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  • Hitchcock's Villains

    Murderers, Maniacs, and Mother Issues

    The films of Alfred Hitchcock are appreciated for a variety of reasons, including the many memorable villains who menace the protagonists. Unlike so many of cinema’s wrongdoers, the Hitchcock villain was often a complex individual with a nuanced personality and neuroses the common person might not be able to relate to, but could at least understand. If such figures did not always elicit sympathy ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • A Year of Hitchcock

    52 Weeks with the Master of Suspense

    Alfred Hitchcock's career spanned more than five decades, during which he directed more than 50 films, many of them indisputable classics: Notorious, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho, among others. In A Year of Hitchcock: 52 Weeks with the Master of Suspense, authors Jim McDevitt and Eric San Juan provide a comprehensive examination of Hitchcock's film-to ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

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    The stylistic and bloody excesses of the films of Dario Argento are instantly recognizable—his films lock violent deaths in a twisted embrace with an almost sexual beauty. Narrative and logic are often lost in a constant bombardment of atmosphere, technical mastery, and provocative imagery. Setting the tone with earlier gialli films such as The Animal Trilogy and Deep Red, Argento has steadily ... Read more

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  • Martin Scorsese Unauthorized Biography: A great film director for every generation!

    Best known for films like Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, The Aviator and The Departed, Martin Scorsese has established himself as one of the greatest directors ever lived. He had done a number of collaborations with two of the most sought-after actors in Hollywood - Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, with most of their films marking history in American cinema. Let us take a ... Read more

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  • Spaghetti Westerns

    by Howard Hughes ...
    They are tough. They are mean. They are the fastest, coolest gunslingers of the 1960s, and they don't talk much. They are the heroes of the Italian Spaghetti West and they changed the Western forever. Clint Eastwood's poncho-clad, cigar smoking Man With No Name is the enduring symbol of the genre and his Dollars trilogy with Sergio Leone reinvented action cinema, adding a European freshness to the ... Read more

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  • Movie Accidents and Deaths

    Brief details of people who died while filming blockbuster movies

    by Thomas Hall ...
    With this informative book and a copy of one of the films mentioned, you may be able to see the scene where a person was injured or killed, as the Director decided to keep the action for the film.For example:The Dark Knight (2008)Cameraman Conway Wickliffe was killed on the set of The Dark Knight, as he rode in a pickup truck driving parallel to a stunt car; the pickup truck missed a 90-degree ... Read more

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  • Music Composition for Film and Television

    by Lalo Schifrin ...
    (Berklee Guide). Learn film-scoring techniques from one of the great film/television composers of our time. Lalo Schifrin shares his insights into the intimate relationship between music and drama. The book is illustrated with extended excerpts from his most iconic scores such as Mission: Impossible , Cool Hand Luke , Bullitt and many others and peppered with anecdotes from inside the Hollywood ... Read more

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  • Agnes Varda

    Interviews

    Edited by T. Jefferson Kline ...
    Series series Conversations with Filmmakers Series
    Over nearly sixty years, Agnès Varda (b. 1928) has given interviews that are revealing not only of her work, but of her remarkably ambiguous status. She has been called the “Mother of the New Wave” but suffered for many years for never having been completely accepted by the cinematic establishment in France. Varda's first film, La Pointe Courte (1954), displayed many of the characteristics of the ... Read more

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  • On Low Budget Film Making,Digital Film Making Interviews

    by rodney cannon ...
    On Low Budget Film Making is a book that contains interviews with many young and upcoming digital film makers. Most of these interviews were conducted while they were in the middle of production. This book was written to aid those who wish to become film makers by someone who believed that the best way to lear is from those who are putting in the time and sweat equity.This is a digital film making ... Read more

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  • Eric Rohmer

    Interviews

    Edited by Fiona Handyside ...
    Series series Conversations with Filmmakers Series
    The 1969 film Ma Nuit chez Maud catapulted its shy academic film director Eric Rohmer (1920-2010) into the limelight, selling over a million tickets in France and earning a nomination for an Academy Award. Ma Nuit chez Maud remains his most famous film, the highlight of an impressive range of films examining the sexual, romantic, and artistic mores of contemporary France, the temptations of desire ... Read more

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  • Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema

    by Jasper Sharp ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    The cinema of Japan predates that of Russia, China, and India, and it has been able to sustain itself without outside assistance for over a century. Japanese cinema's long history of production and considerable output has seen films made in a variety of genres, including melodramas, romances, gangster movies, samurai movies, musicals, horror films, and monster films. It has also produced some of ... Read more

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  • Quentin Tarantino

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    Edited by Gerald Peary ...
    Series series Conversations with Filmmakers Series
    To See Them Run explores how and why Great Plains hunters have chased coyotes with greyhounds and other sight hounds since before George Armstrong Custer. Though a well-developed, long-lived, widespread, and undeniably enthralling tradition, the practice remains little known, even to those living in Oklahoma, Nebraska, and South Dakota, where the tradition is common. Coyote coursing, hunting with ... Read more

    $28.79 USD