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Life Is Work
Kaneto Shindo and the Art of Directing, Screenwriting, and Living 100 Years Without Regrets
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CA$32.00
ISBN: 9781885030122
Pub Date: January 2025
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Until his death in 2012 at age 100, legendary filmmaker Kaneto Shindo was a living link to more than 70 years of Japanese cinema history. Screenwriter of more than 200 films and director of more than...
Merchant-Ivory
Interviews
Price:
CA$37.95
ISBN: 9781496853707
Pub Date: December 2024
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Interviews with the team that created the films Howard?s End, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, The Remains of the Day, The White Countess, and The City of Your Final Destination, among many others
An Open-Ended Run
A Memoir
Price:
CA$89.00
ISBN: 9781779400277
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: University of Regina Press
A collection of memories chronicling love, grief, and a life lived on and off stage Raised on a farm and educated in a prairie Bible school, Layne Coleman escapes the confines of his stiflingly religious...
An Open-Ended Run
A Memoir
Price:
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781779400260
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: University of Regina Press
A collection of memories chronicling love, grief, and a life lived on and off stage Raised on a farm and educated in a prairie Bible school, Layne Coleman escapes the confines of his stiflingly religious...
Life and Mysterious Death of Poet and Intelligence Agent Stephen Haggard, 1911-1943
Last Train from Jerusalem
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CA$175.95
ISBN: 9781835537138
Pub Date: October 2024
Actor, memoirist, novelist, playwright and poet, Stephen Haggard was a highly individual figure in the English literature and theatre of the 1930s and Second World War. Haggard was born in Guatemala...
One Foot on the Platform: A Rock 'n' Roll Journey
Writings on Music
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CA$26.99
ISBN: 9781487010430
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
The final word from one of Canada’s greatest cultural critics and music writers.
Gaspar Noé
Interviews
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CA$30.95
ISBN: 9781496854223
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
A first-of-its-kind collection of interviews that documents Noé?s engagement with the feverish reception of his work and received ideas about his life and politics
Opening Weekend
An Insider's Look at Marketing Hollywood's Hits and Flops
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CA$43.95
ISBN: 9781496853387
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Coming soon, the firsthand account of a studio insider?s adventures in movie marketing
Red Steagall
From Sand Hills to Stage and Screen
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CA$36.95
ISBN: 9781682832257
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Texas Tech University Press
An essential Western biography of America's most beloved cowboy poet.
Nothing Trivial
How I grew up, collected many random facts, and was one of the guys behind the most successful board game in recent history
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781770867307
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Cormorant Books
John Haney, one of the creators of the beloved board game Trivial Pursuit, walks us through his life — his hockey career, his time in Europe, his theatre career, and much more — and how it all led him to acquire the plethora of knowledge that later became the fodder for quality cutthroat game nights around the world.
Background Artist
The Life and Work of Tyrus Wong
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CA$43.95
ISBN: 9781978838413
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Background Artist tells the inspiring story of Tyrus Wong, a Chinese immigrant who eventually became a best-selling greeting card designer, Warner Bros. sketch artist, and instrumental influence on the beloved Disney animated film, Bambi. Covering his remarkable 106-year life, this book celebrates a multi-talented and pioneering Asian-American artist whose work shaped the American imagination.
No Big Deal
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771839099
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Guernica Editions
From 1980 to around 2000, Dean Brownrout had an uncanny habit of finding himself at the forefront of cultural shifts—from the emergence of new wave and thrash metal music to the dawn of the commercial...
Woody Guthrie's Modern World Blues
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780806194875
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Woody Guthrie emerges from these pages as a figure whose immense artistic output reflects the nation's conflicted engagement with modernity. Capturing the breathtaking social and technological changes that took place during his extraordinarily productive career, Woody Guthrie's Modern World Blues offers a unique and much-needed new perspective on a musical icon.
Alan J. Pakula
Interviews
Price:
CA$30.95
ISBN: 9781496852885
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
A concise yet comprehensive overview of the director?s illustrious career, from his early days in Hollywood to his rise as a major filmmaker
One Tough Dame
The Life and Career of Diana Rigg
Price:
CA$43.95
ISBN: 9781496837974
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
A detailed biography of the esteemed actress, before, during, and after The Avengers
Dance History(s)
Imagination as a Form of Study
Price:
CA$65.95
ISBN: 9780819500908
Pub Date: September 2024
A multivoiced dance history book, authored by twelve diverse choreographersIn an effort to deepen our understanding of what dance is and how it has functioned throughout human history, this prismatic...
Life Is Work
Kaneto Shindo and the Art of Directing, Screenwriting, and Living 100 Years Without Regrets
CA$32.00
ISBN: 9781885030122
Pub Date: January 2025
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Merchant-Ivory
Interviews
CA$37.95
ISBN: 9781496853707
Pub Date: December 2024
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
An Open-Ended Run
A Memoir
CA$89.00
ISBN: 9781779400277
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: University of Regina Press
An Open-Ended Run
A Memoir
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781779400260
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: University of Regina Press
Life and Mysterious Death of Poet and Intelligence Agent Stephen Haggard, 1911-1943
Last Train from Jerusalem
CA$175.95
ISBN: 9781835537138
Pub Date: October 2024
One Foot on the Platform: A Rock 'n' Roll Journey
Writings on Music
CA$26.99
ISBN: 9781487010430
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
The final word from one of Canada’s greatest cultural critics and music writers.
Gaspar Noé
Interviews
CA$30.95
ISBN: 9781496854223
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Opening Weekend
An Insider's Look at Marketing Hollywood's Hits and Flops
CA$43.95
ISBN: 9781496853387
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Red Steagall
From Sand Hills to Stage and Screen
CA$36.95
ISBN: 9781682832257
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Texas Tech University Press
Nothing Trivial
How I grew up, collected many random facts, and was one of the guys behind the most successful board game in recent history
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781770867307
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Cormorant Books
John Haney, one of the creators of the beloved board game Trivial Pursuit, walks us through his life — his hockey career, his time in Europe, his theatre career, and much more — and how it all led him to acquire the plethora of knowledge that later became the fodder for quality cutthroat game nights around the world.
Background Artist
The Life and Work of Tyrus Wong
CA$43.95
ISBN: 9781978838413
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Background Artist tells the inspiring story of Tyrus Wong, a Chinese immigrant who eventually became a best-selling greeting card designer, Warner Bros. sketch artist, and instrumental influence on the beloved Disney animated film, Bambi. Covering his remarkable 106-year life, this book celebrates a multi-talented and pioneering Asian-American artist whose work shaped the American imagination.
No Big Deal
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771839099
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Guernica Editions
Woody Guthrie's Modern World Blues
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780806194875
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Alan J. Pakula
Interviews
CA$30.95
ISBN: 9781496852885
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
One Tough Dame
The Life and Career of Diana Rigg
CA$43.95
ISBN: 9781496837974
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Dance History(s)
Imagination as a Form of Study
CA$65.95
ISBN: 9780819500908
Pub Date: September 2024