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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939360109Author Joe DavidFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Books for All Times, Inc.Publisher Books for All Times, Inc.Weight(grams)...

Czech animator Jan Svankmajer is one of the most distinctive and influential of contemporary filmmakers. As a leading member of the Prague Surrealist Group, his work is linked to a rich avant-garde tradition and an uncompromising moral stance that...

Hollywood has seen the number of camerawomen quadruple in the past 15 years. Women Behind the Camera is the first book to offer an in-depth look at the lives of camerawomen and their struggles to succeed in a male-dominated field. Krasilovsky presents...

Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet is the first book to explore in detail the vital connections between today's digital culture and an absorbing history of screen entertainments and technologies. Its range of coverage moves from...

Often called the First Lady of Hollywood, Irene Dunne, in a long and distinguished screen career, juggled comedies, dramas, and musicals with aplomb, and all three genres were represented in her five Academy Award nominations. Her television career was...

This volume analyses in detail the adaptations of novels by eight popular writers to the screen.Book InformationISBN 9780879728052Author Barbara Tepa LupackFormat HardbackPage Count 331Imprint Bowling Green University Popular Press,USPublisher University...

For many, the middle ages depicted in Walt Disney movies have come to figure as the middle ages, forming the earliest visions of the medieval past for much of the contemporary Western (and increasingly Eastern) imagination. The essayists of The Disney...

Maureen Stapleton is recognized as a leading star of stage, screen and television. Her career spans four decades during which she has received the highest acclaim for her great emotional power and versatility. A charter member of the renowned Actors...

Although Ida Lupino is best known as a leading actress in many Hollywood B movies, her work as a filmmaker has been neglected by critics, historians, and audiences. In the late 1940s, Lupino turned writer, producer, and director in her own independent...

In The Fly, one of Seth Brundle's experiments goes disastrously wrong, and the chimpanzee he was attempting to transport from one telepod to the other ends up in the second device, a quivering mass of flesh; the process of teleportation has turned it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820461175Author David I. GrossvogelFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 260g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757523540Author Dr. Timothy R. WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 564Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820467139Author David I. GrossvogelFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams)...

This book presents the first English introduction to the broad history of the Gothic mode in Spain. It focuses on key literary periods, such as Romanticism, the fin-de-siecle, spiritualist writings of the early-twentieth century, and the cinematic and...

This book explores the history of Cornwall's picturing on screen, from the earliest days of the moving image to the recent BBC adaptation of Winston Graham's Poldark books. Drawing on art history to illuminate the construction of Cornwall in films and...

James Mason broke into British films in 1935 after a few years working on the stage. For the rest of the decade, he alternated unsuccessful theatre ventures with increasingly important movies. Though he was a conscientious objector, he became one of the...

John Wayne--the man, actor, and icon--remains synonymous with certain American values. He represents conservative political views, aggressive militarism, and a masculine bravado which seemed anachronistic at the time of his death in 1979, but which the...

Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene has often been referred to as a pioneer of the sub-Saharan African cinema. From Borom Sarret (1963) to Guelwaar (1992), Sembene has developed a political and aesthetic project that has deeply influenced the evolution...

This examination and comprehensive assessment of apocalyptic film studies fifty films that illustrate the variety, range and different categories of the genre. Apocalyptic films are those that depict, on screen as part of the story, an event threatening...

Hollywood has seen the number of camerawomen quadruple in the past 15 years. Women Behind the Camera is the first book to offer an in-depth look at the lives of camerawomen and their struggles to succeed in a male-dominated field. Krasilovsky presents...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994662606Author Michael McCartyFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Crystal Lake PublishingPublisher Crystal Lake PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990530824Author Abbas KiarostamiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Sticking Place BooksPublisher Sticking Place BooksWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990530831Author Abbas KiarostamiFormat HardbackPage Count 382Imprint Sticking Place BooksPublisher Sticking Place BooksWeight(grams) 640gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorcCann /f Richard /i DyerBook InformationISBN 9780837196169Author Richard Dyer MacCannFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher...

This bio-bibliography is the first book to examine the life and career of one of Hollywood's most durable leading men, Richard Widmark. Though never considered in the same star category as Burt Lancaster or Gregory Peck, his era, Widmark nonetheless...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893913199Author Bruce AustinFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595190607Author Nancy Lynn SchwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 163mm * 23mm

In America on Film, first published in 2002, Sam Girgus examines a selection of films made in the last quarter of the twentieth century in an effort to trace how the notion of 'American' has changed drastically from that portrayed in American cinema up...

Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet is the first book to explore in detail the vital connections between today's digital culture and an absorbing history of screen entertainments and technologies. Its range of coverage moves from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013295331Author Benoit TurquetyFormat HardbackPage Count 58Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams)...

Patty Duke is one of the few former child actors who has survived the transition from child to adolescent to adult and gone on to greater fame and success in her adult years. Academy Award-winner, television comedy series star, talk-show hostess, author,...

Alphabetically arranged, the entries in this encyclopedic study cover Woody Allen's movies, plays, fiction, television shows, and stand-up comedy from 1964 through 1998. Film entries begin with basic production information followed by a literary analysis...

This is the first book to examine the various uses of the Arthurian legend in Hollywood film, covering films from the 1920s to the present. The authors use five representational categories: intertextual collage (or cult film); melodrama, which focuses on...

Ann Sheridan came to Hollywood in 1933 as a finalist in a beauty contest, a publicity stunt for Paramount's Search for Beauty. Of the 30 contestants who appeared in the picture and the 6 finalists whom Paramount put under contract, she was the only one...

This intriguing book explores why spectacular films involving Biblical figures or set in Biblical times have been a staple of filmmaking since talkies began. Forshey looks at these films, and suggests that the underlying purpose was to mediate between a...

The first academic evaluation of the work of this major film director aims to study both his aesthetic achievement and the underlying themes and values he projects. Working within the boundaries of many diverse popular genres, Scott has infused his works...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013287718Author Erik BordeleauFormat HardbackPage Count 146Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams)...

Lauren Bacall's life has been widely covered by the media ever since her screen debut in To Have and Have Not with Humphrey Bogart in 1944. This volume is a comprehensive critical guide to all aspects of Miss Bacall's career in film, radio, television...

For more than 50 years, science fiction films have been among the most important and successful products of American cinema, and are worthy of study for that reason alone. On a deeper level, the genre has reflected important themes, concerns and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008977518Author Chris WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 6mm