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  • The Filmmaker's Handbook

    A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age: Fifth Edition

    by Steven Ascher, Edward Pincus ...
    The authoritative guide to producing, directing, shooting, editing, and distributing your video or film. Whether you aspire to be a great filmmaker yourself or are looking for movie gifts, this comprehensive guide to filmmaking is the first step in turning a hobby into a career.Widely acknowledged as the “bible” of video and film production, and used in courses around the world, The Filmmaker’s ... Read more

    €4.09

  • Elizabeth Taylor, A Passion for Life

    The Wit and Wisdom of a Legend

    by Joseph Papa ...
    A beautiful, illustrated, keepsake volume of quotations by the legendary Elizabeth Taylor"Passion is the ingredient in me that has made me who I am. It's my passion for life...my passion for passion that has made me never give up." -- Elizabeth TaylorFrom the time she appeared in National Velvet, the film that skyrocketed her to international fame at age twelve in 1944, until her death in 2011, ... Read more

    €8.25

  • Oh Hollywood

    Stuff On Movies From A Film Geek

    by Dominic Leslie ...
    We spend a huge fortune on going to the cinema to see the latest blockbuster but have you wondered about how these films are made? Or what sequels nearly got made but never did? Well if you have, this book is for you.Did you know that a member of the British Royal Family nearly appeared in a film. Find out which one by reading this book.Did you ever wonder how Walt Disney managed to pay for the ... Read more

    €4.99

  • Top Ten Movie Lists 1

    by Shirrel Rhoades ...
    Your favorite movies ranked by a movie maestro. Best in a genre? Biggest flubs? Worst performances? Nothing about the cinema escapes this fascinating collection of Top Tens. Hours of entertainment for less than the cost of a pack of gum. ... Read more

    €1.46

  • Le cri de la mouette

    by Emmanuelle Laborit ...
    J'ai poussé des cris, beaucoup de cris. Parce que je voulais m'entendre et que les sons ne me revenaient pas.Mes appels ne voulaient rien dire pour mes parents. C'étaient, disaient-ils, des cris aigus d'oiseau de mer. Alors, ils m'ont surnommée la mouette.Et la mouette criait au-dessus d'un océan de bruits qu'elle n'entendait pas, avec la sensation d'être enfermée derrière une énorme porte, qu ... Read more

    Was €8.99 Now €4.49

  • Turner Classic Movies Presents Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide

    From the Silent Era Through 1965: Third Edition

    by Leonard Maltin ...
    The definitive guide to classic films from one of America's most trusted film criticsThanks to Netflix and cable television, classic films are more accessible than ever. Now co-branded with Turner Classic Movies, Leonard Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide covers films from Hollywood and around the world, from the silent era through 1965, and from The Maltese Falcon to Singin’ in the Rain and Godzilla, ... Read more

    €4.89

  • The Essential Guide To Film Making For Beginners

    by Irene Becker ...
    The Essential Guide To Film Making For Beginners This book covers several topics including: Chapter 1: Why Should I Go Into Film Making? Chapter 2: To Show Or Not To Show – Deciding If Your Feature Film Should Be Shared Chapter 3: The Joys Of Film School Chapter 4: Ultimate Ideas Exposed – 3 Of The Top Suggestions You Will Find Chapter 5: Tell Me About Film Making Equipment Rental Chapter 6: ... Read more

    €6.31

  • Don't Look Now

    British Cinema in the 1970s

    Edited by Paul Newland ...
    Paul Newland is a lecturer in film studies in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television at Aberystwyth University. ... Read more

    €24.00

  • The Secrets Of Real Acting: The Essential Guide For Beginners And Advanced Actors

    by Agripina Stuckel ...
    This book will give you bit-by-bit procedures to assist you with behaving like an entertainer. Normal and simple to realize, this valuable book is "practically terrifying when you use it and see everybody in the room being moved". This is tied in with getting the part with your clear-cut advantage. Cold readings become your dearest companion - the more confounded the part, the better. A ... Read more

