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  • THE CINEMA OF HAYAO MIYAZAKI
    Jeremy Mark Robinson
    THE CINEMA OF HAYAO MIYAZAKI By Jeremy Mark Robinson Born on January 5, 1941 in Tokyo, Hayao Miyazaki is known as the ’Japanese Disney’, a filmmaker as revered - and as popular - as Walt Disney or Steven Spielberg. Miyazaki, in short, is a true phenomenon in contemporary animation and in world cinema.  Hayao Miyazaki's movies include Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl&#...
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    33,79 €

  • THE JAMES BOND MOVIES OF THE 1980s
    Thomas A. Christie / Thomas AChristie
    THE JAMES BOND MOVIES OF THE 1980sBy Thomas A. Christie A survey of the series of James Bond films, which have long been considered among the most popular and successful of British movies, and have also come to be regarded as a useful barometer of Western geopolitical attitudes throughout the series’ long-running duration. This new book from Thomas A. Christie takes a look at ...
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    26,72 €

  • PRINCESS MONONOKE
    Jeremy Mark Robinson
    PRINCESS MONONOKE: HAYAO MIYAZAKI: POCKET MOVIE GUIDEREVISED AND UPDATED, WITH NEW ILLUSTRATIONS This book focusses on Hayao Miyazaki’s 1997 masterpiece Princess Mononoke. Princess Mononoke is a work of genius. It is a masterpiece. It is one of the most staggeringly incredible films you will ever see. By any standards you want to apply, the level of imagination and artistry ...
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    33,94 €

  • SPIRITED AWAY
    Jeremy Mark Robinson
    SPIRITED AWAY: HAYAO MIYAZAKI: POCKET MOVIE GUIDEREVISED AND UPDATED, WITH NEW ILLUSTRATIONS This book focusses on Hayao Miyazaki’s 2001 masterpiece Spirited Away, winner of the Best Animated Movie Oscar. Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi) is without a doubt a masterpiece of cinema, and one of Hayao Miyazaki’s great works. It is one of the most spectacular films of ...
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    33,90 €

  • Bob Crane
    Carol M. Ford / Carol MFord / Dee Young / Linda J. Groundwater / Linda JGroundwater
    The Estate of Bob Crane and I both worked closely with Carol and Linda, and immeasurably appreciate all of the hard work and dedication they put into this book. The only truthful and accurate account of my dad’s life. -Scott CraneSince his untimely death on June 29, 1978, Bob Crane’s unofficial biography has become akin to a broken record. Like a skip in the acetate, his murder...
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    32,58 €

  • Seeking Perfection
    Jonathan Melville
    A behind the scenes look at the making of Tremors and its sequels in the 25th anniversary year 'This high-access tell-all...[is] an unexpected treat' - 4/5, Empire Welcome to Perfection, Nevada A throwback to the kind of sci-fi B movies that had long gone out of fashion, Tremors was a box office flop that became a home video phenomenon, spawning multiple sequels and a shor...
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    20,70 €

  • On Location In Blairstown
    David Grove
    On location in Blairstown: The Making of Friday the 13th covers the creation, planning and filming of the iconic 1980 film, Friday the 13th in a way that no other film has been documented before. Through the memories of the cast and crew, many speaking for the first (and last) time, as well as previously-undiscovered production information and materials, On location in Blairsto...
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    49,09 €

  • FAT, DRUNK, AND STUPID
    MATTY SIMMONS
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    20,21 €

  • Good Films, Cheap Wine, Few Friends
    Juan Luis Bunuel
    The memoirs of Juan Luis Buñuel (b. 1934 in Paris) offer a first-hand look at the life of a vibrant man who has been surrounded by important figures of the twentieth century, including his father Luis Buñuel, Alexander Calder, Joan Miró, and Orson Welles, among many others. A filmmaker, sculptor, painter and raconteur in his own right, Juan Luis’s writings reveal a Buñuelian se...
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    36,71 €

  • On Location in Blairstown
    David Grove
    On location in Blairstown: The Making of Friday the 13th covers the creation, planning and filming of the iconic 1980 film, Friday the 13th in a way that no other film has been documented before. Through the memories of the cast and crew, many speak for the first (and last) time, as well as previously-undiscovered production information and materials, On location in Blairstown ...
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    35,50 €

