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PROJECTIONS 2: FILM-MAKERS ON FILM-MAKING

By: Boorman, John

Price: ¥700.00

Publisher: Faber & Faber: 1993

Seller ID: RWARE0000012665

ISBN: 0571168280

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Launched as an annual devoted entirely to cinema through the writings of it s practitioners, rather than its critics. This second issue features an int erview with Robert Altman (The Player), offers a journal on contemporary Eu ropean cinema from French director Bertrand Tavernier, and more. 60 photogr aphs.
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PROJECTIONS 3: FILM-MAKERS ON FILM-MAKING

By: Boorman, John

Price: ¥700.00

Publisher: Faber & Faber: 1994

Seller ID: RWARE0000012667

ISBN: 0571170471

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Projections is a forum for film-makers in which the practitioners of cinema write about their craft. The centrepiece of this issue is the journals of Francis Ford Coppola, whose films, such as the Godfather trilogy and Apocal ypse Now, are considered masterworks of contemporary cinema. This volume al so contains articles by leading film-makers about the state of the art at t his moment.
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THE OXFORD COMPANION TO AMERICAN THEATRE

By: Bordman, Gerald

Price: ¥1,000.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1984

Seller ID: RWARE0000006349

ISBN: 0195034430

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good/Good

Like a well-crafted revival of a beloved play, this new edition of a favori te reference book retains the flavor of the original production while signi ficantly updating its content. The cast here is large and includes actors, choreographers, composers, dancers, designers, directors, lyricists, plays, playwrights, producers, theaters, and theater companies. The text covers the American stage from its inception to the present, and the alphabetically arranged entries range in length from a few lines to a quarter of a double-columned page. Among the articles new to this edition are AIDS and the ...
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MY BOOKY WOOK 2: THIS TIME IT'S PERSONAL

By: Brand, Russell

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Harper: 2011

Seller ID: RWARE0000030666

ISBN: 0007328281

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. In the sequel to Russell's best-selling biography 'My Booky Wook' we follow the now sober but still scandalous, sex-fuelled star on his electrifying rise to international fame. A roller coaster ride through tours, films, stand up and tabloids - this time, it's personal. Rarely has a sequel delivered on the promise of the original with such literary and comic gusto. In Booky Wook 2: This Time It's Personal, Russell Brand takes off where his internation...
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MY BOOKY WOOK

By: Brand, Russell

Price: ¥550.00

Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks: 2008

Seller ID: RWARE0000048610

ISBN: 0340936177

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

In 2006 Russell Brand exploded onto the international comedy scene. He has been named Time Out's Comedian of the Year, Best Newcomer at the British Co medy Awards, and Most Stylish Man at GQ's Men. His UK stand-up tour was sol d out and his BBC Radio 6 show became a cult phenomenon, the second most po pular podcast of the year. Before the fame, however, Russell's life was any thing but glamorous. His father left when he was three months old, he was b ulimic at age 12 and he began drinking heavily and taking drugs by age 16. He regularly visited prostitutes in Soho, began cutting himself, took ...
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THE FILMS OF THE FIFTIES

By: Brode, Douglas

Price: ¥800.00

Publisher: Citadel Pr: 1990

Seller ID: RWARE0000051434

ISBN: 0806506210

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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WRY MARTINIS

By: Buckley, Christopher

Price: ¥700.00

Publisher: Random House: 1997

Seller ID: RWARE0000005537

ISBN: 0679452338

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: VG+/VG+

His famous father conducted a legendary literary feud with Gore Vidal, and while Christopher Buckley's dust-up via fax machine with novelist Tom Clanc y (who was outraged by Buckley's trashing of one of his novels in the New Y ork Times Book Review doesn't reach that intellectual level, it does make f or very funny reading and illustrates Buckley's gift for puncturing pomposi ty wherever he finds it. To his credit, most of the essays in this collecti on are quite witty, and he doesn't sink to mean- spirited ideological blath er. Included are pieces published in the New Yorker, Esquire, the Wal...
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HIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT: THE HOLLYWOOD BLACKLISTEES IN FILM AND TELEVISION, 195 0-2002

By: Buhle, Paul

Price: ¥2,500.00

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan: 2003

Seller ID: RWARE0000012582

ISBN: 1403961441

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine/Fine

A highly collectible first edition/printing, protected in a new brodart wra pper, this not an ex-lib or a BOTMC edition. This encyclopedic, riveting study of the Hollywood blacklist's impact follows the careers of targeted individuals to explore the blacklist's effects on the arts in America and Europe in the last half-century. As Buhle and Wagner (coauthors of Radical Hollywood) demonstrate, expulsion from the mainstream took these artists and their crafts in new directions. Directors like Joseph Losey and screenwriters like Norma and Ben Barzman fled to Europe to work, where aesthetics like...
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SERPENT OF THE NILE: WOMEN AND DANCE IN THE ARAB WORLD

By: Buonaventura, Wendy

Price: ¥850.00

Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Inc: 1998

Seller ID: RWARE0000050713

ISBN: 1566563003

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Focusing on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Wendy Buonaventur a shows how Arabic dance came to be influenced by Western ideas about art a nd entertainment. But the influence was two-way. In the heyday of "Oriental ism, " Arabic dance exerted a powerful influence on the Western imagination --on such writers as Flaubert, such artists as David Roberts and Jean-Leon Gerome, and such imitators as Colette and Mata Hari. Their fascination was often based on common fantasies about the women of the Middle East. Yet, as the book's magnificent illustrations show, this obsession also produce...
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JAMES CAMERON'S TITANIC

