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  • Hollywood Film 1963-1976

    Years of Revolution and Reaction

    by Drew Casper ...
    Hollywood 1963-1976 chronicles the upheaval and innovation that took place in the American film industry during an era of pervasive cultural tumult. Exploring the many ideologies embraced by an increasingly diverse Hollywood, Casper offers a comprehensive canon, covering the period's classics as well as its brilliant but overlooked masterpieces.A broad overview and analysis of one of American film ... Read more

    $43.00 USD

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  • The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael

    A Library of America Special Publication

    by Pauline Kael ...
    A master film critic is at her witty, exhilarating, and opinionated best in this career-spanning collection featuring pieces on Bonnie and Clyde, The Godfather, and other modern movie classics“Film criticism is exciting just because there is no formula to apply,” Pauline Kael once observed, “just because you must use everything you are and everything you know.” Between 1968 and 1991, as regular ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 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

    $9.99 USD

  • Charles Manson's Creepy Crawl

    The Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family

    by Jeffrey Melnick ...
    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

    $13.99 USD

  • Roger Ebert's Four-Star Reviews 1967–2007

    by Roger Ebert ...
    Pick your next movie to watch with this collection of four decades of 4-star reviews from the Pulitzer Prize–winning film critic.Spanning the length of Roger Ebert's career as the leading American movie critic, this book contains all of his four-star reviews written during that time from About Last Night . . . to You Can Count on Me. A great guide for movie watching. ... Read more

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  • Shock Value

    How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror

    by Jason Zinoman ...
    In the dark underbelly of 1970s cinema, an unlikely group of directors rewrote the rules of horror, breathing new life into the genre and captivating audiences like never beforeMuch has been written about the storied New Hollywood of the 1970s, but while Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorcese were producing their first classic movies, a parallel universe of directors gave birth to the modern horror ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Superheroes!

    Capes, Cowls, and the Creation of Comic Book Culture

    by Laurence Maslon, Michael Kantor ...
    Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Wonder Woman, the Avengers, the X-Men, Watchmen, and more: the companion volume to the PBS documentary series of the same name that tells the story of the superhero in American popular culture.Together again for the first time, here come the greatest comic book superheroes ever assembled between two covers: down from the heavens—Superman and the Mighty Thor ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Life: The Movie

    How Entertainment Conquered Reality

    by Neal Gabler ...
    The story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, and melodrama has turned everything—news, politics, religion, high culture—into one vast public entertainment.Neal Gabler calls them "lifies," those blockbusters written in the medium of life that dominate the media and the national conversation for weeks, months, even years: the death of Princess Diana, the trial of O.J. Simpson, ... Read more

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  • Warning Shadows

    Home Alone with Classic Cinema

    by Gary Giddins ...
    A brilliantly insightful and witty examination of beloved and little-known films, directors, and stars by one of America’s most esteemed critics.In his illuminating new work, Gary Giddins explores the evolution of film, from the first moving pictures and peepshows to the digital era of DVDs and online video-streaming. New technologies have changed our experience of cinema forever; we have peeled ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • War, Politics and Superheroes: Ethics and Propaganda in Comics and Film

    Ethics and Propaganda in Comics and Film

    by Marc DiPaolo ...
    Superhero adventure comics have a long history of commenting upon American public opinion and government policy, and the surge in the popularity of comics since the events of September 11, 2001, ensures their continued relevance. This critical text examines the seventy-year history of comic book superheroes on film and in comic books and their reflections of the politics of their time. Superheroes ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • How to Watch a Movie

    by David Thomson ...
    From one of the most admired critics of our time, brilliant insights into the act of watching movies and an enlightening discussion about how to derive more from any film experience.Since first publishing his landmark Biographical Dictionary of Film in 1975 (recently released in its sixth edition), David Thomson has been one of our most provocative authorities on all things cinema. Now he offers ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Movie-Made America

    A Cultural History of American Movies

    by Robert Sklar ...
    Hailed as the definitive work upon its original publication in 1975 and now extensively revised and updated by the author, this vastly absorbing and richly illustrated book examines film as an art form, technological innovation, big business, and shaper of American values.Ever since Edison's peep shows first captivated urban audiences, film has had a revolutionary impact on American society, ... Read more

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