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1	The Shawshank redemption more books like this by Frank Darabont add to wishlist 10th Anniversary re-issue of cult gaolhouse classic to coincide with re-release on 9 September Nominated for 7 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Screenplay, The Shawshank Redemption, starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, is an extraordinary tale of hope and survival inside a maximum security prison. Based on a Stephen King short story, ... see all copies from £6.70! new only from £6.70!
2	The Fellowship of the Ring: Visual Companion more books like this by Jude Fisher add to wishlist Packed with stunning imagery and including a thorough and informative text, this "Visual Companion" is a full-color, large-format introduction to the people, places, and things of J.R.R. Tolkien's varied and rich imaginary world, Middle-earth, as depicted in the upcoming film "The Fellowship of the Ring." Full color throughout with 8-page gatefold. see all copies from £4.98! new only from £6.60! \| first editions
3	When Blanche Met Brando: The Scandalous Story of "A Streetcard Named Desire" more books like this by Sam Staggs add to wishlist Exhaustively researched, witty and exuberantly opinionated, WHEN BLANCHE MET BRANDO is everything a fan needs to know about the ground-breaking New York and London stage productions of Williams' "Streetcar" as well as the classic Brando/ Leigh film directed by Elia Kazan. Sam Staggs' interviews with the living cast members of each production ... see all copies from £4.98! new only from £13.26! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Oz Before the Rainbow: L. Frank Baum's the Wonderful Wizard of Oz on Stage and Screen to 1939 more books like this by Mr. Mark Evan Swartz add to wishlist Although the obvious source for the 1939 MGM musical "The Wizard of Oz" was L. Frank Baum's children's book, the author reminds readers in this text that various stage and screen dramatizations of Baum's story preceded and influenced the 1939 film. Musical-comedy elements in the MGM film, extensive scenes with the Kansas farmhands, and even the ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £10.58! \| first editions
5	The making of The wizard of Oz more books like this by Aljean Harmetz add to wishlist Based on interviews with cameramen, screenwriters, directors, and actors this book describes the making of "The Wizard of Oz", from flying hordes of monkeys through the sky, growing a poppy field, building the Emerald City to the sewing of almost a thousand costumes. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £12.39! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Stephen King Goes to the Movies more books like this by Stephen King add to wishlist From the master of horror comes a new collection of five short stories that have been adapted as films: Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, 1408, Children of the Corn, The Mangler, and Low Men in Yellow Coats (the basis for "Hearts in Atlantis"). Includes brand-new commentary and introductions. Original. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £7.38! \| first editions
7	The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film more books like this by Russell Jackson (Editor) add to wishlist Film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays are increasingly popular and now figure prominently in the study of his work and its reception. This lively Companion is a collection of critical and historical essays on the films adapted from, and inspired by, Shakespeare's plays. An international team of leading scholars discuss Shakespearean films from a ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £5.61! \| first editions
8	A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television more books like this by Kenneth S Rothwell add to wishlist A History of Shakespeare on Screen chronicles how film-makers have re-imagined Shakespeare's plays from the earliest exhibitions in music halls and nickelodeons to today's multi-million dollar productions shown in megaplexes. Topics include the silent era, Hollywood in the Golden Age, the films of Laurence Olivier and Orson Welles, the television ... see all copies from £7.01! new only from £19.16! \| first editions
9	The Wizard of Oz: The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial History more books like this by John Fricke, William Stillman, Jay Scarfone add to wishlist Published to coincide with MGM's 50th anniversary relaunch of the movie worldwide, this book reveals the traumas that bedevilled the making of "The Wizard of Oz" in 1939. The book includes interviews with surviving actors and production personnel, as well as newly uncovered photographs. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £22.43! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Hollywood's Stephen King more books like this by Tony Magistrale add to wishlist For the past three decades, Hollywood has developed a quiet obsession with translating Stephen King's fiction into film. Of the many major films that have been made of his novels and stories, not one has lost money. Part of this may be explained in terms of King's own popularity in American culture - he has been, after all, a best-selling writer ... see all copies from £2.00! new only from £3.48!
11	Shakespeare: Script, Stage, Screen more books like this by David Bevington, Michael Greenwald, Anne Marie Welsh add to wishlist Shakespeare: Script, Stage, Screenis the only Shakespeare textbook to combine an anthology of Shakespeare's plays with histories of their stage productions and analyses of the films. This textbook approaches Shakespeare's plays through the lens of interpretation, combining film theory, literary theory, and close readings of the texts to provide ... see all copies from £18.72! new only from £34.86!
12 view cover	Fiction as Fact: The Horse Soldiers and Popular Memory more books like this by Neil Longley York add to wishlist In 1863 Colonel Benjamin Henry Grierson led a cavalry expedition the General Grant hoped would distract Confederate forces while the Union Army made its way toward Vicksburg. This is a thorough examination of this expedition. see all copies from £6.04! new only from £6.68! \| first editions
13	Robert Louis Stevenson: Life, Literature and the Silver Screen more books like this by Scott Allen Nollen add to wishlist Robert Louis Stevensons cinematic legacy is studied in-depth here, with a look at his life and his body of work. From The Sire De Maletroits Door (1877) to St. Ives (1896), each adapted story and all relevant film versions are examined, including exhaustive analyses of the 1931 adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the 1945 version of The Body ... see all copies from £7.59! new only from £20.62!
14	Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust: Novel Into Film more books like this by William Faulkner, Ben Maddow, Clarence Brown add to wishlist see all copies from £6.55! new only from £9.97! \| signed copies \| first editions
15	The Television Sherlock Holmes more books like this by Peter Haining add to wishlist Published in association with Granada TV, and timed to coincide with a new TV series of six programmes, this book provides information for all Holmes enthusiasts. Plot, cast, production and transmission details for every Sherlock Holmes series and full-length drama produced by Granada over the last ten years is included as well as revealing ... see all copies from £6.81! first editions
16	Holmes of the Movies: The Screen Career of Sherlock Holmes more books like this by David Stuart Davies add to wishlist see all copies from £4.12! new only from £13.52! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Gone with the Wind: The Definitive Illustrated History of the Book, the Movie, and the Legend more books like this by Herb Bridges, Terryl C Boodman add to wishlist Here is the ultimate behind-the-scenes history of an American classic--the lavishly illustrated official tie-in book to Turner Entertainment's spectacular Gone with the Wind 50th anniversary celebration. 300 black-and-white and 4-color photos throughout. see all copies from £4.08! new only from £98.37! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Age of Innocence M/TV more books like this by Professor Martin Scorsese, Jay Cocks (Editor), Phillip V Caruso (Photographer) add to wishlist The offical tie-in to Columbia Pictures' film, this dazzling pictorial art book features 144 photographs and drawings, plus information on the history and society of old New York during the time of Wharton's writing. Includes the film's entire screenplay. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £25.20! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	The Politics of James Bond: From Fleming's Novels to the Big Screen more books like this by Dr. Jeremy Black add to wishlist It is estimated that more than half of the world's population has seen at least one James Bond film. This study explores how the heavily skewed political landscape presented in the extremely popular series of Bond films has influenced the worldwide movie-going public. see all copies from £4.65! new only from £7.41! \| first editions
20 view cover	Filming Shakespeare's Plays: The Adaptations of Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook, and Akira Kurosawa more books like this by Anthony Davies add to wishlist Shakespeare's plays provide wonderfully challenging material for the film maker. While acknowledging that dramatic experiences for theatre and cinema audiences are significantly different, this book reveals some of the special qualities of cinema's dramatic language in the film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays by four directors - Laurence ... see all copies from £3.59! new only from £13.14!
21 view cover	Shakespeare in the Cinema: Ocular Proof more books like this by Stephen M Buhler add to wishlist Since Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's 1899 filmed adaptation of the final scene of KING JOHN, there have been hundreds of cinematic versions of Shakepeare's 33 plays. Many of these adaptations fall into several general styles, and Buhler's study looks at these groupings and also examines of some of the more important films. see all copies from £6.86! new only from £13.71! \| first editions
22 view cover	James Bond: The Secret World of 007 more books like this by Alastair Dougal, Dave Worrall (Editor), Roger Stewart (Illustrator) add to wishlist For fans of all things Bond comes this comprehensive update of this bestselling book that features more photos, more information, and news on the latest film, "Quantum of Solace." see all copies from £14.76! new only from £14.76!
23	Scarlett Fever: The Ultimate Pictorial Treasury of Gone with the Wind: Featuring the Collection of Herb Bridges more books like this by William Pratt add to wishlist see all copies from £5.61! first editions
24 view cover	The Devil's Candy: The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco more books like this by Julie Salamon (Afterword by) add to wishlist A classic behind-the-scenes account of how a Hollywood blockbuster turned into a bomb that illuminates "how not to make a movie."--New York Times. When Brian De Palma agreed to allow Julie Salamon unlimited access to the film production of Tom Wolfe's best-selling book The Bonfire of the Vanities , both director and journalist must have felt like ... see all copies from £6.24! new only from £13.74!
25 view cover	Shakespeare in the Movies: From the Silent Era to Shakespeare in Love more books like this by Douglas Brode add to wishlist Shakespeare is now enjoying perhaps his most glorious - certainly his most popular - filmic incarnation. Indeed, the Bard has been splashed across the big screen to great effect in recent adaptations of Hamlet, Henry V, Othello, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard II, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and of course in the ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.23! \| first editions

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