School Slashers (Subgenres of Terror 2020, Mixed, #2)
by Steve Hutchison
Would you like to discover a new world of movies that expands your mind, warms your hearts and stirs your soul? If so, this book is sure to become a valuable resource for you. Here you will find a treasure trove of films that inspire you and celebrate every aspect of the human spirit. Spiritual Cinema asks the big questions about life and living: Who are we? Why are we here? Where are we bound? and What can we become when we live at our highest level of potential? This book can light your path...
The Best Written Horror Movies 2 (Extremities of Terror 2020, #5)
by Steve Hutchison
Contains the official biograpy of the Crypt Keeper, a history of EC Horror Comics, 105 covers, and other stories, facts, and features relating to Tale from the Crypt.
There is no denying that Meir Zarchi's I Spit on Your Grave (1978) deserves its title as one of the most controversial films ever made. While many condemn it as misogynistic, others praise it for raising uncomfortable issues about sexual violence. While its reputation as a cult film has undoubtedly been cemented by its unique position in the 1970s/80s exploitation era and the "video nasties" scandal, it has also become mythologized by its own official and unofficial franchises. David Maguire ex...
William Boyd's first ever collection of non-fiction is a substantial volume of writings from the last three decades that range widely over his particular interests and obsessions. "Bamboo" gathers together Boyd's writing on literature, art, the movie business, television, people he has met, places he has visited and autobiographical reflections on his African childhood, his years at boarding school and the profession of novelist. From Pablo Picasso to the allure of the British Caff, from Charles...
Ever noticed a digital watch in a historical film? Or seen a camera crew in a mirror? There's nothing we like more than finding a continuity error, a historical inaccuracy or a technical blunder. This third edition of the bestselling Movie Mistakes brings you over a thousand slip-ups to look out for.
New York Times Film Reviews, 1959-1968
Rape and Revenge Films (2023) (Trends of Terror 2023 (Color))
by Steve Hutchison
Horror Movie Posters (Illustrated History of Movies Through Posters S., v.7)
At the centre of Tarkovsky's oeuvre, _Mirror_ is his most complex and autobiographical film. It stretches the viewer by moving without apparent effort between past, present and imagined realities, in a series of episodes which observe neither plot nor overt logic. The film reconstructs and records iconic memories and deep emotional impressions in the life of an individual, a nation and an era. Audience reaction to 'Mirror' was overwhelming and it came to represent a watershed in many people's l...
This is the autobiography of G. Cabrera Infante, recognized as one of the most original Latin American writers. He has written novels, stories, critical essays, articles and screenplays and has lectured at universities from Cambridge to Chicago, and grew up in Cuba under the dictator Batista, knew Guevara and Fidel Castro personally and now lives in England as an exile. He is the author of "Three Trapped Tigers", "Infante's Inferno", "Holy Smoke" and "View of Dawn in the Tropics".