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Don Mills: A Jonathan-James Book - Wm. Collins Sons & Co. Canada Limited, 1979. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: Wit and Wisdom of the Moviemakers. SYNOPSIS: A book for anyone who enjoys movies and appreciates "quotable quotes," Colombo's Hollywood presents some 3000 glittering and hilarious remarks made through the years by some of our most glamorous and gutsy movie personalities. The cast includes the film world's leading figures: superstars, actors and actresses, supporting players, producers, directors - even reviewers and critics. You'll find them all here: Bogart and Brando; Davis, Crawford and Bergman; Clift and the Fondas; Newman and Redford; Monroe, Mae West and the Gabors - even the silents speak. With a minimum of direction from the editor, they speak their minds about their art… Read More

New York: A Dutton Paperback - E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1966. Previous Owner Markings, Bookplate; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. 42 film makers and critics discuss the art and theory of film. SYNOPSIS: This book is for film makers, of course, and for critics and teachers and students of the film. It is also for fans, whose enthusiasm for star or story may actually be related to deeper sources of satisfaction in the art of the film. The theories conflict. Those who love movies should not be upset by the fact that there seem to be deep contradictions in these 39 articles. What kind of aesthetic theory can reconcile realism and fantasy, entertainment and education, mysteries and musicals, slapstick and spectacle? There can no more be a final theory of film than there can be a definitive theory of what to put in a book. The storm over style and content in the film will rage forever, for… Read More

New York: A Dell Book - Dell Publishing Co., Inc. Repaired (by Previous Owner); Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. 5 Months on the National Best Seller Lists! With New, Updated Information. SUB-TITLE: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street. SYNOPSIS: It began with a ten-thousand-dollar check. It became the biggest scandal and most vicious power struggle in the history of Hollywood-and Wall Street. DAVID BEGELMAN The flamboyant studio had. On the verge of his greatest success, could a forged ten-thousand-dollar check bring it all crashing down? CLIFF ROBERTSON The Oscar-winning actor. He was stunned to see his name forged; furious at those who would protect the forger. ALAN HIRSCHFIELD President and chief executive officer. He'd hired Begelman. Together they'd pulled Columbia Pictures back from the brink of ruin. Now he… Read More

Toronto: A Signet Book - Penguin Books Canada Ltd. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: NEW Enlarged cross-referenced film index for leading performers and directors. NEW Special symbols to show which movies are available on videocassette and laser disc. NEW official motion picture code ratings. NEW More than 19,000 movie, videocassette and disc listings with over 300 new entries. NEW Complete write-ups for every vintage movie series from Charlie Chan to Tarzan. MORE Old and new theatrical and videocassette releases - listed, reviewed, and rated **** to "BOMB". MORE Exact running times - for taping and discerning when movies are cut. MORE Listings of favorite classics and duds. MORE Facts about directors and stars. MORE Foreign and little-known films described. MORE Notations of the films that have been computer-colorized. PLUS An updated list of mail-order sources… Read More

New York: Bantam Books Inc. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Heavy Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Heavily Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. . . . and Videocassette. The Million-Copy Bestseller. The Biggest Edition Ever. Complete Ratings and Reviews for Movies on TV, Cable TV and Videocassette! SYNOPSIS: THE GIGANTIC NEW EXPANDED EDITION 1988-89 MOVIES ON TV. It's a great era to be watching movies. Now, you have access to more films than ever before, and you can view them virtually anywhere you choose - in the theater, on regular TV, PBS TV, Cable TV or on videocassette. But how can you be certain you are making the right and best choice for you and your family? THIS IS THE ONLY GUIDE YOU NEED TO HOLLYWOOD'S BEST MOVIES. They're all here: the stars, directors, ratings, reviews and fascinating inside information. PLUS - A special reference key tells you which movies are currently available on… Read More

London; New York: Verso Editions and NLB - Distributed in the United States and Canada by Schocken Books Previous Owner Markings (Highlighting); Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front Cover, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. SUB-TITLE: Semiotic Counter-Strategies. SYNOPSIS: The films of Hitchcock, Welles and Godard; the aesthetics of photography and the technology of the cinema; art and revolution in Russia and in Mexico; the avant-gardes in film and in painting-these are among the many topics of Peter Wollen's essays. Interwoven with fictional treatments of such themes as memory, dream, sexuality and writing, they compose a remarkable, perhaps unique, volume. These "readings and writings" are informed by Marxism, semiotics, psychoanalysis, and the history of art itself. Their concern is with signification: with the ways in which meanings are produced in dominant art forms and with the counter-strategies by which these meanings may be questioned or… Read More