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Reading a Japanese Film: Cinema in Context

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Report copyright infringementby Keiko I. McDonald (Author)Reading a Japanese Film, written by a pioneer of Japanese film studies in the United States, provides viewers new to Japanese cinema with the necessary tools to construct a deeper understanding of some of the most critically acclaimed and thoroughly entertaining films ever made. In her introduction, Keiko McDonald presents a historical overview and outlines a unified approach to film analysis. Sixteen "readings" of films currently avai...

The Business of Media Distribution: Monetizing Film, TV, and Video Content in an Online World

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Report copyright infringementby Jeffrey C. Ulin (Author)In this updated edition of the industry staple, veteran media executive Jeff Ulin relates business theory and practice across key global market segments--film, television, and online/digital--providing you with an insider's perspective that can't be found anywhere else. Learn how an idea moves from concept to profit and how distribution dominates the bottom line: Hollywood stars may make the headlines, but marketing and distribution are ...

Small Venues: Precarity, Vibrancy and Live Music

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Report copyright infringementby Sam Whiting (Author)Throughout the history of popular music, the careers of many culturally significant artists and groups began on the small stages of local bars clubs, pubs, and discotheques. When the stories of The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and the New York punk hardcore and post punk scenes are told, iconic venues such as The Cavern, The Marquee and CBGB's serve as the settings of their early chapters Small live music venues such as these are pivotal in the na...

Psychomotor Aesthetics: Movement and Affect in Modern Literature and Film - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Ana Hedberg Olenina (Author)In the late 19th century, modern psychology emerged as a discipline, shaking off metaphysical notions of the soul in favor of a more scientific, neurophysiological concept of the mind. Laboratories began to introduce instruments and procedures which examined bodily markers of psychological experiences, like muscle contractions and changes in vital signs. Along with these changes in the scientific realm came a newfound interest in phy...

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel Garza Bernstein (Author), Michael Uslan (Foreword by) Number of Pages: 288 Dimensions: 1 x 8.7 x 6.1 IN Publication Date: August 26, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel E. Atkinson (Author)The first biography of George Walker, a uniquely Afro-American tale of innovation and triumph despite the odds; the story of an underdog with a bite!The Rediscovery of George "Nash" Walker is the first biography dedicated to the life and cultural contributions of this actor, writer, and producer who revolutionized Black American theatre during the early twentieth century. In 1892, Walker left his hometown with a medicine show and quic...

Marvel Spidey and His Amazing Friends Glow in the Dark Sticker Book: With More Than 100 Stickers - Paperback

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by Dk (Author)GLOW-WEBS-GLOW! Light up your world with more than 100 glow-in-the-dark stickers of Team Spidey, their best friends, and their fearsome foes Create glowing action scenes with stickers of all your favorite heroes and villains from Spidey and His Amazing Friends, or even just stick them to your personal items to brighten up the place! Help Spidey catch the Green Goblin across New York City with the help of Black Panther, swing into action with Miles and Ghost-Spider back at WEB-q...

Pop-Up Peekaboo! Disney Winnie the Pooh - Board Book

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by Frankie Hallam (Author)Meet the little bear who's always hungry for honey and find 5 pop-up surprises inside! Join Pooh as he searches The Hundred Acre Wood for his friends: Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, and Roo, and share with your toddler a character that you loved too. The lively, read-aloud rhymes encourage literacy and early learning, while the surprise pop-up scenes will delight curious preschoolers. With the help of parents and caregivers, toddlers will have fun turning the sturdy board b...

Cinephile: Interviews, Essays, and Tales from the Red Carpet (Best Book for Film Buffs, Celebrity Interviews)

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Report copyright infringementby Adnan Virk (Author)Behind the Scenes with Hollywood's Brightest Stars"A wonderful book full of my favorite kinds of stories."--J. K. Simmons, Academy Award-winning actorCinephile is a sharp, heartfelt, and wildly entertaining celebration of cinema from Emmy Award-winning broadcaster and podcast host Adnan Virk--part interviews with Hollywood stars, part film buff manifesto, and full-on love letter to the silver screen. Whether he's recounting the red carpet cha...

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Report copyright infringementby Beck Feiner (Author), Beck Feiner (Illustrator), Alphabet Legends (Created by)From Babu Bhatt to Elaine, Newman to Kramer, The Alphabet About Nothing reviews an unforgettable cast of characters encountered by Jerry and his gang.Written and illustrated before a live studio audience, The Alphabet About Nothing teaches important lessons about something to young fans of the most legendary sitcom of all time. Number of Pages: 56 Dimensions:...

