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The Animation Book
A Complete Guide to Animated Filmmaking--From Flip-Books to Sound Cartoons to 3- D Animation
Written by Kit Laybourne
Introduction by John Canemaker
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: December 22, 1998
Price: $26.99
The first edition of The Animation Book, published in 1979, became the authoritative guide to making animated movies. Now, as we enter the twenty-first century, the explosion in computer technology has created a corresponding boom in animation. Using desktop hardware and software, animators can easily produce high-quality, high-artistry animation and mix... Read more >
A Complete Guide to Animated Filmmaking--From Flip-Books to Sound Cartoons to 3- D Animation
Written by Kit Laybourne
Introduction by John Canemaker
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: December 22, 1998
Price: $26.99
The first edition of The Animation Book, published in 1979, became the authoritative guide to making animated movies. Now, as we enter the twenty-first century, the explosion in computer technology has created a corresponding boom in animation. Using desktop hardware and software, animators can easily produce high-quality, high-artistry animation and mix... Read more >
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Kazan on Directing
Written by Elia Kazan
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $17.95
Elia Kazan was the twentieth century’s most celebrated director of both stage and screen, and this monumental, revelatory book shows us the master at work. Kazan’s list of Broadway and Hollywood successes—A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, On the Waterfront, to name a few—is a testament to his profound... Read more >
Written by Elia Kazan
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $17.95
Elia Kazan was the twentieth century’s most celebrated director of both stage and screen, and this monumental, revelatory book shows us the master at work. Kazan’s list of Broadway and Hollywood successes—A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, On the Waterfront, to name a few—is a testament to his profound... Read more >
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An Empire of Their Own
How the Jews Invented Hollywood
Written by Neal Gabler
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: August 8, 1989
Price: $17.95
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for history, this "wonderful history of the golden age of the movie moguls" (Chicago Tribune ) is a provocative, original, and richly entertaining group biography of the Jewish immigrants who were the moving forces behind the creation of America's motion picture industry. Read more >
How the Jews Invented Hollywood
Written by Neal Gabler
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: August 8, 1989
Price: $17.95
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for history, this "wonderful history of the golden age of the movie moguls" (Chicago Tribune ) is a provocative, original, and richly entertaining group biography of the Jewish immigrants who were the moving forces behind the creation of America's motion picture industry. Read more >
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This Business of Television
Written by Howard Blumenthal and Oliver Goodenough
Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2006
Price: $35.00
Broad in scope and rich in detail, This Business of Television has been the essential sourcebook for producers, writers, broadcasters, network executives, and other television professionals since the first edition was published in 1991. And as the television business continues to evolve, This Business of Television evolves along with it. This... Read more >
Written by Howard Blumenthal and Oliver Goodenough
Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2006
Price: $35.00
Broad in scope and rich in detail, This Business of Television has been the essential sourcebook for producers, writers, broadcasters, network executives, and other television professionals since the first edition was published in 1991. And as the television business continues to evolve, This Business of Television evolves along with it. This... Read more >
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The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook, Updated and Expanded Edition
An Actor's Reference to Over 1,000 Scenes and Monologues from More than 300 Contemporary Plays
Edited by Ed Hooks
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $19.95
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An Actor's Reference to Over 1,000 Scenes and Monologues from More than 300 Contemporary Plays
Edited by Ed Hooks
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $19.95
Read more >
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Free for All
Joe Papp, The Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Every Told
Written by Kenneth Turan and Joseph Papp
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $18.00
Joe Papp, The Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Every Told
Written by Kenneth Turan and Joseph Papp
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $18.00
Free for All is an irresistible behind-the-scenes look at one of America’s most beloved and important cultural institutions.
Under the inspired leadership of founder Joseph Papp, the Public Theater and the New York Shakespeare Festival brought revolutionary performances to the public for decades. This compulsively readable history of those years—much of it...
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OUT ON A LIMB
Written by Shirley Maclaine
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1986
Price: $7.99
Her most controversial book is one you will never forget. An outspoken thinker, a celebrated actress, a truly independent woman, Shirley MacLaine goes beyond her previous two bestsellers to take us on an intimate yet powerful journey into her personal life and inner self. An intense, clandestine love affair with a prominent politician... Read more >
Written by Shirley Maclaine
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1986
Price: $7.99
Her most controversial book is one you will never forget. An outspoken thinker, a celebrated actress, a truly independent woman, Shirley MacLaine goes beyond her previous two bestsellers to take us on an intimate yet powerful journey into her personal life and inner self. An intense, clandestine love affair with a prominent politician... Read more >
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Robert Redford
The Biography
Written by Michael Feeney Callan
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $13.99
The long-anticipated biography of Robert Redford.
Among the most widely admired Hollywood stars of his generation, Redford has appeared onstage and on-screen, in front of and behind the camera, earning Academy, Golden Globe, and a multitude of other awards and nominations for acting, directing, and producing, and for his contributions to the... Read more >
The Biography
Written by Michael Feeney Callan
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $13.99
The long-anticipated biography of Robert Redford.
Among the most widely admired Hollywood stars of his generation, Redford has appeared onstage and on-screen, in front of and behind the camera, earning Academy, Golden Globe, and a multitude of other awards and nominations for acting, directing, and producing, and for his contributions to the... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Before Sunrise & Before Sunset
Two Screenplays
Written by Richard Linklater
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $15.95
In one volume, the screenplays to two contemporary classics, directed by Richard Linklater, and starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, about the immediate and life-altering attraction between two strangers.
On a train from Budapest to Vienna, Jesse, a young American student, at the end of a romance and his European trip, meets... Read more >
Two Screenplays
Written by Richard Linklater
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $15.95
In one volume, the screenplays to two contemporary classics, directed by Richard Linklater, and starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, about the immediate and life-altering attraction between two strangers.
On a train from Budapest to Vienna, Jesse, a young American student, at the end of a romance and his European trip, meets... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Complete Making of Indiana Jones
The Definitive Story Behind All Four Films
Written by J. W. Rinzler and Laurent Bouzereau
Format: Trade Paperback, 300 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2008
Price: $35.00
From Raiders of the Lost Ark to The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The man with the hat is back–in the definitive behind-the-scenes look at the Indiana Jones epic action saga.
When George Lucas and Steven Spielberg put their heads together to create a no-holds-barred action-adventure movie, bigger-than-life hero Indiana Jones was born... Read more >
The Definitive Story Behind All Four Films
Written by J. W. Rinzler and Laurent Bouzereau
Format: Trade Paperback, 300 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2008
Price: $35.00
From Raiders of the Lost Ark to The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The man with the hat is back–in the definitive behind-the-scenes look at the Indiana Jones epic action saga.
When George Lucas and Steven Spielberg put their heads together to create a no-holds-barred action-adventure movie, bigger-than-life hero Indiana Jones was born... Read more >
