Films, Cinema

• A Matter of Life and Death
  Explains the varieties of advance health care directives (such as living wills) and medical and financial Powers of Attorney, questions to ask, and concerns to explore so your wishes are carried out for end-of-life care. Catholic Church's position included....
• Producing Animation
  Drawing heavily from the authors' twenty years of combined experience, Producing Animation offers a clear overview of this exciting industry and a comprehensive guide to the process of developing a project from conception to final delivery. Written from the perspective of a producer, this book offe...
• Fatal Attraction
  At the end of the 17th century, magnetism was a dark, mysterious force, known about since ancient Greece but still poorly understood. Tales abounded of magnets' ability to attract reluctant lovers, and magnetic expertise lay in the hands of seafarers, who had long used compasses to guide their ship...
• The Bourne Identity
  He was dragged from the sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues: a frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the skin of his hip evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face strange things he says in his delirium, which could be code words. And a number on the film neg...
• Home
  Do you believe that you can define a person by the home they live in and the possessions they surround themselves with? Do the books on their shelves and the paint on their walls give away their personality, and what would you think about someone who lived in a white, minimal space with nothing at ...
• My Movie Business
  John Irving's memoir describes the author's involvement (and lack thereof) in five of the films that have (and have not) been made from his nine novels. It focuses primarily on the 13 years Irving spent writing and rewriting his screenplay of "The Cider House Rules", for four different directors. A...
• Making Friday the 13th
  For a quarter of a century - from the shocking debut of 1980's Friday the 13th to the awesome commercial success of 2003's Freddy Vs. Jason - the Friday the 13th series has endured as the most popular horror series in the world. Now, David Grove has written an exhaustive document detailing the maki...
• Cinema India
  Now nearly 100 years old, Indian cinema is one of India's most vibrant cultural products as well as being the world's most prolific, at its peak producing an estimated 800 films a year. Cinema India concentrates on the visual culture of Indian film. Drawing on a wide range of resources, this text t...
• Marilyn Monroe
  Icon, legend, actress, star - all these words can be used to describe Marilyn Monroe and yet they simply do not do her justice, because she was so much more. Norma Jean has inspired and created more headlines than any other movie actress - yet her marriages, affairs and life choices all distract us...
• Frankly, My Dear...
  Glimpses into the soul of a people and a nation....
• More Cowboy Movie Posters
  The posters shown and described here range from silent films to 1990s Westerns. They include A Warrior's Faith (1912), The Lone Star Ranger (1919), The Virginian (1929), Texas Pioneers (1932) The Life and times of Grizzly Adams (1976) and Tombstone (1994)....
• Crime Movie Posters
  Offers an overview of films that have an aspect of crime as a central theme. The posters span from 1910 to 1996. Some of the posters featured in the book include: Charlie Chan on Broadway (1937) Lady Killer (1933) Dial M for Murder (1954) Charade (1963) and The Godfather (1972)....
• Dali and Film
  Salvador Dali was one of the most famous and also one of the most notorious artists of the twentieth century, his flamboyant personal style establishing him as a showman in the popular imagination. While the centenary of Dali's birth in 2004 was marked by a worldwide series of exhibitions, events a...
• Naked
  A no-hold-barred, authorized biography that delivers a fascinating and provocative portrait of gay porns hottest maverick star--featuring outrageous quotes and never-before-told personal stories about the industry he changed forever....
• Get Carter
  For most of his life, Bill Carter has been hearing two words that either struck fear in his heart or caused it to race for an entirely different reason: Get Carter. Early in his career, this Arkansas maverick established himself as the go-to guy in difficult situations. Whenever there was a tough j...
• Directed by Dorothy Arzner
  Dorothy Arzner was the exception in Hollywood film history - the one woman who succeeded as a director, in a career that spanned three decades. In Part One, Dorothy Arzner's film career her work as a film editor to her directorial debut, to her departure from Hollywood in 1943 is documented, with p...
• Confessions of a Video Vixen
  Part tell-all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nicknamed 'Superhead' goes beyond the glamour of celebrity to reveal the inner workings of the hip-hop dancer industry--from the physical and emotional abuse that's rampant in the industry, and which mark...
