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Celebrate Middle-earth, LOTR, The Hobbit, The Rings of Power, and all things Tolkien with an adventure-heavy book filled with thrilling things to do and experiences every fantasy lover will rejoice in. The fantastic realms created by J. R. R. Tolkien...

The inside story of the U.S.-Chinese superpower conflict playing out behind the scenes of today's movie industry, from the leading media scholar. China surpassed North America to become the world 's largest movie market in 2020. Formerly the focus of...

If a person could travel eternally through space and time, how would this power affect him? Doctor Who Psychology explores this question through an analysis of the longest-running sci-fi TV series of all time. This fascinating in-depth academic study,...

Siegfried Kracauer has been misunderstood as a naive realist, appreciated as an astute critic of early German film, and noticed as the interesting exile who exchanged letters with Erwin Panofsky. But he is most widely thought of as the odd uncle of famed...

From the very beginning, filmmakers have struggled to free themselves from censorship and manipulation by special-interest groups, and this struggle is clearly evident in the history of drug films. Cocaine Fiends and Reefer Madness is an exhaustive...

"Monster in the closet" is a history of the horrors film that explores the genre's relationship to the social and cultural history of homosexuality in America. Drawing on a wide variety of films and primary source materials including censorship files,...

"At a time when criticsare expected to be publicists, and anything famous is 'classic' or 'iconic,'Carlos Acevedo has managed to hold the line. The Devil Inside is asharp, hard-nosed aesthetic and cultural investigation into what everybody wasthrowing up...

This is the tale of how Hollywood, inspired by the success of Easy Rider, sold a cycle of films as the new dirty real. Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Monte Hellman, Jack Nicholson, Kris Kristofferson and Sam Peckinpah, among others, drew on a nostalgia for...

From Amazing Ameziane, the creator of Quentin by Tarantino and Muhammad Ali, comes volume 2 of his Cine Trilogy of graphic novels. Based on the lives and films of acclaimed cinema icons, this book focuses on the legendary Francis Ford Coppola of The...

In 1978, an obscure animated TV show produced by an upstart Toronto firm caught the eye of the world's hottest filmmaker, George Lucas.He was looking for someone to produce an animated short for a CBS Star Wars television special. The ensuing...

A cultural history of the enduring relationship between film spectatorship and intoxicating substancesMovies under the Influence charts the entangled histories of moviegoing and mind-altering substances from early cinema through the psychedelic 1970s...

The second of two official companion books for the Zack Snyder-directed Netflix films Rebel Moon taking an exclusive in-depth look at the heroes and villains, monsters and animals.When a peaceful colony on the edge of the known universe finds itself...

The first of two official companion books for the Zack Snyder-directed Netflix films Rebel Moon taking an exclusive in-depth look at the worlds and technology, ships and armament.When a peaceful colony on the edge of the known universe finds itself...

A culmination of nearly six decades of writing from the mind of iconoclastic film, literary, and music critic Jonathan Rosenbaum.Looking back at his more than 50 years of writing, where many flights of fancy and fantasy prove to suggest certain duties as...

There is magic in the short form a style that has evolved to create an entirely new universe of stories for us to uncover. Short form captivates the world through narratives, documentary shorts, web series, music videos, social media, and more.In The...

Philip K. Dick struggled to make a living during his lifetime, but his work has since served as a deep seam of ideas to be mined by filmmakers such as Ridley Scott, Paul Verhoeven, Steven Spielberg, John Woo and Richard Linklater, resulting in some of...

The Art and Soul of Dune II captures the breathtaking behind-the scenes journey behind the making of Dune: Part Two, director Denis Villeneuve's sequel to his six-time Oscar-winning film adaptation of author Frank Herbert's science fiction classic...

Fleabag... The Queen's Gambit... Peaky Blinders... Happy Valley... All phenomenally popular shows, whose creators had to work hard to hone their pitches and get their ideas noticed. And even harder to deliver on those ideas. From the initial...

"Grease, Tell Me More, Tell Me More is a fabulous rockin' and rollin' origin story with every juicy inspiration that went into creating it. . . .A must read for all Grease fans." -Didi Conn, Grease's "Frenchy" What started as an amateur play with music...

Accidental Geniusfeatures intimate and laugh-out-loud commentary from The Room cast and crew, including interviews from its star Greg Sestero.What a story indeed! A rollicking recollection of experiences from the legendary "so bad it's good" film. This...

How the creative use of pop music in film-think Saturday Night Fever or Apocalypse Now-has shaped and shifted music history since the 1960s Quick: What movie do you think of when you hear "The Sounds of Silence"? Better yet, what song comes to mind when...

THIS IS THE GUIDE TO CLASSIC SUPERHERO MOVIES YOU NEVER KNEW YOU NEEDED.If you mention the word 'superhero' these days, the mind is immediately bombarded by visions from the MCU, DCU and all the numerous phases, extended TV series and...

