Catálogo de libros: Cine, televisión y radio

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  • BOXedMAN
    Nicholas Pasyanos
    'BoxedMan - I’m gonna make a movie, why are you laughing?' is the story of Nicholas Pasyanos’s declaration, commitment and eventual completion of this improbably farfetched journey.The Walter Mitty that lives in us all taunts us throughout our lives to do something out of reach, and it is oh-so tempting. Nicholas succumbed to the siren call and jumped into the deep end of the p...
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    18,76 €

  • Silent Vignettes
    Tim Lussier
    Pickford, Lloyd, Keaton, Garbo. You’re familiar with these icons of silent film, of course - and they are here within these pages. But are you familiar with Francelia Billington? No? How about Harold Lockwood, Edna Flugrath, Marion Byron, Virginia Brown Faire? Still, no? Well, fear not. Film historian and author Tim Lussier ('Bare Knees' Flapper: The Life and Films of Virginia ...
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    35,11 €

  • Radio Psychics
    John Benedict Buescher
    When radio broadcasting began in the early 1920s, the radio was a magic box aglow with the future, drawing humanity into a new age. Some thought it would dissolve the distance between time and place, others that human minds would become transparent, one tuned to another. Performers claiming psychic powers turned radio broadcasting into a fabulous money machine. These 'mental...
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    73,86 €

  • A Voyage with Hitchcock
    Murray Pomerance
    Extensive meditations on the theme of the voyage in six Hitchcock films: Psycho, The 39 Steps, The Birds, Dial M for Murder, Rich and Strange, and Suspicion. ...
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    121,28 €

  • Luchino Visconti and the Alchemy of Adaptation
    Brendan Hennessey
    Examines the place of book-to-film adaptations by one of Italy’s most famous postwar film directors. ...
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    121,72 €

  • In the Shadow of the Sign - My Life in Pictures (color) (hardback)
    Renee Farrington
    What can you expect from a baby called 'Potsy,' born to a cartoon-animating father and a fantasy-loving mother? Expect a whimsical tale of adventure growing up on the wrong side of the Hollywood Sign. Renée’s picture storybook chronicles an eighty-year journey from a childhood playing near where her father drew Donald Duck for Walt Disney, to becoming a grown-up still filled wi...
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    111,57 €

  • Chantal Akerman
    Chantal Akerman was one of the most significant directors of our times. A radical innovator of cinematic forms, she was at the forefront of feminist and women’s filmmaking. In the 1990s, she developed an important installation practice and began to experiment with self-writing.Focusing on Akerman’s works of the last two decades, a period during which she diversified her creativ...
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    17,62 €

  • Spanish Culture from Romanticism to the Present
    Jo Labanyi
    Structures of Feeling makes available two decades of work by the pioneering scholar of Spanish cultural studies, Jo Labanyi, covering literature, cinema, painting, photography, and memory studies, with a frequent focus on gender. The essays explore the ways in which cultural texts serve as a vehicle for negotiating cultural anxieties, through their encoding of emotional structu...
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    22,92 €

  • Projected Passion
    Frogg Moody / Richard Nash
    Projected Passion tells the story of the cinema in Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, to the end of the twentieth century. From the showing of moving pictures at the annual charter fair, via the old city theatres, the story of cinema pioneer Albany Ward and his civilian and garrison theatres, to the golden years when Salisbury could support three state-of-the-art cinemas (with a fourth ...
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    27,00 €

  • WHITE HELL’S SHOOTING STAR & THE HISTON HARVEST MURDER
    Sasha Osborne
    Following on from the author’s book White Hell’s Shooting Star she has created a film script for production. Also added to this film script edition is The Harvest Murder. Both scripts are based on true stories in the Histon and Impington area of Cambridge in the UK. Should you wish to produce a play for public entertainment, please contact the author at fen.mysteries@gmail.c...
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    16,80 €

  • It All Began With A Scream (hardback)
    Padraic Maroney
    In 1996, a movie came along that changed the face of horror films forever. Initial signs indicated Scream being a flop upon its release in theaters, but it quickly became a word-of-mouth phenomenon spawning multiple sequels, a television series, and countless imitators.Twenty-five years later, the impact of Scream is still being felt in films and pop culture. For the first time...
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    37,80 €

  • It All Began With A Scream
    Padraic Maroney
    We apologize for not properly crediting Fun World, Div., Easter Unlimited, Inc. for their ownership of the Ghost face mask on the cover of It All Began With A Scream. This is being rectified with a legal note added to the book going forward. In 1996, a movie came along that changed the face of horror films forever. Initial signs indicated Scream being a flop upon its release in...
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    27,62 €

  • The B&C Kinematograph Company and British Cinema
    Gerry Turvey
    This book sheds new light on the under-researched period of early British cinema through a history of the British and Colonial Kinematograph Company in the years 1908-1916, when it became one of Britain’s leading film producers. The book provides an account of its films and personalities, and explores its production methods and business practices. ...
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    150,56 €

  • Does the Crew Sleep Onboard? From Cruise Ships to International Game Shows (hardback)
    Bruce J. Starin / Bruce JStarin
    Get ready to sail on a Cruise Ship Confidential! Ever wonder what goes on below decks of a real-life Love Boat? Bruce J. Starin knows. He was hired as a Social Director, and soon promoted to Assistant Cruise Director (First Officer of Entertainment) on a ship he calls the 'S.S. Luna Sea' because, if he used its real name in this funny, wise, revelatory memoir, a lot of marriage...
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    42,83 €

  • A Beginner’s Guide to Extreme Horror
    Ira Rat / Jon Steffens
    Are you a horror fan who’s seen every big-name slasher sequel and zombie flick you can find? Do you feel as though you’ve exhausted every option mainstream horror cinema has to offer? Looking to see just how dark, bleak, and ugly our beloved genre gets?Join Jon Steffens and Ira Rat for a trip through the gore-soaked wasteland of Extreme Horror. From necrophilia and cannibalism ...
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    10,25 €

  • Improvise Freely
    Patti Stiles
    Improvisation is a vibrant art of spontaneity and impulse. Audiences the world over flock to shows where ’anything could happen!’ But lurking at the heart of many companies that perform it is a contradiction, a bait and switch. Students who sign up for classes are taught ’The Improv Rules’: the strictly right and wrong way to be creative. Exploration is replaced with emulatio...
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    25,18 €

  • Charles Laughton
    David a Redfern / David A. Redfern
    Oscar-winning actor, translator of Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo, and director of the iconoclastic The Night of the Hunter, Charles Laughton’s name alone commanded box office and theatre acclaim. This book is the first to offer an intimate examination of his 54 films produced in Britain and Hollywood from 1928 to 1962. Each has technical credits and cast lists, as well as publici...
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    65,93 €

  • Screening American Nostalgia
    This book examines American screen culture and its power to create and sustain values. Looking specifically at the ways in which nostalgia colors the visions of American life, essays explore contemporary American ideology as it is created and sustained by the screen. Nostalgia is omnipresent, selling a version of America that arguably never existed. Current socio-cultural ch...
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    79,49 €

  • Does the Crew Sleep Onboard? From Cruise Ships to International Game Shows
    Bruce J. Starin / Bruce JStarin
    Get ready to sail on a Cruise Ship Confidential! Ever wonder what goes on below decks of a real-life Love Boat? Bruce J. Starin knows. He was hired as a Social Director, and soon promoted to Assistant Cruise Director (First Officer of Entertainment) on a ship he calls the 'S.S. Luna Sea' because, if he used its real name in this funny, wise, revelatory memoir, a lot of marriage...
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    32,65 €

  • Rubberhead
    Steve Johnson
    The insane journey of illustrious Special FX artist Steve Johnson continues in Volume II; that’s right, more drugs, more sex and more stories from some of Hollywood’s greatest movies.  This time, Steve’s beautiful and unique writing style takes us on a haunting journey about never being able to get over a friend who took his own life while working on Fright Night.  From his own...
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    73,47 €