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Report copyright infringementby Jan Wahl (Author), Rick Geary (Illustrator) Number of Pages: 60 Dimensions: 0.25 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: August 15, 2025

A Biography Of Hulk Hogan: The Enduring Legacy Of A Wrestling Icon

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Report copyright infringementby Carl Jenkins (Author) Number of Pages: 100 Dimensions: 0.21 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: July 25, 2025

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by Kat Zhang (Author), Charlene Chua (Illustrator)When Amy Wu learns about Chinese ribbon dancing, she can't wait to try it out herself in this charming and brightly illustrated fourth installment in the Amy Wu picture book series. Amy Wu loves to move. From wriggling to shimmying to toe-tapping, she just can't keep still, not when there's music all around her! So when Amy sees Chinese ribbon dancing for the first time, she has to try it out. Only, how can she throw the perfect dance party wh...

Walt Disney and the Promise of Progress City

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Report copyright infringementby Sam Gennawey (Author), Werner Weiss (Foreword by)The Story of Walt's EPCOTDisney historian and urban planner Sam Gennawey traces the evolution of the EPCOT we didn't get and the Epcot we did, in a tour-de-force analysis of Walt's vision for city-building and how his City of Tomorrow might have turned out had he lived.Beginning with Walt's earliest conceptions for "Progress City", a centrally planned, centrally run community where people could work, live, and pl...

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Report copyright infringementby Craig Walker (Author), Ronald Wolfe (Foreword by), Ronald Chesney (Foreword by)On The Buses was a classic British situation comedy, created by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, which ran for seven series from 1969 to 1973, and introduced a host of much-loved memorable characters. The series followed the ups and downs of life on the buses as portrayed by two work shy-busmen, Stan Butler (played by Reg Varney) and his mate Jack Harper (Bob Grant) as they invented ...

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Report copyright infringementby Moon Unit Zappa (Author)From Moon Unit Zappa, the daughter of musical visionary Frank Zappa, comes a memoir of growing up in her unconventional household in 1970s Los Angeles, coming of age in the Hollywood Hills in the 1980s as the "Valley Girl," gaining momentum as an accidental VJ on a new network called MTV, and finding herself after losing her father, then her mother, and the testing of her most important relationships.How can you navigate life as the "nor...

Rare Beauty: Bonita Granville A Biography

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Report copyright infringementby Kate Arndt (Author)Bonita Granville...Nancy Drew! The woman was more than just Nancy Drew! Read about her life, her exciting adventures with Disney and Hollywood! Kate Arndt writes her very first biography about this legendary woman. Kate Gaddis (Now Arndt) is the author of The Deanna Durbin Scrapbook, Trying To Light A Match In The Rain, Beyond the Diary: The Story of the Wolf Siblings, and Among the Many and Jobyna Ralston: A Life in Pictures. She is married ...

This Time It's Personal - A Monster Kid's History of Horror Memories and Experiences (hardback)

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Report copyright infringementby B. Harrison Smith (Author)I was a "Monster Kid" and "The Weird Kid, The Horror Movie Kid." I found out early...horror is always personal. Now I make horror for a living. It shouldn't just be WATCHED.Horror should be ENJOYED. This isn't some stuffy analysis telling you what's good or bad. Instead, it's a tour of the 1930s through the 1980s--a personal account of how the best and worst of this era gave us so many memories and experiences that impacted our own liv...

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Report copyright infringementby Julia Benjamin (Author)"Julia's book will make you both laugh and cry. It's filled with wonderful insights about what Hollywood was like for a child actor who started working professionally when she was 6 and continued right on into adulthood. Julia was talented enough to be hand-picked by Shirley Booth to play Susie Baxter in the fifth and final season of Hazel. Her successful career continued into her young adult years. But then something tragic happened to J...

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Report copyright infringementby Geoffrey Lokke (Editor)Steve McQueen: Interviews is the first collection of conversations with the acclaimed filmmaker, and one that spans his career to date. Included are McQueen's discussions with such artists, critics, curators, and public intellectuals as Donna De Salvo, Paul Gilroy, David Olusoga, Tricky, and Cornel West. In these conversations, McQueen (b. 1969) discusses some of his preoccupations and recurring themes throughout his oeuvre including nati...

What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph McBride (Author)At the age of twenty-five, Orson Welles (1915-1985) directed, co-wrote, and starred in Citizen Kane, widely regarded as the greatest film ever made. But Welles was such a revolutionary filmmaker that he found himself at odds with the Hollywood studio system. His work was so far ahead of its time that he never regained the wide popular following he had once enjoyed as a young actor-director on the radio. What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?...

Working with Disney: Interviews with Animators, Producers, and Artists

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Report copyright infringementby Don Peri (Author)In this volume Don Peri expands his extraordinary work conducting in-depth interviews with Disney employees and animators. These interviews include conversations with actors and performers rather than solely animators. This book offers Peri's extensive interviews with Marc Davis, Frank Thomas, and Ollie Johnston, three of Walt Disney's famed "Nine Old Men of Animation." Peri interviewed two Disney Mouseketeers--Bobby Burgess and Sharon Baird--...

My Life as a Studio Wife: A Lifetime of Love and Music with Bruce Swedien

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Report copyright infringementby Bea Swedien (Author), Quincy Jones (Foreword by), Howard Massey (Editor)"This book gives an insight into one of the most irrepressible, high-spirited people I know." - Quincy Jones"Don't ever bring your wife to the studio!" they said-advice Bruce Swedien, five-time Grammy-winner and legendary engineer behind Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Jennifer Lopez, and more, cheerfully ignored. His wife, Bea, became a beloved presence in the control room for decades. Part...

Remnants and What Remains: Moments from a Life Among Holocaust Survivors

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Hank Greenspan (Author)Back JacketThis moving collection chronicles the personal and creative journey of Henry Hank Greenspan across five decades of sustained collaborations with Holocaust survivors. The book includes his haunting playscript REMNANTS, which has been performed on more than three hundred stages worldwide. REMNANTS recreates stunning, sometimes shattering, moments in which survivors share the core of what they experienced, both during and af...

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Report copyright infringementby Neil Jordan (Author)THE LADY BEST BOOKS OF 2024A haunted record of a life devoted to the visual art of the cinema and the written word, by Ireland's greatest director and one of her finest novelists. In this vivid, moving and strange memoir, Neil Jordan - the author of classic fiction like The Past, Sunrise with Sea Monster and Night in Tunisia, and the creator of celebrated movies like Angel, Mona Lisa, The Crying Game and Interview with the Vampire - reaches ...

Discomania: Fantastic Beats and Where to Find Them

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Report copyright infringementby Alan Jones (Author)Discomania is a large format 450-page full-colour extravaganza of Disco, Punk & Cinema. Do you believe in Mirrorballs? Alan Jones always has and DISCOMANIA remains his only lifestyle choice, punctuating actions and emotions throughout his entire existence. Everything he has ever felt has been written in Disco. But Jones was also one of the original Punks, working for British designer icon Vivienne Westwood in her World's End boutique SEX,...

Natural Born! Circus, Sideshow and the Art of Being Human

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Report copyright infringementby Aaron Smith (Author), Lisa B. Lewis (Foreword by) Number of Pages: 254 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 29, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Hans-Åke Lilja (Author)In his third book about Stephen King, Hans-Åke Lilja explores some of the less well-known projects by the famous author.Titled "Stephen King: Odds & Ends, " the book reveals interesting details Hans-Åke discovered, along with insights from people who have firsthand experience with these unique endeavors. Number of Pages: 188 Dimensions: 0.4 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 29, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Lino Delgado (Author), Paul Vincent Ruma (Author), El-Houari Si Abdelkader (Editorial Coordination by)Discover the extraordinary life of Lino "Lean Rock" Delgado-world-renowned DJ, international breaking champion, and acclaimed music producer-celebrated with official commendations by both the state of Massachusetts and the city of Boston in 2021.THESE ARE THE BREAKS! offers an intimate glimpse into the world of Hip Hop culture, where Lean Rock battles the highs...

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Report copyright infringementby Henry K. Miller (Editor)Raymond durgnat was a maverick voice during the golden age of film criticism. From the French new Wave and the rise of auteurism, through the late 1960s counter-culture, to the rejuvenated Hollywood of the 1970s, his work appeared in dozens of publications in Britain, France and the USA. At once evoking the film culture of his own times and anticipating our digital age in which technology allows everyone to create their own 'moving image...

Jazz: America's Gift: From Its Birth to George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue & Beyond

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Report copyright infringementby Miguel Covarrubias (Illustrator), Richie Gerber (Author)An Innovative Look at the Defining Moments of JazzMusic is both a unifying force and a deeply personal expression of the self. Over the millennia, melody and lyrics have served as a multilayered mode of storytelling and expression of joy, sorrow, and hope. For America, no other musical style is quite so adept at this than jazz. Jazz: America's Gift delves into the rich and storied history of American jazz-...

Screen Inspirations: How Iconic '70s and '80s TV Characters Helped Me Live A Balanced Life

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Report copyright infringementby Randy Roberts (Author)This memoir provides a unique glimpse into the character trails from some iconic TV personas of the 1970's and 1980's. Some of these include Jim Rockford from The Rockford Files, Archie Bunker from All in the Family, Jack Tripper from Three's Company, and Alex P. Keaton from Family Ties. I describe how these traits have infiltrated my personality through many of my own personal stories and how the combination of these traits is important t...