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Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Publication Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
294 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1980, a group of authority-defying comedy geniuses from Saturday Night Live, the Second City improv troupe, and the National Lampoon magazine created the funniest sports movie ever made. Maybe the funniest movie ever made, period. This timeless snobs-versus-slobs story of working-class kids and the white-collar buffoons who make them carry their golf bags in the hot summer sun has sex, drugs, and one very memorable candy bar. But...
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Publication Date
2026.
Physical Desc
xv, 462 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The untold, intimate story of how three young visionaries--Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg--revolutionized American cinema, creating the most iconic films in history while risking everything, redefining friendship, and shaping Hollywood as we know it. In the summer of 1967, as the old Hollywood studio system was dying, an intense, uncompromising young film school graduate named George Lucas walked onto the Warner Bros backlot...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese Doubleday
Publication Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
For more than twenty years John Ford and John Wayne were a blockbuster Hollywood team, turning out many of the finest Western films ever made. Ford, known for his black eye patch and for his hard-drinking, brawling masculinity, was a son of Irish immigrants and was renowned as a director for both his craftsmanship and his brutality. John "Duke" Wayne was a mere stagehand and bit player in "B" Westerns, but he was strapping and handsome, and Ford saw...
Author
Publication Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"A poignant, heartfelt, and funny memoir about how, in 1985, Michael J. Fox brought to life two iconic roles simultaneously--Alex P.Keaton in Family Ties and Marty McFly in Back to the Future"--Provided by publisher of regular-sized print edition.
Author
Publisher
Plume, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Publication Date
[2025]
Physical Desc
viii, 340 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"From debut author Ashley Cullins, the definitive story of the Scream movie franchise, with dozens of exclusive interviews from key players and an in-depth exploration of the creation and legacy of the films that rebooted a dying genre It has been more than three decades since Drew Barrymore's iconic scream first pierced through the night-burning popcorn abandoned on the stove, blood soaking her beige sweater and blond bob-but Scream is as popular...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Publication Date
2022.
Physical Desc
ix, 415 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"As one of the most famous faces of silent cinema, Buster Keaton was and continues to be revered for his stoic expressions, clever visual gags, and acrobatic physicality in classics such as Sherlock Jr., The General, and The Cameraman. In this spirited biography, every aspect of Buster Keaton's astonishing life is explored, from his humble beginnings in vaudeville with his parents to his meteoric rise to Hollywood stardom during the silent era. Based...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Publication Date
2026.
Physical Desc
x, 356 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"David Thomson has been called 'the greatest living writer on the movies.' Here is a career capstone of sorts--a one-volume history of film and screens as illuminating and provocative as his classic The New Biographical Dictionary of Film. In tracing the progress of cinema, from the Lumière Brothers to the Coens, Thomson glories in the great movies but admits to increasing unease over what the medium has done to us--promoting fantasy, misleading...