SPACE. THE FINAL FRONTIER. THESE WERE ALMOST THE VOYAGES OF THE STARSHIP ENTERPRISE.We think we know the history of Star Trek. Born at the height of 1960s popular culture, the five-year mission of Captain James T. Kirk and his crew faced early...

Cast Mates is a group biography of Australian acting giants across the ages.Australia has a long cinema history - starting with the world's first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, made in Melbourne and released in 1906. Today, much of...

The story of Star Trek as told by the people who know it best: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley and the cast and crew!This lavishly illustrated oral history of the Star Trek phenomenon covers the exploits of the original crew across three...

Packed with exclusive content, this fully illustrated tome is a comprehensive behind-the-scenes look at the creative process of bringing a god and his worlds to life on the big screen.Follow the film's complete artistic evolution, from casting...

A gorgeous puzzle book that will entertain and terrify Aliens fans of all ages.14 original illustrations present familiar characters in new and horrifying situations - from colonists hiding in egg chambers to marines hunting for face-huggers, this...

This lavish hardback book presents the full story of the making of this remarkable film.Incredible concept art and behind-the-scenes photography sheds new light on how Total Recall was developed from a Philip K Dick short story to a full-blown Hollywood...

Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, with this indispensable companion to the epic conclusion to the original Star Wars trilogy.An informative look at how Star Wars: Return of the Jedi came together, from the...

The "f**k" count is just over sixty. The images are screenshots. The metal is mostly nu. And the grant money's gone. From the author of The Malevolent Volume and National Book Awardwinning Indecency comes a gory new mutation in the shape of nonfiction...

Crosby, Holiday, Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Garland, and Streisand were the major interpreters of the American songbook, and this is the interlocking story of their lives and careers. Here is the epic tale of how these artists dominated American popular music...

Go behind the scenes with the producer of Father of the Bride to learn all the skills necessary to be a top Hollywood producerAs former co-president of Dolly Parton's production company, Sandollar, and as a successful independent producer, Carol Baum is...

The official art book for the movie Iron Man, the 1st title reissue of the 24-book Marvel Studios The Infinity Saga series published as a resized matching set.Packed with exclusive content, this fully illustrated tome treats fans to a comprehensive,...

The official art book for the movie Iron Man 2, the 2nd title reissue of the 24-book Marvel Studios The Infinity Saga series published as a resized matching set.The 2nd of the 24 Marvel Cinematic Universe Infinity Saga film titles being published as a...

Straight from the cutting room floor of The Nacelle Company's hit documentary series on The History Channel comes The Center Seat companion book, full of content that almost made it in! From the complete and uncut Leonard Nimoy interview that is widely...

How a legendary woman from classical antiquity has come to embody the threat of transcendent beauty in movies and TV.Helen of Troy in Hollywood examines the figure of the mythic Helen in film and television, showing how storytellers from different...

Beware the buried skull underfoot and watch out for children with fur on their backs...Blood on Satan's Claw is widely regarded as part of the 'unholy trinity' of cult classics which gave birth to the film genre that would become known as folk horror...

Tiddles is a suave, carefree kitty cat whose only pleasures in life are eating mice, wooing the ladies, and being generally apathetic toward his owner, Jake. But when a toxic spill occurs outside of town, Tiddles finds himself savagely attacked by a...

Official retrospective hardback book telling the story of the making of Conan The Barbarian, including interviews with cast and crew and featuring behind-the-scenes photography from the shoot.In 1982, Robert E. Howard's iconic literary...

This unique collection focuses on the work of legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. Written in the wake of the centenary of Bergman's birth in 2018, the volume aims to combine new approaches to Bergman's films and writings with...

Looney Tunes cartoons, writes celebrated television critic Jaime Weinman, are the high-water mark of American filmed comedy. Surreal, irreverent, philosophical, and riotously funny, they have maintained their power over audiences for generations and...

Through the lens of horror - from Halloween to Hereditary - queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences.Horror movies hold a complicated space in the hearts of the queer community:...

Are you obsessed with John Carpenter's iconic music for the Halloween series? Do you thrill to the unforgettable stabs of the Psycho score, or the pounding synth of Goblin's soundtrack to Suspiria? Do you find yourself being pulled into...

How did a low-budget British movie about Londoners battling zombies in a pub become a beloved global pop culture phenomenon?You've Got Red on You, the horror-comedy whose fan base continues to grow and grow. The book reveals how a group of friends...

In Stepford Daughters, Johanna Isaacson explores an emerging wave of horror films that get why class horror and gender horror must be understood together.In doing so, Isaacson makes the case that this often-maligned genre is in fact a place where...

Nicholas Ray was cinema. The legendary director of such classic films as Rebel Without a Cause was an innovative force who dramatically changed the Hollywood landscape. He was also Nicca Ray's dad, Nick. After he disappeared from her life in...

This book features rare, once-thought-lost photos of the 1968 first ascent of the California Route on Cerro Fitz Roy, the third ascent of the mountain. With accompanying retrospective essays. Climbing Fitz Roy,1968, presents photo documentation of the...