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26×2 Intricate Colouring Pages with the Irish Sign Language Alphabet: ISL Manual Alphabet Colouring Book: Volume 6 (Sign Language Alphabet Coloring Books)
ISL in focus: A unique colouring journey through the beautiful details of the Irish Sign Language alphabet.
Experience the Irish Sign Language alphabet in a fresh, engaging manner. This adult colouring book, enriched with expert-validated designs, offers both a relaxing pastime and a valuable learning tool.
This is the ISL edition of a unique series of intricately illustrated international sign language colouring books for adults for many hours of meditation, creativity, and stress relief.
- 26×2 colouring pages with the ISL manual alphabet.
- Featuring a huge variety of professionally illustrated and intricate designs.
- Two copies of each design for your convenience and colour experiments.
- Single-sided designs and blank reverse pages to prevent bleed-through.
- A colouring test page for your favourite pens.
- Irish Sign Language alphabet reference chart included (approved by Sign Language experts – more information on www.fingeralphabet.org/isl).
- Link to an additional set of free ISL alphabet charts optimized for desktop printer.
Most of the designs in this book are rather intricate and therefore better suited for adults.
You can visit Project FingerAlphabet to click through a full slideshow of the designs and check if you like the level of detail before spending any money on the book.
Are you looking for a DIFFERENT sign language alphabet colouring book?
We have variations of this colouring book with the following alphabets:
- American Sign Language alphabet (ASL / 26 letters)
- Irish Sign Language alphabet (ISL / 26 letters)
- Filipino Sign Language alphabet (FSL / 26 letters)
- Danish Sign Language alphabet (DSL / 29 letters)
- New Zealand Sign Language alphabet (NZSL / 26 letters)
- Australian Sign Language alphabet (AUSLAN / 26 letters)
- Deutsches Fingeralphabet (DGS / 31 letters)
- Österreichisches Fingeralphabet (ÖGS / 30 letters)
- Deutsches Fingeralphabet der Schweiz (DSGS / 31 letters)
It’s important to note that most countries have distinct sign languages and manual alphabets. These can vary greatly, making them largely non-interchangeable.
Each of our manual alphabets has been validated by acknowledged sign language experts specific to that region.
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The Unofficial Studio Ghibli Cookbook: 50 Delicious Recipes Inspired by Your Favorite Japanese Animated Films (Gifts for Movie & TV Lovers)
Since 1985, Studio Ghibli has enchanted moviegoers with fantastic stories of adventure, magic, friendship, family, and most of all – the most delicious-looking animated food. Now you can create your own mouth-watering dishes with this book full of 50 unofficial, fan-created recipes!From tantalising breakfasts and lunches to Japanese favourites like yakitori and onigiri, recipes include:
- Skillet bacon and eggs
- Ramen with ‘haaaam’!
- Herring and pumpkin pot pie
- Steamed red bean bao
- Salmon with beurre blanc sauce
- And more!
Perfect for fans of Japanese anime, manga, and comfort food cooking!
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Good Vibes Gratitude Journal: For Teens, Tweens, Boys, Girls, Kids – Cute Mindfulness Diary with Prompts – Gifts for Teenagers
Practice Gratitude for a Fulfilled Life!
This stunning and cute book is a gratitude journal that will help the owner to cultivate positive thinking. By reflecting on the day we learn to recognize how we are surrounded by beauty, wonder and kindness.
The journal contains 90 black & white pages with prompts and a drawing space. In addition, there are prompts which change every week. The cute art makes this a perfect give for someone special.
Some of the prompts include:
- Today I saw this act of kindness
- Today I smiled because…
- Things I did well today
Practicing mindfulness has been found to decrease anxiety and stress, as well as increasing self-compassion. Research suggests that it improves general health and academic success, provides support and boosts resilience
This Gratitude Journal will help to develop a positive attitude towards life and will boost happiness.
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Heartstopper 16-Month 2023-2024 Weekly/Monthly Planner Calendar with Bonus Stickers
Join Charlie, Nick, Elle, Tao, and their classmates from Truham and Higgs as they explore love, friendship, and life in the hit Netflix series Heartstopper. Included in this 16-month planner are colorful images and graphics from the show, along with bonus stickers.
Heartstopper is based on the New York Times LGBTQ+ bestselling graphic novel series by Alice Oseman.
