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Castle Films: A Hobbyist's Guide
ISBN: 9780595324910 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do you remember the first movie you ever owned? It was probably a product of Castle Films. Before home video, Castle Films made every living room a screening room.
For four decades the 16mm and 8mm film products of Castle Films were sold in every department store and hobby shop. Castle had big-screen movies for everybody: comedies with Abbott & Costello, The Marx Brothers, and W. C. Fields...monster movies with Frankenstein, Dracula, and the Wolfman...cartoons with Woody Woodpecker, Chilly Willy, and Mighty Mouse...westerns with Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, and James Stewart...travelogues... Do you remember the first movie you ever owned? It was probably a product of Castle Films. Before home video, Castle Films made every living room a sc...
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117,15 zł |
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The Western Film Review: A Second Look At Some Popular Western Movies
ISBN: 9780595328093 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With this collection of reviews, fans of western movies can enjoy taking another special look at some of our favorites with western author Chuck Lewis as he offers us insight and a unique view of the films we like or even those we don't like. We might remember some of them with a nostalgia that doesn't match up with what the movie was all about. We think we know the stories, or what a good job of acting our heroes did, or perhaps gave no thought to the symbolism of the roles they played, but maybe Chuck can suggest something different.
The storylines of these movies are told here in... With this collection of reviews, fans of western movies can enjoy taking another special look at some of our favorites with western author Chuck Lewis...
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91,07 zł |
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Back Shelf Beauties: Movies You Should Rent When The New Stuff Is Gone
ISBN: 9780595653027 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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104,11 zł |
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The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook
ISBN: 9780618640140 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Oscar-winning conceptual designer for the "Lord of the Rings" movie trilogy, discusses his approach to depicting Tolkien's imaginary world. The book presents more than 150 of Lee's celebrated illustrations.
The Oscar-winning conceptual designer for the "Lord of the Rings" movie trilogy, discusses his approach to depicting Tolkien's imaginary world. The bo...
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156,49 zł |
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Seen That, Now What?: The Ultimate Guide to Finding the Video You Really Want to Watch
ISBN: 9780684800110 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This revolutionary reference offers viewers a variety of ways to hone in on the right choice for an evening's entertainment. Going beyond the broad categories (Action, Comedy, Drama, etc.) found in most guides, this book features small groups of films arranged according to specific categories as historical swashbucklers, screwball comedies, and Busby Berkeley musicals. Shaw eschews the standard "star" rating system to focus on more telling criteria.
This revolutionary reference offers viewers a variety of ways to hone in on the right choice for an evening's entertainment. Going beyond the broad ca...
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156,27 zł |
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Jeffrey Lyons' 101 Great Movies for Kids
ISBN: 9780684803395 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Culled from twenty-five years of movie reviewing, here are 101 of the finest films for children and families, handpicked by Sneak Previews critic Jeffrey Lyons. Jeffrey Lyons' 101 Great Movies for Kids is filled with detailed plot summaries, critical observations, historical perspectives, and little-known anecdotes about the movies and their stars. Covering the classics, recent films, and often overlooked screen gems, Jeffrey Lyons directs you to the best and most age-appropriate selections to share with your kids, from the youngest family members to teenagers.
Culled from twenty-five years of movie reviewing, here are 101 of the finest films for children and families, handpicked by Sneak Previews critic Jeff...
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82,37 zł |
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The Ultimate Girls' Movie Survival Guide: What to Rent, Who to Watch, How to Deal
ISBN: 9780689873737 / Angielski / Miękka / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Ultimate Girls' Movie Survival Guide
Therapy is embarrassing, friends can only help so much, and parents are often useless -- where can you turn when life is getting you down? To the movies, of course. The Ultimate Girls' Movie Survival Guide is a guide to changing your life through the movies. Programmed by teen counselor and movie buff Andrea Sarvady, this handbook includes reviews of the best movies to help you deal with life, love, and everything else -- from family strife to first love, best friends to worst enemies, school days and life beyond. Whether you want to laugh... The Ultimate Girls' Movie Survival Guide
Therapy is embarrassing, friends can only help so much, and parents are often useless -- where ca... |
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73,86 zł |
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Memory and Popular Film
ISBN: 9780719063756 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the first books to put memory at the centre of analysis when exploring the relationship between film culture and the past. Provides a sustained, interdisciplinary perspective on memory and film from early cinema to the present, drawing from film studies, American studies and cultural studies. Adopts a resolutely cultural perspective and unlike psychoanalytic or formalist approaches to memory, explores questions of culture, power and identity. Contributes to the growing debate about the status and function of the past in cultural life and discourse, discussing issues of memory in film,...
