History & Criticism

Introduction: Why Journalists Don't Understand Hollywood -- The Popcorn Economy -- Star Culture -- Hollywood's Invisible Money Machine -- Hollywood Politics...

Reprinted on the eve of the long-awaited sequel Fantasia 2000, this is the definitive book on the Walt Disney Studio's most ambitious masterpiece. Noted fil...

Charting The Making Of Peter Jackson's Film, This Is A Behind-the-scenes Guide Featuring Colour Photographs Of The Cast, Locations, Sets, Monsters And Costu...

For over 30 years, Stan Winston and his team of artists and technicians have been creating characters, creatures and monsters for the silver screen, from T...

Wildflower Is A Portrait Of Drew's Life In Stories As She Looks Back On The Adventures, Challenges, And Incredible Experiences Of Her Earlier Years. It Incl...

Complete with Academy Award results, this full-length book includes excerpts from James Cameron's journals on how the landmark film was made, plus notes by...

Richard Gilman referred to How to Read a Film as simply "the best single work of its kind." And Janet Maslin in The New York Times Book Review marveled at...

On their 30th anniversary, the surviving Pythons—John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin—reminisce about their collaboration,...

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Revised And Updated To Incorporate Suggestions From Film Instructors And Critics Nationwide, The Fourth Edition Of This Classic Text Is A Thorough Introduct...

If You’ve Ever Wondered How A Movie Gets Made, You’re Not Alone. Author And Illustrator Jeff Kinney Didn’t Know Either, But When His Bestsell...

The Official Oral History Book Of The Office, Featuring Exclusive Interviews With Every Major Player And Never-before-seen Photos, Pulling Back The Curtain ...

"You played it for her, Sam. Now, play it for me." Everybody loves a good movie, and Casablanca is just one of the classics described in this, the ultimate ...

Product Description From New York Times bestselling author Scott Eyman, this is the story one of the most influential studios in film history, from its...

The Story Of Charlie Chaplin's Years Of Self-imposed Exile From The United States, When He Had Become A Pariah During The 1950s Red Scare. While Living Abro...

In the not-too-distant future, massive climate change has wracked the globe. China’s rice-growing regions have been devastated by typhoons, while its west...

New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics provides a comprehensive lexicon of semiotic concepts, defining over 500 critical terms. The authors address key aspects ...

"Just when you think there aren't anymore books to write about filmmaking, here comes D.B. Gilles' The Portable Film School: a wonderful on-paper process ...

Introduction By Clint Eastwood ; Preface By Jean Picker Firstenberg. 'a Stonesong Press Book'--t.p. Verso. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. In...

Empire of Dreams is the first definitive look at all of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror films directed by Steven Spielberg, one of the most popul...

This compilation showcases the most famous murders, suicides, unexplained deaths, scandalous romances, illegitimate children, cover-ups, and more. Starting ...

Featuring concept art, memorabilia, and original interviews, Disney Princess: Beyond the Tiara explores the legacies of the princesses and what they represe...

The Complete, Definitive Biography Of Hollywood S First Superstar Douglas Fairbanks Was The Greatest Leading Man Of His Generation The First And The Best Of...

The definitive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange, presenting the most in-depth portrait yet of the grou...

More than any other male movie star, the refined Clifton Webb (1889-1966) caused the movie-going public to change its image of a leading man. In a day when...

From the chief film critic of Slate comes a fresh and captivating biography on comedy legend and acclaimed filmmaker Buster Keaton that also explores the ev...

An eminent film historian illuminates the stars of silent film. Salon - Steve Vineberg The heyday of silent movies began in 1915, when D.W. Griffith rele...

Product Description Academy Award–winning director Michael Curtiz (1886–1962)―whose best-known films includeCasablanca (1942), Yankee Doodle Dand...

From the trolley scene in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers's last dance on the silver screen (The Barkleys of Broadway, 1949) t...

From acclaimed author Scott Eyman comes the fascinating story of how the transition from silent films to ‘talkies’ transformed Hollywood.It was the end ...

How did the business of movies grow? Who were the people who made it grow? What innovative twists did mobsters Al Capone and Willie Bioff add? Hollywood Eas...

Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light is the definitive biography of the Master of Suspense and the most widely recognized film director of all ti...

Follows the legendary John Ford through a career that spanned more than five decades, drawing on dozens of personal interviews, material from Ford's estate,...

This study provides a detailed account of the 1960s film L'avventura. The book argues that in order to appreciate the film's greatness, it is necessary to...

Here Is The Fascinating Career Of Joe Dallesandro, A Tough Kid From The Streets Of New York Who Became A Counterculture Emblem Of Male Beauty And Ambiguous ...

Charming and classically handsome, John Gilbert (1897--1936) was among the world's most recognizable actors during the silent era. He was a wild, swashbuckl...

first Time In Paperback: The Landmark Biography Of One Of Hollywood's Last Bigger-than-life Stars library Journal buford, A National Public Radio Comment...

Buster Keaton is remembered today as one of the most innovative and hilarious comedians of the silent movie era, considered now to be the equal to Charlie C...

The reviewer of the Boston Globe said point blank: "Over the years, I've read hundreds of books on Hollywood and the movie business, and this one is right ...

Award-winning Master Critic Robert Gottlieb Takes A Singular And Multifaceted Look At The Life Of Silver Screen Legend Greta Garbo, And The Culture That Wor...

Introduction -- Don't Miss -- The Patriarch (1881 1924) -- Go Hollywood, Young Man! (1924-29) -- To Be An Actor (1929-32) -- Mediocrity Is Not My Lot (1932-...

The first Latin American to become a superstar, Ramon Novarro was for years one of Hollywood's top actors. Born Ramón Samaniego to a prominent Mexican fam...

Out, outrageous, provocative, and proud, this comprehensive anthology and library resource reviews 500 of the best of Hollywood's output of gay, bisexual, ...

The comprehensive critical biography of silent-screen star Marion Davies, who fittingly referred to herself as "the captain of my soul."\From Marion Davies'...

In Their Thoughtful Study Of One Of Stanley Cavell's Greatest Yet Most Neglected Books, William Rothman And Marian Keane Address This Eminent Philosopher's ...

Praise for Italian Cinema: "Extremely interesting and stimulating."—Bernardo Bertolucci "A very good book and a very accurate one."—Federico Fellini "The l...

Before Salma Hayek, Eva Longoria, And Penelope Cruz, There Was Lupe Velez-one Of The First Successful Latin-american Hollywood Stars, Who Swept Past The Xen...