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John Sayles, Filmmaker by 9780786435517
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $32.73In 1980, art house audience word of mouth about an unusual new movie, ""Return of the Secaucus Seven"", launched the career of director John Sayles and with him the era of the independent filmmaker... -
Yellow Earth by John Sayles
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $20.38In Yellow Earth, John Sayles introduces an epic cast of characters, weaving together narratives of competing agendas and worldviews with lyrical dexterity, insight, and wit.When rich layers of shale... -
Yellow Earth by John Sayles 9781642597073
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.38In Yellow Earth, John Sayles introduces an epic cast of characters, weaving together narratives of competing agendas and worldviews with lyrical dexterity, insight, and wit. When rich layers of... -
Jamie McGillivray by John Sayles 9781685891428
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685891428Author John SaylesFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Melville House... -
The Cinema of John Sayles by Mark Bould
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $87.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905674282Author Mark BouldFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher... -
Union Dues by John Sayles 9781560257301
Booksplease Price: $23.94The setting is Boston, Fall 1969. Radical groups plot revolution, runaway kids prowl the streets, cops are at their wits end, and work is hard to get, even for hookers. Hobie McNutt, a seventeen year... -
Dillinger in Hollywood by John Sayles 9781560256328
Booksplease Price: $20.36Before John Sayles was an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and celebrated independent filmmaker, he was a National Book Award-nominated writer of fiction. Now John Sayles has written his first short... -
Jamie Macgillivray: A Renegade's Journey by John Sayles
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612199887Author John SaylesFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher... -
The Cinema of John Sayles by Mark Bould 9781905674275
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $25.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905674275Author Mark BouldFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher... -
John Sayles: Interviews by Diane Carson 9781578061389
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Nominated for both an Academy Award for scriptwriting and a National Book Award, John Sayles has written screenplays, teleplays, short stories, and novels and has worked as a script doctor for a... -
John Sayles by David R. Shumway 9780252078569
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23John Sayles is the very paradigm of the contemporary independent filmmaker. By raising much of the funding for his films himself, Sayles functions more independently than most directors, and he has... -
Silver City and Other Screenplays by John Sayles 9781560256311
Booksplease Price: $28.16John Sayles--winner of the John Steinbeck Award and others--has been called the "conscience of the independent film world" and the screenwriter's screenwriter. Silver City and Other Screenplays is a... -
Thinking In Pictures: The Making Of The Movie Matewan by John Sayles 9780306812668
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $22.70What choices- creative, practical, and technical- make a movie what it is? Here a gifted writer and filmmaker takes us behind the camera and provides a full description of the movie-making process... -
College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy by John Sayle Watterson 9780801871146
Booksplease Price: $42.97"In March [1892] Stanford and California had played the first college football game on the Pacific Coast in San Francisco ...The pregame activities included a noisy parade down streets bedecked with... -
Sayles Talk: New Perspectives on Independent Filmmaker John Sayles Diane Carson 9780814331552
Booksplease Price: $37.19His name is synonymous with ""independent film,"" and for more than twenty-five years filmmaker John Sayles has tackled issues ranging from race and sexuality to the abuses of capitalism and American... -
Precedents and Rules of Pleading in Civil Actions in the County and District Courts of Texas. by John Sayles 9781240155170
Booksplease Price: $52.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240155170Author John SaylesFormat PaperbackImprint Gale, Making of Modern LawPublisher Gale,... -
A Treatise on the Practice of the District and Supreme Courts of the State of Texas: With References to the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the State. by John Sayles 9781240143320
Booksplease Price: $42.61Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Movie-Made Appalachia: History, Hollywood, and the Highland South by John C. Inscoe 9781469660141
Booksplease Price: $42.92While Hollywood deserves its reputation for much-maligned portrayals of southern highlanders on screen, the film industry also deserves credit for a long-standing tradition of more serious and... -
Backstory 5: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1990s by Patrick McGilligan 9780520260399
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $37.85Patrick McGilligan continues his celebrated interviews with exceptional screenwriters in Backstory 5, focusing on the 1990s. The thirteen featured writers--Albert Brooks, Jean-Claude Carriere, Nora... -
Never Justice, Never Peace: Mother Jones and the Miner Rebellion at Paint and Cabin Creeks by Ginny Savage Ayers 9781946684370
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $26.12In 1986 Lon Savage published Thunder in the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21, a popular history now considered a classic. Among those the book influenced are Denise Giardina, author of... -
Lone Star Alison Fields 9780826369390
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.05A deft history and analysis of John Sayles' 1996 cinematic masterpiece. Alison Fields places Lone Star in a western film framework and emphasizes Lone Star's ability to highlight the conflicts... -
Escape from Hitler's Europe: An American Airman behind Enemy Lines by George Watt
