Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Picture Picture Lillian Ross,Lillian Ross,Anjelica Huston,Helen Ross "In the spring of 1950, when New Yorker staff writer Lillian Ross heard that John Huston was planning to make a film of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, she decided she would follow the movi… OL15213996W
The Modern Amazons The Modern Amazons Dominique Mainon,James Ursini The Modern Amazons: Warrior Women on Screen documents the public's seemingly insatiable fascination with the warrior woman archetype in film and on television. The book examines the cautious beginnin… OL15267397W
The anime encyclopedia The anime encyclopedia Jonathan Clements,Helen McCarthy "This guide to Japanese animation is required reading for every fan, collector, and movie-goer. Covering more than 80 years of anime history and over 2,000 titles with critical finesse and authority,… OL15964619W
Star Wars - Chronicles - The Prequels Star Wars - Chronicles - The Prequels Stephen J. Sansweet,Pablo Hidalgo Packed with breathtaking art and imagery culled from Lucasfilm's massive archives, Star Wars Chronicles: The Prequels explains and deconstructs every vehicle, character, location, and weapon in the f… OL1736047W
Flashback Flashback Louis Giannetti,Scott Eyman,Louis D. Giannetti p. cm OL17889706W
Death on Television Death on Television Henry Slesar,Francis M. Nevins Henry Slesar wrote more than 40 stories that were chosen for the classic television show, <i>Alfred Hitchcock Presents.</i> Irony, not suspense, is the key ingredient in the nineteen stories by Sl… OL1882441W
Reel conversations Reel conversations Ann Wilder,Alan B. Teasley From its beginnings, cinema has forged a distinct medium, a literature in its own right, as worthy of study as print literature. A good film, like a good book or poem, can delight, provoke the imagin… OL3288291W
Go fish Go fish Rose Troche,Guinevere Turner With an Introduction by Lea Dalaria, this is the original screenplay to the lesbian film which was released in 1994 to extraordinary acclaim. In this girl-meets-girl romance, a young, single lesbian … OL3526816W
Aussiewood Aussiewood Michaela Boland,Michael Bodey A generation of Australians have conquered Hollywood - Boland and Bodey interview the A-list to find out how they got there.Hollywood is in the throes of a white-hot love affair with Australian actor… OL5881883W
The films of Sherlock Holmes The films of Sherlock Holmes Chris Steinbrunner,Norman Michaels >**The location is a room in Baker Street, somewhere on the edge of eternity.** >It is a room endlessly the same, yet it has changed shape and perspective a hundred different times in a hundred fi… OL6802866W
Little children Little children Todd Field,Tom Perrotta Tom Perrotta's thirty-ish parents of young children are a varied and surprising bunch. There's Todd, the handsome stay-at-home dad dubbed "The Prom King" by the moms of the playground; Sarah, a lapse… OL8851529W