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  • Violent Screen

    “Bestselling novelist and Baltimore Sun movie critic Stephen Hunter (Dirty White Boys) writes well and vividly about movies, which is reason enough to consider picking up this anthology of his reviews and essays, dating back to 1982. A self-professed gun enthusiast, Hunter seems particularly well attuned to the outlaw attitudes so prevalent in the post-Tarantino period of cinema we're currently ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Chick Flicks

    Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement

    by B. Ruby Rich ...
    If there was a moment during the sixties, seventies, or eighties that changed the history of the women’s film movement, B. Ruby Rich was there. Part journalistic chronicle, part memoir, and 100% pure cultural historical odyssey, Chick Flicks—with its definitive, the-way-it-was collection of essays—captures the birth and growth of feminist film as no other book has done.For over three decades Rich ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • What Stories Does My Son Need?

    A Guide to Books and Movies That Build Character in Boys

    In an annotated list including movies such as High Noon and Glory, and books such as The Giving Tree and To Kill a Mockingbird, therapist and educator Gurian highlights the particular ethical lessons two hundred great stories can impart to boys and young men. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Bollywood

    by Ashok Banker ...
    This Pocket Essential explores the awe inspiring world of Bollywood up to 2001. Bombay's prolific Hindi-language film industry is more than just a giant entertainment juggernaut for 1 billion-plus Indians worldwide. It's a part of Indian culture, language, fashion and lifestyles. It's also a great bundle of contradictions and contrasts, like India itself. Thrillers, horror, murder mysteries, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film

    Edited by Wyndham Wise ...
    Series series Heritage
    Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film is the most exhaustive and up-to-date reference book on Canadian film and filmmakers, combining 700 reviews and biographical listings with a detailed chronology of major events in Canadian film and television history. Compiled by Wyndham Wise, the editor and publisher of Take One, Canada's most respected film magazine, with a foreword by Canadian ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Great Movies

    by Roger Ebert ...
    America’s most trusted and best-known film critic Roger Ebert presents one hundred brilliant essays on some of the best movies ever made.Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic, wrote biweekly essays for a feature called "The Great Movies," in which he offered a fresh and fervent appreciation of a great film. The Great Movies collects one hundred of these essays, each one of them a gem of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Filmmaker's Guide to Production Design

    Learn to turn a simple screenplay into a visual masterpiece! Top production designers share their real-life experiences to explain the aesthetic, narrative, and technical aspects of the craft. Step by step, aspiring filmmakers will discover sound instruction on the tools of the trade, and established filmmakers will enjoy a new outlook on production design. They will learn, for example, the craft ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Technical Film and TV for Nontechnical People

    by Drew Campbell ...
    Technical Film and TV for Nontechnical People introduces film students, actors, producers and other nontechnical film people to the technical aspects that everyone working on a film set should know. Author Drew Campbell is a lighting and sound designer for Universal Studios who started out in theater and who was struck by the complex technical procedures and idiosyncratic expressions that he ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Off-Hollywood Film Guide

    The Definitive Guide to Independent and Foreign Films on Video and DVD

    by Tom Wiener ...
    The Off-Hollywood Film Guide cuts through the clutter of the thousands of films currently available on video and DVD by specifically catering to independent- and foreign-film enthusiasts. In addition to a list of essential must-see films, this guide includes hundreds of entries, each with brief commentary and a list of pertinent details, such as release date, cast, director, awards garnered, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Back Shelf Beauties

    Movies You Should Rent When the New Stuff Is Gone

    by Willie Waffle ...
    Back Shelf Beauties is the perfect guide to all the movies you want to rent on video and DVD. When you've seen all the new releases, Back Shelf Beauties brings you forgotten films, lost movies from your favorite stars and classic films that you have never seen. It includes films from modern day stars like John Travolta and Gwyneth Paltrow, but also films from classic movie legends like Humphrey ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Visions of the Apocalypse

    Spectacles of Destruction in American Cinema

    Visions of the Apocalypse examines the cinema's fascination with the prospect of nuclear and/or natural annihilation, as seen in such films as Saving Private Ryan, Bowling for Columbine, We Were Soldiers, Invasion U.S.A., The Last War, Tidal Wave, The Bed Sitting Room, The Last Days of Man on Earth and numerous others. It also considers the ways in which contemporary cinema has become increasingly ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • New York Times Essential Library: Children's Movies

    A Critic's Guide to the Best Films Available on Video and DVD

    Series series The New York Times Essential Library
    An indispensable guide for parents from a leading expert on children's filmFor years Peter M. Nichols has been offering vital advice and information for parents about current movies in his regular "Taking the Children" column. But parents need the same kind of guidance when renting or buying videos and DVDs for their family. They may know that movies such as Toy Story and Chicken Run are good ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Cinema of George A. Romero

