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  • The Many Worlds of Takahata Isao

    by Lindsay Coleman, Rayna Denison, David Desser, Dr. Darren-Jon Ashmore, Jonathan Clements, Professor Thomas Lamarre, Dr. Helen McCarthy, Dr. Laura Montero-Plata0, Susan Napier1, Shiro Yoshioka2 ...
    Takahata Isao (1935–2018), often referred to as the “Second Pillar” of the renowned Studio Ghibli, is one of the most esteemed animation directors in the history of the form. He is also the first, and thus far the only, anime director to have a solo exhibition at the prestigious National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo and was widely recognized for his advocacy of environmental and pacifist causes. ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town

    by Murray Pomerance, R. Barton Palmer, Matthew Solomon, David Desser, Neil Badmington, Matthew H. Bernstein, Steven Rybin, Mark Osteen, Lawrence Napper0, Adrian Danks1, Rebecca Bell-Metereau2, Brenda Austin-Smith3, Dominic Lennard4, Daniel Varndell5, Matthew Cipa6, Tom Conley7, Ms. Linda Badley8, Professor Kristen Hatch9 ...
    Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town is the first book devoted to the career of one of the director/producers who in the early years of sound cinema was instrumental in establishing the Hollywood model of production that would endure for more than half a century. As a director and producer, LeRoy was responsible for turning out more than sixty feature films in a career that spanned five decades; as a studio ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Divided Lenses

    Screen Memories of War in East Asia

    by Michael Berry, Chiho Sawada, David Desser, Professor Eric Hayot, Professor Kyu Hyun Kim, Professor Hyangjin Lee, Professor Wenchi Lin, Professor Robert Brent Toplin, Professor Lily Wong0, Professor Yingjin Zhang1, Aaron Gerow2 ...
    Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia is the first attempt to explore how the tumultuous years between 1931 and 1953 have been recreated and renegotiated in cinema. This period saw traumatic conflicts such as the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War, and the Korean War, and pivotal events such as the Rape of Nanjing, Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Iwo Jima, and the bombings of Hiroshima ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • American Jewish Filmmakers

    by David Desser, Lester D. Friedman ...
    Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Sidney Lumet, and Paul Mazursky, all sons of East European Jews, remain among the most prominent contemporary American film directors. In this revised, updated second edition of American Jewish Filmmakers, David Desser and Lester D. Friedman demonstrate how the Jewish experience gives rise to an intimately linked series of issues in the films of these and other significant ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Small Cinemas in Global Markets

    Genres, Identities, Narratives

    by David Desser, Tito Imanda, Catherine Douillet, Steven Wingate, Andrés Laguna Tapia, José Cláudio Siqueira Castanheira, Janina Falkowska, Lenuta Giukin0, Milica Slavkovic1, Dina Iordanova2, Catalina Florina Florescu3, Nikica Gilic4, Renata Šukaityte5, Marian Tutui6, Lydia Papadimitriou7 ...
    Small Cinemas in Global Markets addresses aspects such as identity, revisiting the past, internationalized genres, new forms of experimental cinema, markets and production, as well as technological developments of alternative small screens that open new perspectives into small cinema possibilities. Small and big markets for small industries reveal an unimagined diversification of the cultural ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Tough Ain't Enough

    New Perspectives on the Films of Clint Eastwood

    by Stephen Prince, Jonathan Kirshner, Diane Carson, David Sterritt, Murray Pomerance, Lucy Bolton, Alexandra Keller, Charity Lofthouse, Lester D. Friedman, David Desser1 ...
    Throughout his lengthy career as both an actor and a director, Clint Eastwood has appeared in virtually every major film genre and, at this point in his career, has emerged as one of America’s most popular, recognizable, and respected filmmakers. He also remains a controversial figure in the political landscape, often characterized as the most prominent conservative voice in mostly liberal ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Cypress Inheritance

    The Beginning

    by C.E. One Cypress, David Deborde ...
    Series Book 1 - Cypress Inheritance
    She came into the world under extreme circumstances. Vulnerable and fragile, her life began in a rundown orphanage.There weren't any reliable records about this precious baby girl, so one of the nurses cradled her, looked down at her adorable face and gave her a name... Lorna.Due to overcrowding and lack of resources, Lorna was relocated to two other orphanages, by the time she was three months ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Innovate. Collaborate. Grow!

    Strategies and Best Practices for Corporate Partnering

    by David Dessers ...
    The past ten years are characterized by a strong growth in entrepreneurship and the accelerated creation of new businesses offering innovative products and services.The focus of this book is on startups and scaleups intending to scale their business through collaboration with corporates, primarily in the capacity of client or venture partner. No startup or scaleup can go-it-alone entirely and is ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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    It's All Too Much

    Adventures of a Teenage Beatles Fan in the '60s and Beyond

    by David Stark ...
    Narrated by David Stark, Richard Buskin (Foreword #1), Lesley-Ann Jones (Foreword #2), Pete Shotton (1983 interview) ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 22 min

    British music industry veteran David Stark grew up in north-west London during the 1960s as a dedicated Beatles fan, who was lucky enough to meet his musical heroes on various memorable occasions. From gatecrashing the Yellow Submarine film premiere in 1968 and sitting right behind them, to meeting the group individually in some extraordinary circumstances, he recalls his many Beatles encounters ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A History of American Movies

    A Film-by-Film Look at the Art, Craft, and Business of Cinema

    by Paul Monaco ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Film Comedy

    Edited by Andrew Horton, Joanna E. Rapf ...
    A wide-ranging survey of the subject that celebrates the variety and complexity of film comedy from the ‘silent’ days to the present, this authoritative guide offers an international perspective on the popular genre that explores all facets of its formative social, cultural and political contextA wide-ranging collection of 24 essays exploring film comedy from the silent era to the ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • The Anime Art of Hayao Miyazaki

    by Dani Cavallaro ...
    The thought-provoking, aesthetically pleasing animated films of Hayao Miyazaki attract audiences well beyond the director's native Japan. Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away were critically acclaimed upon U.S. release, and the earlier My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service have found popularity with Americans on DVD. This critical study of Miyazaki's work begins with an analysis of the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD