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Directing by Tay Garnett
SciFier: $108.41An essential text on filmmaking that every student, scholar, and teacher of films should own. In it, some of the motion picture industry's most important directors including Steven Spielberg, Martin... -
Zbigniew Preisner's Three Colors Trilogy: Blue, White, Red by Nicholas W. Reyland
SciFier: $95.90Director Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors trilogy-Blue (1993), White (1993), and Red (1994)-is one of the great achievements of European film. A meditation on liberty, equality, and fraternity,... -
The Fall of Buster Keaton by James L. Neibaur
SciFier: $86.17Born into a family of vaudevillians, Buster Keaton made his first film appearance in 1917 at the age of 21. By the early 1920s, he had established himself as one of the geniuses of silent cinema with... -
Saved from Oblivion by Bernard Vorhaus
SciFier: $101.46Before being black-listed in the McCarthy era, Bernard Vorhaus was one of Hollywood's most respected silent film writers, working for studios such as Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Not only did... -
Worms in the Winecup by John Bright
SciFier: $115.36Worms in the Winecup is the extraordinarily hard-hitting autobiography of John Bright, a screenplay writer who gained a major reputation with his first Hollywood script, Public Enemy, the classic... -
Zombie Culture by Shawn McIntosh
SciFier: $93.81Why have zombies resonated so pervasively in the popular imagination and in media, especially films? Why have they proved to be one of the most versatile and popular monster types in the growing... -
The A to Z of Horror Cinema by Peter Hutchings
SciFier: $73.66Horror is one of the most enduring and controversial of all cinematic genres. Horror films range from the subtle and the poetic to the graphic and the gory but what links them all is their ability to... -
The A to Z of Westerns in Cinema Paul Varner 9780810868885
SciFier: $72.27When the earliest filmgoers watched The Great Train Robbery in 1903, many of them shrieked in terror at the very last clip when one of the outlaws turns directly toward the camera and fires a gun,... -
The Man Who Knew Hitchcock by Herbert Coleman
SciFier: $72.27As a script supervisor, second unit director, producer, and director, Herbert Coleman's film career spanned seven decades. Active in Hollywood from 1926 through 1988, he enjoyed a lengthy and... -
The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry Anthony Slide 9781578860159
SciFier: $73.66Now in Paperback! The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry is a unique reference work, a 'what's what' of the history of filmmaking not only in Hollywood but throughout the United... -
Some Cutting Remarks by Ralph E. Winters
SciFier: $95.20Recounts the life of two-time Academy Award winner, Ralph E. Winters, whose career spanned two-thirds of the 20th century. Drawing from his own ascent through MGM studio system, Winters guides the... -
Straight from the Horse's Mouth: Ronald Neame, an Autobiography Ronald Neame 9780810844902
SciFier: $95.20Now in Paperback! Ronald Neame's autobiography takes its title from one of his best-loved films, The Horse's Mouth (1958), starring Alec Guinness. In an informative and entertaining style, Neame... -
Jerome Moross's The Big Country by Mariana Whitmer
SciFier: $61.15With its unique focus on pacifism, The Big Country was an unusual Western for audiences of the 1950s. Produced in 1958, this epic film featured an all-star cast that included Gregory Peck, Charlton... -
Verse, Voice, and Vision by Marlisa Santos
SciFier: $136.21Although it is a somewhat underrepresented form of literature in popular sensibility, poetry finds relevance in the modern world through its appearance in cinema. Film adaptations of poems and... -
Composing for the Cinema: The Theory and Praxis of Music in Film Ennio Morricone 9780810892415
SciFier: $86.17With nearly 400 scores to his credit, Ennio Morricone is one of the most prolific and influential film composers working today. He has collaborated with many significant directors, and his scores for... -
Leonard Bernstein's On the Waterfront by Anthony Bushard
SciFier: $79.22Released in 1954, On the Waterfront is considered one of the greatest films of all time, winning eight Academy Awards-including Best Picture-and placing in the top 20 on the American Film Institute's... -
A Treasure Hard to Attain by David Howard Day
SciFier: $108.41A Treasure Hard to Attain covers the archaeological content of approximately 120 popular films, most of which have been produced in the United States since 1912. Extensive commentaries appear for the... -
The Art and Politics of Bolivian Cinema by Sanchez-H., Jose, Sanchez-H., Jose
SciFier: $136.21In Bolivia, politics have always shaped art, particularly when it comes to film. This book presents Bolivia's most significant filmmakers largely in their own words. Since 1981, Jose Sanchez-H. has... -
Republic Studios by Richard M. Hurst
SciFier: $93.81The Hollywood studios of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s were rarely concerned with film as an art form; this was especially true of those specializing in the B film. Of these, Republic Pictures... -
Celluloid Ivy by David B. Hinton
SciFier: $101.46Because of their tremendous mass audience, Hollywood feature films help mold, shape, and direct popular beliefs and attitudes. They also serve as frozen pieces of time that preserve the concerns of... -
Friend or Foe? by Michael J. Strada
SciFier: $143.16During the nearly sixty years of filmmaking, the always uneasy and often fractious Soviet-American relationship has been mirrored in Hollywood's portrayal of Russians and the Soviet Union. Friend or... -
A Postmodern Cinema by Mary Alemany-Galway
SciFier: $129.26A Postmodern Cinema: The Voice of the Other in Canadian Film is both an informative description of postmodern and poststructuralist theory and an enlightening illustration of how Canadian filmmakers... -
Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction James Gunn 9780810854208
SciFier: $79.22Harvard's George C. Simpson called the late Isaac Asimov "one of our natural wonders and national resources," for his hundreds of nonfiction works on science, mathematics, history, and literature... -
Malcolm St. Clair by Ruth Anne Dwyer
SciFier: $108.41Malcolm St. Clair was a master director of sophisticated silent comedy. This book traces his career, from his start as a Mack Sennett Keystone Kop, through the action-adventures of the early 1920s,... -
The A to Z of Australian and New Zealand Cinema by Albert Moran
SciFier: $73.66Whether it was Jane Campion's The Piano, Mel Gibson in Mad Max, Paul Hogan in Crocodile Dundee, or The Lord of the Rings saga, we have all experienced the cinema of Australia and New Zealand. This... -
Shoot the Rehearsal! by Rudy Behlmer
SciFier: $109.10Ridgeway (Reggie) Callow began his film career in the early 1930s and for four decades worked as an assistant director on some of the most memorable films in Hollywood history. In the early 1970s,... -
A Year of Hitchcock: 52 Weeks with the Master of Suspense Jim McDevitt 9780810881396
RRP: $20.84SciFier: $19.79Alfred Hitchcock's career spanned more than five decades, during which he directed more than 50 films, many of them indisputable classics: Notorious, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, North... -
William Beaudine by Wendy L. Marshall
SciFier: $109.10William Beaudine began his tenure in film as an assistant to the legendary D. W. Griffith. At the height of his career, Beaudine worked for every major studio and directed many greats of the silent... -
The Brothers Grim by Erica Rowell
SciFier: $87.56In 1984 Joel and Ethan Coen burst onto the art-house film scene with their neo-noir Blood Simple and ever since then they have sharpened the cutting edge of independent film. Blending black humor and... -
The A to Z of African American Cinema by S. Torriano Berry
SciFier: $73.66On 4 July, 1910, in 100-degree heat at an outdoor boxing ring near Reno, Nevada, film cameras recorded-and thousands of fans witnessed-former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries' reluctant return from... -
The A to Z of French Cinema by Dayna Oscherwitz
SciFier: $73.66It can be argued that cinema was created in France by Louis Lumiere in 1895 with the invention of the cinematographe, the first true motion-picture camera and projector. While there were other... -
The Pedagogy of Adaptation by Dennis Cutchins
SciFier: $86.17From All Quiet on the Western Front and Gone with the Wind to No Country for Old Men and Slumdog Millionaire, many of the most memorable films have been adapted from other sources. And while courses... -
The Films of Agnes Moorehead by Axel Nissen
SciFier: $129.95Before she achieved immortality on the long-running situation comedy Bewitched, Agnes Moorehead had established a distinguished career as a character actress. After her screen debut in Citizen Kane... -
The Francis Ford Coppola Encyclopedia by James M. Welsh
SciFier: $129.95Francis Ford Coppola's career has spanned five decades, from low budget films he produced in the early 1960s to more personal films of recent years. Because of the tremendous popular success of The... -
Straight from the Horse's Mouth: Ronald Neame, an Autobiography Ronald Neame 9780810848993
SciFier: $56.98Now in Paperback! Ronald Neame's autobiography takes its title from one of his best-loved films, The Horse's Mouth (1958), starring Alec Guinness. In an informative and entertaining style, Neame... -
American Classic Screen Interviews by John C. Tibbetts
SciFier: $93.81First appearing in 1976, American Classic Screen was the publishing arm of The National Film Society. Intended for scholars and general readers interested in films from the golden age of cinema and... -
American Classic Screen Features by John C. Tibbetts
SciFier: $93.81First appearing in 1976, American Classic Screen was the publishing arm of The National Film Society. Intended for scholars and general readers interested in films from the golden age of cinema and... -
Post-9/11 Cinema by John Markert
SciFier: $109.10In contemporary society, cinema has become a primary way in which people gain knowledge about events taking place in the world. Films often go beyond news reports by showing in-depth,... -
Altman and After by Peter F. Parshall
SciFier: $108.41In American cinema, films with multiple plots can be traced back to Grand Hotel in 1932, but the form was used only sporadically in subsequent decades. However, filmmakers of the 1970s and 80s,... -
Hooked in Film by John Markert
SciFier: $159.84Though drug use was widespread in the nineteenth century, the negative influence of narcotics was mostly unknown. Cinema of the early twentieth century was instrumental in making viewers aware of the...