Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Top Series in United States

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “matthew cipa6”
Skip side bar filters

  • Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town

    by Murray Pomerance, R. Barton Palmer, Matthew Solomon, David Desser, Neil Badmington, Matthew H. Bernstein, Steven Rybin, Mark Osteen, Lawrence Napper0, Adrian Danks1, Rebecca Bell-Metereau2, Brenda Austin-Smith3, Dominic Lennard4, Daniel Varndell5, Matthew Cipa6, Tom Conley7, Ms. Linda Badley8, Professor Kristen Hatch9 ...
    Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town is the first book devoted to the career of one of the director/producers who in the early years of sound cinema was instrumental in establishing the Hollywood model of production that would endure for more than half a century. As a director and producer, LeRoy was responsible for turning out more than sixty feature films in a career that spanned five decades; as a studio ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Is Harpo Free?

    And Other Questions of the Metaphysical Screen

    by Matthew Cipa ...
    Series series SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
    Examines how philosophical concepts like free will, personal identity, and goodness are given an artistic life in films and television programs.Is Harpo Free? is a lively appreciation of film and television's ability to artistically explore concepts typical of philosophical metaphysics, such as free will, causality, and personal identity. Rather than using films and television programs as vehicles ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • 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

  • Creepy Crawling

    Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family

    by Jeffrey Melnick ...
    "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, author Jeffrey Melnick reveals just how much the Family creepy crawled their way through Los Angeles in the sixties and then on through American ... Read more

    $16.99 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

  • Start Here: Read Your Way into 25 Amazing Authors

    by Jeff O'Neal, Rebecca Joines Schinsky ...
    There are so many fantastic authors and great books out there that sometimes it’s hard to know where to begin. Start Here solves that problem; it tells you how to read your way into 25 amazing authors from a wide range of genres--from classics to contemporary fiction to comics. Each chapter presents an author, explains why you might want to try them, and lays out a 3- or 4-book reading sequence ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Alfred Hitchcock

    Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures

    by Donald Spoto ...
    This definitive illustrated survey of all of Alfred Hitchcock's films is a book no movie buff or Hitchcock fan can afford to be without.The monumental scope of Alfred Hitchcock's work remains unsurpassed by any other movie director, past or present. So many of his movies have achieved classic status that even a partial list—Psycho, The Birds, Rear Window, Vertigo, Spellbound—brings a flood of ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $7.99 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

  • American Comics

    A History

    by Jeremy Dauber ...
    The sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their hold on the American imagination.Comics have conquered America. From our multiplexes, where Marvel and DC movies reign supreme, to our television screens, where comics-based shows like The Walking Dead have become among the most popular in cable history, to convention halls, best-seller lists, Pulitzer Prize–winning titles, ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sick and Dirty

    Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness

    by Michael Koresky ...
    Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, NonfictionAN ALLSTORA'S QUEER HISTORY 101 BOOK CLUB PICK"An absorbing landmark of film criticism.” --The Chicago Tribune, "The 10 Best Books of the Year"A blazingly original history celebrating the persistence of queerness onscreen, behind the camera, and between the lines during the dark days of the Hollywood Production Code.Fr... ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Film

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Wood ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Film is considered by some to be the most dominant art form of the twentieth century. It is many things, but it has become above all a means of telling stories through images and sounds. The stories are often offered to us as quite false, frankly and beautifully fantastic, and they are sometimes insistently said to be true. But they are stories in both cases, and there are very few films, even in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Perplexing Plots

    Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder

    by David Bordwell ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Nominated, 2024 Edgar Allan Poe Award in the category of best critical/biographical, Mystery Writers of AmericaShortlisted, 2024 Agatha Awards - Best Mystery Nonfiction, Malice DomesticPosthumous Winner - 2023 IFCA Book Prize, International Crime Fiction AssociationNarrative innovation is typically seen as the domain of the avant-garde. However, techniques such as nonlinear timelines, multiple ... Read more

    $27.29 USD