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  • Double-O Dining
    Edward Biddulph
    Be James Bond in the kitchen! Double-O Dining takes you on a culinary journey through the James Bond books and films to uncover the secrets of the food that the world’s most famous fictional spy and his companions and adversaries eat during their adventures. The book contains over 100 easy-to-follow recipes that draw on vintage cookbooks, old newspaper food columns and other hi...
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    27,83 €

  • Double-O Dining (hardback)
    Edward Biddulph
    Be James Bond in the kitchen! Double-O Dining takes you on a culinary journey through the James Bond books and films to uncover the secrets of the food that the world’s most famous fictional spy and his companions and adversaries eat during their adventures. The book contains over 100 easy-to-follow recipes that draw on vintage cookbooks, old newspaper food columns and other hi...
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    38,01 €

  • Space Exploration on Film
    Paul Meehan
    Over the course of several decades, scientific fact has overtaken science fiction as humankind’s understanding of the universe has expanded. Mirroring this development, the cinematic depictions of space exploration over the last century have evolved from whimsical sci-fi fantasies to more fact-based portrayals. This book chronologically examines 75 films that depict voyages...
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    73,10 €

  • The Moral of the Story
    Valetta Anderson
    Aesop’s Fable The Tortoise and the Hare meets an African Ibo legend . This one-act comedy play script for kids reveals what inquiring minds have always wanted to know - the inside scoop behind Aesop’s most famous Fable and why tortoises have cracked, lumpy shells. ...
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    17,74 €

  • Walls Without Cinema
    Larrie Dudenhoeffer
    This volume closely examines the near-ubiquitous images of state security walls, domes, and other such defense enclosures flashing across movie screens since 2006, the year of the ratification of George W. Bush’s Secure Fence Act. This study shows that many of the films of this era enable us to imaginatively test the effects of these security mechanisms on citizens, immigrants,...
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    51,06 €

  • Three Hollywood Stalwarts in Literature
    Henryk Hoffmann
    This book focuses on the perception of the names, personae, performances and films of three Hollywood megastars, Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum and William Holden, as presented in the references and allusions encountered in American and foreign literature. Its secondary aim is to establish the ’impact factor’ of the three actors and their major films and provide extensive data fo...
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    75,75 €

  • Rhetoric, Inc.
    Timothy Johnson
    Examines motion pictures produced or sponsored by Ford Motor Company from a rhetorical perspective, demonstrating how the films reveal a long-term rhetorical project that has helped embed corporations into many of the social systems guiding societies today.  ...
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    50,10 €

  • Ski Films
    Bryan Senn
    Skiing in movies, like the sport itself, grew more prevalent beginning in the 1930s, when it was a pastime of the elite, with depictions reflecting changes in technique, fashion and social climate. World War II saw skiing featured in a dozen films dealing with that conflict. Fueled by postwar prosperity, the sport exploded in the 1950s--filmmakers followed suit, using scenes...
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    88,44 €

  • Cora Witherspoon
    Axel Nissen
    Born into an upper-crust family in New Orleans, Cora Bell Witherspoon (1890-1957) was an orphan by the age of 10 and a professional actress by 15. She was seen on Broadway from 1910 till 1946 in 36 productions and was a popular character actress in Hollywood between 1931 and 1954. On stage she played roles like Sallie McBride in Daddy Long Legs, Josephine Trent in The Awful ...
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    73,14 €

  • Bonkers Ass Cinema
    Matt Rotman
    A Guide to the Wildest of Horror and Exploitation CinemaSit down. Buckle up. Pop in those special peepers you keep in the jar atop the coffee table. Because a journey awaits-a thoughtful and humorous voyage into the world of Bonkers Ass Cinema. Join Matt Rotman in this deep dive, as he covers one hundred films from nine genres, including animals attack, sexploitation, blaxploit...
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    26,80 €

  • Bonkers Ass Cinema (hardback)
    Matt Rotman
    A Guide to the Wildest of Horror and Exploitation CinemaSit down. Buckle up. Pop in those special peepers you keep in the jar atop the coffee table. Because a journey awaits-a thoughtful and humorous voyage into the world of Bonkers Ass Cinema. Join Matt Rotman in this deep dive, as he covers one hundred films from nine genres, including animals attack, sexploitation, blaxploit...
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    36,98 €

  • Louis Malle
    Christopher Beach
    A filmmaker whose work exhibits a wide range of styles and approaches, Louis Malle (1932-1995) was the only French director of his generation to enjoy a significant career in both France and the United States. Although Malle began his career alongside members of the French New Wave like François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and Claude Chabrol, he never associated himself with tha...
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    43,07 €

  • Louis Malle
    Christopher Beach
    A filmmaker whose work exhibits a wide range of styles and approaches, Louis Malle (1932-1995) was the only French director of his generation to enjoy a significant career in both France and the United States. Although Malle began his career alongside members of the French New Wave like François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and Claude Chabrol, he never associated himself with tha...
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    158,53 €

  • Akira Kurosawa and Modern Japan
    David A Conrad / David A. Conrad
    The samurai films of legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa are set in the past, but they tell us much about the present, as do his crime stories, romances, military films, medical dramas and art films. His movies are beloved for their timeless protagonists and haunting vistas of old Japan, but we haven’t yet fully grasped everything they can teach us about modern Japan....
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    73,27 €

  • The Cannon Film Guide Volume II (1985-1987)
    Austin Trunick
    'Trunick’s Guide . . . will sit comfortably on reference shelves next to Michael J. Weldon’s Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film and Danny Peary’s Cult Movies books.' - Spectrum Culture 'The Cannon Film Guide is a treasure trove of info for Golan/Globus fans. Even diehard Cannon scholars will learn from this tome.' - Paul Talbot, author of the Bronson’s Loose! books The unbelie...
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    51,72 €

