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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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Science Fiction in the Cinema

Tom Hanks

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

North Carolina

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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Michigan

“Combining detailed narrative history -- economic, ideological, and esthetic -- with thought-provoking analysis, this study provides extensive coverage of cinema in the Arab world.” Previous library book in excellent used condition! #cinema #movies #educational #arts #filmstudies #womensstudies #genderstudies #arabstudies

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

History and Cultural Identity 

Arab Cinema

Roger Ebert

A collection of essays, drawn from film critic Roger Ebert's column "The Great Movies," in which he presents his critical appreciation for one hundred movies he judges to be among the best of all time.

The Great Movies

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California

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Steven J. Ross

Cinema history with Working Class Hollywood by Steven Ross, film history and American class, with photos. 340 pages good clean book paperback 3rd printing

Mississippi

Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America film history 

The outcome of these battles was critical to our own times, for the victors got to shape the meaning of class in twentieth-century America.

Working-Class Hollywood paperback very good condition 

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Thomas G. Schatz

Genius of the System  by Thomas Schatz tells the business and art of Hollywood System.  Film history Hollywood.  500 pages paperback 

Hollywood filmmaking in the studio era by Thomas Schatz wonderful study of cinema history 

Genius of the System paperback film history 

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Michael Kogge

Scholastic

The Character Guide

Meet Newt, Tina, Queenie, Jacob, and many more in this comprehensive character guide to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them!



Following a magical mix-up, British Magizoologist Newt Scamander unwittingly finds himself on a chase around New York City looking for magical beasts. To set things right, Newt has to track down his escaped magical creatures with the help of aspiring baker Jacob Kowalski, as well as Tina and Queenie Goldstein, two witches who work for the Magical Congress of the United States of America. This chance meeting of characters leads to an action-packed adventure Newt won't soon forget.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - Movie Handbook

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Felicity Baker

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Cinematic Guide

The Beasts

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Neil Fulwood

Implicit and explicit, Hollywood and European, these 100 films revolutionized the way cinema represented the pleasures of the flesh. Alluring photographs capture the physical heat, while a perceptive analysis examines every crucial aspect of cinematic eroticism. Some of the films, such as Double Indemnity, show sex as an irresistible, dangerous trap; others, including Tom Jones, wittily suggest desire through dialogue and visual metaphors. A number of works, from Ai No Corrida to the homoerotic Caravaggio, shocked, challenged, and disturbed. Also on display are the frank, uncompromising approach of European directors such as Bertolucci, Bu�uel, and Almodovar; the darker side of on-screen sexuality including S/M (The Night Porter); and taboo subjects such as incest and necrophilia—implied in Hitchcock’s masterpiece, Vertigo.

One Hundred Sex Scenes That Changed Cinema

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Arizona

Erin Carlson

Illinois

How Nora Ephron's Three Iconic Films Saved the Romantic Comedy

A backstage look at the making of Nora Ephron's revered trilogy--When Harry Met Sally, You've Got Mail, and Sleepless in Seattle--which brought romantic comedies back to the fore, and an intimate portrait of the beloved writer/director who inspired a generation of Hollywood women, from Mindy Kaling to Lena Dunham. In I'll Have What She's Having entertainment journalist Erin Carlson tells the story of the real Nora Ephron and how she reinvented the romcom through her trio of instant classics. With a cast of famous faces including Reiner, Hanks, Ryan, and Crystal, Carlson takes readers on a rollicking, revelatory trip to Ephron's New York City, where reality took a backseat to romance and Ephron--who always knew what she wanted and how she wanted it--ruled the set with an attention to detail that made her actors feel safe but sometimes exasperated crew members. Along the way, Carlson examines how Ephron explored in the cinema answers to the questions that plagued her own romantic life and how she regained faith in love after one broken engagement and two failed marriages. Carlson also explores countless other questions Ephron's fans have wondered about: What sparked Reiner to snap out of his bachelor blues during the making of When Harry Met Sally? Why was Ryan, a gifted comedian trapped in the body of a fairytale princess, not the first choice for the role? After she and Hanks each separatel balked at playing Mail's Kathleen Kelly and Sleepless' Sam Baldwin, what changed their minds? And perhaps most importantly: What was Dave Chappelle doing ... in a turtleneck? An intimate portrait of a one of America's most iconic filmmakers and a look behind the scenes of her crowning achievements, I'll Have What She's Having is a vivid account of the days and nights when Ephron, along with assorted cynical collaborators, learned to show her heart on the screen.

