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A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès VardaOver the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any female filmmaker, Agnès Varda (1928-2019) wrote and directed some of the most acclaimed films of her era, from her tour de force?Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), a classic of modernist cinema, to...
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Why Not?: Lessons on Comedy, Courage, and ChutzpahFrom master comedian Mark Schiff, a long-time touring partner of Jerry Seinfeld, comes a hilarious account of decades of foolery with comedy and acting legends and how he honed his mensch skills in all of life's arenas. Pursuing a career in comedy has always...
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Why Not?: Lessons on Comedy, Courage, and ChutzpahFrom master comedian Mark Schiff, a long-time touring partner of Jerry Seinfeld, comes a hilarious account of decades of foolery with comedy and acting legends and how he honed his mensch skills in all of life's arenas. Pursuing a career in comedy has always...
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What Film Is Good for: On the Values of SpectatorshipFor well over a century, going to the movies has been a favorite pastime for billions across the globe. But is film actually good for anything? This volume brings together thirty-six scholars, critics, and filmmakers in search of an answer. Their responses range from...
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Unshot Columbo: Cracking the Cases That Never Got FilmedCan't get your fill of Columbo? Then sink your teeth into 19 adventures that the show almost filmed.From the author of the best-selling Shooting Columbo comes this unique, behind-the-scenes peek at the unmaking of episodes that were shot down-and why.Discover the early 1970s tales...
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Universal Monsters: The Official Coloring BookThe creator of best-selling coloring book series The Beauty of Horror, Alan Robert, brings the iconic creatures of the Universal Classic Monsters films to life in this new coloring book for adults. Add your own artistic touch to Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, the Mummy, and...
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Twilight Zone Reflections: An Introduction to the Philosophical ImaginationTwilight Zone Reflections is the first book of its kind to explore the entirety of The Twilight Zone (1959-1964) as a series. It acts as both an introduction to the field of philosophy and as a complete guide to the philosophical issues illustrated throughout...
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Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual StyleShadows. Smoke. Dark alleys. Rain-slicked city streets. These are iconic elements of film noir visual style. Long after its 1940s heyday, noir hallmarks continue to appear in a variety of new media forms and styles. What has made the noir aesthetic at once enduring...
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The Wiggles: Emma's Ballet Alphabet Book and GiftAuthor: The WigglesPublisher: Five Mile PressPublished: 09/25/2020Pages: 32Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9781922385345Audience: Baby-PreschoolAbout the AuthorThe Wiggles is the world's favorite children's entertainment group. Broadcast on ABC KIDS daily with approximately 1 million views each week. 800 million views on YouTube and new special events coming....
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The Story Orchestra: A Midsummer Night's DreamDiscover the spellbinding magic of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in this musical reimagining of Mendelssohn's most famous suites - push the button in each scene to hear the vivid sound of an orchestra playing from Mendelssohn's score. This story takes us to Athens...
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The Players' Advice to HamletOutlining a classical 'rhetorical' system, this is the first serious overview of how European actors c.1550-1800 thought about acting.Author: David WilesPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 02/02/2023Pages: 382Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79dISBN: 9781108712811This title is not returnable
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The Playboy of the Western World--A New Version: A Critical EditionBisi Adigun and Roddy Doyle's centenary adaption of J. M. Synge's classic The Playboy of the Western World had a sold-out run when it was produced at Dublin's Abbey Theatre in 2007 and was brought back by popular demand in 2008. The new version...
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The Marx Brothers Miscellany - A Subjective Appreciation of the World's Greatest Comedy TeamThe Marx Brothers are widely regarded as the 20th century's greatest comedy team, a tight knit performing unit who reached their fans through a dozen films, three Broadway shows, a radio program, and a top-flight vaudeville act, as well the brothers' own separate accomplishments...
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The Magic Eye: The Cinema of Stanley KubrickIn 1969, Stanley Kubrick suppressed a book about his films because it dared to touch on their flaws. Kubrick, fresh from the Oscar-winning success of 2001: A Space Odyssey, promised to fight "tooth and nail" to prevent The Magic Eye: The Cinema of Stanley...
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The Legend of Mad MaxThe Complete Story from Mad Max to Furiosa.The Legend of Mad Max is the ultimate guide to the high octane post-apocalyptic film series, directed by visionary filmmaker George Miller.This comprehensive history delves into the making of each film, exploring the unique vision and groundbreaking...
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The First Bright ThingIf you knew how dark tomorrow would be, what would you do with today?"This is the magic circus book that I have been looking for all my life."--Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author of Every Heart A Doorway Ringmaster -- Rin, to those...
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The Entremés for Performance: Translations of One-Act Plays from Golden Age SpainThis bilingual anthology brings together a collection of Spanish entremeses, the comic interludes that were performed between the acts of a comedia. Penned by authors such as Lope de Rueda, Cervantes, Calderón, Quevedo, and Quiñones de Benavente, many of these plays appear here for...
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The Bride of Frankenstein - Universal Filmscripts Series, Classic Horror Films - Volume 2 (hardback)From the vaults of the Ackerman Archives comes... The Bride of Frankenstein. This book contains: Production background.Biography notes on the cast & crew.The complete shooting script. Rare photographs. Behind the scenes photos. Foreword by Forrest J. Ackerman. Part of the MagicImage Filmbooks series, from...
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Theatre in Market EconomiesAuthor: Michael McKinniePublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 03/09/2023Pages: 213Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45dISBN: 9781009346429
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The Anatomy of a Murder Trilogy: A Classic Trial, Book, and FilmIn the early morning of July 31, 1952, a murder occurred in a dingy bar in a small resort town in the uppermost part of northern Michigan. The trial that followed, in which young army lieutenant Coleman Peterson was tried for murdering the bar...
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