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Action

av Robert McKee • 2022

Excitement on page and screen has rules. The villain’s scheme, not the spectacle, is its engine.

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🎬 Modern Screenwriting 🏗️ Narrative Structure ⚙️ Genre Mechanics 📈 Plot Construction 😈 Antagonist Design

Action

Excitement on page and screen has rules. The villain’s scheme, not the spectacle, is its engine.

av Robert McKee 2022 240 sidor

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🎬 Modern Screenwriting 🏗️ Narrative Structure ⚙️ Genre Mechanics 📈 Plot Construction 😈 Antagonist Design

The Gold Standard

av Ari Gold • 2015

Hollywood's most cutthroat agent delivers the rules of power: no apologies, no soft edges.

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🎭 Satirical Self-Help 📈 Career Strategy 🏷️ Personal Branding ⚡ Power Dynamics 🕸️ Strategic Networking

The Gold Standard

Hollywood's most cutthroat agent delivers the rules of power: no apologies, no soft edges.

av Ari Gold 2015 224 sidor

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🎭 Satirical Self-Help 📈 Career Strategy 🏷️ Personal Branding ⚡ Power Dynamics 🕸️ Strategic Networking

The Marvel Studios Story

av Charlie Wetzel • 2020

Bankrupt, Marvel bet the house on Iron Man and a troubled leading man.

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📚 Comic Book History 🎬 Hollywood Business 🔄 Corporate Turnarounds 💡 Intellectual Property 🔗 Franchise Strategy

The Marvel Studios Story

Bankrupt, Marvel bet the house on Iron Man and a troubled leading man.

av Charlie Wetzel 2020 189 sidor

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📚 Comic Book History 🎬 Hollywood Business 🔄 Corporate Turnarounds 💡 Intellectual Property 🔗 Franchise Strategy

Sick in the Head

av Judd Apatow • 2015

A teenager's taped interviews with comedy heroes mapped the life he would build in film.

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🎭 Comedian Memoir ✍️ Comedy Writing 🎤 Interview Collection 🎙️ Stand-Up Comedy 🎬 Show Business Memoir

Sick in the Head

A teenager's taped interviews with comedy heroes mapped the life he would build in film.

av Judd Apatow 2015 489 sidor

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🎭 Comedian Memoir ✍️ Comedy Writing 🎤 Interview Collection 🎙️ Stand-Up Comedy 🎬 Show Business Memoir

Writing Short Films

av Linda J. Cowgill • 1997

Minutes, not hours. The structural rules for short films that features never taught you.

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🎬 Screenwriting Craft 🎞️ Short Film 🏗️ Story Structure 👁️ Visual Storytelling ⚡ Conflict And Tension

Writing Short Films

Minutes, not hours. The structural rules for short films that features never taught you.

av Linda J. Cowgill 1997 272 sidor

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🎬 Screenwriting Craft 🎞️ Short Film 🏗️ Story Structure 👁️ Visual Storytelling ⚡ Conflict And Tension

Handbook for an Unpredictable Life

av Rosie Pérez • 2014

She survived the Catholic Home for Children. Then she had to survive Hollywood.

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📖 Latina Memoir 🧸 Childhood Trauma 🏠 Foster Care 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 💃 Dancer Memoir

Handbook for an Unpredictable Life

She survived the Catholic Home for Children. Then she had to survive Hollywood.

av Rosie Pérez 2014 320 sidor

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📖 Latina Memoir 🧸 Childhood Trauma 🏠 Foster Care 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 💃 Dancer Memoir

It's Never Too Late to Begin Again

av Julia Cameron • 2016

A London workhouse boy invented the world's most famous character. Then the world demanded he speak.

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🎞️ Silent Cinema 🎭 Comedy Theory 🎨 Creative Autonomy 🤸 Slapstick Comedy 🎬 Hollywood History

It's Never Too Late to Begin Again

A London workhouse boy invented the world's most famous character. Then the world demanded he speak.

av Julia Cameron 2016 304 sidor

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🎞️ Silent Cinema 🎭 Comedy Theory 🎨 Creative Autonomy 🤸 Slapstick Comedy 🎬 Hollywood History

Hugo Cabrets uppfinning

av Brian Selznick • 2007

A Paris station orphan repairs a broken automaton to unlock a message from his dead father.

