Sci-Fi Savant
ISBN: 9781434433107 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "When it comes to classic sci-fi movies it's rare to find much in the way of new insights. But Glenn Erickson, whose fine website DVD Savant has produced some of the most enlightening and clear eyed commentary on the Internet, has gathered together his essays on 116 imagi-movies, both famous and obscure, into Sci Fi Savant. It's a treasure trove of ideas, opinions and research that'll entertain you for hours. A must-have " Joe Dante, director of GREMLINS, MATINEE, THE HOLE Glenn Erickson, the DVD SAVANT, has been reviewing classic science fiction ever since his column first appeared in the...
"When it comes to classic sci-fi movies it's rare to find much in the way of new insights. But Glenn Erickson, whose fine website DVD Savant has produ...
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114,79 zł |
Blood Splatter: A Guide to Cinematic Zombie Violence, Gore and Special Effects
ISBN: 9781456525729 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Blood Splatter: A Guide to Cinematic Zombie Violence, Gore and Special Effects" by Craig W. Chenery is an in depth look at how gore and special effects have influenced and defined the zombie genre.
Inside you will find: An exhaustive look at over 300 zombie films including detailed criteria such as body count, zombie count, amount of gore and effects quality. Almost 5,500 gory effects shots have been highlighted. Every bite, headshot and disembowelment has been listed enabling the viewer to easily locate the best in zombie gore. Thirty five exclusive interviews with the... "Blood Splatter: A Guide to Cinematic Zombie Violence, Gore and Special Effects" by Craig W. Chenery is an in depth look at how gore and special effec...
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90,80 zł |
Secure Immaturity: A Nostalgia-Crushing Journey Through Film
ISBN: 9781461186052 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The creator behind the cult-favorite website The Paxton Configuration (cult means no one reads it) and the former cult favorite website Secure Immaturity (cult means no one read it), brings you this crazy, bold, poorly edited, odd, possibly offensive and likely pointless collection of film reviews. Films reviewed include 1992's breathtaking masterpiece of offensive virtual reality The Lawnmower Man, the sparkled vampire spectacle Twilight: New Moon, the manly manliness of the ever-manly film Predator, the crime against humanity that is Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, the poster film for...
The creator behind the cult-favorite website The Paxton Configuration (cult means no one reads it) and the former cult favorite website Secure Immatur...
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90,85 zł |
Introduction to the Webseries: A Collection of Reviews
ISBN: 9781463750428 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Episodic websites have been part of the Internet landscape since 1995, but it took improvements in the delivery of online video during the early part of the Twenty First Century before independent productions of a quality nature first started to arrive. Known as webseries, these short versions of television-style shows have grown from their early days and original novelty nature into a legitimate entertainment medium. Introduction to the Webseries: A Collection of Reviews spotlights twenty-three of the best webseries that have slowly begun to storm Internet. Taken together, these reviews from...
Episodic websites have been part of the Internet landscape since 1995, but it took improvements in the delivery of online video during the early part ...
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Road to Box Office - The Seven Film Comedies of Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour, 1940-1962
ISBN: 9781593935450 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Starting with Road to Singapore in 1940, Paramount Pictures teamed Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour to star in one of the most successful series of movies ever made. All seven "road" films followed the same basic format: adventurers Hope and Crosby would be caught in a seemingly impossible situation, they would defeat the bad guys, and then vie with one another for Lamour's attention. A few ballads, duets, and comedy numbers were added for musical flavor and it all worked to perfection. This book is a fond look back on three screen stars, all with successful careers of their own, who...
Starting with Road to Singapore in 1940, Paramount Pictures teamed Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour to star in one of the most successful ser...
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Sherlock Holmes & the Fabulousfaces - The Universal Pictures Repertory Company
ISBN: 9781593936600 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Film historian Leonard Maltin has defined the character actors who appeared in films of the 30s and 40s as "Hollywoods Real Stars." Roy William Neill, who directed nearly all of the Sherlock Holmes mystery-adventures of the 1940s that starred Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, had, as was the case with directors John Ford and Preston Sturges, a repertory company of character actors and actresses whom he liked to use. This book is a tribute to those 68 men and women whose names appeared in small print below the stars, and who graced hundreds of films with their diversified performances. More...
