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A completely fresh insight into the mind of one of the UKs greatest playwrights, the letters between John Osborne and his first wife, actressPamela Lane, are also a love letter to anow defunctsystem of repertory theatre, and life in post-war Britain.

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Looks at a century of cinema. This title is the author's personal, irreverent, hilarious and utterly original take on the 1,000 films he has most loved - and hated - from "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" to "Zabriskie Point", from esteemed classics to forgotten curiosities, guilty pleasures to noir treats, horror gems to kitsch disasters.

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What does a movie producer actually do for a living Actors, writers, directors, we all know about - but what of that other very prominent name in the opening credits

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A collection of slices cut from diverse visual worlds: street culture, advertising, architecture, shadows and reflections taken over an 8 month tour with a mobile phone.

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An illustrated celebration of the Best Beatles songs, ranked from 1 to 100. Each selected song is explained with an expert commentary, historical context, interview material and fascinating facts and trivia. Like all "best of" lists, the book's opinionated stance generates animated discussion.

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An accessible and up to date guide to one hundred of World Cinema's most interesting and influential cult movies. Covering a diverse range of genres and films from 1920 to the present day, this lavishly illustrated volume includes entries on films ranging from 'This is Spinal Tap' to 'Donnie Darko'.

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From bloodsucking schoolgirls to flesh-eating zombies, and from psychopathic killers to beasts from hell, "100 European Horror Films" provides a lively and illuminating guide to a hundred key horror movies from the 1920s to the present day.

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While centred on the dominant Hollywood tradition, 100 Film Musicals includes films from countries that often tried to emulate the Hollywood style, like Britain and Germany, as well as from very different cultures like India, Egypt and Japan.

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While centred on the dominant Hollywood tradition, 100 Film Musicals includes films from countries that often tried to emulate the Hollywood style, like Britain and Germany, as well as from very different cultures like India, Egypt and Japan.

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Film noir's popularity with cinema audiences, enthusiasts and scholars has remained unabated since post-war French critics began discerning a new trend in American film with the release of such stylish and atmospheric crime features as Double Indemnity and Murder, My Sweet.

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From La Traviata to Aida, from Carmen to Don Giovanni, here are the plots of the world's best-loved operas, recounted in an engaging, picturesque, and readable manner. In addition to highlighting the most important aspects of each opera, the author discusses main characters, famous plot twists, and the most significant arias.

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A collection of the world's most memorable, provocative, best-selling and groundbreaking posters from Johannes Gutenberg to Barack Obama.

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A comprehensive guide to science fiction films, which analyzes and contextualizes the most important examples of the genre, from Un voyage dans la lune (1902), to The Road (2009).

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Featuring work by more than 140 illustrators, this is a comprehensive survey of the history of fashion illustration in the twentieth century. Now in a pocket edition.

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Creating an overview of how the dress evolved and its impact on the fashion industry, the authors pay homage to the experimental, the beautiful, and the innovative, showing how a dress can encapsulate a designer's vision and can often act as the key piece within a collection.

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This second volume in the successful series Collection of Architecture presents the major and most ingenious European hotels: famous Grand Hotels with history and glamour as well as young, innovative places that impress with excellent design. Alongside

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With 1000 projects from around the world focusing on parks and gardens this publication also presents numerous other types of categories such as greened faades, stone gardens, memorials and waterscapes.