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Up Till Now

av William Shatner • 2008

Star Trek typecast him for decades; a late-career role as a shameless lawyer changed everything.

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👤 Celebrity Memoirs 🎬 Hollywood Careers 📺 Television History 🖖 Star Trek 🔄 Career Reinvention

Up Till Now

Star Trek typecast him for decades; a late-career role as a shameless lawyer changed everything.

av William Shatner 2008 358 sidor

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👤 Celebrity Memoirs 🎬 Hollywood Careers 📺 Television History 🖖 Star Trek 🔄 Career Reinvention

The Salon of Exiled Artists in California

av Núria Añó • 2020

Santa Monica living room: Garbo, Mann, Einstein sheltered from war. McCarthyism ended it.

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🎬 Hollywood History 🌍 European Exiles 📚 Literary Salons 🎭 Weimar Diaspora 🎥 Women In Film

The Salon of Exiled Artists in California

Santa Monica living room: Garbo, Mann, Einstein sheltered from war. McCarthyism ended it.

av Núria Añó 2020

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🎬 Hollywood History 🌍 European Exiles 📚 Literary Salons 🎭 Weimar Diaspora 🎥 Women In Film

Directing the Documentary by Michael Rabiger (1992-01-01) Paperback

av Michael Rabiger • 1987

From research to final cut: the documentary director's craft, where ethics and story meet the lens.

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🎬 Film Directing 👁️ Visual Storytelling 🖼️ Shot Composition ✂️ Film Editing 🎥 Film Production

Directing the Documentary by Michael Rabiger (1992-01-01) Paperback

From research to final cut: the documentary director's craft, where ethics and story meet the lens.

av Michael Rabiger 1987

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🎬 Film Directing 👁️ Visual Storytelling 🖼️ Shot Composition ✂️ Film Editing 🎥 Film Production

Silver Screen Fiend

av Patton Oswalt • 2015

A comedian’s movie-a-night obsession was his film school. The theater owner’s question ended it.

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 🎭 Comedian Memoirs ⚠️ Addiction Memoirs 💡 Creative Ambition 🎪 Alternative Comedy

Silver Screen Fiend

A comedian’s movie-a-night obsession was his film school. The theater owner’s question ended it.

av Patton Oswalt 2015 240 sidor

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 🎭 Comedian Memoirs ⚠️ Addiction Memoirs 💡 Creative Ambition 🎪 Alternative Comedy

Believe

av Jeremy Egner • 2024

The chaotic, lucky path from throwaway ad to the streaming era's most comforting hit.

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🎬 Television Production 🎥 Behind The Scenes ⚽ Football Culture 💪 Modern Masculinity ❤️ Radical Kindness

Believe

The chaotic, lucky path from throwaway ad to the streaming era's most comforting hit.

av Jeremy Egner 2024 368 sidor

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🎬 Television Production 🎥 Behind The Scenes ⚽ Football Culture 💪 Modern Masculinity ❤️ Radical Kindness

This Will Only Hurt a Little

av Busy Philipps • 2018

She told the TV executive who publicly belittled her award that he could have done better.

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🎬 Hollywood Memoirs 🧠 Anxiety Memoirs 💔 Sexual Trauma 👯 Female Friendships 🍼 New Motherhood

This Will Only Hurt a Little

She told the TV executive who publicly belittled her award that he could have done better.

av Busy Philipps 2018 288 sidor

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🎬 Hollywood Memoirs 🧠 Anxiety Memoirs 💔 Sexual Trauma 👯 Female Friendships 🍼 New Motherhood

Hollywood Heroes

av Frank Turek • 2022

Why every superhero movie keeps retelling a single story from two thousand years ago.

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🛡️ Christian Apologetics 🎬 Film And Faith 🦸 Superhero Archetypes 🗺️ Hero's Journey ✝️ Christ Figures

Hollywood Heroes

Why every superhero movie keeps retelling a single story from two thousand years ago.

av Frank Turek 2022 256 sidor

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🛡️ Christian Apologetics 🎬 Film And Faith 🦸 Superhero Archetypes 🗺️ Hero's Journey ✝️ Christ Figures

Screenwriting Is Filmmaking

av Brian Dunnigan • 2020

Write screenplays that think like a camera: the craft of making films from the page up.

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🎬 Screenwriting Craft 👁️ Visual Storytelling 🏗️ Story Structure 👤 Character Development ✍️ Scene Writing

Screenwriting Is Filmmaking

Write screenplays that think like a camera: the craft of making films from the page up.

av Brian Dunnigan 2020 160 sidor

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🎬 Screenwriting Craft 👁️ Visual Storytelling 🏗️ Story Structure 👤 Character Development ✍️ Scene Writing

Talking as Fast as I Can

av Lauren Graham • 2016

A grade skipped, a backside bared, and the long road from Chili's to Stars Hollow.

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🎭 Acting Life ✍️ Writing Process ⏲️ Creative Productivity 👩‍🎤 Women In Entertainment

Talking as Fast as I Can

A grade skipped, a backside bared, and the long road from Chili's to Stars Hollow.

av Lauren Graham 2016 224 sidor

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🎭 Acting Life ✍️ Writing Process ⏲️ Creative Productivity 👩‍🎤 Women In Entertainment

Short Stories

av Columbus Short • 2020

A pint of whiskey daily to become Little Walter, and the habit that outlasted the role.

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🎬 Hollywood Memoirs 🖤 Black Hollywood 💊 Substance Abuse Recovery 🩹 Childhood Trauma 🎭 Race In Entertainment

Short Stories

A pint of whiskey daily to become Little Walter, and the habit that outlasted the role.

av Columbus Short 2020 133 sidor

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🎬 Hollywood Memoirs 🖤 Black Hollywood 💊 Substance Abuse Recovery 🩹 Childhood Trauma 🎭 Race In Entertainment

Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies

av Blake Snyder • 2007

Fifty films, ten master genres, one hidden template: the blueprint behind every story that works.

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📄 Screenwriting Guides 🏗️ Story Structure 🎬 Film Analysis 🔍 Genre Deconstruction 🏛️ Story Archetypes

Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies

Fifty films, ten master genres, one hidden template: the blueprint behind every story that works.

av Blake Snyder 2007 287 sidor

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📄 Screenwriting Guides 🏗️ Story Structure 🎬 Film Analysis 🔍 Genre Deconstruction 🏛️ Story Archetypes

Make Your Own Amazing YouTube Videos

av Brett Juilly • 2017

Your smartphone shoots great video. Here is the roadmap from first idea to loyal subscribers.

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🎬 Video Production ✨ Content Creation 🎥 Filmmaking Basics ✂️ Video Editing 👥 Audience Building

Make Your Own Amazing YouTube Videos

Your smartphone shoots great video. Here is the roadmap from first idea to loyal subscribers.

av Brett Juilly 2017 180 sidor

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🎬 Video Production ✨ Content Creation 🎥 Filmmaking Basics ✂️ Video Editing 👥 Audience Building

Pretty as a Picture

av Elizabeth Little • 2020

A film editor on an island shoot discovers the star posed dead, mirroring the real murder.

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🎬 Film Set Mystery 📼 True Crime Critique 🔍 Amateur Detective 😬 Anxious Protagonist 👥 Found Family

Pretty as a Picture

A film editor on an island shoot discovers the star posed dead, mirroring the real murder.

av Elizabeth Little 2020 352 sidor

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🎬 Film Set Mystery 📼 True Crime Critique 🔍 Amateur Detective 😬 Anxious Protagonist 👥 Found Family

How Not to Make a Short Film

av Roberta Marie Munroe • 2009

The Sundance programmer's playbook for making a short film that festivals actually want to see.

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🎬 Indie Filmmaking 💰 Microbudget Filmmaking 🎞️ Short Films 🏆 Film Festivals 🚫 Avoiding Cliches

How Not to Make a Short Film

The Sundance programmer's playbook for making a short film that festivals actually want to see.

av Roberta Marie Munroe 2009 288 sidor

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🎬 Indie Filmmaking 💰 Microbudget Filmmaking 🎞️ Short Films 🏆 Film Festivals 🚫 Avoiding Cliches

Piano/Vocal/Guitar Sheet Music

av Harry Gregson-Williams • 2006

Play the film score of a frozen realm, a noble lion, and four children who ended winter.

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🎼 Film Music Collections 🎹 Piano Vocal Guitar 🎬 Fantasy Film Scores 🧙 Children's Fantasy 🚪 Portal Fantasy

Piano/Vocal/Guitar Sheet Music

Play the film score of a frozen realm, a noble lion, and four children who ended winter.

av Harry Gregson-Williams 2006 40 sidor

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🎼 Film Music Collections 🎹 Piano Vocal Guitar 🎬 Fantasy Film Scores 🧙 Children's Fantasy 🚪 Portal Fantasy

You Can’t Be Serious

av Kal Penn • 2021

His first day in Hollywood, his back was on fire. His next job, he served President Obama.

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🌍 Immigrant Experience 🧧 Asian American Identity 🗣️ Code-Switching 🔄 Career Pivots

You Can’t Be Serious

His first day in Hollywood, his back was on fire. His next job, he served President Obama.

av Kal Penn 2021 368 sidor

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🌍 Immigrant Experience 🧧 Asian American Identity 🗣️ Code-Switching 🔄 Career Pivots

Write It, Pitch It, Sell Your Screenplay

av DMA/Donna Michelle Anderson • 2015

The story framework and pitch strategy industry insiders expect, from a former script evaluator.

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🎬 Screenwriting 🏗️ Story Structure 🎭 Character Arcs 📐 Three-Act Structure 🎥 Film Industry

Write It, Pitch It, Sell Your Screenplay

The story framework and pitch strategy industry insiders expect, from a former script evaluator.

av DMA/Donna Michelle Anderson 2015 112 sidor

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🎬 Screenwriting 🏗️ Story Structure 🎭 Character Arcs 📐 Three-Act Structure 🎥 Film Industry

A Curious Mind

av Brian Grazer • 2014

A Hollywood mogul's real superpower: treating every encounter as a chance to ask a question.

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir ❓ Curiosity 🤝 Human Connection 💪 Fear And Confidence 📖 Storytelling

A Curious Mind

A Hollywood mogul's real superpower: treating every encounter as a chance to ask a question.

av Brian Grazer 2014 320 sidor

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir ❓ Curiosity 🤝 Human Connection 💪 Fear And Confidence 📖 Storytelling

Writing Movies for Fun and Profit

av Robert Ben Garant • 2011

Screenwriting is a blue-collar job: relocate, pitch constantly, and never turn down a rewrite.

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🎬 Screenwriting 📐 Story Structure 🎤 Idea Pitching 🏛️ Studio Politics 🎭 Comedy Screenwriting

Writing Movies for Fun and Profit

Screenwriting is a blue-collar job: relocate, pitch constantly, and never turn down a rewrite.

av Robert Ben Garant 2011 338 sidor

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🎬 Screenwriting 📐 Story Structure 🎤 Idea Pitching 🏛️ Studio Politics 🎭 Comedy Screenwriting

The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe

av James Patterson • 2025

A staged crime scene. A missing diary. The death of Marilyn Monroe was never a simple suicide.

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🎬 Hollywood History 🎥 Classic Cinema 🕵️ Unsolved Mystery 💊 Substance Abuse 🏛️ Political Scandal

The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe

A staged crime scene. A missing diary. The death of Marilyn Monroe was never a simple suicide.

av James Patterson 2025 416 sidor

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🎬 Hollywood History 🎥 Classic Cinema 🕵️ Unsolved Mystery 💊 Substance Abuse 🏛️ Political Scandal

The Eight Characters of Comedy

av Scott Sedita • 2005

Eight character types underpin every sitcom; here is the craft to write and play them.

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📺 Television Writing 🏛️ Character Archetypes 🎭 Comedy Craft 🎬 Comedy Acting 📝 Tv Writers

The Eight Characters of Comedy

Eight character types underpin every sitcom; here is the craft to write and play them.

av Scott Sedita 2005 244 sidor

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📺 Television Writing 🏛️ Character Archetypes 🎭 Comedy Craft 🎬 Comedy Acting 📝 Tv Writers

Run Towards the Danger

av Sarah Polley • 2022

A doctor's rule for healing her concussed brain becomes a filmmaker's key to every buried trauma.

