Peter Bogdanovich's Movie of the Week
ISBN: 9780345432056 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A FRONT-ROW SEAT TO A YEAR'S WORTH OF MUST-SEE FILMS
Director, producer, screenwriter, author, actor, and film critic, Peter Bogdanovich knows movies. Now, in this unique new book, he shares his passion with a connoisseur's insight and delight by inviting the reader to join him for a year at the movies--fifty-two weeks, fifty-two films, fifty-two reasons to watch. Which films does Peter Bogdanovich call . . . "The most hauntingly chilling, strangely prophetic science-fiction picture ever made." (You'll be treated to it on Halloween) "A scintillatingly directed... A FRONT-ROW SEAT TO A YEAR'S WORTH OF MUST-SEE FILMS
Director, producer, screenwriter, author, actor, and film critic, Peter Bogdanovich knows mov... |
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65,36 zł |
The Essential Atlas: Star Wars
ISBN: 9780345477644 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Navigate the Star Wars universe as you never have before-with this fully illustrated, full-color guide that maps the entire galaxy.
You know the planets-from Alderaan and Corellia to Tatooine and Zonama Sekot-and the star systems, from the Deep Core to the Outer Rim. But now, for the first time, you can pinpoint their locations and chart the travels of your favorite characters through the vast reaches of space. Star Wars: The Essential Atlas is a galaxy-spanning trove of vital statistics and information ranging from the astronomical and geographical (-Systems, Sectors,... Navigate the Star Wars universe as you never have before-with this fully illustrated, full-color guide that maps the entire galaxy.
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143,80 zł |
Nobody's Perfect: Writings from the New Yorker
ISBN: 9780375714344 / Angielski / Miękka / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anthony Lane on Con Air
Advance word on Con Air said that it was all about an airplane with an unusually dangerous and potentially lethal load. Big deal. You should try the lunches they serve out of Newark. Compared with the chicken napalm I ate on my last flight, the men in Con Air are about as dangerous as balloons. Anthony Lane on The Bridges of Madison County I got my copy at the airport, behind a guy who was buying Playboy s Book of Lingerie, and I think he had the better deal. He certainly looked happy with his purchase, whereas I had to... Anthony Lane on Con Air
Advance word on Con Air said that it was all about an airplane with an unusually dangerous and potentially ... |
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122,01 zł |
Violent Screen: A Critic's 13 Years on the Front Lines of Movie Mayhem
ISBN: 9780385316521 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Baltimore Sun film critic Stephen Hunter is an unrivaled master of his craft. This extraordinary collection includes the best of Hunter's movie reviews, taking aim at one hundred of the most important (or notorious) violent films released since 1982. With an incisive, machine-gun style of writing, Hunter pulls no punches when he bashes Blue Velvet, Tombstone, and Legends of the Fall. And he doesn't hold back in his praise of The Wild Bunch, Goodfellas, and Reservoir Dogs. Commenting on movies and society, Tarantino, Stone, and Peckinpah, Arnold...
Baltimore Sun film critic Stephen Hunter is an unrivaled master of his craft. This extraordinary collection includes the best of Hunter's movie...
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82,79 zł |
Narrative Comprehension and Film
ISBN: 9780415075121 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Narrative is one of the ways we organise and understnad the world. It is found everywhere: not only in films and books, but also in everday conversations and in the nonfictional discourses of journalists, historians, educators, psychologists, attorneys and many others.
Edward Branigan presents a telling exploration of the basic concepts of narrative theory and its relation to film - and literary - analysis, bringing together theories from linguistics and cognitive science, and applying them to the screen. Individual analyses of classical narratives form the basis of a complex study of... Narrative is one of the ways we organise and understnad the world. It is found everywhere: not only in films and books, but also in everday conversati...
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187,04 zł |
Like a Film: Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera and Canvas
ISBN: 9780415077330 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this collection of theoretical writings on film, photography and art, Timothy Murray examines relations between artistic practice, sexual and racial politics, theory and cultural studies. Like a Film investigates how the cinematic apparatus has invaded the theory of culture, as a way of weaving together the disparate psycho-political fabrics of cultural production, psychoanalysis and politically-marked subject positions. Murray analyzes the impact of cinematic perceptions and productions on a wide array of cultural practices: experimental art - from the film-making of Yvonne Rainer and...
