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  • Monument Valley or Once Upon a Time at the Movies
    Douglas Brode
    The Last Picture ShowDuring the late 1960s, three men met in Monument Valley, the heart, soul, and brain of our vast southwest. One was John Ford, an aging director who over the past half-century had created the greatest body of cinematic work dealing with the frontier experience; i.e., ’westing.’ His hope was to create one final epic that would serve as an epilogue to all he’d...
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    35,22 €

  • SHELLI
    Doug Brode
    Sequel to SHELLI, which was ranked among the top 10 sci-fi novels of 2024 by Reading Freely book reviews and praised by popular YouTube channels like Good Bad Flicks and Professor Geek. Step inside and return to the world of tomorrow!Shelli has a pulse, a heartbeat, and emotions-but she’s not human.Once a government hunter of rogue synthetics, she now hides in plain sight, help...
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    18,11 €

  • Analyzing the Marvel Universe
    Douglas Brode
    Marvel, like other media 'universes,' is a collection of highly profitable and audience-satisfying products that exist not only as individual items of popular culture but coalesce to form a unique and all-encompassing identity. Within media studies, elements of popular culture once dismissed as low-brow entertainment are now studied with the seriousness that has always been ...
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    71,96 €

  • SHELLI
    Doug Brode
    HUMANS HAVE FOUR MOTIVES FOR MURDER: Passion, Panic, Prejudice, and Greed MACHINES HAVE ONLY ONE: PurposeMeet Shelli, a synthetic investigator that hunts defective and often dangerous machines. In its years of service to Homeland Security, Shelli has never questioned its purpose, never doubted its mission, and never failed in its task. Until now.Partnered with young analyst Jak...
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    11,66 €

  • Traitor By Default
    Patrick Brode
    At the end of World War II, a young Japanese Canadian would stand trial and face execution for having committed war crimes and betraying his country. One of the most bizarre stories to emerge at the end of the Second World War was that of Kanao Inouye. Born in Kamloops, B.C., in 1916, he had relocated to his ancestral homeland of Japan, and by 1942 was a translator for the Jap...
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    38,01 €

  • Children of the Ship
    Doug Brode
    Something terrible haunts the small town of Blackwood, Oregon. Cracks in the earth swallow entire homes. Long-extinct creatures stalk the woods. A putrid, yellow mist reveals gateways to other times and places. At the center of it all, Mrs. Casey Anderson, formally Casey Stevens, must piece together her own forgotten past in hopes of saving the future.  In the thrilling, third ...
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    18,15 €

  • The DC Comics Universe
    Douglas Brode
    As properties of DC comics continue to sprout over the years, narratives that were once kept sacrosanct now spill over into one another, synergizing into one bona fide creative Universe. Intended for both professional pop culture researchers and general interest readers, this collection of essays covers DC Universe multimedia, including graphic novels, video games, movies an...
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    57,31 €

  • They Went That-A-Way - 101 Forgotten Westerns to Remember
    Douglas Brode
    LOST RIDERS OF THE HOLLYWOOD SAGE . . .   Fans of Western movies have heard of (and likely seen) the key genre classics: Shane, High Noon, The Searchers, Stagecoach, Red River, Tombstone, and Unforgiven, to name a few. But how many armchair cowboys and cowgirls are aware that thirty years previous to Clint Eastwood’s film, a similarly named movie, The Unforgiven, featured two t...
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    37,67 €

  • Midnight Matinees
    Douglas Brode
    From the earliest days of moving pictures, there have been the big blockbusters... Birth of a Nation, The Gold Rush, Sunrise, The Crowd... featured the loftiest stars, most renown directors, largest budgets, garnering the strongest reviews. Most famous of them all? Gone With the Wind (1939). During that classic year for Tinseltown, another film did not fare nearly so well at th...
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    34,69 €

