Painting With Light
By: John Alton
4.09
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
Few cinematographers have had as decisive an impact on the cinematic medium as John Alton. Best kno…
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1. The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.95
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troubleso… read more
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"Parecía más muerto que muchos cadáveres"-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
2. The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
By: Raymond Chandler
4.19
Format: 379 pages, Paperback
Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out… read more
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"To say goodbye is to die a little."-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
"I'm killing time and it's dying hard."-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
"I'm a native son, born in Santa Rosa."-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
"I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars."-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
3. Poetics
By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more
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4. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more
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- nonfiction
5. Notes on the Cinematographer
By: J.M.G. Le Clézio , Robert Bresson , Jonathan Griffin
3.00
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
Robert Bresson makes some quite radical distinctions between what he terms "cinematography" and som… read more
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6. The Hero With a Thousand Faces
By: Joseph Campbell
3.79
Format: 32 pages,
The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis… read more
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- nonfiction
7. The Quiet American
By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more
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8. Making Movies
By: Sidney Lumet
5.00
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
From one of America's most acclaimed directors comes a book that is both a professional memoir and … read more
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9. The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
By: John Truby
4.26
Format: 445 pages, Hardcover
John Truby is one of the most respected and sought-after story consultants in the film industry, an… read more
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"Audiences love both the feeling part (reliving the life) and the thinking part (figuring out the puzzle) of a story. Every good story has both."-John Truby, The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
"No individual element in your story, including the hero, will work unless you first create it and define it in relation to all the other elements."-John Truby, The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
"Good storytelling lets the audience relive events in the present so they can understand the forces, choices, and emotions that led the character to do what he did."-John Truby, The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
"The story world isn't a copy of life as it is. It's life as human beings imagine it could be. It is human life condensed and heightened so that the audience can gain a better understanding of how lif…"-John Truby, The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
10. Cinema 1: The Movement-Image
By: Gilles Deleuze , Hugh Tomlinson , Barbara Habberjam , None
3.00
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
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11. Sculpting in Time
By: Andrei Tarkovsky , Kitty Hunter-Blair
4.51
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
Andrey Tarkovsky, the genius of modern Russian cinema--hailed by Ingmar Bergman as "the most import… read more
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"The aim of art is to prepare a person for death"-Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time
"Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality."-Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time
"The image in cinema is based on the ability to present as an observation one's own perception of an object"-Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time
"Masterpieces, not always distinguished or distinguishable among all the works with pretensions to genius, are scattered about the world like warning notices in a mine field."-Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time
12. Tender Is the Night
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.78
Format: 430 pages, Paperback
Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young… read more
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"My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
"The price for his intactness was incompleteness."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
"But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
"New friends can often have a better time together than old friends."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
13. Cinema 2: The Time-Image
By: Gilles Deleuze
4.07
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
Cinema 2: The Time-Imagebrings to completion Gilles Deleuze's work on the theoretical implications … read more
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14. Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
By: Robert McKee
4.29
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring no… read more
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15. Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2)
By: James Clavell
4.30
Format: 732 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Tai-Pan is the story of Dirk S… read more
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"There can only be one Tai-Pan."-James Clavell, Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2)
"You live by the lash and you'll die by it."-James Clavell, Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2)
"Only a real man has the right to stand at the pinnacle."-James Clavell, Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2)
"Gods are like people. They believe anything if you tell them right way."-James Clavell, Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2)
16. Cinema Speculation
By: Quentin Tarantino
4.06
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more
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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
17. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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18. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
19. A Murder Most French (American In Paris Mystery, #2)
By: Colleen Cambridge
4.03
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Postwar Paris is surging back to life, and its citizens are seizing every opportunity to raise a gl… read more
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20. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
By: Elle Reeve
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more
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21. Painting With Light
By: John Alton
4.09
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
Few cinematographers have had as decisive an impact on the cinematic medium as John Alton. Best kno… read more
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