  • Rubberhead
    Steve Johnson
    The insane journey of illustrious Special FX artist Steve Johnson continues in Volume II; that’s right, more drugs, more sex and more stories from some of Hollywood’s greatest movies.  This time, Steve’s beautiful and unique writing style takes us on a haunting journey about never being able to get over a friend who took his own life while working on Fright Night.  From his own...
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    46,50 €

  • Be Italian
    Jimmy Angelina / Wyatt Doyle
    First there was THE LAST COLORING BOOK, then THE LAST COLORING BOOK ON THE LEFT (not a sequel but an equal); groundbreaking collections that exploded the coloring book form and reconfigured it as a venue for film study and autobiography. Now, Jimmy Angelina and Wyatt Doyle (Italians, both) proudly present BE ITALIAN. Not a coloring book, but an unprecedented visual history expl...
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    21,30 €

  • Be Italian
    Jimmy Angelina / Wyatt Doyle
    First there was THE LAST COLORING BOOK, then THE LAST COLORING BOOK ON THE LEFT (not a sequel but an equal); groundbreaking collections that exploded the coloring book form and reconfigured it as a venue for film study and autobiography. Now, Jimmy Angelina and Wyatt Doyle (Italians, both) proudly present BE ITALIAN. Not a coloring book, but an unprecedented visual history expl...
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    51,88 €

  • The History of Hiram Holliday
    Ian Dickerson
    Based on a best-selling book by Paul Gallico The Adventures of Hiram Holliday aired on NBC in the mid-1950s. Hiram was a mild-mannered newspaper proof-reader who, in his downtime, acquired skills such as combat shooting, fencing, rock climbing and scuba diving and put them to good use in various adventures. Great things were expected of the show; it’s star, Wally Cox, was just ...
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    24,17 €

  • The History of Hiram Holliday (hardback)
    Ian Dickerson
    Based on a best-selling book by Paul Gallico The Adventures of Hiram Holliday aired on NBC in the mid-1950s. Hiram was a mild-mannered newspaper proof-reader who, in his downtime, acquired skills such as combat shooting, fencing, rock climbing and scuba diving and put them to good use in various adventures. Great things were expected of the show; it’s star, Wally Cox, was just ...
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    34,34 €

  • The Book of Top Ten Horror Lists
    Charles F. Rosenay / Charles FRosenay
    Who doesn’t love a Top 10 List? They’re short, they’re fun, and we always want to see if our choices match. In this book, one hundred celebrities reveal their Top 10 favorite monster movies and themes. The author, Charles F. Rosenay!!! aka 'Cryptmaster Chucky, is the originator and organizer of the annual Dracula Tours to Transylvania, and this is his first book. He comments, '...
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    27,47 €

  • The Book of Top Ten Horror Lists (hardback)
    Charles F. Rosenay / Charles FRosenay
    Who doesn’t love a Top 10 List? They’re short, they’re fun, and we always want to see if our choices match. In this book, one hundred celebrities reveal their Top 10 favorite monster movies and themes. The author, Charles F. Rosenay!!! aka 'Cryptmaster Chucky, is the originator and organizer of the annual Dracula Tours to Transylvania, and this is his first book. He comments, '...
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    37,64 €

  • Encountering the Impossible
    Alexander Sergeant
    The first academic explanation for how spectators use their imaginations as part of the experience and appreciation of popular fantasy filmmaking. ...
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    121,71 €

  • Seeing Symphonically
    Erica Stein
    Looks at how a group of aesthetically innovative independent films contested and imagined alternatives to urban planning in midcentury New York. ...
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    121,58 €

  • Unholy Communion (hardback)
    Troy Howarth
    Paterson, New Jersey-March 1961. A joyous day of celebration turns into a waking nightmare when a young girl is brutally murdered. With the police making slow progress, the child’s grief-stricken parents decide to launch their own investigation and uncover some ugly secrets about their family, friends, and neighbors. Among the many possible suspects, the most likely culprit pro...
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    47,06 €