The Monster Guide to Horror Movies
ISBN: 9781449914912 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ever wonder which of the thousands of horror movies are any good? Here's your best chance to find out. The Monster Guide to Horror Movies reviews over 500 horror films spanning eight decades, from over a dozen different countries. Everything you've ever wanted to know about what's scary and what's not on the silver screen, easily sorted and rated for ease of use. Never leave the video store with a disappointing choice again. Written with both the newcomer and the horror aficionado in mind, this is the perfect guide for anyone wanting a mild scare or something to keep them up at night
Ever wonder which of the thousands of horror movies are any good? Here's your best chance to find out. The Monster Guide to Horror Movies reviews over...
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A History of American Movies: A Film-by-Film Look at the Art, Craft, and Business of Cinema
ISBN: 9780810874336 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In A History of American Movies: A Film-by-Film Look at the Art, Craft and Business of Cinema, Paul Monaco provides a survey of the narrative feature film from the 1920s to the present. The book focuses on 170 of the most highly regarded and recognized feature films selected by the Hollywood establishment: each Oscar winner for Best Picture, as well as those voted the greatest by members of the American Film Institute. By focusing on a select group of films that represent the epitome of these collaborations, Monaco provides an essential history of one of the modern world's most complex and...
In A History of American Movies: A Film-by-Film Look at the Art, Craft and Business of Cinema, Paul Monaco provides a survey of the narrative feature ...
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751,23 zł |
A Companion to Latin American Film
ISBN: 9781855662100 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Latin American cinema has seen major developments in the past half-century, and some of the most exciting work in contemporary film now originates there. This Companion traces its development from the mid 1890s, with particular attention to the early period when it was dominated by foreign film makers (or foreign models such as Hollywood), through the 1960s when as a genre it found its feet - the New Latin American Cinema movement - and beyond. Detailed analysis of the best twenty-five films of Latin America follows: cast and crew, awards, plots, themes and techniques. The 'Guide to Further...
Latin American cinema has seen major developments in the past half-century, and some of the most exciting work in contemporary film now originates the...
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104,09 zł |
"Roll Sound!": A Practical Guide for Location Audio
ISBN: 9781450549837 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today's up and coming fast-paced media professionals work in an environment where the need for immediate results equates to professionalism. This book, "ROLL SOUND ," A Practical Guide for Location Audio, provides a shortcut to years of work experience in an easy-to-read format that reveals inside production information at your finger tips. A sub-text for this book could crudely be, "Buy this book, it can save your ass " and is justifiably true. By reading, understanding and applying the principles discussed within the book, the student or engineer with any level of experience, can work...
Today's up and coming fast-paced media professionals work in an environment where the need for immediate results equates to professionalism. This book...
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181,46 zł |
Magill's Cinema Annual: A Survey of the Films of 2009
ISBN: 9781414441405 / Angielski / Twarda / 591 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Magill's Cinema Annual" offers an in-depth retrospective of significant domestic and foreign films released in the U.S. Distinguishing features include its extensive credits, awards and nominations, MPAA ratings, eight indexes, and most importantly its exhaustive critical reviews with author bylines.
"Magill's Cinema Annual" offers an in-depth retrospective of significant domestic and foreign films released in the U.S. Distinguishing features in... |
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The Great Movie Musicals: A Viewer's Guide to 168 Films That Really Sing
ISBN: 9780786443840 / Angielski / Miękka / 423 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beginning with The Jazz Singer in 1927 and ending with Sweeney Todd in 2007, this comprehensive critical history examines the greatest movie musicals of all time. Organized alphabetically by decade, more than 150 films are analyzed on the basis of importance, entertainment value and musical presentation. Included are Broadway adaptations (West Side Story), screen originals (The Wizard of Oz), all-star revues (The King of Jazz), musical biopics (The Glenn Miller Story), "dance" pictures (Fame) and animated features (Aladdin).
Beginning with The Jazz Singer in 1927 and ending with Sweeney Todd in 2007, this comprehensive critical history examines the greatest movie musicals ...
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308,82 zł |
A Critical Cinema 1: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers
ISBN: 9780520058019 / Angielski / Miękka / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is widely understood that writing can discuss writing, but we rarely consider that film can be used as a means of analyzing conventions of the commercial film industry, or of theorizing about cinema in general. Over the past few decades, however, independent cinema has produced a body of fascinating films that provide intensive critiques of nearly every element of the cinematic apparatus. The experience of these films simultaneously depends on and redefines our relationship to the movies. Critical Cinema provides a collection of in-depth interviews with some of the most...
It is widely understood that writing can discuss writing, but we rarely consider that film can be used as a means of analyzing conventions of the comm...
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230,09 zł |
From Broadway to the Bowery: A History and Filmography of the Dead End Kids, Little Tough Guys, East Side Kids and Bowery Boys Films, with Cast Bio
ISBN: 9780786460922 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chronicles the various incarnations of the 'Dead End' kids, from their first appearance in the Broadway play Dead End in 1935 through to the films and serials that followed. It details how the original play and film came about, and includes a cast list and analysis of each production, up to and including the revivals of 1978 and 2005.
Chronicles the various incarnations of the 'Dead End' kids, from their first appearance in the Broadway play Dead End in 1935 through to the films and...
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248,25 zł |
Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas
ISBN: 9780879103767 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Limelight). Don't waste another second of your valuable holiday time on another boring Christmas movie. Film critic Alonso Duralde highlights the best and worst movies of the Yuletide season with this fun and informative film guide. Whether you're looking for the classics, family favorites, holiday horror, Christmas-themed crime epics, or the most wonderfully awful cinematic lumps of coal, Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas will point you and your rental queue in the right direction. Whether your idea of a holiday classic is White Christmas, Bad Santa, Die Hard, Eyes Wide Shut, or...
(Limelight). Don't waste another second of your valuable holiday time on another boring Christmas movie. Film critic Alonso Duralde highlights the bes...
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73,50 zł |
Je T’Aime... Moi Non Plus: Franco-British Cinematic Relations
ISBN: 9781845457495 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This is a rich and academically relevant collection ... that offers an engagement with a full spectrum of disciplinary interests ... The running filmography that is established across the volume will be a great resource to film scholars and students, and the range of methodological approaches deployed is genuinely inspiring in terms of its diversity, application and results." - Sue Harris, Queen Mary University of London
" T]here is much here to inform the specialist and please the aficionado. This is a welcome addition to the fields of reception studies, French and British film history... "This is a rich and academically relevant collection ... that offers an engagement with a full spectrum of disciplinary interests ... The running film...
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The Fans' Love Story: How the Movie 'Dirty Dancing' Captured the Hearts of Millions!
ISBN: 9781432751104 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Jamie Lee Curtis: Scream Queen
ISBN: 9781593936082 / Angielski / Miękka / 508 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jamie Lee Curtis launched her film career with the immortal 1978 horror classic Halloween, creating a heroine in Laurie Strode who would become the prototype for the ultimate scream queen. Subsequent roles in horror films like The Fog, Prom Night, Terror Train, Roadgames and Halloween II - all of which are genre classics - would cement Curtis' status as cinema's undisputed scream queen, a title she holds to this day. Jamie Lee Curtis: Scream Queen details Curtis' career and life during her scream queen era and includes detailed and never-before-seen production histories - as well as running...
Jamie Lee Curtis launched her film career with the immortal 1978 horror classic Halloween, creating a heroine in Laurie Strode who would become the pr...
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159,64 zł |
Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors
ISBN: 9781601824233 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors takes a critical look at these eleven actors and their roles, bonded by their sustained artistic and professional association with Williams, specifically the success, and sometimes failure, of their interpretations of his characters for the screen. The results include some of the more remarkable performances in movie history, from Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire to Anna Magnani in The Rose Tattoo and Geraldine Page in Sweet Bird of Youth. DiLeo takes you through the entire careers of these eleven indelible...
Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors takes a critical look at these eleven actors and their roles, bonded by their sustained ar...
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112,26 zł |
Screen Savers: 40 Remarkable Movies Awaiting Rediscovery
ISBN: 9781601826541 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Boris Karloff will forever be Frankenstein's Monster, but is that any reason for us to overlook his later great horror film Isle of the Dead (1945)? An Oscar was George Clooney's reward for Syriana (2005), but isn't the underrated war film Three Kings (1999) still his best movie? Woman of the Year (1942) introduced the team of Tracy and Hepburn, yet didn't their later Pat and Mike (1952) resoundingly surpass it? Jeff Bridges has long been one of our best actors, so why didn't anyone take notice of his sleeper Bad Company (1972)? The lasting impact of Psycho (1960) unfairly overshadows Anthony...
Boris Karloff will forever be Frankenstein's Monster, but is that any reason for us to overlook his later great horror film Isle of the Dead (1945)? A...
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107,93 zł |
European Silent Films on Video: A Critical Guide
ISBN: 9780786464371 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No further information has been provided for this title.
No further information has been provided for this title.
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British Film Noir Guide
ISBN: 9780786464272 / Angielski / Miękka / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This reference work makes a case for the inclusion of the British films in the film noir canon, which is still considered by some to be an exclusively American inventory. The book's main section features a quote from the film, the title and release date, a rating based on the five-star system, and much more.
This reference work makes a case for the inclusion of the British films in the film noir canon, which is still considered by some to be an exclusively...
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187,69 zł |
Film Noir Guide: 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959
ISBN: 9780786463664 / Angielski / Miękka / 551 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over 700 film noirs from the classic period of the genre (1940-1959) are presented in this reference book. For each film, the following information is provided - the title, release date, the performers, the screenwriter, the director, the type of noir, the film's thematic content and a rating.
Over 700 film noirs from the classic period of the genre (1940-1959) are presented in this reference book. For each film, the following information is...
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Allied Artists Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films
ISBN: 9780786460465 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between 1952 and 1977, Allied Artists Pictures Corporation released over 80 feature films with horror, science fiction and fantasy themes, several of them featuring such genre stars as Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, John Carradine and Lon Chaney, Jr. Among Allied Artists' contributions are the classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers and the William Castle productions House on Haunted Hill and Macabre. Allied also released the camp favorites Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster, From Hell It Came and Queen of Outer Space, and imported European efforts such as Blood and Black Lace and Caltiki the...
Between 1952 and 1977, Allied Artists Pictures Corporation released over 80 feature films with horror, science fiction and fantasy themes, several of ...
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218,27 zł |
When Movies Mattered When Movies Mattered When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade Reviews from a Transformative Decade Reviews from
ISBN: 9780226429410 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If you have ever wanted to dig around in the archives for that perfect Sunday afternoon DVD and first turned to a witty weekly column in the New York Times, then you are already familiar with one of our nation's premier film critics. If you love movies--and the writers who engage them--and just happen to have followed two of the highest circulating daily papers in the country, then you probably recognize the name of the intellectually dazzling writer who has been penning pieces on American and foreign films for over thirty years. And if you called the City of the Big Shoulders home... If you have ever wanted to dig around in the archives for that perfect Sunday afternoon DVD and first turned to a witty weekly column in the New... |
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115,10 zł |
Breakfast at Tiffany's: The Official 50th Anniversary Companion
ISBN: 9780847836710 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A celebration of a timeless classic, this companion volume, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the release of the iconic film, is the perfect book for any fan of Audrey Hepburn or the cinema. This gorgeously illustrated tribute to Breakfast at Tiffany's is the only official companion to be published in association with Paramount Pictures and the Audrey Hepburn estate. It celebrates the film's ongoing popularity: complete with candid behind-the-scenes photos, facsimiles of the shooting script, full-color reproductions of the poster art, a special section on the costumes, the score...
A celebration of a timeless classic, this companion volume, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the release of the iconic film, is the perf...
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151,41 zł |