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Michael Benson
Michael Benson reconstructs the making of the Kubrick film 2001 from archive material: the collaboration with Arthur C. Clarke, the effects ... (Automatically generated book description)
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Nancy Griffin
Nancy Griffin and Kim Masters tell how Sony bought Columbia Pictures and two producers burned through hundreds of millions. Hollywood as bus... (Automatically generated book description)
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Christopher Golden
Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder catalogue the monsters of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and place them in mythology and folklore. A companion... (Automatically generated book description)
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Seán Crosson
Seán Crosson examines the social, historical, and ideological significance of sport in film, from the beginnings of cinema through Oscar win... (Automatically generated book description)
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Alan L. Gansberg
Alan L. Gansberg on Edward G. Robinson: over a hundred films, a first-rate art collection, and the blacklist that nearly destroyed him. (Automatically generated book description)
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Eve Golden
Eve Golden on Theda Bara, the first vamp of silent film, and on how a studio invented an origin for her and buried her with it. (Automatically generated book description)
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Piers Bizony
2001: A Space Odyssey combines meticulous science, limitless imagination, and pure visual majesty. This compendium, previously available as ... (Description from external book data)
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George Beahm
George Beahm, a former US Army officer, analyzes the military science of the Star Wars universe: personnel, weapons, technology, tactics, an... (Automatically generated book description)
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Nadine Farghaly
The Big Bang Theory's mix of humor, nerdy protagonists, sexy female leads and quirky characters have made the series one of CBS's most succe... (Description from external book data)
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Douglas Sirk
Douglas Sirk is one of the unsung heroes of American cinema. From 1942 to 1958 he directed some 30 lush melodramas starring the likes of Roc... (Description from external book data)
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S. Peacock
The first full-length academic study of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy in both its written and filmed forms. (Automatically generated book description)
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Denny Martin Flinn
Offers advice on how to avoid the pitfalls of bad screenwriting, including spelling and typos, character description, camera work, and struc... (Description from external book data)
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Mark Browning
Film scholar Mark Browning offers the first detailed analysis of the work of David Fincher, director of the critically acclaimed films Se7en... (Description from external book data)
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Anthony Magistrale
A comprehensive study of the most significant horror films from the 1920s through the present. Anthony Magistrale analyzes the connections b... (Automatically generated book description)
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Mark Browning
Mark Browning analyzes over 45 film adaptations of Stephen King's works and asks why some are far more successful than others. The book cove... (Automatically generated book description)
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Ashokamitran
Ashokamitran recalls fourteen years working at Gemini Studios in Madras, one of the most influential film production houses in India. He ske... (Automatically generated book description)
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Harris M. Lentz
A filmography of all English-language theatrical films of the 1960s and major foreign films exhibited in the US. Alphabetically organized wi... (Automatically generated book description)
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Horst Lichter
"Was willst du denn nun für das Teil haben?" Wer diese Frage hört, weiß, dass eigentlich nur eine Sendung laufen kann: Bares für Rares mit H... (Description from external book data)
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Björn Sülter
Nach über zwanzig Jahren erscheint im August endlich wieder ein umfassendes Werk zum Phänomen Star Trek in deutscher Sprache! Autor & Journa... (Description from external book data)
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Björn Sülter
Mit "Die Star-Trek-Chronik" startet der Verlag in Farbe und Bunt eine neue Sachbuchreihe im schicken Uniform-Design, die ausführlich durch d... (Description from external book data)
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Jörg F. Meyer
Das europäische Theater in den Jahren nach der Französischen Revolution und zur Zeit der deutschen Klassik wurde - gemessen an den Aufführun... (Description from external book data)
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Markus Hirsch
In der Fortsetzung von "Ein Quantum Bond" setzt sich der Autor Markus Hirsch mit den überaus erfolgreichen Leinwandauftritten der beiden Bon... (Description from external book data)
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Danny Morgenstern
žJames Bond für Besserwisser “ das zeitloseste 007-Buch auf dem deutschen Markt verschafft Klarheit. 007-Spezialist Danny Morgenstern ( žJam... (Description from external book data)
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Alfred Polgar
«Es ist überhaupt wahrhaft unbeschreiblich, wie wohlwollend spitz dieser unbestechliche Beobachter sein Unbehagen zu beschreiben vermag», me... (Description from external book data)
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Peter Hall
The story of a railway worker's son who became one of the most powerful, outspoken and charismatic figures in European theatre. Sir Peter Ha... (Description from external book data)
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Andreas Rauscher
Wenn kurz vor Weihnachten die 9. Episode von Star Wars in die deutschen Kinos kommt, werden wieder Millionen Fans Schlange stehen, um die Fo... (Description from external book data)