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📝 Essay Collections 🌟 Child Stardom 🧠 Trauma And Memory 🗣️ Survivor Stories 🩺 Invisible Illness

Run Towards the Danger

A doctor's rule for healing her concussed brain becomes a filmmaker's key to every buried trauma.

av Sarah Polley 2022 272 sidor

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📝 Essay Collections 🌟 Child Stardom 🧠 Trauma And Memory 🗣️ Survivor Stories 🩺 Invisible Illness

Indiana Jones and Philosophy

av Dean Kowalski • 2023

Beneath the fedora: a philosophy seminar on heroism, faith, aging, and who really owns the past.

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🎬 Pop Culture Philosophy 🎥 Film Philosophy 🏛️ Cultural Heritage 🧠 Applied Philosophy 🗺️ Adventure Cinema

Indiana Jones and Philosophy

Beneath the fedora: a philosophy seminar on heroism, faith, aging, and who really owns the past.

av Dean Kowalski 2023 272 sidor

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🎬 Pop Culture Philosophy 🎥 Film Philosophy 🏛️ Cultural Heritage 🧠 Applied Philosophy 🗺️ Adventure Cinema

Springfield Confidential

av Mike Reiss • 2018

The one rule that made The Simpsons great: network executives were banned from the building.

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📺 Tv Writing 🎭 Comedy Writing 🎬 Animation Industry 🕊️ Creative Freedom 🎥 Behind The Scenes

Springfield Confidential

The one rule that made The Simpsons great: network executives were banned from the building.

av Mike Reiss 2018 320 sidor

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📺 Tv Writing 🎭 Comedy Writing 🎬 Animation Industry 🕊️ Creative Freedom 🎥 Behind The Scenes

Filmmaking for Change

av Jon Fitzgerald • 2012

Fund, shoot, edit, and distribute documentaries that turn audiences into advocates.

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🎬 Documentary Filmmaking 💰 Film Funding 📦 Film Distribution 🌍 Social Impact Media 📖 Impact Storytelling

Filmmaking for Change

Fund, shoot, edit, and distribute documentaries that turn audiences into advocates.

av Jon Fitzgerald 2012 270 sidor

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🎬 Documentary Filmmaking 💰 Film Funding 📦 Film Distribution 🌍 Social Impact Media 📖 Impact Storytelling

Tupac Shakur

av Staci Robinson • 2023

Afeni Shakur's revolution birthed his prophecy. The authorized story of the boy behind the code.

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🐆 Black Panther Legacy 🎨 Art As Resistance 🎤 Hip-Hop Politics ❤️ Mother-Son Bond 💰 Poverty And Ambition

Tupac Shakur

Afeni Shakur's revolution birthed his prophecy. The authorized story of the boy behind the code.

av Staci Robinson 2023 691 sidor

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🐆 Black Panther Legacy 🎨 Art As Resistance 🎤 Hip-Hop Politics ❤️ Mother-Son Bond 💰 Poverty And Ambition

Selling a Screenplay

av Syd Field • 1989

Three acts, two plot points, one rule: decide your ending before you write your opening.

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🎬 Screenwriting Craft 🏗️ Narrative Structure 👁️ Visual Storytelling 🗂️ Story Outlining ✍️ Writing Process

Selling a Screenplay

Three acts, two plot points, one rule: decide your ending before you write your opening.

av Syd Field 1989 304 sidor

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🎬 Screenwriting Craft 🏗️ Narrative Structure 👁️ Visual Storytelling 🗂️ Story Outlining ✍️ Writing Process

Crowdsourcing for Filmmakers

av Richard Botto • 2017

Money isn't the first ask. Build a crowd, earn their trust, then launch your campaign.

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🎬 Indie Filmmaking 💰 Crowdfunding Strategy 📣 Audience Building 📱 Social Media Marketing 🎨 Creative Entrepreneurship

Crowdsourcing for Filmmakers

Money isn't the first ask. Build a crowd, earn their trust, then launch your campaign.

av Richard Botto 2017 300 sidor

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🎬 Indie Filmmaking 💰 Crowdfunding Strategy 📣 Audience Building 📱 Social Media Marketing 🎨 Creative Entrepreneurship

Love Life

av Rob Lowe • 2014

Fame, addiction, recovery. Rob Lowe learned that a good life is cast, not scripted.

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🎭 Acting Craft 🍃 Sobriety Journey 👨‍👦 Fatherhood 🧑‍🏫 Mentorship

Love Life

Fame, addiction, recovery. Rob Lowe learned that a good life is cast, not scripted.

av Rob Lowe 2014 259 sidor

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🎭 Acting Craft 🍃 Sobriety Journey 👨‍👦 Fatherhood 🧑‍🏫 Mentorship

Memo from the Story Department

av Christopher Vogler • 2011

How myths, archetypes, and vaudeville timing built the architecture of every great screenplay.

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🎬 Screenwriting Craft 🏗️ Story Structure 🌀 Mythic Structure 🎭 Character Archetypes ⚔️ Dramatic Conflict

Memo from the Story Department

How myths, archetypes, and vaudeville timing built the architecture of every great screenplay.

av Christopher Vogler 2011

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🎬 Screenwriting Craft 🏗️ Story Structure 🌀 Mythic Structure 🎭 Character Archetypes ⚔️ Dramatic Conflict

The Wrath to Come

av Sarah Churchwell • 2022

Thirty million copies of a single novel taught America to love a lie. The lost cause won.

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🏚️ Lost Cause Mythology 💰 Racial Capitalism 📜 Historical Revisionism 🎬 Cultural Criticism 🧠 Collective Memory

The Wrath to Come

Thirty million copies of a single novel taught America to love a lie. The lost cause won.

av Sarah Churchwell 2022 464 sidor

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🏚️ Lost Cause Mythology 💰 Racial Capitalism 📜 Historical Revisionism 🎬 Cultural Criticism 🧠 Collective Memory

Melissa Explains It All

av Melissa Joan Hart • 2013

A child star's survival manual hidden inside a memoir: treat fame like a paper route.

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🎬 Child Stardom 🎭 Showbiz Memoir 🌱 Grounded Celebrity 🛠️ Blue Collar Roots 💼 Working Motherhood

Melissa Explains It All

A child star's survival manual hidden inside a memoir: treat fame like a paper route.

av Melissa Joan Hart 2013 276 sidor

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🎬 Child Stardom 🎭 Showbiz Memoir 🌱 Grounded Celebrity 🛠️ Blue Collar Roots 💼 Working Motherhood

Stories I Only Tell My Friends

av Rob Lowe • 2011

His 80s fame crashed into scandal. A sign in Fiji showed him what he actually wanted.

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🎭 Acting Career 🎥 Behind The Scenes 📼 80s Pop Culture 🪞 Fame And Loneliness

Stories I Only Tell My Friends

His 80s fame crashed into scandal. A sign in Fiji showed him what he actually wanted.

av Rob Lowe 2011 320 sidor

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🎭 Acting Career 🎥 Behind The Scenes 📼 80s Pop Culture 🪞 Fame And Loneliness

Who Is Michael Ovitz?

av Michael Ovitz • 2018

He built CAA to flip Hollywood's power. His only bad deal: Disney's number-two chair.

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🎬 Hollywood Talent Agencies 🤝 Negotiation Tactics ⚡ Power Dynamics 🎭 Reputation Management 📉 Rise And Fall Memoirs

Who Is Michael Ovitz?

He built CAA to flip Hollywood's power. His only bad deal: Disney's number-two chair.

av Michael Ovitz 2018 384 sidor

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🎬 Hollywood Talent Agencies 🤝 Negotiation Tactics ⚡ Power Dynamics 🎭 Reputation Management 📉 Rise And Fall Memoirs

David Bowie

av Dylan Jones • 2017

An oral history of David Bowie, built from 180 voices who watched the transformations up close.

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🎸 Rock Biography 🎙️ Oral History 🔄 Artistic Reinvention 🎭 Persona Construction 🤝 Creative Collaboration

David Bowie

An oral history of David Bowie, built from 180 voices who watched the transformations up close.

av Dylan Jones 2017 544 sidor

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🎸 Rock Biography 🎙️ Oral History 🔄 Artistic Reinvention 🎭 Persona Construction 🤝 Creative Collaboration

Digimodernism

av Alan Kirby • 2009

The internet did not just add screens. It ended postmodernism and installed a new cultural logic.