By: Cameron, James

Price: ¥1,000.00

Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS: 1999

Seller ID: RWARE0000034912

ISBN: 0006490603

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. James Cameron's Titanic chronicles the cinematic re-creation of the most le gendary ocean disaster of all time as seen through the eyes of a master sto ryteller. Set against the ship's fateful maiden voyage, Cameron's much-anti cipated motion picture epic weaves a rich human tapestry of romance, herois m, tragedy and greed. Within these pages is a detailed look at the monumental effort by thousands of artists and craftsmen to accurately re-create th...
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IMPROVISING BETTER: A GUIDE FOR THE WORKING IMPROVISER

By: Carrane, Jimmy

Price: ¥650.00

Publisher: Heinemann Drama: 2006

Seller ID: RWARE0000049060

ISBN: 0325009422

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Improvising Better is an easy to read self-help book created with the new g eneration of improviser in mind. It's written for today's performers, looki ng for a quick fix to their performance problems. This book is a fast read with long-lasting results. Jimmy Carrane and Liz Allen have improvised, taught, and directed in Chicag o for over thirty years combined, and have either seen or experienced the m ost common problems facing improvisers today. Im...
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VIDEOHOUND'S POCKET MOVIE GUIDE

By: Connors, Martin

Price: ¥300.00

Publisher: Visible Ink Pr: 1994

Seller ID: RWARE0000001361

ISBN: 0810398494

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

VideoHound's Pocket Movie Guide.
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MUTANT MEDIA: ESSAYS ON CINEMA, VIDEO ART AND NEW MEDIA

By: Conomos, John

Price: ¥650.00

Publisher: Power Publications, Sydney: 2011

Seller ID: RWARE0000047619

ISBN: 1920781323

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Mutant Media gathers together a selection of John Conomos' essays across th e years, tracking the trajectory of his cinephilia since the 1960s, his ong oing interests in film criticism and theory, as well as his deep involvemen t in video art and new media since the 1980s. On one hand a major contribut ion to the realm of moving image and new media theory, Mutant Media is also a kind of autobiography of someone whose eclectic life as an artist, write r and educator centers around cinema's grand, unpredictable adventure spann ing three centuries.
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SHADES OF NOIR (HAYMARKET)

By: Copjec, Joan

Price: ¥700.00

Publisher: Verso: 1993

Seller ID: RWARE0000051408

ISBN: 0860916251

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. For this was the summer when, after the hiatus of the Second World War, Fre nch critics were again given the opportunity to view films from Hollywood. The films they saw, including The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity. Laura, Murder, My Sweet, and The Woman in the Window, prompted the naming and theo rization of a new phenomenon: film noir. Much of what has been written about the genre since has remained within the orbit of this preliminary assessmen...
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TIME FLIES

By: Cosby, Bill

Price: ¥250.00

Publisher: Bantam: 1988

Seller ID: RWARE0000033975

ISBN: 0553277243

Binding: Mass Market Pa

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. WE'RE ALL GETTING OLDER, AND BILL COSBY KEEPS GETTING BETTER America's best-loved humorist, media personality and bestselling author now brings his unique warmth, wisdom and wit to a subject common to all: aging. From five to fifty and beyond, Bill Cosby takes us on a hilarious romp through the trials and tribulations of growing-and being-older. Funny, highly personal, and with just the right tugs on the heartstrings, Time Flies is Cosby at his best.
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FILM NOIR

By: Crowther, Bruce

Price: ¥900.00

Publisher: Virgin Books: 1988

Seller ID: RWARE0000051430

ISBN: 0862874025

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. With the advent of World War II, a new mood of disillusion and foreboding was discernible in a film - a dark quality that derived as much from the characters depicted as from the cinematographer's art. These films, which included such classics as Double Indemnity, The Woman in the Window and Sunset Boulevard, emerged as a genre when a French film critic referred to them collectively as film noir.
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NOT MY FATHER'S SON : A FAMILY MEMOIR

By: Cumming, Alan

Price: ¥500.00

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd: 2015

Seller ID: RWARE0000052148

ISBN: 1782115463

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

'One of the most memorable, heart-stopping autobiographies I have ever read ' STEPHEN FRY WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2015 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ATTITUDE MAGAZINE'S BOOK OF THE YEAR A beloved star of stage and screen, Alan Cumming's life and career have bee n shaped by a complex and dark family past - full of troubled memories, kep t buried away. But then an unexpected phone call from his long-estranged fa ther brought the pain of the past hurtling back into the present, and unrav elled everything he thought he knew about himself. Not My Father's Son is ...
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WALKING WITH GARBO: CONVERSATIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS

By: Daum, Raymond

Price: ¥750.00

Publisher: Perennial: 1992

Seller ID: RWARE0000051407

ISBN: 0060923555

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. After meeting Greta Garbo at a party in the early 1960s, Daum was invited by the great actress to accompany her on her strolls aroung Manhattan. The two became close friends, and Daum began to keep notes of Garbo's comments about everything from life in the city to how to make coffee. Daum's reminiscences are linked by Muse's anecdotal biography, based on original interviews and archival material never before published. 75 photographs.
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