Arts / Film & Video

Reel Asian: Asian Canada on Screen

by Elaine Chang

Founded in 1997 by producer Anita Lee and journalist Andrew Sun, the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival is a unique showcase of contemporary Asian cinema and work from the Asian diaspora. The festival...

Practical Dreamers: Conversations with Movie Artists

by Mike Hoolboom

'The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.' – Man Ray

What if there were movies made the same way as suits, custom fitted, each one tailored for one person? Not broadcast, but...

From the Atelier Tovar: Selected Writings of Guy Maddin

by Guy Maddin

Guy Maddin is one of Canada's most celebrated and original filmmakers, the director of such delirious films as Tales from the Gimli Hospital, Careful, Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary, The Saddest Music...

Handbook of Organizational Creativity

by Michael D. Mumford

Handbook of Organizational Creativity is designed to explain creativity and innovation in organizations. This handbook contains 28 chapters dedicated to particularly complex phenomena, all written by leading...

Wallflowers Need Not Apply: A no "bullshit" look at the world of professional screenwriting

by John Russell

Straightforward advice on navigating the craft and business of screenwriting. John Russell is the pen name of a screenwriter with nearly 20 years of professional experience, and he's probably responsible for...

Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System

by Sharon Waxman

The 1990s saw a shock wave of dynamic new directing talent that took the Hollywood studio system by storm. At the forefront of that movement were six innovative and daring directors whose films pushed the boundaries...

Either You're in or You're in the Way: Two Brothers, Twelve Months, and One Filmmaking Hell-Ride to Keep a Promise to Their Father

by Logan Miller & Noah Miller

The hilarious, implausible, and touching story of twin brothers accomplishing the impossible—making a feature film (with a cast and crew with 11 Academy Awards and 26 nominations) with no experience, no money...

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies

by Matt Mogk

THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE ZOMBIE HANDBOOK EVER PUBLISHED

In one indispensable volume, Matt Mogk, founder and head of the Zombie Research Society, busts popular myths and answers all your raging questions about...

Inception: The Shooting Script

by Christopher Nolan & Jonah Nolan

Inception, writer-director Christopher Nolan’s seventh feature film, joins the epic scope of The Dark Knight with the narrative sophistication of Memento. The story of a group of thieves who specialize in...

The Kill Bill Diary: The Making of a Tarantino Classic as Seen Through the Eyes of a Screen Legend

by David Carradine

David Carradine is Bill—the complex, charismatic master assassin from the critically acclaimed, monstrously successful Kill Bill films. Throughout the filming of Quentin Tarantino's brilliant, violent epic,...

Fangoria's 101 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen: A Celebration of the World's Most Unheralded Fright Flicks

by Adam Lukeman

A FEAST OF FRIGHTFUL FLICKS WAITING TO BE REDISCOVERED

As the leading name in the world of horror, Fangoria magazine has been the source of information for fans of fright flicks for more than twenty years—covering...

The Best Old Movies for Families: A Guide to Watching Together

by Ty Burr

If a child can watch Barney, can’t that same child also enjoy watching Charlie Chaplin or the Marx Brothers? And as they get older, wouldn’t they grow to like screwball comedies (His Girl Friday), women’s...

Lust, Caution: The Story, the Screenplay, and the Making of the Film

by Wang Hui Ling & Eileen Chang

Now a major motion picture from Oscar-winning director Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain): an intensely passionate story of love and espionage, set in Shanghai during World War II.

In...

Advanced Cinematherapy: The Girl's Guide to Finding Happiness One Movie at a Time

by Beverly West & Nancy Peske

MOVIES ARE MORE THAN ENTERTAINMENT–THEY’RE A BUBBLE BATH FOR THE SOUL.

On the verge of yet another major life change? Recovering from a rough day at the office? Or trying to figure out what makes him tick?...

Movies and Money

by David Puttnam

From David Puttnam—producer of such modern film classics as Chariots of Fire, The Killing Fields, Midnight Express, and The Mission, and the only European to have run a major Hollywood studio—an insightful...

Elia Kazan

by Richard Schickel

Few figures in film and theater history tower like Elia Kazan. Born in 1909 to Greek parents in Istanbul, Turkey, he arrived in America with incomparable vision and drive, and by the 1950s he was the most important...

The Philosophy of Spike Lee

by Mark Conard

Over his twenty-plus year tenure in Hollywood, Spike Lee has produced a number of controversial films that unapologetically confront sensitive social issues, particularly those of race relations and discrimination....

British Women's Cinema

by Melanie Bell & Melanie Williams

British Women's Cinema examines the place of female-centred films throughout British film history, from silent melodrama and 1940s costume dramas right up to the contemporary British 'chick flick'.

The woman's...

Andrei Tarkovsky

by Sean Martin

Andrei Tarkovsky is the most celebrated Russian filmmaker since Eisenstein, and one of the most important directors to have emerged during the 1960s and 70s. Although he made only seven features, each one was...

Imagining Reality

by Kevin Macdonald & Mark Cousins

This is a celebration of the art of the documentary from its origins to the present day. With the critical and box-office success in the nineties of Microcosmos, When We Were Kings, Hoop Dreams and Hearts of...