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Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style

By: N/A

Price: $6.00

Publisher: The Overlook Press: June 1982

Seller ID: 446913

ISBN: 0879511095

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies (A Henry Holt Reference Book)

By: N/A

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co: September 1995

Seller ID: 460747

ISBN: 0805037594

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Essays that consider how classic movies have reflected history include the writings of such noted historians as Paul Fussell, Antonia Fraser, and Gore Vidal. 50,000 first printing. BOMC & QPB. History Main.
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What I Love About Movies: An Illustrated Compendium

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Opus Books: September 2014

Seller ID: 445221

ISBN: 1623160626

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

(Book). A single, searching question: "What do you love about movies?" is posed to fifty of cinema's brightest lights. The answers have been entertaining, profound, personal, ridiculous, revealing and unexpected, but always unique. These declarations of movie passion have been collected into the ultimate one-stop celebration of cinema. This lovingly crafted compendium offers a fascinating and insightful look at the movies through the eyes of 50 of its brightest stars, with subjects including legendary directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, the Coen brothers, Wes Anderson, Steven Soderbergh, P...
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Israeli Cinema: Identities in Motion (Jewish Life, History, and Culture)

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Price: $6.00

Publisher: University of Texas Press: May 2012

Seller ID: 463374

ISBN: 0292743998

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

With top billing at many film forums around the world, as well as a string of prestigious prizes, including consecutive nominations for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, Israeli films have become one of the most visible and promising cinemas in the first decade of the twenty-first century, an intriguing and vibrant site for the representation of Israeli realities. Yet two decades have passed since the last wide-ranging scholarly overview of Israeli cinema, creating a need for a new, state-of-the-art analysis of this exciting cinematic oeuvre.

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Screening Cuba: Film Criticism as Political Performance during the Cold War

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: University of Illinois Press: September 2010

Seller ID: 466765

ISBN: 0252077482

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Hector Amaya advances into new territory in Latin American and U.S. cinema studies in this innovative analysis of the differing critical receptions of Cuban film in Cuba and the United States during the Cold War. Synthesizing film reviews, magazine articles, and other primary documents, "Screening Cuba" compares Cuban and U.S. reactions to four Cuban films: "Memories of Underdevelopment, Lucia, One Way or Another, " and "Portrait of Teresa." In examining cultural production through the lens of the Cold War, Amaya reveals how contrasting interpretations of Cuban and U.S. critics are the res...
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Liv Ullman: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers (Paperback))

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Price: $6.00

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi: February 2006

Seller ID: 469761

ISBN: 157806824X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Liv Ullmann (b. 1938) has played many roles over the course of her long life: actress, mother, activist, author, and director. Her lead performances in such Ingmar Bergman classics as Persona, Scenes from a Marriage, and Cries and Whispers kept her in close proximity to crafts involved in screenwriting, film direction, and production. In 1992, Ullmann directed her first film Sofie and, with the quick succession of such recent masterpieces as Private Confessions, Kristin Lavransdatter, and Faithless, Ullmann has emerged as one of the most chal...
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The Philosophy of the Coen Brothers (Philosophy Of Popular Culture)

By: N/A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky: March 2012

Seller ID: 471932

ISBN: 0813134455

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Many critics agree that Joel and Ethan Coen are one of the most visionary and idiosyncratic filmmaking teams of the last three decades. Combining thoughtful eccentricity, wry humor, irony, and often brutal violence, the Coen brothers have crafted a style of filmmaking that pays tribute to classic American movie genres yet maintains a distinctly postmodern feel. Since arriving on the film scene, the Coens have amassed an impressive body of work that has garnered them critical acclaim and a devoted cult following. From Raising Arizona and Fargo to O Brother, Where Art Thou? and No Country for Ol...
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Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema

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Price: $6.50

Publisher: Oxford University Press USA: June 2001

Seller ID: 481409

ISBN: 0195130049

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema is a collection of essays presenting a variety of approaches to films set in ancient Greece and Rome and to films that reflect archetypal features of classical literature. The diversity of content and theoretical stances found in this volume will make it required reading for scholars and students interested in interdisciplinary approaches to text and image, and for anyone interested in the presence of Greece and Rome in modern popular culture.

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The Horror Film (Rutgers Depth of Field Series)

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Price: $10.00

Publisher: Rutgers University Press: January 2004

Seller ID: 484183

ISBN: 0813533635

Binding: Trade Paperback

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In this volume, Stephen Prince has collected essays reviewing the history of the horror film and the psychological reasons for its persistent appeal, as well as discussions of the developmental responses of young adult viewers and children to the genre. The book focuses on recent postmodern examples such as The Blair Witch Project. In a daring move, the volume also examines Holocaust films in relation to horror.

Part One features essays on the silent and classical Hollywood eras. Part Two covers the postWorld War II era and discusses the historical, aesthetic, and psychological characteri...
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Agee on Film

By: Agee, James

Price: $6.50

Publisher: October 2012

Seller ID: 212862

ISBN: 0375755292

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Collects reviews of the movie critic who wrote for Time magazine and The Nation during the 1940s.
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Agee on Film, Vol. 2: Five Film Scripts

By: Agee, James

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Perigee Trade: September 1983

Seller ID: 435922

ISBN: 0399508716

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Robert Altman: Jumping Off the Cliff

By: Altman/McGilligan, Patrick

Price: $7.00

Seller ID: 366466

ISBN: 0312055056

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Painting with Light

By: Alton, John

Price: $6.00

Publisher: October 2012

Seller ID: 467892

ISBN: 0520089499

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Few cinematographers have had as decisive an impact on the cinematic medium as John Alton. Best known for his highly stylized film noir classics T-Men, He Walked by Night, and The Big Combo, Alton earned a reputation during the 1940s and 1950s as one of Hollywood's consummate craftsmen through his visual signature of crisp shadows and sculpted beams of light. No less renowned for his virtuoso color cinematography and deft appropriation of widescreen and Technicolor, he earned an Academy Award in 1951 for his work on the musical An American in Paris. First published ...
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AMC Classic Movie Companion

By: AMC/Moses, Robert

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Hyperion: June 1999

Seller ID: 485817

ISBN: 0786883944

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From the people at American Movie Classics, the premier classic movie television network, comes a companion that provides a new way of discovering the movies with a collection of over 4,500 films made between 1929 and 1979 and a treasury of other features. In addition to the individual film entries containing credits, ratings, running times, and synopses, the book includes film preservation updates; filmographies of stars and directors; lists of Oscar winners; film picks from stars, directors, and writers; information about related museums, magazines, and websites; and all of it illustrated wi...
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Jack of All Trades: Conversations with Disney Legend Ken Anderson

By: Anderson, Ken/Anderson, Paul

Price: $9.50

Seller ID: 369176

ISBN: 1683900537

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Hollywood Babylon

By: Anger, Kenneth

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Straight Arrow: January 1975

Seller ID: 485713

ISBN: B00A2MS0R6

Binding: Hardcover

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The Architecture of Vision: Writings and Interviews on Cinema

By: Antonioni, Michelangelo

Price: $17.50

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: October 2007

Seller ID: 475572

ISBN: 0226021149

Binding: Trade Paperback

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"A filmmaker is a man like any other; and yet his life is not the same. . . . This is, I think, a special way of being in contact with reality." Or so says Michelangelo Antonioni, the legendary filmmaker behind the stark landscapes and social alienation of Blow-Up and L'Avventura, who here reveals his idiosyncratic relationship with reality in The Architecture of Vision.

Through autobiographical sketches, theoretical essays, interviews, and conversations with such luminaries as Jean-Luc Godard and Alberto Moravia, this compelling volume explores the director's unique b...
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Film as Art

By: Arnheim, Rudolf

Price: $5.00

Publisher: University of California: January 1960

Seller ID: 449837

ISBN: B001NELBLO

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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Film as art: Rudolf Arnheim

By: Arnheim, Rudolf

Price: $4.50

Publisher: January 1966

Seller ID: 469611

ISBN: B001CHIWEQ

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Filmmaker's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age

By: Ascher, Steven

Price: $9.00

Seller ID: 342736

ISBN: 0452286786

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This handbook aims to provide the would-be producer with practical information on the techniques and technologies needed to make films. It covers the various types of programmes, shooting, editing, recording and much more.
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