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In an era fascinated by horror, this book examines some of the most significant global TV horror, from childrens television and classic series to contemporary shows taking advantage of streaming and on-demand to reach audiences around the world.

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Celebrates Hammer's female stars, including Ingrid Pitt, Martine Beswick, Caroline Munro, Barbara Shelley, Joanna Lumley, Nastassja Kinski, and Raquel Welch.

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A Queer Film Classic on the 1987 feminist love story by director Patricia Rozema.

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A world-weary detective, a seductive femme fatale, a mysterious murder - these elements of classic film noir live again in more recent hardboiled detective films from Chinatown to Sin City. But the themes and styles of noir have also spilled over into contemporary films about gangsters, cops and serial killers...

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A unique and carefully researched cultural history of UK film, TV and music in the swinging 60s. A time when no film or TV programme was without a group, singer or fantastic soundtrack - and London was briefly the film capital of the world. Containing individual summaries of over 120 films, covering everything from John Barry to Pink...

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References to Samurai Films are quite common in film literature. Many mainstream directors, from Hollywood and elsewhere, have been inspired and influenced by Samurai Films. Want to know where George Lucas got some of the major plot ideas for Star Wars: A New Hope Check out Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress....

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They are tough. They are the fastest, coolest gunslingers of the sixties and they don't talk much. They are the heroes of the Italian Spaghetti West and they changed the Western forever. Clint Eastwood's poncho-clad, cigar-smoking Man With No Name is the enduring symbol of the genre and his Dollars trilogy with Sergio Leone...

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Argues that contemporary slasher films embody a turn towards the metamodern sensibility

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From the vengeful ghosts of J-horror to the walking dead in 28 Days Later and World War Z, from the creepiness of Spain's haunted houses to the graphic gore of the New French Extremism, horror is everywhere in the twenty-first century. This lively and illuminating book explores over 100 contemporary horror...

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Fifty more of the best samurai films--this time teamed up with yakuza and ninjas!

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A beautifully illustrated storybook tells the story of Walt Disney's love of fireworks and features the lyrics to 'A Kiss Goodnight,' written by Richard Sherman and heard every night at Walt Disney World and Disneyland during the fireworks shows

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Delve into the world of Alita in this glossy hardback filled with concept art, stills and interviews with the creatives, including Rodriguez and Cameron.

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This bodacious companion to all three movies features hundreds of photographs, script excerpts and quotes: a most excellent publication.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Haunting, hallucinatory, and with a mesmerizing lead role performance from David Bowie, Nic Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth is a cult piece of science fiction. This book gathers a bumper collection of stills and behind-the-scenes images by unit photographer David James, including stunning shots of Bowie as humanoid alien Thomas Jerome Newton.

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A book, that intends to trace the rise and fall of horror cinema from its beginnings in the 1890s right through to the end of the 20th century, encompassing the lost films of the silent era, the Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi chillers of the 1930s, the lurid classics from Hammer's house of horror and the explicit shockers of the 1970s.

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Explore the dark and brooding elegance of Film Noir with this essential handbook to the genre, exploring key noir themes and their most representative movies. Copiously illustrated with film stills as well as original posters, the book also lists TASCHEN's top 50 noir classics. A must for amateurs and aficionados alike.

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The ultimate companion to all things 007, covering the making of every movie in the James Bond franchise, from Dr. No to the 25th film, No Time To Die. With more than 1,000 images and an oral history featuring 150 cast and crew members, this updated XXL edition will delight fans of the most successful film franchise in cinema history.

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A comprehensive, authorized compendium of all things Buffy the Vampire Slayer, published in celebration of the revered shows twentieth anniversary.

From its debut in 1997, Buffy the Vampire Slayer became a cult hit with legions of devoted viewers and propelled the shows creator Joss Whedon to stardom.