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  • Invasion

    by Jon Lewis ...
    Series Book 1 - A C.H.A.O.S. Novel
    He didn't ask to be a hero, but now all that stands between us and chaos . . . is Colt.Colt McAlister was having the summer of his life. He spent his days surfing and his nights playing guitar on the beach with friends. He even met a girl and got his first car. But everything changes when his parents are killed in a freak accident.He's forced to leave his old life behind and move to Arizona with ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of American Film History

    Edited by Jon Lewis ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of American Film History offers a series of newly-commissioned chapters on the current intellectual and topical diversity of the study of American film history. It provides a thorough look at the complex history of American cinema, and showcases a variety of historiographic practices and methods. Within each of the five chronological sections, readers will find discourse on ... Read more

    $182.69 USD

  • Die Hard

    by Jon Lewis ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Upon its release, John McTiernan's Die Hard (1988)was met with immense commercial and critical success; breaking the $100 million mark at the box office in its first run, and resulting in four Academy Award nominations.Jon Lewis's study of the action classicclosely examines the film's novel and script adaptation, highlighting the influential role of producer Joel Silver. He delves into Silver's ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Whom God Wishes to Destroy . . .

    Francis Coppola and the New Hollywood

    by Jon Lewis ...
    In March 1980 Francis Coppola purchased the dilapidated Hollywood General Studios facility with the hope and dream of creating a radically new kind of studio, one that would revolutionize filmmaking, challenge the established studio machinery, and, most importantly, allow him to make movies as he wished. With this event at the center of Whom God Wishes to Destroy, Jon Lewis offers a behind-the ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • The Godfather, Part II

    by Jon Lewis ...
    Series Book 2 - BFI Film Classics
    Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II (1974) is a magisterial cinematic work, a gorgeous, stylized, auteur epic, and one of the few sequels judged by many to be greater than its predecessor. This despite the fact that it consists largely of meetings between aspiring 'Godfather' Michael Corleone and fellow gangsters, politicians and family members. The meetings remind us that the modern ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Road Trip to Nowhere

    Hollywood Encounters the Counterculture

    by Jon Lewis ...
    How a new generation of counterculture talent changed the landscape of Hollywood, the film industry, and celebrity culture.By 1967, the commercial and political impact on Hollywood of the sixties counterculture had become impossible to ignore. The studios were in bad shape, still contending with a generation-long box office slump and struggling to get young people into the habit of going to the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • When the Movies Mattered

    The New Hollywood Revisited

    Edited by Jonathan Kirshner, Jon Lewis ...
    In When the Movies Mattered Jonathan Kirshner and Jon Lewis gather a remarkable collection of authors to revisit the unique era in American cinema that was New Hollywood. Ten eminent contributors, some of whom wrote about the New Hollywood movement as it unfolded across the 1960s and 1970s, assess the convergence of film-industry developments and momentous social and political changes that created ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Hollywood v. Hard Core

    How the Struggle Over Censorship Created the Modern Film Industry

    by Jon Lewis ...
    A tale of censorship and regulation at the heart of the modern film industryIn 1972, The Godfather and Deep Throat were the two most popular films in the country. One, a major Hollywood studio production, the other an independently made "skin flick." At that moment, Jon Lewis asserts, the fate of the American film industry hung in the balance.Spanning the 20th century, Hollywood v. Hard Core ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Godfather

    by Jon Lewis ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972) marked a transition in American film-making, and its success – as a work of art, as a creative 'property' exploited by its studio, Paramount Pictures; and as a model for aspiring auteurist film-makers – changed Hollywood forever.Jon Lewis's study of The Godfather begins with a close look at the film's audacious visual style (the long, theatrical set ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Looking Past the Screen

    Case Studies in American Film History and Method

    by Dana Polan, Shelley Stamp ...
    Film scholarship has long been dominated by textual interpretations of specific films. Looking Past the Screen advances a more expansive American film studies in which cinema is understood to be a social, political, and cultural phenomenon extending far beyond the screen. Presenting a model of film studies in which films themselves are only one source of information among many, this volume brings ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The End Of Cinema As We Know It

    American Film in the Nineties

    Edited by Jon Lewis ...
    Thirty-four essays that take a serious look at the state of modern cinemaAlmost half a century ago, Jean-Luc Godard famously remarked, "I await the end of cinema with optimism." Lots of us have been waiting forand wondering aboutthis prophecy ever since. The way films are made and exhibited has changed significantly. Films, some of which are not exactly "films" anymore, can now be projected in a ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Godfather

    by Jon Lewis ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972) marked a transition in American film-making, and its success – as a work of art, as a creative 'property' exploited by its studio, Paramount Pictures; and as a model for aspiring auteurist film-makers – changed Hollywood forever.Jon Lewis's study of The Godfather begins with a close look at the film's audacious visual style (the long, theatrical set ... Read more

    $13.69 USD