Format: Paperback, 448 pages Publisher: Dell On Sale: November 15, 1981 Price: $7.99 ISBN: 978-0-440-15325-2 (0-440-15325-5)
Originally published in Paris, and consequently went on to become an underground legend, Hollywood Babylon explores the underbelly of glamorous Hollywood.
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Format: Hardcover, 176 pages Publisher: Titan Books On Sale: February 17, 2009 Price: $29.95 ISBN: 978-1-84856-159-5 (1-84856-159-8)
It is the most eagerly awaited comics-to-film adaptation of them all. The graphic novel that changed an industry is now a film from Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures in association with Legendary Pictures, directed by Zack Snyder (300), and Watchmen: The Official Film Companion is the essential guide to this cinematic...
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Format: Hardcover, 256 pages Publisher: Titan Books On Sale: February 10, 2009 Price: $40.00 ISBN: 978-1-84856-068-0 (1-84856-068-0)
Discover how director Zack Snyder (300) and his crew faithfully recreated the intricately detailed world and characters of the legendary graphic novel in the eagerly awaited film.
From the New York City of an alternate 1985 to the surface of Mars, the film adaptation of Watchmen is a triumph of design, filled...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages Publisher: Titan Books On Sale: February 10, 2009 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-1-84856-067-3 (1-84856-067-2)
It is the most eagerly awaited comics-to-film adaptation of them all. The graphic novel that changed an industry is now a film from Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures in association with Legendary Pictures, directed by Zack Snyder (300), and Watchmen: The Official Film Companion is the essential guide to this...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: February 12, 2008 Price: $18.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-38775-2 (0-307-38775-5)
Leni Riefenstahl, the woman known as “Hitler’s filmmaker,” made some of the greatest and most innovative documentaries ever made. They are also insidious glorifications of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. Now, Steven Bach reveals the truths and lies behind Riefenstahl’s lifelong self-vindication as an apolitical artist who claimed to know...
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Format: Hardcover, 400 pages Publisher: Knopf On Sale: March 13, 2007 Price: $30.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-40400-9 (0-375-40400-7)
The definitive biography of Leni Riefenstahl, the woman best known as “Hitler’s filmmaker,” one of the most fascinating and controversial personalities of the twentieth century. It is the story of huge talent and huger ambition, one that probes the sometimes blurred borders dividing art and beauty from truth and humanity.
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages Publisher: Titan Books On Sale: April 1, 2003 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-84023-430-5 (1-84023-430-X)
Spielberg, Truffaut & Me is a fascinating look into the making of Spielberg's sci-fi classic. A detailed account of Spielberg at work, this book also includes a revealing portrait of the late Truffaut, and captures the reality of creating a sci-fi blockbuster.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages Publisher: Delta On Sale: June 13, 2000 Price: $11.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-33460-0 (0-385-33460-5)
Offering an incisive look at racism in American movies and a vision of America’s self-delusions and deceptions, Baldwin challenges the underlying assumptions in such films as In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, and The Exorcist. Here are our loves and hates, biases and cruelties, fears and...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: August 14, 2007 Price: $13.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-27594-3 (0-307-27594-9)
Based on Alex Haley’s bestselling classic The Autobiography of Malcolm X comes a rare, lucidly composed screenplay from one of America’s great masters of letters.
Son of a Baptist minister; New York City hustler; honor student; convicted criminal; powerful minister in the Nation of Islam; father and husband: Malcolm X transformed himself...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 196 pages Publisher: Anchor On Sale: September 15, 1998 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-48710-8 (0-385-48710-X)
In this immensely captivating and imaginative novel, perfectly set at the intersection of fact and fiction, Dan Barden superimposes the story of John Wayne on the story of the Bardens, a family very much like his own. Frank Barden, Wayne’s contractor, is an Irish Catholic from New York who has come...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: January 6, 2009 Price: $18.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-38875-9 (0-307-38875-1)
From one of our leading film authorities, a rich, penetrating, amusing plum pudding of a book about the golden age of movies, full of Hollywood lore, anecdotes, and analysis.
Jeanine Basingergives us an immensely entertaining look into the “star machine,” examining how, at the height of the studio system, from...
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Format: Hardcover, 608 pages Publisher: Knopf On Sale: October 23, 2007 Price: $35.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-4130-5 (1-4000-4130-9)
From one of our leading film authorities, a rich, penetrating, amusing plum pudding of a book about the golden age of movies, full of Hollywood lore, anecdotes, and analysis.
