The Ultimate Book of Gangster Movies: Featuring the 100 Greatest Gangster Films of All Time
ISBN: 9780762441549 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The gangster movie is one of the most popular genres in film. From the Italian, Irish, and Russian "families" in America to similarly sinister groups in Europe, Japan, and beyond, the cinema has never shied away from portraying the evil exploits of these brutal outfits. In this highly entertaining and informative book, two accomplished and apropos authors put the genre in perspective like no other author or documentarian has done before.
The Ultimate Book of Gangster Movies provides extensive reviews of the Top 100 gangster films of all time, including sidebars like "Reality Check,"... The gangster movie is one of the most popular genres in film. From the Italian, Irish, and Russian "families" in America to similarly sinister groups ...
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95,13 zł |
Look, Up on the Screen! the Big Book of Superhero Movie Reviews
ISBN: 9781927339480 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Superheroes have invaded film more in the past decade and a half than they have in their entire history. From major blockbusters like Man of Steel and The Dark Knight Trilogy, to DC Entertainments line of fantastic direct-to-video animated films, to other super-flicks like The Incredibles, superheroes are enjoying a major resurgence in popular culture and fans have now entered a golden era of superhero cinema.
Lifelong superhero fan and author A.P. Fuchs has made it his mission to see every superhero movie thats been brought to screen. Collected here are his first one hundred reviews,... Superheroes have invaded film more in the past decade and a half than they have in their entire history. From major blockbusters like Man of Steel and...
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Reviews of the Dead: 25 Zombie Movies to Die for
ISBN: 9781935458968 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From beyond the grave, comes a book so amazing you shouldn't be caught dead without it Featuring in-depth insight, trivia, statistics, commentary, and analysis on over 25 of the best zombie movies of all time, Reviews of the Dead is the ultimate guide to your favorite zombie films. Covering genre staples like the films of George Romero and Lucio Fulci, to more modern classics like Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland, and Planet Terror, this book is bursting at the seams with enough content and information to entertain even the most die-hard undead fans, as well as serving as a fantastic starting...
From beyond the grave, comes a book so amazing you shouldn't be caught dead without it Featuring in-depth insight, trivia, statistics, commentary, an...
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This is NOT a Review (a book of unsolicited movie opinions): The most epic book of geek-centric movie musings you've ever laid eyes on.
ISBN: 9781460947821 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If you're looking for a book of straightforward movie reviews, this isn't the book for you. Instead, this is a collection of the most subjective, random, and out-there movie texts we could squeeze out of our cinema-soaked brains. Covering everything from 2010 blockbusters to the genre of "nostalgia films," we take you on a roller-coaster ride through the world of geek cinema. Topics include: The Hollywood Remake Machine: Why I just don't care anymore Harry Potter and the Reason You Should Ignore This Review Believe it or Not When "Based on a True Story" Goes Bad... Screen Teens: From...
If you're looking for a book of straightforward movie reviews, this isn't the book for you. Instead, this is a collection of the most subjective, rand...
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45,38 zł |
My Absolutely Insane Attempt To Rank All Cinema
ISBN: 9781450513708 / Angielski / Miękka / 474 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Forget all those top 10 movie lists--this top 10 movie list goes to 11. And if you recognize that reference (This Is Spinal Tap, #269) this is the book for you. In fact it goes right through 11 all the way to 4,336. The author, Taylor Carmichael (a filmmaker in his own right) has ranked every movie he has seen in his life, from first (Casablanca, #1) to worst (Irreversible, #4336). He crisscrosses all genres, ranking high art (Sansho the Bailiff, #3915) and B movie schlock (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, #553). He grades both the avant-garde (Meshes of the Afternoon, #748) and children's...
Forget all those top 10 movie lists--this top 10 movie list goes to 11. And if you recognize that reference (This Is Spinal Tap, #269) this is the boo...
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77,18 zł |
Movies: The Good, The Bad, and the Really, Really Bad: Everything a Christian Needs to Know About Movie-Going!
ISBN: 9781449570071 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An incisive, often humorous revelation of the cinema's cultural impact. The book features secrets of the motion picture business and how to counter Hollywood's influence. Plus, DVD alternatives for each family member and how to help teens make wise movie choices.
An incisive, often humorous revelation of the cinema's cultural impact. The book features secrets of the motion picture business and how to counter Ho...
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67,90 zł |
The Video Source Book
ISBN: 9781414471952 / Angielski / Miękka / 5035 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From classroom aids to corporate training programs, technical resources to self-help guides, children's features to documentaries, theatrical releases to straight-to-video movies, The Video Source Book continues its comprehensive coverage of the wide universe of video offerings with listing for more than 130,000 complete program listings, encompassing over 160,000 videos.
From classroom aids to corporate training programs, technical resources to self-help guides, children's features to documentaries, theatrical releases...
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The Case Files of the Oriental Sleuths: Charlie Chan, Mr. Moto, and Mr. Wong
ISBN: 9781593936426 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE CASE FILES OF THE ORIENTAL SLEUTHS: CHARLIE CHAN MR. MOTO MR. WONG During the golden age of magazine fiction, motion pictures, and radio-roughly the 1920s through the late 1940s-three Oriental crime fighters were introduced to the American public. Through the media which they inhabited they became fictional icons in American popular culture: Honolulu Police Inspector Charlie Chan, International Secret Agent Mr. I. A. Moto, and Justice Department Agent Mr. James Lee Wong-commonly known as the Oriental Sleuths. Created by respected authors Earl Derr Biggers, Pulitzer Prize-winner John P....
THE CASE FILES OF THE ORIENTAL SLEUTHS: CHARLIE CHAN MR. MOTO MR. WONG During the golden age of magazine fiction, motion pictures, and radio-roughly t...
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145,35 zł |
The Good, the Bad and the Godawful: 21st-Century Movie Reviews
ISBN: 9780312641634 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The former Rolling Stone writer and MTV host takes off from classic Roger Ebert and sails boldly into the new millennium. The former Rolling Stone writer and MTV host takes off from classic Roger Ebert and sails boldly into the new millennium. |
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Grand National, Producers Releasing Corporation, and Screen Guild/Lippert
ISBN: 9780786467136 / Angielski / Miękka / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout the 1930s, 40s and 50s, several independent film production companies (referred to a poverty row studios) turned out hundreds of B movies--low-budget feature films that were specifically designed to play the bottom half of the double bills. This handy reference focuses on the output of three of these independents--Grand National (1936-1939), Producers Releasing Corporation (1939-1948), and Screen Guild/Lippert (1945-1955).
Throughout the 1930s, 40s and 50s, several independent film production companies (referred to a poverty row studios) turned out hundreds of B movies--...
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187,69 zł |
Front Row Activist
ISBN: 9781461115656 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over 400 movie reviews for progressives, leftists, lefties, upstarts, socialists, anarchists, liberals, unionists, radicals, rebels, dissidents, activists, peaceniks, feminists, skeptics, reds, anti-fascists, anti-capitalists, anti-imperialists, subversives, environmentalists, advocates, people of color, members of the GLBT community and a variety of other very important key words.
Over 400 movie reviews for progressives, leftists, lefties, upstarts, socialists, anarchists, liberals, unionists, radicals, rebels, dissidents, activ...
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67,90 zł |
Crime
ISBN: 9780415581400 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Crime films have, since the earliest days of cinema, been popular with audiences, industry and critics alike and encompassed a diverse range of subjects, styles and themes. The genre provides a range of pleasures for the spectator, from taking on the role of the detective in the pursuit of clues in the 'whodunit', to the more illicit thrills of identification with an anti hero. In the many incarnations of the crime film such as the gangster, film noir, political and detective thrillers, the genre explores the anxieties of different historical moments. Sarah Casey Benyahia provides an...
Crime films have, since the earliest days of cinema, been popular with audiences, industry and critics alike and encompassed a diverse range of subjec...