  • The Cannon Film Guide Volume II (1985-1987) (hardback)
    Austin Trunick
    'Trunick’s Guide . . . will sit comfortably on reference shelves next to Michael J. Weldon’s Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film and Danny Peary’s Cult Movies books.' - Spectrum Culture 'The Cannon Film Guide is a treasure trove of info for Golan/Globus fans. Even diehard Cannon scholars will learn from this tome.' - Paul Talbot, author of the Bronson’s Loose! books The unbelie...
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    61,89 €

  • The Sound of Cinema
    Sean Wilson
    While some film scores crash through theater speakers to claim their place in memory, others are more unassuming. Either way, a film’s score is integral to successful world building. This book lifts the curtain on the elusive yet thrilling art form, examining the birth of the Hollywood film score, its turbulent evolution throughout the decades and the multidimensional challe...
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    57,26 €

  • Hollywood Films in North Africa and the Middle East
    Nolwenn Mingant
    Traces the circulation of Hollywood films in North Africa and the Middle East from the early twentieth century to the present. ...
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    121,74 €

  • Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment
    Carol Siegel
    What are the consequences of how Jews are depicted in movies and television series? Drawing on a host of movies and television series from the 1970s to present day, Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment explores how the media sexualize and racialize American Jews. Race and sexuality frequently intersect in the depiction of Jewish characters in such shows as The Marvelous Mr...
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    107,15 €

  • Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment
    Carol Siegel
    What are the consequences of how Jews are depicted in movies and television series? Drawing on a host of movies and television series from the 1970s to present day, Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment explores how the media sexualize and racialize American Jews. Race and sexuality frequently intersect in the depiction of Jewish characters in such shows as The Marvelous Mr...
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    27,81 €

  • The Misfits
    Aubrey Malone
    John Huston’s ’eastern Western’ signaled the end of the careers of three major Hollywood figures. It was Marilyn Monroe’s last completed film. Clark Gable died a fortnight after shooting ended. Montgomery Clift rumbled on for a few years but without doing much of note.  It also signaled the end of Monroe’s marriage to Arthur Miller. Miller wrote the screenplay as a ’gift’ to hi...
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    27,98 €

  • The Misfits (hardback)
    Aubrey Malone
    John Huston’s ’eastern Western’ signaled the end of the careers of three major Hollywood figures. It was Marilyn Monroe’s last completed film. Clark Gable died a fortnight after shooting ended. Montgomery Clift rumbled on for a few years but without doing much of note.  It also signaled the end of Monroe’s marriage to Arthur Miller. Miller wrote the screenplay as a ’gift’ to hi...
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    38,15 €

  • Film Close Up
    chris wade
    Chris Wade takes a look at two cult classics from the 1990s, Smoke and Blue in the Face, made by writer Paul Auster and director Wayne Wang. Released during a golden era for American independent cinema, Smoke focuses on a Brooklyn cigar shop run by Auggie Wren (Harvey Keitel), and the various characters that revolve around it. Blue in the Face is the companion film to Smoke, a ...
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    13,22 €

  • Autobiographical Reenactment in French and Belgian Film
    Tom Cuthbertson
    We live in ’reenactive times’. Recent decades have witnessed a marked proliferation of various forms of reenactment across numerous cultural contexts and domains to the point that it is today seemingly impossible to enter museums, heritage sites, art galleries or even to turn on the television without encountering at least some elements of this veritable boom. In such a way, re...
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    139,13 €

  • Amateur and Flirt
    Hal Hartley
    Amateur is the unsettling story of a poor young woman who, recently released from her vows as a Catholic nun, tries to earn a living writing pornography. She meets and assists a helpless and kind man with amnesia who is gradually revealed to be a sadistic, murderous pornographer himself, though he cannot remember any of this. In Flirt three young people of different genders, ra...
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    22,69 €

  • Top Gun Memos
    Jordan / Meredith Jordan
    TOP GUN MEMOS: The Making and Legacy of an Iconic Movie tells the comprehensive story of the long-lived movie 'Top Gun' through the eyes of the people on the ground - and in the air - who made it. It drills down on the art and artistry present in its scenes, while also looking unflinchingly at dangerous situations that arose during filming. The book covers how the 1986 movie...
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    17,10 €

  • The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Making Affordable Feature Films
    Matt Shaw
    Purgatory Pictures have made a number of profitable feature films now, all for less than £5,000. Within this book, one of the driving forces behind Purgatory Pictures shares all the tips and tricks you need to be able to do the same for yourself. Sometimes it’s less about making the biggest film possible but - instead - just getting a film made and, better yet, without landing ...
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    24,92 €

  • Fear City Cinema
    Roger A. Salerno
    This book studies a grouping of films set in New York City between 1965 and 1995, reflecting a town besieged by rampant criminality, social distress and physical decay. 'Fear City' is a term the NYPD used to label New York as a frightening environment, incapable of securing the safety of its residents. This book not only deals with the social problems evident in New York dur...
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    72,02 €

  • Screening Europe in Australasia
    Julie K. Allen
    This book’s treatment of the extensive circulation of European silent features and stars in Australasia reveals the vibrant transnationalism of silent film before the rise of Hollywood, and frames the emergence of art house cinema in the 1920s. ...
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    127,06 €

  • PASOLINI
    Jeremy Mark Robinson
    PASOLINIIL CINEMA DI POESIA/ THE CINEMA OF POETRY By Jeremy Mark RobinsonA new critical study of the Italian filmmaker and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975). The focus is the cinema of Pasolini, which includes The Gospel According To Matthew (his best-known film), the controversial Salo, the ’trilogy of life’ movies based on Middle Ages texts (Chaucer, Boccaccio and the 1001...
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    57,71 €