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🎨 Illustrated Middle Grade ⚙️ Mechanical Invention 🕰️ Clockwork Mystery 🔑 Secret Orphan 👴 Reluctant Guardian

Hugo Cabrets uppfinning

A Paris station orphan repairs a broken automaton to unlock a message from his dead father.

av Brian Selznick 2007 534 sidor

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🎨 Illustrated Middle Grade ⚙️ Mechanical Invention 🕰️ Clockwork Mystery 🔑 Secret Orphan 👴 Reluctant Guardian

We Were Dreamers

av Simu Liu • 2022

Fired from accounting, he answered a Craigslist ad for Asian extras. Today he's Shang-Chi.

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🛬 Immigrant Memoir 🎬 Actor Memoir 🎯 Parental Expectations 🌏 Asian Representation 🎨 Starving Artist

We Were Dreamers

Fired from accounting, he answered a Craigslist ad for Asian extras. Today he's Shang-Chi.

av Simu Liu 2022 320 sidor

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🛬 Immigrant Memoir 🎬 Actor Memoir 🎯 Parental Expectations 🌏 Asian Representation 🎨 Starving Artist

Westworld and Philosophy

av Richard Greene • 2018

Westworld turns consequence-free violence into philosophy's sharpest questions about your own mind.

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🎬 Pop Culture Philosophy 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🤖 Artificial Consciousness 🔗 Free Will Debate ⚖️ Ethics Of Technology

Westworld and Philosophy

Westworld turns consequence-free violence into philosophy's sharpest questions about your own mind.

av Richard Greene 2018 312 sidor

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21 betyg

🎬 Pop Culture Philosophy 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🤖 Artificial Consciousness 🔗 Free Will Debate ⚖️ Ethics Of Technology

I'll Never Write My Memoirs

av Grace Jones • 2015

How a girl from a repressive Jamaican church became the mirror-faced androgynous icon of disco.

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🎤 Music Memoirs 👗 Fashion And Style 🦋 Self Invention 🎭 Performance And Identity ⛓️ Breaking Free From Family

I'll Never Write My Memoirs

How a girl from a repressive Jamaican church became the mirror-faced androgynous icon of disco.

av Grace Jones 2015 400 sidor

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🎤 Music Memoirs 👗 Fashion And Style 🦋 Self Invention 🎭 Performance And Identity ⛓️ Breaking Free From Family

My Name Is Barbra

av Barbra Streisand • 2023

She kept the nose, the name, and the final cut: Barbra Streisand's uncompromising life.

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🌟 Celebrity Memoir 🎭 Broadway History 🎬 Hollywood Studio System 🎵 Pop Music History 🏚️ Childhood Poverty

My Name Is Barbra

She kept the nose, the name, and the final cut: Barbra Streisand's uncompromising life.

av Barbra Streisand 2023 1040 sidor

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🌟 Celebrity Memoir 🎭 Broadway History 🎬 Hollywood Studio System 🎵 Pop Music History 🏚️ Childhood Poverty

A Life in Parts

av Bryan Cranston • 2016

His father walked out when he was eleven. Acting became the route back to himself.

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🎭 Actor Memoirs 🎬 Craft Of Acting 🕰️ Late-Blooming Success 💔 Family Abandonment 👨‍👦 Father-Son Relationships

A Life in Parts

His father walked out when he was eleven. Acting became the route back to himself.

av Bryan Cranston 2016 276 sidor

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🎭 Actor Memoirs 🎬 Craft Of Acting 🕰️ Late-Blooming Success 💔 Family Abandonment 👨‍👦 Father-Son Relationships

Harpo Speaks!

av Harpo Marx • 1961

He went silent onstage after one review, then charmed the Algonquin wits and the Soviet Union.

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🎭 Vaudeville Roots 🎬 Hollywood Golden Age 🤹 Physical Comedy 🍸 Algonquin Round Table 📜 Comedy History

Harpo Speaks!

