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The Great Movies II
Written by Roger Ebert
Performing Arts - Film - History & Criticism | Broadway | Trade Paperback
February 2006 | $16.95 | 978-0-7679-1986-9 (0-7679-1986-6)
Continuing the pitch-perfect critiques begun in The Great Movies, Roger Ebert's The Great Movies II collects 100 additional essays, each one of them a gem of critical appreciation and an amalgam of love, analysis, and history that will send readers back to films with a fresh set of eyes and renewed... Read More
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The Great Movies
Written by Roger Ebert
Performing Arts - Film - History & Criticism | Broadway | Trade Paperback
November 2003 | $17.95 | 978-0-7679-1038-5 (0-7679-1038-9)
From America’s most trusted and best-known film critic, one hundred brilliant essays on the films that define for him cinematic greatness.
For the past five years Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic, has been writing biweekly essays for a feature called "The Great Movies," in which he offers a fresh... Read More
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The Three Stooges
Written by Michael Fleming
Performing Arts - Film | Broadway | Trade Paperback
August 2002 | $19.95 | 978-0-7679-0556-5 (0-7679-0556-3)
More people today can name the members of the Three Stooges than can name three justices of the Supreme Court. The Stooges are comedy icons whose enduring appeal and slapstick legacy have made them one of the most famous and beloved comedy troupes in the world. Michael Fleming's The Three StoogesTM... Read More
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Breaking In
Written by Nicholas Jarecki
Performing Arts - Film - Direction & Production | Broadway | Trade Paperback
December 2001 | $14.95 | 978-0-7679-0674-6 (0-7679-0674-8)
A naked-truth collection of interviews with today’s hottest film directors detailing how they made their first films and "broke into" the movie industry.
When Nicholas Jarecki graduated from New York University’s film school at the age of nineteen, he knew that he wanted to make movies, but the fortress-like wall around... Read More
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The Meaning of Star Trek
Written by Thomas Richards
Performing Arts - Television | Main Street Books | Trade Paperback
July 1999 | $15.00 | 978-0-385-48439-8 (0-385-48439-9)
"Where does Star Trek come from? Why is it so popular? How does it go about creating a coherent world? Literary critics may take literature seriously, but they often look down on popular forms such as television shows.
"I feel differently. I think the meaning of the series can best be captured... Read More
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Killer Instinct
Written by Jane Hamsher
Performing Arts - Film - Direction & Production | Broadway | Trade Paperback
June 1998 | $19.00 | 978-0-7679-0075-1 (0-7679-0075-8)
Fresh out of film school, aspiring producer Jane Hamsher and her partner Don Murphy stumbled onto a screenplay by a geeky filmmaker-wannabe named Quentin Tarantino. For $10,000, Jane and Don optioned Natural Born Killers and set off on a two-year roller coaster ride no classroom could have prepared them for. With... Read More
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How to Write a Selling Screenplay
Written by Christopher Keane
Performing Arts - Film - Screenwriting | Broadway | Trade Paperback
April 1998 | $15.95 | 978-0-7679-0071-3 (0-7679-0071-5)
Christopher Keane has spent 20 years in the business, learning the truths--and the tricks--of writing a selling screenplay. In How to Write a Selling Screenplay, he takes writers through the entire process, from developing a story to finding the best agent. Using an annotated version of an often-optioned screenplay of his... Read More
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Hello, He Lied
Written by Linda Obst
Performing Arts - Film - Direction & Production | Broadway | Trade Paperback
September 1997 | $19.00 | 978-0-7679-0041-6 (0-7679-0041-3)
"Never go to a meeting without a strategy." "Ride the horse in the direction it's going." These are just two of the gems unearthed from the trenches of Hollywood by Lynda Obst, one of the most successful producers in the movie business today. In Hello, He Lied, Obst offers real, practical advice to would-be professionals... Read More
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