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“peter kobel”

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  • Silent Movies

    The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture

    by Peter Kobel ...
    Drawing on the extraordinary collection of The Library of Congress, one of the greatest repositories for silent film and memorabilia, Peter Kobel has created the definitive visual history of silent film. From its birth in the 1890s, with the earliest narrative shorts, through the brilliant full-length features of the 1920s, Silent Movies captures the greatest directors and actors and their ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Strange Case of the Mad Professor

    A True Tale of Endangered Species, Illegal Drugs, and Attempted Murder

    by Peter Kobel ...
    It was one of the biggest scandals in New York University history. Professor John Buettner-Janusch, chair of the Anthropology Department, was convicted of manufacturing LSD and Quaaludes in his campus laboratory. He claimed the drugs were for an animal behavior experiment, but the jury found otherwise. B-J, as he was known, served two years in prison before being paroled, emerging to find his life ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Chris Gore's Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide, 4th edition

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    The guerrilla guide to marketing and selling an indie film.Some people are just there for the loot bags. But most of the people at a film festival are trying to market and sell an independent film. Don’t be just one of the horde. Use Chris Gore’s Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide to help your indie film stand out! Entertainment Weekly loves Gore’s book, calling it a “treatise on schmoozing, ... Read more

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  • FilmCraft: Production Design

    by Fionnuala Halligan ...
    Production designers are artistic masters in their own right. They are responsible for the 'look' of a movie; joining productions at an early stage, they coordinate costume design, special effects, set design, make-up, and location scouting to ensure a unified visual appearance. In Production Design, 16 production designers share their insights, anecdotes, and technical achievements, through a ... Read more

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  • The Faber Pocket Guide to Musicals

    by James Inverne ...
    With hit TV shows picking the leads in productions of Oliver! and The Sound Of Music, and smash musicals like Hairspray and Wicked all the West End rage, musical theatre is as popular as it's ever been. James Inverne provides an indispensable guide to his top one hundred greatest shows of all time - and ten of the worst. Whether you know your Pal Joey from The Producers, your West Side Story from ... Read more

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  • Oh Hollywood

    Stuff On Movies From A Film Geek

    by Dominic Leslie ...
    Series series Movie Geek
    We spend a huge fortune on going to the cinema to see the latest blockbuster but have you wondered about how these films are made? Or what sequels nearly got made but never did? Well if you have, this book is for you.Did you know that a member of the British Royal Family nearly appeared in a film. Find out which one by reading this book.Did you ever wonder how Walt Disney managed to pay for the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Getting it Done: The Ultimate Production Assistnat Guide

    The Ultimate Production Assistant Guide

    by Joshua Friedman ...
    Only a fool would enter a film set without having first read this production manual. There is no faster way up the ladder than being prepared and no faster way out the door than by screwing up. This manual was created by a working PA as a tutorial for those starting out, or a reference guide for seasoned filmmakers. ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • Conversations at the American Film Institute with the Great Moviemakers

    The Next Generation

    by George Stevens, Jr. ...
    ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'S 100 GREATEST FILM BOOKS OF ALL TIME • A rich companion volume to George Stevens, Jr.’s much admired book of American Film Institute seminars with the pioneering moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age, this time with a focus on filmmakers of the 1950s to present day.The Next Generation brings together conversations with moviemakers at work from the 1950s—during the ... Read more

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  • The Indie Filmmaker; A Beginner's Guide to Making Feature Films

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  • Shakespeare on Silent Film

    A Strange Eventful History

    by Robert Hamilton Ball ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature
    In 1899, when film projection was barely three years old, Herbert Beerbohm Tree was filmed as King John. In his highly entertaining history, Robert Hamilton Ball traces in detail the fate of Shakespeare on silent films from Tree’s first effort until the establishment of sound in 1929. The silent films brought Shakespeare to a wide public who had never had the chance to see his plays in the theatre ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Film Firsts

    The 25 Movies That Created Contemporary American Cinema

    by Ethan Alter ...
    This forward-looking exploration of contemporary American film across the last 40 years identifies and examines the specific movies that changed the film industry and shaped its present and future.Since the mid-1970s, American cinema has gone through enormous changes, such as the birth of the modern summer blockbuster, the rise of the independent film industry, ongoing technological advancements ... Read more

    $55.09 USD