He went silent onstage after one review, then charmed the Algonquin wits and the Soviet Union.

av Harpo Marx 1961 482 sidor

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🎭 Vaudeville Roots 🎬 Hollywood Golden Age 🤹 Physical Comedy 🍸 Algonquin Round Table 📜 Comedy History

Scandals of Classic Hollywood

av Anne Helen Petersen • 2014

Hollywood scandals were never just gossip. They were the culture's ugliest arguments, in public.

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🎬 Hollywood History 🎞️ Classic Cinema ⭐ Star System 💥 Celebrity Scandal 🚫 Film Censorship

Scandals of Classic Hollywood

Hollywood scandals were never just gossip. They were the culture's ugliest arguments, in public.

av Anne Helen Petersen 2014 289 sidor

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🎬 Hollywood History 🎞️ Classic Cinema ⭐ Star System 💥 Celebrity Scandal 🚫 Film Censorship

Now Write! Screenwriting

av Sherry Ellis • 2010

Screenwriting taught by doing: exercises from working writers that build what theory only describes.

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🎬 Screenwriting Craft 📝 Writing Exercises 🏗️ Story Structure 👤 Character Development 💬 Dialogue Writing

Now Write! Screenwriting

Screenwriting taught by doing: exercises from working writers that build what theory only describes.

av Sherry Ellis 2010 370 sidor

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🎬 Screenwriting Craft 📝 Writing Exercises 🏗️ Story Structure 👤 Character Development 💬 Dialogue Writing

Konsten bakom Ringens brödraskap

av Gary Russell • 2002

The sketches, designs, and stories behind the film that made Tolkien's world real.

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🎨 Film Art Books ✏️ Concept Art 🏗️ Production Design 🧙 Fantasy Film 🎬 Making Of

Konsten bakom Ringens brödraskap

The sketches, designs, and stories behind the film that made Tolkien's world real.

av Gary Russell 2002 192 sidor

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🎨 Film Art Books ✏️ Concept Art 🏗️ Production Design 🧙 Fantasy Film 🎬 Making Of

Role Models

av John Waters • 2010

Your role models are safe: John Waters learns from criminals, pornographers, and weird artists.

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🧑‍🎨 Outsider Art 💅 Camp Sensibility ✊ Counterculture 🕯️ Cult Figures 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Aesthetics

Role Models

Your role models are safe: John Waters learns from criminals, pornographers, and weird artists.

av John Waters 2010 304 sidor

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🧑‍🎨 Outsider Art 💅 Camp Sensibility ✊ Counterculture 🕯️ Cult Figures 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Aesthetics

Screenwriters Problem Solver How To R

av Syd Field • 1998

Ten ways a screenplay breaks, and the concrete fix for each.

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🎬 Screenwriting Craft 🏗️ Story Structure 🎭 Three-Act Structure 👁️ Visual Storytelling 🧑‍🎤 Character Arcs

Screenwriters Problem Solver How To R

Ten ways a screenplay breaks, and the concrete fix for each.

av Syd Field 1998 384 sidor

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🎬 Screenwriting Craft 🏗️ Story Structure 🎭 Three-Act Structure 👁️ Visual Storytelling 🧑‍🎤 Character Arcs

Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy

av Richard Greene • 2007

Tarantino's blowtorch-wielding criminals as moral philosophers: nihilism, karma, and revenge.

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🎞️ Film And Philosophy 🍿 Pop Culture Philosophy ⚡ Nietzschean Thought ☸️ Buddhist Philosophy ⚖️ Revenge Ethics

Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy

Tarantino's blowtorch-wielding criminals as moral philosophers: nihilism, karma, and revenge.

av Richard Greene 2007 288 sidor

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🎞️ Film And Philosophy 🍿 Pop Culture Philosophy ⚡ Nietzschean Thought ☸️ Buddhist Philosophy ⚖️ Revenge Ethics

Crafty Screenwriting

av Alex Epstein • 2002

Write the hook they can't forget and the package they can't resist: the rules of screenwriting.