  • BLADE RUNNER
    Jeremy Mark Robinson
    BLADE RUNNER: POCKET MOVIE GUIDEREVISED AND UPDATED. HARDCOVER. This book is a guide to the 1982 movie made from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick - Blade Runner. A thorough exploration of Blade Runner forms the core of the book, looking at the conception, production, themes, critical reception and influence of the 1982 Warner Brothers movie in every deta...
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    39,93 €

  • Becoming AFI
    James Hindman / Jean Picker Firstenberg
    For over fifty years, the American Film Institute has flourished as one of America’s great cultural entities. Its graduates, faculty, supporters, and trustees have included such acclaimed individuals as Steven Spielberg, Maya Angelou, Gregory Peck, Meryl Streep, Les Moonves, Patty Jenkins, David Lynch, Jane Fonda, Edward James Olmos, Shonda Rhimes, James L. Brooks, Michael Nesm...
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    27,18 €

  • The Complete History of American Film Criticism
    Jerry Roberts
    The Complete History of American Film Criticism is a chronicle of the lives and work of the most influential film critics of the past 100 years. From the first movie review in the New York Times in 1896 through the Silent Era, the pre- and postwar years, the Film Generation of the 1960s, the Golden Age of the 1970s, and into the 21st century, critics have educated generations o...
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    27,55 €

  • Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War
    Historical consensus increasingly views the Cold War period as a multifaceted conflict which extended beyond the borders of the USSR and USA, encompassing both cultural and diplomatic history. Debate remains, however, about how best to balance the Cold War as a cultural event with the existence of Cold War culture. Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War provides a fresh reassessment...
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    184,05 €

  • Ingmar Bergman Out of Focus
    Director Ingmar Bergman occupies a central place in the history of modern cinema. Credited with igniting a cinematic revolution, his ability to produce work which resonated with audiences globally has brought scholarly attention to the impact of Bergman’s Swedish background on his oeuvre. Ingmar Bergman Out of Focus revises this question of Bergman’s 'familiarity' to produce a ...
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    184,29 €

  • Screened Encounters
    Caroline Moine
    Established in 1955, the Leipzig International Documentary Film Festival became a central arena for staging the cultural politics of the German Democratic Republic, both domestically and in relation to West Germany and the rest of the world. Screened Encounters represents the definitive history of this key event, recounting the political and artistic exchanges it enabled from i...
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    53,46 €

  • Mitzi Gaynor
    Peter Shelley
    Mitzi Gaynor (b. September 4, 1931) is an American actress, singer, dancer and writer. As a child dancer, she performed in the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Association before being discovered by 20th Century-Fox for the movies. She was in a number of Fox movies and won the coveted role of Nellie Forbush in the film version of South Pacific (1958). In the 1960s, she played ...
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    57,55 €

  • Soho on Screen
    Jingan Young
    Despite Soho’s rich cultural history, there remains an absence of work on the depiction of the popular neighbourhood in film. Soho on Screen provides one of the first studies of Soho within post-war British cinema. Drawing upon historical, cultural and urban studies of the area, this book explores twelve films and theatrically released documentaries from a filmography of over o...
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    47,16 €

  • The Celluloid Atlantic
    Saverio Giovacchini
    Offers a fresh look at American and Italian cinema in the postwar period.The Celluloid Atlantic changes the way we look at American and Italian cinema in the postwar period. In the thirty years following World War II, American and Italian film industries came to be an integrated, transnational unit rather than two separate, nation-based entities. Written in jargon-free prose an...
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    166,68 €

  • Spectacle of the Everyday
    Isolde Caldwell
    Spectacle of the Everyday: The Aesthetics of the Ordinary in Documentary Film delves into the fascinating world of non-fiction cinema, exploring how filmmakers transform the mundane into captivating narratives. This book unveils the artistry behind capturing reality, revealing how seemingly ordinary moments can be elevated to the level of spectacle through careful cinematic cra...
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    24,63 €

