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Raymond Durgnat (1932-2002) was one of the best-regarded film critics of his time. A maverick voice in the golden age of film culture, his work appeared in every significant film publication in Britain and the USA. Thoroughly introduced and annotated, this career-spanning collection brings together his essential writing for the very first time.

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A tie-in with the popular Turner Classic Movies series and a new edition of a TCM Library favorite, The Essentials Vol. 2 presents an even more intriguing, engrossing, and outstanding collection of must-see movie viewing.

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The authoritative guide to planning, organising, managing and delivery events of all size

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A vibrant and compelling first-hand portrait of the life of a dancer, from writer and dancer Deborah Bull.

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In The Faber Book of French Cinema, Charles Drazin explores the rich film culture and history of the country that first established cinema as the most important mass medium of the twentieth century.

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Twelve years ago, Amores Perros erupted in the cinemas across the world and announced the arrival of Mexican film-makers. The film-makers profiled in that book have now come of age and have made a decisive impact on the international cinema scene.

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'The first decade of 21st century cinema has surely belonged to Latin America, to the films and film-makers of Mexico, Brasil and Argentina.' - Observer

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A new updated edition of the essential pocket guide to this enduringly popular art form; a perfect introduction to over eighty of the most performed ballets today.

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In this book, Alison Wielgus examines the figure of the female detective on global television over the last twenty years, situating it within a growing transnational circulation of crime television and arguing for a radicalization of crime television that incorporates discourses of restorative justice and a feminist ethics of care.

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A comprehensive encyclopedia of film. It features more than 8,000 entries on the artistic, technical, and commercial aspects of moviemaking, including: directors, producers, stars, screenwriters, and cinematographers, styles, genres, and schools of filmmaking, motion picture studios and film centers; and film-related organizations and events.

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Peter Bradshaw's finest film reviews--the good, the bad, and the ugly.

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The first screenplay by Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road.

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From one of the key contributors to popular website Den of Geek. Once a cult phenomenon, now a fixture of contemporary pop culture, SF cinema is explored through key turning points in its history through 30 significant films.

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The General is the story of Martin Cahill - a working-class Dubliner who was the mastermind behind a series of daring robberies that stunned Ireland in the 1980s.

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Here is the classic collection of quotes from Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather.

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Matthew Solomon's study of Chaplin's The Gold Rush (1925) provides an in-depth discussion of the film's production and reception history, placing it in the context of the turn-of-the-century Alaska Klondike gold rush, and analyses the film's narrative and formal features, particularly its references to music-hall performance styles and tropes.

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An entertaining and informed history of children's television from 1958 to 1985: a celebration of a unique and hugely influential shared cultural experience and an analysis of what it said about the nation then, and what it means to us now.

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If blockbusters make money no matter how bad they are, then why not make a good one for a change

How can 3-D be the future of cinema when it's been giving audiences a headache for over a hundred years

The definitive account of the work, lineage and legacy of the most important European stage directors from the first half of the twentieth century. Through each volume's focus on a small cluster of related directors, it offers a rich and substantial account of the development of artistic practice and the artform as a whole.