• The Hound of the Baskervilles
  Penguin Readers is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age m...
• Olivia
  The first full-length biography of the enduringly popular star of Grease Now approaching her 60th birthday, Olivia Newton-John grew up in Melbourne and still exudes star power and timeless glamour. She has sold 60 million records around the world, topped the charts in the US and the UK four times, ...
• The Little Book of Ermintrude
  'I'm not just another pretty face!' Ermintrude Ermintrude is the diva's diva - full of life, full of song and full of herself! Not one for being ignored, she has a love for the finer things in life and believes that her tastes are infinitely more refined than her chums from The Magic Roundabout. Tr...
• Masculinity
  Men die eight years sooner than women. Why? Because they embrace traditional concepts of masculinity. So says a male, heterosexual, ex-jock who wasted much of his life trying to act masculine. He came to recognize the agony and frustration men experience pursuing masculinity, and the resulting t...
• Dracula
  A biography of the 15th Century Prince of Romania, Vlad Dracula (1431-1476), nicknamed the Impale and on whom Bram Stoker based his fictional character. It covers his career as ruler of Wallachia, terror of Transylvania and crusader against the Turks and examines how closely he compares to his fict...
• Frankenstein
  Frankenstein began as the nightmare of an unwed teenage mother in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1816. At a time when the moral universe was shifting and advances in scientific knowledge promised humans dominion over that which had been God's alone, Mary Shelley envisioned a story of human presumption and...
• Macbeth
  Macbeth is Shakespeare's great tragedy of a fall into evil. The Norton Critical Edition text is based on the First Folio (1623), the only authoritative text of the play. It is accompanied by an introduction, detailed explanatory annotations, and textual notes. A rich "Sources and Contexts" section ...
• Puberty Blues
  'Fish-faced moll', 'rooting machine', 'melting our tits off': with its raw, in-your-face dialogue, Bruce Beresford's film 'Puberty Blues' has become a cult classic. Based on the autobiographical novel by the outrageous Salami Sisters Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey, 'Puberty Blues' is a coming-of-a...
• Lantana
  Lantana is now studied by Year 12 English students. While the film deals with adult lives in crisis that may seem removed from the experience of high school students, Lantana blends family melodrama with a murder mystery. This text invites speculation as to whodunnit and explores the film's moral c...
• Creative Titling with Premiere Pro
  Ed Gaskell looks at the specific task of creating title sequences that will give video productions a professional feel. It focuses primarily on appropriate use of type, managing the timeline, creating captions, working with background images and video, harnessing audio and using animation....
• Pulp Kitchen
  More delicious than Scone With the Wind! Hotter than The Wild Brunch! More chilling than The Texas Chainsaw Moussaka! Have you ever been tempted to fry someone's liver with fava beans and a nice chianti? Or to try 'what she's having' in When Harry Met Sally? And just what do the hobbits eat in The ...
• The Barrytown Trilogy
  The publication of The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van signalled the emergence of a significant new voice in Irish fiction. This book traces the genesis and impact of the change in Ireland's fortunes on the work of Doyle, Parker and Frears and shows how the increasing de-differentiation of bou...
• Montana Sky
  When Jack Mercy died, he left behind a ranch worth nearly twenty million dollars. Now his three daughters - each born of a different mother, and each unknown to the others - are gathered to hear the reading of the will. But the women are shocked to learn that before any of them can inherit, they mu...
• Brokeback Mountain
  Film tie-in edition of the story by Annie Proulx, now a movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Randy Quaid, Anne Hathaway and Heath Ledger. Brokeback Mountain is set in the beautiful, wild landscape of Wyoming where cowboys live as they have done for generations. Hard, lonely lives in unforgiving country....
• Sylvia
  The story of Sylvia Honeyeater, who sings like an angel and can literally charm the birds from the trees, this epic tale of a Europe torn by religious intolerance also features the Pied Piper of Hamelin, Francis of Assisi, the Muslim Sultan and his harem, as well as the fervour that became the Chil...
• The Age of Innocence
  When the Countess Ellen Olenska returns from Europe, fleeing her brutish husband, her rebellious independence and passionate awareness of life stir the educated sensitivity of Newland Archer, already engaged to be married to her cousin May Welland, "that terrifying product of the social system...
• African Film: Re-Imagining a Continent
  In "African Film: Re-imagining a Continent, Josef Gugler provides an introduction to African cinema through an analysis of 15 films made by African filmmakers. These directors set out to re-image Africa; their films offer Western viewers the opportunity to re-imagine the continent and its peop...
• The Lost Prince
  Did Richard, Duke of York, the younger of the Princes on the Tower, survive his imprisonment? In this revealing new book medieval historian David Baldwin presents an original and intriguing scenario. On 27 December 1550 an old man named Richard Plantagenet was buried at Eastwell in Kent. He had spe...
• The Bird
  "Delicate, understated writing that finds the extraordinary in the ordinary."-Tobias Hill U-il thinks he can fly like his favourite cartoon character Toto the Astroboy. His older sister, eleven-year-old U-mi, is doing her best to look after him since their mother died and their father...
• The Kill Bill Diary
  The quirky, strange and utterly sagacious meditations of David Caradine written during the making of Quentin Tarantino's contemporary classic in which Carradine played the lead role. When Carradine landed the lead role in Quentin Tarantino's new film, Kill Bill, it catapulted him into the Hollywood...
• Japan
  Japan is alive with much more than tradition. Cities reverberate with the whirl of crisscrossing trains, pulsating neon, and hurry-scurrying crowds. High-tech skyscrapers rise from the rice paddies. Rural festivals unleash a torrent of raw energy in an otherwise tranquil countryside. And ancient vo...
• Horror
  What is the audience for horror? Why should we want to read books or watch films that make us afraid, or that contain acts of violence or depravity? Horror has had an established tradition in both fiction and film. From books such as Frankenstein and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow to films such as Se7...
• Hamlet
  This tale of the immortal Prince of Denmark delves deeply into the complexities of the human soul as it recounts Hamlet's tragic struggle to avenge his father's death. Books in this new, illustrated series present complete texts of Shakespeare's plays. However, the lines are set up s...
• Unplugged
  It often seems that medical technology is a never-ending string of miracles. But it is also a double-edged sword. More often than not, death today happens because of a decision to stop doing something, or to not do it at all. As the tragic life and death of Terri Schiavo so poignantly illustrated, ...
• Derrida
  The death of Jacques Derrida in 2004 represented a major interruption in contemporary intellectual life. This death calls for an engagement with Derrida's work and an attempt to understand his legacy. Such a discussion is fraught with tension between remaining faithful after death and putting Derri...
• Celebrations
  Grace, dignity, and eloquence have long been hallmarks of Maya Angelou's poetry. Her measured verses have stirred our souls, energized our minds, and healed our hearts. Celebrations is a collection of timely and timeless poems: the inspiring 'On the Pulse of Morning', read at President William Jeff...
• Dark Victory
  Dark Victoryis not only a fascinating description of past events: between the lines there are dark portents of repercussions yet to come.' John Button, The AgeMarr and Wilkinson have pulled together the whole confronting tale of how through iron will, subterfuge, disregard for conventions of a civi...
• A Companion to Film Theory
  This volume of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies provides a comprehensive overview of the field. Its international and interdisciplinary approach will have a broad appeal to those interested in this multifaceted subj...
• Simple Gifts
• The Tao of Star Wars
  The Star Wars series contains, for some, a philosophical basis. This volume uses motifs from the Series to explain the basic tenets of Taoism including patience, acceptance, and simplicity. (World Religions)...
• The Bent Lens
  This second edition has been fully updated and includes 2500 titles from over 50 countries, spanning gay and lesbian filmmaking from 1914 to the present. Essays from experts Barbara Hammer, Judith Halberstam, Helen Hok-Sze Leung and Daniel Mudie Cunningham explore gay and lesbian film traditions an...
