Representing a wide range of comedic sensibilities that have found a home in the new burgeoning comedy scene, here are profiles of 40 of the best comedians around, complete with excerpts from their stage routines. Includes Andrew Dice Clay, Judy Tenuta, Steven Wright, Jerry Seinfeld, Sam Kinison, Emo Philips, A. Whitney Brown and more. 40 photographs. ...

For the first time in paperback comes the definitive history of "The New Yorker", one of America's most enduring and important cultural institutions. of photos. ...

Dai Jinhua is one of contemporary China's most influential theoreticians and cultural critics. A feminist Marxist, her literary, film and TV commentary has, over the last decade, addressed an expanding audience in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.<P>Cinema and Desire presents Dai Jinhua's best work to date. In the book she examines the Orientalism that made Zhang Yimou the darling of international film festivals, establishes Huang Shuqin's ...

This book includes the screenplay; film production notes; excerpts from historical and cultural sources; selected reading lists; exclusive essays by director Joffe, screenwriter Medoff, producer Eberts, and Lapierre, on whose book the film was based. ...

A solid introduction for anyone considering film directing as a field of study or career. 10 photos. ...

STAR TREK is an unavoidable presence in contemporary culture. What most commentators miss is the striking aspect of Trek's double vision of a brighter tomorrow. Author Mike Hertenstein here plots a course to examine the alternative and parallel universes of STAR TREK settings and plots. ...

In the highly competitive film and video markets, conceiving an idea worthy of production is half the battle. This insider's book shares industry techniques one can use to sell investors, exhibitors, distributors, home video suppliers, wholesalers, retailers, and the buying public. Lightning Print on Demand Title
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From a film critic who has set a standard for depth, poetry, and audacity comes a bravura collection of essays. David Thomson's subject is Hollywood's ghosts, and their tendency to rise from the grave -- or descend from the screen -- and intimately haunt American lives.<P>Thomson conjures up Jimmy Stewart in Vertigo, Jack Nicholson in Chinatown, and Cary Grant in any of the pictures where he makes every scene look like a lucky accident. ...

"The British Cinematographer "traces the development of the art and craft of the cinematographer in Britain from the first cameraman with their primitive hand-cranked box cameras to the electronic sophistication of the present. Contents include the coming of sound, the impact and subsequent use of colour and the widescreen revolution. ...

The scripts of award-winning film director Ingmar Bergman have been among the most important documents in film history. Though his vision in such films as Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal has shaped our thinking about the cinema, none of his most recent films have been shown in U.S. theaters. This book brings to English readers for the first time some of the finest creations of Bergman's mature years.<P>In these three scenarios of ...