Film & Drama
$30 Film School, Second Edition
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Filmmaking is entering a new era. Mini-DV filmmaking is the new folk music, the new punk rock, the new medium in which anyone can tell their story. "$30 Dollar Film School, Second Edition" is an alternative to spending four years and a hundred-thousand dollars to learn the filmmaking trade. It is influenced by punk rock's "Do-it-Yourself" spirit of just learning the basics and then jumping up on a stage and making a point; and by the essence of the American work ethic. This new edition o…
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'24' the Ultimate Guide
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A guide to the six seasons of "24". It helps readers discover all there is to know about Jack. It also helps readers to explore the CTU headquarters and come face to face with their favourite cast: from Nina Myers, Tony Almeda to Michelle Dessler and Chloe O'Brian.
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'A Kind of Alaska': Women in the Plays of O'Neill, Pinter, and Shepard.
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Combining feminist and psychoanalytic criticism, Hall argues that the three dramatists violate character conventions, expose and break down patriarchal oppression, and create women characters that defy male objectification. Her perspective draws from her involvement with actual productions at the Contemporary American Theatre Company in Columbus, Ohio. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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'Evil' Arabs In American Popular Film
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The "evil" Arab has become a stock character in American popular films, playing the villain opposite American "good guys" who fight for "the American way." It's not surprising that this stereotype has entered American popular culture, given the real-world conflicts between the United States and Middle Eastern countries, particularly since the oil embargo of the 1970s and continuing through the Iranian hostage crisis, the first and second Gulf Wars, and the ongoing struggle against al-Qaed…
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Profusely illustrated from old prints and photographs and with complete music for voice and piano.
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'Have You Seen . . . ?': A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films
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'This book is not simply my one thousand preferred films offered with whatever mixture of authority I can muster or generosity you will allow. I like or love many of thse movies and I hope you will feel that in the reading and come closer to sharing my pleasure. The first purpose or wish behind the question in my title is not to establish you as an expert in film studies but to give you a good time - or a better time than you have been having.' - David Thomson. Inclues masterpieces, oddit…
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'Have You Seen...?': A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films
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In 1975, David Thomson published his 'Biographical Dictionary of Film', and few film books have enjoyed better press or such steady sales. Now thirty-three years later, we have 'Have You Seen...?' the companion volume, a second book of more than 1,000 pages in one voice - that of our most provocative contemporary film critic and historian. Juxtaposing the fanciful and the fabulous, the old favorites and the forgotten, this sweeping collection presents the films that Thomson offers in resp…
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(Second Edition). Originally published in 1988. This classic in the literature of film offers convincing alsternatives to the doctrinaire approaches that have gained mosdt prominence in academic filmstudy. William Rothamn challenges readers to think about film in adventurous ways that are more open to movies and our experience of them. In a ranging series he examines particular films, filmmakers, genres, and movement, reflecting on such matters as film violence, eroticism, and the 'Americ…
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