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Hammer Complete The Films, the Personnel, the Company, A-Z Howard Maxford Think you know everything there is to know about Hammer Films, the fabled Studio that Dripped Blood? The lowdown on all the imperishable Technicolor classics of horror? What about the company's less blood-curdling back catalog? What about the musicals, comedies... Format: Hardback - Released: 24/09/2017 
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Crowdsourcing for Filmmakers Indie Film and the Power of the Crowd Richard (Screenwriter, Producer and Founder & CEO of Stage 32 (stage32.com)) Botto Whether you're a producer, screenwriter, filmmaker, or other creative, you probably have a project that needs constant exposure, or a product to promote. But how do you rise above the noise? In Crowdsourcing for Filmmakers: Indie Film and the Power... Format: Paperback - Released: 22/09/2017
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Crowdsourcing for Filmmakers Indie Film and the Power of the Crowd Richard (Screenwriter, Producer and Founder & CEO of Stage 32 (stage32.com)) Botto Whether you're a producer, screenwriter, filmmaker, or other creative, you probably have a project that needs constant exposure, or a product to promote. But how do you rise above the noise? In Crowdsourcing for Filmmakers: Indie Film and the Power... Format: Hardback - Released: 22/09/2017
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The Routledge Companion to Latin American Cinema Marvin D'Lugo The Routledge Companion to Latin American Cinema is the most comprehensive survey of Latin American cinemas available in a single volume. While highlighting state-of-the-field research, essays also offer readers a cohesive overview of multiple facets of filmmaking in the region,... Format: Hardback - Released: 22/09/2017
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The Dark Crystal the Ultimate Visual History Caseen Gaines Dark Crystal: The Ultimate Visual History is the definitive collection of rare artwork, interviews, and on-set photos from the beloved Jim Henson fantasy classic. Format: Hardback - Released: 22/09/2017
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Spanish Lessons Cinema and Television in Contemporary Spain Paul Julian Smith Spanish Lessons provides an engaging exploration of the nation's visual culture in an era of collapsing genre boundaries, accelerating technological change, and political-economic tumult. Format: Hardback - Released: 19/09/2017
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The Little White Lies Guide to Making Your Own Movie In 39 Steps Little White Lies Whether you're posting a clip on Facebook, making a presentation video, introducing yourself to others online, or just sending out a greeting to friends, today everyone is filmmaker. This book cuts away the jargon to offer a highly accessible, no-fuss... Format: Hardback - Released: 18/09/2017
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Bollywood The Films! The Songs! The Stars! DK Discover historical insights, lesser-known facts, and incredible photography of iconic movies including Mother India, Mughal-e-Azam, Sholay, and Bajirao Mastani with this gorgeous celebration of the world's biggest film industry. Bollywood charts the world of Hindi cinema year-by-year from the pioneering... Format: Hardback - Released: 18/09/2017
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The Short-Fiction Scenario Sergei Eisenstein Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstein direct some of the most important and lasting works of the silent era, including Strike, October, and Battleship Potemkin,... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/09/2017
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On Disney Sergei Eisenstein Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstein direct some of the most important and lasting works of the silent era, including Strike, October, and Battleship Potemkin,... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/09/2017
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Time Within Time The Diaries, 1970-1986 Andrei, Jr. Tarkovsky Tarkovsky for me is the greatest, wrote Ingmar Bergman. Andrey Tarkovsky only made seven films, but all are celebrated for its striking visual images, quietly patient dramatic structures, and visionary symbolism.Time within Time is both a diary and a notebook,... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/09/2017
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David Bowie The Man Who Fell to Earth Paul Duncan Loving the Alien Behind the scenes of Nic Roeg's 1976 sci-fi masterpiece starring David Bowie First advertised as a mind-stretching experience, Nicolas Roeg's 1976 The Man Who Fell to Earth stunned the cinema world. A tour-de-force of science fiction as... Format: Hardback - Released: 15/09/2017
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On the Detective Story Sergei Eisenstein, Jay Leyda Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstein direct some of the most important and lasting works of the silent era, including Strike, October, and Battleship Potemkin,... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/09/2017
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Star Wars Made Easy Christian Blauvelt Don't know your Wookiees from your Wampas? If the Star Wars saga has you stumped, we've got your back. Star Wars Made Easy gives you everything you need to get you around the galaxy. Star Wars is a global phenomenon... Format: Hardback - Released: 07/09/2017
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Religion and Film Cinema and the Re-creation of the World S. Brent Plate Religion and cinema share a capacity for world making, ritualizing, mythologizing, and creating sacred time and space. Through cinematography, mise-en-scene, editing, and other production activities, film takes the world out there and refashions it. Religion achieves similar ends by setting... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/09/2017