Jeanine Basingergives us an immensely entertaining look into the “star machine,” examining how, at the height of the studio system, from...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books On Sale: November 2, 1999 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-345-43205-6 (0-345-43205-3)
The Academy Award-winning filmmaker recommends 52 classic films (all available on video), to be viewed on a weekly basis for one full year. From timeless musicals to powerful dramas and thrillers, to legendary masterpieces and neglected treasures to sparkling comedies and landmark foreign films, each choice is accompanied by an illuminating...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books On Sale: October 25, 2005 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-0-345-48002-6 (0-345-48002-3)
Peter Bogdanovich, known primarily as a director, film historian and critic, has been working with professional actors all his life. He started out as an actor (he debuted on the stage in his sixth-grade production of Finian’s Rainbow); he watched actors work (he went to the theater every week from the...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 1248 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books On Sale: March 19, 1996 Price: $25.00 ISBN: 978-0-345-40053-6 (0-345-40053-4)
The book describes each year's Oscar night (from 1927-1994), shares anecdotes about the ceremony, winners, and their acceptance speeches, and provides a behind-the-scenes look at the event's production. Includes a complete list of all the nominees and winners, as well as a list of notable non-nominees.
Format: Trade Paperback Publisher: Del Rey On Sale: May 10, 1999 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-345-43119-6 (0-345-43119-7)
An exclusive entrée to the behind-the-scenes world of the newest chapter in the Star Wars saga, brought to life by masters of movie-making magic. Lavishly illustrated throughout with hundreds of drawings and photographs. Features: A series of exclusive interviews with George Lucas as he discusses the genesis of the Star Wars...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: October 10, 2006 Price: $13.95 ISBN: 978-1-4000-9626-8 (1-4000-9626-X)
A wholly unexpected, hugely entertaining work from one of the greatest actors of our time: the story of an eccentric early-twentieth-century pirate, on the high seas from the Philippines to Shanghai—a larger-than-life character that Brando could have easily inhabited himself.
Anatole “Annie” Doultry is in his early fifties, with an imposing...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages Publisher: Anchor On Sale: February 13, 2007 Price: $18.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-9686-2 (1-4000-9686-3)
If a child can watch Barney, can’t that same child also enjoy watching Charlie Chaplin or the Marx Brothers? And as they get older, wouldn’t they grow to like screwball comedies (His Girl Friday), women’s weepies (Imitation of Life), and westerns (The Searchers)? The answer is that they’ll follow because they’ll...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: January 10, 2006 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-75763-1 (0-375-75763-5)
“I like the surprise of the curtain going up, revealing what’s behind it.” –John Schlesinger
The British director John Schlesinger was one of the cinema’s most dynamic and influential artists. Now, in Conversations with John Schlesinger, acclaimed writer Ian Buruma, Schlesinger’s nephew, reveals the director’s private world in a series of in-depth interviews...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: December 3, 2002 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-70832-9 (0-375-70832-4)
During the late nineteenth century, magazines, newspapers, novelists, and even historians presented a revised version of the Civil War that, intending to reconcile the former foes, downplayed the issues of slavery and racial injustice, and often promoted and reinforced the worst racial stereotypes. The Reel Civil War tells the history of...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages Publisher: Knopf On Sale: September 25, 2001 Price: $22.50 ISBN: 978-0-375-70967-8 (0-375-70967-3)
Here, in an extraordinary book with more than 650 black-and-white photographs -- including film posters, stills, grabs, and never-before-seen pictures from Wilder's own collection -- the ninety-three-year-old icon talks to Cameron Crowe, one of today's best-known writer-directors, about thirty years at the very heart of Hollywood, and about screenwriting and camera...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages Publisher: Three Rivers Press On Sale: October 15, 1997 Price: $23.00 ISBN: 978-0-609-80110-9 (0-609-80110-4)
Finally! A step-by-step guide to the keys that unlock the doors to Hollywood.
Opening the Doors to Hollywood has all the information you'll ever need in order to tap into the $500 million spent yearly in Hollywood on acquiring and developing projects.
Discover how to: Find a story Rewrite it Option it Package it Pitch it Write it Sell it...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages Publisher: Broadway On Sale: September 11, 2001 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-7679-0819-1 (0-7679-0819-8)
After inspiring two movies, a Broadway musical, and a successful sequel, author Patrick Dennis' singular character has become one of the world's most outrageous icons. In the wake of an acclaimed biography of the eccentric Dennis (Uncle Mame, October 2000) and as retro-chic rages on, this edition, complete with a new...
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Format: eBook, 320 pages Publisher: Broadway On Sale: February 5, 2002 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-7679-1095-8 (0-7679-1095-8)
After inspiring two movies, a Broadway musical, and a successful sequel, author Patrick Dennis' singular character has become one of the world's most outrageous icons. In the wake of an acclaimed biography of the eccentric Dennis (Uncle Mame, October 2000) and as retro-chic rages on, this edition, complete with a new...
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Format: Hardcover, 224 pages Publisher: Del Rey On Sale: October 29, 2002 Price: $39.95 ISBN: 978-0-345-43128-8 (0-345-43128-6)
Anecdote-filled and sporting an edgy, modern design, this is the only total-access look behind the scenes at "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones", by one of the most talented and authoritative authors in the field.
Features: Cutting edge design and hundreds of photos from the set and from the movie itself; Interviews...
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