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Maryland

A Novel

New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb weaves an evocative, deeply affecting tapestry of one Baby Boomer's life—Felix Funicello, introduced in Wishin’ and Hopin’—and the trio of unforgettable women who have changed it, in this radiant homage to the resiliency, strength, and power of women. I’ll Take You There centers on Felix, a film scholar who runs a Monday night movie club in what was once a vaudeville theater. One evening, while setting up a film in the projectionist booth, he’s confronted by the ghost of Lois Weber, a trailblazing motion picture director from Hollywood’s silent film era. Lois invites Felix to revisit—and in some cases relive—scenes from his past as they are projected onto the cinema’s big screen. In these magical movies, the medium of film becomes the lens for Felix to reflect on the women who profoundly impacted his life. There’s his daughter Aliza, a Gen Y writer for New York Magazine who is trying to align her post-modern feminist beliefs with her lofty career ambitions; his sister, Frances, with whom he once shared a complicated bond of kindness and cruelty; and Verna, a fiery would-be contender for the 1951 Miss Rheingold competition, a beauty contest sponsored by a Brooklyn-based beer manufacturer that became a marketing phenomenon for two decades. At first unnerved by these ethereal apparitions, Felix comes to look forward to his encounters with Lois, who is later joined by the spirits of other celluloid muses. Against the backdrop of a kaleidoscopic convergence of politics and pop culture, family secrets, and Hollywood iconography, Felix gains an enlightened understanding of the pressures and trials of the women closest to him, and of the feminine ideals and feminist realities that all women, of every era, must face.

I'll Take You There

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Michigan

Fully revised and updated--including the 2003 Academy Awards--Cinema Year by Year is the definitive chronology of the movies. Thousands of lively, informative articles trace the development of the cinema from the first experiments of Edison and the Lumieres to the global film industry of the 21st century, accompanied throughout by stills, posters, portraits, and other images, this volume is a pleasure to browse as well as a terrific reference for movie lovers.

⭐ Cinema Year by Year, 1894-2003

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Pennsylvania

The Complete Resource for Aspiring Actors

Professional acting is both an art and a business, and this book advises beginning actors on how to cope successfully on both fronts. Opening chapters describe the difficulties every budding actor encounters and explains basic acting techniques, which include memory exercises and methods for developing stage presence. Chapters that follow instruct in--


 * Reading the play with understanding and learning to build the character that the actor will be portraying
 * Developing the actor's voice, imitating regional accents, and more
 * Expressing the character's thoughts and ideas through body posture and movement
 * Adapting acting techniques to different media: stage, film, TV, and radio
 * Learning the business side of acting by selling one's talents effectively
   
   The author strips away preconceptions and clichés often associated with acting, and pinpoints common mistakes that inexperienced actors need to overcome and avoid. More than 300 instructive illustrations.

The Acting Bible

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Movies meet history. Or movies vs. history. For movies regarding historical people or events, it’s interesting to learn what has been changed (and why). Sixty historical writers examine the relationship between popular films and the historical record. First edition, first printing, complete number line. Very nice copy with clean pages and filled with B&W photos and illustrations. Gift inscription on FFEP. I tried to show the sparse light foxing on top page edges in the photos. Two bumped corners. Crisp DJ with minimal edge wear. #nonfiction #hardcover #history #films #movies #historians #entertainment #firstedition (Shelf 9B)

New Jersey

History According to the Movies

Essays that consider how classic movies have reflected history include the writings of such noted historians as Paul Fussell, Antonia Fraser, and Gore Vidal. 50,000 first printing. BOMC & QPB. History Main.

Past Imperfect

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New York

A Life in Hollywood

He proudly calls himself the most frequently picketed producer in movie history - a distinction he richly earned by taking on some of the most controversial subjects of our time. In the process, he directed or produced such classics of the American cinema as Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, High Noon, On the Beach, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Defiant Ones, Champion, Inherit the Wind, Ship of Fools, Death of a Salesman, and The Caine Mutiny. He is Stanley Kramer, and now for the first time he tells his story - from a boyhood some eighty years ago in the Hell's Kitchen section of Manhattan to the present. The actors and actresses he hired during his long career reads like a Who's Who of the golden age of American film: Marlon Brando, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Lee Marvin, Kirk Douglas, Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant, Sidney Poitier, Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Vivien Leigh. Unafraid and fiercely independent, Kramer is regarded by many of today's leading filmmakers as an important forerunner for his willingness to tell any story, treat any subject, and overturn any sacred cow in pursuit of a film of substance.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Missouri

Fall in love with one of the bestselling novels of all time -- the legendary love story that became a beloved film starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep.


If you've ever experienced the one true love of your life, a love that for some reason could never be, you will understand why readers all over the world are so moved by this small, unknown first novel that they became a publishing phenomenon and #1 bestseller. The story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, the farm wife waiting for the fulfillment of a girlhood dream, The Bridges of Madison County gives voice to the longings of men and women everywhere -- and shows us what it is to love and be loved so intensely that life is never the same again.

The Bridges of Madison County

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Twenty Conversations with the New Generation of Filmmakers

A revealing look at the influences and aspirations of today's hottest filmmakers. Horowitz covers the full range of styles and sensibilities portrayed in modern moviemaking - revealing both the points of agreement and the sharp distinctions among this eclectic group, including analyses on South Park, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Swingers and Todd Philips.

The Mind of the Modern Moviemaker

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Behind the scenes footage and interviews from all 4 Hunger Games films. #hungergames #films #jenniferlawrence #joshhutcherson #liamhelmsworth 

Special People Edition Feb 2012

The Hunger Games 

#paperback #teaching #socialstudies #movies #history #films #teachingwithfilms 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Art, music, drama/theater

In this widely-acclaimed volume, some of our greatest historians address the facts - and fiction - as seen in Hollywood's often epic recreations of historical events. Distinghuished historians such as Stephen Ambrose, Antonia Fraser, James McPherson, Gerda Lerner, Dee Brown, Frances FitzGerald, David Levering Lewis, and Simon Schama explore the relationship between film and the historical record. Offering hundreds of movie stills, archival photographs, maps, and other illustrations, along with sidebars on related historical events, Past Imperfect sheds new light on the uses of history in popular culture.


#hardcover #nonfiction #films #hollywood #movies #romance #comedy #movieguide 

Indiana

The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy

An in-depth celebration of the romantic comedy's modern golden era and its role in our culture, tracking the genre from its heyday in the '80s and the '90s, its unfortunate decline in the 2000s, and its explosive reemergence in the age of streaming, featuring exclusive interviews with the directors, writers, and stars of the iconic films that defined the genre. No Hollywood genre has been more misunderstood--or more unfairly under-appreciated--than the romantic comedy. Funny, charming, and reliably crowd-pleasing, rom-coms were the essential backbone of the Hollywood landscape, launching the careers of many of Hollywood's most talented actors and filmmakers, such as Julia Roberts and Matthew McConaughey, and providing many of the yet limited creative opportunities women had in Hollywood. But despite--or perhaps because of--all that, the rom-com has routinely been overlooked by the Academy Awards or snobbishly dismissed by critics. In From Hollywood with Love, culture writer and GQ contributor Scott Meslow seeks to right this wrong, celebrating and analyzing rom-coms with the appreciative, insightful critical lens they've always deserved. Beginning with the golden era of the romantic comedy--spanning from the late '80s to the mid-'00s with the breakthrough of films such as When Harry Met Sally--to the rise of streaming and the long-overdue push for diversity setting the course for films such as the groundbreaking, franchise-spawning Crazy Rich Asians, Meslow examines the evolution of the genre through its many iterations, from its establishment of new tropes, the Austen and Shakespeare rewrites, the many love triangles, and even the occasional brave decision to do away with the happily ever after. Featuring original black-and-white sketches of iconic movie scenes and exclusive interviews with the actors and filmmakers behind our most beloved rom-coms, From Hollywood with Love constructs oral histories of our most celebrated romantic comedies, for an informed and entertaining look at Hollywood's beloved yet most under-appreciated genre.

From Hollywood with Love

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Arizona

A spectre is haunting world cinema - the spectre of a Danish 'new wave' led by mercurial director Lars Von Trier. In 1995, when Von Trier and three comrades issued a 10-point 'Vow of Chastity' for the making of simpler, more truthful movies, cynics in the film business refused to take it seriously. Five years on, the international success of the raw, uncompromising 'Dogme95' films - Festen, The Idiots, Mifune, The King is Alive - has fired a volley of shots across the bows of a staid and bloated industry. Richard Kelly's investigation of the Dogme95 movement is a piece of 'gonzo journalism' in which Kelly sallies forth in search of the Dogme brothers and their accomplices, seeking to hammer out the truth from the lies in this austere and anarchic piece of cinematic mischief.

The Name of This Book Is Dogme95

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More Movies That Suck

More scathing than a thumbs down, more inflamed than burning film in an overheated projector--such are the reviews that Roger Ebert has penned about bad movies. Collected here are more than 200 of his most biting, sarcastic, and funny critiques, selected from those unlucky movies that garnered a rating of a mere two stars or fewer.

Roger Ebert's I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie and Your Movie Sucks, which gathered some of his most scathing reviews, were best-sellers. This new collection continues the tradition, reviewing not only movies that were at the bottom of the barrel, but also movies that he found underneath the barrel.

A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length collects more than 200 of his reviews since 2006 in which he gave movies two stars or fewer. Known for his fair-minded and well-written film reviews, Roger is at his razor-sharp humorous best when skewering bad movies. Consider this opener for the one-star Your Highness:

"Your Highness is a juvenile excrescence that feels like the work of 11-year-old boys in love with dungeons, dragons, warrior women, pot, boobs, and four-letter words. That this is the work of David Gordon Green beggars the imagination. One of its heroes wears the penis of a minotaur on a string around his neck. I hate it when that happens."

And finally, the inspiration for the title of this book, the one-star Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen:

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments. One of these involves a doglike robot humping the leg of the heroine. If you want to save yourself the ticket price go, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination."

Movie buffs and humor lovers alike will relish this treasury of movies so bad that you may just want to see them for a good laugh! 

A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length

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Nebraska

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Rhode Island

A Small Boy's Journey to Becoming a Big Kid

The unique life story of one of the most talented and inventive comedians, star of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Paul, Spaced, and Star Trek. Zombies in North London, death cults in the West Country, the engineering deck of the Enterprise -- actor, comedian, writer, and supergeek Simon Pegg has been ploughing some bizarre furrows. Having landed on the U.S. movie scene in the surprise cult hit Shaun of the Dead, his enduring appeal and rise to movie stardom has been mercurial, meteoric, megatronic, but mostly just plain great. From his childhood (and subsequently adult) obsession with science fiction, his enduring friendship with Nick Frost, and his forays into stand-up comedy, which began with his regular Monday-morning slot in front of his twelve-year-old classmates, Simon has always had a severe and dangerous case of the funnies. Whether recounting his experience working as a lifeguard at the city pool, going to Comic-Con for the first time and confessing to Carrie Fisher that he used to kiss her picture every night before he went to sleep, or meeting and working with heroes that include Peter Jackson, Kevin Smith, and Quentin Tarantino, Pegg offers a hilarious look at the journey to becoming an international superstar.

Nerd Do Well

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How Faith And Films Intersect

Christ, Culture, and Cinema

B&W photos on each page. First paperback edition (1977). No writing, no owner name. Edge wear to covers, creased spine, creased corners on back cover - please see photos. Copy is still solid and intact. #films #nonfiction #horror #classics #movies #cults #paperback #softcover #entertainment #vintage (Shelf 7B)

Classics of the Horror Film

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Official movie guide

A behind-the-scenes guide to the making of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey features interviews with key cast and crew and production details that will provide insight into the making of the film. Original. 125,000 first printing. Movie tie-in.

The Hobbit: an Unexpected Journey Official Movie Guide

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Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman sees the hero brought to the big screen for the first time in her own movie, and fully realizes the breathtaking wonder, strength, and grace of such an historic character. Wonder Woman: The Art & Making of the Film celebrates the creation of this groundbreaking movie, taking fans on a voyage of discovery through the world of Wonder Woman. Showcasing the earliest concept art, set and costume designs, sketches and storyboards, the book delves deep into the filmmaking process, from creating the stunning island of Themyscira to the war-torn trenches and towns of First World War Europe.
 
This official companion explores the Amazons' rigorous training regimens, their weaponry, armor, Themysciran culture, and the amazing women themselves. With exclusive insights from cast and crew, including director Patty Jenkins, production designer Aline Bonetto, and Diana herself, Gal Gadot, this volume is the ultimate guide to the past, present, and future of one of the most iconic heroes in the world - Wonder Woman.
 
WONDER WOMAN and all related characters and elements © and TM DC Comics and Warner Bros. Entertainment. (s16)

Wonder Woman: The Art and Making of the Film

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Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Georgia

The Complete History of Over 50 Roaring Years

The MGM Story

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The National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films

People love movies. People love lists. So The A-List is a natural. While there are plenty of encyclopedic lists of films, this compulsively readable book of 100 essays -- most written expressly for this volume-flags the best of the best as chosen by a consensus of the National Society of Film Critics. The Society is a world-renowned, marquee -- name organization embracing some of America's most distinguished critics: more than forty writers who have national followings as well as devoted local constituencies in such major cities as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Minneapolis. But make no mistake about it: This isn't a collection of esoteric "critic's choice" movies. The Society has made its selections based on a film's intrinsic merits, its role in the development of the motion-picture art, and its impact on culture and society. Some of the choices are controversial. So are some of the omissions. It will be a jumping-off point for discussions for years to come. And since the volume spans all international films from the very beginning, it will act as a balance to recent guides dominated by films of the last two decades (hardly film's golden age). Here is a book that is definitely ready for its close-up.

A List

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Popular film critic and esteemed cinema historian Leonard Maltin offers a fresh look at underappreciated screen gems in Leonard Maltin's 151 Best Movies You've Never Seen. From the over 17,000 entries in his definitive yearly collection Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide, Maltin has selected great movies that will appeal to serious film buffs, but that may have fallen through the cracks. A must-have reference source for the bookshelf of movie connoisseurs everywhere.

Leonard Maltin's 151 Best Movies You've Never Seen

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Behind the scenes in vintage Hollywood. Many B&W photos on every page. No writing except for previous owner name inside front cover. Oversized book measures 9.5” x 10.5”, 285 pages. Edge wear to covers and light foxing to page tops (as shown in photo). #Hollywood #nonfiction #movies #films #actors #actresses #celebrities #gossip #softcover #vintage (Shelf 7B)

Flesh and Fantasy

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Texas

48 Essays by Horror Creators on the Film That Shaped Them

The lights go down. 90 minutes from now, your feeble mind will never be the same. Thoughts of flowers, puppy dogs, and serene shopping malls will be replaced with ghosts in your TV, zombies tearing your flesh, and chainsaws ripping through your chest! This singular horror movie experience, which caused you to forever hold disdain for preppies, wear black to family functions, and scare your siblings to death, is now embedded in your DNA! Long live horror!Produced and edited by horror filmmaker Christian Ackerman, My Favorite Horror Movie is a ghoulish celebration of how the singular viewing of a horror film can inspire someone to find their identity and develop an obsession of dark arts. Featuring contributors with various professional horror backgrounds such as filmmakers, actors, writers, directors, painters, musicians, journalists and film festival directors, the essays in My Favorite Horror Movie celebrate classic films from the likes of George Romero, John Carpenter, Sam Raimi, Tobe Hooper, Dan O'Bannon, Wes Craven, Alfred Hitchcock, and many more!Contributors: Alex Napiwocki, Arielle Brachfeld, B. Harrison Smith, Bill Shafer, Blake Reigle, C. Courtney Joyner, Calder Greenwood, Cerina Vincent, Chris Hampton, Christian Ackerman, Christopher Jimenez, Chuck Foster, Chuck Parello, Clint Carney, Dave Parker, Eric Spudic, Ernie Trinidad, Esther Goodstein, Felissa Rose, Frank Merle, Graham Skipper, Hank Braxton, Hunter Johnson, Jack Bennett, James Cullen Bressack, Jared Rivet, Jeffrey Reddick, Jonathan Martin, Josh McKevitt, Joshua Lou Friedman, Julia Hapney, Ken Jacobsen, Matt Mercer, Michael Gingold, Michael Klug, Miguel Rodriguez, Nick Phillips, Rolfe Kanefsky, Ryan Lambert, Sarah Nicklin, Sean Decker, Spooky Dan Walker, Staci Layne Wilson, Tammy Sutton, Terry Wolfinger, Todd Robey, Tony Timpone, Trista Robinson

My Favorite Horror Movie

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In 1990, Frank Conniff joined the staff of Mystery Science Theater 3000. First he was hired as a writer, then he was called upon to play TV's Frank, the bumbling yet lovable Mad Scientist henchman in Deep 13. And then he was given the sacred duty of finding the films that would be riffed on the show. Thus, because of his actions, the world now knows of Manos: The Hands of Fate, Monster A-Go-Go, The Brain That Wouldn't Die, Teenagers From Outer Space, and many other cheesy movies that the world would just as soon not know about.In these essays, TV's Frank focuses on twenty-five of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 films he found and riffed with his fellow MST3K writers and cast mates. It tells the story of how a comedian who was lucky enough to work on beloved Peabody Award winning TV show was transformed into a comedian who was lucky enough to work on a beloved Peabody Award winning TV show. It's a story that will stay with you for the rest of your life, if you happen to die just as you finish reading the book.

Wally Lamb

I'll Take You There

Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff

⭐ Cinema Year by Year, 1894-2003

Michael Powell

The Acting Bible

Mark C. Carnes (Editor)

Past Imperfect

Stanley Kramer; Thomas H. Coffey; Sidney Poitier (Preface by)

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Robert James Waller

The Bridges of Madison County

Joshua Horowitz

The Mind of the Modern Moviemaker

People Magazine

The Hunger Games

Mark C. Carnes

Past Imperfect

Scott Meslow

From Hollywood with Love

Richard Kelly

The Name of This Book Is Dogme95

Roger Ebert

A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length

Scott Meslow

From Hollywood with Love

Simon Pegg

Nerd Do Well

Jeffrey Skopak

Christ, Culture, and Cinema

William Everson

Classics of the Horror Film

Brian Sibley

The Hobbit: an Unexpected Journey Official Movie Guide

Sharon Gosling

Wonder Woman: The Art and Making of the Film

John Douglas Eames

The MGM Story

Jay Carr

A List

Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin's 151 Best Movies You've Never Seen

Penny Stallings; Howard Mandelbaum

Flesh and Fantasy

Christian Ackerman (Editor, Compiled by)

My Favorite Horror Movie

Frank Conniff

Twenty Five Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films That Changed My Life in No Way Whatsoever