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The Princess Bride Talking Book Running Press Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2017, The Princess Bride is one of the most beloved and iconic films of all time. This unique kit, featuring an interactive molded plastic book that plays 15 of the movie's unforgettable quotes, will be... Format: Mixed media product - Released: 26/09/2017
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The French Cinema Book Michael Temple The French Cinema Book offers an innovative and accessible account of the richness and diversity of French film history from the 1890s to the 2010s. This revised, updated and expanded new edition contains contributions from thirty-six leading commentators on French... Format: Hardback - Released: 29/09/2017
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Raindance Writers' Lab Write + Sell the Hot Screenplay Elliot Grove If you're looking for a straightforward, practical, no-nonsense guide to scriptwriting that will hold your hand right the way through the process, read on! The Raindance Writers' Lab guides you through the tools that enable you to execute a strong... Format: Hardback - Released: 30/09/2017
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There's No Place Like Home The Migrant Child in World Cinema Stephanie Hemelryk Donald The Wizard of Oz brought many now-iconic tropes into popular culture: the yellow brick road, ruby slippers and Oz. But this book begins with Dorothy and her legacy as an archetypal touchstone in cinema for the child journeying far from... Format: Hardback - Released: 30/09/2017
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Star Wars Episode 8 The Last Jedi Official Desk Easel 2018 Calendar - Month To View Desk Format Format: Calendar - Released: 01/10/2017
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American Gothic: Six Decades of Classic Horror Cinema Jonathan Rigby A landmark study of the Hollywood horror film from its 19th-century beginnings through to the arrival of Vincent Price as a genre star. This 60-year period encompasses the shadowy nightmares of the silent era, the breakthrough hits in the early... Format: Hardback - Released: 03/10/2017
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Star Wars: A New Hope Official Celebration Special Titan Magazines 1977 saw the release of a space fantasy like no other: Star Wars. With this Celebration Special, go behind the scenes to discover how this timeless classic was created. Format: Hardback - Released: 03/10/2017
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The Routledge Companion to World Cinema Rob (University of Birmigham, UK) Stone The Routledge Companion to World Cinema explores and examines a global range of films and filmmakers, their movements and audiences, comparing their cultural, technological and political dynamics, identifying the impulses that constantly reshape the form and function of the cinemas... Format: Hardback - Released: 04/10/2017
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Movie Geek The Den of Geek Guide to the Movieverse Simon Brew A comprehensive compendium of cult website Den of Geek's most popular articles combined with new material to create the ultimate alternative encyclopedia of film. Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2017
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Sweet & Savage The World Through the Mondo Film Lens Mark Goodall Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2017
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Alien: Augmented Reality Survival Manual Owen Williams Written for new recruits of the US Colonial Marines and to impart knowledge of identification and combat of Xenomorphs, this book lets you study a Xenomorph autopsy, witness an Alien egg hatch in real-time, and see the deadly attacks of... Format: Hardback - Released: 05/10/2017
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The Grip of Film Richard Ayoade Gordy LaSure's alwaystalking about films and how they'd be a shit ton better if only people would pull their asses out of their ears and listen to Gordy LaSure.The voyage of this book can be categorised as an attempt to... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2017
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Our le Mans The Movie the Friendship the Facts Hans Hamer Documents the friendship between Steve McQueen and his Le Mans co-star Siegfried Rauch, including documents and photographs from the film set and Rauch's family album. Format: Hardback - Released: 09/10/2017
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Zombie Theory A Reader Sarah Juliet Lauro Zombies first shuffled across movie screens in 1932 in the low-budget Hollywood film White Zombie and were reimagined as undead flesh-eaters in George A. Romeros The Night of the Living Dead almost four decades later. Today, zombies are omnipresent in... Format: Hardback - Released: 15/10/2017
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Zombie Theory A Reader Sarah Juliet Lauro Zombies first shuffled across movie screens in 1932 in the low-budget Hollywood film White Zombie and were reimagined as undead flesh-eaters in George A. Romeros The Night of the Living Dead almost four decades later. Today, zombies are omnipresent in... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/10/2017
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Classic Movie Fight Scenes 75 Years of Bare Knuckle Brawls, 1914-1989 Gene Freese Both brawls and elaborate martial arts have kept movie audiences on the edges of their seats since cinema began. But the filming of fight scenes has changed significantly through the years - mainly for the safety of the combatants -... Format: Paperback - Released: 24/08/2017
