#paperback #filmstudies #sound #cinema #filmschool #film #filmmaking #editing

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Oregon

Audio-Vision Sound on Screen

#paperback #filmstudies #filmschool #cinema #poetry #sitney #film

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The Cinema of Poetry

#paperback #film #filmstudies #cinema #anthropology #culture

Transcultural Cinema

Been sitting on the shelf a little too long. This is a great read for the cinefile in your life. Covers a wide variety of directors and films. There are no markings or tears of any kind. #movies #film #history #cinema #paperback #likenew #reference

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

North Carolina

A World History

Condensed and overflowing with more than 500 color photographs, "Film" features significant cinematic movements, timelines that explore the evolution of the industry, capsule biographies of great directors and actors, and examinations of their oeuvre.

Film

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New York

An intimate portrait of the award-winning TV show Inside the Actors Studio and James Lipton’s life as its founder and host, this irresistible memoir offers behind-the-scenes close-ups of hundreds of celebrated artists. Taking viewers behind the curtain at the world-renowned theatrical institution that has given America and the world two generations of legends, from Brando, Monroe, Dean, and Newman to Pacino, De Niro, Burstyn, Hoffman, and Nicholson, Inside the Actor’s Studiohas delivered more than two hundred compelling craft interviews. Receiving twelve Emmy nominations in twelve years, and seen on the Bravo Network in more than 80 million homes and around the world in 125 countries, the series owes its reputation to the unique insights it offers into the celebrated skills and often intimate revelations of its guests, under the knowledgeable prodding of its host James Lipton. Now, with Inside “Inside,”Lipton hands all of us a backstage pass. You’ll witness Christopher Reeves’s courage as he confronts the obstacles of his first television appearance after his accident; glimpse Harrison Ford, aka Indiana Jones, with a serious case of stage fright; and discover how Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese came up with the historic mirror scene in Taxi Driver. You’ll laugh out loud as Lipton squares off with his Saturday Night Livedoppelgänger Will Ferrell, and then laugh even harder as Robin Williams and Mike Myers bring their rapier-sharp humor to the Insidestage. Woven throughout are the events and adventures of Lipton’s own life, including a childhood role on The Lone Ranger; acting classes with the legendary teachers Stella Adler, Harold Clurman, and Robert Lewis; and a flourishing career as a producer working with the likes of Bob Hope and the President of the United States. From his marriage to Kedakai Lipton (whose picture graces the Miss Scarlet card in the game of Clue), to celebrity-filled days and nights in New York, Paris, and London, this is the story of a life spent in the world of art and artists, and dedicated to the wide-ranging crafts of writing, acting, directing, and producing. Inside “Inside”is a unique glimpse into a star-bedecked world. It’s a sincere and passionate tribute to the arts and artists we admire. It’s an invaluable primer for students of the theatrical arts. And it’s an utterly irresistible read.

Inside Inside

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#hardcover #cinema #cinemaphile #history #movies #film #nonfiction #classics

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Nevada

History of the Movies

#paperback #BadBlood #Cinema #Film #Indie #Psycho 

Illinois

An Illustrated Guide to Films Inspired by 20th Century Serial Killers and Psychos

Mass murderers, serial killers, spree killers, homicidal rapists and other human predators; 20th century history is poxed with the apparently motiveless acts of violence and mayhem perpetuated by these psychopathic outsiders. Carl Panzram Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Charles Manson; Bad Blood examines the crimes of these and 40 other killers and the films inspired by their repellant yet fascinating pathologies. A trip into not only the darkest recesses of human existence, but also into one of the most exciting and disturbing zones of cinema.

Bad Blood

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#rome #cinema #dolcevita #history #cinecitta #fellini #moviestars #glamour #gossip

Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome

SUNDAY TIMES FILM BOOK OF THE YEAR

'Uproariously readable ... Levy is a master of the group biography' Sunday Times
'Teeming with satisfying gossipy details' Guardian
'Exalts the intoxicating, beguiling dreaminess of Rome in its celluloid heyday' TLS

1950s Rome. From the ashes of war, the Eternal City is reborn as the epicentre of film, style, boldfaced libertinism and titillating journalism. It's the heyday of fashion icons such as Pucci and Brioni, and the height of 'Hollywood on the Tiber', when a dizzying array of stars flock to Cinecittà, the huge movie studio on the outskirts of Rome. At the bars on Via Veneto the likes of Ingrid Bergman, Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor mix with blue bloods and bohemians, while behind them trail street photographers in pursuit of the most unflattering and dramatic portraits of fame.

In a fast-paced, kaleidoscopic narrative, Shawn Levy shows how all roads lead to Federico Fellini's world-conquering movie La Dolce Vita, starring Marcello Mastroianni and the Swedish bombshell Anita Ekberg. He recreates Rome's stunning ascent with vivid and compelling tales of its glitterati and artists, down to every last outrageous detail of the city's magnificent transformation.

Dolce Vita Confidential

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#movies #filmstudies #cinema #cinephile  #sofiacoppola #essays #paperback #filmcriticism

Massachusetts

A Cinema of Girlhood

She has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award and two Golden Globes, and in 2004 became the first ever American woman to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar. From The Virgin Suicides to The Bling Ring, her work carves out new spaces for the expression of female subjectivity that embraces rather than rejects femininity. Fiona Handyside here considers the careful counter-balance of vulnerability with the possibilities and pleasures of being female in Coppola's films - albeit for the white and the privileged - through their recurrent themes of girlhood, fame, power, sex and celebrity. Chapters reveal a post-feminist aesthetic that offers sustained, intimate engagements with female characters. These characters inhabit luminous worlds of girlish adornments, light and sparkle and yet find homes in unexpected places from hotels to swimming pools, palaces to strip clubs: resisting stereotypes and the ordinary. In this original study, Handyside brings critical attention to a rare female auteur and in so doing contributes to important analyses of post-feminism, authorship in film, and the growing field of girlhood studies.

Sofia Coppola

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#paperback #filmstudies #scifi #cinema #booksonmovies

Iowa

Global Science Fiction Cinema

Since the 1927 release of Fritz Lang's pioneer film Metropolis, science fiction cinema has largely been regarded a Western genre. In Simultaneous Worlds, Jennifer L. Feeley and Sarah Ann Wells showcase authors who challenge this notion by focusing on cinemas and cultures, from Cuba to North Korea, not traditionally associated with science fiction. This collection introduces films about a metal-eating monster who helps peasants overthrow an exploitative court, an inflatable sex doll who comes to life, a desert planet where matchsticks are more valuable than money, and more.

Simultaneous Worlds is the first volume to bring a transnational, interdisciplinary lens to science fiction cinema. Encountering some of the best emerging and established voices in the field, readers will become immersed in discussions of well-known works such as the Ghost in the Shell franchise and Neill Blomkamp's District 9 alongside lesser-known but equally fascinating works by African, Asian, European, and South American filmmakers. Divided into five parts that cover theoretical concerns such as new media economies, translation, the Global South, cyborgs, and socialist and postsocialist cinema, these essays trace cinema's role in imagining global communities and power struggles.

Considering both individual films and the broader networks of production, distribution, and exhibition, Simultaneous Worlds illustrates how film industries across the globe take part in visualizing the perils of globalization and technological modernity. Ultimately, this book opens new ways of thinking about world cinema and our understanding of the world at large.


Simultaneous Worlds

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Texas

501 Must-See Movies is essential reading for both the film buff and those who simply enjoy going to the movies. * The book is divided into ten genres, with fifty films appearing in each category * Each entry includes a synopsis of the plot, details of awards for which it was nominated and those it won, and fascinating background or insider knowledge about the making of the movie * Contains over a century of film history.

501 Must-See Movies (some pen marks throughout)

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Airport 77 114 minutes movie on VHS. Disaster Film Airport action. #Airport #vhs #movie #dvd #disastermovie #1977 #cinema


Mississippi

Airport 77 movie on VHS very good condition vintage cinema. On VHS copy in original case see pics. Very good condition.  Action Disaster Movie star Jack Lemmon Lee Grant James Stewart Airport 77 blockbuster.

Airport 77 VHS tape with original case

#paperback #film #cinema THIS ONE CANNOT BE SENT/PURCHASED WITH A BUNDLE. THIS BOOK CAN ONLY BE BUNDLED WITH THE OTHER BOOKS WITH THIS DESCRIPTION. I APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.

New Jersey

A Short History of the Movies (read description) 

#paperback #filmstudy #cinema #nonfiction

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

Since 1986, Film Genre Reader has been the standard reference and classroom text for the study of genre in film, with nearly 20,000 copies in print. Barry Keith Grant has again revised and updated the book to reflect the most recent developments in genre study. This third edition adds new essays on teen films, the question of genre hybridity, and neo-noir and genre in the era of globalization, along with an updated bibliography. The volume includes over thirty essays by some of film's most distinguished critics and scholars of popular film, including John G. Cawelti, David Desser, Thomas Elsaesser, Steve Neale, Thomas Schatz, Paul Schrader, Steve Neale, Vivian Sobchack, Janet Staiger, Linda Williams, and Robin Wood.

Film Genre Reader III

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#film #cinema #technique #memoir #filmmaking #francisfordcoppola #autobiography 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

From one of the masters of twentieth-century cinema comes this indispensable and entertaining guide to a visionary new form of moviemaking.