Film historian Leonard Maltin has defined the character actors who appeared in films of the 30s and 40s as "Hollywoods Real Stars." Roy William Neill,...
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135,66 zł |
The Christmas Movie Book
ISBN: 9781861713346 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE CHRISTMAS MOVIE BOOK
Christmas and the world of cinema: two things that go together like mincemeat pies and mulled wine. There are few categories of film which have captured the imagination of young and old for so many years, or which have brought with them such nostalgic charm and warm sentiment. But what is it about the Christmas movie that has proven to be so creatively adaptive over the years, and why has the genre remained so perennially popular amongst audiences all across the world? This new study charts the evolution of the Christmas film, starting in 1945 with The... THE CHRISTMAS MOVIE BOOK
Christmas and the world of cinema: two things that go together like mincemeat pies and mulled wine. There are few categor... |
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116,24 zł |
The Meaning of Life in Movies
ISBN: 9781888146868 / Angielski / Twarda / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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100 Silent Films
ISBN: 9781844573097 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 100 Silent Films provides an authoritative and accessible history of silent cinema through one hundred of its most interesting and significant films. As Bryony Dixon contends, silent cinema is not a genre; it is the first 35 years of film history, a complex negotiation between art and commerce and a union of creativity and technology. At its most grand on the big screen with a full orchestral accompaniment it is magnificent, permitting a depth of emotional engagement rarely found in other fields of cinema. Silent film was hugely popular in its day, and its success enabled the...
100 Silent Films provides an authoritative and accessible history of silent cinema through one hundred of its most interesting and significant ...
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469,53 zł |
100 Film Musicals
ISBN: 9781844573790 / Angielski / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A selection of 100 films from one of the best-loved genres of Hollywood and world cinema, with entries ranging from 'Gold Diggers of 1933' to 'High School Musical' of 2006, and from the Reggae classic 'The Harder They Come' to Guru Dutt's 'Pyaasa' (1957). The authors' introduction outlines the history and key features of the film musical.
A selection of 100 films from one of the best-loved genres of Hollywood and world cinema, with entries ranging from 'Gold Diggers of 1933' to 'High Sc...
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469,53 zł |
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Sixth Edition
ISBN: 9780375711848 / Angielski / Miękka / 1168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With more than 100 new entries, from Amy Adams, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Cary Joji Fukunaga to Joaquin Phoenix, Mia Wasikowska, and Robin Wright, and completely updated, here from David Thomson The greatest living writer on the movies (John Banville, New Statesman); Our most argumentative and trustworthy historian of the screen (Michael Ondaatje) is the latest edition of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, which topped Sight & Sound s poll of international critics and writers as THE BEST FILM BOOK EVER WRITTEN.
3/7" With more than 100 new entries, from Amy Adams, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Cary Joji Fukunaga to Joaquin Phoenix, Mia Wasikowska, and Robin Wright, and...
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173,04 zł |
The Comedy Film Nerds Guide to Movies
ISBN: 9781614482215 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This reference book brings what has been missing from movie discussion for too long: a healthy dose of humor. Two filmmakers who are also comedians give their views on film, bringing movie discussion to a younger audience without all the stodgy film school discussion.
This reference book brings what has been missing from movie discussion for too long: a healthy dose of humor. Two filmmakers who are also comedians gi...
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86,30 zł |
Screen Savers II: My Grab Bag of Classic Movies
ISBN: 9781601826565 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Screen Savers II is John DiLeos three-part grab bag of classic movies, beginning with his extensive essays about ten remarkable and underappreciated movies, as in the first Screen Savers, and representing a variety of genres and stars such as Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, Ginger Rogers, and DiLeo favorite Joel McCrea. Part Two collects and categorizes posts from DiLeos classic-film blog screensaversmovies.com, containing his musings on classics revisited, sleepers and stinkers, films old and new, plus his memorial tributes to Hollywood notables. Part Three might be called a delayed bonus...
