The princess diarist

The Hollywood icon best known for her role in "Star Wars" shares interconnected essays exploring her life as the child of Hollywood royalty, adventures on the sets of "Star Wars,"...

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Me and Earl and the dying girl : a novel

Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him t...

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Harry Potter : the amazing quiz book

How much do you know about the world of Harry Potter? Do you know every creature, spell, and Hogwarts professor? Who played each character in the films? And what about the many use...

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How to Cheat in Maya 2012: Tools and Techniques for Character Animation

The Maya guide for animators, How to Cheat in Maya 2012 presents everything you need to know about character animation in Maya. Fully updated for the latest revision of Maya, this...

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Directors tell the story : master the craft of television and film directing

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The Hollywood romantic comedy covent and controversies

The most up-to-date study of the Hollywood romantic comedy film, from the development of sound to the twenty-first century, this book examines the history and conventions of the ge...

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Romantic Comedy : Routledge Film Guidebooks

Romantic Comedy examines the history of the genre, considering the social and cultural context for key developments in new genre cycles.

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3D movie making : stereoscopic digital cinema from script to screen

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Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies : AFI Film Readers

INTRODUCTION 1. The Supernatural in Neo-Baroque Hollywood Sean Cubitt 2. The Law-of-the-Father and Tarantino’s Transcultural Imaginary Sasha Vojkovic 3. Demystifying Deleuze: Fr...

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The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics

The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics is the most authoritative survey of the central issues in contemporary aesthetics available. The volume features eighteen newly commissioned paper...

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Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema

Drawing upon the expertise of film scholars from around the world, Puzzle Films investigates a number of films that sport complex storytelling--from Memento, Old Boy, and Run Lola...

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Grammar of the Shot

People 'read' pictures as they do words, and pictures, like sentences, have their own grammar. A picture maker must be able to use the grammar correctly so that the visual story to...

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Grammar of the Edit

If you want to get to grips with film & video editing, this book sets down, in a simple, uncomplicated way, the fundamental knowledge you will need to make a good edit between two...

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Media, Gender and Identity: An introduction

1. Introduction  2. Some background debates  3. Representations of gender in the past  4. Representations of gender today  5. Giddens, modernity and self-identity  6. Michel Foucau...

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The videomaker guide to video production

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Film Studies: The Basics

Whether it’s The Matrix or A Fistful of Dollars that’s brought you to film studies, this is a lively and thorough introduction to exactly what you will be studying during your cour...

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Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction

Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores...

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Architectures of illusion from motion pictures to navigable interactive enviroments

The buzzword of the 1990s in moving-image-based media was ‘convergence’. By the turn of the millennium, with faster and faster, more and more accessible computing and networks cons...

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Childrens Films: History, Ideology, Pedagogy, Theory

This study examines children's films from various critical perspectives, including those provided by classical and current film theory. Topics discussed include: Film Historiograph...

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Cinema studies : the key concepts

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