Performing Arts:

Going to the Movies
A Personal Journey Through Four Decades of Modern Film
Written by Syd Field

Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2009
Price: $16.00

Featuring insights ... analysis ... great films and filmmakers from “the most-sought-after screenwriting teacher in the world” (The Hollywood Reporter).

A life in film. An extraordinary career. An unforgettable story — from noted lecturer, teacher, and bestselling author Syd Field.

What makes a great movie great? ... An actor legendary? ... A screenplay extraordinary or just ordinary?... Read more >

Nobody's Perfect
Writings from The New Yorker
Written by Anthony Lane

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 19, 2009
Price: $17.95

Anthony Lane on Con Air—

“Advance word on Con Air said that it was all about an airplane with an unusually dangerous and potentially lethal load. Big deal. You should try the lunches they serve out of Newark. Compared with the chicken napalm I ate on my last flight, the men in... Read more >

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

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 19, 2009
Price: $15.00

More movies have been produced about the Civil War than about any other aspect of American history. From 1903 (Uncle Tom’s Cabin) to the present, film studios have released more than eight hundred silent and sound pictures about the nation’s most cataclysmic event. In this wonderfully comprehensive study, Bruce Chadwick first... Read more >

Try to Tell the Story
A Memoir
Written by David Thomson

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $23.95

From one of our most celebrated film critics and historians now comes a beautifully written memoir about his first eighteen years, growing up as an only child in south London in the midforties and late fifties. Told with elegance and restraint, partly from the point of view of a child, partly... Read more >

The Star Machine

Written by Jeanine Basinger

Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $18.95

From one of our most distinguished film scholars, comes a rich, penetrating, amusing book about the golden age of movies and how the studios worked to manufacture stars.

With revelatory insights and delightful asides, Jeanine Basinger shows us how the studio “star machine” worked when it worked, how it failed when it... Read more >

The Power of Movies
How Screen and Mind Interact
Written by Colin McGinn

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $13.95

With enthusiasm and probing intelligence, Colin McGinn (“an ingenious philosopher who thinks like a laser and writes like a dream”–Steven Pinker) embarks on a fascinating philosophical consideration of the allure of movies–what it is we experience when we watch them and what makes them such a universally compelling form of entertainment.

McGinn... Read more >

The Great Movies II

Written by Roger Ebert

Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: November 12, 2008
Price: $16.95

From America's most trusted and highly visible film critic, 100 more brilliant essays on the films that define cinematic greatness.

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... Read more >

J-Horror
The Definitive Guide to The Ring, The Grudge and Beyond
Written by David Kalat

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: February 27, 2007
Price: $14.95

Navigating the numerous versions released in the U.S. and Japan of The Ring, The Grudge, Tomie and other films and sorting out the finest output of legends like Takashi Miike is an intimidating task. J-Horror breaks down each and every franchise, from the narrative to the talent behind the screen and... Read more >

The Power of Movies
How Screen and Mind Interact
Written by Colin McGinn

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $13.95

How is watching a movie similar to dreaming? What goes on in our minds when we become absorbed in a movie? How does looking “into” a movie screen allow us to experience the thoughts and feelings of a movie’s characters? These and related questions are at the heart of The Power... Read more >

The Great Movies II

Written by Roger Ebert

Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $16.95

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 >

The Whole Equation
A History of Hollywood
Written by David Thomson

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $15.00

With the same style and insight he brought to his previous studies of American cinema, acclaimed critic David Thomson masterfully evokes the history of America’s love affair with the movies and the tangled history of Hollywood in The Whole Equation.

Thomson takes us from D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and the first... Read more >

The Great Movies

Written by Roger Ebert

Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2003
Price: $17.95

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 >

Nobody's Perfect
Writings from The New Yorker
Written by Anthony Lane

Format: Trade Paperback, 784 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $17.95

Anthony Lane on Con Air—

“Advance word on Con Air said that it was all about an airplane with an unusually dangerous and potentially lethal load. Big deal. You should try the lunches they serve out of Newark. Compared with the chicken napalm I ate on my last flight, the men in... Read more >

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

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: December 3, 2002
Price: $15.00

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 >

The Great Movies

Written by Roger Ebert

Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $17.95

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 >

Going to the Movies
A Personal Journey Through Four Decades of Modern Film
Written by Syd Field

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $16.00

Featuring insights ... analysis ... great films and filmmakers from “the most-sought-after screenwriting teacher in the world” (The Hollywood Reporter).

A life in film. An extraordinary career. An unforgettable story — from noted lecturer, teacher, and bestselling author Syd Field.

What makes a great movie great? ... An actor legendary? ... A screenplay extraordinary or just ordinary?... Read more >

Which Lie Did I Tell?
More Adventures in the Screen Trade
Written by William Goldman

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: February 20, 2001
Price: $16.95

From the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Princess Bride (he also wrote the novel), and the bestselling author of Adventures in the Screen Trade comes a garrulous new book that is as much a screenwriting how-to (and how-not-to) manual as it is a feast of... Read more >

O.K. You Mugs
Writers on Movie Actors
Edited by Luc Sante and Melissa Pierson

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2000
Price: $13.00

In this superb collection of essays edited by Luc Sante, author of Lowlife, and Melissa Holbrook Pierson, writers as diverse as John Updike, Patti Smith, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic pay to homage the famous and the lesser known actors (some megastars, some lesser lights) who illuminate our Hollywood dreams.

From... Read more >

The Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey

Edited by Stephanie Schwam
Introduction by Jay Cocks

Format: Trade Paperback, 348 pages
On Sale: March 7, 2000
Price: $19.00

"If 2001 has stirred your emotions, your subconscious, your mythological yearnings, then it has succeeded."--Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick's extraordinary movie 2001: A Space Odyssey was released in 1969. The critics initially disliked it, but the public loved it. And eventually, the film took its rightful place as one of the most innovative... Read more >

Life: The Movie
How Entertainment Conquered Reality
Written by Neal Gabler

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: February 29, 2000
Price: $14.95

"A thoughtful, in places chilling, account of the way entertainment values have hollowed out American life." --The New York Times Book Review

From one of America's most original cultural critics and the author of Winchell, the story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, glamour, and melodrama has turned everything of... Read more >

Movies and Money

Written by David Puttnam

Format: Trade Paperback, 364 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2000
Price: $17.00

"A fascinating history."--Time Out New York

The acclaimed producer of such classic films as Chariots of Fire and The Killing Fields, and the only European ever to head a major Hollywood studio, former Columbia Pictures chief David Puttnam has written a fascinating behind-the-scenes history of the movie business and of the unique... Read more >