So convinced is Francis Ford Coppola that "live cinema" will become a powerful medium within the larger film industry that he has crafted this instructional book, filled with lively anecdotes and invaluable lessonsÂ¯a boon for moviegoers, film students, and teachers alike. As digital moviemaking, like live sports, can now be performed by one director or by a collaborative team working across the Internet, it is only a matter of time before "cinema auteurs" will create "live" movies of the highest creative quality that will be sent instantly via satellite to be viewed in faraway theaters. Whether recounting his own boyhood obsession with film, tracing the origins of "live cinema" through a history of early film and live 1950s television shows, or presenting state-of-the-art techniques on everything from rehearsals to equipment, Coppola demonstrates that the spontaneity of this genre of "live cinema" will transport filmmaking into a new era of creativity previously unimaginable.
20 illustrations

Live Cinema and Its Techniques

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In good condition except for a few coffee stains (see pictures)

Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich--and happily horrify readers everywhere.

Role Modelsis, in fact, a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities--some famous, some unknown, some criminal, some surprisingly middle-of-the-road. From Esther Martin, owner of the scariest bar in Baltimore, to the playwright Tennessee Williams; from the atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair to the insane martyr Saint Catherine of Siena; from the English novelist Denton Welch to the timelessly appealing singer Johnny Mathis--these are the extreme figures who helped the author form his own brand of neurotic happiness.

Role Modelsis a personal invitation into one of the most unique, perverse, and hilarious artistic minds of our time.

Role Models

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#blackexcellence #hollywood #hollywoodhistory #africanamericans #film #AmericanHistory #donaldbogle #actors #acting #cinema

California

The Story of Black Hollywood

Celebrates Hollywood's glamorous African-American community, from the early twentieth century to the early 1970s, and profiles the accomplishments of such stars as the Nicholas brothers, Lena Horne, and Hattie McDaniel.

Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams

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Mark Schilling
NO BORDERS, NO LIMITS: Nikkatsu Action Cinema (Cinema Classics)

Condition ( Like New) Excellent condition.

‎‎FAB Press
(2007)
‎English
Paperback    
‎192 pages
ISBN-10    ‎1903254434
ISBN-13    ‎978-1903254431
5.5 x 1 x 7.75 inches
 #paperback #Japan #Cinema 

Nikkatsu Action Cinema

Drawing inspiration from Hollywood and the French New Wave, Nikkatsu Action pictures blended East and West, movie-fuelled fantasies, and gritty realities of life in postwar Japan. More than 30 years later the Nikkatsu Action legacy lives on.

No Borders No Limits

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#korea #historical #insane #cinema #ColdWar

Missouri

The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power

"The 1978 abductions of the South Korean actress Choi-Eun-hee and her ex-husband, the director Shin Sang-ok, in Hong Kong is the true crime at the center of Paul Fischer's gripping and surprisingly timely new book."
-The New York Times

Before becoming the world's most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Korea's Ministry for Propaganda and its film studios. Conceiving every movie made, he acted as producer and screenwriter. Despite this control, he was underwhelmed by the available talent and took drastic steps, ordering the kidnapping of Choi Eun-Hee (Madam Choi)-South Korea's most famous actress-and her ex-husband Shin Sang-Ok, the country's most famous filmmaker.

Madam Choi vanished first. When Shin went to Hong Kong to investigate, he was attacked and woke up wrapped in plastic sheeting aboard a ship bound for North Korea. Madam Choi lived in isolated luxury, allowed only to attend the Dear Leader's dinner parties. Shin, meanwhile, tried to escape, was sent to prison camp, and "re-educated." After four years he cracked, pledging loyalty. Reunited with Choi at the first party he attends, it is announced that the couple will remarry and act as the DearLeader's film advisors. Together they made seven films, in the process gaining Kim Jong-Il's trust. While pretending to research a film in Vienna, they flee to the U.S. embassy and are swept to safety.

A nonfiction thriller packed with tension, passion, and politics, author Paul Fischer'sA Kim Jong-Il Production offers a rare glimpse into a secretive world, illuminating a fascinating chapter of North Korea's history that helps explain how it became the hermetically sealed, intensely stage-managed country it remains today.

A Kim Jong-Il Production

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Examination of masculinity, sexuality, and machismo in traditional Mexican cinema from the 1950s until the early 2000s. Some pages dogeared and there are annotations from previous owner. Two stickers on back. #nonfiction #art #paperback #cinema #film #historical #history #Mexican #Mexico #filmcriticism 

Masculinities and Sexuality in Mexican Film

Cinemachismo

#paperback #movies #life #christianlife #faith #culture #films #cinema 

New Mexico

How Faith And Films Intersect

Christ, Culture, and Cinema

Kentucky

A Novel

From the legendary actor and best-selling author: a novel about the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic books that inspired it. Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, while also capturing the changes in America and American culture since World War II.

