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  • My Only Great Passion

    The Life and Films of Carl Th. Dreyer

    by Jean Drum, Dale D. Drum ...
    Series series The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series
    In an industry that celebrates extravagance and showmanship, Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer was a rarity, a man who guarded his privacy fiercely and believed that film provided a way to understand human nature by focusing on the individual person. Best known for his 1928 film The Passion of Joan of Arc, dominated by its emotionally harrowing close-ups of Joan during her trial, it was Dreyer ... Read more

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  • The Futurist

    The Life and Films of James Cameron

    by Rebecca Keegan ...
    With the release of Avatar in December 2009, James Cameron cements his reputation as king of sci-fi and blockbuster filmmaking. It’s a distinction he’s long been building, through a directing career that includes such cinematic landmarks as The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, and the highest grossing movie of all time, Titanic. The Futurist is the first in-depth look at every aspect of this ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Fosse

    by Sam Wasson ...
    From "a smart and savvy reporter," a biography of the award-winning performer and director that "abounds with colorful firsthand tales" (Janet Maslin, New York Times).Now the FX limited series Fosse/Verdon starring Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams with Lin-Manuel Miranda executive producing.The only person ever to win Oscar, Emmy, and Tony awards in the same year, Bob Fosse revolutionized nearly ... Read more

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  • Peter Jackson

    A Film-maker’s Journey

    by Brian Sibley ...
    Authorised and fully illustrated insight into the life and career of the award-winning director, from his childhood film projects up to King Kong, together with Jackson's revealing personal account of his six-year quest to film The Lord of the Rings.Once, Peter Jackson was a name unknown to all but a small band of loyal fans and fellow film-makers. Now he is the newest member of Hollywood's elite ... Read more

    $7.49 USD

  • Print the Legend

    The Life and Times of John Ford

    by Scott Eyman ...
    "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." This line comes from director John Ford's film, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, but it also serves as an epigram for the life of the legendary filmmaker.Through a career that spanned decades and included work on dozens of films -- among them such American masterpieces as The Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath, The Quiet Man, Stagecoach, and How Green ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Pretend You're In A War

    The Who and the Sixties

    by Mark Blake ...
    'A definitive tome for both Who fans and newcomers alike’ ***** Q MagazinePete Townshend was once asked how he prepared himself for The Who’s violent live performances. His answer? ‘Pretend you’re in a war.’ For a band as prone to furious infighting as it was notorious for acts of ‘auto-destructive art’ this could have served as a motto.Between 1964 and 1969 The Who released some of the most ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Body and the Screen

    Female Subjectivities in Contemporary Women’s Cinema

    by Kate Ince ...
    Series series Thinking Cinema
    Winner of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Best Book Prize 2018Since the 1980s the number of women regularly directing films has increased significantly in most Western countries; in France, Claire Denis and Catherine Breillat have joined Agnès Varda in gaining international renown, while British directors Lynne Ramsay and Andrea Arnold have forged award-winning ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Woody Allen

    Interviews, Revised and Updated

    Edited by Robert E. Kapsis ...
    Series series Conversations with Filmmakers Series
    This revised and updated edition gathers interviews and profiles covering the entire forty-five-year span of Woody Allen's career as a filmmaker, including detailed discussions of his most popular as well as his most critically acclaimed works. The present collection is a complete update of the volume that first appeared in 2006. In the years since, Allen has continued making movies, including ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • D.W. Griffith: Master of Cinema

    by Ira H. Gallen ...
    Exhaustively researched and accessibly written, D.W. Griffith: Master of Cinema is a remarkably comprehensive biography of the legendary director and his days creating his craft at the American Biograph Company between 1908 through 1913. Meticulously detailed, utilizing a wealth of archival documents and photographs, the book effectively details Griffith’s place as a film pioneer. Even a casual ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Andrzej Wajda

    History, Politics & Nostalgia In Polish Cinema

    by Janina Falkowska ...
    The work of Andrzej Wajda, one of the world’s most important filmmakers, shows remarkable cohesion in spite of the wide ranging scope of his films, as this study of his complete output of feature films shows. Not only do his films address crucial historical, social and political issues; the complexity of his work is reinforced by the incorporation of the elements of major film and art movements. ... Read more

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  • Philippe Grandrieux

    Sonic Cinema

    by Associate Professor Greg Hainge ...
    Series series Ex:Centrics
    Philippe Grandrieux is one of cinema's only living true radicals and feted as one of the most innovative and important film makers of his generation. His consistently controversial work remains, however, relatively unknown outside of the international art film festival circuit. In this volume, the first book-length study of the work of Grandrieux in any language, Greg Hainge provides an overview ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Cinema of Hal Hartley

    by Sebastian Manley ...
    One of the most significant contributors to the American independent cinema that developed over the late 1980s and 1990s, Hal Hartley has throughout his career created films that defy convention and capture the stranger realities of modern American life. The Cinema of Hal Hartley looks at all of Hartley's film releases - from cult classics such as The Unbelievable Truth and Trust to oddball genre ... Read more

    $42.99 USD