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  • Starstruck - How I Magically Transformed Chicago into Hollywood for More Than Fifty Years
    Michael Kutza
    'For many of us, Michael Kutza brought the great city of Chicago to life with his infectious love of film.'- Oliver Stone, Oscar®-winning director of Platoon, JFK, and Born on the Fourth of July'Michael is the real deal. He has heart, a great sense of humor, and he loves films for all the right reasons. I am blessed to call him a friend.'- Sophia Loren, Oscar® winner and legend...
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    33,65 €

  • The Cinema of Maria Novaro (hardback)
    James Stratton
    THE CINEMA OF MARÍA NOVARO Writer-director María Novaro emerged during the 1990s as a major figure in the rebirth of Mexican cinema. Beginning with Lola (1989) and Danzón (1991), she created a series of complex women protagonists struggling with issues of identity, family, and empowerment.  In this first book-length English language examination of her career, film historian Jam...
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    40,06 €

  • Ruth Roman
    Derek Sculthorpe
    With her striking looks, the raven-haired, dark eyed Ruth Roman had an air of sophistication that made her seem sexy yet wholesome. She had to strive harder than most to establish herself as a leading actress in Hollywood during its glory years and finally broke through in 1949 with her role in Champion. As one of the last Warner Bros. contract players, she appeared in Alfre...
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    57,48 €

  • Smile, You Sonuvabitch! A Brit’s Take on Catfights, Serial Killers and Other Fun Movie Stuff
    Dave Franklin
    From Peckinpah and Schwarzenegger to Ulzana’s Raid and Switchblade Sisters, Dave Franklin takes a politically incorrect look at the glories of twentieth century cinema.In this second volume of his Baby Ice Dog Movie Guide, he offers eight Fucked-Up Films, a bit of tit trauma, ten of the best Starring Debuts, some macho idiots, a tribute to Michael Douglas’ prime, and a quick ex...
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    17,00 €

  • Truth and Lives on Film
    John T. Aquino
    As early as the Silent Era, movie studios were sued over depictions of real people and events. Filmmakers have always altered the details of true stories and actual persons, living or dead, to make narratives more workable and characters more compelling. When truth and fantasy become inextricably mixed, the effect on people’s lives can be significant, even devastating. Thi...
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    57,27 €

  • The Holiday in His Eye
    William Rothman
    Presents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell’s oeuvre, one that takes his kinship with Emerson as inextricably bound up with his ever-deepening thinking about movies. ...
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    46,16 €

  • Mexico Unmanned
    Samanta Ordóñez
    Demonstrates how transhistorical myths of masculinity are both perpetuated and challenged in recent Mexican cinema. ...
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    42,10 €

  • Reel Change
    Jon Burrows / Richard Wallace
    Ten years ago, a technological revolution swept through cinemas around the world, as analogue projectors were replaced with digital equipment. It was not just the plastic medium of film that was removed from projection boxes during this transformation; most cinemas took this opportunity to also evict the human projectionists who were hitherto in charge of screenings. Projection...
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    41,17 €

  • White Cottage, White House
    Tony Tracy
    Argues that Irish American masculinity functioned to negotiate, consolidate, and reinforce hegemonic whiteness in Hollywood cinema from 1930 to 1960. ...
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    121,87 €

  • No Jurisdiction
    Fareed Ben-Youssef
    A deeply personal study of post-9/11 film that exposes how genre can frame the shifting meanings of the War on Terror and its impact on American law and culture. ...
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    121,79 €

  • Whiteness at the End of the World
    David Venditto
    Examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic films express white racial anxiety. ...
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    121,99 €

  • The Unofficial Upside Down Stranger Things Survival Guide
    Nick Naughton
    How does one survive an infestation of the Upside Down - especially if you don’t have a super powered telekinetic girl on hand to save the day? This means that Upside Down trouble in your town is going to have to be survived (and hopefully vanquished) with good old-fashioned fortitude, bravery, logic, determination, and pluck. You will need weapons, a suitable place for a siege...
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    11,97 €

  • Cary Grant (hardback)
    Gene Popa
    'Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.' - Alfred Hitchcock 'He was a dream, as all works of art are.' - Katharine Hepburn 'Cary Grant was so far the best that there isn’t anybody to be compared to him.' - Howard Hawks 'I acted like Cary Grant for so long that I became Cary Grant.' - Cary Grant In 1937, it seemed as if Cary Grant had it all: the fame and fo...
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    36,96 €

  • Cary Grant
    Gene Popa
    'Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.' - Alfred Hitchcock 'He was a dream, as all works of art are.' - Katharine Hepburn 'Cary Grant was so far the best that there isn’t anybody to be compared to him.' - Howard Hawks 'I acted like Cary Grant for so long that I became Cary Grant.' - Cary Grant In 1937, it seemed as if Cary Grant had it all: the fame and fo...
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    26,79 €

  • Stacy Keach On Screen
    chris wade
    Chris Wade explores the long, rich and varied screen career of STACY KEACH, one of the most versatile and multi talented American actors in history. For almost sixty years, he has entertained audiences the world over. Beginning his acting life on the stage, he was highly acclaimed for his turns in various productions of the works of Shakespeare, as well as hit plays such as Mac...
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    21,00 €

  • Radical Equalities and Global Feminist Filmmaking
    Radical Equalities and Global Feminist Filmmaking - An Anthology’s main objective is to exhibit and unveil the fruit of the growing movement of feminist filmmakers around the world through interviews with current filmmakers themselves and through critical analysis of the works of these filmmakers. Every filmmaker we examine tells their own story about radical equality from a pl...
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    68,18 €

  • Jean Simmons
    Michelangelo Capua
    Arriving in Hollywood in 1950 to launch her American film career, Jean Simmons (1929-2010) had already appeared in 18 British films and was best known for her portrayal of Ophelia in Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet. She soon became a favorite female face working with some of filmmaking’s greats and acted opposite many Hollywood A-listers. Two of her most popular films--Guys and Do...
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    58,80 €

  • Raise the Titanic - The Making of the Movie Volume 1
    Jonathan Smith
    'That’s right sir. We can’t get divers down to the Titanic. Which leaves us with only one choice. We don’t go to the mountain. The mountain comes to us.' Dirk Pitt (Richard Jordan)  It was claimed to be the 'Big One' for the 1980s; a film adventure to rival the James Bond franchise and the movie that would make Great Britain’s entertainment mogul Lord Lew Grade a threat to the ...
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    49,59 €

  • Raise the Titanic - The Making of the Movie Volume 1 (hardback)
    Jonathan Smith
    'That’s right sir. We can’t get divers down to the Titanic. Which leaves us with only one choice. We don’t go to the mountain. The mountain comes to us.' Dirk Pitt (Richard Jordan)  It was claimed to be the 'Big One' for the 1980s; a film adventure to rival the James Bond franchise and the movie that would make Great Britain’s entertainment mogul Lord Lew Grade a threat to the ...
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    61,64 €

  • TV Inside-Out - Flukes, Flakes, Feuds and Felonies - The backstage blunders, bloopers and blasphemy of celebrities in search of success
    Randy West
    THE BOOK THAT INSIDERS ARE ENJOYING.TV INSIDE-OUTREAD EXCERPTS FROM THEIR INTRODUCTIONS HOSTS...Bob Eubanks: On The Newlywed Game I asked a woman, 'What’s the one thing your husband wouldn’t want you to talk about?' She spilled the beans that her husband and cousin were going to kill their uncle for the insurance money! Then, the husband told the same story! They matched and go...
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    47,27 €

  • TV Inside-Out - Flukes, Flakes, Feuds and Felonies - The backstage blunders, bloopers and blasphemy of celebrities in search of success (hardback)
    Randy West
    THE BOOK THAT INSIDERS ARE ENJOYING.TV INSIDE-OUTREAD EXCERPTS FROM THEIR INTRODUCTIONS HOSTS...Bob Eubanks: On The Newlywed Game I asked a woman, 'What’s the one thing your husband wouldn’t want you to talk about?' She spilled the beans that her husband and cousin were going to kill their uncle for the insurance money! Then, the husband told the same story! They matched and go...
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    59,32 €

  • Sean Connery
    Andrew Spicer
    This ground-breaking study provides an authoritative account of the career of this iconic star. It illuminates his early work, his role as James Bond and his later reinvention as father-mentor and screen legend. Drawing on a wide range of sources, it will be essential reading for those interested in the phenomenon of stardom. ...
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    33,86 €

  • The Essence of Film Noir
    Diana Royer
    American classic films noir, beginning with 1941’s The Maltese Falcon and ending with 1950’s Sunset Boulevard, and the neo-noir films made from the 1970s onward, share certain thematic aspects, stylistic qualities, and cultural contexts. Their concern with politics, their depiction of con artists, and the way their characters are shaped by America’s puritanical religious roo...
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    58,58 €

  • The Magnificent ’60s
    Brian Hannan
    Hollywood in the 1960s walked a tightrope between boom and bust. Yet the decade spawned many of the greatest films ever made, saw the advent of the spy thriller, the revival of science fiction and horror, and represented the Golden Era of the 70mm roadshow. Blockbusters like Lawrence of Arabia and The Sound of Music shared marquees with low-budget hits such as Lilies of the ...
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    58,75 €

  • Insight, the Series - A Hollywood Priest’s Groundbreaking Contribution to Television History
    Mark A. Villano
    ONE OF THE LONGEST RUNNING SYNDICATED SHOWS IN TELEVISION HISTORY...Created by Fr. Ellwood Kieser, known as the 'Hollywood Priest,' INSIGHT brought together some of the best television writers, directors, and actors of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Together, they produced a memorable, Emmy-winning series that dealt with the moral implications of contemporary issues and broke new gro...
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    27,77 €

  • Insight, the Series - A Hollywood Priest’s Groundbreaking Contribution to Television History (hardback)
    Mark A. Villano
    ONE OF THE LONGEST RUNNING SYNDICATED SHOWS IN TELEVISION HISTORY...Created by Fr. Ellwood Kieser, known as the 'Hollywood Priest,' INSIGHT brought together some of the best television writers, directors, and actors of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Together, they produced a memorable, Emmy-winning series that dealt with the moral implications of contemporary issues and broke new gro...
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    37,94 €

  • Flirting with Fame - A Hollywood Publicist Recalls 50 Years of Celebrity Close Encounters (color version)
    Dan Harary
    'I enjoyed Flirting With Fame because Dan is so open and honest about his encounters with celebrities - some very funny, some odd and some even hard to believe - but all told from an’everyman’s’ point of view. He quite often found himself in rather bizarre circumstances while interacting with famous people - like having a staring contest with Barbra Streisand, twice; or smoking...
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    43,66 €

  • Flirting with Fame - A Hollywood Publicist Recalls 50 Years of Celebrity Close Encounters (color version) (hardback)
    Dan Harary
    'I enjoyed Flirting With Fame because Dan is so open and honest about his encounters with celebrities - some very funny, some odd and some even hard to believe - but all told from an’everyman’s’ point of view. He quite often found himself in rather bizarre circumstances while interacting with famous people - like having a staring contest with Barbra Streisand, twice; or smoking...
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    53,83 €

  • Japanese Cinema
    Peter Cowie
    Peter Cowie is a bona fide expert on international film and has published 30+ books on the subjectHis account of Japanese film includes personal encounters with the directors themselves and others icons such as Donald Richie.A comprehensive guide to Japanese film: from prewar films to 21st-century Japanese animation.Has the breadth of an introduction for the uninitiated along w...
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    16,72 €

  • Frank Sinatra on the Big Screen
    Gary Schneeberger / James L. Neibaur
    Frank Sinatra is an iconic figure in music, but his film career is often overlooked. His innate talent as an actor is proven in many serious dramatic roles, including films like Man with the Golden Arm, The Manchurian Candidate, and From Here to Eternity, for which he received an Oscar. From romantic musical comedies to Rat Pack films, Frank Sinatra achieved a great deal of ...
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    57,30 €