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EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
American Horror Film Description: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-211) and index. Filmography: p. 196-206.... Read More about the "American Horror Film" on the The Nile Book Store Website

EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Animation And America Description: In this work, Paul Wells examines the socio-political context of animation in American history and culture. The range of material covered includes the pioneering work that preceded Disney and the subversive contemporary animation of The Simpsons, Toy Story and Liquid TV.... Read More about the "Animation And America" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Allworth Press
Animation: The Whole Story Description: Professional animator Howard Beckerman has drawn them all: Popeye, Heckle&Jeckle, even Mickey Mouse. In Animation, he offers a road map to the complex art of making an animated feature. Vivid sketches, screen shots, and step-by-step illustrations show how to make a drawing come to life, create storyboards, use form and color, develop a soundtrack, edit, and more. This new edition is also thoroughly updated to reflect the latest trends surrounding digital technology. Animation provides artists and aspiring filmmakers with everything they need to carve their niche in today`s quickly evolving animation industry.... Read More about the "Animation: The Whole Story" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Plexus Publishing
Brad Pitt Description: The full story of Brad Pitt`s rise to fame, including early TV and film roles the star might prefer to forget. Revised and updated.... Read More about the "Brad Pitt" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Watson Guptill Publ
Building A Home Movie Studio And Getting Your Films Online Description: The first book to provide expert, how-to help for building a home studio and producing films for the Internet. Includes dozens of tested tips, online appendices, and real-life case examples of these success techniques in action.... Read More about the "Building A Home Movie Studio And Getting Your Films Online" on the The Nile Book Store Website

THE PERSEUS BOOKS GROUP
Bullets Over Hollywood Description: Because of the Medium`s Power to mythologize them and their exploitsand because of the industry`s moneymaking potentialAmerica`s gangsters have themselves always had a fascination with the movies and the movie business. Bank robber John Dillinger, for example, was an inveterate picturegoer between bank jobs, one who, not surprisingly, favored gangster movies. In fact, his undoing came when he was shot to death outside Chicago`s Biograph theatre shortly after seeing Manhattan Melodrama, a gangster picture starring the actor Dillinger had hoped would one day play him on the screenClark Gable. Benjamin Bugsy Siegel, the nattily attired mobster who put Las Vegas on the map and inspired the character of Moe Green in The Godfather, became something of a star himself while serving as point man for the mob`s West Coast operations in the 1930s. And then there was Mafia kingfish Charles Lucky Luciano, who felt his story was destined for the movies, and who, perhaps in an effort to make sure he had creative control, spear-headed the mob`s failed efforts in the early thirties to take over the industry`s unions and control the movie business. The gangster, like the gunslinger, is a classic American characterand the gangster movie, like the Western, is one of the American cinema`s enduring film genres. From Scarface to White Heat, from The Godfather to The Usual Suspects, from Once Upon a Time in America to Road to Perdition, gangland on the screen remains as popular as ever. In Bullets over Hollywood, film scholar John McCarty traces the history of mob flicks and reveals why the films are so beloved by Americans. As McCarty demonstrates, the themes, characters, landscapes, storiestheoverall iconographyof the gangster genre have proven resilient enough to be updated, reshaped, and expanded upon to connect with even today`s young audiences. Packed with fascinating behind-the-scenes anecdotes and information about real-life hoods and their cinematic alter egos, insightf... Read More about the "Bullets Over Hollywood" on the The Nile Book Store Website

WALLFLOWER PRESS
Cinema Of Mike Leigh Description: A keen observer of manners and mores, Mike Leigh has been hailed as a celebrator of ordinary people, yet it wasn`t until relatively recently that audiences have been able to appreciate the full body of his work. In discussing all his films from Bleak Moments and High Hopes through Naked, the Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies and Topsy Turvy, to All or Nothing, Garry Watson considers this claim, examining the films`influence and their effect. At the same time, he takes on the very concepts of the real and the ordinary in regard to Leigh`s work, challenging much perceived thinking among critics and moviegoers alike. To what category does the director`s work really belong? Is it British Realism? The avant garde? Through careful textual detail and wider social and literary comparison with the works of Charles Dickens and T. S. Eliot, he argues ultimately for the aritistic and cultural significance of Leigh`s work as one of Britian`s most respected filmmakers.... Read More about the "Cinema Of Mike Leigh" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Phaidon Press Limited
Cinema Today Description: Edward Buscombe writes a comprehensive survey of world cinema since 1970 that features in-depth case studies, over 700 images and a comprehensive directors` bibliography, chronology and index. This invaluable tome includes over 1, 000 film references.... Read More about the "Cinema Today" on the The Nile Book Store Website

CAP
Directed By Dorothy Arzner Description: Includes bibliographical references and index. Filmography: p. 197-204.... Read More about the "Directed By Dorothy Arzner" on the The Nile Book Store Website

SANTA MONICA PRESS, US
Dogme Uncut Description: In 1995, Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark) and three fellow Danish directors swore allegiance to a vow of chastity aimed at jolting filmmakers around the world who had become stuck in the mire of slick, emotionally manipulative, high-concept, and bombastic movie productions. They named their philosophy Dogme95, and its tenets demanded a return to the basic core of filmmaking: the use of natural lighting and a hand-held camera, and the refusal to use special effects, a soundtrack of any kind (only natural sounds found on location were acceptable), and movie sets (all shooting was to take place on location). The list of films and filmmakers to come out of the Dogme movement reads like a who`s who of art-house cinema from the late-1990s and early-2000s: the aforementioned Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg (The Celebration), Harmony Korine (Julien Donkey-Boy), Lone Scherfig (Italian for Beginners), and Susanne Bier (Open Hearts) among many others. Dogme Uncut is written by film journalist and historian Jack Stevenson, who, while living in Demark for the past decade, has had a true insider`s view of the Dogme movementfrom its conception to its early triumphs to its current incarnation. With a good deal of humor and fascinating insights, Stevenson brings a mixture of history, analysis, and reportage to bear on the eight-year-old film movement, examining the subject from multiple... Read More about the "Dogme Uncut" on the The Nile Book Store Website

NICK HERN BOOKS
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (screenplay) Description: The official tie-in Shooting Script of the wonderfully eccentric new movie by the Oscar-nominated author of `Adaptation` and `Being John Malkovich` - starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet. UK Release: April 2004.... Read More about the "Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (screenplay)" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Seal Press
Film Fatales Independent Women Directors Description: These interviews with filmmakers represent a range of directorial styles as well as a range of women: women of color as well as white women, lesbians as well as heterosexual, younger and older women, women of various classes, and established directors as well as those new to the craft. Though the majority of filmmakers are American, there are also directors from Central America, Canada, the UK, Europe, the Caribbean, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknewsCom)... Read More about the "Film Fatales Independent Women Directors" on the The Nile Book Store Website

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