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  • Hitchcock Lost & Found

    The Forgotten Films

    by Alain Kerzoncuf, Charles Barr ...
    Series series Screen Classics
    "It seems there is still plenty to discover and to say about Alfred Hitchcock . . . a host of impressive new research." — Journal of Film PreservationAudiences worldwide know him for Psycho, The Birds, Vertigo, and other classics—but in Hitchcock Lost and Found, fans and film students alike can explore forgotten, incomplete, lost, and recovered productions from all stages of Alfred Hitchcock's ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vertigo

    by Charles Barr ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Vertigo (1958) is widely regarded as not only one of Hitchcock's best films, but one of the greatest films of world cinema. Made at the time when the old studio system was breaking up, it functions both as an embodiment of the supremely seductive visual pleasures that 'classical Hollywood' could offer and – with the help of an elaborate plot twist – as a laying bare of their dangerous dark side. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • British Cinema

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Charles Barr ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Cinema has had a hugely influential role on global culture in the 20th century at multiple levels: social, political, and educational. The part of British cinema in this has been controversial - often derided as a whole, but also vigorously celebrated, especially in terms of specific films and film-makers. In this Very Short Introduction, Charles Barr considers films and filmmakers, and studios ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Call of the Heart

    John M. Stahl and Hollywood Melodrama

    Edited by Bruce Babington, Charles Barr ...
    The profusion of research on film history means that there are now few Hollywood filmmakers in the category of Neglected Master; John M Stahl (1886–1950) has been stuck in it for far too long. His strong association with melodrama and the womans film is a key to this neglect; those mainstays of popular cinema are no longer the object of critical scorn or indifference, but Stahl has until now ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Call of the Heart

    John M. Stahl and Hollywood Melodrama

    Edited by Bruce Babington, Charles Barr ...
    A study of an important but neglected director that "fills many gaps and updates our knowledge of a major filmmaker of the silent period and beyond" ( Positif).The profusion of research on film history means that there are now few Hollywood filmmakers in the category of Neglected Master, but John M. Stahl has been stuck in it for far too long. His strong association with melodrama and the "woman's ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    British Cinema

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Charles Barr ...
    Narrated by Kevin E. Green ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 7 min

    Cinema has had a hugely influential role on global culture in the twentieth century at multiple levels: social, political, and educational. The part of British cinema in this has been controversial—often derided as a whole, but also vigorously celebrated, especially in terms of specific films and film-makers.In this Very Short Introduction, Charles Barr considers films and filmmakers, and studios ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Damaged Goods

    by Charles de Andrade ...
    Narrated by Rick Barr ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - Steward Series

    Unabridged

    5 hours 45 min

    Major General Lee Chinh stared at the mirror, wondering what she had seen in him. His damaged body should have repelled her, yet she had loved him anyway. But now, Hope had been taken from him, along with the unborn child that had filled his mind with such expectation and anticipated joy. How could he ever be whole again, without her? What value or future did this life hold for him now? How could ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Chosen

    by Charles de Andrade ...
    Narrated by Rick Barr ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Stewardship Series

    Unabridged

    6 hours 9 min

    Chosen to be the recipient of a great gift, Glenn Hitch receives a title pointing to the destiny all mankind was originally purposed for. Glenn’s new abilities include the same gift granted to Elisha’s servant in answer to the prophet’s prayer: the ability to see the true reality of the war he was engaged in. The struggle not with flesh and blood, as so many would readily assume, but instead with ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Intervention

    by Charles de Andrade ...
    Narrated by Rick Barr ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - The Steward Series

    Unabridged

    6 hours 13 min

    The intervention of a quadriplegic saved Nguyen Huu Minh from a mugging on the streets of Baltimore while attending Johns Hopkins University. That man’s faithchanged Minh’s life.Minh’s new faith brings him into conflict with his father’s business interests in Vietnam and the mysterious powers supporting his father. Estranged from his fatherand shunned by his family, Minh learns to support himself ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • British Mystery Multipack Volume 10

    British Super Sleuths

    by Robert Barr, Charles Dickens, Edgar Wallace ...
    A retired insurance investigator with an itch, an adventurer from China, a curious lawyer, an opera buff and a Sherlock Holmes emulator are the stars of British Mystery Multipack Volume 10 – British Super Sleuths:Hunted Down by Charles DickensLady Alicia’s Diamonds by Robert BarrDead Men’s Money by J. S. FletcherThe Sleuth of St. James's Square... ... Read more

    $10.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Isolationism

    A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself from the World

    by Charles A. Kupchan ...
    Narrated by Adam Barr ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 4 min

    In his Farewell Address of 1796, President George Washington admonished the young nation "to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." Isolationism thereafter became one of the most influential political trends in American history. From the founding era until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States shunned strategic commitments abroad, making only ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Neglected Authors, The - Men - Volume 1

    Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

    by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Grant Allen, Leonid Andreyev, Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev, Stacy Aumonier, William Austin, Richard Harris Barham, Robert Barr, Charles Baudelaire, John Davys Beresford, Ernest Bramah, Valery Bryusov, Thomas Burke, William E Burton, Bernard Capes, Charles W Chesnutt, Frederick Cowles ...
    Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Richard Mitchley, Darrell Joe ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 57 min

    Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus