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John Singleton by Craigh Barboza
RRP: $66.78SciFier: $41.26John Singleton (b. 1968) rocketed from obscurity to the top ranks of Hollywood directors in 1991, when he released his debut film Boyz N the Hood. The poignant coming-of-age story, set in the streets... -
Jonathan Demme by Robert E. Kapsis
RRP: $66.78SciFier: $41.26The films of Jonathan Demme (b. 1944) reflect his ebullient personality and are often infused with his love for Caribbean culture, pop music, fashion, and characters who reveal offbeat tastes and... -
Groucho and W. C. Fields by Wes D. Gehring
RRP: $61.37SciFier: $47.83Before Groucho Marx and W. C. Fields American comedy was innocent. After they left their hilarious smudges on the genre, comedy was anything but. Here in a captivating book comparing and contrasting... -
Errol Morris: Interviews Livia Bloom 9781604733730
RRP: $66.78SciFier: $41.26Errol Morris: Interviews is an irreverent and humorous collection of conversations with the acclaimed documentary filmmaker. Morris (b. 1948) has created some of America's most innovative, lasting... -
Bertrand Tavernier by Lynn A. Higgins
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $41.26Bertrand Tavernier (b. 1941-2021) was widely considered to be the leading light in a generation of French filmmakers who launched their careers in the 1970s in the wake of the New Wave. In just over... -
Andrei Tarkovsky by John Gianvito
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $41.26Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) was one of Russia's most influential and renowned filmmakers, despite an output of only seven feature films in twenty years. Revered by such filmmaking giants as Ingmar... -
The Coen Brothers by William Rodney Allen
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $41.26Joel and Ethan Coen (b. 1954, 1957) started their careers in obscurity on a shoestring budget cajoled from family and friends in Minneapolis. Working entirely outside the studio system, the Coen... -
Ousmane Sembene by Annett Busch
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $41.26Even by the time Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene (1923-2007) was forty, he had lived an exceptional life. He joined the French army during World War II and moved from Senegal to France in 1948... -
Just Making Movies by Ronald L. Davis
RRP: $61.37SciFier: $47.83From the late 1930s to the mid-1950s, five big movie studios-Paramount, Warner Bros., Twentieth Century-Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), and RKO-dominated Hollywood's film industry. This ""big studio... -
Charlie Chaplin by Kevin J. Hayes
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $41.64In late 1914, Charlie Chaplin's name first began appearing on marquees. By the end of the following year, moviegoers couldn't get enough of him and his iconic persona, the Little Tramp. Perpetually... -
Michael Winterbottom by Damon Smith
RRP: $63.49SciFier: $41.26Prolific British director Michael Winterbottom (b. 1961) might be hard to pin down and even harder to categorize. Over sixteen years, he has created feature films as disparate and stylistically... -
Steven Soderbergh: Interviews Anthony Kaufman 9781578064298
RRP: $44.41SciFier: $34.66Steven Soderbergh's cinema-making star has blazed with sex, lies, and videotape, sputtered with The Underneath, and flared again with the acclaimed movie Traffic. Steven Soderbergh: Interviews... -
Iwao Takamoto by Iwao Takamoto
RRP: $49.82SciFier: $37.95Iwao Takamoto (1925-2007) spent a lifetime in the animation industry and was influential in the creation of some of the most beloved characters in the medium's history, including Scooby-Doo, Atom... -
Working with Walt by Don Peri
RRP: $63.49SciFier: $51.92This book includes interviews with Ken Anderson, Les Clark, Larry Clemmons, Jack Cutting, Don Duckwall, Marcellite Garner, Harper Goff, Floyd Gottfredson, Dick Huemer, Wilfred Jackson, Eric Larson,... -
Krzysztof Kieslowski by Renata Bernard
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $41.26Krzysztof Kieslowski's untimely death came at the height of his career, after his Three Colors trilogy of films garnered international acclaim (and an Oscar nomination), and he had been proclaimed... -
Asghar Farhadi: Interviews Ehsan Khoshbakht 9781496841063
RRP: $44.41SciFier: $41.26The winner of two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film in only five years, Asghar Farhadi (b. 1972) has become Iran's most prominent director since the late Abbas Kiarostami. Around the world,... -
Asghar Farhadi: Interviews Ehsan Khoshbakht 9781496841056
RRP: $173.84SciFier: $153.17The winner of two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film in only five years, Asghar Farhadi (b. 1972) has become Iran's most prominent director since the late Abbas Kiarostami. Around the world,... -
The Comics of R. Crumb: Underground in the Art Museum Daniel Worden 9781496833754
RRP: $192.92SciFier: $154.65Contributions by Jose Alaniz, Ian Blechschmidt, Paul Fisher Davies, Zanne Domoney-Lyttle, David Huxley, Lynn Marie Kutch, Julian Lawrence, Liliana Milkova, Stiliana Milkova, Kim A. Munson, Jason S... -
The Comics of R. Crumb: Underground in the Art Museum Daniel Worden 9781496833761
RRP: $74.09SciFier: $47.83Contributions by Jose Alaniz, Ian Blechschmidt, Paul Fisher Davies, Zanne Domoney-Lyttle, David Huxley, Lynn Marie Kutch, Julian Lawrence, Liliana Milkova, Stiliana Milkova, Kim A. Munson, Jason S... -
Billy Wilder by Robert Horton
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $41.26Always daring Hollywood censors' limits on content, Billy Wilder directed greats such as Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Ginger Rogers, Marlene Dietrich, Kirk Douglas, Audrey Hepburn, and Gary Cooper... -