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🖥️ Digital Culture 📡 Media Theory 🔄 Postmodernism Critique 👥 Participatory Culture 🎮 Interactive Media

Digimodernism

The internet did not just add screens. It ended postmodernism and installed a new cultural logic.

av Alan Kirby 2009 282 sidor

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🖥️ Digital Culture 📡 Media Theory 🔄 Postmodernism Critique 👥 Participatory Culture 🎮 Interactive Media

Operation Hollywood

av David L. Robb • 2004

The military lent Hollywood its jets and ships, then demanded veto power over the script.

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🚫 Military Censorship 📢 Propaganda Studies 🏛️ Pentagon Influence 🤫 Self-Censorship 📜 First Amendment Law

Operation Hollywood

The military lent Hollywood its jets and ships, then demanded veto power over the script.

av David L. Robb 2004 350 sidor

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🚫 Military Censorship 📢 Propaganda Studies 🏛️ Pentagon Influence 🤫 Self-Censorship 📜 First Amendment Law

The Filthy Truth

av Andrew Dice Clay • 2014

The most banned comic in America on the Hollywood machine that tried to destroy him.

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🎭 Comic Personas 💥 Provocative Comedy 🎰 Gambling Addiction

The Filthy Truth

The most banned comic in America on the Hollywood machine that tried to destroy him.

av Andrew Dice Clay 2014 352 sidor

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🎭 Comic Personas 💥 Provocative Comedy 🎰 Gambling Addiction

After All

av Mary Tyler Moore • 1995

America loved Mary Richards. Only her family knew she was drinking herself to death.

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📺 Classic Television 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🍸 Alcoholism Recovery 💎 Perfectionism 🖤 Grief And Loss

After All

America loved Mary Richards. Only her family knew she was drinking herself to death.

av Mary Tyler Moore 1995 432 sidor

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📺 Classic Television 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🍸 Alcoholism Recovery 💎 Perfectionism 🖤 Grief And Loss

The Idea

av Erik Bork • 2018

Your idea is worth more than your prose. The seven-point test that Hollywood readers actually use.

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🎬 Screenwriting Craft 📖 Story Development 💡 Idea Generation 🎟️ Commercial Storytelling 🧠 Audience Psychology

The Idea

Your idea is worth more than your prose. The seven-point test that Hollywood readers actually use.

av Erik Bork 2018 228 sidor

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🎬 Screenwriting Craft 📖 Story Development 💡 Idea Generation 🎟️ Commercial Storytelling 🧠 Audience Psychology

The Black Imagination

av Sandra Jackson • 2010

Science fiction erased Black futures. This collection recovers them from 1887 to Wakanda and beyond.

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🚀 Afrofuturism 📚 Black Speculative Fiction 🧬 Race In Science Fiction 🌐 Black Diaspora 🌍 Postcolonial Theory

The Black Imagination

Science fiction erased Black futures. This collection recovers them from 1887 to Wakanda and beyond.

av Sandra Jackson 2010 237 sidor

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🚀 Afrofuturism 📚 Black Speculative Fiction 🧬 Race In Science Fiction 🌐 Black Diaspora 🌍 Postcolonial Theory

Say Everything

av Ione Skye • 2025

Her father's abandonment became a script she kept auditioning for, until she stopped.

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🎬 Hollywood Memoirs 👤 Absent Fathers 🔗 Codependency 🎭 Actor Memoirs 📼 Gen X Memoirs

Say Everything

Her father's abandonment became a script she kept auditioning for, until she stopped.

av Ione Skye 2025 304 sidor

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🎬 Hollywood Memoirs 👤 Absent Fathers 🔗 Codependency 🎭 Actor Memoirs 📼 Gen X Memoirs

The Ultimate Hero's Journey

av Neal Soloponte • 2017

195 steps, four acts: the master structure hidden in every bestseller, and how to use it.

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🌀 The Hero's Journey 🏗️ Story Structure ✍️ Writing Craft 💓 Narrative Beats ↗️ Character Arcs

The Ultimate Hero's Journey

195 steps, four acts: the master structure hidden in every bestseller, and how to use it.

av Neal Soloponte 2017 168 sidor

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🌀 The Hero's Journey 🏗️ Story Structure ✍️ Writing Craft 💓 Narrative Beats ↗️ Character Arcs

Symbolic Misery, Volume 1

av Bernard Stiegler • 2014

Industry has seized control of our shared symbols, destroying desire, community, and the self.