  • Hollywood on the Tiber
    Gene Lerner / Hank Kaufman
    Hollywood on the Tiber is a dazzling blend of the epic and intimate featuring a glittering cast of screen gods and goddesses. This vibrant chronicle recounts how Hank Kaufman and Gene Lerner became unsung movers and shakers of a unique and unrepeatable era: the rise of Rome as the center of Europe’s film industry in the 1950s and ’60s.Kaufman and Lerner, partners in both life a...
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    33,18 €

  • Hollywood on the Tiber
    Gene Lerner / Hank Kaufman
    Hollywood on the Tiber is a dazzling blend of the epic and intimate featuring a glittering cast of screen gods and goddesses. This vibrant chronicle recounts how Hank Kaufman and Gene Lerner became unsung movers and shakers of a unique and unrepeatable era: the rise of Rome as the center of Europe’s film industry in the 1950s and ’60s.Kaufman and Lerner, partners in both life a...
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    33,24 €

  • From Havana to Hollywood
    Philip Kaisary
    Centers Cuban cinema to explore how films produced in Havana or Hollywood differently represent Black resistance to slavery.From Havana to Hollywood examines the presence or absence of Black resistance to slavery in feature films produced in either Havana or Hollywood-including Gillo Pontecorvo’s Burn!, neglected masterpieces by Cuban auteurs Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Sergio Gir...
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    44,51 €

  • Fame Amid the Ruins
    Stephen Gundle
    Italian cinema gave rise to a number of the best-known films of the postwar years, from Rome Open City to Bicycle Thieves. Although some neorealist film-makers would have preferred to abolish stars altogether, the public adored them and producers needed their help in relaunching the national film industry. This book explores the many conflicts that arose in Italy between 1945 a...
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    46,58 €

  • Carnivalizing Reconciliation
    Hanna Teichler
    Transitional justice and national inquiries may be the most established means for coming to terms with traumatic legacies, but it is in the more subtle social and cultural processes of 'memory work' that the pitfalls and promises of reconciliation are laid bare. This book analyzes, within the realms of literature and film, recent Australian and Canadian attempts to reconcile wi...
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    47,10 €

  • Overhearing Film Music
    John Caps
    Three generations of famous movie soundtrack composers reveal the secrets of their art and success.Beginning with a quick history of film scoring and then taking the reader backstage to interview a dozen major screen composers, Overhearing Film Music represents three generations of movie soundtrack music. Ranging from groundbreaking composers who scored classic 1940s melodramas...
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    166,62 €

  • Deanna Durbin
    Alice Lorence
    A photographic essay, for serious students of operella and operetta, on the motion picture career of the Classical soprano Deanna Durbin covering each of her delightful musical films from 1936 to 1948. New Revised Edition. Copyright 2025. ...
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    20,05 €

  • Disney’s Live-Action Movie Bombs, 1979-2019
    Tyler Mattis
    This book explores the history of Disney’s biggest live-action movie failures from the late 1970s to the late 2010s. That stretch of time was a transformative period in which the company made many financial gains but gradually lost its identity, which had largely been synonymous with founder Walt Disney. The chapters explain why each movie was made, the casting process, prod...
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    58,61 €

  • You Squashed My Pea! A Brit’s Take on War, Stalkers and Other Fun Movie Stuff
    Dave Franklin
    Exploding heads. A bunch of pygmies in blackface firing arrows at a herd of rampaging elephants. The devil’s helpers innocuously serving up choccy mousse. Geriatric commandos. A pickaxe being driven through a tattooed female chest. Malcolm McDowell in swastika-adorned underpants. Malcolm McDowell raping a bride. Malcolm McDowell clapping with glee as heads are sliced off. Gee, ...
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    16,21 €

  • Under the Mistletoe
    Liz W Faber
    When you think of holiday romance in popular culture, you probably imagine the formulaic made-for-TV movies we all love to watch: a career gal moves from the big city to a small town, where she finds the love of her life and the true meaning of Christmas. Yet, as with so much of the romance genre, our favorite holiday movies, books, TV episodes, and plays are so much richer ...
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    71,81 €