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $21.75November 1943: American flyer George Watt parachutes out of his burning warplane and lands in rural Nazi-occupied Belgium. Escape from Hitler's Europe is the incredible story of his getaway--how... -
Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-busch and America's Kings of Beer by William Knoedelseder 9780062009272
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.73"Bitter Brew deftly chronicles the contentious succession of kings in a uniquely American dynasty. You'll never crack open a six again without thinking of this book." -John Sayles, Director of Eight... -
Quality Popular Television: Cult TV, the Industry and Fans by Mark Jancovich 9780851709413
Booksplease Price: $51.72Why are some contemporary television shows so compelling? The Sopranos, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Friends and ER are examples among many of a new era of the 'must-see' programme. These shows and... -
meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands by Rosa Linda Fregoso 9780520238909
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $35.91"MeXicana Encounters" charts the dynamic and contradictory representation of Mexicanas and Chicanas in culture. Rosa Linda Fregoso's deft analysis of the cultural practices and symbolic forms that... -
How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood And Never Lost A Dime by Roger Corman
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.16In these pages Roger Corman, the most successful independent filmmaker in Hollywood relates his experiences as the director and/or producer of such low-budget classics Attack of the Crab Monsters,... -
Appetites and Anxieties: Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation by Cynthia Baron 9780814334317
Booksplease Price: $43.16Cinema is a mosaic of memorable food scenes. Detectives drink alone. Gangsters talk with their mouths full. Families around the world argue at dinner. Food documentaries challenge popular... -
Phenomenological Perspectives on Place, Lifeworlds, and Lived Emplacement: The Selected Writings of David Seamon David Seamon 9781032357324
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20Phenomenological Perspectives on Place, Lifeworlds and Lived Emplacement is a compilation of seventeen previously published articles and chapters by David Seamon, one of the foremost researchers in... -
Contemporary American Independent Film: From the Margins to the Mainstream by Christine Holmund
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $52.34From Easy Rider to The Blair Witch Project, this book is a comprehensive examination of the independent film scene. Exploring the uneasy relationship between independent films and the major studios,... -
Outsider Features: American Independent Films of the 1980s by Richard K. Ferncase 9780313276071
Booksplease Price: $82.37In the early 1980s, serious American independent films including Stranger Than Paradise, Blood Simple, and She's Gotta Have It attracted ever-widening audiences, culminating with Steven Soderbergh's... -
Solaris by Mark Bould
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.56Despite being one of Andrei Tarkovsky's most successful films, Solaris (1972) was the one he most disliked. This dismissal of his most generically marked film has often been accepted by those quick... -
Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction by Mark Bould
RRP: $43.85Booksplease Price: $41.36Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction is a collection of engaging essays on some of the most significant figures who have shaped and defined the genre. Diverse groups within the science fiction... -
More Than a Method: Trends and Traditions in Contemporary Film Performance by Cynthia L. Baron 9780814330791
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $29.94Though it is often neglected in cinema scholarship, screen performance is a crucial element in the ideological and emotional impact of films. More Than a Method: Trends and Traditions in Contemporary... -
Studying American Independent Cinema by Rona Murray 9781906733179
Booksplease Price: $48.80Rona Murray places modern independent cinema within the general history of American independent cinema. Beginning with the work of John Cassavetes, she blends detailed textual analysis with an... -
Baseball, Literature, Culture: Essays, 2002-2003 by Peter Carino 9780786418510
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $51.06Since 1995, the Indiana State University Conference on Baseball in Literature and American Culture has provided a venue for scholars to present their research on baseball as literary subject... -
Beyond Continuity: Script Supervision for the Modern Filmmaker by Mary Cybulski 9780367423377
Booksplease Price: $46.36A guide to the craft of script supervising, the updated second edition features practical instruction through real-world examples that demonstrate and explain the skills needed by a professional... -
Mermaids by Patty Dann 9781504079662
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $14.20A teenager follows along as her mother moves from town to town-and man to man-in this coming-of-age novel: "Both hilarious and tragic . . . a radiant debut." -The New York Times Book Review The... -
Comrades: Tales of a Brigadista in the Spanish Civil War by Harry Fisher
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.43The Spanish Civil War served as an ideological and physical battleground for visionary Americans wishing to combat the spread of fascism. Harry Fisher was one such idealist who became a solider in... -
The Limits of Dream: A Scientific Exploration of the Mind / Brain Interface by J. F. Pagel 9780123742155
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $24.20Approx.250 pagesExamines the neuroscientific basis of dreams.About the AuthorJF Pagel has authored more than 170 publications. His basic research addressed the electrophysiology of consciousness,... -
Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike Barbara Kingsolver 9780571392070
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOWFrom the multi-million copy bestselling author of Demon Copperhead: a true story of female-led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 - now available for...