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  • The Morse Code The Morse Code
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    The Morse Code

    The Morse Code: Decoding the Career of Iconic Lighting Designer Peter Morse explores key developments and evolving techniques, processes, and technology within contemporary theatrical lighting design through the career and impact of US lighting designer...
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  • Oliver Stone
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    Oliver Stone

    Throughout his career Oliver Stone (b. 1946) has broken traditions and challenged audiences with a series of daring, angry, violent, and often confrontational films. Politically charged movies such as Nixon (1995), JFK (1991), and Wall Street (1987), and...
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  • Sofia Coppola Sofia Coppola
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    Sofia Coppola

    Sofia Coppola (b. 1971) was baptized on film. After appearing in The Godfather as an infant, it took twenty-five years for Coppola to take her place behind the camera, helming her own adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides's celebrated novel The Virgin Suicides...
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  • Michael Haneke Michael Haneke
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    Michael Haneke

    Spanning five decades and twenty-four films, director Michael Haneke's career is one of the most significant in the history of European art cinema. However, critical reception has long lagged behind his output. By the time Haneke (b. 1942) emerged...
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  • Lois Weber Lois Weber
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    Lois Weber

    Lois Weber (1879-1939) was one of early Hollywood's most successful screenwriter-directors. A one-time Church Army worker who preached from street corners, Weber began working in the American film industry as an actress around 1908 but quickly...
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  • David Fincher David Fincher
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    David Fincher

    David Fincher (b. 1962) did not go to film school and hates being defined as an auteur. He prefers to see himself as a craftsman, dutifully going about the art and business of making film. Trouble is, it's hard to be self-effacing when you are the...
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  • How to Have Fun at an Amusement Park How to Have Fun at an Amusement Park
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    How to Have Fun at an Amusement Park

    If you want to have maximum fun at an amusement park, then get How to Have Fun at an Amusement Park created by a real-life amusement park enthusiast.Many theme park guides have an overwhelming amount of information. Fortunately, there is a...
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  • THE COMIC ART OF MEL BROOKS THE COMIC ART OF MEL BROOKS
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    THE COMIC ART OF MEL BROOKS

    THE COMIC ART OF MEL BROOKSBy Maurice Yacowar Mel Brooks is a mystery. On the one hand, he is notorious for his wacky public behaviour and for his zany films. On the other, some of his public pronouncements show him to be a very serious fellow. While his...
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  • Albert Brooks Albert Brooks
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    Albert Brooks

    Albert Brooks: Interviews brings together fourteen profiles of and conversations with Brooks (b. 1947), in which he contemplates, expounds upon, and hilariously jokes about the connections between his show business upbringing, an ambivalence about the...
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  • John Cassavetes John Cassavetes
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    John Cassavetes

    American filmmaker John Cassavetes (1929-1989) made only nine independent films during a quarter century, but those films affected the cinema culture of the 1960s to the 1980s in unprecedented ways. With a close nucleus of actors and crew members on his...
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  • Acteur PRO Acteur PRO
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    Acteur PRO

    L'industrie du cinéma n'a jamais été autant productive. Et pourtant, selon le syndicat pour acteurs américains "Actors Equity Association", plus de 90% des comédiens ne parviennent pas à vivre de leur passion sans autre source de revenu.Des milliers...
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  • Brennan's Magical Effect Randomizer Brennan's Magical Effect Randomizer
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    Brennan's Magical Effect Randomizer

    This book is here to solve the question many magicians face: "How can I create my own magic effects?" This is a collection of ideas but no methods. Take it as seriously as you like or just have fun. The aim is to stimulate thought and creativity and...
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  • Hal Ashby Hal Ashby
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    Hal Ashby

    Hal Ashby (1929-1988) is considered to be the lost genius of the New Hollywood generation. While his name does not bear the familiarity of, say, Robert Altman or Martin Scorsese, his diverse films are among the best known and most beloved of the era...
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  • John Singleton John Singleton
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    John Singleton

    John Singleton (1968-2019) rocketed from obscurity to the top ranks of Hollywood directors in 1991, when he released his debut film Boyz N the Hood. The poignant coming-of-age story, set in the streets of south central Los Angeles, where Singleton grew...
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  • Coen Brothers Coen Brothers
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    Coen Brothers

    Joel and Ethan Coen (b. 1954, 1957) started their careers in obscurity on a shoestring budget cajoled from family and friends in Minneapolis. Working entirely outside the studio system, the Coen brothers scored an unlikely first success in 1984 with...
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  • My First Time in Hollywood My First Time in Hollywood
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    My First Time in Hollywood

    Over forty legends of the film business recount their first trip to Hollywood. Actors, directors, screenwriters, cinematographers, and editors-half of them women-recall the long joinery, their initial impressions, their struggle to find work, and the...
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  • David O. Russell David O. Russell
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    David O. Russell

    David O. Russell (b. 1958) boasts a diverse body of work as a writer and director, spanning multiple genres and featuring radically differing aesthetic styles. While his early work comically explored taboo subjects with unerring directness, he has also...
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  • Vers d'Univers Musical Vers d'Univers Musical
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    Vers d'Univers Musical

    Jean-Michel Boiteux, c'est l'histoire d'un homme qui a vécu sa vie à 100 à l'heure et qui, un jour, s'est posé : il a accueilli sa souffrance et tous les mots qui sont venus avec... Sa sensibilité s'est mise à fleurir!Après sa trilogie Mary , puis ses...
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  • An Eye for Hitchcock An Eye for Hitchcock
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    An Eye for Hitchcock

    Film scholar Murray Pomerance presents a series of fascinating and groundbreaking meditations on six films directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock, a master of the cinema. Two of the films, North by Northwest and Vertigo, are extraordinarily famous...
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  • Roger Corman's New World Pictures, 1970-1983 Roger Corman's New World Pictures, 1970-1983
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    Roger Corman's New World Pictures, 1970-1983

    In 1970, Roger Corman launched his film production-distribution company New World Pictures. Over the next thirteen years, he would supervise the creation and release of more than one-hundred films, including such low-budget classics as The Big Doll House...
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  • Directed by William Beaudine Directed by William Beaudine
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    Directed by William Beaudine

    William Beaudine is one of the most misrepresented directors in film history.  Inaccurately called “One-Shot” due to false claims that he hurried through his projects with disdain and never filmed more than one take, Beaudine was...
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  • Asghar Farhadi Asghar Farhadi
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    Asghar Farhadi

    The winner of two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film in only five years, Asghar Farhadi (b. 1972) has become Iran's most prominent director since the late Abbas Kiarostami. Around the world, especially in the international festival circuit, Farhadi is...
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  • How I Made 52 Films in 3 Years How I Made 52 Films in 3 Years
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    How I Made 52 Films in 3 Years

    Dive into the captivating world of indie filmmaking with Blake Ridder's "How I Made 52 Films in 3 Years" - a candid, humorous, and insightful look at the highs and lows of a relentless creative journey. Discover how Blake transformed wild ideas into 50...
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  • V. F. Perkins on Movies V. F. Perkins on Movies
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    V. F. Perkins on Movies

    Victor Perkins (1936-2016) was a foundational figure for the study of film both as a writer and as an educationalist and teacher who played a key role in establishing film within British higher education. Best known for his 1972 book Film as Film,...
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  • Anything You Can Imagine
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    Anything You Can Imagine

    The definitive history of Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth saga, Anything You Can Imagine takes us on a cinematic journey across all six films, featuring brand-new interviews with Peter, his cast & crew. From the early days of daring to dream it could be...
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  • Freistil Stadtlabor Ausblick und Rückblick Freistil Stadtlabor Ausblick und Rückblick
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    Freistil Stadtlabor Ausblick und Rückblick

    Auf der Suche nach dem, was uns verbindet, begab sich das Stadtlabor auf eine Reise ins Unbekannte.Die Künstler*innen des Netzwerks begannen mit der Suche nach Geschichten, Texten und Bildern, die im Rahmen des zweiten Freistil_Festivals in einer...
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  • Screening Work Screening Work
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    Screening Work

    Christian Petzold (b. 1960) is arguably the most prominent filmmaker working in Germany today, with a growing international reputation for his carefully fashioned narrative studies of identity and relationships. Running through the core of his films is...
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  • Kubrick's Mitteleuropa Kubrick's Mitteleuropa
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    Kubrick's Mitteleuropa