I'll Have What She's Having

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Mark Salisbury

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Creatures and Aliens

Go behind the scenes of all ten Star Wars films

The Moviemaking Magic of Star Wars

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John Irving

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"AN OLD-FASHIONED, BIG-HEARTED NOVEL . . . with its epic yearning caught in the 19th century, somewhere between Trollope and Twain . . . The rich detail makes for vintage Irving."
--The Boston Sunday Globe

"The Cider House Rules is filled with people to love and to feel for. . . . The characters in John Irving's novel break all the rules, and yet they remain noble and free-spirited. Victims of tragedy, violence, and injustice, their lives seem more interesting and full of thought-provoking dilemmas than the lives of many real people."
--The Houston Post

"John Irving's sixth and best novel . . . He is among the very best storytellers at work today. At the base of Irving's own moral concerns is a rare and lasting regard for human kindness."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Entertaining and affecting . . . John Irving is the most relentlessly inventive writer around. He proliferates colorful incidents and crotchets of character. . . . A truly astounding amount of artistry and ingenuity."
--The San Diego Union

The Cider House Rules

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Maxim Jakubowski

Ron Van der Meer

Live

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Jason Wood

Steven Soderbergh

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Quentin Tarantino

Walter Kirn

Quentin Tarantino's long-awaited first work of fiction--at once hilarious, delicious and brutal--is the always surprising, sometimes shocking, novelization of his Academy Award winning film.

RICK DALTON--Once he had his own TV series, but now Rick's a washed-up villain-of-the week drowning his sorrows in whiskey sours. Will a phone call from Rome save his fate or seal it?

CLIFF BOOTH--Rick's stunt double, and the most infamous man on any movie set because he's the only one there who might have got away with murder. . . .

SHARON TATE--She left Texas to chase a movie-star dream, and found it. Sharon's salad days are now spent on Cielo Drive, high in the Hollywood Hills.

CHARLES MANSON--The ex-con's got a bunch of zonked-out hippies thinking he's their spiritual leader, but he'd trade it all to be a rock 'n' roll star.

Once upon a Time in Hollywood

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Western Cinema and the Environment  

Gunfight at the Eco-Corral

#paperback #ecocriticism #film #filmschool #documentary #hollywood #cinema 

Framing the World: Explorations in Ecocriticism and Film

Shea Serrano

A funny look at some great movies with some good artwork as well. Book is new never read has a sticker spot on back from the store.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Shea Serrano is back, and his new book, Movies (And Other Things), combines the fury of a John Wick shootout, the sly brilliance of Regina George holding court at a cafeteria table, and the sheer power of a Denzel monologue, all into one. Movies (And Other Things) is a book about, quite frankly, movies (and other things). One of the chapters, for example, answers which race Kevin Costner was able to white savior the best, because did you know that he white saviors Mexicans in McFarland, USA, and white saviors Native Americans in Dances with Wolves, and white saviors Black people in Black or White, and white saviors the Cleveland Browns in Draft Day? Another of the chapters, for a second example, answers what other high school movie characters would be in Regina George's circle of friends if we opened up the Mean Girls universe to include other movies (Johnny Lawrence is temporarily in, Claire from The Breakfast Club is in, Ferris Bueller is out, Isis from Bring It On is out...). Another of the chapters, for a third example, creates a special version of the Academy Awards specifically for rom-coms, the most underrated movie genre of all. And another of the chapters, for a final example, is actually a triple chapter that serves as an NBA-style draft of the very best and most memorable moments in gangster movies. Many, many things happen in Movies (And Other Things), some of which funny, others of which are sad, a few of which are insightful, and all of which are handled with the type of care and dedication to the smallest details and pockets of pop culture that only a book by Shea Serrano can provide.

Movies (and Other Things)

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

Simultaneous Worlds

John Baxter

Science Fiction in the Cinema

Tom Hanks

The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

Tom Hanks

The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

Viola Shafik

Arab Cinema

Tom Hanks

The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

Roger Ebert

The Great Movies

Tom Hanks

The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

Steven J. Ross

Working-Class Hollywood paperback very good condition

Thomas G. Schatz

Genius of the System paperback film history

Michael Kogge; Scholastic

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - Movie Handbook

Felicity Baker

The Beasts

Neil Fulwood

One Hundred Sex Scenes That Changed Cinema

Tom Hanks

The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

Erin Carlson

I'll Have What She's Having

Mark Salisbury

The Moviemaking Magic of Star Wars

John Irving

The Cider House Rules

Maxim Jakubowski; Ron Van der Meer

The Great Movies

Jason Wood

Steven Soderbergh

Tom Hanks

The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

Quentin Tarantino; Walter Kirn

Once upon a Time in Hollywood

Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann

Gunfight at the Eco-Corral

Paula Willoquet-Maricondi

Framing the World: Explorations in Ecocriticism and Film

Shea Serrano

Movies (and Other Things)