Category - Performing Arts
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Love, Sex, Death, and the Meaning of Life: The Films of Woody Allen
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Woody Allen has carved out a unique place for himself in American movies, becoming our national auteur as well as the most prolific director in t...
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Dark Shadows
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Explores the cultural, industrial, formal, and generic contexts of the television soap opera Dark Shadows as a precursor to today’s popular gothi...
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Theatre/Theory/Theatre: The Major Critical Texts from Aristotle and Zeami to Soyinka and Havel / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /(Applause Books). Available for the First Time in Paperback! From Aristotle's Poetics to Vaclav Havel, the debate about the nature and function o...
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Mad Men: Dream Come True TV
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Don and Betty Draper live in a picture-perfect world. He is a hard-living advertising executive - a 'mad man' - on the fast track. She's a Bryn M...
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ESPN: The Uncensored History
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /ESPN: The Uncensored History traces the first 24-hour sports network from its inception through its evolution into a slick media outlet reaching ...
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Hollywood's Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Offering both in-depth analyses of specific films and overviews of the industry's output, Hollywood's Indian provides insightful characterization...
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Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Conventional wisdom holds that television was a co-conspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, that it was a facilitator to the blacklist...
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Framed: Women in Law and Film / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Some women attack and harm men who abuse them. Social norms, law, and films all participate in framing these occurrences, guiding us in understan...
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Atomic Age Cinema The Offbeat, the Classic and the Obscure
PaperbackOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /British author Barry Atkinson (You're Not Old Enough Son; Indie Horrors!) plunges us into a cinematic world dominated by the atomic bomb and pres...
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Have Gun-Will Travel
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Analyzes the TV Western Have Gun—Will Travel through a close reading of episodes and production history. One of the most successful series of its...
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Masterpiece: America's 50-Year-Old Love Affair with British Television Drama
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /"The definitive guide for scholars and fans alike to all things Masterpiece and Mystery!" - Booklist Starred Review - In 1971, Masterpiece Theatr...
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The Men Who Would Be King: An Almost Epic Tale of Moguls, Movies, and a Company Called DreamWorks
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Former Variety reporter Nicole LaPorte draws from years of inside-the-filmmakers-studio access to spin a smart, gritty tell-all about a clash of ...
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Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A noted screenwriter himself, Pulitzer Prize–winner Larry McMurtry knows Hollywood—in Film Flam, he takes a funny, original, and penetrating look...
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Sharkey: When Sea Lions Were Stars of Show Business (1907-1958)
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Gold Winner for the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Performing Arts & Music Category"Sharkey is the natural artist, perfor...
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Reconstructing Strangelove: Inside Stanley Kubrick's "Nightmare Comedy"
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Durgaing his career Stanley Kubrick became renowned for undertaking lengthy and exhaustive research prior to the production of all his films. In ...
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Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood's Real-Life Tough Guy
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Lawrence Tierney (1919–2002) was the kind of actor whose natural swagger and gruff disposition made him the perfect fit for the Hollywood "tough ...
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Kubrick, New and Expanded Edition: Inside a Film Artist's Maze
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Stanley Kubrick ranks among the most important American film makers of his generation, but his work is often misunderstood because it is widely d...
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The Abbott & Costello Story: Sixty Years of "Who's on First?"
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Heyyyyy Aaaaaabbott! Who's on first? It's Abbott & Costello, of course! Although it has been nearly 60 years since Bud Abbot and Lou Costello...
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Back From the Future: A Celebration of the Greatest Time Travel Story Ever Told
HardcoverOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A Fan’s Look at the Back to the Future Franchise“Brad Gilmore's book not only offers new perspectives and a deeper understanding of Back to the F...
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Starmaker: David O. Selznick and the Production of Stars in the Hollywood Studio System
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781496846051 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Publication Date: 08-07-2023 Pages: 304 Prod...
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Meditaciones del cine / Cinema Speculation
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Llega el esperado y ansiado primer libro de no ficción de Quentin Tarantino. Su libro más personal: un viaje íntimo por sus películas favoritas...
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The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The Conversations is a treasure, essential for any lover or student of film, and a rare, intimate glimpse into the worlds of two accomplished art...
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Acting Naturally: The Magic in Great Performances
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /From the celebrated film critic and author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, a fascinating look at some of the cinema’s finest actors a...
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Making The Best Years of Our Lives: The Hollywood Classic That Inspired a Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /2023 Wall Award Finalist, Theatre Library Association How a Hollywood gem transformed the national discourse on post-traumatic stress disorder. R...
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