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Author: Mick Martin
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 1598
ISBN-13: 9780345407931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReviews thousands of movies and rates each film according to a five-star rating system, and features cross-indexing by title, director, and cast.
Author: Leonard Maltin
Publisher: Plume Books
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 1650
ISBN-13: 9780452279148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith more than 300 new entries, 1,000 more videocassette and laser-disc listings, and an enlarged index of leading performers and directors, the 1998 edition of this perennial bestseller continues to be a "must" for every movie buff's bookshelf. "Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide" has long been acclaimed because of its factual authority and sheer depth of information.
Author: Leonard Maltin
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-09-04
Total Pages: 2655
ISBN-13: 1101604638
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNEW More than 16,000 capsule movie reviews, with more than 300 new entries NEW More than 13,000 DVD and 13,000 video listings NEW Up-to-date list of mail-order and online sources for buying and renting DVDs and videos NEW Completely updated index of leading performers MORE Official motion picture code ratings from G to NC-17 MORE Old and new theatrical and video releases rated **** to BOMB MORE Exact running times—an invaluable guide for recording and for discovering which movies have been edited MORE Reviews of little-known sleepers, foreign films, rarities, and classics AND Leonard's personal list of fifty notable debut features Summer blockbusters and independent sleepers; masterworks of Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, and Martin Scorsese; the timeless comedy of the Marx Brothers and Buster Keaton; animated classics from Walt Disney and Pixar; the finest foreign films ever made. This 2013 edition covers the modern era, from 1965 to the present, while including all the great older films you can’t afford to miss—and those you can—from box-office smashes to cult classics to forgotten gems to forgettable bombs, listed alphabetically, and complete with all the essential information you could ask for. • Date of release, running time, director, stars, MPAA ratings, color or black and white • Concise summary, capsule review, and four-star-to-BOMB rating system • Precise information on films shot in widescreen format • Symbols for DVD s, videos, and laserdiscs • Completely updated index of leading actors • Up-to-date list of mail-order and online sources for buying and renting DVDs and videos
Author: Daniel Herbert
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2014-01-24
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 0520958020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVideoland offers a comprehensive view of the "tangible phase" of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at video rental stores. Video stores served as a vital locus of movie culture from the early 1980s until the early 2000s, changing the way Americans socialized around movies and collectively made movies meaningful. When films became tangible as magnetic tapes and plastic discs, movie culture flowed out from the theater and the living room, entered the public retail space, and became conflated with shopping and salesmanship. In this process, video stores served as a crucial embodiment of movie culture’s historical move toward increased flexibility, adaptability, and customization. In addition to charting the historical rise and fall of the rental industry, Herbert explores the architectural design of video stores, the social dynamics of retail encounters, the video distribution industry, the proliferation of video recommendation guides, and the often surprising persistence of the video store as an adaptable social space of consumer culture. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, cultural geography, and archival research, Videoland provides a wide-ranging exploration of the pivotal role video stores played in the history of motion pictures, and is a must-read for students and scholars of media history.
Author: David N. Meyer
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780380790678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Double Indemnity to La Femme Nikita, this comprehensive video renter's guide covers films both classic and modern, foreign and domestic. Each entry includes a concise plot summary and complete screen credits.
Author: Leonard Maltin
Publisher: Signet Book
Published: 2004-08
Total Pages: 1637
ISBN-13: 9780451212658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers readers a comprehensive reference to the world of film, including thousands of alphabetically-arranged movie title entries containing plot summaries, along with information on performers, ratings, and running times.
Author: Mick Martin
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 1602
ISBN-13: 9780345420992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents brief reviews of more than nineteen thousand films and other videos that are available at rental stores and through mail order, arranged alphabetically by title; also includes actor and director indexes.
Author: Thomas Condon
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781884305856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains a popular system of psychology that groups people into nine personality types and lists hundreds of film characters that fall into these groups.
Author: Brian Sibley
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9780618154036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn authorized introduction to the forthcoming film trilogy includes production stills, star and filmmaker biographies, and a behind-the-scenes examination of the making of the Tolkien world.
Author: Mick Martin
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 1604
ISBN-13: 9780345420961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlways entertaining, witty, and packed with information, the "Video Movie Guide" has been a perennial bestseller for 17 years. Includes a special section on titles available on DVD.
