Film Criticism
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The Collected Plays of Neil Simon, Volume 1: The Odd Couple; Plaza Suite; Barefoot in the Park; Come Blow Your Horn; The Star-Spangled Girl; Last of the Red Hot Lovers; Promises, Promises
by Simon, Neil; Hamlisch, Marvin; Sager, Carole Bayer
NY: Plume, 1986. Trade softcover. Published NY: Plume, 1986. 8vo. wrappers, 6" x 9", 657pp. Mild creasing to spine, one page wrinkled, light edge soil, else very good, clean, bright. . Soft Cover. Very Good Minus/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.
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NZ$34.10
Bela Balazs: The Man and the Artist
by Zsuffa, Jospeh
Berkeley: Univ of California Pr, 1987. First edition. Hard cover. Published Berkeley: Univ of California Pr., 1987, first printing. Ex-library copy with label and barcode. Very good, clean, tight copy. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.
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NZ$51.15
Extravaganza King: Robert Barnet and Boston Musical Theater
by Anne Alison Barnet
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2004. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2004, first printing. 8vo., xvii+223pp., illustrated. A writer, research, and public speaker based in Boston's South End, Barnet tells the story of sugar merchant Robert A. Barnet (1853-1933) and the Cadet Theatricals, a Boston Brahman militia that raised money for an armory to protect the city's elite from immigrant uprisings by putting on annual, amateur, and...
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Seeing and Believing - Religion and Values in the Moviews
by Miles, Margaret R
Boston: Beacon Press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Signed and inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Victoria - with best wishes - Margaret R. Miles." Red and silver hardcover 1st edition in dustjacket. A very good copy with a review stamp to the bottom edge, Minor bumping to the bottom corners and the rear front edge. Interior is clean and tight as if unread. The jacket is not quite as good with chips and ruffling along the top edges and a short tear at the top of...
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NZ$29.84
Film Directing : Cinematic Motion - a Workshop for Staging Scenes
by Katz, Steven D
Studio City: Michael Wiese Productions, 1992. First Edition.Softcover 4to. wrappers. Published Studio City: Michael Wiese Productions, 1992. 294 pages, illus. First printing. Near fine. . 1st. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to. Illus.
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NZ$42.63
Co-Starring: Famous Women and Alcohol
by Robe, Lucy Barry
U.S.A.: Compcare Pubns, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Published Compcare, 1986. Thick 8vo., 537pp., illus. b/w photos. Very good plus in dj.. 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. 8vo. Illus.
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NZ$25.58
The Busby Berkeley Book
by Busby Berkeley. Foreword by Ruby Keeler
New York: New York Graphic Society, 1973. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 190 pp. More than 250 photographs. A compilation of Berkeley's heyday of Hollywood as the "Dream Factory" films that documents his rococo visual ornamentations.
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NZ$127.88
Garbo Portraits from Her Private Collection
by Reisfield, Scott
NY: Rizzoli, 2005. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Rizzoli, 2005, first printing. 4to., 8 3/4" x 12 3/4", 255pp., illustrated with hundreds of photographs. Published to resemble a photo album in half bound brown and beige cloth. "Though ambivalent about fame and her public image, Garbo saved all of her favorite portraits, carefully archiving original prints by Clarence Sinclair Bull, Arnold Genthe, Ruth Harriet Louise, Edward Steichen, and Cecil Beaton, among...
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NZ$68.20
Strangers in Hollywood
by Wollstein, Hans J
Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1994. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo. xiv, [2], 368, [2] pp. Bound in full brown cloth, title stamped in silver on cover and spine, in illustrated dust jacket. Black and white photographs. Fine, bright, crisp copy in Fine, bright dust jacket.
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NZ$85.26
Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation and the Making of a Dark Classic
by Glenn Frankel
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 8vo. History of the controversial Oscar-winning film that signaled a dramatic shift in American popular culture.
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NZ$127.88
City Images
by Caws, Mary Ann, ed
New York: Gordon and Breach, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo. [6], 278 pp. Bound in glossy illustrated boards. Lacking dust jacket. Black and white illustrations. Includes index. Very Good+, light shelf wear to binding, internally clean and bright.
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NZ$51.15
The Films of Samuel Fuller
by Dombrowski, Lisa
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. 8vo. xii, [2], 246, [2] pp. Bound in quarter black cloth over red boards, in illustrated dust jacket. Black and white illustrations. Includes filmography, bibliography and index. Fine, clean, crisp copy, in Very Good+ dust jacket with some light rippling from water damage to upper front cover, with some minor overall wear and scuffing.
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NZ$59.68
Writing Himself into History
by Bowser, Pearl; Spence, Louise
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, [2000]. Paperback. Very Good +. 8vo. xxvi, 288, [2] pp. Bound in illustrated wrappers. Black and white illustrations. Includes bibliography, filmography, and index. Very Good+, previous owner's inscription to half title, internally clean and sharp, minor wear to wrappers.
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NZ$51.15
The Great German Films
by Ott, Frederick W
Secaucus, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Citadel Pr, 1986. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Secaucus: Citadel, 1986, first printing. 4to., 9" x 11 1/4." 304 pp., profusely illustrated with b/w stills. Small splash mark on bottom edge. Very good in very good, bit frayed dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.
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NZ$51.15
![Scarce Grouping of Seven [7] B&W Paramount Advance Publicity Scenes for the 1980 American Cult Classic Film "Friday the 13th](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/312/825/1477825312.0.b.jpg)
Scarce Grouping of Seven [7] B&W Paramount Advance Publicity Scenes for the 1980 American Cult Classic Film "Friday the 13th
New York: Paramount Pictures, 1980. Softcover. Near Fine. Includes seven [7] b&w photos each measuring approximately 8" x 10" along with film notes on recto. Friday the 13th is a 1980 American independent slasher film produced and directed by Sean S. Cunningham, written by Victor Miller, and starring Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby, Laurie Bartram, Mark Nelson, Jeannine Taylor, Robbi Morgan, and Kevin Bacon. Its plot follows a group of teenage camp counselors who are murdered one by one by an...
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NZ$255.77
The Complete Film Dictionary
by Konigsberg, Ira
NY: New Amer Library, 1987. First edtion. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: New Amer Library, 1987, first printing. Small 4to., viii+420 pp., illustrated with 220 drawings and photos. Naer fine in near fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to.
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NZ$42.63
The Mission: A Film Journal
by Daniel Berrigan SJ
New York: Harper & Row, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Near fine with short remainder line along bottom edge in fine dust jacket.
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NZ$59.68
Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema
by Winkler, Martin M
NY: Oxford Univ Pr, 2001. First edition, trade softcover. Published NY: Oxford Univ Pr., 2001, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, ix+350pp., illustrated with b/w photos. Marker stripes on bottom edge, else fine. "Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema is a collection of essays presenting a variety of approaches to films set in ancient Greece and Rome and to films that reflect archetypal features of classical literature. The diversity of content and theoretical stances found in this volume will make it...
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![Movies [And Other Things]: A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/713/921/1538921713.0.b.jpg)
Movies [And Other Things]: A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated
by Shea Serrano; Illustrated by Arturo Torres, Foreword by John Leguizamo
New York: Twelve, 2019. Hardcover. Fine in color illustrated boards. 235 pp. Signed by the author.
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NZ$85.26
European Folk Dance: Its National and Musical Characteristics
by Joan Lawson
Great Britain: Pitman Publishing, 1967. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Great Britain: Pitman Publishing, 1972. 4to., 7 1/2" x 10", xii+244pp., illustrated with reproductions, musical notation and 2 fold-out maps. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. . Hard. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to.
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Sports in the Movies
by Ronald Bergan
New York and London: Proteus, 1982. Softcover. Fine in wraps. 4to. 160 pp. with index, black and white photos with text.
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NZ$42.63
Leni Riefenstahl. Die Verführung des Talents
by Rother, Rainer
Berlin: Henschel, 2001. Text in German. Underlining in one chapter. Very good in very good dust jacket. . Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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NZ$25.58
The Churchills
by [Churchill, Winston]
WGBH Boston Video, 2003. DVD Movie. Fine copy/fine. DVD movie. 150 minutes. Full frame format. Color. Narrated by Ian Holm. Featuring the voices of Robert Hardy, Ronald Pickup, Harriet Walters.
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NZ$37.51
Rolling Breaks and Other Movie Business
by Harmetz, Aljean
NY: Knopf, 1983. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Knopf, 1983, first printing. 8vo., xvii+263pp. Foxing along top edge. Very good in good dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/Good. 8vo.
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NZ$25.58
Vivien: A Love Affair in Camera
by McBean, Angus
Oxford: Phaidon, 1989. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Oxford: Phaidon, 1989, first printing. 4to., 9 7/8" x 11 1/4" 112pp., lavishly illustrated with b/w plates. Edited by Adrian Woodhouse. White cloth with black titles, black endpapers. "A unique photographic record of Vivien Leigh's life taken by the photographer who noticed her on her first stage appearance in 1936 and asked her to model for him. This meeting led to a series of photographs produced at regular...
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NZ$170.51