Features include:- 7″ x 9″ (14″ x 9″ open)
- Spiral bound
- Printed on FSC-certified paper with soy-based ink
- Spans September 2023–December 2024
- Generous grid space for notes, appointments, and reminders
- Monthly at-a-glance grids
- Extra pages at back for notes, goals, and more
- Official major world holidays and observances
- Moon phases, based on Universal Time
- Includes stickers
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Coloriages mystères Disney – Princesses: Coloriez les chiffres et découvrez l’image
Vaiana ou Blanche-Neige ? Cendrillon ou Ariel ? Belle ou Mulan ? Tiana ou Pocahontas ? Aurore ou Raiponce ? Retrouvez 100 coloriages mystères inédits à découvrir case après case. Appliquez les couleurs et faites apparaître les plus iconiques des princesses Disney.Read more
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Health and Safety at Work: An Essential Guide for Managers
This practical guide for employers in the UK continues to provide managers with the essential advice on how to establish health and safety procedures in organizations. Written in jargon-free language, Health and Safety at Work cuts through the legal complexities to enable you to fully understand the law and its implications for your business. Filled with expert knowledge and written in an accessible style, this book equips you with the legal and practical knowledge you need to protect your employees and your business.
This 10th Edition of the indispensable guide, Health and Safety at Work, has been updated to comply with all recent changes and additions to Health and Safety law including The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013, The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 and increased legislation and prioritisation of issues of stress at work. This new edition also comes with downloadable online resources and templates that you can use in your business.
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score sheets: Gambling Log Book For African American Tracker
A Gambling Logbook will help you keep track of your gambling wins, losses, events, and promotions to know how you’re doing.
By recording your daily statistics you will improve your gambling and develop your skills.
This log book Would Be a Great gift for Men, Women, Friends, and Family Members in All Occasions.
Log book Includes :- Yearly Events
- Date, Game, Location, Win, Loss, Game No, Notes
- Table Content
- Gambling Log 120 Pages
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The British Film Catalogue, Vol.2: Non-Fiction Film, 1888-1994
First published in 2001. The standard work on its subject, this resource includes every traceable British entertainment film from the inception of the silent cinema to 1994. Now, this new edition includes a wholly original second volume devoted to non-fiction and documentary film–an area in which the British film industry has particularly excelled. All entries throughout this third edition have been revised, and coverage has been extended through 1994.Together, these two volumes provide a unique, authoritative source of information for historians, archivists, librarians, and film scholars.Read more
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Merchant of Dreams: Louis B.Mayer, M.G.M. and the Secret Hollywood
Louis B. Mayer, at the helm of the great film studio MGM, was the guardian of American ideals. He was the most patriotic and romantic of the film makers, creating a dream world for the public in his lavish and luxurious movies. The son of a penniless Russian immigrant, Louis B. Mayer became the most powerful and richest film tycoon in Hollywood. His was the imagination which launched a galaxy of stars, among them Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Judy Garland, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Vivien Leigh, Gene Kelly, Clark Gable and Jean Harlow. This biography is as much an account of their triumphs and tragedies as lt is of the brooding presence of Mayer.Read more
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The Warner Bros. Story: The Complete History of Hollywood’s Great Studio : Every Warner Bros. Feature Film Described and Illustrated
This liberally illustrated retrospective covers every feature film ever produced by Warner Brothers, tracing the history of the star-studded studio from its beginnings in the early 1920s to its current status in the “New Hollywood”Read more
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Shocking Cinema of the 70s
This collection focuses on 1970s films from a variety of countries, and from the marginal to the mainstream, which, by tackling various ‘difficult’ subjects, have proved to be controversial in one way or another. It is not an uncritical celebration of the shocking and the subversive but an attempt to understand why this decade produced films which many found shocking, and what it was that made them shocking to certain audiences. To this end it includes not only films that shocked the conventionally minded, such as hard core pornography, but also those that outraged liberal opinion – for example, Death Wish and Dirty Harry. The book does not simply cast a critical light on a series of controversial films which have been variously maligned, misinterpreted or just plain ignored, but also assesses how their production values, narrative features and critical receptions can be linked to the wider historical and social forces that were dominant during this decade. Furthermore, it explores how these films resonate in our own historical moment – replete as it is with shocks of all kinds.Read more
£23.70£27.50Shocking Cinema of the 70s
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Propaganda and the German Cinema, 1933-1945 (Cinema and Society)
A comprehensive analysis of Nazi film propaganda in its political, social and economic contexts. It considers more than 100 films, identifying those aspects of Nazi ideology that were concealed in the framework of popular entertainment under the direction of Joseph Goebbels, Propaganda Minister.Read more
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What Just Happened?: Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line
Forget everything you’ve heard about Hollywood. What Just Happened: Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line is the real deal. In Art Linson’s true and uproarious tale of what it is to make movies, we get to explore, at close range, finicky directors, clueless executives, shameless marketers, famous actors, battered screenwriters, and hapless producers crossing paths in such calamitous ways that it’s a miracle these films get made at all. Whether he’s trying to persuade an executive that Gwyneth Paltrow has enough chin to carry the lead in a movie, forcing an enraged Alec Baldwin to shave off his mountain-man beard, discussing ankle hair loss with Dustin Hoffman, or sitting through an excruciating reading of a David Mamet script as Robert DeNiro toys with the notion of heading up the cast, Linson gives us a brutally honest, funny, and comprehensive tour through the horrors of Hollywood, from script to screen. If you love the movies or not, you won’t be able to resist the stories behind them. You also won’t be able to resist Linson, a born story-teller whose wicked sense of humor leaves nobody safe-not even himself.Read more
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Suburban London Cinemas
Among the 50 historic cinemas featured are the Finsbury Park Astoria, the Maida Vale Picture House, the Shepherds Bush Pavilion, the West Ealing Kinema, the Woolwich Granada and Kilburn’s Gaumont State. Illustrated with 100 images, this well-researched and informative volume will delight all those who have fond memories of visiting some of London’s long-since vanished cinemas, as well as those that still remain in some form or another.
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A Life in Movies: Stories from 50 years in Hollywood
“A lively memoir . . . a first-hand work of cinema history . . . the testament of a pivotal figure in American moviemaking.” —Martin ScorseseThe list of films Irwin Winkler has produced in his more-than-fifty-year career is extraordinary: Rocky, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, De-Lovely, The Right Stuff, Creed, and The Irishman. His films have been nominated for fifty-two Academy Awards, including five movies for Best Picture, and have won twelve.
In A Life in Movies, his charming and insightful memoir, Winkler tells the stories of his career through his many films as a producer and then as a writer and director, charting the changes in Hollywood over the past decades. Winkler started in the famous William Morris mailroom and made his first film—starring Elvis—in the last days of the old studio system. Beginning in the late 1960s, and then for decades to come, he produced a string of provocative and influential films, making him one of the most critically lauded, prolific, and commercially successful producers of his era.
This is an engrossing and candid book, a beguiling exploration of what it means to be a producer, including purchasing rights, developing scripts, casting actors, managing directors, editing film, and winning awards. Filled with tales of legendary and beloved films, as well as some not-so-legendary and forgotten ones, A Life in Movies takes readers behind the scenes and into the history of Hollywood.
“Charming and anecdote packed . . . popcorn for movie nerds.” —Newsweek
“A deftly written recollection of an eventful and happy life in a precarious and, frankly, insane business; a remarkably clear-eyed look behind the scenes of moviemaking.” —Kevin Kline
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Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: The Inside Story of HandMade Films
In 1978, George Harrison, the Monty Python team and American businessman Denis O’Brien formed HandMade films, which was responsible for such classics as “Monty Python’s Life of Brian”, “Time Bandits”, “The Long Good Friday”, “A Private Function”, “Mona Lisa” and “Withnail and I”. This book looks at the life and times of this film company. Robert Sellars has secured detailed and exclusive interviews with such diverse artists as Alan Bennett, John Cleese, Sean Connery and Richard E. Grant.Read more
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The Universal Story: The Complete History of the Studio and All Its Films
In the form of a year-by-year presentation of all their feature films, this book looks at how Universal won, lost and regained their position as one of Hollywood’s greatest studios. The story spans 87 years, and boasts a cast of thousands and includes all the films released by the studio – including box-office hits such as “Notting Hill”, “Jurassic Park”, “Schindler’s List”, “American Graffiti”, “Jaws”, “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial”, and “The Birds.” There is also a section recording every Universal movie to have won an Academy Award or nomination, in any category.Read more
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The International Film Business: A Market Guide Beyond Hollywood
The International Film Business considers the independent film sector as a business, and the specific skills and knowledge that it requires. It describes both the present state of the independent film industry and the significant technological developments that have begun to take place, and what changes these might effect.
The International Film Business:
- describes the present organization of the entirety of the film industry as a business
- discusses how digital technology is currently and how it potentially may change the structure of the industry in the future
- gives information and advice on the different business skills that are necessary to navigate what is a very high-risk, pyrotechnical industry.
Taking an entrepreneurial perspective on what future opportunities will be available to prepared and informed business students and emerging practitioners, this text includes case studies that take students through the successes and failures of a variety of real film companies/projects and exclusive interviews with leading practitioners in all sectors of the industry, from production to exhibition.
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The Star System: Hollywood’s Production of Popular Identities (Short Cuts)
Looks at the development and changing organization of the star system in the American film industry. Tracing the popularity of star performers from the early “cinema of attractions” to the Internet universe, Paul McDonald explores the ways in which Hollywood has made and sold its stars. Through focusing on particular historical periods, case studies of Mary Pickford, Bette Davis, James Cagney, Julia Roberts, Tom Cruise, and Will Smith illustrate the key conditions influencing the star system in silent cinema, the studio era and the New Hollywood.
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Complete Idiot’s Guide to Filmmaking
The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Filmmaking will do for aspiring filmmakers what The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Screenwriting is doing for aspiring screenwriters. In fact, this book should have the added luxury of also appealing to aspiring screenwriters, especially those who have struggled to get their work purchased, who have considered trying to produce and direct their own screenplays. Regardless of motivation for picking up The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Filmmaking readers will find it to be the most comprehensive book on the subject–and on two different levels. First, it will cover every aspect of the filmmaking process, from script to pre-production, to directing, to post-production, to distribution. Secondly, it will cover virtually every form of filmmaking, including independent features, Hollywood films, television movies, documentaries, corporate and educational films, “reality films,” digital/Internet films, and music videos.
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All Our Yesterdays: 90 Years of British Cinema (British Film Institute)
All Our Yesterdays looks at the British film industry from its troubled relations with the state; the links with theater, literature, music hall and broadcasting; to mainstream and independent cinema, genres, directors, stars and individual films. It provides a fresh, wide-ranging and often provocative account of British cinema.Read more
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The British Film Business
A fascinating read both for the general reader on film and also those with a serious interest in the subject of the film industry and film–making For the past 80 years the British film industry has struggled to compete with Hollywood. The early control of distribution by American companies in London and the lack of investment in domestic production gave Hollywood a commercial advantage that persists to this day. Successive British governments have introduced measures to protect the industry from overseas competition and stimulate British production, all with little long–term success. This book traces the history of the British film business from the days of the early pioneers, through its near collapse in the immediate post–war era to the current age of digitally enhanced blockbusters. The authors chart the successes and failures and show how Government intervention has often failed to assist the industry. They provide comment on recent developments and suggest how these could help British film making talent reach the wider audience that it frequently deserves. Bill Baillieu is a non–practising barrister with twenty years corporate finance and licensing experience in the development and funding of creative and growth businesses. His career began in the venture capital industry in the City of London, and he now specialises in the management, exploitation and valuation of intellectual property rights ranging from copyright portfolios to patented technology. John Goodchild is an experienced investment analyst and currently an associate with the London stockbrokers Walker Crips Weddle Beck plc. He has been fascinated by the British cinema since childhood when he first heard his aunta s recollections of life as a wardrobe assistant at Gainsborough Studios in the 1930s. He is also joint editor of Professional Investor where Bill Baillieua s articles on the industry were the starting point for The British Film BusinessRead more
£23.80The British Film Business
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Pinewood: The Story of an Iconic Studio
For eighty years, Pinewood Studios has made dreams a reality. Billions of people across the globe, of all ages, from all walks of life have read six words on cinema or television screens: ‘Made at Pinewood Studios, London, England’. From hosting super spies and superheroes, Pinewood has been home to a galaxy far, far away, helping create the movies that have made audiences laugh and cry in equal measure. Some of the most glittering careers on both sides of the camera have been launched behind the iconic gates of Pinewood.
From James Bond to Star Wars, the modern age of Marvel and the re-imagining of the Disney classics, Pinewood Studios and Shepperton Studios have played host to the greatest and most cherished movies of all time. Complete with many exclusive behind-the-scenes images from those classic movies, this beautiful new book offers insight, anecdotes and interviews with some of the producers, directors and acting talent who have worked at the studios, including Ridley Scott, Barbara Broccoli, Tim Burton and Sir Roger Moore.
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Gaslight Melodrama
Guy Barefoot explores Hollywood’s fascination in the 1940s, with late Victorian or Edwardian settings. All of the films studied are crime melodramas – films that feature a narrative pattern of sensation and reparation, and that involve crime, investigation and identification.Read more
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Michael Balcon: The Pursuit of British Cinema
, 128 pages, illustrated throughout with monochrome photographs, Michael Powell’s personal copy, DEDICATED by Bill Johnson ( an American Architect and trustee of Museum of Modern Art) and others to Michael Powell.Read more
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Minghella on Minghella
Anthony Minghella, the writer and director behind films like Truly Madly Deeply, The English Patient and The Talented Mr Ripley, here explores his own work and the art of film-making. He offers candid commentary and fascinating insights with chapters on subjects from the practical – ‘Writing’ or ‘The Business of Film’ – to the philosophical – ‘Structure’ or ‘Theories, Poetry and Mortality’.
With a preface by Sydney Pollack, this book is essential for admirers of the director’s work, or indeed for anyone enthusiastic about cinema in general. Minghella on Minghella is an opportunity to know what went on behind the camera – and the eyes – of one of the genre’s greatest modern practitioners.
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Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood’s Darkest and Best Kept Secrets
Originally published in Paris, this is a collection of Hollywood’s darkest and best kept secrets from the pen of Kenneth Anger, a former child movie actor who grew up to become one of America’s leading underground film-makers.Read more
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Witness – The Making Of Schindler’s List
This is not just another movie. We have a responsibility toward the world
remembering the Holocaust. It is a film about conscience’
Steven Spielberg
When Schindler’s List was released in 1993 it was acclaimed as both a motion picture masterpiece and a reaffirmation of the human spirit. In 1994 it had twelve Academy Award Nominations and won in seven categories including Best Picture and Best Director. This book is the moving story of how Steven Spielberg spent ten years bringing Thomas Keneally’s winning novel Schindler’s Ark to the screen. Written by Franciszek Palowski – guide, interpreter and consultant on the 1989 Booker Prize movie from Spielberg’s first research visit to Poland in 1992 – it is part diary, part chronicle of the massive undertaking in bringing the story to the screen, and part witness to the responsibility of telling the traumatic stories of the Schindler jews who are still alive today. The author acted as coordinator of the 1300 Schindler jews who travelled from all over the world to participate in re-telling the wartime events. Leopold Pfefferberg (now Page) who first inspired Thomas Keneally to write Schindler’s story supplied the photographs which served as a model for re-creating the past and many are reproduced in this book for the first time.
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The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History Of The Porn Film Indust ry
A raucous and revealing oral history of the birth of the adult film industry, The Other Hollywood peels back the candy coating to let the true story be told — by the stars, movie makers, and other industry players who lived it. And what a story it is: Through hundreds of original interviews, contemporary newspaper accounts, police reports, court testimony, and more, Legs McNeil and coauthors Jennifer Osborne and Peter Pavia trace today’s billion-dollar industry from its makeshift, mob-connected origins to the Internet age. Along the way we encounter porn stars such as Linda Lovelace, John Holmes, Traci Lords, and Savannah — along with countless mainstream stars, politicians, FBI agents, and more.
Epic, hilarious, and moving, The Other Hollywood contributes to the porn industry the one thing missing in all previous accounts: a vivid, tragicomic, irresistible humanity.
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Chris Gore’s Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide, 4th Edition: The Essential Companion for Filmmakers and Festival-Goers (Chris Gore’s Ultimate Flim Festival Survival Guide)
Learn the secrets of successfully marketing and selling your film at more than 1,000 film festivals around the world, including the best ones for indie, documentary, short, student, digital, animation and more. Chris Gore reveals how to get a film accepted and what to do after acceptance. The updated and revised 4th edition includes new filmmaker interviews with Morgan Spurlock of Super Size Me, Jared Hess of Napolean Dynamite, as well as actor/director Crispin Glover and Seth Gordon, a documentary filmmaker; full listings and contact information for all festivals; in-depth analysis of the Big Ten festivals; and fresh, timely how-tos for marketing, distributing, and selling a film and using the Internet to build buzz. The book includes a scratch-off card containing an access code to the author’s secure festival database online: a comprehensive listing of more than 1,000 film festivals worldwide, with all location and contact information, where up-to-the-minute updates to the listings can be found.Read more
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Story and Character: Interviews With British Screenwriters
‘Owen’s thorough research and penetrating questions are what make this book … the conversation is hilarious as well as informative, and budding screenwriters should pay close attention to extraordinary nuggets’ GUARDIAN‘A fascinating, insightful collection’ INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Covering the creamof British screenwriters, this gives a deep insight into the film industry and the way that classic British films came to be.
Featuring conversations with the writers of, among other films, The Full Monty, Billy Elliot, Four Weddings and a Funeral, 24-Hour Party People, The Wings of a Dove, The World is Not Enough and A World Apart, this is an in-depth study of ten of the top names in British screenwriting.
Lively and funny, challenging and revealing, this series of exclusive interviews with the unsung heroes of contemporary British cinema provides a unique behind-the-scenes look at the movie business, essential both for aspiring writers, industry insiders and film fans.
Featured are interviews with Shawn Slovo, William Boyd, Rupert Preston, Richard Curtis, Lee Hall, Simon Beaufoy, Hossein Amini, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Neal Purvis & Robert Wade.
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Elstree Studios: A Celebration of Film and Television
Elstree Studios is a lavish tribute to ninety years of film and television production. These renowned film studios have been home to some of the most successful and enduring film and television programmes produced in the UK, from Star Wars, Indiana Jones and The Avengers to The King’s Speech and TV shows such as Strictly Come Dancing and Big Brother.
With contributions from actors, directors and behind-the-scenes personnel, this book traces the studios’ history, from humble beginnings, through the golden age of film, tough times and the threat of closure to becoming London’s go-to film and television studio today. This fascinating history is lavishly illustrated with over 250 photographs and film stills.
Published in association with the studios, this is a celebration of world-class film and TV, and provides an intriguing insight into the past glories and hurdles faced by Elstree Studios and the film and television industry, looking forward to an exciting future.
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Hit and Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood
Hit and Run tells the improbable and often hilarious story of how two film packagers well known for spending other people’s money and ripping off credit for other people’s work went on a deliberate campaign to reinvent themselves as studio executives. With the exception of Batman, Jon Peters and Peter Guber were barely involved with the most successful films they “produced.” Steven Spielberg wouldn’t allow them on the set of The Color Purple, and they werre on the set of Rain Man only once, briefly. With the help of one of Michael Milken’s top lieutenants, they succeeded. It was the most audacious sales job of their careers: This unlikely team got Sony to give them the richest deal in Hollywood history.Read more
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Hollywood Word Search Puzzle: Challenging Puzzle Brain book For Adults and Seniors, More than 1500 words about Hollywood, Gifts For Christmas Birthday
This word search puzzle book is perfect for adults , Seniors & Teens who like word puzzles.Features of the book:
- 1500+ challenging words to find !
- 80+ themed puzzles on a variety of topics
- High-quality illustrations and paper
- Beautiful soft mate cover, With Big size 8.5×11 inch: Large Print – Anti – Eye strain for Adults, Seniors.
- If you do not know an answer or you may be tired, you have the solutions at the end of the book. It is great for both beginners and advanced Hours of fun!
This is a beautiful & cute gift for anyone at any age who needs to keep their brain active & mind relaxed!
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Grace: Her Lives – Her Loves: The startling royal exposé
Movie legend, princess, tragic heroine. The moment Grace Kelly stepped into the spotlight in 1950, the world was entranced. In this definitive biography of Hollywood’s sweetheart, Robert Lacey looks behind the fairytale facade to reveal the real story of Princess Grace of Monaco, as she became. Gaining unprecedented access to her family and friends, he tells the story of a complex and conflicted woman determined to live her dream. The bestselling biographer also reveals new details about Grace’s tragic early death in a car accident that sent shockwaves around the world, and lifts the lid on the affairs that rocked her marriage to Prince Rainier III. This enhanced edition from Apostrophe Books also provides access to 103 photographs, video, links to newsreel footage and trailers to 12 of Grace Kelly’s films.Read more
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Disneywar: The Battle for the Magic Kingdom
When you wish upon a star’, ‘Whistle While You Work’, ‘The Happiest Place on Earth’ – these are lyrics indelibly linked to Disney, one of the most admired and best-known companies in the world. So when Roy Disney, chairman of Disney animation, abruptly resigned in November 2003 and declared war on chairman and chief executive Michael Eisner, he sent shock waves throughout the world.DISNEYWAR is the dramatic inside story of what drove this iconic entertainment company to civil war, told by one of America’s most acclaimed journalists. Drawing on unprecedented access to both Eisner and Roy Disney, current and former Disney executives and board members, as well as hundreds of pages of never-before-seen letters and memos, James B. Stewart gets to the bottom of mysteries that have enveloped Disney for years. In riveting detail, Stewart also lays bare the creative process that lies at the heart of Disney. Even as the executive suite has been engulfed in turmoil, Disney has worked – and sometimes clashed – with a glittering array of Hollywood players, many of who tell their stories here for the first time.
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British Cinema and the Cold War: The State, Propaganda and Consensus (Cinema and Society)
Cinema was one of the Cold War’s most powerful instruments of propaganda. Movies blended with literary, theatrical, musical and broadcast representations of the conflict to produce a richly textured Cold War culture. Now in paperback, this timely book fills a significant gap in the international story by uncovering British cinema’s contribution to Cold War propaganda and to the development of a popular consensus on Cold War issues. Tony Shaw focuses on an age in which the ‘first Cold War’ dictated international (and to some extent domestic) politics. This era also marked the last phase of cinema’s dominance as a mass entertainment form in Britain. Shaw explores the relationship between film-makers, censors and Whitehall, within the context of the film industry’s economic imperatives and the British government’s anti-Soviet and anti-Communist propaganda strategies. Drawing upon rich documentation, he demonstrates the degree of control exerted by the state over film output. Shaw analyses key films of the period, including High Treason, which put a British McCarthyism on celluloid; the fascinatingly ambiguous science fiction thriller The Quatermass Experiment; the dystopic The Damned, made by one of Hollywood’s blacklisted directors, Joseph Losey; and the CIA-funded, animated version of George Orwell’s novel “Animal Farm”. The result is a deeply probing study of how Cold War issues were refracted through British films, compared with their imported American and East European counterparts, and how the British public received this ‘war propaganda’.Read more
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The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, Mca, and the Hidden History of Hollywood
The reviewer of the Boston Globe said point blank: “Over the years, I’ve read hundreds of books on Hollywood and the movie business, and this one is right at the top.” As the elusive, tyrannical head of the Music Corporation of America (MCA) until the 1990s, Lew Wasserman was the most powerful and feared man in show business for more than half a century. His career spanned the entire history of the movies, from the silent era to the present, and he was guru to Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, and Jimmy Stewart, and to a new generation of filmmakers beginning with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. For more than four years, Dennis McDougal interviewed over 350 people who knew the man with the giant dark horn-rimmed glasses,colleagues, relatives, rivals,and drew on tens of thousands of pages of documents to produce this extraordinary and first-ever portrait of a legend and his times, a book that the New York Times Book Review called “thoroughly reported and engrossing” and that the Daily News called, simply, “a bombshell.”Read more
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Guess The Movie? Hollywood Cats Coloring Book: Cats Take Over The Big Screen Coloring Book: 1
What do you get when you combine a cat coloring book with a movie coloring book?
You get the Hollywood cats coloring book featuring your favorite movies.
But there’s more!
Behind every illustration, you will find a recognizable quote. Will you be able to recognize all the films?
- Printed on ultra white paper for maximum color vibrancy.
- Perfect line thickness for effortless coloring between the lines.
- Iconic Hollywood scenes paired with their famous quotes for beautiful designs.
- Quick tips scattered throughout this coloring book to take your designs to the next level
Simply scroll to the top of the page and click the ‘Buy Now’ now!
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Cinema of the ’70s Magazine: Issue 9 (Colour)
This is Issue 9 of Cinema of the ’70s, a magazine dedicated to movies from the grooviest, grittiest decade of cinema. Our ninth edition contains 100 pages and features pieces by professional writers like John Harrison, David Michael Brown, Simon J. Ballard, Ian Talbot Taylor and others. The full contents are: Steven Spielberg’s Duel – Mann, You Need help by James Aaron; Raquel Welch – Last of the Bombshells by Dr, Andrew C. Webber; Dont… Fuck… Wid… Me! The Harder They Come by Ian Talbot Taylor; Young Lovers and a Demolition Derby by Bryan C Kuriawa; 10 Rillington Place by Peter Sawford; Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell – Fisher’s Neglected Classic by James Lecky; Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Despair by Rachel Bellwoar; Movie Print: An Overview of 1970s Film Magazines by John Harrison; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Mars – Capricorn One by James Cadman; Into the Great Beyond – Beyond the Valley of the Dolls by David Michael Brown; The Great Waldo Pepper – An Enthralling Barnstormer by David Flack; Hello to the Cyncical Seventies, Goodbye Gemini by Simon J. Ballard; A Blood Oath of Vengence – Assault on Precinct 13 by Kev Hurst; 1941 – Masterpiece or Mis-Step? by Martin Dallard; The Revolution of 1970 by Allen Rubinstein; Rebel Yell – Caged Heat by Julian Hobbs; Original Artwork by the students of the Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies and Caricature Artwork by Aaron Stielstra. 100 pages Full colour throughout.Read more
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How to Crowdfund Your Film: Tips and Strategies for Filmmakers
Crowdfunding is a major source of funding for independent films and over $250 million has been raised for films just on Kickstarter alone. This book will guide you through every stage of planning, creating and running your film crowdfunding campaign. The book is based on extensive data research and interviews which include:
- Data research on over 50,000 film crowdfunding campaigns
- Interviews with over 50 filmmakers who have run crowdfunding campaigns
- Interviews with some of the top people at major crowdfunding platforms and services
Praise for Stephen Follows
‘Stephen drills down on data to discover truths about the film industry. Totally worth a read’ – Ted Hope, Head of Production, Amazon Original Movies
‘Stephen’s research is brilliant. No-one is doing data-driven analysis of the film industry quite like Stephen Follows. His detailed research and reporting about the film industry is unique and invaluable’ – Jonathan Wolf, Head of The American Film Market
‘Stephen is one of the most gifted producers I know. His mind operates at an entirely different speed to almost everyone I know, solving problems, offering solutions and innovating new opportunities at breakneck speed’ – Chris Jones, author of The Guerrilla Filmmakers Handbook
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The Movie Business Book
Tapping experts in an industry experiencing major disruptions, The Movie Business Book is the authoritative, comprehensive sourcebook, covering online micro-budget movies to theatrical tentpoles. This book pulls back the veil of secrecy on producing, marketing, and distributing films, including business models, dealmaking, release windows, revenue streams, studio accounting, DIY online self-distribution and more. First-hand insider accounts serve as primary references involving negotiations, management decisions, workflow, intuition and instinct. The Movie Business Book is an essential guide for those launching or advancing careers in the global media marketplace.
