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  • The Tropoholic's Guide to Backstory Romance Tropes

    by Cindy Dees ...
    Series Book 3 - The Tropoholic's Guides
    NYT and USAT bestselling author and screenwriter, Cindy Dees, brings her formidable skills as a master storyteller and master writing teacher to this encyclopedic series analyzing the major tropes used in modern commercial fiction. In this volume, Cindy explores 33 iconic backstory romance tropes, the stories made up of the lingering problems, scars, and needs from your hero’s and heroine’s pasts ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Tropoholic's Guide to External Romance Tropes

    by Cindy Dees ...
    Series Book 2 - The Tropoholic's Guides
    NYT and USAT bestselling author and screenwriter, Cindy Dees, brings her formidable skills as a master storyteller and master writing teacher to this encyclopedic series analyzing the major tropes used in modern commercial fiction. In this volume, Cindy explores 35 iconic external romance tropes, the stories of people, situations, and problems around your hero and heroine that pose obstacles to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Monster Theory Reader

    Edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock ...
    A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning—across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time—from foundational texts to the most recent contributionsZombies and vampires, banshees and basilisks, demons and wendigos, goblins, gorgons, golems, and ghosts. From the mythical monstrous races of the ancient world to the murderous cyborgs of our day, monsters have haunted the human ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Becoming Nick and Nora

    The Thin Man and the Films of William Powell and Myrna Loy

    by Rob Kozlowski ...
    As Nick and Nora Charles in the six Thin Man movies from 1934 to 1947, the team of William Powell and Myrna Loy showed that marriage didn’t have to mean the end of the romantic comedy. From the comedic delight that was the initial The Thin Man through its five sequels as well as eight other films (including the Oscar-winning The Great Ziegfeld and Manhattan Melodrama), Powell and Loy were cemented ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Boy Who Loved Batman

    A Memoir

    The Batman movie producer reveals how his childhood love of comic books became a lifelong passion and dream job in this illustrated memoir.Is any superhero cooler than Batman? He’s a crime-fighting vigilante with a tragic past, a lawless attitude, and a seemingly endless supply of high-tech gadgetry. In this fully illustrated memoir, author Michael Uslan recalls his journey from early childhood ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Connecticut in the Movies

    From Dream Houses to Dark Suburbia

    Illeana Douglas has long been known for shining new light on forgotten films. Now the celebrated actress and film historian turns her focus to a heretofore unrecognized brand: the Connecticut movie! Told from the passionate perspective of the author who grew up here, and filled with behind-the-scenes stories as well as her own personal snapshots of the places where these films were made, Illeana ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Critical Race Theory and Bamboozled

    Series series Film Theory in Practice
    The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of film theory with interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for textual analysis. The third book in the series, Critical Race Theory and Bamboozled, offers a concise introduction to Critical Race Theory in jargon-free ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Signs of James Bond

    Semiotic Explorations in the World of 007

    This book is an analysis of the most significant elements that compose the "Bond formula," such as names, binary oppositions and narrative patterns. It tackles Ian Fleming's novels as well as the 22 films of the Eon Productions series and follows the evolution of certain determining features (paradigms) from the text to the screen, to determine their function within the narration. This study ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Fearless Vulgarity

    Jacqueline Susann's Queer Comedy and Camp Authorship

    by Ken Feil ...
    Series series Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
    Catalyzed by her notoriously "dirty," fabulously successful bestseller Valley of the Dolls, the "Jackie Susann Sixties" brimmed with camp comedy that now permeates contemporary celebrations of the author, from Pee-wee’s Playhouse to RuPaul’s Drag Race and Lee Daniels’s Star. First christened "camp" by Gloria Steinem in an excoriating review of Valley of the Dolls and compounded by the publishing ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Queer Screams

    A History of LGBTQ+ Survival Through the Lens of American Horror Cinema

    The horror genre mirrors the American queer experience, both positively and negatively, overtly and subtextually, from the lumbering, flower-picking monster of Frankenstein (1931) to the fearless intersectional protagonist of the Fear Street Trilogy (2021). This is a historical look at the queer experiences of the horror genre's characters, performers, authors and filmmakers.Offering a fresh look ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Cannon Film Guide Volume II (1985–1987)

    "Trunick's Guide . . . will sit comfortably on reference shelves next to Michael J. Weldon's Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film and Danny Peary's Cult Movies books." – Spectrum Culture"The Cannon Film Guide is a treasure trove of info for Golan/Globus fans. Even diehard Cannon scholars will learn from this tome." – Paul Talbot, author of the Bronson's Loose! booksThe unbelievable story of the ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Star Is Found

    Our Adventures Casting Some of Hollywood's Biggest Movies

    “These veteran insiders have a passion for casting major motion pictures, and they use meetings with famous people to illustrate how Hollywood works.” —Publishers WeeklyFor anyone who’s ever walked out of a movie and said, “That guy was all wrong for the part,” comes this first-of-its-kind look at how actors are chosen and careers are born. Two of the top casting directors in the business, who ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gene Tierney: A Biography