• Seeing the Big Picture
  This work uses commercial films instead of documentaries to broaden students' awareness, understanding and appreciation of the many cultures and cocultures in America. The selection of films depict cultures with insight, care and authenticity providi...
• Catch ME If You Can
  All Tag Morgan wants to do is help settle his father's estate so he can get back to properly cataloguing his Mayan ruins. So he's caught quite off guard to discover that A) his father had holdings in Scotland and B) the property now belongs to Tag. Leafing through his father's correspondence with t...
• Seabiscuit
  The true story of three men and their dreams for a racehorse - Seabiscuit - that symbolised a pivotal moment in American history, as modern America was born out of the crucible of the Depression and the dustbowl, as the 20th century's greatest nation found the courage to bet on itself to win agains...
• Some Like it Hot
  Some Like it Hot is the ultimate guide for Southern gardeners who dream of colorful, continuously blooming annuals and perennials and peaceful garden settings. For those who live in the hot and humid Southeast, a profusion of blooms and high temperatures don't always go hand-in-hand. With the advic...
• Snow Falling on Cedars
  The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. In "CliffsNotes ...
• Choppers
  When a motorcycle has been built from the ground up, stripped of anything not needed for speed, power, and striking looks, and draped in rich colors and chrome, it has been transformed into a chopper. What was once considered an outlaw ride has now become a luxury item and a mainstream obsession. I...
• Mighty Movies
  The splendour, savagery and spectacle of the screen epics that staggered the world! Mighty Movies chronicles the age of the classic Hollywood blockbuster (1932--1970) by presenting and evaluating 200 authentic movie posters, lobby cards, and related memorabilia items from 100 film examples. A speci...
• Film Posters of the 90s
  Whatever your taste in movies, the filmmakers of the 1990s had it covered. On the one hand, the big studios took advantage of the ever-increasing sophistication of computer-generated imagery to produce spectacular, mega-budget 'event' movies like Titanic, The Matrix and Mission: Impossible on the o...
• Performance
  Performance: a critical introduction was the first textbook to provide an overview of the modern concept of performance and its development in various related fields. This comprehensively revised, illustrated edition discusses recent performance work and takes into consideration changes that have t...
• Stan Douglas
  Canadian artist Stan Douglas combines traditional cinematic techniques with new technologies to produce remarkable video installations. These visually complex works often look critically at the history of television, video and film, and can result in dramatic contemporary portraits as well as seren...
• Andy Warhol
  Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro and Andy Warhol each significantly shaped the development of art in the 20th century. These modern masters are the subjects of four small books, the first volumes in a series featuring important artists in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Each book...
• Lawrence of Arabia
  T.E. Lawrence is one of the most enigmatic characters in British history. At the outbreak of the First World War he was working as an archaeologist in the Middle East. He had no military training at all, and a strong distrust of politicians and senior officers alike. And yet he succeeded in a task ...
• Guy Debord
  Writer, artist, filmmaker, provocateur, revolutionary, and impresario of the Situationist International, Guy Debord shunned the apparatus of publicity he dissected so brilliantly in his most influential work, The Society of the Spectacle. In this ambitious and innovative biography, Vincent Kaufmann...
• Grace Kelly
  The top female box-office star of 1954, Grace Kelly's status as icon takes in an 11-film, three-year, screen career and a glamorous later life as Princess of Monaco. More than any other star, she was in three memorable films the quintessential Hitchcock blonde, delineating traits of cool beauty, de...
• Jane Campion
  Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. Jane Campion is one of the ...
• My Last Breath
  I have written this fiction based on my true story about two near death experiences. I am compelled to share the story of what happened to me, the profound changes that took place afterwards, and the message I brought back with me from the other side. When I tell people of my experiences, they are ...
• How to be a Working Actor
• In Good Company
  Knowledge has always resided in organizations - but it wasn't until the Information Age put a premium on ideas that intellectual capital was recognized as a critical resource. Now, forces like technology, globalization, and the rise of free agency and virtual workplaces are bringing another form of...
• Up Close and Personal?
