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No Man an Island: The Cinema of Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Second EditionTaiwan is a peculiar place resulting in a peculiar cinema, with Hou Hsiao-hsien being its most remarkable product. Hou's signature long and static shots almost invite critics to give auteurist readings of his films, often privileging the analysis of cinematic techniques at the expense...
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Ira: Science Fair WinnerIra Flatow's humorous semi-autobiographical children's book about his science fair team that learns the importance of cooperation, resilience, passion, drive and luck-all traits that true scientists possess, inspires the scientists inside all of us Before Ira Flatow became an award-winning science corespondent, he was...
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On Location In Blairstown: The Making of Friday the 13thOn 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...
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The Hawaii Movie and Television Book: Celebrating 100 Years of Film Production Throughout the Hawaiian IslandsThe Hawaii Movie and Television Book documents, with production information and critical commentary, the Hollywood films and television shows made in Hawaii since 1995 to the present while spotlighting significant film achievements of the past. It also covers television and the iconic fictional island...
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Ju-On: The GrudgeTakashi Shimizu's Ju-on franchise was a principal instigator in the rise of contemporary Japanese horror and its international popularity at the turn of the millennium. Following the success of Hideo Nakata's Ringu (1998), the first cinematic release of Ju-on: The Grudge in 2002 crystallized...
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Dragon at the Edge of a Flat World: Portraits and Revelations"These are stories to cherish, as brilliant and charming as the writer himself."--Olivia Laing "The sensibility of a magician, a trickster's dark humor, and a formidable musical and literary erudition."--The New York Times Joseph Keckler's signatures are his magnificent three-plus-octave operatic voice and the...
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Mizoguchi and JapanFor a majority of filmgoers, the names most usually associated with classic Japanese cinema are those of Kurosawa and Ozu. Yet during the early 1950s, at the same time that Kurosawa was becoming known to the public through the release of classics like Rashomon...
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Writing and Selling Thriller ScreenplaysThe lowdown on not only getting a thriller feature script on the page, but also getting it in front of producers and investorsFrom premise to resolution, this book guides writers through the craft of thriller writing, citing classic thrillers such as Psycho, The Shining,...
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Angry Alan & Fucked: Two Plays'Looking out over the country, this country, where I was born and raised, I wonder what's going to become of us. Because this can't be the future, can it? Everyone just... changing the rules?' Roger thinks the world's gone mad. He hates his job,...
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Great Showdowns: The RevengeThey're back - with a grudge to settle Following the bestselling first and second volumes, here's an all-new collection of artist Scott C's strangely good- natured confrontations between his favorite movie characters. These memorable moments of melee deserve to be celebrated -- once more,...
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Dada, Surrealism, and the Cinematic EffectThis book deals with the early intellectual reception of the cinema and the manner in which art theorists, philosophers, cultural theorists, and especially artists of the first decades of the twentieth century responded to its advent. While the idea persists that early writers on...
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Tarantino: A RetrospectiveCelebrate the 25th Anniversary of Reservoir Dogs by diving into the brilliant, twisted mind of Quentin Tarantino and discover the artistic process of an Oscar-winning legend. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1963, Quentin Tarantino spent many Saturday evenings during his childhood accompanying his mother...
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Hairpins and Dead Ends: The Perilous Journeys of 25 Actresses Through Early HollywoodYou survived Michael G. Ankerich's Dangerous Curves 'atop Hollywood Heels. Now take a hair-raising roller coaster ride through the intimate lives of 25 beautiful, ambitious serial queens, slapstick vamps, bathing beauties, and Western heroines.The dark side of Tinseltown dope rings, whorehouses, gin joints, and...
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Sesame Street, Palestine: Taking Sesame Street to the children of Palestine: Daoud Kuttab's personal storyBig Birds are rare in Palestine. Daoud Kuttab knows. The ups and downs of producing a world-famous children's program quickly escalated into more than just teaching Elmo to speak Arabic like the new Palestinian characters, Kareem and Hanin. The executive producer of the Palestinian...
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Hitler and the Nazi Cult of Film and FameIn Nazi Germany, the cult of celebrity was the embodiment of Hitler's style of cultural governance. Hitler's rise to power owed much to the creation of his own celebrity, and the country's greatest stars, whether they were actors, writers, or musicians, could be one...
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Soap! the Inside Story of the Sitcom That Broke All the RulesFrom its tumultuous beginnings in 1977 to its end by firing squad - on screen and off - Soap was as passionate and controversial as the times in which it was made. During its four-year run, it tackled sex, death, depression and infidelity, all...
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Lucky Stars: Janet Gaynor and Charles FarrellFrom their first iconic pairing in 7th Heaven (1927) and in eleven films that followed, Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell created an unparalleled cinematic romance. Their partnership was so utterly complete that in the minds and hearts of their adoring public, they were as...
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Crash Into Me: The World of RoswellA new spin on the concept of teen alienation. Roswell is an intense, intelligent drama inviting the question: what if aliens survived the famous U.F.O. crash of 1947? Based on the popular book series Roswell High by Melinda Metz, the show explores the lives...
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Pittsburgh's Golden Age of RadioPittsburgh is the birthplace of radio, the location of many of radio's first and most influential stations and broadcast personalities, and a key market for the development of new formats. Pittsburghers' reaction to the music they heard on the radio helped to break records...
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Peter Pan: A PlayPeter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up is J. M. Barrie's most famous work. It tells the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous yet innocent little boy who can fly, and has many adventures on the island of Neverland that is inhabited...
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