    Stanley Kubrick was arguably one of the most influential American directors of the post-World War II era, and his Central European Jewish heritage, though often overlooked, greatly influenced his oeuvre. Kubrick's Mitteleuropa explores this influence in...
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  • Gods, Gangsters and Honor Gods, Gangsters and Honor
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    Gods, Gangsters and Honor

    From Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson, an insider's account of the deals and the dodges inside the music and entertainment business over the last 30 years As the son of the legendary showbiz lawyer Marty Machat, Steven Machat grew up among such...
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  • Jonathan Demme Jonathan Demme
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    Jonathan Demme

    The films of Jonathan Demme (b. 1944) reflect his ebullient personality and are often infused with his love for Caribbean culture, pop music, fashion, and characters who reveal offbeat tastes and depths. He emerged from the 1970s American Renaissance...
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  • Abraham Polonsky Abraham Polonsky
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    Abraham Polonsky

    Abraham Polonsky (1910-1999), screenwriter and filmmaker of the mid-twentieth-century Left, recognized his writerly mission to reveal the aspirations of his characters in a material society structured to undermine their hopes. In the process, he ennobled...
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  • Anthony Minghella Anthony Minghella
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    Anthony Minghella

    Anthony Minghella: Interviews is an illuminating anthology of in-depth conversations with this important contemporary film director and producer. The collection explores Minghella's ideas on every aspect of the cinematic creative process including...
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  • The Demons of Modernity The Demons of Modernity
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    The Demons of Modernity

    Ingmar Bergman's films had a very broad and rich relationship with the rest of European cinema, contrary to the myth that Bergman was a peripheral figure, culturally and aesthetically isolated from the rest of Europe. This book contends that he should be...
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  • Kentucky Wild (hardback) Kentucky Wild (hardback)
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    Kentucky Wild (hardback)

    William Girdler´s career was short, lasting just six years but even by the standards of those who toil away in the exploitation arena, he was extremely prolific, making nine features between 1972 and 1978, when he was killed in a helicopter crash in the...
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  • Kentucky Wild Kentucky Wild
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    Kentucky Wild

    William Girdler´s career was short, lasting just six years but even by the standards of those who toil away in the exploitation arena, he was extremely prolific, making nine features between 1972 and 1978, when he was killed in a helicopter crash in the...
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  • The Weirdest Movie Ever Made The Weirdest Movie Ever Made
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    The Weirdest Movie Ever Made

     On October 20, 1967, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin emerged from a forest in Northern California with 59 seconds of grainy, shaky, silent 16mm film that supposedly offered documentary evidence of the Sasquatch, a creature of Native American...
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  • Krzysztof Kieslowski Krzysztof Kieslowski
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    Krzysztof Kieslowski

    Krzysztof Kiesślowski's untimely death came at the height of his career, after his Three Colors trilogy of films garnered international acclaim (and an Oscar nomination), and he had been proclaimed Europe's most important filmmaker by many critics. Born...
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  • Hancock On Hancock Hancock On Hancock
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    Hancock On Hancock

    For more than sixty years John Hancock has pursued a remarkable and often tumultuous career as a writer/director/producer. From the hallucinatory horrors of Let’s Scare Jessica to Death and the gritty fantasy of Prancer to the unshakable humanity...
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  • Hancock On Hancock (hardback) Hancock On Hancock (hardback)
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    Hancock On Hancock (hardback)

    For more than sixty years John Hancock has pursued a remarkable and often tumultuous career as a writer/director/producer. From the hallucinatory horrors of Let’s Scare Jessica to Death and the gritty fantasy of Prancer to the unshakable humanity...
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  • William Friedkin William Friedkin
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    William Friedkin

    Academy Award-winning director William Friedkin (b. 1935) is best known for his critically and commercially successful films The French Connection and The Exorcist. Unlike other film school-educated filmmakers of the directors' era, Friedkin got his...
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  • Perpetual Movement Perpetual Movement
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    Perpetual Movement

    Offers both a production history and a close analysis, with a chapter for each of the film's eleven shots.
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  • A Voyage with Hitchcock A Voyage with Hitchcock
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    A Voyage with Hitchcock

    Extensive meditations on the theme of the voyage in six Hitchcock films: Psycho, The 39 Steps, The Birds, Dial M for Murder, Rich and Strange, and Suspicion.
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