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This indispensable reference for professional grips is back by popular demand. Now with a DVD! more...

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Provides information about film creatures and monsters separated into five categories--aliens, beasts, creations, psychopaths, and the supernatural--presenting a physical description, overview of its habits and habitat, and advice on how to destroy it. more...

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I Walked the Line is a chronicle of first love, long-kept secrets, betrayal, forgiveness, and the truth--told at last by Johnny Cash's first wife, the mother of his four daughters. It is a book that had the full support of Johnny Cash, who insisted it was time for their story to be told, despite any painful revelations that might come to light as a result.Many myths and contradictions regarding the life of Johnny and his family have been perpetuated for decades in film and literature. Vivian exposes previously untold stories involving Johnny's drug addiction, his fraught family life, and their divorce in 1968, as well as the truth behind the writing of two of Johnny's most famous songs, "I Walk the Line" and "Ring of Fire."Supplemented by a never-before-published archive of love letters and family photos, I Walked the Line offers a deeper look at one of the most sig- nificant artists in music history. Here, fans and readers can experience the extraordinary account of love and heartbreak between Johnny and Vivian, and come to understand Vivian's dignified silence over the years. Through this elegant, revealing, and powerful memoir, Vivian Cash's voice is finally heard. more...

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Luciano Pavarotti’s longtime manager and friend tells all. All . The King and I is the story of the thirty-six-year-old business relationship between Luciano Pavarotti and his manager, Herbert Breslin, during which Breslin guided what he calls, justifiably, “the greatest career in classical music. more...

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Praise for the first edition of New Documentary: A Critical Introduction: "It's refreshing to find a book that cuts through the tired old debates that have surrounded documentary film and television heralds a welcome new approach." - Sight and Sound "This book is going to be essential reading for any media teacher with a serious interest in documentary and is highly recommended for centres selecting "Documentary" as one of the two "Textual Topics" on AQA's Media spec." - In The Picture New Documentary: A Critical Introduction provides a contemporary look at documentary and fresh and challenging ways of theorizing the non-fiction film. As engaging as the original, this second edition features thorough updates to the existing chapters, as well as a brand new chapter on contemporary cinema release documentaries. This new edition includes: Contemporary films such as Capturing the Friedmans, Être et avoir, Farenheit 9/11, The Fog of War and Touching the Void as well as more canonical texts such as Hoop Dreams and Shoah. Interviews with influential practitioners, Michael Apted (director of 7 Up) and Stephen Lambert (creative director of RDF Media, executive producer of Wife Swap and Faking It) A comprehensively revised discussion of modern observational documentary, including docusoaps, reality television and formatted documentaries The work of documentary filmmakers such as Nicholas Barker, Errol Morris, Nick Broomfield, Molly Dineen and Michael Moore and the work of Avant-Garde filmmakers such as Chris Marker and Patrick Keiller. Gender identity, queer theory, performance, race and spectatorship. Bruzzi shows how theories of documentary filmmaking can be applied to contemporary texts and genres, and discusses the relationship between recent, innovative examples of the genre and the more established canon of documentary. more...

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