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🎬 Screenwriting Guide 🏗️ Story Structure 🎭 Character Arcs 🗣️ Dialogue Writing 🎞️ Genre Conventions

Crafty Screenwriting

Write the hook they can't forget and the package they can't resist: the rules of screenwriting.

av Alex Epstein 2002 288 sidor

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🎬 Screenwriting Guide 🏗️ Story Structure 🎭 Character Arcs 🗣️ Dialogue Writing 🎞️ Genre Conventions

Psychology for Screenwriters

av William Indick • 2004

Hidden wounds, not goals, drive the best characters. The psychological frameworks that build them.

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🎬 Screenwriting Craft 🗺️ The Hero's Journey 🎭 Psychological Archetypes 🧑 Character Development 🎞️ Psychoanalysis And Film

Psychology for Screenwriters

Hidden wounds, not goals, drive the best characters. The psychological frameworks that build them.

av William Indick 2004 304 sidor

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🎬 Screenwriting Craft 🗺️ The Hero's Journey 🎭 Psychological Archetypes 🧑 Character Development 🎞️ Psychoanalysis And Film

Guns & Thighs

av Ram Gopal Varma • 2015

His hits were accidental. His flops were deliberate. A Bollywood director's argument for failure.

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🇮🇳 Indian Cinema 🎬 Filmmaking Memoir 💥 Artistic Failure 💡 Creative Process 🎞️ Film Philosophy

Guns & Thighs

His hits were accidental. His flops were deliberate. A Bollywood director's argument for failure.

av Ram Gopal Varma 2015 220 sidor

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🇮🇳 Indian Cinema 🎬 Filmmaking Memoir 💥 Artistic Failure 💡 Creative Process 🎞️ Film Philosophy

Nightmare Fuel

av Nina Nesseth • 2022

What horror films reveal about your brain's fear machinery, and why you keep coming back.

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🎬 Horror Cinema 🧠 Neuroscience Of Fear 😰 Cultural Anxieties 🔬 Pop Science 📖 Genre Studies

Nightmare Fuel

What horror films reveal about your brain's fear machinery, and why you keep coming back.

av Nina Nesseth 2022 304 sidor

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🎬 Horror Cinema 🧠 Neuroscience Of Fear 😰 Cultural Anxieties 🔬 Pop Science 📖 Genre Studies

The Secrets of Character

av Matt Bird • 2022

Plot draws them in. Hero keeps them there. A character-first toolkit for the opening ten.

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🎭 Character Development ✍️ Fiction Writing 📄 First Pages 🎬 Screenwriting 🧠 Reader Psychology

The Secrets of Character

Plot draws them in. Hero keeps them there. A character-first toolkit for the opening ten.

av Matt Bird 2022 296 sidor

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🎭 Character Development ✍️ Fiction Writing 📄 First Pages 🎬 Screenwriting 🧠 Reader Psychology

We Had a Little Real Estate Problem

av Kliph Nesteroff • 2021

From Wild West exploitation to viral sketches: how Native comedians turned erasure into an art form.

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🪶 Native American History 🎭 Comedy History ✊ Cultural Reclamation 🎬 Media Stereotypes 💪 Humor As Resistance

We Had a Little Real Estate Problem

From Wild West exploitation to viral sketches: how Native comedians turned erasure into an art form.

av Kliph Nesteroff 2021 319 sidor

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🪶 Native American History 🎭 Comedy History ✊ Cultural Reclamation 🎬 Media Stereotypes 💪 Humor As Resistance

Unfiltered

av Lily Collins • 2017

Actress known for polished roles reveals the eating disorder and emotional abuse behind the camera.

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🍽️ Eating Disorders 🪞 Body Image 💗 Self-Acceptance 🚩 Toxic Relationships

Unfiltered

Actress known for polished roles reveals the eating disorder and emotional abuse behind the camera.

av Lily Collins 2017 224 sidor

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🍽️ Eating Disorders 🪞 Body Image 💗 Self-Acceptance 🚩 Toxic Relationships

Ice

av Ice-T • 2011

Orphaned at twelve, he became a South Central hustler. Then hip-hop made him a TV cop.

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🎤 Gangsta Rap Origins 🎬 Rapper To Actor 🏙️ Street To Stage 🕊️ Gangland Redemption 🎵 Music As Salvation

Ice

Orphaned at twelve, he became a South Central hustler. Then hip-hop made him a TV cop.

av Ice-T 2011 304 sidor

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🎤 Gangsta Rap Origins 🎬 Rapper To Actor 🏙️ Street To Stage 🕊️ Gangland Redemption 🎵 Music As Salvation

Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect

av Claudia Hunter Johnson • 2000

Conflict isn't enough for short screenplays. Find resonant moments in your own life.

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🎬 Short Film Writing 🎤 Finding Your Voice 🔄 Rewriting And Revision 🪶 Writing Economy 🎭 Character-Driven

Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect

Conflict isn't enough for short screenplays. Find resonant moments in your own life.

av Claudia Hunter Johnson 2000 312 sidor

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🎬 Short Film Writing 🎤 Finding Your Voice 🔄 Rewriting And Revision 🪶 Writing Economy 🎭 Character-Driven

Introduction to Documentary

av Bill Nichols • 2001

Reality does not speak for itself. How documentary turns observation into argument, frame by frame.

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🎬 Documentary Filmmaking 📖 Film Theory 📜 Documentary History 📝 Nonfiction Storytelling 💬 Visual Rhetoric

Introduction to Documentary

Reality does not speak for itself. How documentary turns observation into argument, frame by frame.

av Bill Nichols 2001 223 sidor

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🎬 Documentary Filmmaking 📖 Film Theory 📜 Documentary History 📝 Nonfiction Storytelling 💬 Visual Rhetoric

Her Again

av Michael Schulman • 2016

A producer called her ugly in Italian at her first film audition. She understood every word.

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🎭 Actor Biographies 🏙️ New York Theater 🎬 Hollywood History 🦎 Transformative Acting ✍️ Creative Process

Her Again

A producer called her ugly in Italian at her first film audition. She understood every word.

av Michael Schulman 2016 336 sidor

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🎭 Actor Biographies 🏙️ New York Theater 🎬 Hollywood History 🦎 Transformative Acting ✍️ Creative Process

National Security Cinema

av Matthew Alford • 2017

The Pentagon secretly approved or killed your favorite movies, one script at a time.

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📢 Propaganda Studies 🎬 Military-Entertainment Complex 📺 Media Manipulation 📜 Historical Revisionism 🏢 Media Consolidation

National Security Cinema

The Pentagon secretly approved or killed your favorite movies, one script at a time.

av Matthew Alford 2017 265 sidor

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📢 Propaganda Studies 🎬 Military-Entertainment Complex 📺 Media Manipulation 📜 Historical Revisionism 🏢 Media Consolidation

Racism as Zoological Witchcraft

av Aph Ko • 2019

Racism is a ritual of consumption that devours animal and human bodies. Here's the exit strategy.

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⚖️ Critical Race Theory 🐾 Animal Studies 🧬 Human Animal Binary 🥬 Veganism And Race 🌑 Afro-Pessimism

Racism as Zoological Witchcraft

Racism is a ritual of consumption that devours animal and human bodies. Here's the exit strategy.

av Aph Ko 2019 168 sidor

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⚖️ Critical Race Theory 🐾 Animal Studies 🧬 Human Animal Binary 🥬 Veganism And Race 🌑 Afro-Pessimism

Home

av Julie Andrews Edwards • 2008

Her stepfather taught her to sing. Her mother couldn't protect her. The stage became home.

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🎬 Celebrity Memoir 🎭 Theater Memoir 👧 Child Performer 🎵 Golden Age Of Musicals 💔 Family Dysfunction

Home

Her stepfather taught her to sing. Her mother couldn't protect her. The stage became home.

av Julie Andrews Edwards 2008 352 sidor

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🎬 Celebrity Memoir 🎭 Theater Memoir 👧 Child Performer 🎵 Golden Age Of Musicals 💔 Family Dysfunction

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

av David Foster Wallace • 2005

Mainstream acceptance forced adult film into a paradox: to keep its edge, it grew more extreme.