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🕹️ Control Societies 💔 Libidinal Economy 🧬 Biopolitics 🎭 Aesthetics And Politics 📚 Continental Philosophy

Symbolic Misery, Volume 1

Industry has seized control of our shared symbols, destroying desire, community, and the self.

av Bernard Stiegler 2014 128 sidor

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🕹️ Control Societies 💔 Libidinal Economy 🧬 Biopolitics 🎭 Aesthetics And Politics 📚 Continental Philosophy

There's No Going Back

av David M. Stewart • 2025

Punk rock, Haitian activism, and radical trust: how a Corman pupil built an unlikely Oscar career.

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🎬 Independent Cinema 🎥 Director Biographies 🎵 Music In Film 🎨 Artist Biographies ✊ Film And Activism

There's No Going Back

Punk rock, Haitian activism, and radical trust: how a Corman pupil built an unlikely Oscar career.

av David M. Stewart 2025 280 sidor

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🎬 Independent Cinema 🎥 Director Biographies 🎵 Music In Film 🎨 Artist Biographies ✊ Film And Activism

Business and Entrepreneurship for Filmmakers

av Charles Haine • 2019

Film schools teach craft, not cashflow. The business skills every working filmmaker actually needs.

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🎬 Creative Entrepreneurship 🎥 Film Industry 🎨 Creative Freelancing 💼 Creative Business 💰 Bidding And Pricing

Business and Entrepreneurship for Filmmakers

Film schools teach craft, not cashflow. The business skills every working filmmaker actually needs.

av Charles Haine 2019 200 sidor

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🎬 Creative Entrepreneurship 🎥 Film Industry 🎨 Creative Freelancing 💼 Creative Business 💰 Bidding And Pricing

The United States Constitution in Film

av Eric Kasper • 2018

How Hollywood has tracked and shaped America's constitutional debates, from presidents to privacy.

⚖️ Constitutional Law 🎬 Film And Law 🇺🇸 American Politics 🏛️ Popular Constitutionalism 🔍 Cultural Analysis

The United States Constitution in Film

How Hollywood has tracked and shaped America's constitutional debates, from presidents to privacy.

av Eric Kasper 2018 316 sidor

⚖️ Constitutional Law 🎬 Film And Law 🇺🇸 American Politics 🏛️ Popular Constitutionalism 🔍 Cultural Analysis

Analyser un film, de l'émotion à l'interprétation

av Laurent Jullier • 2012

Great films work on you before you understand them. The method for closing that gap.

3.33

🎬 Film Analysis 🎨 Film Aesthetics 🎥 Visual Storytelling 📖 Narrative Theory 🧠 Media Psychology

Analyser un film, de l'émotion à l'interprétation

Great films work on you before you understand them. The method for closing that gap.

av Laurent Jullier 2012 432 sidor

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21 betyg

🎬 Film Analysis 🎨 Film Aesthetics 🎥 Visual Storytelling 📖 Narrative Theory 🧠 Media Psychology

The Man in the High Castle

av Mike Avila • 2019

A decade-long battle to adapt a cult novel, and the designers who built its fascist America.

4.00

🎬 Behind The Scenes 📖 Adaptation Studies 🕰️ Alternate History 🏛️ Fascist Aesthetics 🎨 Production Design

The Man in the High Castle

A decade-long battle to adapt a cult novel, and the designers who built its fascist America.

av Mike Avila 2019 192 sidor

4.00

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🎬 Behind The Scenes 📖 Adaptation Studies 🕰️ Alternate History 🏛️ Fascist Aesthetics 🎨 Production Design

The Visual Story

av Bruce Block • 2021

How to align visual structure with story: seven components, one law, and a shot-by-shot system.

4.67

🎬 Visual Storytelling 📽️ Cinematography 🎥 Film Craft 🖼️ Framing And Composition 🎨 Color Theory

The Visual Story

How to align visual structure with story: seven components, one law, and a shot-by-shot system.

av Bruce Block 2021 47 sidor

4.67

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🎬 Visual Storytelling 📽️ Cinematography 🎥 Film Craft 🖼️ Framing And Composition 🎨 Color Theory

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