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Spielberg: The First Ten Yearsby Laurent Bouzereau (Author) – October 24, 2023Explore the beginning of Steven Spielberg’s remarkable career with this definitive retrospective that covers Duel, The Sugarland Express, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1941, Raiders of the Lost...

Supreme Actresses: Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Hollywood Hardcover – October 26, 2021 by Marcellas Reynolds (Author), Gabrielle Union (Foreword) A comprehensive collection of photographs, interviews, and profiles of the most influential Black actresses who have worked in film, television,...

The Academy and the Award: The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Hardcover – October 6, 2022 by Bruce Davis (Author) The first behind-the-scenes history of the organization behind the Academy Awards....

The Cinema of Christopher Nolan: Imagining the Impossible (Directors' Cuts) Paperback – Illustrated, August 4, 2015 by Jacqueline Furby (Editor), Stuart Joy (Editor) Over the past fifteen years, writer, producer and director Christopher Nolan has emerged from the margins of...

The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha (Directors' Cuts)by Ethan Warren (Author) – April 25, 2023Paul Thomas Anderson’s evolution from a brash, self-anointed “Indiewood” auteur to one of his generation’s most distinctive voices has been one of the most remarkable...

The Cinema of the Coen Brothers: Hard-Boiled Entertainments (Directors' Cuts)by Jeffrey Adams (Author) – July 14, 2015The films of the Coen brothers have become a contemporary cultural phenomenon. Highly acclaimed and commercially successful, over the years their movies have attracted increasingly...

The Cinema of Wes Anderson: Bringing Nostalgia to Life (Directors' Cuts)by Whitney Crothers Dilley (Author) – August 8, 2017Wes Anderson is considered one of the most important directors of the post-Baby Boom generation, making films such as Rushmore (1998) and The...

The Impossible David Lynch (Film and Culture Series)by Todd McGowan (Author) – February 13, 2007Todd McGowan launches a provocative exploration of weirdness and fantasy in David Lynch's groundbreaking oeuvre. He studies Lynch's talent for blending the bizarre and the normal to...

The Lady from the Black Lagoon Paperback – March 3, 2020 by Mallory O'Meara (Author) The Lady from the Black Lagoon uncovers the life and work of Milicent Patrick—one of Disney’s first female animators and the only woman in history...

The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story Hardcover – November 28, 2023 by Sam Wasson (Author) Francis Ford Coppola is one of the great American dreamers, and his most magnificent dream is American Zoetrope, the production company he...

On the surface, The Philosophical Hitchcock: Vertigo and the Anxieties of Unknowingness, is a close reading of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece Vertigo. This, however, is a book by Robert B. Pippin, one of our most penetrating and creative philosophers, and so it is...

The Third Life of Agnès Varda Hardcover – May 30, 2023 by Agnes Varda (Editor), Dominique Bluher (Editor), Julia Fabry (Editor), Philippe Piguet (Interviewer) On the iconic filmmaker's final phase as an acclaimed creator of genre-bending installations. Agnès Varda (1928–2019)...

Transgender Cinema (Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture) Paperback – March 1, 2019 by Rebecca Bell-Metereau (Author) 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title​. Transgender Cinema gives readers the big picture of how trans people have been depicted on screen. Beginning with...

Truffaut At Work Hardcover – Illustratedby Carole Le Berre (Author), Cahiers du Cinema (Contributor) - December 1, 2005François Truffaut (1932-1984), French motion-picture director and critic, is a leader of the nouvelle vague movement of film-makers who rejected the slick, impersonal style...

Well Documented: The Essential Documentaries that Prove the Truth is More Fascinating than Fiction Hardcover – November 22, 2022by Ian Haydn Smith (Author)This fascinating book from veteran film journalist Ian Haydn Smith, with a foreword from award-winning director Asif Kapadia,...

What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life Hardcoverby Billy Dee Williams (Author) – February 13, 2024Billy Dee Williams was born in Harlem in 1937 and grew up in a household of love and sophistication. As a young boy, he made...

Who the Hell's in It: Conversations with Hollywood's Legendary Actors Paperback – October 25, 2005 by Peter Bogdanovich (Author) Peter Bogdanovich, known primarily as a director, film historian and critic, has been working with professional actors all his life. He...