"Wild, ambitious and exceptionally enjoyable." --Matt Haig, best-selling author The Midnight Library, The Humans and Reasons to Stay Alive

Part One of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for twenty-three years.

Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing underground comic books in Oakland, California, reconnects with his uncle and, remembering the comic book he saw when he was five, draws a new version with his uncle as a World War II fighting hero. 

Cut to the present day: A commercially successful director discovers the 1970 comic book and decides to turn it into a contemporary superhero movie.

Cue the cast: We meet the film's extremely difficult male star, his wonderful leading lady, the eccentric writer/director, the producer, the gofer production assistant, and everyone else on both sides of the camera.

Bonus material: Interspersed throughout are three comic books that are featured in the story--all created by Tom Hanks himself--including the comic book that becomes the official tie-in to this novel's "major motion picture masterpiece."

The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

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#paperback #johnnydepp #mylove #biography #cinema #acting #filmstudies #jacksparrow #popculture

From beloved bad-boy to cool and captivating maverick, Johnny Depp has inspired media intrigue and has been the source of international acclaim since the early 1990s. He has attracted attention for his eccentric image, his accidental acting career, his beguiling good looks, and his quirky charm. In Johnny Depp Starts Here, film scholar Murray Pomerance explores our fascination with Depp, his riddling complexity, and his meaning for our culture. Moving beyond the actor's engaging and inscrutable private life, Pomerance focuses on his enigmatic screen performances from A Nightmare on Elm Street to Secret Window.

The actor's image is studied in terms of its ambiguities and its many strange nuances: Depp's ethnicity, his smoking, his tranquility, his unceasing motion, his links to the Gothic, the Beats, Simone de Beauvoir, the history of rationality, Impressionist painting, and more. In a series of treatments of his key roles, including Rafael in The Brave, Bon Bon in Before Night Falls, Jack Kerouac in The Source, and the long list of acclaimed performances from Gilbert Grape to Cap'n Jack Sparrow, we learn of Johnny onscreen in terms of male sexuality, space travel, optical experience, nineteenth-century American capitalism, Orientalism, the vulnerability of performance, the perils of sleep, comedy, the myth of the West, Scrooge McDuck, Frantois Truffaut, and more.

Johnny's face, Johnny's gaze, Johnny's aging, and Johnny's understatement are shown to be inextricably linked to our own desperate need to plumb performance, style, and screen for a grounding of reality in this ever-accelerating world of fragmentation and insecurity. Both deeply intriguing and perpetually elusive, Depp is revealed as the central screen performer of the contemporary age, the symbol of performance itself.

No thinker has meditated on Johnny Depp this way before-and surely not in a manner worthy of the object of scrutiny.

Johnny Depp Starts Here

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#film #cinema #screenwriting #filmmaking #johnlandis #movies #moviewriting

The Best Movie Writing 2001 is dedicated to collecting the best writing about our most influential medium, our most popular, evocative and hotly debated art and mode of storytelling, and includes several new features: introductions of each piece by the guest editor; comments by the contributors on their pieces: and a catalog of America's most important movie magazines. Discussions are not limited to individual films, actors and directors but range from the racial politics of Gone With the Wind to the protest surrounding the 1999 adaptation of the book American Psycho; from how the MPAA rates independent films, to the battle between proponents of film and the new digital technology. Includes selections from Ian Buruma, Molly Haskell, Michael Herr, John Irving, Lawrence Kasdan, Jack Kerouac, Stuart Klawans, Stanley Kubric, and others.

Michel Chion

Audio-Vision Sound on Screen

P. Adams Sitney

The Cinema of Poetry

David MacDougall

Transcultural Cinema

Daniel Borden; Florian Duysens; Thomas Gilbert; Adele Smith; Heather Thompson

Film

James Lipton

Inside Inside

Edward F. Dolan jr

History of the Movies

Christian Fuchs

Bad Blood

Shawn Levy

Dolce Vita Confidential

Fiona Handyside

Sofia Coppola

Jennifer L. Feeley (Editor); Sarah Ann Wells (Editor)

Simultaneous Worlds

Bounty Books

501 Must-See Movies (some pen marks throughout)

Universal film

Airport 77 VHS tape with original case

Gerald Mast

A Short History of the Movies (read description)

Barry Keith Grant (Editor)

Film Genre Reader III

Frances Ford Coppola

Live Cinema and Its Techniques

John Waters

Role Models

Donald Bogle

Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams

Mark Schilling

No Borders No Limits

Paul Fischer

A Kim Jong-Il Production

Sergio de la Mora

Cinemachismo

Jeffrey Skopak

Christ, Culture, and Cinema

Tom Hanks; R. Sikoryak (Illustrator)

The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

Murray Pomerance (Editor)

Johnny Depp Starts Here

John Landis (Editor); Jason Shinder (Editor)

Best American Movie Writing 2001