America on Film

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James Agee brought to bear all his moral energy, slashing wit, and boundless curiosity in the criticism and journalism that established him as one ...

Timed to coincide with the release of the film at the Cannes Film Festival, this is the story of how one of the greatest ballet dancers in the worl...

This history of the horror film explores the genre's relationship to the social and cultural history of homosexuality in America. The text draws on...

Reducere. Filmul nu are subtitrare in limba romana. / This movie does not have Romanian subtitles.From the creators of Mad Men, The Walking Dead and Breaking...

Manny Farber (1917-2008) was a unique figure among American movie critics. Champion of what he called "termite art" (focused, often eccentric virtu...

DescriptionThe last decade has witnessed an explosion of interest in film festivals, with the field growing to a position of prominence within the ...

Filmul nu are subtitrare in limba romana. / This movie does not have Romanian subtitles.The second season of Hell on Wheels continues the story of ...

DescriptionThe Norwegian Rocky Twins (born Leif and Paal Roschberg) were deliciously handsome and lived life to the full. They made a name for them...

Because of the ongoing popularity of Leslie Stevens' 1960s television masterwork The Outer Limits, as well as later series creations Battlestar Gal...

(Music Sales America). Raymond Briggs' charming Christmas story about the adventures of a boy and the snowman that comes to life is a modern childr...

DescriptionDrawing on a wide range of archival sources, Andrew Shail traces the emergence of film stardom in Europe and North America in the early ...

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Reducere. DescriptionFrom the million-copy bestselling author, perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson, Anne Holt, and The Killing."Michael Ridpath is trouncing th...

"Utterly romantic." --Jenny Han, NYT bestselling author of To All the Boys I've Loved BeforeTwo teens are thrown together on a cross-country train ...

Reducere. Jordan Peele's Get Out: Political Horror is a collection of sixteen essays devoted to exploring Get Out's roots in the horror tradition and its com...

Reducere. This is the first sustained critical collection on Albert Brooks, one of the key but under-examined figures in American stand-up, television comedy...

Reducere. Andrew Dickos's Street with No Name traces the film noir genre back to its roots in German Expressionist cinema and the French cinema of the interw...

Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing (1989) is one of the most popular and celebrated examples of the African-American new black film wave. Set during th...

The capstone book in a trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of How to Lead and The American Story and host of Bloomberg TV's The Davi...

Reducere. Published in 1956, Peyton Place became a bestseller and a literary phenomenon. A lurid and gripping story of murder, incest, female desire, and soc...

Reducere. For fans of Ruta Septys and Monica Hesse comes a lush historical mystery set in post-World War II America against the flashy backdrop of Hollywood'...

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Reducere. Lion of Hollywood is the definitive biography of Louis B. Mayer, the chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer--MGM--the biggest and most successful film studio...

This volume examines the unprecedented growth of several cities in Latin America from 1830 to 1930, observing how sociopolitical changes and upheav...

*Now a Netflix Original Series* In the satirical tradition of the New York Times bestseller Stuff White People Like comes this witty companion book...

A Good Morning America featured thriller, 2021 People magazine "Best Books of Summer" winner and a Good Housekeeping "Best Beach Read to Add to You...

DescriptionOver one hundred years since it premiered on cinema screens, D. W. Griffith's controversial photoplay The Birth of a Nation continues to...

Reducere. The Big Boss (1971) was Bruce Lee's first starring role that catapulted him to worldwide stardom as the Number one Box office martial arts star.202...

Reveals the international and intercultural connections within contemporary performance from Oceania, focusing on theatre, performance art, art ins...

Reducere. This book is Stanley Cavell's definitive expression on Emerson. Over the past thirty years, Cavell has demonstrated that he is the most emphatic an...

Reducere. DescriptionOne hundred years after the founding of the Bauhaus in 1919, Bauhaus and America considers the myriad ways in which the German art, desi...

In this exceptional cultural history, Atlantic Senior Editor Ronald Brownstein--"one of America's best political journalists (The Economist)--tells...

Reducere. Oscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D. W. Griffith--a bigger-than-life American folk hero whose important life story has been...

Pacy debut novel from a British author, set in the Southern states of America, and intertwining a sinister murder conspiracy surrounding our hero, ...

This comprehensive biography is the first to present Lewis Milestone's remarkable life -- a classic rags-to-riches American narrative -- in full an...