In this collection of theoretical writings on film, photography and art, Timothy Murray examines relations between artistic practice, sexual and racia...
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701,59 zł |
Like a Film: Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera and Canvas
ISBN: 9780415077347 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this stimulating collection of theoretical writings on film, photography, and art, Timothy Murray examines relations between artistic practice, sexual and racial politics, theory and cultural studies.
Like a Film investigates how the cinematic apparatus has invaded the theory of culture, suggesting that the many destabilising traumas of our culture remain accessible to us because they are structured so much like film. The book analyses the impact of cinematic perceptions and productions on awide array of cultural practices: from the Renassance works of Shakespeare and... In this stimulating collection of theoretical writings on film, photography, and art, Timothy Murray examines relations between artistic practice, sex...
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192,23 zł |
The Road Movie Book
ISBN: 9780415149365 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Road Movie Book is the first comprehensive study of an enduring but ever-changing Hollywood genre, its place in American culture, and its legacy to world cinema. The road and the cinema both flourished in the twentieth century, as technological advances brought motion pictures to a mass audience and the mass produced automobile opened up the road to the ordinary American. When Jean Baudrillard equated modern American culture with 'space, speed, cinema, technology' he could just as easily have added that the road movie is its supreme emblem.
The contributors explore how the... The Road Movie Book is the first comprehensive study of an enduring but ever-changing Hollywood genre, its place in American culture, and its...
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701,59 zł |
The Road Movie Book
ISBN: 9780415149372 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Road Movie Book is the first comprehensive study of an enduring but ever-changing Hollywood genre, its place in American culture, and its legacy to world cinema. The road and the cinema both flourished in the twentieth century, as technological advances brought motion pictures to a mass audience and the mass produced automobile opened up the road to the ordinary American. When Jean Baudrillard equated modern American culture with 'space, speed, cinema, technology' he could just as easily have added that the road movie is its supreme emblem.
The contributors explore how the... The Road Movie Book is the first comprehensive study of an enduring but ever-changing Hollywood genre, its place in American culture, and its...
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202,63 zł |
Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film
ISBN: 9780415187039 / Angielski / Twarda / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This one volume work illuminates a variety of cinema which is little known outside its own area. It is divided into nine chapters, each written by a leading scholar in the field. Each chapter covers the history and major issues of film within that area, as well as providing bibliographies of the leading films, directors and actors. The areas covered are: Central Asia; Egypt; Iran; Israel; Lebanon; Syria; Iraq; Kuwait; Libya; The Magreb; Palestine; and Turkey.
This one volume work illuminates a variety of cinema which is little known outside its own area. It is divided into nine chapters, each written by a l...
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1351,21 zł |
Film Studies: The Essential Resource
ISBN: 9780415365673 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together a wide array of accessible and contemporary source material, Film Studies is the ideal companion for students studying film studies at university and pre-university level. From printed media to the views of actual individuals involved in the film-making process, the sources cover all areas to illustrate key topics in film studies. They include:
With each extract... Bringing together a wide array of accessible and contemporary source material, Film Studies is the ideal companion for students studying film studi... |
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701,59 zł |
The Village Voice Film Guide: 50 Years of Movies from Classics to Cult Hits
ISBN: 9780471787815 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For decades the Village Voice set the benchmark for passionate, critical, and unique film coverage. Including reviews by some of America's most respected critics, The Village Voice Film Guide compiles spirited landmark reviews of the Voice's selection of the 150 greatest films ever made. Collecting some of the best writing on film ever put on paper, this is a perfect book for film buffs.
For decades the Village Voice set the benchmark for passionate, critical, and unique film coverage. Including reviews by some of America's most...
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73,86 zł |
Five Screenplays by Preston Sturges
ISBN: 9780520055643 / Angielski / Miękka / 848 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here are five comic masterpieces by Preston Sturges, who has been called "Hollywood's greatest writer-director, with emphasis on the former." The scripts are drawn from the great period between 1939 and 1944, which Andrew Sarris called "one of the most brilliant and most bizarre bursts of creation in the history of cinema."