One of the first books to put memory at the centre of analysis when exploring the relationship between film culture and the past. Provides a sustained...
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109,78 zł |
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Your Movie Sucks
ISBN: 9780740763663 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Roger Ebert's I Hated Hated Hated This Movie, which gathered some of his most scathing reviews, was a best-seller. This new collection continues the tradition, reviewing not only movies that were at the bottom of the barrel, but also movies that he found underneath the barrel. From Roger's review of Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (0 stars): "The movie created a spot of controversy in February 2005. According to a story by Larry Carroll of MTV News, Rob Schneider took offense when Patrick Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times listed this year's Best Picture nominees and...
Roger Ebert's I Hated Hated Hated This Movie, which gathered some of his most scathing reviews, was a best-seller. This new collection continue...
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95,59 zł |
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Cinematic Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780742510920 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cinematic Shakespeare takes the reader inside the making of a number of significant adaptations to illustrate how cinema transforms and re-imagines the dramatic form and style central to Shakespeare's imagination. Cinematic Shakespeare investigates how Shakespeare films constitute an exciting and ever-changing film genre. The challenges of adopting Shakespeare to cinema are like few other film genres. Anderegg looks closely at films by Laurence Olivier (Richard III), Orson Welles (Macbeth), and Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet) as well as topics like "Postmodern Shakespeares" (Julie Taymor's Titus and...
Cinematic Shakespeare takes the reader inside the making of a number of significant adaptations to illustrate how cinema transforms and re-imagines th...
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109,78 zł |
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Black Lenses, Black Voices: African American Film Now
ISBN: 9780742526426 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Black Lenses, Black Voices is a provocative look at films directed and written_and sometimes produced_by African Americans, as well as black-oriented films whose directors or screenwriters are not black. Mark Reid shows how certain films dramatize the contemporary African American community as a politically and economically diverse group, vastly different from film representations of the 1960s. Taking us through the development of African American independent filmmaking before and after World War II, he then illustrates the unique nature of African American family, action, horror,...
Black Lenses, Black Voices is a provocative look at films directed and written_and sometimes produced_by African Americans, as well as black-oriented ...
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203,19 zł |
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Sleazoid Express: A Mind-Twisted Tour Though the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square
ISBN: 9780743215831 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Warning: Watch your wallets and stay out of the bathroom
In a bygone era, when Times Square was crammed with porn shops, gun stores, and drug pushers, disenfranchised moviegoers flocked to the grindhouses along 42nd Street. If the gore epics, women-in-prison films, and shockumentaries showcased within their mildewed walls didn't live up to their outrageous billing, the audience shouted, threw food, and even vandalized the theaters. For dedicated lovers of extreme cinema, buying a movie ticket on the Deuce meant putting your life on the line. Authors Bill Landis and Michelle... Warning: Watch your wallets and stay out of the bathroom
In a bygone era, when Times Square was crammed with porn shops, gun stores, and ... |
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99,76 zł |
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Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay
ISBN: 9780743294164 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, Brokeback Mountain is her masterpiece. Brokeback Mountain was originally published in The New Yorker. It won the National Magazine Award. It also won an O. Henry Prize. Included in this volume is Annie Proulx's haunting story about the difficult, dangerous love affair between a ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy. Also included is the celebrated screenplay for the major motion picture "Brokeback Mountain," written by Larry McMurtry...
Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, Brok...