  • The Ship
    Doug Brode
    Deep within snow-crested mountains, nine thousand feet above the lumber town of Blackwood, Oregon, a vessel has arrived. It is a craft of enormous dimensions, covering the mountainous peak. And yet, the ground beside it remains undisturbed. Not a single pine tree broken. Not a sound to be heard. Inside the craft, however, things are not as quiet. A young waitress, Casey Steven...
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    13,66 €

  • Sand
    Douglas Brode
    The birth of the roaring twenties, as young gossip columnist Louella Parsons and aged sportswriter Bat Masterson, meet to cover the ’fight of the century’ in which contender Jack Dempsey hopes to become the next heavyweight champion of the world. 3 ...
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    30,85 €

  • From Hell To Hollywood
    Douglas Brode
    FROM HELL TO HOLLYWOOD: An Encyclopedia of Warld War II Films offers the most comprehensive illustrated guide ever assembled for theatrical motion-pictures, English-language and international, dealing with the conflict that consumed America and the globe during the mid-20th century. Though United States official involvement did not begin until December, 1941, following the bomb...
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    32,54 €

  • From Hell To Hollywood
    Douglas Brode
    FROM HELL TO HOLLYWOOD: An Encyclopedia of Warld War II Films offers the most comprehensive illustrated guide ever assembled for theatrical motion-pictures, English-language and international, dealing with the conflict that consumed America and the globe during the mid-20th century. Though United States official involvement did not begin until December, 1941, following the bomb...
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    37,87 €

  • John Wayne’s Way
    Douglas Brode
    As John Wayne’s character said in The Alamo: “There’s right and there’s wrong. You got to do one or the other.” The ultimate measure of a man is how he chooses to act. From the pithy to the humorous to the profound, the film career of the man known as The Duke is full of life lessons for today. In John Wayne's Way, author Doug Brode explores the film legacy of the Duke and ...
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    17,53 €

  • Tippoo Tib, the story of his career in Central Africa
    H. Havelock / Heinrich Brode / HHavelock
    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature. ...
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    12,51 €

  • Deadlier Than the Male
    Douglas Brode
    THEY’LL LOVE YOU TO DEATH! James Bond’s bad girls. Wicked queens of ancient myth. Bisexual vampire women. Teenage temptresses. Deadly dinosaur dames in fanciful fur bikinis. Golden princesses of porn.And many, many more.They were the wicked women of the 1960s and 1970s. While there have always been femme fatales in films, no one had ever believed anything like this pop-culture ...
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    40,23 €

  • The Slasher Killings
    Patrick Brode
    As the city of Windsor, Ontario, celebrated the end of World War II and the return of its troops with parades and public revelry, the industrial city in the south of Canada was shaken by a series of brutal stabbings. The failure of the police to catch the murderer, a "blood lusting maniac" as the local newspaper described him, the turbulence of the times, and the seemingly rand...
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    27,75 €

  • British And German East Africa
    Heinrich Brode
    British and German East Africa: Their Economic and Commercial Relations is a book written by Heinrich Brode and originally published in 1911. The book explores the economic and commercial relationship between British and German East Africa, which were two of the most important colonial territories in Africa during the early 20th century.Brode examines the history of the two ter...
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    33,44 €

  • Marry the Man of Your Dreams
    Jade Brode
    Are you tired of dating and getting the same old results? Do the men you date come on strong and then lose interest? Read Marry the Man of Your Dreams and learn how to become a man magnet. Alluring women who are non-verbally assertive are inordinately intriguing to successful men. Read carefully, learn the secret, and then give the next man who comes into your life a run for hi...
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    23,38 €

  • Elvis Cinema and Popular Culture
    Douglas Brode
    Though Elvis Presley’s music is widely credited as starting a sea change in American popular culture, his films are often dismissed as superficial. Beyond the formulaic plotlines and the increasingly weaker songs, however, the films are rich with resonance to the changing times in which they were produced (roughly 1955-1970). They were also a means by which Elvis communicate...
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    42,48 €