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  • El cine de Martín Scorsese. El sueño americano en claroscuro: entre la violencia y la redención
    Isaac León Frías
    Taxi Driver, Toro salvaje, Buenos muchachos, Casino, El lobo de Wall Street, Los infiltrados, El irlandés… Con estas y muchas otras películas, Martin Scorsese ha dejado una huella indeleble en el último medio siglo del cine. Protagonista de la renovación del cine estadounidense de los años setenta, es, desde entonces, una de las figuras esenciales del séptimo arte de nuestro ti...
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    30,11 €

  • El cine de Pasolini: en los extramuros de la historia
    Isaac León Frías
    Para Isaac León Frías, editor del presente volumen, Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italia, 1922-1975), a cien años de su nacimiento y casi cincuenta de su trágica muerte, sigue siendo nuestro contemporáneo. Poeta, narrador y ensayista —además de guionista, pintor y columnista de opinión—, Pasolini fue una rara avis, a la vez comprometido y disidente y, quizá por ello mismo, voz y conscie...
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    30,11 €

  • Cine peruano de inicios del siglo XXI
    Cynthia Vich (Editora) / Cynthia Vich (Editora) / Sarah Barrow (Editora) / Sarah Barrow (Editora)
    ¿Qué nos dice el cine peruano del siglo XXI sobre nuestra sociedad actual? Después del fin del conflicto armado interno (1980-2000) y con la reconstrucción del país dentro de la agenda neoliberal, la producción cinematográfica ha crecido en los últimos veinte años; pero este auge se enfrenta a una financiación y exhibición imprevisibles en muchos casos, así como a una limitada ...
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    76,91 €

  • Cine centroamericano y caribeño siglo XXI
    Aarón Rodriguez Serrano / Antonio Peláez Barceló / Claudia Baricco / Claudia Baricco / Javier Payeras / Javier Tolentino / Jorge Fernández-Mayoralas / Jorge Fernández-Mayoralas / Karen Poe Lang / María Lourdes Cortés / Miguel Martin / Miguel Martin / Rafael Gordón / Sergio Valdés Pedroni / Servio Tulio Mateo Ponce
    Cine Centroamericano y Caribeño siglo XXI es una antología de estudios sobre un cine algo desconocido y de un deseo de acercar al público a los países que han sido castigados con la crueldad de las guerras civiles, con un cine cargado de guiones dedicados a la pobreza que asoló las regiones. Las dictaduras centroamericanas que se hicieron con el control inflexible del país, los...
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    18,20 €

  • Rondas, fanfarrias y melancolía
    Ricardo Bedoya
    El director italiano Federico Fellini (1920-1993) es un nombre clave del cine de la modernidad. Su trabajo empieza en los días de la segunda posguerra, colaborando con Roberto Rossellini, durante el auge del movimiento conocido como “neorrealismo italiano”. Luego, su carrera adquiere un perfil propio y singular hasta convertirse en uno de los autores cinematográficos más distin...
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    22,36 €

  • La batalla por el buen cine
    Armando Robles Godoy
    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, deman...
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    33,80 €

  • Reckoning
    Stephen Baker
    The author is a huge fan of Alan Bennett’s work, having studied Talking Heads at A-level. All the characters in Reckoning are fictitious, it tells the story of individuals who find themselves seemingly in an impossible situation, with their backs against the wall. But fate plays its hand and tables are turned.6 monologues: 3 for men and 3 for women, all approximately 10 minut...
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    15,37 €

  • Michael Haneke
    Spanning five decades and twenty-four films, director Michael Haneke's career is one of the most significant in the history of European art cinema. However, critical reception has long lagged behind his output. By the time Haneke (b. 1942) emerged into the international spotlight as a cinematic visionary with the 1989 Cannes premiere of The Seventh Continent, he had worked ...
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    42,97 €

  • Directed by William Beaudine
    James L. Neibaur / James LNeibaur
    William Beaudine is one of the most misrepresented directors in film history.  Inaccurately called “One-Shot” due to false claims that he hurried through his projects with disdain and never filmed more than one take, Beaudine was actually a very skilled director whose career ran from silent movies to television.  Beginning with one-reel short comedies, Beaudine learned how to b...
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    27,73 €

  • The Construction of Testimony
    In The Construction of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Its Outtakes, editors Erin McGlothlin, Brad Prager, and Markus Zisselsberger gather contributions on how Shoah (1985) fundamentally changed the nature and use of filmed testimony and laid the groundwork for how historians and documentarians regard and understand the history of the Holocaust. Critics have taken lo...
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    51,69 €

  • How to Have Fun at an Amusement Park
    HowExpert / Ronica Davis
    If you want to have maximum fun at an amusement park, then get How to Have Fun at an Amusement Park created by a real-life amusement park enthusiast.Many theme park guides have an overwhelming amount of information. Fortunately, there is a wealth of resources to help you plan your perfect trip. Sometimes, that's the problem. There is a lot of information, and it can get ove...
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    34,01 €

  • William Friedkin
    Christopher Lane
    Academy Award-winning director William Friedkin (b. 1935) is best known for his critically and commercially successful films The French Connection and The Exorcist. Unlike other film school-educated filmmakers of the directors' era, Friedkin got his start as a mailroom clerk at a local TV station and worked his way up to becoming a full-blown Hollywood filmmaker by his thir...
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    43,07 €

  • Margarethe von Trotta
    Monika Raesch
    Margarethe von Trotta (b. 1942) entered the film industry in the only way she could in the 1960s--as an actress. Throughout her career, von Trotta added thirty-two acting credits to her name; however, these credits came to a halt in 1975. Her ambition had always been to be a movie director. Though she viewed acting as a detour, it allowed her to be in the right place at the rig...
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    43,10 €

  • Robert Wise
    J.R. Jordan / J.RJordan
    Robert Wise, the young editor of Citizen Kane, earned his directorial stripes at RKO, particularly with The Body Snatcher and The Set-Up, films of amazing quality and dark sensibility. Wise later found himself at Warner Brothers, MGM, and 20th Century Fox, consistently directing pictures of depth and versatility. The man behind the searing crime film, Odds Against Tomorrow, fol...
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    38,00 €

  • Claude Chabrol
    Christopher Beach
    Claude Chabrol (1930-2010) was a founding member of the French New Wave, the group of filmmakers that revolutionized French filmmaking in the late 1950s and early 1960s. One of the most prolific directors of his generation, Chabrol averaged more than one film per year from 1958 until his death in 2010. Among his most influential films, Le Beau Serge, Les Cousins, and Les Bonnes...
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    42,90 €

  • Blake Edwards
    Gabriella Oldham
    Blake Edwards (1922-2010) was a multitalented, versatile director constantly exploring who he was, not only in filmmaking but also in life. Often typecast as a comedy director, he also created westerns, thrillers, musicals, and heart-wrenching dramas. His strength as a filmmaker came from his ability to be a triple threat--writer, director, and producer--allowing him full contr...
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    43,08 €

  • THE STORY OF CHADWICK BOSEMAN
    Tony Rose
    Long Live The King!  Before Chadwick Boseman gained worldwide notoriety and recognition for playing T’Challa, the King of the fictional African nation Wakanda, he was known around Hollywood for being the go-to man for a biopic. Boseman was best known for his portrayal of Jackie Robinson in 42, James Brown in Get on Up, and Thurgood Marshall in Marshall.Today, the Howard Univers...
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    11,76 €

  • Boro, l’Île d’Amour
    There has been a recent revival of interest in the work of Polish film director Walerian Borowczyk, a label-defying auteur and "escape artist" if there ever was one. This collection serves as an introduction and a guide to Borowczyk's complex and ambiguous body of work, including panoramic views of the director's output, focused studies of particular movies, and more pe...
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    44,72 €

  • Wes Craven
    Shannon Blake Skelton
    With a career spanning four decades, Wes Craven (1939-2015) bridged independent exploitation cinema and Hollywood big-budget horror. A pioneer of the modern horror cinema, Craven directed such landmark films as The Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Scream--considered not only classics of the genre, but examples of masterful filmmaking. ...
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    42,85 €

  • Ang Lee
    Karla Rae Fuller
    Taiwanese born, Ang Lee (b. 1954) has produced diverse films in his award-winning body of work. Sometimes working in the West, sometimes in the East, he creates films that defy easy categorization and continue to amaze audiences worldwide. Lee has won an Academy Award two times for Best Director--the first Asian to win--for films as different as a small drama about gay cowboys ...
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    43,18 €

  • My Best Friend’s Birthday
    Andrew J. Rausch / Andrew JRausch
    “This is a cool idea for a book.” — Quentin TarantinoMy Best Friend’s Birthday: The Making of a Quentin Tarantino Film is the story of a group of friends who set out to make their own movie in 1983, financing it with Tarantino’s minimum wage earnings from his job at a video store. In most biographies and Tarantino histories, this unfinished $5,000 film is mentioned only in pass...
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    28,04 €

  • Starring WHO?
    Andrew Kole / Michael Berlin
    Starring WHO?covers nine decades ofcasting decisions, highlighting the arbitrary casting of a majority of iconic roles in over 300 films. In addition, the book provides an overview of Hollywood for each decade, an opportunity to test your trivia knowledge, and a list of Academy Award winners in all the acting categories beginning in 1930.One example is Tom Hanks who first came ...
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    15,37 €

  • Tyler Perry
    Janice D Hamlet
    A career-spanning volume, Tyler Perry: Interviews collects sixteen interviews, ranging from the early 2000s to 2018. Once a destitute and struggling playwright, Tyler Perry (b. 1969) is now a multimedia phenomenon and one of the most lucrative auteurs in Hollywood. Known for his unwavering and audacious rhetorical style, Perry has produced an impressive body of work by rejectin...
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    43,30 €

  • Steven Spielberg
    Brent Notbohm
    More than four decades after the premiere of his first film, Steven Spielberg (b. 1946) continues to be a household name whose influence on popular culture extends far beyond the movie screen. Now in his seventies, Spielberg shows no intention of retiring from directing or even slowing down. Since the publication of Steven Spielberg: Interviews in 2000, the filmmaker has crafte...
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    42,85 €

  • Stan Brakhage
    Suranjan Ganguly
    In this volume, editor Suranjan Ganguly collects eight of Stan Brakhage's most important interviews in which the filmmaker describes his conceptual frameworks; his theories of vision and sound; the importance of poetry, music, and the visual arts in relation to his work; his concept of the muse; and the key influences on his art-making. In doing so, Brakhage (1933-2003) dis...
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    43,06 €

  • Jafar Panahi
    Drew Todd
    Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi (b. 1960) is as famous for his remarkable films as for his courageous defiance of Iran's state censorship. Panahi achieved international recognition with his feature film debut, The White Balloon, the first Iranian film to receive an award at the Cannes Film Festival.His subsequent films--The Mirror, The Circle, and Offside--continue to receiv...
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    43,10 €

  • Hal Ashby
    Nick Dawson
    Hal Ashby (1929-1988) is considered to be the lost genius of the New Hollywood generation. While his name does not bear the familiarity of, say, Robert Altman or Martin Scorsese, his diverse films are among the best known and most beloved of the era. From the cult classic Harold and Maude (1971) to the iconic political satire Being There (1979), from the subversive sex comedy S...
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    43,19 €

  • Gods, Gangsters and Honor
    Steven Machat
    From Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson, an insider's account of the deals and the dodges inside the music and entertainment business over the last 30 years As the son of the legendary showbiz lawyer Marty Machat, Steven Machat grew up among such names as Frank Sinatra, James Brown, Frankie Valli, and Sam Cooke. Following in his father's footsteps, by the time he was in h...
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    14,89 €

  • Lois Weber
    Martin F Norden
    Lois Weber (1879-1939) was one of early Hollywood's most successful screenwriter-directors. A one-time Church Army worker who preached from street corners, Weber began working in the American film industry as an actress around 1908 but quickly ascended to the positions of screenwriter and director.She wrote, directed, starred in, edited, and titled hundreds of movies during...
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    42,64 €

  • Barbara Kopple
    Gregory Brown
    With a career spanning more than forty years, Barbara Kopple (b. 1946) long ago established herself as one of the most prolific and award-winning American filmmakers of her generation. Her projects have ranged from labor union documentaries to fictional feature films to an educational series for kids on the Disney Channel. Through it all, Kopple has generously made herself avai...
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    42,97 €


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