Screen Savers II is John DiLeos three-part grab bag of classic movies, beginning with his extensive essays about ten remarkable and underappreciated m...
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107,93 zł |
Screening the Dark Side of Love: From Euro-Horror to American Cinema
ISBN: 9780230341548 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can love be understood globally as a problematic transgression rather than the narrative of "happy endings" that Hollywood has offered? The contributors utilize varying methodologies of textual analysis, psychoanalytic models, and cultural critique and engage with a broad range of films to explore issues of gender identity and spectatorship.
How can love be understood globally as a problematic transgression rather than the narrative of "happy endings" that Hollywood has offered? The contri...
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194,08 zł |
Save Me the Aisle Seat: The Good, the Bad and the Really Bad Movies: Selected Reviews by an Online Film Reviewer
ISBN: 9781475075045 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Movies, like ice cream, come in various flavors, mainly good, fair, bad and really bad. As an online reviewer for Amazon, Epinions and other websites, Alex Diaz-Granados has seen hundreds of films and written raves (and sometimes, rants) about them. From Gone with the Wind to the films of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, Save Me the Aisle Seat explores the good, the bad and the really bad films of the 20th and 21st Centuries.
Movies, like ice cream, come in various flavors, mainly good, fair, bad and really bad. As an online reviewer for Amazon, Epinions and other websites,...
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46,28 zł |
Creating the Witness : Documenting Genocide on Film, Video, and the Internet
ISBN: 9780816676224 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the beginning of the conflict in 2003, more than 300,000 lives have been lost in Darfur. Players of the video game Darfur Is Dying learn this sobering fact and more as they work to ensure the survival of a virtual refugee camp. The video game not only puts players in the position of a struggling refugee, it shows them how they can take action in the real world. Creating the Witness examines the role of film and the Internet in creating virtual witnesses to genocide over the last one hundred years. The book asks, how do visual media work to produce... Since the beginning of the conflict in 2003, more than 300,000 lives have been lost in Darfur. Players of the video game Darfur Is Dying lea... |
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323,45 zł |
Creating the Witness: Documenting Genocide on Film, Video, and the Internet Volume 26
ISBN: 9780816676231 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the beginning of the conflict in 2003, more than 300,000 lives have been lost in Darfur. Players of the video game Darfur Is Dying learn this sobering fact and more as they work to ensure the survival of a virtual refugee camp. The video game not only puts players in the position of a struggling refugee, it shows them how they can take action in the real world. Creating the Witness examines the role of film and the Internet in creating virtual witnesses to genocide over the last one hundred years. The book asks, how do visual media work to produce... Since the beginning of the conflict in 2003, more than 300,000 lives have been lost in Darfur. Players of the video game Darfur Is Dying lea... |
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114,72 zł |
Splice: Volume 6, Issue 3
ISBN: 9781906733636 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The third issue of Splice Volume 6 is a 'Prison on film'-themed issue, which will include a long article on the film Bronson, which, in star Tom Hardy and director Nicolas Winding Refn, features two of the rising stars of contemporary cinema; and an essay on the cinema tradition of putting faith on film with particular reference to the prison-set movies, The Green Mile and Dead Man Walking.
The third issue of Splice Volume 6 is a 'Prison on film'-themed issue, which will include a long article on the film Bronson, which, in star To...
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120,76 zł |
James Bond Unmasked
ISBN: 9780984412617 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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127,37 zł |
Regional Horror Films, 1958-1990
ISBN: 9780786472277 / Angielski / Miękka / 335 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the second half of the 20th century, landmark works of horror film history were as much the product of enterprising regional filmmakers as of the major studios. From backwoods Utah to the Louisiana bayous to the outer boroughs of New York, independent, regional films like Night of the Living Dead, Last House on the Left, I Spit on Your Grave, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Evil Dead stood at the vanguard of horror cinema. This overview of regionally produced horror and science fiction films includes interviews with 13 directors and producers who operated far from mainstream...
In the second half of the 20th century, landmark works of horror film history were as much the product of enterprising regional filmmakers as of the m...
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278,84 zł |