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69,55 zł |
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New York: The Movie Lover's Guide: The Ultimate Insider Tour of Movie New York
ISBN: 9780767916349 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The classic guide to who-did-what-where in New York, on- and off-screen, including: Classic film and TV locations Marilyn Monroe's infamous Seven Year Itch subway grating . . . the deli where Meg Ryan famously faked an orgasm in When Harry Met Sally . . . the diner where Courteney Cox (in Friends) and Kirsten Dunst (in Spider-Man) waitressed . . . Men in Black's Manhattan headquarters . . . The Godfather mansion on Staten Island...the Greenwich Village apartment where Jack Nicholson terrorized Greg Kinnear in As Good as It Gets . . ....
The classic guide to who-did-what-where in New York, on- and off-screen, including: Classic film and TV locations Marilyn Monroe's infamous...
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104,33 zł |
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The Great Movies II
ISBN: 9780767919869 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Continuing the pitch-perfect critiques begun in The Great Movies, Roger Ebert's The Great Movies II collects 100 additional essays, each one of them a gem of critical appreciation and an amalgam of love, analysis, and history that will send readers back to films with a fresh set of eyes and renewed enthusiasm--or perhaps to an avid first-time viewing. Neither a snob nor a shill, Ebert manages in these essays to combine a truly populist appreciation for today's most important form of popular art with a scholar's erudition and depth of knowledge and a sure aesthetic sense. Once...
Continuing the pitch-perfect critiques begun in The Great Movies, Roger Ebert's The Great Movies II collects 100 additional essays, each...
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104,33 zł |
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The Films of the Seventies: A Filmography of American, British and Canadian Films 1970-1979
ISBN: 9780786408825 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents a comprehensive overview of feature films released during the decade of the 1970s. Nearly 1000 films are listed alphabetically, each with cast and credits and a brief evaluation.
This volume presents a comprehensive overview of feature films released during the decade of the 1970s. Nearly 1000 films are listed alphabetically, e...
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310,29 zł |
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Serials-Ly Speaking: Essays on Cliffhangers
ISBN: 9780786409181 / Angielski / Miękka / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays recalls the glory days of the movie serial. The primary focus is on the fans of the serials - what they thought of them in their heyday, what they think of them now, and why these episodic tales are still so popular.
This collection of essays recalls the glory days of the movie serial. The primary focus is on the fans of the serials - what they thought of them in t...
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188,57 zł |
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The Gorehound's Guide to Splatter Films of the 1960s and 1970s
ISBN: 9780786409242 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the uninitiated the author has obligingly supplied a definition for the slasher/splatter film: "Any motion picture which contains scenes of extreme violence in graphic and grisly detail...." For those film viewers who think this is a good thing and are more likely to select The Texas Chainsaw Massacre than The Remains of the Day, or for those who are not quite sure but are nevertheless drawn to the phantasmagoric, or for those horrified by gratuitous violence and blood for bloods sake but are researching this filmic phenomenon, this reference book provides all the gory details. From At...
For the uninitiated the author has obligingly supplied a definition for the slasher/splatter film: "Any motion picture which contains scenes of extrem...
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188,57 zł |
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Jane Austen on Film and Television: A Critical Study of the Adaptations
ISBN: 9780786413492 / Angielski / Miękka / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jane Austen's career as a novelist began in 1811 with the publication of Sense and Sensibility. Her work was finally adapted for the big screen with the 1940 filming of Pride and Prejudice which was very successful at the box office. No other film adaptation of an Austen novel was made for theatrical release until 1995. Amazingly, during 1995 and 1996, six film and television adaptations appeared: firstly Clueless, then Persuasion, followed by Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, the Miramax Emma, and the Meridian/A&E Emma.
Jane Austen's career as a novelist began in 1811 with the publication of Sense and Sensibility. Her work was finally adapted for the big screen with t...
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188,57 zł |
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The Gorehound's Guide to Splatter Films of the 1980s
ISBN: 9780786415328 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a study of splatter films of the 1980s. Following a brief overview of the genre, the main part of the book is a filmography. Each entry includes extensive technical information; cast and production credits; release date; running time; alternate and foreign release titles; comments on the availability of the film on videocassette and DVD; a plot synopsis; commentary from the author; and reviews.
This is a study of splatter films of the 1980s. Following a brief overview of the genre, the main part of the book is a filmography. Each entry includ...
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188,57 zł |
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