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So I am the author of this book and as you can see from the cover, my name is Pamela McGee Wilkinson. I'm just an average retired woman in her "important years", who has rediscovered her writing skills and put them to use in this book and the other one strategically placed on this cover for the selfish reason that if you like this book maybe you'll appreciate the other, especially if you have young children or grandchildren. It was written 20 years...
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Calls for no less than the death of the director and the end to acting theory, arguing that either actors are good or they are non-actors, and that good actors work best without the interference of a director.
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"An invaluable resource on the making of Eraserhead, Godwin's book includes interviews with the cast and crew conducted when memories were still fresh." - David Lynch & Kristine McKenna, Room to Dream As a young artist working with minimal resources, aided by a dedicated cast and crew, David Lynch spent four-and-a-half years making his first feature. The result was a completely unique, darkly comic nightmare called Eraserhead. Carefully nurtured by...
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Pete Townshend was once asked how he prepared himself for The Who's violent live performances. His answer? 'Pretend you're in a war.' For a band as prone to furious in-fighting as it was notorious for acts of 'auto-destructive art', this could have served as a motto. Between 1964 and 1969, The Who released some of the most dramatic and confrontational music of the decade, including 'I Can't Explain', 'My Generation' and 'I Can See For Miles'. This...
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El estreno de La noche de los muertos vivientes en 1968 convirtió a George A. Romero en uno de los directores más admirados de su generación. Sin embargo, la obra del realizador, considerado el padre del cine de zombis, no se reduce a un largometraje ni se limita a un subgénero. Sus películas son estudios de su tiempo y su filmografía constituye una radiografía política de los últimos decenios, una reflexión sobre las estructuras sociales...
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Este libro analiza la respuesta de la prensa estadounidense al cine de Pedro Almodóvar y su impacto a la hora de reflejar y construir su recepción en este país. Por medio del análisis de reseñas, artículos, entrevistas y demás apariciones en el espacio público, se aquilata la dialéctica entre el director español y los medios de comunicación en Estados Unidos, y se rastrea la convergencia de su universo creador con determinadas propuestas...
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From Jabberwocky to The Zero Theorem, Terry Gilliam has run the gamut of film and fantasy. Once again Scott Colbert takes a look at another favorite director and talks about his work as only he can. More fan than critic, Colbert's conversational tone makes these essays a pleasure to read.
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By 1975, Hammer Films was nearly broke and hanging on by the skin of their teeth. Trying to get a profitable film into production, they had been working with EMI, their British distributor, and a German company on the Dennis Wheatley TO THE DEVIL...A DAUGHTER. When it came out in 1976, it was a big hit. But it did not save Hammer in the end. Read the crazy story behind TO THE DEVIL...A DAUGHTER by David Taylor from the very beginning when...
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Get the Summary of Charlamagne Tha God's Black Privilege in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Black Privilege" by Charlamagne Tha God is a candid memoir and self-help guide that explores the author's journey from a small town in South Carolina to becoming a successful media personality. Charlamagne shares his experiences growing up in Moncks Corner, where he was exposed to both the local drug trade and the rich cultural...
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Después de cinco largometrajes y diversos trabajos en otros formatos, Paul Thomas Anderson se ha erigido como uno de los autores más influyentes y complejos del cine actual. Responsable también de los guiones de sus películas, P. T. Anderson ha creado ya una obra muy cohesionada pero en la que es apreciable, asimismo, una sugerente evolución. Si antes de cumplir los treinta años, Anderson era ya autor de dos obras capitales -"Boogie Nights"...
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Do You Struggle In a WorldThat Seems Too Small for You?Well, you are not alone. There are plenty of us who deal withthe things that make big folks angry, as we try to "literally" fitinto a world that is not built for those who live in oversizedbodies.Whether it's trying to find clothes and shoes that fit, or dealingwith the crazy small airplane seats, or the looks you get on acrowded elevator, this book will help you cope. You will learnhow to fight...
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The inside story of how Barbara Fox started an interactive theater company, Mystery On the Menu, in 1986 with an investment of nothing but time (and $100 for business cards) and built it into a successful and profitable business. There are chapters on writing, directing and acting in a participatory play and other chapters on the business side of managing a theater company. Murder, Mystery and Me has anecdotes about the different shows the company...
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For over half a century John Milius has either written, directed, or written and directed some of the movies' most memorable moments: "I know what you're thinking" from Dirty Harry, the Indianapolis speech from Jaws, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" from Apocalypse Now, and more. His films as director include Big Wednesday, Conan the Barbarian, Red Dawn, The Wind and the Lion, Flight of the Intruder, and Rough Riders. Drawn from nearly...
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King Oduduwa, the pacifist, the liberalist, the transcendentalist, the thinking thinker, the pioneer of Yoruba folk philosophy, the planter of the seeds of enlightenment and the progenitor of the holy city of Ile-Ife, belongs to the demythologized ancestors/pedigrees. In order to straighten things out, in order to meet Yoruba scions in the six continents of the world, and in order to establish his oracular authority, has resolved to tour the world,...
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Ten Arab Filmmakers provides an up-to-date overview of the best of Arab cinema, offering studies of leading directors and in-depth analyses of their most important films. The filmmakers profiled here represent principal national cinemas of the Arab world-Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, and Syria. Although they have produced many of the region's most-renowned films and gained recognition at major international festivals, with few exceptions...
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A massive underground sensation, The Big Lebowski has been hailed as the first cult film of the internet age. In this book, 21 fans and scholars address the film's influences-westerns, noir, grail legends, the 1960s, and Fluxus-and its historical connections to the first Iraq war, boomers, slackerdom, surrealism, college culture, and of course bowling. The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies contains neither arid analyses nor lectures for the late-night...
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When a young schoolteacher decides to teach her Grade 8 class about filmmaking and creates a documentary that ends up being broadcast internationally, she sets in motion a career of storytelling for an age group largely ignored by TV executives... and creates one of the most-loved television franchises of all time
Includes fabulous behind-the-scenes photos and stories for Degrassi fans
Linda Schuyler, co-creator and executive producer of the long-running...
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Greg Olson, author of David Lynch: Beautiful Dark, the essential book on Lynch' s life and art, has resided in the Twin Peaks region of the Northwest for decades, and David Lynch spent youthful years in the Northwest; both of their fathers were woodsmen. Lynch believes that the world hums with spirituality, and over a thirty-year span Lynch and Mark Frost created forty-eight hours of Twin Peaks TV and film, hypnotic cinematic music immersed...
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Este es el registro de la batalla que libró Armando Robles Godoy por el buen cine entre 1961 y 1963 desde las páginas del diario La Prensa y el suplemento dominical 7 Días del Perú y del Mundo, la primera de las varias que sostuvo por la misma causa durante el resto de su vida.
En estos textos defendió la concepción del cine como arte antes que como negocio o espectáculo, demandó un acercamiento a los filmes a partir del lenguaje cinematográfico...
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«Comment Mae West a-t-elle influencé un hit de la Motown? Quelle chanson thème a rapporté des millions et des millions à l'auteur? Pourquoi en apprenant l'histoire d'Eartha Kitt fait que vous n'entendrez plus jamais sa musique de la même façon. Les lecteurs trouveront plein de surprises et d'informations dans ces pages..."The Saturday Morning Song Chronicles: Memoires, Motown, et Musique" Est plus qu'un livre. Paul Allen III a écrit une encyclopédie...
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