    A Biography

    Called the most beautiful woman in movie history, Gene Tierney starred in a number of 1940s classics, including Laura, Leave Her to Heaven and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. Her on-screen presence and ability to transform into a variety of characters made her a film legend. Her personal life was a whirlwind of romance (she married a count, was engaged to a prince, and was courted by a future president) ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Below the Stars

    How the Labor of Working Actors and Extras Shapes Media Production

    Despite their considerable presence in Hollywood, extras and working actors have received scant attention within film and media studies as significant contributors to the history of the industry. Looking not to the stars but to these supporting players in film, television, and, recently, streaming programming, Below the Stars highlights such actors as precarious laborers whose work as freelancers ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • A Queer Way of Feeling

    Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood

    Series Book 4 - Feminist Media Histories
    A Queer Way of Feeling gathers an unexplored archive of fan-made scrapbooks, letters, diaries, and photographs to explore how girls coming of age in the United States in the 1910s used cinema to forge a foundational language of female nonconformity, intimacy, and kinship. Pasting cross-dressed photos into personal scrapbooks and making love to movie actresses in epistolary writing, girl fans from ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The End of Japanese Cinema

    Industrial Genres, National Times, and Media Ecologies

    In The End of Japanese Cinema Alexander Zahlten moves film theory beyond the confines of film itself, attending to the emergence of new kinds of aesthetics, politics, temporalities, and understandings of film and media. He traces the evolution of a new media ecology through deep historical analyses of the Japanese film industry from the 1960s to the 2000s. Zahlten focuses on three popular ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Genre Screenwriting

    How to Write Popular Screenplays That Sell

    It's simple: films need to have commercial value for the studios to produce them, distributors to sell them, and theater chains to screen them. While talent definitely plays a part in the writing process, it can be the well-executed formulaic approaches to the popular genres that will first get you noticed in the industry.Genre Screenwriting: How to Write Popular Screenplays That Sell does not ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Hollywood, the Dream Factory

    An Anthropologist Looks at the Movie-Makers

    Powdermaker's study of the Hollywood film industry was an early example of anthropological research on contemporary American society. Her observations of the tensions between business and art in the film world led her to suggest that the social relations of the filmmaking process significantly affect the content and meaning of movies. Chapters include: Chapter 1 - Habitat and People, Mythical and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Cléo de 5 a 7

    by Steven Ungar ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Cléo de 5 à 7 (Cléo from 5 to 7), Agnes Varda's classic 1962 work depicts, in near real-time, 90 minutes in the life of Cléo, a young woman in Paris awaiting the results of medical tests that she fears will confirm a fatal condition. The film, whose visual beauty matches its evocation of early-Fifth Republic Paris, was a major point of reference for the French New Wave despite the fact that Varda ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Road to Tara

    The Life of Margaret Mitchell

    by Anne Edwards ...
    Margaret Mitchell was as complex and compelling as her legendary heroine, Scarlett O’Hara, and her story is as dramatic as anything out of her own imagination—indeed, it is the basis for the legend she created. Gone With the Wind took the American reading public by storm and went on to become the most popular motion picture of all time. It was a phenomenon whose success has never been equaled—and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Hollywood's Last Golden Age

    Politics, Society, and the Seventies Film in America

    Kirshner's commentary on these and other films is stimulating...Kirshner's book provides intriguing insights for anyone interested in the relation between film and wider culture.―The Journal of American CultureBetween 1967 and 1976 a number of extraordinary factors converged to produce an uncommonly adventurous era in the history of American film. The end of censorship, the decline of the studio ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Screaming for Pleasure

    How Horror Makes You Happy and Healthy

    by S.A. Bradley ...
    Horror has the gripping ability to captivate…and enthrall. It hooks you with unnerving stories of dread and evil, pushes your limits and pokes every phobia. Audiences love to be scared but behind every muffled scream is something deeper and even more fascinating.In Screaming for Pleasure, S.A. Bradley takes you on a wild journey exploring horror, where you’ll discover what is so tantalizing about ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Starting Point: 1979-1996

    Series series Starting Point: 1979-1996
    In the first two decades of his career, filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki laid the groundwork for his legendary movies. Starting Point is a collection of essays, interviews, and memoirs that go back to the roots of Miyazaki's childhood, the formulation of his theories of animation, and the founding of Studio Ghibli.Before directing such acclaimed films as Spirited Away, Miyazaki was just another salaried ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Turning Point: 1997-2008

    1997-2008

    Series series Turning Point: 1997-2008
    In the mid-1990s, filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki moved from success to success as his work found an audience outside of Japan. His animated films of the era, including Princess Mononoke, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Ponyo,were internationally lauded, and Miyazaki won an Academy Award® in 2003 for his popular and critical hit Spirited Away.Follow Miyazaki as his vision matures, as cinema-lovers worldwide ... Read more

    $9.99 USD