There's also Felicia Day - violinist, filmmaker, Internet entrepreneur, compulsive gamer and former lonely homeschooled girl who overcame her isolated childhood to become the ruler of a new world . . . or at least...

The taste for horror is arguably as great today as it has ever been. Since the turn of the millennium, the horror genre has seen various developments emerging out of a range of contexts, from new industry paradigms and distribution practices to the...

Discover the captivating art of Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One. Our dystopian world lies on the brink of chaos and collapse, but the people have found their salvation in the OASIS, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812988086Author Gavin EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932907278Author Sheldon BullFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese ProductionsWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913051044Author Robin BougieFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint FAB PressPublisher FAB Press

Gone With The Wind is one of the most popular movies of all time. To commemorate its seventy-fifth anniversary in 2014, The Making of Gone With The Wind presents more than 600 items from the archives of David O. Selznick, the film's producer, and his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647225742Author Insight EditionsFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

A comprehensive guide to all of Robin Williams's movies, with facts about plots, performances, and cast, as well as notable trivia and behind-the-scenes details about each film.Did you know that, according to director Chris Columbus, Robin Williams...

Harry Alan Towers' reputation rests upon a corpus of 95 low budget productions shot post-haste in every corner of the globe. He took an integral part, however, in the development of the protocols that now underpin much transnational film production; he...

- Offers a step-by-step guide for editing raw documentary footage into a structured, finished film-from surveying the hours of footage, to the rough cut and test screening-giving readers a comprehensive view of the documentary editing process. - In-depth...

OFFICIAL STAR WARS IN-UNIVERSE BOOK FEATURING NOTES ON TACTICS, ARMOR, AND VALOR FROM GALACTIC CONFLICTS IN THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE From the Clone Wars and the Rebellion to the clashes with the First Order, the galaxy is defined by war. Star Wars: On the...

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Ridley Scott's iconic film Alien, Little White Lies film magazine presents a The Flip Side of Alien, a comic spin on a cult classic. A fleeting yet delightful flipbook experience, The Flip Side of Alien is the...

In this examination of the monster as cultural object, Judith Halberstam offers a rereading of the monstrous that revises our view of the Gothic. Moving from the nineteenth century and the works of Shelley, Stevenson, Stoker, and Wilde to contemporary...

This book offers a comprehensive film-by-film analysis of Spain's most famous living director, Pedro Almodovar. It shows how Almodovar's films draw on various national cinemas and genres, including Spanish cinema of the dictatorship, European art cinema,...

Science Fiction Film examines one of the most enduring and popular genres of Hollywood cinema, suggesting how the science fiction film reflects attitudes toward science, technology, and reason as they have evolved in American culture over the course of...

An essential handbook for anyone who wants to act on television and film - by a leading teacher of screen acting. For any aspiring screen actor, the challenge is to combine all the components of your craft with an ability to handle the technical...

What is it that makes humans engage with a dramatic narrative? Is it linked to our primitive selves, contained within our instinctive experience? This innovative text argues that understanding how and why our human instincts are brought into play as...

Reveals the convergence of perception and destruction in the parallel technologies of warfare and cinema.A rich and suggestive analysis of military "ways of seeing"About the AuthorPaul Virilio trained as an artist in stained glass, working with Braque...

This study revolutionises our understanding of both literary modernism and early cinema. Trotter draws on the most recent scholarship in English and film studies to demonstrate how central cinema as a recording medium was to Joyce, Eliot and Woolf, and...

Stars are central to the cinema experience, and this collection offers a variety of fresh and informed perspectives on this important but sometimes neglected area of film studies.This book takes as its focus film stars from the past and present, from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615931576Author Paul ChitlikFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese Productions

The Practical Guide to Documentary Editing sets out the techniques, the systems and the craft required to edit compelling professional documentary television and film. Working stage by stage through the postproduction process, author Sam Billinge...

From the humblest of beginnings in her native Italy, Sophia Loren would flourish on the world stage as one of the most beautiful and talented actresses the screen has ever known. A prize in a beauty contest at age 16 led to a career that has lasted more...

100 lists compiling a galaxy's worth of trivia! Star Wars: The Book of Lists takes a fascinating look at the galaxy far, far away through trivia culled from both on-screen and off over the history of the franchise. More than a simple accounting of...

Under his pseudonyms of Patrick Dennis and Virginia Rowans, Edward Everett (Pat) Tanner III was the author of sixteen novels,most of them best sellers,including the now-classic Little Me and Auntie Mame . Tanner made millions, became the toast of...