In these vivid and revealing interviews, directors such as the Coen brothers, Ang Lee, Anthony Minghella and Neil Jordan recall the making of their 'first films'. Each chapter focuses on a celebrated debut - from "Blood Simple" to "Muriel's Wedding", "Clerks to Angel" - and explores its production from the inside. Along the way, every aspect of the movie industry is explored - from first encounters with agents and moguls, to languishing in development hell, to confronting the dreaded 'test audience'. Lowenstein, himself a writer-director on the verge of his first feature, encourages his subjects to relive the pain and elation, the comedy and the tragedy, of their freshman efforts. For aspirant directors, these tales of sleepless nights and nail-biting days will enthral and terrify in equal measure. For everyone else, they offer a privileged glimpse of famous directors taking their first tentative steps.

My First Movie

Humor & Entertainment

Kevin Smith

Ethan Coen

Joel Coen

Oliver Stone

Mike Figgis

Anthony Minghella

Pedro Almodóvar

neil-jordan

Barry Levinson

Mike Leigh

Ang Lee

Ken Loach

Bertrand Tavernier

Stephen Frears

James Mangold

Mira Nair

Gary Oldman

J. Hogan

Steve Buscemi

Tom DiCillo

Movies

Faber&Faber

The debut movie by writer-director Kevin Smith, one of a hand-picked selection of some of the most popular and cult-worthy titles on Faber and Faber's extensive list of film scripts. Smith is also writer/director of "Mallrats", "Chasing Amy" and "Dogma".

Clerks Screenplay

Daredevil Man Without Fear

Jimmy Palmiotti

Joe Quesada

San Val

An essential resource for students of Arabic and English alike. This dictionary covers their needs with the most up-to-date entries in handy reference form. It includes more than 18,000 entries in clear, easy-to-read format the Arabic is provided with Romanised transliterations and the English with phonetic transliterations.

Arabic-english/English-arabic Practical Dictionary

Nicholas Awde

Reference

Boston's Boxing Heritage: Prizefighting from 1882 to 1955 chronicles the rich history of prizefighting in Boston and the many characters that made the Hub city the home of champions. It is not only a pictorial history of the sport but also a tale of heroes and villains, gangsters and mobsters, contenders and bums, trainers and newspapermen, straight men and cheats. It is a saga of ethnicity and race, of color barriers broken and neighborhood rivalries settled and rekindled. At its core this story is truly about a city and its relationship with a sport.
Boston's Boxing Heritage: Prizefighting from 1882 to 1955 covers the early bareknuckle years of boxing through the sport's post-World War II boom. When Boston's John L. Sullivan won the heavyweight crown from Paddy Ryan in 1882, he took prizefighting from an illegal, red-light district pastime to the country's most popular sport and in essence put Bean Town on the sporting map. For the next sixty years, Boston remained one of the elite cities in the boxing world spawning ring immortals such as George "Little Chocolate" Dixon, Joe "the Barbados Demon" Wolcott, William "Honey" Mellody, Rocky Marciano, Jack "the Boston Gob" Sharkey, and Sam "the Boston Tar Baby" Langford.

Boston's Boxing Heritage: Prizefighting from 1882 to 1955 (MA) (Images of Sports)

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Arcadia Publishing

Daredevil Visionaries

Comics & Graphic Novels

Publishers

Marvel Enterprises

Published by Marvel Comics 2003. $29.99 Cover Price. Full Color. 336 pages. 7 1/2-inch x 11-inch hardcover comic collection with dust jacket. Hardcover Graphic Novel Collection. Collects DAREDEVIL (1998 series) #1-11 and 13-15. Written by KEVIN SMITH and DAVID MACK. Art and Cover by JOE QUESADA. "Available for the first time in one deluxe hardcover edition, two classic stories that redefined Marvel's Man Without Fear! Joe Quesada and writer/director Kevin Smith present a hero about to learn that a man without fear is a man without faithÖand a man without faith is easily unmade. Then writer David Mack teams with Quesada as the femme fatale known as Echo sets her sights on the man she believes to be responsible for her father's death: Daredevil. Although deaf, Maya Lopez absorbs on sight every move and tactical detail of an individual's distinctive fighting style, and commits it all to muscle memory. Mislead and manipulated by the Kingpin of Crime, Echo has revenge on her mind, hate in her heart and Daredevil dead to rights."

Daredevil, Vol. 1

David Mack

Graphic Novels

Marvel Comics

This special 10th anniversary edition collects Daredevil #1 through #8 and #1/2.

Daredevil: Guardian Devil

In 1938, Thomas Gilcrease, a native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, opened the first museum devoted to the art of the American West. A true visionary, Gilcrease was ahead of his time in understanding the importance of America’s own heritage. His passion for art and history, his Native American ancestry, and his oil revenues coincided in a rare alignment. His legacy is an astounding collection of paintings, sculptures, artifacts, rare books, and documents. This lavishly produced book, featuring nearly two hundred color reproductions, tells the story of Gilcrease and of the renowned museum that bears his name. Compiled by the museum’s curators, Treasures of Gilcrease exemplifies the beauty and breadth of the museum’s resources. The fine art collection alone boasts more than 10,000 American works, ranging in styles from classical to romantic to impressionist and by such master artists as George Catlin, Charles M. Russell, Thomas Moran, and Frederic Remington. The works by Native artists also span styles ranging from painted hides to twentieth-century flat-style. The artifacts―300,000-plus pieces housed in the galleries and vaults―include ceramics, clothing, pipes, and objects of utility, ceremony, and ornamentation. The archives collection contains some 100,000 manuscripts, books, photographs, maps, imprints, and broadsides. Treasures of Gilcrease offers a vivid and engaging tour through these collections in the company of the experts who know them best.

Treasures of Gilcrease: Selections from the Permanent Collection

Anne Morand

Daniel C. Swan

Sarah Erwin

History & Criticism

Gilcrease Museum

In 1938, Thomas Gilcrease, a native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, opened the first museum devoted to the art of the American West. A true visionary, Gilcrease was ahead of his time in understanding the importance of America’s own heritage. His passion for art and history, his Native American ancestry, and his oil revenues coincided in a rare alignment. His legacy is an astounding collection of paintings, sculptures, artifacts, rare books, and documents. This lavishly produced book, featuring nearly two hundred color reproductions, tells the story of Gilcrease and of the renowned museum that bears his name.Compiled by the museum’s curators, Treasures of Gilcrease exemplifies the beauty and breadth of the museum’s resources. The fine art collection alone boasts more than 10,000 American works, ranging in styles from classical to romantic to impressionist and by such master artists as George Catlin, Charles M. Russell, Thomas Moran, and Frederic Remington. The works by Native artists also span styles ranging from painted hides to twentieth-century flat-style. The artifacts300,000-plus pieces housed in the galleries and vaultsinclude ceramics, clothing, pipes, and objects of utility, ceremony, and ornamentation. The archives collection contains some 100,000 manuscripts, books, photographs, maps, imprints, and broadsides. Treasures of Gilcrease offers a vivid and engaging tour through these collections in the company of the experts who know them best.

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

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