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The Motion Picture Prescription: watch this movie and call me in the morning® THE FIRST BOOK WRITTEN ON THE SUBJECT OF 'CINEMATHERAPY'®, USING MOVIES AS THERAPY. From time to time we are left dazed and confused, clueless about how to be triumphant when confronted with the challenging moments of our lives. Enter Dr. Gary Solomon, aka The Movie Doctor®. His book is the first of its kind with a listing of healing stories from the movies. We can see...
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""The only art I'll ever study is stuff that I can steal from." --David Bowie. Three years before David Bowie died, he shared a list of 100 books that changed his life. His choices span fiction and nonfiction, literary and irreverent, and include timeless classics alongside eyebrow-raising obscurities. In 100 short essays, music journalist John O'Connell studies each book on Bowie's list and contextualizes it in the artist's life and work. How did...
44) Ask no questions
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Lofty Sky Pictures
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[2022]
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English
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When Chinese state TV blames his faith for a fiery public suicide, Chen Ruichang is detained in a Clockwork Orange-style brainwashing facility and forced to accept the government's account. But Chen, a former insider of the state TV himself, believes it was all a government plot. A CNN reporter smuggled out footage of the event that day but was then muzzled by Beijing. Now, her eyewitness testimony helps untangle an intricate conspiracy, as Chinese...
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Rowman & Littlefield
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2018.
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English
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"In The 100 Greatest Cult Films, Christopher J. Olson highlights the most provocative, intriguing, entertaining, and controversial films produced over the last century. The movies included here have either earned reputations as bona fide cult classics or have in some way impacted our understanding of cult cinema, often transcending traditional notions of ¿́¿good¿́¿ and ¿́¿bad¿́¿ while featuring memorable characters, unforgettably shocking...
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Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Covers literary adaptations in four main categories: classic literature; contemporary bestsellers and popular fiction; nonfiction, encompassing biography, true crime, history, and memoirs; and children's and young adult literature. Sidebars will highlight people, such as authors, film directors, screenwriters, actors, producers, who are particularly identified with adaptation or a particular work.
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Dynamite
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2022
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English
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Elvira is back, and she's going PSYCHO!
Your strange love is rewarded, as Elvira's space odyssey gets a new shine! As the clockworks glow orange, the Mistress of the Dark dons her full metal jacket and follows the paths of glory with her eyes wide shut, awaiting a killer's kiss! Something something Barry Lyndon! Join writer David Avallone (Elvira Meets Vincent Price, Bettie Page: Unbound) and artist Silvia Califano (Star Trek, Judge Dredd) for a...
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Visible Ink
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[2015]
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English
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Once upon a time, science fiction was only in the future. It was the stuff of drive-ins and cheap double-bills. Then, with the ever-increasing rush of new, society-altering technologies, science fiction pushed its way to the present, and it busted out of the genre ghetto of science fiction and barged its way into the mainstream. What used to be mere fantasy (Trips to the moon? Wristwatch radios? Supercomputers capable of learning?) are now everyday...
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Universe Publishing, a Division of Rizzoli International Publications, Inc
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2019.
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From the film critics of The New York Times come these uncut, original reviews of the most popular and influential movies ever made--from the talkies to blockbusters like Chicago and The Wizard of Oz from timeless classics like Casablanca and Notorious, to beloved foreign films by Truffaut and Kurosawa, Fellini and Almodovar. The reviews reflect Hollywood history at its best. In addition, this volume includes: Full cast and production credits for...