DescriptionHave you ever wanted to create characters that look like they belong on the big screen? In How to Paint Characters the Marvel Studios Wa...

DescriptionA charismatic young president issued the historic moon landing challenge. This book, which greatly expands the companion PBS series, tel...

The Hidden Treasure That Lies in Plain Sight 4 is a bold and innovative addition to the world of literature, providing a fresh perspective on the d...

DescriptionThe haunted notebook of Sarah Bellows is now in your possession. It contains scary stories featured in the upcoming Scary Stories to Tel...

Reducere. 6-13 A Friday the 13th Movie Trivia Book is a comprehensive compilation of more than 700 trivia questions and facts all about the most popular slas...

Reducere. More than any other artist, Walker Evans invented the images of essential America that we have long since accepted as fact, and his work has influe...

Reducere. This "smart, confident, and necessary" (Shea Serrano, New York Times bestselling author) first cultural biography of rap superstar and "master of s...

Reducere. "A Meteor of Intelligent Substance" "Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is" Liberties - A Journal of Culture and Politics features n...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is Metropolis, the novel that the film's screenwriter -- Thea von Harbou, who was director Fritz Lang's wife, and a collaborator in...

Reducere. DescriptionIt's time for the Harvest Festival again, and Phyllis is determined to bake a killer pecan pie.Hollywood comes to Weatherford, Texas, as...

As a child, Charlie Chaplin was awed and inspired by the sight of glamorous vaudeville stars passing his home, and from then on he never lost his a...

Reducere. DescriptionTorchy Blane: model for Superman's Lois Lane. Five-foot-three firecracker. Smart, adventurous blonde. Gimme girl. Wry eyes, pouty kisser...

Reducere. Library of America continues its definitive edition of one of the most electric writers of our time with a volume gathering her iconic reporting an...

Reducere. A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, Stayin Alive is prize-winning historian Jefferson ...

Reducere. In this gripping historical novel, Dick Lehr tells the story of one protester in particular: Monroe Trotter, a black journalist who fought passiona...

Reducere. A cross-country hitchhiking journey with America's most beloved weirdoJohn Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mu...

Reducere. This first cultural biography of rap superstar and "master of storytelling" (The New Yorker) Kendrick Lamar explores his meteoric rise to fame and ...

Reducere. A hilarious debut novel about an eclectic group of merchants at a Kansas antique mall who become implicated in the kidnapping of a local beauty pag...

Reducere. An extraordinary selection of the finest and best-known art from the American war in Vietnam, from Tim O'Brien to Marvin Gaye, from mainstream best...

Reducere. In this interdisciplinary work, Raymond Angelo Belliotti presents an interpretation of The Godfather as, among other things, a commentary on the tr...

Reducere. From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce programme in Texas, American employers have discovere...

The definitive edition of America's modern master of crime fiction continues with four classic novels widely considered his best, presented in one ...

Reducere. Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) was an inner-city pastor, ethics professor, and author of the famous Serenity Prayer. Time magazine's 25th anniversary...

Reducere. Includes definitive writings by leading scholars that cover the full scope of the woman suffrage movement in the U.S., up to and including the outc...

Reducere. For years, scientists and researchers have studied, speculated about, and searched for an enigmatic creature that is legendary in the annals of Ame...

Reducere. DescriptionBefore the dawn of rock 'n' roll, the accordion ranked among North America's most popular instruments. Arriving in the arms of immigrant...

Reducere. A riveting medical memoir actor/writer/director Robby Benson takes us on a candid journey from athletic soft-spoken heartthrob on Broadway and film...

Reducere. Independent Publisher Book AwardsIn this stark and powerful book, Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian explore life on Death Row in Texas and in other...

Reducere. The United States Naval Academy has no monopoly on heroes - naval, marine, or otherwise. But over the last ten years, the most popular living autho...

Reducere. A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival--featuring an introduction by David MametA blistering character study...

Reducere. Collected Plays and Writings on Theater, the most comprehensive one-volume edition of Thornton Wilder's work ever published, takes the measure of h...

Postmodern Fairy Tales seeks to understand the fairy tale not as children's literature but within the broader context of folklore and literary stud...

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DescriptionConoley's selected poems assemble a shockingly varied body of work, comprising narrative, lyric, and fragmented forms. Her coruscating v...