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572,76 zł |
Godard
ISBN: 9781844573554 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richard Roud's seminal study of the director Jean-Luc Godard places the director in the context of modern European cinema, on which Godard's work has been hugely influential, and considers Godard's 'political' cinema, including the ferocious masterpiece 'Weekend'. This new edition includes an introduction by Michael Temple."
Richard Roud's seminal study of the director Jean-Luc Godard places the director in the context of modern European cinema, on which Godard's work has ...
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468,63 zł |
The Meaning of Life in Movies
ISBN: 9781888146875 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From an acclaimed novelist comes a collection of reflections on life, meaning, and movies.
From an acclaimed novelist comes a collection of reflections on life, meaning, and movies.
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Caroline Munro, First Lady of Fantasy: A Complete Annotated Record of Film and Television Appearances
ISBN: 9780786468829 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This filmography (including television and music video appearances) chronicles the career of Caroline Munro, a woman of humble beginnings whose chance entry in a Face of the Year photo competition propelled her to international fame as a model and actress, and whose work in genre cinema has won her the well-earned title of First Lady of Fantasy. It provides complete technical and cast credits for each film, a synopsis, reviews and notes, and a foreword by Caroline Munro.
This filmography (including television and music video appearances) chronicles the career of Caroline Munro, a woman of humble beginnings whose chance...
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Franz Waxman's Rebecca: A Film Score Guide
ISBN: 9780810881365 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Upon his arrival in Hollywood, Alfred Hitchcock began work on his first American film, an adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's best-selling novel. Produced by David O. Selznick and featuring compelling performances by Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, and Judith Anderson, Rebecca became one of Hitchcock's most successful films. It was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and received the Oscar for Best Picture, the only Hitchcock work to be so honored. Without question, one of the reasons for the film's success is its ninety minutes of dramatic musical underscoring by Franz Waxman. In Franz...
Upon his arrival in Hollywood, Alfred Hitchcock began work on his first American film, an adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's best-selling novel. Produc...
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357,57 zł |
What Do You Mean You Haven't Seen - ?: A Family Guide to Classic Movies
ISBN: 9780615563824 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Take your kids on an adventure Who else is going to introduce them to the golden age of Hollywood, one of America's greatest contributions to the world? By the time you have watched these classic movies together, they will be good friends with the Marx Brothers, Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant...and they too can annoy their friends by exclaiming, "What do you mean you haven't seen - ?"
Take your kids on an adventure Who else is going to introduce them to the golden age of Hollywood, one of America's greatest contributions to the wor...
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113,33 zł |
The Great Movies III
ISBN: 9780226182094 / Angielski / Miękka / 417 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Roger Ebert has been writing film reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times for over four decades now and his biweekly essays on great movies have been appearing there since 1996. As Ebert noted in the introduction to the first collection of those pieces, "They are not the greatest films of all time, because all lists of great movies are a foolish attempt to codify works which must stand alone. But it's fair to say: If you want to take a tour of the landmarks of the first century of cinema, start here. Enter The Great Movies III, Ebert's third collection of essays on the...Roger Ebert has been writing film reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times for over four decades now and his biweekly essays on great movies have b... |
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95,17 zł |
Latin-American Cinema Today: The Directors Perspective
ISBN: 9788562268052 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in a bilingual format, this unique collection of articles by leading film directors of 10 Latin American countries presents a diverse and refreshing view of Latin American audiovisual vitality. The filmmakers who have contributed their time and effort to offer their perspectives of the directions of the film industry in their respective countries are as diverse as the region's cinema itself. Several, such as Bruno Barreto (Brasil) and Andres Wood (Chile), are veterans in their country's film industry with worldwide recognition and prizes, while others, such as Sebastian Cordero...
Published in a bilingual format, this unique collection of articles by leading film directors of 10 Latin American countries presents a diverse and re...
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108,15 zł |
Wild Bill Elliott
ISBN: 9780786469031 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wild Bill Elliott was a major western star. His screen persona met evil head-on and emerged victorious, bringing cheers from Saturday audiences.
Wild Bill Elliott was a major western star. His screen persona met evil head-on and emerged victorious, bringing cheers from Saturday audiences.
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218,27 zł |