    €4.90

  • Spinegrinder

    The Movies Most Critics Won’t Write About

    by Clive Davies ...
    First came video and more recently high definition home entertainment, through to the internet with its streaming videos and not strictly legal peer-to-peer capabilities. With so many sources available, today’s fan of horror and exploitation movies isn’t necessarily educated on paths well-trodden — Universal classics, 1950s monster movies, Hammer — as once they were. They may not even be ... Read more

    €21.79

  • Movie Making

    Low To No Budget

    by Frank Smith ...
    Interested in making a movie?This book is right for you. This guide will show you how to begin the production process on a low budget. Use this guide and start making a movie. ... Read more

    €1.95

  • Diccionario de cine. Producción, distribución y exhibición

    by Concepción Calvo ...
    Este libro nace con la vocación de cubrir una importante laguna, recogiendo en forma de glosario la terminología más utilizada en las tres ramas de esta profesión (producción, distribución y exhibición). Por otro lado, la industria cinematográfica española, favorecida en los últimos años por la producción y realización de películas en régimen de coproducción internacional, ha visto la necesidad ... Read more

    €11.76

  • Stellar Transformations

    Movie Stars of the 2010s

    by Steven Rybin, Brenda Austin-Smith, Karen Hollinger, Rick Warner, David Greven, Celestino Deleyto, Jennifer O'Meara, Danielle E. Williams, Daniel Varndell, Kyle Stevens0, Matt Connolly1, Cynthia Baron2 ...
    Series series Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema
    Stellar Transformations: Movie Stars of the 2010s circles around questions of stardom, performance, and their cultural contexts in ways that remind us of the alluring magic of stars while also bringing to the fore the changing ways in which viewers engaged with them during the last decade. A salient idea that guides much of the collection is the one of transformation, expressed in these pages as ... Read more

    €24.30

  • El cine, universidad de la vida

    La experiencia educativa

    by Ninfa Watt, Juan Orellana, Mª Ángeles Almacellas ...
    Educación y cine son dos palabras que hacen un buen maridaje: se potencian mutuamente para dar sabor y color a la vida. Que se lo pregunten a cualquier apasionado por el cine y la educación –entendida en un sentido amplio– y tendrán enseguida una lista de películas de las que merecen la pena.Aquí hay un buen ramillete que ilustra distintos aspectos del mundo de la educación. Como en un plano ... Read more

    €7.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fra' Diavolo nella cinematografia

    by Alfredo Saccoccio ...
    Il personaggio di Fra' Diavolo, ai secoli Michele Pezza, affascina da sempre artisti, letterati e cineasti. In particolare la "settima arte" ha dedicato al leggendario brigante una vasta produzione cinematografica che ha visto attori e registi di fama internazionale cimentarsi in numerose produzioni di vario genere. Attraverso immagini d'epoca e resoconti scritti, Fra' Diavolo nella cinematografia ... Read more

    €3.49 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Essential Cinema

    On the Necessity of Film Canons

    by Jonathan Rosenbaum ...
    In his astute and deeply informed film reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum regularly provides new and brilliant insights into the cinema as art, entertainment, and commerce. Guided by a personal canon of great films, Rosenbaum sees, in the ongoing hostility toward the idea of a canon shared by many within the field of film studies, a missed opportunity both to shape the discussion about cinema ... Read more

    €21.99

  • Film Adaptation and Its Discontents

    From Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ

    by Thomas Leitch ...
    Most books on film adaptation—the relation between films and their literary sources—focus on a series of close one-to-one comparisons between specific films and canonical novels. This volume identifies and investigates a far wider array of problems posed by the process of adaptation.Beginning with an examination of why adaptation study has so often supported the institution of literature rather ... Read more

    €26.09

  • 夜短梦长

    by 毛尖 ...
    内容简介谋杀、外遇、欢愉、成长、赌局、宿命......百余部影史名片，十一个银幕关键词。解析惊心动魄、精彩纷呈的电影元素，也窥破我们的百味人生。她在小津的雨幕中捕捉难以言说的婚姻况味，在希区柯克与大卫·林奇的枪声中勾勒现代谋杀片的发展，在港式喜剧与英伦腐剧里透视不可颠破的中产阶级美学，在梁朝伟的表演中解析爱情的符号学；从《米兰达》到《东成西就》，她细数银幕上天真烂漫的"二货"，发现他们才是我们永远回不去的灿烂宇宙......毛尖说："因为电影，好像我至今都在青春期里跋涉。"她痴迷光影艺术，也直视人性的深渊，在嬉笑怒骂脏乱差中，拥抱生命的蓬勃。 ... Read more

    €9.99

  • Son of the 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen

    by Richard Crouse ...
    Fans of offbeat cinema, discriminating renters and collectors, and movie buffs will drool over this checklist of the best overlooked and underappreciated films of the last hundred years. In Son of the 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen, Richard Crouse, Canada AM film critic and host of television's award-winning Reel to Real, presents a follow-up to his 2003 book with another hundred of his ... Read more

    €13.59 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Handbook of American Documentary

    Edited by Joshua Glick, Patricia Aufderheide ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of American Documentary offers new approaches to the study of documentary produced within, or connected to, the United States. Leading scholars of nonfiction and emerging voices in the field examine documentary as a dynamic cultural form that draws on wide-ranging technologies, coheres around different representational modes, and is used for a variety of artistic, political, ... Read more

    €149.39

  • Hal Hartley

    by Bertrand Mandico, Jérôme Sullerot, Laurence Brisset, Hal Hartley, Mathieu Germain, Alexandrine Dhainaut, Dimitris Daskas, Leïla Morouche, Justine Gasquet, Jean-François Fontanel, Xanaé Bove, Pacôme Thiellement, Jean-Christophe Hj Martin ...
    Hal Hartley est un réalisateur américain dont la place et la trajectoire au sein du cinéma contemporain sont uniques.Uniques par leur style, leur force et leur originalité. Uniques, car il aura marqué toute une génération de cinéphiles durant les années 90 avant de s’engager dans une voie toujours plus indépendante et à contre-courant de son époque, au risque de disparaître du système. Aujourd’hui ... Read more

    €16.99

  • Ava Gardner, des films au mythe

    by Laurent Dolet ...
    La beauté d’Ava Gardner, sa sensualité à fleur de peau, sa vie privée tapageuse ont fait fantasmer la planète et continuent de faire rayonner la star en ce centenaire de sa naissance. “Sex-symbol”, “femme fatale”, ces formules ont occulté l’authenticité d’un esprit libre, sensible et anticonformiste, imposant sa place à égalité avec les hommes et refusant l’intolérance : la carrière d’Ava Gardner ... Read more

    €18.99

  • La Boxe à Hollywood, de Chaplin à Scorsese

    by David Da Silva ...
    La boxe a toujours fasciné le cinéma car, depuis Thomas Edison, c’est le sport le plus représenté par le septième art. L’objectif de cet ouvrage est donc de faire un bilan de la représentation du noble art à travers les différentes périodes de l’histoire des États-Unis. En effet, le film de boxe s’est appuyé sur plusieurs genres cinématographiques pour décrire à la fois les problèmes économiques, ... Read more

    €11.99

  • Barton Fink. Le rêve de feu des frères Coen

    by Damien Ziegler ...
    Series series Analyse filmique
    Consacré par trois prix dont la Palme d’or au Festival de Cannes en 1991, Barton Fink, quatrième film des frères Coen, inscrit son propos dans une filiation multiple : film de cinéma sur le cinéma, dans le prolongement de Boulevard du crépuscule de Billy Wilder ; film de cinéma sur le théâtre et le jeu de masques qu’est la vie, dans le prolongement de Persona d’Ingmar Bergman ; film sur la folie, ... Read more

    €15.99