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£40.80The Movie Business Book
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Blockbusters: Why Big Hits – and Big Risks – are the Future of the Entertainment Business
What is behind the phenomenal success of entertainment businesses such as Warner Bros., Marvel Enterprises and Manchester United – along with such stars as Jay-Z and Lady Gaga? Which strategies give leaders in film, television, music, publishing, and sports an edge over their rivals?
Anita Elberse, Harvard Business School’s expert on the entertainment industry, has done pioneering research on the worlds of media and sports for more than a decade. Now, in this groundbreaking book, she explains a powerful truth about the fiercely competitive world of entertainment: building a business around blockbuster products – the movies, television shows, songs and books that are hugely expensive to produce and market – is the surest path to long-term success. Along the way, she reveals why entertainment executives often spend outrageous amounts of money in search of the next blockbuster, why superstars are paid unimaginable sums and how digital technologies are transforming the entertainment landscape.
Full of inside stories emerging from her unprecedented access to some of the world’s most successful entertainment brands, Blockbusters is destined to become required reading for anyone seeking to understand how the entertainment industry really works – and how to navigate today’s high-stakes business world at large.
‘Convincing . . . Elberse’s Blockbusters builds on her already impressive academic résumé to create an accessible and entertaining book.’ Financial Times
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll Generation saved Hollywood
Based on hundreds of interviews with the directors, as well as producers, stars, studio executives, spouses and girlfriends, this is the full story of the crazy world the directors ruled. Never before have so many celebrities talked so frankly about one another and the drugs, sex, and money that made so many of them crash and burn.Read more
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Hollywood: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
In this engaging and readable book, Peter Decherney tells the story of Hollywood, from its nineteenth-century origins to the emergence of internet media empires. He recounts how the studio system rose out of the ashes of Thomas Edison’s trust to create the handful of companies that have dominated global screens and imaginations for more than 100 years. Throughout, he reveals that the elements we take to be a natural part of the Hollywood experience–stars, genre-driven storytelling, blockbuster franchises, etc.–are really the product of cultural, political, and commercial forces.In many ways, Hollywood has remained the same for over a century. It has always been a global industry based in the U.S., and its storytelling has always unfolded across media, adapting plays, book, and comics and spinning off product tie-ins, television series, and social media campaigns. But major events have also continually remade Hollywood. The studios have weathered wars, disruptive new technologies, and competition by adopting a strategy of risk management and assimilation. This book explores the challenges of new technologies, including sound, home video, and computer graphics. And it examines Hollywood’s responses to World War II, independent film movements, and regulations imposed by Washington.
Hollywood: A Very Short Introduction is filled with discussions of well-known movies, stars, and directors, encapsulating the past century of research on Hollywood while adding many original insights and stories. It is the perfect introduction for readers who want to better understand the history and functioning of our screen-saturated world.
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The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Read more
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The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood
A book that sees Hollywood as an idea, a trick, a religion even that swept the world, a book that knows what the bosses did, and why and how, but which also feels the impact on the mass audiences in the dark auditoriums. There isn’t a book that explains – even at a basic level – how the business, the money, of pictures operates. THE WHOLE EQUATION takes the history and describes the grand panorama so that the reader knows how he or she fitted in, along with Bogart, the Marx Brothers and Daryl Zanuck. The business is the neglected aspect of the story, neglected because its truths threaten the alleged magic, the romance of the movies. Yet, the money is the true sexual secret of Hollywood, and David Thomson leaves the reader quite clear, that amid all the hype and pretension, we should always ‘follow the money’.Read more
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Odeon Cinemas: Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation: 1
The old saying does often seem to hold true: the rich get richer while the poor get poorer, creating a widening gap between those who have more and those who have less. The sociologist Robert K. Merton called this phenomenon the Matthew effect, named after a passage in the gospel of Matthew. Yet the more closely we examine the sociological effects of this principle, the more complicated the idea becomes. Initial advantage doesn’t always lead to further advantage, and disadvantage doesn’t necessarily translate into failure. Does this theory need to be revisited?Merton’s arguments have significant implications for our conceptions of equality and justice, and they challenge our beliefs about culture, education, and public policy. His hypothesis has been examined across a variety of social arenas, including science, technology, politics, and schooling, to see if, in fact, advantage begets further advantage. Daniel Rigney is the first to evaluate Merton’s theory of cumulative advantage extensively, considering both the conditions that uphold the Matthew effect and the circumstances that cause it to fail. He explores whether growing inequality is beyond human control or disparity is socially constructed and subject to change. Reexamining our core assumptions about society, Rigney causes us to rethink the sources of inequity.Read more
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