School is just like a film set: there's The Crew that make things happen, The Extras who fill the empty desks, and The Movie Stars, whom everyone wants tagged in their Facebook photos. But Jude doesn't fit in. He's not part of The Crew...
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- Author:Reid, RazielSummary:
- Author:Steinmetz, AndrewSummary:
He had fifty-seven seconds of screen time in the most lavish POW film Hollywood ever produced. He was blond. A Gestapo agent. Sauntering down the aisles of a speeding train, he speaks in terse German to Richard Attenborough, Gordon...
- Author:St. John, KatherineSummary:
In the midst of a sizzling hot summer, some of Hollywood's most notorious faces are assembled on the idyllic Caribbean island of St. Genesius to film The Siren, starring dangerously handsome megastar Cole Power playing opposite his...
- Author:Camilleri, AndreaSummary:
Vigàta is bustling as the new filming location for a Swedish television series set in 1950. The director asks locals to track down movies and vintage photos to faithfully recreate the air of Vigàta in that time. Engineer Ernesto...
- Author:Chupeco, RinSummary:
The island of Kisapmata would be the perfect vacation destination, if not for the curse. A Hollywood film crew isn't convinced, and they recruit a local teen, Alon, as their guide to the island.
- Author:Simon, ChristineSummary:
The self-appointed mayor of a tiny Italian village is determined to save his hometown no matter the cost in this charming, hilarious, and heartwarming debut novel. Vacuum repairman and self-appointed mayor of Prometto, Italy (population...
- Author:Dawson, MichaelSummary:
Historian Michael Dawson digs deep into the written and pictorial record to reveal how the RCMP, since its inception, has constructed and zealously guarded its public image. Drawing on previously untapped sources, Dawson documents how...
- Author:Hanks, Tom.Summary:
From the legendary actor and best-selling author: a novel about the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic books that inspired it. Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking,...
- Author:Wouk, HermanSummary:
Margo Solovei, a brilliant young writer-director has rejected her rabbinical father's strict Jewish upbringing to pursue a career in the arts. When an Australian multi-billionaire promises to finance a movie about Moses if the...
- Author:Eisenstein, SergeiSummary:
An exploration of the film as a more expressive and profound medium. Includes an analysis of a sound-film sequence from Alexander Nevsky. "The most instructive discussion of the film art yet put between the covers of a book" (New York...
- Author:Politano, Joanna DavidsonSummary:
In the search for the truth, the line between fact and fiction is beginning to fall out of focus It is 1903, and Lily Temple is a beautiful silent-film actress who spins fairy tales and plays frivolous roles in front of the cine-camera...
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This volume brings together key works in the field on the structure, form, status, and reception of cult cinema traditions. Including work from key established scholars in the field such as Umberto Eco, Janet Staiger, Jeffrey Sconce,...
- Author:Crouse, RichardSummary:
Richard Crouse, film critic and host of television’s award-winning Reel to Real takes you on a journey through 70 years of cinema history, choosing his favorite overlooked films.
From the sublime – Monsoon Wedding...
- Author:White, JerrySummary:
This is a collection of writings by the giant of experimental cinema, Stan Brakhage, that shows him in a completely new light, as part of world cinema. For the duration of the 1980s, Brakhage contributed to the Boulder literary magazine...
- Author:Crouse, RichardSummary:
Fans of offbeat cinema, discriminating renters and collectors, and movie buffs will drool over this checklist of the best overlooked and underappreciated films of the last 100 years. In Son of the 100 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen...
- Author:West, LindySummary:
Reexamines iconic movies from the past forty years to identify laugh-worthy plot holes and fictional misrepresentations in such esteemed blockbusters as "Forrest Gump," "The Lion King," and "Top Gun."
- Author:Thurm, JoelSummary:
From his humble beginnings growing up on his grandfather's dairy farm in New York, Joel Thurm became one of the most admired, powerful, and accomplished casting directors in Hollywood. Early on, Thurm's instincts proved beyond...
- Author:Johnson, MarciaSummary:
Serving Elizabeth begins in Kenya in 1952, during the fateful royal visit of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh. Mercy, a restaurant owner, is approached to cook for the royal couple. Though she could use the money, she is a...
- Author:Kesey, KenSummary:
This epic tale of the north is a vibrant moral fable for our time. Set in the near future in the fishing village of Kuinak, Alaska, a remnant outpost of the American frontier not yet completely overcome by environmental havoc and mad-...
- Author:Ebert, RogerSummary:
Roger Ebert’s criticism shows a nearly unequaled grasp of film history and technique, and formidable intellectual range...” —New York Times Pulitzer Prize–winning film critic Roger Ebert presents more than 600 full-length critical movie...