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  • The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick

    Edited by Jerold J. Abrams ...
    Series series The Philosophy of Popular Culture
    In the course of fifty years, director Stanley Kubrick produced some of the most haunting and indelible images on film. His films touch on a wide range of topics rife with questions about human life, behavior, and emotions: love and sex, war, crime, madness, social conditioning, and technology. Within this great variety of subject matter, Kubrick examines different sides of reality and unifies ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Contemporary Cowboys

    Reimagining an American Archetype in Popular Culture

    by Karen Adkins, Adam Barkman, Caroline Collins, Enzo Guerra, Lilian Haney, Gillian Kelly, Dahlia Schweitzer, Mark Walling, Jerold J. Abrams, Cindy S. Hamilton, Misty L. Jameson0, Wendy Chapman Peek1, Jennifer L. McMahon2, John M. Thompson3, Clint W. Jones5 ...
    Contemporary Cowboys: Reimagining an American Archetype in Popular Culture expands and develops an understanding of recent cultural shifts in representations of the American cowboy and “the West” as vital components of American identity and values. The chapters in this book examine they ways in which twenty-first century representations have updated the figure of the cowboy, considering not only ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • A Critical Companion to Stanley Kubrick

    by Jerold J. Abrams, James R. Britton, Rachel Cole, Elsa Colombani, Carol Donelan, James Fenwick, William Gombash, Vincent Jaunas, Paul Johnson, Gilles Menegaldo0, Guillaume Mouleux1, Maurizia Natali2, Annie Nissen3, Sean O’Reilly4, Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris5, Joshua Sikora6, Carl Sweeney7, Madison Mae Williams8 ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Directors
    A Critical Companion to Stanley Kubrick offers a thorough and detailed study of the films of the legendary director. Labeled a recluse, a provocateur, and a perfectionist, Kubrick revolutionized filmmaking, from the use of music in film, narrative pacing and structure, to depictions of war and violence. An unparalleled visionary, his work continues to influence contemporary cinema and visual ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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  • Stanley Kubrick

    Adapting the Sublime

    by Elisa Pezzotta ...
    Although Stanley Kubrick adapted novels and short stories, his films deviate in notable ways from the source material. In particular, since 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), his films seem to definitively exploit all cinematic techniques, embodying a compelling visual and aural experience. But, as author Elisa Pezzotta contends, it is for these reasons that his cinema becomes the supreme embodiment of ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • On The Beat: My Story

    by Graham Cole ...
    Graham Cole has played PC Tony Stamp in hit television drama The Bill for nearly 25 years. Now he lifts the lid on his own life and reveals how he became one of Britain's best-loved TV cops. From growing up in London to patrolling the streets of fictional Sun Hill, Graham's story is witty and warm and reveals what life is like as a star of the country's favourite police drama. ... Read more

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  • 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

  • Orson Welles's Last Movie

    The Making of The Other Side of the Wind

    by Josh Karp ...
    Journalist Josh Karp shines a spotlight on the making of The Other Side of the Wind—the final unfinished film from the auteur of Citizen Kane in Orson Welles's Last Movie, the basis of Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville's Netflix Original Documentary, They'll Love Me When I'm Dead.In the summer of 1970, legendary but self-destructive director Orson Welles returned to Hollywood from years of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • John Carpenter

    by Michelle Le Blanc, Colin Odell ...
    From his hands-on filmmaking style to his writing and his composing—an indispensable guide to the ultimate cult auteurOne of the most iconic directors of American cinema, John Carpenter has astonished audiences the world over with his tightly crafted horror, thriller, and science-fiction films. Not just a director, Carpenter's talents also extend to writing the screenplays and soundtracks to many ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $80.99 USD

  • Krzysztof Kieślowski

    Interviews

    Edited by Renata Bernard, Steven Woodward ...
    Series series Conversations with Filmmakers Series
    Krzysztof Kieślowski’s untimely death came at the height of his career, after his Three Colors trilogy of films garnered international acclaim (and an Oscar nomination), and he had been proclaimed Europe’s most important filmmaker by many critics. Born in 1941, he was only fifty-four years old when he died.Kieślowski himself tried to tell the story of his life and career in the 1993 book ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Steven Spielberg

    A Life in Films

    by Molly Haskell ...
    Series series Jewish Lives
    A film-centric portrait of the extraordinarily gifted movie director whose decades-long influence on American popular culture is unprecedented“Everything about me is in my films,” Steven Spielberg has said. Taking this as a key to understanding the hugely successful moviemaker, Molly Haskell explores the full range of Spielberg’s works for the light they shine upon the man himself. Through such ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Barbara Kopple

    Interviews

    Edited by Gregory Brown ...
    Series series Conversations with Filmmakers Series
    With a career spanning more than forty years, Barbara Kopple (b. 1946) long ago established herself as one of the most prolific and award-winning American filmmakers of her generation. Her projects have ranged from labor union documentaries to fictional feature films to an educational series for kids on the Disney Channel. Through it all, Kopple has generously made herself available for a great ... Read more

    $17.99 USD