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From his perspective as playwright, screenwriter and director of his own films "House of Games" and "Things Change", David Mamet provides insights into how a film comes to be. He...

On May 20th 1992, 75 photographers from 12 countries, including six Pulitzer Prize winners, began snapping their shutters in a 24-hour race to capture, on film, the essence of Hollywood....

Chosen as a BOOK OF THE YEAR in the Sunday Times , Stylist and Observer 'A multifaceted novel that is funny, verbally inventive and moving' Sunday Times, Book of the...

During his lifetime (1900 67), Spencer Tracy was known as Hollywood s actor s actor . Critics wrote that what Olivier was to theatre, Tracy was to film. Over his...

This text articulates central issues in the relation of film to anthropology. The essays provide an overview of the history of visual anthropology, as well as commentaries on specific subjects,...

A comprehensive, large-format hardcover offering unparalleled insight into the making of The War of the Rohirrim , and the complete creative journey from concept to finished film told by the...

YouTube has come to epitomize the possibilities of digital culture. With more than seventy million unique users a month and approximately eighty million videos online, this brand-name video distribution platform...

The South of France in the Golden '50s. The sun is shining and palm trees cast jagged shadows on a polished motor purring up the drive to the Grand Hotel....

Back and more gleaming than ever, this new edition of Stars & Cars marks the 100th anniversary of legendary Irish photographer, Edward Quinn. A curation of 150 of Quinn's finest...

For 50 years, we've been praying for Rosemary's Baby. If you're an audience member or movie critic, you sit in a dark cinema and pray for a fascinating tale expertly...

On New Year's Day 1818, Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein was first published in an anonymous three-volume edition of 500 copies. Some thought the book was too radical in implication. A...

Every image completely unseen. Stunning photography of the King of Cool. Award-winning photographer Barry Feinstein is remembered for his compelling images of the entertainment industry's greatest stars. As Dave Brolan...

Since the completion in 1998 of Histoire(s) du cinema, Godard has featured strongly in debates about audiovisual art and culture, especially regarding questions of historical memory, technological change, and the...

The fascinating life of one of the great entertainment icons of the 20th century.

What is the relationship between cinema and videogames? Hollywood film franchises are routinely translated into games. Some game titles make the move onto the big screen, none more prominently than...

This will be the definitive book about Bollywood - about a country finding its identity, a movie industry that changed the face of India and one man's struggle to become...

Famous Robots and Cyborgs is a high-octane voyage through the history of our metallic friends and foes. Dan Roberts narrates the history, strengths, weaknesses, quirks and foibles of a plethora...

London is a magical place which has intrigued people for more than 2,000 years, and never is this more apparent than in the past 130 years following the invention of...

Julie Christie has enchanted cinema-goers for four decades. Born on her father's tea plantation in Assam, India, she became an icon of the 1960s through her spellbinding appearances in films...

During his 20 year film career many things have changed for Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp, but two have remained constant - his taste for quirky, edgy roles...

What will prove to be the lasting impact of New Media on film and television? What kinds of transformations of moving image media are really already under way? The term...

Nowhere has such a fine collection of essays argued so forcefully on the power of film to shape and mediate human experiences of place and environment.-Kenneth E. Foote, The University...

Digital culture is often characterized as radically breaking with past technologies, practices, and ideologies rather than as reflecting or incorporating them. Memory Bytes seeks to counter such ahistoricism, arguing for...

Although he is an indubitably international superstar, Sir Sean Connery still knows the city of Edinburgh practically street by street from delivering the morning milk as a schoolboy. His round...

This book is the first detailed study of Woody Allen's life and work, and an original attempt to locate Allen's work in the great tradition of American popular culture. It...

A stimulating, eclectic accountof new media that finds its origins in old media, particularly the cinema. In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new...

What precisely, W. J. T. Mitchell asks, are pictures (and theories of pictures) doing now, in the late twentieth century, when the power of the visual is said to be...

George Tallis arrived in Melbourne in 1886 as a seventeen-year-old Irish immigrant, and by the mid-1920s was one of the first 'media giants'. The Silent Showman is a biography of...

Explore the creation of Guillermo del Toro's early masterpiece through this visually stunning and insightful look at the spine-chilling classic. Released in 2001, Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone announced...

Build and customize a 3D model of Groot and read all about Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy film in this exciting new model set. In the far reaches of the...

Based on interviews with Jackie Chan from February 1998, this book features hundreds of never-before-seen photographs from the archives of Inside Kung Fu magazine and Curtis Wong''s private collection.'

There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for the final episode of a TV show called...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'These rollicking gabfests ... bring together nearly everyone ... who made the series a creative and cultural landmark' New York Times 'Essential for fans, with...

Go behind the scenes of the Harry Potter film series with this compendium of stunning blueprints depicting spellbinding magical wizarding world locations from all eight films. Harry Potter: The Blueprints...

With the enchanting chords of his piano and his effortless charisma and charm, Ryan Gosling has swept back onto our screens and confirmed himself as one of Hollywood s greats.

America's food system is broken, harming family farmers, workers, the environment, and our health. But it doesn't have to be this way. Here, brilliant innovators, scientists, journalists and activists explain...

The definitive account of the motion picture phenomenon, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: The Ultimate Visual History is a must-have for fans of the beloved Steven Spielberg classic. Documenting the complete history...

Discover the secrets of Christopher Nolan's Tenet with this exclusive behind-the-scenes look at 2020's most anticipated film, starring John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, and...

Jack Sutherland, the narrator and protagonist of this memoir has, you might say, led a charmed life in the face of seeming damnation. A confirmed alcoholic in his early teens,...

A razor-sharp and achingly funny memoir of the men and movies that shaped one woman's life... A unique memoir, `Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers' is the story of how...

This full color book provides simple and effective special effects techniques that can be mastered by the amateur filmmaker. Work smart, play safe, and create interesting special effects that will...

Digital Filmmaking 101 reveals the secrets of making professional-quality ditial moviemaking on ultra-low budgets.

The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Science Fiction brings you the very best from every aspect of this exciting , established and money-spinning genre. It provides an illus trated guide to science...

Before the advent of "Trainspotting", Scotland's international film stars could be summed up in two words - Sean Connery. Then one of the most successful British films of the 1990s...

You've watched the TV shows and movies, played the video games, and read the books. Now it's time to level-up your geek factor...into the kitchen. From Game of Thrones, The...

'The book of the year' SUNDAY TIMES 'One of the very best biographies I have ever read' STEPHEN FRY 'A hot thunderstorm of a book' DAVID HARE 'I've never read...