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  • Movies About the Movies

    Hollywood Reflected

    by Christopher Ames ...
    Hundreds of Hollywood-on-Hollywood movies can be found throughout the history of American cinema, from the days of silents to the present. They include films from genres as far ranging as musical, film noir, melodrama, comedy, and action-adventure. Such movies seduce us with the promise of revealing the reality behind the camera. But, as part of the very industry they supposedly critique, they ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Twenty-First Century

    by Milton R. Stern, Mary McAleer Balkun, M. T. Inge, Christopher Ames, Stanley Brodwin, Kirk Curnutt, Anne M. Daniel, Morris Dickstein0, Edward Gillin1, Janet Giltrow2, D.G. Kehl3, Veronica Makowsky4, Toshifumi Miyawaki5, Michael Nowlin6, Tim Prchal7, Walter Raubicheck8, David Stouck9, Stephen L. Tanner0, Frederick Wegener1, Dr. Horst H. Kruse2 ...
    This thought-provoking collection explores significant new facets of an American author of lasting international stature.“Edited by three eminent Fitzgerald scholars, this fine book comprises nineteen incisive and provocative essays (most written for this collection) by . . . well-known Fitzgerald critics. The content is as varied as the international origins of its authors.” —ChoiceAs the author ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • "The Lions” Butterfly

    by Christopher Ames ...
    Illustrated by Randy Hornbaker ...
    Christopher Ames was born in Portland, Indiana. Where he has lived most of his forty-eight years. He is quiet and reserved in personality somebody who is willing to lend a hand when able. Chris has two wonderful children and three amazing grandchildren. Whom have inspired this story. The Lions Butterfly is his first attempt to write an imaginative story where a life lesson may be implied. Mr. Ames ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Spinal Deformity Surgery, An Issue of Neurosurgery Clinics

    by Christopher Ames, MD, Brian Jian, MD, Christopher I. Shaffrey, MD ...
    Series Book Volume 24-2 - The Clinics: Surgery
    This issue of the Neurosurgery Clinics, Guest Edited by Drs. Jian, Ames, and Shaffrey, presents updates and state-of-the-art approaches to spinal deformity surgery. Spine surgery is a timely topics amongst neurosurgeons, and one that is continually evolving. Articles in this issue include Radiographic and Clinical Evaluation of Adult Spinal Deformity; Use of Surgimap in Osteotomy Planning, ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

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    The Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family

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    With a new epilogue updated from its hardcover edition titled Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family"Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home, and without harming anyone, leaving only a trace of evidence that they had been there, some reminder that the sanctity of the private home had been breached. Now, ... Read more

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  • Kazan on Directing

    by Elia Kazan, Martin Scorsese ...
    Elia Kazan was the twentieth century’s most celebrated director of both stage and screen, and this monumental, revelatory book shows us the master at work. Kazan’s list of Broadway and Hollywood successes—A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, On the Waterfront, to name a few—is a testament to his profound impact on the art of directing. This remarkable book, drawn from his notebooks, ... Read more

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  • Bambi vs. Godzilla

    On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business

    by David Mamet ...
    From the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and playwright: an exhilaratingly subversive inside look at Hollywood from a filmmaker who’s always played by his own rules.Who really reads the scripts at the film studios? How is a screenplay like a personals ad? Why are there so many producers listed in movie credits? And what on earth do those producers do anyway? Refreshingly unafraid to offend, ... Read more

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  • Talking Pictures

    How to Watch Movies

    by Ann Hornaday ...
    A veteran film critic offers a lively, opinionated guide to thinking and talking about movies -- from Casablanca to CluelessWhether we are trying to impress a date after an art house film screening or discussing Oscar nominations among friends, we all need ways to look at and talk about movies. But with so much variety between an Alfred Hitchcock thriller and a Nora Ephron romantic comedy, how can ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Dark Side of the Screen

    Film Noir

    by Foster Hirsch ...
    A revised and updated edition of the definitive study of the most original genre of American cinema.Foster Hirsch's The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir is by far the most thorough and entertaining study of the themes, visual motifs, character types, actors, directors, and films in this genre ever published. From Billy Wilder, Douglas Sirk, Robert Aldrich, and Howard Hawkes to Martin Scorsese, ... Read more

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  • Truman Capote and the Legacy of "In Cold Blood"

    by Ralph F. Voss ...
    Truman Capote and the Legacy ofIn Cold Blood is the anatomy of the origins of an American literary landmark and its legacy.Ralph F. Vosswas a high school junior in Plainville, Kansas in mid-November of 1959 when four members of the Herbert Clutter family were murdered in Holcomb, Kansas, by “four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives,” an unimaginable horror in a quiet farm ... Read more

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  • I Do and I Don't

    A History of Marriage in the Movies

    by Jeanine Basinger ...
    From one of our leading film historians and interpreters: a brilliantly researched, irresistibly witty, delightfully illustrated examination of “the marriage movie”; what it is (or isn’t) and what it has to tell us about the movies—and ourselves.As long as there have been feature movies there have been marriage movies, and yet Hollywood has always been cautious about how to label them—perhaps ... Read more

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  • Film Noir

    by Bruce Crowther ...
    With the advent of the Second World War a new mood was discernible in film drama - an atmosphere of disillusion and a sense of foreboding, a dark quality that derived as much from the characters depicted as from the cinematographer's art. These films, among them such classics as Double Indemnity, The Woman in the Window, Touch of Evil and sunset Boulevard, emerged retrospectively as a genre in ... Read more

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