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Hollywood Babylon
The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets
Written by Kenneth Anger


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. Read more >

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Watchmen: The Official Film Companion (Hardcover Edition)

Written by Peter Aperlo


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... Read more >

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Watchmen: The Art of the Film

Written by Peter Aperlo


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... Read more >

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Watchmen: The Official Film Companion

Written by Peter Aperlo


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... Read more >

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Leni
The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl
Written by Steven Bach


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... Read more >
Also available as a hardcover.

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Leni
The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl
Written by Steven Bach


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.

Two... Read more >
Also available as a trade paperback.

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Spielberg, Truffaut & Me: An Actor's Diary

Written by Bob Balaban


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. Read more >

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The Devil Finds Work

Written by James Baldwin


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... Read more >

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One Day When I Was Lost

Written by James Baldwin


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... Read more >

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John Wayne
A Novel
Written by Dan Barden


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... Read more >

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The Star Machine

Written by Jeanine Basinger


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 Basinger gives us an immensely entertaining look into the “star machine,” examining how, at the height of the studio system, from... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a hardcover.

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The Star Machine

Written by Jeanine Basinger


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 Basinger gives us an immensely entertaining look into the “star machine,” examining how, at the height of the studio system, from... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.

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Peter Bogdanovich's Movie of the Week

Written by Peter Bogdanovich


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... Read more >

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Who the Hell's in It
Conversations with Hollywood's Legendary Actors
Written by Peter Bogdanovich


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... Read more >

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Inside Oscar, 10th Anniversary Edition

Written by Damien Bona and Mason Wiley


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.

"The best book to date about... Read more >

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The Making of Star Wars: Episode 1: The Phantom Menace

Written by Laurent Bouzereau


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... Read more >

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Fan-Tan

Written by Marlon Brando and Donald Cammell
Edited by David Thomson


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... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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The Best Old Movies for Families
A Guide to Watching Together
Written by Ty Burr


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... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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Conversations with John Schlesinger

Written by Ian Buruma


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... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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The Reel Civil War
Mythmaking in American Film
Written by Bruce Chadwick


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... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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Conversations with Wilder

Written by Cameron Crowe


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... Read more >

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Opening the Doors to Hollywood
How to Sell Your Idea, Story, Screenplay, Manuscript
Written by Carlos De Abreu


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... Read more >

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Auntie Mame
An Irreverent Escapade
Written by Patrick Dennis


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... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

Auntie Mame
An Irreverent Escapade
Written by Patrick Dennis


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... Read more >
Also available as a trade paperback.

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Mythmaking: Behind the Scenes of Star Wars: Episode 2: Attack of the Clones

Written by Jody Duncan


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... Read more >
Also available as a trade paperback.
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