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Love Story . . . The Godfather . . . Chinatown . . .No one had a hotter string of hits--or a more scandalous fall--than movie mogul and power player Robert Evans. From the top of the Paramount mountain to the bottom of the barrel and back, Evans omits nothing in the hottest tell-all since Julia Phillips. Photo insert.

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The quirky, strange and utterly sagacious meditations of David Carradine written during the making of Quentin Tarantino's contemporary classic in which Carradine played the lead role.

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Explores the affective toll of Taiwans geographical and political proximity to China through a critical analysis of contemporary Taiwanese film and culture. It examines the complex, precarious relationship between the sovereign state of Taiwan and China in order to consider what this might mean global anxiety around the growing power of China.

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Explores the affective toll of Taiwans geographical and political proximity to China through a critical analysis of contemporary Taiwanese film and culture. It examines the complex, precarious relationship between the sovereign state of Taiwan and China in order to consider what this might mean global anxiety around the growing power of China.

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A scandalous story of money, drugs, fast cars, high politics, lowly crime, hundreds of beautiful woman and one man, Porfirio Rubirosa from the celebrated author of RAT PACK CONFIDENTIAL.

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Studies the unique achievements of Chabrol's last fourteen years of filmmaking, during which he made nine remarkable films which combine a formally complex and highly self-conscious style with a thematic focus on the opacity of the relationship between human thought and action.

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From the terrified double-takes of Lou Costello and Bob Hope and the rapid-fire wisecracks of Michael Keaton's Beetlejuice to the ghoulish sight gags of Shaun of the Dead, horror and humor have been intertwined, on screens large and small, for decades. This edited collection o...

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Offers a critical history of key debates about visual style in British film journals in the postwar period -- .

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The screenplay of the classic British gangster film. Harold Shand has made it from Whitechapel to running his own "corporation", even forging links with the Mafia. Everything indeed is coming up roses, until the Easter weekend when enemies unknown embark on a series of lethal outrages against him.

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This book of essays brings together his latest ideas on filming, documentary, anthropology and the art of cinema, based on his practice as an award-winning maker of ethnographic films. -- .

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This book of essays brings together his latest ideas on filming, documentary, anthropology and the art of cinema, based on his practice as an award-winning maker of ethnographic films. -- .

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"The history of 1980s American cinema from an unconventional perspective that explores the diverse fortunes and unheralded films of globally renowned directors - Altman, Coppola, Friedkin and others - who have typically been seen as being in decline during the decade"--

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Following the life and times of Prince John, the forgotten youngest son of King George V and Queen Mary, this dramatization reveals how, diagnosed as epileptic and suffering from learning difficulties he was shut away at the age of 12 to prevent the family from public embarrassment.

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Few people have a true understanding of what it takes to get a feature film made and released. How does a film progress from idea to finished product How do film directors interact with other creative personnel This work provides answers to these questions through a collection of original career interviews with nine film directors.

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William Wellman was the director of the World War I epic, "Wings". This is his biography, and it describes the war hero, family man, occasional prankster, and underestimated visionary who changed Hollywood forever. Written by William Wellman's son, it traces how the director used his own war experience to bring a war epic to the screen.