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Divine Work: Japanese Colonial Cinema and its Legacy Kate E. Taylor-Jones By analyzing cinema in terms of Imperialism and Colonialism, Divine Work directly contributes to the understanding of cinema produced during Japan s colonial period and its lingering legacies. Format: Hardback - Released: 24/08/2017
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Homosexuality and Italian Cinema From the Fall of Fascism to the Years of Lead Mauro Giori Besides tracing the evolution of representations through both art and popular films, this book also analyses connections with consumer culture, film criticism and politics. Through archival research and a survey of more than 600 films, the author enriches our understanding... Format: Hardback - Released: 21/08/2017
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When Warners Brought Broadway to Hollywood, 1923-1939 Martin Shingler This book offers a different take on the early history of Warner Bros., the studio renowned for introducing talking pictures and developing the gangster film and backstage musical comedy. The focus here is on the studio's sustained commitment to produce... Format: Hardback - Released: 19/08/2017
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Making Your First Feature Film Lessons I Learned the Hard Way Dominick Bagnato The tools for independent filmmaking are more accessible today than ever. Yet there is much more to successfully creating a film than access to equipment and software. Chronicling the making of his premier feature film, A Convenient Truth (2015), the... Format: Paperback - Released: 17/08/2017
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The Great War and the Moving Image Michael (University of Southampton, UK) Hammond The Great War and the Moving Image focuses upon the Allied war effort on the Western Front and in the Mediterranean. In doing so, the book addresses topics ranging from how carefully selected images projected a positive portrayal of ambulance... Format: Hardback - Released: 15/08/2017
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Cinema Studies The Key Concepts Susan (University of Exeter, UK) Hayward Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts is essential reading for anyone interested in film. Providing accessible coverage of a comprehensive range of genres, movements, theories and production terms, this is a must-have guide to a fascinating area of study and arguably... Format: Hardback - Released: 15/08/2017
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Montage Life, Politics, Cinema Mrinal Sen One of the greatest ambassadors of Indian cinema on the global stage, Mrinal Sen has always seen his life and work as part of the social and political fabric of his time. Considered the enfant terrible of Indian cinema when... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/08/2017
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Cinema Studies The Key Concepts Susan (University of Exeter, UK) Hayward Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts is essential reading for anyone interested in film. Providing accessible coverage of a comprehensive range of genres, movements, theories and production terms, this is a must-have guide to a fascinating area of study and arguably... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/08/2017
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American and Chinese-Language Cinemas Examining Cultural Flows Lisa Funnell Critics frequently describe the influence of America, through Hollywood and other cultural industries, as a form of cultural imperialism. This unidirectional model of interaction does not address, however, the counter-flows of Chinese-language films into the American film market or the... Format: Paperback - Released: 07/08/2017
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Subversive Adaptations Czech Literature on Screen behind the Iron Curtain Petr Bubenicek This book deals with film adaptations of literary works created in Communist Czechoslovakia between 1954 and 1969, such as The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (Zeman 1958), Marketa Lazarova (Vlacil 1967), and The Joke (Jires 1969). Bubenicek treats a historically... Format: Hardback - Released: 06/08/2017
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Saudade in Brazilian Cinema The History of an Emotion on Film Jack A Draper The Brazilian Portuguese idea of saudade is often translated as a powerful relative of nostalgia, which brings together love and grief, a melancholia and a longing focused on a memory, an absence. Saudade in Brazilian Cinema looks specifically at how... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2017
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Female Stars of British Cinema The Women in Question Melanie Williams Female Stars of British Cinema uses case studies of seven female stars whose careers span the 1940s to the present day Jean Kent, Diana Dors, Rita Tushingham, Glenda Jackson, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Lloyd, and Judi Dench to explore how... Format: Electronic book text - Released: 31/07/2017
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Universal Horrors The Studio's Classic Films, 1931-1946 Tom Weaver, John Brunas Revised and updated since its first publication in 1990, this acclaimed critical survey covers the classic chillers produced by Universal Studios during the golden age of hollywood horror, 1931 to 1946. The authors offer a definitive study of the 86... Format: Paperback - Released: 30/07/2017
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Star Wars: A New Hope Official A behind-the-scenes souvenir special devoted to the first Star Wars movie. Featuring in-depth character profiles on Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie, Ben Kenobi, Darth Vader, and many more iconic characters from A New Hope! Format: Hardback - Released: 25/07/2017
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