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The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies
David Thomson - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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The Big Screen tells the enthralling story of the movies their rise and spread, their remarkable influence over us, and the technology that made the screensmaller now, but ever more ubiquitousas important as the images it carries.The Big Screen is not another history of the movies. Rather,... |
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Film Crazy
Patrick McGilligan - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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In Film Crazy, acclaimed biographer Patrick McGilligan shares some of his finest interviews with film luminaries from his salad days as a young journalist working the Hollywood beat. He goes on the set with Hitchcock during the making of the Master of Suspense's last film, Family Plot,... |
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Monsters in the Movies
John Landis - DK ADULT; First Editon edition
Format: Hardcover
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From B-movie bogeymen and outer space oddities to big-budget terrors Monsters in the Movies by legendary filmmaker John Landis showcases the greatest monsters ever to creep fly slither stalk or rampage across the Silver Screen Landis provides his own fascinating and entertaining insights... |
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Wayne and Ford: The Films, the Friendship, and the Forging of an American Hero
Nancy Schoenberger - Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover
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John Ford and John Wayne, two titans of classic film, made some of the most enduring movies of all time. The genre they defined - the Western - and the heroic archetype they built still matter today. For more than twenty years John Ford and John Wayne were a blockbuster Hollywood team,... |
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Ghostbusters: The Inside Story: Stories from the cast and crew of the beloved films
Matt McAllister - Hero Collector
Format: Hardcover
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The essential guide to Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II! Exploring everything from the pioneering special effects to the set design and the unforgettable soundtrack. This authorized book tells the exhaustive behind-the-scenes story of how Dan Aykroyd's original concept evolved into... |
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Radical Hollywood: The Untold Story Behind America's Favorite Movies
Paul Buhle - New Press, The
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing and affectionate account of the personal and political lives of the left-wing screenwriters, directors, and actors behind Hollywood's Golden Age. The first comprehensive book about Hollywood's future blacklistees and the hundreds of films they wrote or directed from... |
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The Book of Bond
DK Publishing - DK Publishing
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Witness the Gadgets, the Style, and the Story. The Book of Bond examines the style and charisma of Bond himself, his most memorable confrontations, and introduces each one of his 23 films. Includes spectacular movie images capturing classic Bond moments and enhanced with memorable script... |
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The Art of The Incredibles
Mark Cotta Vaz - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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From Pixar Animation Studios, the Academy Awardwinning studio that brought us such blockbusters as Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo, comes The Incredibles, a hilarious, action-packed story of a family of superheroes living an underground suburban existence. The sleekly designed... |
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Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
Mark Harris - Penguin Books; Reprint edition
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In Pictures at a Revolution, Mark Harris turned the story of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967 into a landmark work of cultural history, a book about the transformation of an art form and the larger social shift it signified. In Five Came Back, he achieves something larger... |
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Star Wars Costumes
Brandon Alinger - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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Who can forget the first time Darth Vader marched onto Princess Leia's ship, in his black cape and mask? Or the white hard-body suit of the stormtroopers? Or Leia's outfit as Jabba's slave? These costumes - like so many that adorned the characters of that galaxy far, far away... |
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High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic
Glenn Frankel - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Searchers, the revelatory story behind the classic movie High Noon and the toxic political climate in which it was created. It's one of the most revered movies of Hollywood's golden era. Starring screen legend Gary Cooper... |
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The Film Book
Ronald Bergan - DK ADULT; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A comprehensive, fun-to-browse, and easy-to-use source of everything you want to know about the movies and the people behind them, The Film Book is a unique treasure trove of a guide that will appeal to anyone who loves movies. From the history of the art form to techniques, and then the films... |
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