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Natural Selection: Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music, and Books
ISBN: 9780195368505 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Long recognized as America's most brilliant jazz writer, winner of the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award, Gary Giddins has also produced a wide range of stimulating and original cultural criticism in other fields. With Natural Selection, he brings together the best of these previously uncollected essays, including a few written expressly for this volume. The range of topics is spellbinding. Writing with insight, humor, and a famously deft touch, he offers sharp-edged perspectives on such diverse subjects as Federico Fellini and Jean Renoir, Norman Mailer and Ralph Ellison, Marlon...
Long recognized as America's most brilliant jazz writer, winner of the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award, Gary Giddins has also produced ...
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114,85 zł |
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"Blue Velvet"
ISBN: 9780747551768 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Blue Velvet is perhaps David Lynch's best film to date, and certainly his most well-known. Beneath its tranquil, small-town ambience lies violence and depravity on a hideous scale, with Dennis Hopper as Frank at its core. This work covers what one could possibly want to know about the film.
Blue Velvet is perhaps David Lynch's best film to date, and certainly his most well-known. Beneath its tranquil, small-town ambience lies violence and...
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66,70 zł |
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Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of "Friday the 13th"
ISBN: 9781845763435 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When "Friday the 13th" premiered in 1980, the film introduced moviegoers to a new kind of cinematic terror - shocking, visceral, and graphic. Spawning ten popular sequels, the series has become the most successful horror franchise. Illustrated with nearly 600 photos, archives and production materials, this volume is a visual memoir of the series.
When "Friday the 13th" premiered in 1980, the film introduced moviegoers to a new kind of cinematic terror - shocking, visceral, and graphic. Spawning...
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176,54 zł |
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Fifty Key British Films
ISBN: 9780415433297 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Fifty Key British Films, Britain's best known films such as Clockwork Orange, The Full Monty and Goldfinger are scrutinised for their outstanding ability to articulate the issues of the time. This is essential reading for anyone interested in quality, cult film. In Fifty Key British Films, Britain's best known films such as Clockwork Orange, The Full Monty and Goldfinger are scrutinised for their o... |
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560,94 zł |
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Fifty Key American Films
ISBN: 9780415772969 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fifty Key American Films explores and contextualises some of the most important films ever made in the United States. With case studies from the early years of cinema to the present day, this comprehensive Key Guide provides accessible analyses from a range of theoretical perspectives. This chronologically ordered volume includes coverage of:
Fifty Key American Films explores and contextualises some of the most important films ever made in the United States. Wit... |
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707,28 zł |
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Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era
ISBN: 9780231130554 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taken as a whole, the sixteen remarkable films discussed in this provocative new volume of essays represent the brilliant creativity that flourished in the name of German cinema between the wars. Encompassing early gangster pictures and science fiction, avant-garde and fantasy films, sexual intrigues and love stories, the classics of silent cinema and Germany's first talkies, each chapter illuminates, among other things: the technological advancements of a given film, its detailed production history, its critical reception over time, and the place it occupies within the larger history of the...
Taken as a whole, the sixteen remarkable films discussed in this provocative new volume of essays represent the brilliant creativity that flourished i...
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143,77 zł |
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The Mexican Masked Wrestler and Monster Filmography
ISBN: 9780786441044 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A filmography that features some of the oddest cinematic showdowns - Mexican masked wrestlers battling monsters, evil geniuses and other ne'er-do-wells, be it in caves, cobwebbed castles or in the ring.
A filmography that features some of the oddest cinematic showdowns - Mexican masked wrestlers battling monsters, evil geniuses and other ne'er-do-well...
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167,43 zł |
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The Legend Returns and Dies Harder Another Day: Essays on Film Series
ISBN: 9780786439430 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work examines a selection of film series representative of three periods in American film history: silent cinema, Classic Hollywood cinema, and the post-Classic or New Hollywood cinema.
This work examines a selection of film series representative of three periods in American film history: silent cinema, Classic Hollywood cinema, and t...
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194,61 zł |
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Roy Scheider: A Film Biography
ISBN: 9780786440597 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over his 30-plus-year acting career, Roy Scheider has redefined America's idea of a leading man. He rose to fame in the early 1970s in the Oscar-winning films Klute and The French Connections (his first Oscar nomination). This work chronicles Scheider's life and career. It also includes a complete filmography.
Over his 30-plus-year acting career, Roy Scheider has redefined America's idea of a leading man. He rose to fame in the early 1970s in the Oscar-winni...
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194,61 zł |
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Ain't It Cool?: Hollywood's Redheaded Stepchild Speaks Out
ISBN: 9780446679916 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. * Ain't it Cool? was published in Warner hardcover (0-446-52597-9) in 3/02. The foreword is written by Quentin Tarantino.
* Knowles' Web site gets over 1,200 emails and 1.5 million hits daily. Quentin Tarantino, Ron Howard, and Bruce Willis are among his many celebrity fans. * Harry has appeared on Roger Ebert & the Movies and Politically Incorrect, and has been profiled in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, Time(R), Parade, US, and Entertainment Weekly. He was featured in Earthlink.com's $15 million ad campaign. * Internet site... * Ain't it Cool? was published in Warner hardcover (0-446-52597-9) in 3/02. The foreword is written by Quentin Tarantino.
