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(H/B) THE ACTORS STUDIO
Over the years there has been much controversy and confusion about the true nature of The Actors Studio, a secluded workshop in New York City that for decades has had a marked influence on the stage and screen and yet functions like a secret society behind closed doors. It all began when Stanislavsky’s Moscow Art Theater brought its brand of "realism" to the United States in 1923. The legendary Group Theater of the 1930s followed. Then came the creation of a studio workshop incorporating the provocative acting and directing techniques of E...
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STANLEY KUBRICK - SEVEN FILMS ANALYZED (0786408707) (H/B)

(P/B) EIGHTEEN WOODY ALLEN FILMS ANALYZED
Five main topics are explored: the desire of many of his characters to ground their lives in traditional ethical values despite their realization that such values may no longer be certain; the opposition between pessimism and optimism throughout his films; gender issues relating to romantic love, sexual desire and the ongoing changes in our cultural expectations of both men and women; the idea that contemporary American society is rapidly descending into barbarism precisely because of societal failure to maintain a sense of individual mora...
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(H/B) FANTASY FEMMES OF SIXTIES CINEMA
This award-winning memoir about "the hippest guy on the planet" recollects novelist/screenwriter Terry Southern’s highs and lows, his association with the Beat Generation, and his movie cult classics Dr. Strangelove and Easy Rider. In 1964, Terry Southern met actress Gail Gerber on the set of The Loved One. He was enjoying his success from co-writing the risque novel Candy, a satire of Candide, and the movie Dr. Strangelove; she had just co-starred with Elvis Presley in Girl Happy. Though they were both married, there was an instant connec...
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF STAGE LIGHTING
Those who do not know who a snuff-boy was or how his job related to stage lighting, or need to understand the difference between motivated light and motivating light, may look among the more than 1500 detailed entries of this encyclopedia, which is ideal for students, teachers, lighting technicians and designers and other theatre professionals." "Some of the numerous topics covered are equipment, methods, concepts, design process, electricity, characteristics of light, and lightboard operations. Where applicable, entries present both the h...
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PRODUCERS ON PRODUCING (0786412070) (P/B)

AFRICAN AMERICAN JAZZ AND RAP. (0786408286) (P/B)

DOUBLE FEATURE CREATURE ATTACK (0786413662) (P/B)

DREAMS ON FILM (0786415967) (P/B)

FRED ZINNEMANN (0786417110) (P/B)

THE MOVIEGOING EXPERIENCE 1968-2001 (0786413611) (P/B)

NAZI PROPAGANDA FILMS (0786415568) (H/B)

REEL PORTRAYALS (0786414618) (P/B)

SARAH BERNHARDT IN THE THEATRE OF FILMS (078641636X) (H/B)

BILLY WILDER AMERICAN FILM REALIST (0786408219) (H/B)

A DICTIONARY OF CINEMA QUOTATIONS (0786408499) (H/B)

FRENCH FILMS 1945 THROUGH 1993 (0786400242) (H/B)

(H/B) THE HAROLD LLOYD ENCYCLOPEDIA
Harold Lloyd, born in 1893, became one of the greatest comic actors in America. This is a compendium of all things Lloyd, with entries on noteworthy persons, recurring themes, crucial elements of Lloyd’s life (birth, education, marriage, family, hobbies, death, etc.), his prime co-stars and co-workers, the films that made him a legend (201 of them), and numerous other topics covering every facet of the man and the actor, all fully cross-referenced and accompanied by a vast collection of images and advertisements. An Appendix A lists the Ll...
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SILENT FILMS 1877-1996 (0786405953) (H/B)

(P/B) THE FILMS OF JOEL AND ETHAN COEN
Filmmaker brothers Joel and Ethan Coen got their start in the independent film business in 1984 with their debut feature Blood Simple, which won the award of Best Dramatic Feature at Sundance in 1985 and was hailed as one of the best films of the year by the National Board of Review. Since their early success, the Coen Brothers have built a name for themselves and gone on to create other big-name movies such as Raising Arizona, Fargo, and The Big Lebowski. This book is a comprehensive account of these four films and Miller’s Crossing, Bart...
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