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Nov.25.2009
From Wonder Woman to Buffy Summers, Emma Peel to Sydney Bristow, Charlie’s Angels to the Powerpuff Girls, Superwomen are more than just love interests or sidekicks who stand by their men. In her new book, Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology, author, writer,...
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Oct.28.2009
A TREASURE TROVE RE-DISCOVERED!
Before there was television there was the newsreel. People from all over the country would visit their local movie palace to watch the news twice every week along with the feature film. The major American newsreel companies of the time covered world events, politics...
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Oct.28.2009
SOME OF HISTORY'S BEST KEPT SECRETS ARE BURIED DEEP WITHIN...AMERICA'S FILM VAULT.
AMERICA'S FILM VAULT: A Reference Guide to the Motion Pictures Held by the U.S. National Archives is the comprehensive new book by award-winning author and film-sleuth Phillip W. Stewart. This essential reference...
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Sep.28.2009
Ned Balbo's Sandeen Prize-winning collection of poetry seeks a voice for contemporary and historical figures as they face the ecstasy and grief of love. In these assured and powerful poems, Balbo's confidence in lyric, narrative, and dramatic forms is always evident: lovers whirl in Dante's circle...
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Aug.07.2009
This is the first book-length study of the career and life of Ann Savage, whose performance in Detour earned her a place in "Time Magazine"'s list of the top 10 greatest movie villains. The biography covers her abused childhood and her career as a studio contract player, pin-up queen, B...
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Aug.07.2009
A complete critical overview of the works of the ultimate Hong Kong auteur, emphasizing such seminal films as Peking Opera Blues, Once Upon a Time in China and A Chinese Ghost Story. Includes extensive interviews with Tsui, illustrations, and more.
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Jul.26.2009
Did you know Thomas Jefferson’s grandson was an ax murderer? Don’t you delight in knowing some dinosaurs were teeny tiny as hens? How about an ailment so surreal it’s named after Alice in Wonderland? Truly trivia you can’t live without, RANDOM OBSESSIONS: TRIVIA YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT from VIVA...
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Feb.25.2009
Witten by Charles Carney and Gina Misiroglu
Foreword by Danny DeVito
Photographs by Bruce W. Talamon
Space Jammin' is the exclusive, insider's look at the production of Space Jam—the feature film debut of mega-stars Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny. It is a pictorial chronicle of the complicated...
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Jan.13.2009
Essay on Joyce Carol Oates' novel Blonde about Marilyn Monroe as a 1950s working class heroine. Essay argues Oates uses literary techniques of modernism in her novel which is a important comment on both the actress and American culture.
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Dec.03.2008
Crazy adventures of an accountant with a briefcase full of defrauded money, a girl - Angelica desperately looking for money for her orphanage and an Angel of Death, who doesn't know anything about money and doesn't need too. Death begs God for just one day of vacation. Since there is much to do on...
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