    Knight of the Living Dead

    by Tony Williams ...
    Series series Directors' Cuts
    The Cinema of George A. Romero: Knight of the Living Dead is the first in-depth study in English of the career of this foremost auteur working at the margins of the Hollywood mainstream in the horror genre. In placing Romero's oeuvre in the context of literary naturalism, the book explores the relevance of the director's films within American cultural traditions and thus explains the potency of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The New Wave

    Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol, Rohmer, Rivette: Thirtieth Anniversary Edition

    by James Monaco ...
    Three decades after its first publication, The New Wave is still considered one of the fundamental texts on the French film movement of the same name. Led by filmmakers as influential as Truffaut and Godard, the New Wave was a seminal moment in cinematic history, and The New Wave has been hailed as the most complete book ever written about it.The New Wave tells the story of the New Wave through ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Finding God in the Movies

    33 Films of Reel Faith

    You love movies. Who doesn't?In Finding God in the Movies Catherine Barsotti and Robert Johnston show you how to combine your love of movies with your desire for God. Introducing thirty-three films of faith--ranging from Tender Mercies to X-Men--the authors identify and explore key biblical themes like forgiveness, faith, and repentance. An enthusiastic guide for the individual movie lover or ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Western Film Review

    A Second Look at Some Popular Western Movies

    by Chuck Lewis ...
    With this collection of reviews, fans of western movies can enjoy taking another special look at some of our favorites with western author Chuck Lewis as he offers us insight and a unique view of the films we like or even those we don't like. We might remember some of them with a nostalgia that doesn't match up with what the movie was all about. We think we know the stories, or what a good job of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Liquid Metal

    The Science Fiction Film Reader

    Edited by Sean Redmond ...
    Liquid Metal brings together 'seminal' essays that have opened up the study of science fiction to serious critical interrogation. Eight distinct sections cover such topics as the cyborg in science fiction; the science fiction city; time travel and the primal scene; science fiction fandom; and the 1950s invasion narratives. Important writings by Susan Sontag, Vivian Sobchack, Steve Neale, J.P. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Spiritual Cinema

    A Guide to Movies that Inspire, Heal and Empower Your Life

    Would you like to discover a new world of movies that expands your mind, warms your heart, and stirs you soul? If so, this book is sure to become a valuable resource for you. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Now Playing at the Valencia

    Pulitzer Prize-Winning Essays on Movies

    From Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic and New York Times bestselling author Stephen Hunter comes a brilliant, freewheeling, and witty look at the movies.Evanston, Illinois, was an idyllic 1950s paradise with stately homes, a beautiful lake, a world-class university, two premier movie houses, and one very seedy movie theater—the Valencia.This was the site of Washington Post film critic Stephen ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Blade Runner Experience

    The Legacy of a Science Fiction Classic

    Edited by Will Brooker ...
    Since its release in 1982, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, has remained a cult classic through its depiction of a futuristic Los Angeles; its complex, enigmatic plot; and its underlying questions about the nature of human identity. The Blade Runner Experience: The Legacy of a Science Fiction Classic examines the film in a broad ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Modern Amazons

    Warrior Women On-Screen

    by James Ursini ...
    The Modern Amazons: Warrior Women on Screen documents the public's seemingly insatiable fascination with the warrior woman archetype in film and on television. The book examines the cautious beginnings of new roles for women in the late fifties, the rapid development of female action leads during the burgeoning second-wave feminist movement in the late sixties and seventies, and the present-day ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Making Short Films

    by Jim Piper ...
    Accompanying DVD of thirty short films offers an instructive mini film festival Shows beginners how to make meaningful films without fancy equipment Great for film students and independent filmmakers Want to make an art film, a documentary, a video biography? Here’s how to create real movies using consumer digital video format-without spending a lot of money or time. Author Jim Piper has taught ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Disaster Movies

    The Cinema of Catastrophe

    by Stephen Keane ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    Stephen Keane's history of the disaster genre offers a detailed analysis of films such as The Towering Inferno, Independence Day, Titanic, and The Day After Tomorrow. He looks at the ways in which disaster movies can be read in relation to both contextual considerations and the increasing commercial demands of contemporary Hollywood. In this second edition, he adds new material regarding cinematic ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • You Gotta See This

    More Than 100 of Hollywood's Best Reveal and Discuss Their Favorite Films

    In time for Oscar season, Hollywood’s top stars talk about the movies that move themEveryone has a favorite movie—even movie stars themselves. In You Gotta See This, veteran entertainment reporter Cindy Pearlman gets the scoop on the top movie picks of Hollywood’s entertainment elite. Through over one hundred interviews with actors, writers, and directors, Pearlman discovers the eclectic—and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD