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Screen Classics eBook Series

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  • Sidney J. Furie

    Life and Films

    by Daniel Kremer ...
    Series series Screen Classics
    Known for his visual style as well as for his experimentation in virtually every genre of narrative cinema, award-winning director Sidney J. Furie also has the distinction of having made Canada's first ever feature-length fictional film in English, A Dangerous Age (1957). With a body of work that includes The Ipcress File (1965), Lady Sings the Blues (1972), and The Entity (1982), he has ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • The Hateful Eight

    by Quentin Tarantino ...
    Academy Award-winning screenwriter Quentin Tarantino returns with his most infamous, most brilliant, most masterful screenplay yet?ĶAt the end of the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. Bounty hunter John Ruth and his fugitive captive Daisy Domergue race toward the town of Red Rock, where Ruth will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter Major ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Ayoade on Ayoade

    by Richard Ayoade ...
    In this book Richard Ayoade - actor, writer, director, and amateur dentist - reflects on his cinematic legacy as only he can: in conversation with himself. Over ten brilliantly insightful and often erotic interviews, Ayoade examines himself fully and without mercy, leading a breathless investigation into this once-in-a-generation visionary.Only Ayoade can appreciate Ayoade's unique methodology. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Man Who Heard Voices

    Or, How M. Night Shyamalan Risked His Career on a Fairy Tale and Lost

    by Michael Bamberger ...
    A behind-the-scenes look at the groundbreaking filmmaker M. Night ShyamalanIn his relatively young career, M. Night Shyamalan has achieved phenomenal commercial and critical success. His films The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, and The Village have grossed over $1.5 billion and reinvented the thriller genre. Because Shyamalan has worked outside of the Hollywood system, however, his filmmaking ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Film Paintings of David Lynch

    Challenging Film Theory

    by Allister Mactaggart ...
    One of the most distinguished filmmakers working today, David Lynch is a director whose vision of cinema is firmly rooted in fine art. He was motivated to make his first film as a student because he wanted a painting that “would really be able to move.” Most existing studies of Lynch, however, fail to engage fully with the complexities of his films’ relationship to other art forms. The Film ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses

    Roger Corman

    by Chris Nashawaty ...
    "Delightful . . . an engrossing oral history . . . As an enthusiastic ode to colorful, seat-of-your-pants filmmaking, this one's hard to beat." — Booklist (starred review)"Fantastic—a treasure." —Stephen KingC rab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses is an outrageously rollicking account of the life and career of Roger Corman—one of the most prolific and successful independent ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pretend You're In A War

    The Who and the Sixties

    by Mark Blake ...
    'A definitive tome for both Who fans and newcomers alike’ ***** Q MagazinePete Townshend was once asked how he prepared himself for The Who’s violent live performances. His answer? ‘Pretend you’re in a war.’ For a band as prone to furious infighting as it was notorious for acts of ‘auto-destructive art’ this could have served as a motto.Between 1964 and 1969 The Who released some of the most ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

    $1.99 USD

  • Lone Scherfig's Italian for Beginners

    by Mette Hjort ...
    Series series Nordic Film Classics
    Lone Scherfig was the first of a number of women directors to take up the challenge of Dogme, the back-to-basics, manifesto-based, rule-governed, and now globalized film initiative introduced by Danish filmmakers Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg in 1995. Entitled Italiensk for begyndere (Italian for Beginners), Scherfig's Dogme film transformed this already accomplished filmmaker into one of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD