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Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide
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L Maltin
This is the definitive guide to the movies from the leading movie expert, with more than 300 new entries. With a bewildering array of movie choices at the local store, library, rental outlet or online DVD supplier, this is the book everyone needs to help find the perfect movie for a first date, cosy night in, family get together or just a rainy ...
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The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
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Dan Roam
Used properly, a simple drawing on a humble napkin can help crystallize ideas and communicate in a way that people simply get. Roam shows that thinking with pictures can help anyone discover and develop new ideas, solve problems, and improve their ability to share their insights.
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Twilight: The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion
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Mark Cotta Vaz
Seventeen-year-olds Bella Swan and Edward Cullen are enmeshed in an intense, hungry love that leaves them both destroyed, yet passionately longing for more. Bella's scent and very being excites Edward, a vampire who, along with his family, abstains from feasting on humans. After a difficult start, the two become inseparable, learning more and more ...
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Understanding movies
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Louis Giannetti
For undergraduate courses in Introduction to Film, Introduction to Cinema, and Film Appreciation. This contemporary, best-selling text is designed to help students analyze movies with precision and technical sophistication. Designed to help students analyze movies with precision and technical sophistication, Understanding Movies focuses on ...
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Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life with Autism
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Temple Grandin, Oliver W Sacks (Foreword by)
In this unprecedented book, a gifted animal scientist who is also autistic, delivers a report on autism, written from her unique perspective. What emerges is the document of an extraordinary human being, one who bridges the gulf between her condition and our own, shedding light on the riddle of our common identity.
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Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen
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Steven D Katz
This international best-seller is filled with visual techniques for filmmakers and screenwriters who want to expand their stylistic knowledge.
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Miss Rumphius: Story and Pictures
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Barbara Cooney (Illustrator)
As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.
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Naked Pictures of Famous People
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Jon Stewart
A critically acclaimed national Bestseller, Naked Pictures of Famous People arrives in trade paperback with a new essay, written especially for this edition.
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Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever
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Jim Craddock (Editor)
The movie-lover's bible provides 27,000 right-on-the-money reviews known for being sometimes snarky, always informative, and occasionally hilarious. Credited with solving trivia, crosswords, and Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon movie-watching dilemmas, "VideoHound" has been a hit for years.Gale Cengage
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In the blink of an eye : a perspective on film editing.
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Walter Murch
In the Blink of an Eye is celebrated film editor Walter Murch's vivid, multifaceted, thought-provoking essay on film editing. Starting with what might be the most basic editing question - Why do cuts work? - Murch treats the reader to a wonderful ride through the aesthetics and practical concerns of cutting film. Along the way, he offers his ...
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Dial L for Loser
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Lisi Harrison
The clique returns in this sixth juicy novel of the "New York Times" bestselling series about Westchester County's most exclusive private-school girls.
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Hot Target
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Suzanne Brockmann
Recurring characters Cosmo Richter and FBI agent Jules Cassidy appear in this work of romantic suspense by bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann, championing gay rights as well as saving the life of a woman in peril. Navy SEAL Cosmo is on leave so that he can look after his mother, injured in an accident. As she begins to heal, her obsessive ...
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Star Pilot
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Laura Buller, DK Publishing
Young Star Wars fans can see how pilots fly the many different types of vehicles in this series for age-appropriate readers filled with full-color photos.
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American Cinema/American Culture
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John Belton
An insight into the interplay between the film industry and mass culture in America, which examines the industry, its narrative conventions and cinematographic style. The work also presents a sweep of film history, using five genres - silent film melodrama, American comedy, the war film, film noir and the making of the West - as the basis for ...
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Pictures of Hollis Woods
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Patricia Reilly Giff
Hollis Woods has run away from almost every foster home she's ever been placed in. When she is sent to live with Josie, a quirky but elderly artist, Hollis wants to stay. But Josie grows more forgetful, and Hollis fears Social Services may take her away and move Josie to a home. Hollis won't let anyone separate them--she's escaped the system ...
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Ginger My Story
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Ginger Rogers
The long-awaited autobiography from one of Hollywood's greatest stars. From the time she made her vaudeville debut at age 17, Ginger Rogers was destined to be a star. Now 73 films, hundreds of stage shows, and an Academy Award later, she tells the story of her fascinating life. 16 pages of photographs.
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A History of Narrative Film
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David A Cook
This volume combines a comprehensive and chronologically organized film history with an introduction to the theory and aesthetics of the cinema. The focus of the book is the study of motion pictures as the complex product of both institutional forces - economic, technological, social and political - and individual artistic vision. For the second ...
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Film Art: An Introduction with Tutorial CD-ROM
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David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Bordwell David
Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, David Bordwell's and Kristin Thompson's "Film Art" has been the best-selling and widely respected introduction to the analysis of cinema. While it continues to provide the best introduction to the fundamentals of serious film study, the eighth edition has been revised be ...
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Rebel Without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
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Robert Rodriguez
The film-maker Robert Rodriguez describes how he made "El Mariachi" for $7000, demonstrating many ways in which a film-maker can do for nothing what professionals spend thousands of dollars doing without a second thought.
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Andrew Wyeth : the Helga pictures
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Andrew Wyeth, John Wilmerding
In his autobiography, American realist painter Andrew Wyeth presents 138 of his tempera, drybrush, and water color paintings. Each reproduction is accompanied by his personal thoughts about it.
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Film History: An Introduction
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Kristin Thompson
Written by two leading film scholars, this text acknowledges the contributions of Hollywood and films from other US sources, as well as examining film-making internationally. Concepts and events are illustrated with over 1400 frame enlargements. The text takes a holistic approach by providing an in-depth look at the historical influences of film ...
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National Geographic Photography Field Guide: Secrets to Making Great Pictures
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Peter K Burian
An updated, accessible guide to photography from two leading experts in the field, the "National Geographic Photography Field Guide 2nd Edition appeals to both aficionados and amateurs with its encyclopedia coverage of everything from choosing film to virtual photography. Featuring up-to-the-minute information on new film, filters, cameras, lenses ...
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Your Movie Sucks
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Roger Ebert
From Roger's review of "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo" (0 stars): "The movie created a spot of controversy in February 2005. According to a story by Larry Carroll of MTV News, Rob Schneider took offense when Patrick Goldstein of the "Los Angeles Times" listed this year's Best Picture nominees and wrote that they were 'ignored, unloved, and turned ...
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Have You Seen . . . ?: A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films
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David Thomson
Juxtaposing the fanciful and the fabulous, the old favorites and the forgotten, this sweeping collection presents the films the provocative, contemporary film critic Thomson offers in response to the question he gets most often--"What should I see?"
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Moving Pictures
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Terry Pratchett
'Holy wood is a different sort of place. People act differently here. Everywhere else the most important things are gods or money or cattle. Here, the most important thing is to be important.' People might say that reality is a quality that things possess in the same way that they possess weight. Sadly alchemists never really held with such a ...
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