  "Up Close & Personal is more than just a stunning collection of photographs of some of the best-known actors, singers arid other entertainers of our own time; it is, quite deliberately, an exploration in portraiture of the ephemeral and intangible qualities of fame and celebrity. Photographer Jeff ...
• Do the Right Thing
  The #1 Principle of Sustainable Business Success Is Simpler Than You Think Do the Right Thing is about how any company can stay true to its soul. Jim Parker's deep and abiding belief in the power of people and culture in building a business of lasting worth is evident everywhere so too is his humil...
• Revolution
  Most books about the Beatles reveal the big picture first and ask questions afterward. This book reverses that approach. It takes a fresh and often funny look at the magnificent and sometimes idiotic career path of the Beatles through the prism of one vital album -- a record considered by many (inc...
• At Your Own Risk
  Based on over thirty years of experience, recognized industry leader Gary Lynch reveals in this essential guide a game plan to identify and manage a range of risks faced in this brave new globalized world of changing market dynamics and complex high-tech value networks. This groundbreaking book art...
• Blacklisted
  In the near future, where aliens walk undetected amidst humans, a high school senior accidentally discovers an undercover A.I.R. (Alien Investigation and Removal) operation putting several of its agents at risk. Rather than wipe her memory, they place her in a secret boot camp, where she must learn...
• Look Both Ways
  Sometimes even squirrels need a lesson in safety! Filbert the squirrel loves to play soccer with his friends, but when his mother asks him to run an errand, he dashes right off. Filbert is always careful to avoid the neighborhood cat, but-Skip-leap! Hip-hop!-he has so much fun running up telephon...
• Close-up
  "Close Up" is an innovative and accessible new annual series devoted to the close analysis of film and television. Each volume will contain three extended individual studies linked by a concern to explore in detail the decisions that go into the making of films or television programmes. ...
• Coraline
  When Coraline moves with her parents to a new house she is fascinated by the fact that their house is infact only half of the house! Divided in to flats years before, there is a brick wall behind a door where once there was a corridor and one day it is corridor again down which the intrepid Coralin...
• Blood and Chocolate
  Vivian Gandillon relishes the change, the sweet, fierce ache that carries her from girl to wolf. At sixteen, she is beautiful and strong, and all the young wolves are on her tail. But Vivian still grieves for her dead father; her pack remains leaderless and in disarray, and she feels lost in the su...
• Memories
  This engaging volume for the general reader explores how individuals and societies remember, forget and commemorate events of the past. The collection of eight essays takes an interdisciplinary approach to address the relationships between individual experience and collective memory, with leading e...
• Lost & Found
  Combining heartfelt stories with first-rate scholarship, Lost and Found reveals the complexities of a people reclaiming their own history. For decades, victims of the United States' mass incarceration of Americans of Japanese descent during World War II were kept from understanding their experience...
• The Star
  Worshipped as heroes, treated as gods, movie stars are more than objects of admiration. A star's influence touches on every aspect of ordinary life, dictating taste in fashion, lifestyle, and desire. Edgar Morin's remarkable investigation into the cultural and social significance of the s...
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses. 'It is time,' he said, 'for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago, Harry. Please sit down. I am going to tell you everything.' Harry Potter is due to start his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcr...
• Napoleon
  This is an illustrated biography focusing on the rise of one of history's most powerful and interesting men, Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Corsica and he was neither rich nor well-connected. Eventually, he would come to rule France and much of Europe - even crowning himself Emp...
• Ned Kelly
  The screenplay (based on Robert Drewe's novel 'Our Sunshine') of the movie directed by Gregor Jordan. An Australian legend, Ned Kelly has captured our imaginations for over 100 years. Cast variously as a hero, villain, revolutionary, gentleman and murderous thug, he and his gang cut a trail through...
• Walt Disney
  Lively, fact-filled, and fun to read, the Meeting Famous People series introduces young readers to some of the amazing people of our past and present. These well-researched titles fill the need for early-grade biographies with an inviting, four-color design and photos on every page. Whether reading...