* Knowles' Web site gets ... |
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106,48 zł |
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Russian Critics on the Cinema of Glasnost
ISBN: 9780521087674 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection brings together twenty-three essays by some of Russia's most astute commentators on film and culture, written during the 1980s and published here in English for the first time. Included are reviews of films such as Little Vera and Taxi Blues, which were critically hailed in the West. Their comments illuminate important aspects of Russian filmmaking during this decade and capture a sense of a society in flux during the waning years of communism, as well as conveying the larger context within which Glasnost cinema and culture developed.
This collection brings together twenty-three essays by some of Russia's most astute commentators on film and culture, written during the 1980s and pub...
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205,79 zł |
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Terminator Salvation: The Official Movie Companion
ISBN: 9781848560819 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This offical movie companion to the fourth Terminator movie 'Terminator Salvation' starring Christian Bale takes readers behind-the-scenes of the making of the film and contains interviews with the cast and crew, including Bale and director McG.
This offical movie companion to the fourth Terminator movie 'Terminator Salvation' starring Christian Bale takes readers behind-the-scenes of the maki...
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90,75 zł |
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Slasher Films: An International Filmography, 1960 Through 2001
ISBN: 9780786442317 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The slasher film genre got its start in the early 1960s when acclaimed filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock and Michael Powell made provocative mainstream film such as Psycho and Peeping Tom, but it is most associated with the late 1970s and the releases of Halloween and Friday the 13th. This work presents over 250 slasher films.
The slasher film genre got its start in the early 1960s when acclaimed filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock and Michael Powell made provocative mainstr...
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221,24 zł |
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The First Hollywood Sound Shorts, 1926-1931
ISBN: 9780786443192 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Describes the development of sound motion pictures in Hollywood by such influential companies as Warner Bros and Fox. This book discusses its impact on other mass entertainments, the development of audible news reels and other non-fiction shorts, as well as the origins of animated sound subjects.
Describes the development of sound motion pictures in Hollywood by such influential companies as Warner Bros and Fox. This book discusses its impact o...
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275,04 zł |
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Blur (Volume 3)
ISBN: 9781934543573 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The third in a series collecting the complete weekly "Video Views" columns (1999-2001) by renowned cartoonist, author and film scholar Stephen R. Bissette covers the video and DVD releases of November 2000 to May 2001. As the Millennium turned, Bissette wrote with perceptive wit and a greater grasp of cinema history than the high-ticket critics. From the slick Hollywood fantasy Frequency to Dogme 95 spawn Dancer in the Dark, he screened 'em all. He covered true indy films and often interviewed the filmmakers themselves. He discussed the revivals and rehashes, the glorious and the ghastly.
The third in a series collecting the complete weekly "Video Views" columns (1999-2001) by renowned cartoonist, author and film scholar Stephen R. Biss...
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90,17 zł |
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A Moving Picture Feast: The Filmgoer's Hemingway
ISBN: 9780275931469 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in A Moving Picture Feast discuss every Hollywood film made from a Hemingway work and represent the most diverse response yet to the Hemingway-Hollywood relationship. The contributors examine the popular public image Hollywood created of Hemingway the man and offer a provocative look at the esthetic relationship between fiction and cinema. They criticize the films themselves as art, in many cases with scene-by-scene analysis, and explore the process by which films are adapted from novels and short stories. Their research includes inside decisions made by producers and directors... The essays in A Moving Picture Feast discuss every Hollywood film made from a Hemingway work and represent the most diverse response yet to the Hem... |
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308,07 zł |
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Blur (Volume 2)
ISBN: 9781934543252 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The second of four volumes collecting the complete weekly "Video Views" columns (1999-2001) by renowned cartoonist, author, and film scholar Bissette covers the video and DVD releases of January to November 2000.
The second of four volumes collecting the complete weekly "Video Views" columns (1999-2001) by renowned cartoonist, author, and film scholar Bissette ...
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90,17 zł |
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Blur (Volume 4)
ISBN: 9781934543580 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fourth volume collecting the complete weekly "Video Views" columns (1999-2001) by Bissette covers May to October 2001, and miscellaneous video and DVD-related articles from this period.
The fourth volume collecting the complete weekly "Video Views" columns (1999-2001) by Bissette covers May to October 2001, and miscellaneous video and...
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90,17 zł |
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Silent Mystery and Detective Movies: A Comprehensive Filmography
ISBN: 9780786443505 / Angielski / Miękka / 291 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The silent-film era was known in part for its cliffhanger serials and air of suspense that kept audiences returning to theaters week after week. This guide to silent films with mystery and detective content lists over 1,500 titles in one of entertainment's most popular and enduring genres.
The silent-film era was known in part for its cliffhanger serials and air of suspense that kept audiences returning to theaters week after week. This ...
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221,24 zł |
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The Baseball Filmography, 1915 Through 2001
ISBN: 9780786444977 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Looks at 111 'fictional' baseball films produced and released in the United States from 1915 through 2001. This title includes 29 films produced between 1991 and 2001. It offers behind-the-scenes and background information.
Looks at 111 'fictional' baseball films produced and released in the United States from 1915 through 2001. This title includes 29 films produced betwe...
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409,82 zł |