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  • Hitchcock's Villains

    Murderers, Maniacs, and Mother Issues

    by Eric San Juan, Jim McDevitt ...
    The films of Alfred Hitchcock are appreciated for a variety of reasons, including the many memorable villains who menace the protagonists. Unlike so many of cinema’s wrongdoers, the Hitchcock villain was often a complex individual with a nuanced personality and neuroses the common person might not be able to relate to, but could at least understand. If such figures did not always elicit sympathy ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • A Year of Hitchcock

    52 Weeks with the Master of Suspense

    by Jim McDevitt, Eric San Juan ...
    Alfred Hitchcock's career spanned more than five decades, during which he directed more than 50 films, many of them indisputable classics: Notorious, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho, among others. In A Year of Hitchcock: 52 Weeks with the Master of Suspense, authors Jim McDevitt and Eric San Juan provide a comprehensive examination of Hitchcock's film-to ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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    The stylistic and bloody excesses of the films of Dario Argento are instantly recognizable—his films lock violent deaths in a twisted embrace with an almost sexual beauty. Narrative and logic are often lost in a constant bombardment of atmosphere, technical mastery, and provocative imagery. Setting the tone with earlier gialli films such as The Animal Trilogy and Deep Red, Argento has steadily ... Read more

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  • Werner Herzog – A Guide for the Perplexed

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    by Paul Cronin ...
    This edition of Herzog on Herzog presents a completely new set of interviews in which Werner Herzog discusses his career from its very beginnings to his most recent productions.Herzog was once hailed by Francois Truffaut as the most important director alive. Famous for his frequentcollaborations with mercurial actor Klaus Kinski - including the epics, Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo, ... Read more

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  • Joss Whedon

    Geek King of the Universe - A Biography

    by Amy Pascale ...
    'Packed with trivia, filled with wit and endlessly readable, this is the biography Joss’ s career deserves. We can’ t recommend it enough' ***** SFXJoss Whedon is a male writer whose most famous creation is a girl-power icon; a geek who deals in classic themes of love, betrayal and redemption; and one of the first people in the entertainment industry to have harnessed the power of the internet to ... Read more

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  • Martin Scorsese Unauthorized Biography: A great film director for every generation!

    by Veronika Adams ...
    Best known for films like Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, The Aviator and The Departed, Martin Scorsese has established himself as one of the greatest directors ever lived. He had done a number of collaborations with two of the most sought-after actors in Hollywood - Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, with most of their films marking history in American cinema. Let us take a ... Read more

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  • Spaghetti Westerns

    by Howard Hughes ...
    They are tough. They are mean. They are the fastest, coolest gunslingers of the 1960s, and they don't talk much. They are the heroes of the Italian Spaghetti West and they changed the Western forever. Clint Eastwood's poncho-clad, cigar smoking Man With No Name is the enduring symbol of the genre and his Dollars trilogy with Sergio Leone reinvented action cinema, adding a European freshness to the ... Read more

    $26.20 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Movie Accidents and Deaths

    Brief details of people who died while filming blockbuster movies

    by Thomas Hall ...
    With this informative book and a copy of one of the films mentioned, you may be able to see the scene where a person was injured or killed, as the Director decided to keep the action for the film.For example:The Dark Knight (2008)Cameraman Conway Wickliffe was killed on the set of The Dark Knight, as he rode in a pickup truck driving parallel to a stunt car; the pickup truck missed a 90-degree ... Read more

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  • Music Composition for Film and Television

    by Lalo Schifrin ...
    (Berklee Guide). Learn film-scoring techniques from one of the great film/television composers of our time. Lalo Schifrin shares his insights into the intimate relationship between music and drama. The book is illustrated with extended excerpts from his most iconic scores such as Mission: Impossible , Cool Hand Luke , Bullitt and many others and peppered with anecdotes from inside the Hollywood ... Read more

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  • Agnes Varda

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    Edited by T. Jefferson Kline ...
    Series series Conversations with Filmmakers Series
    Over nearly sixty years, Agnès Varda (b. 1928) has given interviews that are revealing not only of her work, but of her remarkably ambiguous status. She has been called the “Mother of the New Wave” but suffered for many years for never having been completely accepted by the cinematic establishment in France. Varda's first film, La Pointe Courte (1954), displayed many of the characteristics of the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • On Low Budget Film Making,Digital Film Making Interviews

    by rodney cannon ...
    On Low Budget Film Making is a book that contains interviews with many young and upcoming digital film makers. Most of these interviews were conducted while they were in the middle of production. This book was written to aid those who wish to become film makers by someone who believed that the best way to lear is from those who are putting in the time and sweat equity.This is a digital film making ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Eric Rohmer

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    Edited by Fiona Handyside ...
    Series series Conversations with Filmmakers Series
    The 1969 film Ma Nuit chez Maud catapulted its shy academic film director Eric Rohmer (1920-2010) into the limelight, selling over a million tickets in France and earning a nomination for an Academy Award. Ma Nuit chez Maud remains his most famous film, the highlight of an impressive range of films examining the sexual, romantic, and artistic mores of contemporary France, the temptations of desire ... Read more

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