• Stone Cold
  This book offers a tense, exciting thriller combined with a perceptive and harrowing portrait of life on the streets as a serial killer preys on the young and vulnerable homeless. 17-year-old Link is distrustful of people until he pairs up with Deb, homeless like him. But what Deb doesn't tell him ...
• Titanic
  Unfold a spectacular 3-D model of the TITANIC -- and read about her fateful rise and fall -- in a gorgeous gift set including several novelty features. On April 14, 1912, the largest and finest ocean liner of the age struck an iceberg and sank to the icy depths. Now you can discover all the glory...
• Gladiator
  Big Jobs! is a new narrative non-fiction series covering popular historical topics through a variety of colourful jobs in a down-to-earth, readable style, with plenty of toilet humour! Each chapter features a double page fact spread and there is a glossary at the end. In Gladiator you are taking le...
• Groundhog Day!
  Every February 2nd, people all across the country turn their eye toward Pennsylvania, home to the groundhog Punxsutawney Phil. They wonder if he will see his shadow that day. This book offers information about Groundhog Day, its origins, and information about the animal at the center of this deligh...
• The Little Book of Dylan
  Dylan is the infamous sleepy bunny who lives life to loaf. With instantly recognisable big buck teeth and oversized hands Dylan is no regular house bunny. True to his hippy roots Dylan likes to chill out with his far out friends from the Magic roundabout, pluck a few tunes on his guitar and hunt ar...
• Nova Scotia
  This work offers easy to use maps and detailed descriptions covering camping, golfing, hiking, world-class festivals, beaches, wineries and gardens. Nova Scotia is home to wild beaches, coastal scenery, one of the most beautiful scenic drives in the world, and a rich heritage and colorful culture t...
• Blade Runner
• Cabaret
• The New-Brutality Film
  The 1990s saw the emergence of a new kind of American cinema, which this book calls the 'new-brutality film'. Violence and race have been at the heart of Hollywood cinema since its birth, but the new-brutality film was the first kind of popular American cinema to begin making this relationship expl...
• Moving Pixels
  This spectacularly illustrated volume is the first book to consider CGI, from big-screen effects to full-length animated films, from games to fine art, as the art form of the 21st century. Focusing on 3D art only, the most exciting area of the field, the book features CGI's leading creators in film...
• Chinatown
  Min Zhou examines how an ethnic enclave works to direct its members into American society, while at the same time shielding them from it. Focusing specifically on New York's Chinatown, a community established more than a century ago, Zhou offers a thorough and modern treatment of the enclave as a s...
• The Wicker Man
• Documentary
  In using case studies such as Touching the Void (2003) and the films of Nick Broomfield, this timely introduction to the growing field of documentary explores the definition and understanding of the form, as well as the relationship between documentary and drama, specifically the notion of reconstr...
• Film Noir
  Film Noir: From Berlin to Sin City explores the murky world of a genre responsible for many of film's most enduring images. Mark Bould discusses problems of definition and the often ambiguous nature of film noir and looks at modern films that could be called neo-noir. Iconic and enduring, film noir...
• New Punk Cinema
  New Punk Cinema is the first book to examine a new breed of film that is indebted to the punk spirit of experimentation, do-it-yourself ethos, and an uneasy, often defiant relationship with the mainstream. An array of established and emerging scholars trace and map the contours of new punk cinema, ...
• Sideways
  Three times during his twenties Patrick O'Neil threw in a desk job, ended relationships and flung himself at the world. With the words of his literary heroes ringing in his ears, he set off determined to pursue adventure and a grander, more romantic vision of life. It wasn't long before he was tumb...
• Teen Movies
  Teen Movies: American Youth on Screen is a detailed look at the depiction of teens on film, of the influence they have had in and on film and the different impact that they have had throughout film's history. Timothy Shary looks at the development of the teen movie, the rebellion, the romance, the ...
• War Cinema
  This work provides an introduction to and overview of the Hollywood war movie, a lynchpin in American cultural imagination. The book considers the history of this genre, one of continuing significance from All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) to We Were Soldiers (2002). Guy Westwell focuses in par...