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sort list by title | publication date 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... 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... Pull My Daisy The Film and Documentary Material Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie The seminal and rare 1958 film, on PAL & NTSC DVD, in a presentation box with two booklets: one of Jack Kerouac's story and lyrics, and one of photographs taken on the set. 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 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... 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... 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, The Conversations Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film Michael Ondaatje The Conversations is a treasure, essential for any lover or student of film, and a rare, intimate glimpse into the worlds of two accomplished artists who share a great passion for film and storytelling, and whose knowledge and love of the crafts of... Life As We Show It Writing On Film Brian Pera, Masha Tupitsyn Writings about the influence of film on the cultural and individual imagination New Queer Cinema The Director's Cut B. Ruby Rich The New Queer Cinema (NQC) movement in film and video was intensely political and aesthetically innovative, made possible by the debut of the camcorder, and driven initially by outrage over the unchecked spread of AIDS... 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... 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...