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🎬 Adult Film Industry 📺 Media Criticism 🛒 Consumer Ethics 🗳️ Political Rhetoric 🖊️ New Journalism

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

Mainstream acceptance forced adult film into a paradox: to keep its edge, it grew more extreme.

av David Foster Wallace 2005 505 sidor

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🎬 Adult Film Industry 📺 Media Criticism 🛒 Consumer Ethics 🗳️ Political Rhetoric 🖊️ New Journalism

A Curious Mind

av Brian Grazer • 2014

What a Hollywood producer learned from decades of asking total strangers for one-hour conversations.

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🧐 Cultivating Curiosity 👁️ Perspective Taking 🧠 Intellectual Humility 💬 Conversation Skills 🎬 Creative Leadership

A Curious Mind

What a Hollywood producer learned from decades of asking total strangers for one-hour conversations.

av Brian Grazer 2014 320 sidor

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🧐 Cultivating Curiosity 👁️ Perspective Taking 🧠 Intellectual Humility 💬 Conversation Skills 🎬 Creative Leadership

I Must Say

av Martin Short • 2014

Orphaned at twenty, widowed decades later. The memoir that reveals grief as just another tough room.

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🎙️ Comedy Memoirs 🇨🇦 Canadian Comedy 🕊️ Grief And Loss 🛡️ Humor As Resilience 🏙️ Second City Alumni

I Must Say

Orphaned at twenty, widowed decades later. The memoir that reveals grief as just another tough room.

av Martin Short 2014 336 sidor

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🎙️ Comedy Memoirs 🇨🇦 Canadian Comedy 🕊️ Grief And Loss 🛡️ Humor As Resilience 🏙️ Second City Alumni

mental floss presents Condensed Knowledge

av Will Pearson • 2004

A smart aleck's guide to the universe: relativity, radiation, and why Hollywood gets physics wrong.

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🗂️ Trivia Compendiums 🔬 Popular Science 🚫 Science Myths Debunked 😏 Irreverent Knowledge 📜 Science History

mental floss presents Condensed Knowledge

A smart aleck's guide to the universe: relativity, radiation, and why Hollywood gets physics wrong.

av Will Pearson 2004 345 sidor

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🗂️ Trivia Compendiums 🔬 Popular Science 🚫 Science Myths Debunked 😏 Irreverent Knowledge 📜 Science History

Diaries 1969-1979

av Michael Palin • 2006

The Python years, day by day: Palin's diaries from the decade they built a comedy revolution.

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🎭 British Comedy 📺 Television History ✍️ Sketch Comedy 🎬 Behind The Scenes ✏️ Comedy Writing

Diaries 1969-1979

The Python years, day by day: Palin's diaries from the decade they built a comedy revolution.

av Michael Palin 2006 650 sidor

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🎭 British Comedy 📺 Television History ✍️ Sketch Comedy 🎬 Behind The Scenes ✏️ Comedy Writing

Funny on Purpose

av Joe Randazzo • 2015

How to write, pitch, and perform comedy across every format, without waiting for a magic break.

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🖊️ Comedy Writing 🎤 Comedy Career 🎭 Improv Comedy ✍️ Sketch Comedy 🎙️ Standup Comedy

Funny on Purpose

How to write, pitch, and perform comedy across every format, without waiting for a magic break.

av Joe Randazzo 2015 336 sidor

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🖊️ Comedy Writing 🎤 Comedy Career 🎭 Improv Comedy ✍️ Sketch Comedy 🎙️ Standup Comedy

Walking with Ghosts

av Gabriel Byrne • 2021

He left Dublin for Hollywood. But the ghosts, the priest, and the bottle came with him.

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🎭 Actor Memoirs 🇮🇪 Irish Memoir 🩹 Childhood Trauma 🍺 Addiction Recovery ⛪ Catholic Upbringing

Walking with Ghosts

He left Dublin for Hollywood. But the ghosts, the priest, and the bottle came with him.

av Gabriel Byrne 2021 250 sidor

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🎭 Actor Memoirs 🇮🇪 Irish Memoir 🩹 Childhood Trauma 🍺 Addiction Recovery ⛪ Catholic Upbringing

The Hobbit

av Jane Johnson • 2012

Concept art and set photography trace the film's adventure from the Shire to the dragon's lair.

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🎨 Film Production Art 🎬 Behind The Scenes 🎥 Fantasy Film Companion 🦶 Reluctant Hero 🧙 Wizard Mentor

The Hobbit

Concept art and set photography trace the film's adventure from the Shire to the dragon's lair.

av Jane Johnson 2012 75 sidor

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🎨 Film Production Art 🎬 Behind The Scenes 🎥 Fantasy Film Companion 🦶 Reluctant Hero 🧙 Wizard Mentor

Girls on Film

av Alicia Malone • 2022

Landing her dream job as a TCM host was only act one of her film education.

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🎬 Film Criticism 🎞️ Classic Cinema ✊ Feminist Media Criticism 🖼️ Representation In Media 📖 Media Memoir

Girls on Film

Landing her dream job as a TCM host was only act one of her film education.

av Alicia Malone 2022 199 sidor

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🎬 Film Criticism 🎞️ Classic Cinema ✊ Feminist Media Criticism 🖼️ Representation In Media 📖 Media Memoir

Sinatra's Century

av David Lehman • 2015

A hundred glimpses of a singer who mapped an American century: mob, movies, music.

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🎵 Great American Songbook 🌟 Cultural Icons 🎲 Rat Pack 🕰️ Mid-Century America 🎬 Hollywood History

Sinatra's Century

A hundred glimpses of a singer who mapped an American century: mob, movies, music.

av David Lehman 2015 224 sidor

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🎵 Great American Songbook 🌟 Cultural Icons 🎲 Rat Pack 🕰️ Mid-Century America 🎬 Hollywood History

The Art of Photography

av Bruce Barnbaum • 1994

Stop following rules. See light, compose with intent, and print photographs that are truly yours.

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🎨 Artistic Photography 🖼️ Photographic Composition 📷 Exposure Control ⬛ Black And White Photography 💡 Light And Shadow

The Art of Photography

Stop following rules. See light, compose with intent, and print photographs that are truly yours.

av Bruce Barnbaum 1994 349 sidor

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🎨 Artistic Photography 🖼️ Photographic Composition 📷 Exposure Control ⬛ Black And White Photography 💡 Light And Shadow

If Chins Could Kill

av Bruce Campbell • 2001

Cereal, a freezing cabin, a gore rig from a bike: the unglamorous making of Evil Dead.

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🎬 Independent Film 💰 Low-Budget Filmmaking 🧟 Cult Films 🎥 Behind The Scenes 🎓 Filmmaking Advice

If Chins Could Kill

Cereal, a freezing cabin, a gore rig from a bike: the unglamorous making of Evil Dead.

av Bruce Campbell 2001 344 sidor

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🎬 Independent Film 💰 Low-Budget Filmmaking 🧟 Cult Films 🎥 Behind The Scenes 🎓 Filmmaking Advice

Prince

av Ronin Ro • 2011

A million-dollar unknown deal, then 'slave' scrawled on his cheek: the war for artistic control.

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🎵 Music Biography 💿 Record Industry 🎨 Artistic Control 🌟 Pop Stardom ⚖️ Artist Rights

Prince

A million-dollar unknown deal, then 'slave' scrawled on his cheek: the war for artistic control.

av Ronin Ro 2011 384 sidor

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🎵 Music Biography 💿 Record Industry 🎨 Artistic Control 🌟 Pop Stardom ⚖️ Artist Rights

Brown Enough

av Christopher Rivas • 2022

The race conversation is Black and white. One actor discovered he belonged to neither.

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🤎 Mixed Race Identity 🌎 Latinx Diaspora 🎨 Colorism 🎬 Hollywood Diversity 🧘 Cultural Appropriation

Brown Enough

The race conversation is Black and white. One actor discovered he belonged to neither.

av Christopher Rivas 2022 240 sidor

4.28

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