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1 2 >>>     sort list by title | author Monty Python's Flying Circus, Complete and Annotated: All the Bits Monty Python Every script, every episode of the innovative, hilarious, and absurd Monty Python's Flying Circus, one of the most influential television series of all time, is include here, plus hundreds of annotations, behind-the-scenes stories, interviews, and more, Every Night the Trees Disappear Werner Herzog and the Making of Heart of Glass Alan Greenberg Not since Lillian Ross's classic 1950 book Picture has an American writer given such a close, firsthand, book-length account of how a director makes a movie. But Every Night the Trees Disappear is not a conventional, journalistic account... The Anatomy of Harpo Marx Wayne Koestenbaum The Anatomy of Harpo Marx is a luxuriant, detailed play-by-play account of Harpo Marx's physical movements as captured on screen. Wayne Koestenbaum guides us through the thirteen Marx Brothers films, from The Cocoanuts in 1929 to Love Happy in 1950... Charlie Chan The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History Yunte Huang Shortlisted for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Book: "An ingenious and absorbing book. . . . It will permanently change the way we tell this troubled yet gripping... Role Models John Waters Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich—and happily horrify—readers everywhere. Role Models is, in fact, a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite... The Quay Brothers Into a Metaphysical Playroom Suzanne Buchan This work is the first thorough analysis of the creative oeuvre of the Quay Brothers. Known for their animation shorts that rely on puppetry, miniatures, and stop-motion techniques, their fiercely idiosyncratic films are fertile fields for Suzanne... Now Write! Screenwriting Screenwriting Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers Sherry Ellis, Laurie Lamson An essential handbook featuring never-before-published writing exercises from the acclaimed screenwriters of Raging Bull, Ali, Terminator 2, Fame, Groundhog Day, Cape Fear, "Lost", "True Blood", "The Shield", and many other hit films and television... Masters of Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock Bill Krohn Alfred Hitchcock (UK, 1899-1980) is undeniably the world's most famous film director. His name has become synonymous with the cinema, and each new generation takes the same pleasure in rediscovering his films, which are now treasures of our artistic... 100 American Independent Films Jason Wood An increasingly pervasive influence on contemporary European cinema and mainstream Hollywood, American independent films have frequently provided the most experimental and distinctive voices in US cinema. A whole generation of innovative and... Life As We Show It Writing On Film Brian Pera, Masha Tupitsyn Writings about the influence of film on the cultural and individual imagination San Francisco Noir The City in Film Noir from 1940 to the Present Nathaniel Rich All cities have their secrets, but none are so dark as San Francisco's, the city that Ambrose Bierce famously described as "a point upon a map of fog." With its reputation as a shadowy land of easy vice and hard virtue, San Francisco provided the... A Panorama of American Film Noir (1941-1953) Raymond Borde, Etienne Chaumeton When it appeared in France in 1955, A Panorama of American Film Noir was the first book ever on the genre. Now this classic is at last available in English translation. This clairvoyant study of Hollywood film noir is "a 'benchmark' for all later... Footsteps in the Fog Alfred Hitchcock's San Francisco Jeff Kraft, Aaron Leventhal A celebration of the San Francisco films of Alfred Hitchcock, this book examines the master director's familiarity with Northern California and how it greatly influenced his decision to use the Bay Area location in several of his landmark motion... The Shadow and its Shadow Surrealist Writings on the Cinema Paul Hammond Here is a classic collection of writings by the Surrealists on their mad love of moviegoing. Forty-odd theoretical, polemical, and poetical essays document Surrealism's scandalous and nonreductive take on film. The essayists include such names as... 1 2 >>>