Brian De Palma by Laurence F. Knapp
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $51.92Brian De Palma (b. 1940) isn't your average Hollywood director.For years he reigned as the ""master of the macabre,"" the man who massacred the class of '76 in Carrie and stalked Angie Dickinson in... -
Neil Jordan by Carole Zucker
RRP: $90.10SciFier: $58.15These interviews cover the career to date of Neil Jordan (b. 1950), easily the most renowned filmmaker working in contemporary Irish cinema. Jordan began as a fiction writer, winning the... -
Peter Weir: Interviews John C. Tibbetts 9781496830869
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $41.26Peter Weir: Interviews is the first volume of interviews to be published on the esteemed Australian director. Although Weir (b. 1944) has acquired a reputation of being guarded about his life and... -
Bernardo Bertolucci by Fabien S. Gerard
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $41.26Collected here are forty years of the thoughts of one of the most influential filmmakers of our time. Although the winner of nine Academy Awards for his The Last Emperor, Bernardo Bertolucci may... -
Frank Capra by Leland Poague
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $41.26Few Hollywood directors had a higher profile in the 1930s than Frank Capra (1897D1991). He served as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and of the Screen Directors Guild. He... -
John Waters by James Egan
RRP: $66.78SciFier: $41.26The films of John Waters (b. 1946) are some of the most powerful send-ups of conventional film forms and expectations since Luis Bu-uel and Salvador Dali's Un Chien Andalou. In attempting to... -
Robert Altman by David Sterritt
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $41.26Robert Altman is one of the most inventive, unpredictable, and hotly debated American filmmakers of the past thirty years. His movies include popular hits (M.A.S.H., Nashville), critical successes... -
Hal Ashby: Interviews Nick Dawson 9781604735659
RRP: $66.78SciFier: $41.26Hal Ashby (1929-1988) is considered to be the lost genius of the New Hollywood generation. While his name does not bear the familiarity of, say, Robert Altman or Martin Scorsese, his diverse films... -
Cinderella in America by William Bernard McCarthy
SciFier: $63.58For years many folklorists have denied the possibility of a truly American folk or fairy tale. They have argued that the tales found in the United States are watered-down derivatives of European fare... -
Oliver Stone by L. P. Silet
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $41.26Throughout his career Oliver Stone (b. 1946) has broken traditions and challenged audiences with a series of daring, angry, violent, and often confrontational films. Politically charged movies such... -
George Stevens by Paul Cronin
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $41.26At first glance, George Stevens (1904D1975) appears to be the quintessential Hollywood director. A closer look at his achievements shows him to be more than just the creator of some of the smartest... -
Quentin Tarantino: Interviews, Revised and Updated Gerald Peary 9781617038747
SciFier: $192.90Here, in his own colorful, slangy words, is the true American Dream saga of a self-proclaimed ""film geek,"" with five intense years working in a video store, who became one of the most popular,... -
Harmony Korine: Interviews Eric Kohn 9781496804631
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $41.26Harmony Korine: Interviews tracks filmmaker Korine's stunning rise, fall, and rise again through his own evolving voice. Bringing together interviews collected from over two decades, this unique... -
William Wyler by Gabriel Miller
RRP: $231.08SciFier: $153.55William Wyler (1902-1981) was one of the most honored and successful directors from Hollywood's golden age. One of the film industry's most influential artists, he received three Academy Awards,... -
Kewpies and Beyond by Shelley Armitage
RRP: $66.78SciFier: $47.83The Life and Work of the fascinating creator of the Kewpie doll.Book InformationISBN 9781617032141Author Shelley ArmitageFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint University Press of MississippiPublisher... -
Martin Ritt by Gabriel Miller
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $41.26This collection of interviews provides a revealing self-portrait of Martin Ritt (1914-1990), America's preeminent maker of social films and one of the most sensitive portraitists of the rural South. ... -
Steven Spielberg: Interviews Lester D. Friedman 9781578061136
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $41.26Steven Spielberg has become a brand name and a force that extends far beyond the movie screen. Phrases like ""phone home"" and the music score from Jaws are now part of our cultural script, appearing... -
Joseph L. Mankiewicz by Brian Dauth
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $41.26Joseph L. Mankiewicz: Interviews features talks with the master director of such classics as All About Eve, The Barefoot Contessa, and Cleopatra. Mankiewicz (1909-1993) was a creative force in... -
Lars von Trier by Jan Lumholdt
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $41.26With six entries at the Cannes Film Festival thus far, Lars von Trier has been a Cannes award winner four times. Without question, he is the most intriguing film director to emerge in Denmark since... -
James Cameron by Brent Dunham
RRP: $63.49SciFier: $41.26James Cameron (b. 1954) is lauded as one of the most successful and innovative filmmakers of the last thirty years. His films often break records, both in their massive budgets and in their...