They are astonishingly readable and deliciously funny. Brian Henderson's introduction provides an overview of Sturges criticism and brief biographical material. Each script is preceded by a prefatory essay discussing its evolution. The insights provided by this volume... Here are five comic masterpieces by Preston Sturges, who has been called "Hollywood's greatest writer-director, with emphasis on the former." The scri...
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218,82 zł |
Screen Writings: Texts and Scripts from Independent Films
ISBN: 9780520080256 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Ask audience to cut the part of the image on the screen that they don't like. Supply scissors."--Yoko Ono, Tokyo, June 1964 A dazzling range of unconventional film scripts and texts, many published for the first time, make up Scott MacDonald's newest collection. Illustrated with nearly 100 film stills, this fascinating book is at once a reference work of film history and an unparalleled sampling of experimental "language art." It contributes to the very dissipation of boundaries between cinematic, literary, and artistic expression thematized in the films themselves. Each text and script...
"Ask audience to cut the part of the image on the screen that they don't like. Supply scissors."--Yoko Ono, Tokyo, June 1964 A dazzling range of u...
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213,41 zł |
Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism
ISBN: 9780520086333 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jonathan Rosenbaum, longtime contributor to such publications as Film Quarterly, Sight and Sound, and The Village Voice, is arguably the most eloquent, insightful film critic writing in America today. Placing Movies, the first collection of his work, gathers together thirty of his most distinctive and illuminating pieces. Written over a span of twenty-one years, these essays cover an extraordinarily broad range of films--from Hollywood blockbusters to foreign art movies to experimental cinema. They include not just reviews but perceptive commentary on directors, actors,...
Jonathan Rosenbaum, longtime contributor to such publications as Film Quarterly, Sight and Sound, and The Village Voice, is arguably th...
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213,41 zł |
Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Trilogy
ISBN: 9780521550840 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In six essays written especially for this volume, The Godfather trilogy is reexamined from a variety of perspectives. Providing original analyses on the form and significance of Coppola's achievement, they demonstrate how the filmmaker revised the conventions of the American crime film in the Vietnam era, his treatment of the capitalism of the criminal underworld and its inherent violence, the power struggles within Hollywood over the film, and the contribution of opera to the epic force and cinematic style of Coppola's vision of an American criminal dynasty.
In six essays written especially for this volume, The Godfather trilogy is reexamined from a variety of perspectives. Providing original analyses on t...
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286,93 zł |
100 Nights in the Dark: A Collection of Contemporary Film Reviews and Essays
ISBN: 9780595163915 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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73,86 zł |
Back Shelf Beauties: Movies You Should Rent When The New Stuff Is Gone
ISBN: 9780595257447 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 Bogart, Spencer Tracy, Sidney Potier and Ingrid Bergman. Willie Waffle brings insight, historical background and a sense of humor to his reviews that seperates him from other, stuffy, know-it-all...
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 Beauti...
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60,78 zł |
ShockJuly: An Adventure in Horror
ISBN: 9780595308583 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Back by popular demand, the Shock-marathon series of book reviews continues with "ShockJuly: An Adventure in Horror." This book delivers not only the irreverent reviews of three dedicated horror movie aficionados, but also recounts the emotions and tales of the screenings themselves. Only "ShockJuly" allows you, dare I say challenges you, to relive the triumphs and tragedies of an insane horror movie marathon.
Will Crazy Wanda and Bigfoot be reunited? If a goat tries to climb a stepladder, will it fall off? Can you perform a banjo solo in a horror movie and get away with it? Do ghostly... Back by popular demand, the Shock-marathon series of book reviews continues with "ShockJuly: An Adventure in Horror." This book delivers not only the ...
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69,50 zł |
Movie Mom's (R) Guide to Family Movies: 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780595320950 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This second edition of Nell Minow's popular parents' guide to managing the media has hundreds of movies for families with children between 2-18 and advice for parents on how to use what they watch to bring families closer.
This second edition of Nell Minow's popular parents' guide to managing the media has hundreds of movies for families with children between 2-18 and ad...
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147,93 zł |