The space battles, the lightsaber duels, and the startling delineation of alien cultures and environments in Star Wars have fascinated generations of viewers, but it is the psychological richness of the characters that give the movies an emotional resonance. This book features script pages, concept art, storyboards, on-set photography, and more.

This cogent and provocative compilation of essays is now a classic text for students of the emergent discipline of performance studies.

This second collection of three classic storybooks in a giftable slipcase with holographic foil makes the perfect gift for any Angelina Ballerina fan!

Celebrate the 30th anniversary of Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story with this collection of colorscripts and development art from all four Toy Story feature films.

A legend of cinematic success, Rocky Balboa first graced our screens and became an overnight movie sensation 50 years ago. With images from the MGM archives and the Academy Library and a foreword by and interviews with Sylvester Stallone, this tome brings you all the guts and glory of an enduring action hero.

What makes Ariana Grande shine in the spotlight? Find out in this inspirational book that's perfect for gift-giving for fans of Wicked and Wicked: For Good. With spot gloss and tons of glitter on the cover!

Structured Computer Organization, specifically written for undergraduate students, is a best-selling guide that provides an accessible introduction to computer hardware and architecture. This text will also serve as a useful resource for all computer professionals and engineers who need an overview or introduction to computer architecture. This book takes a modern structured, layered approach to understanding computer systems.

Its highly accessible - and its been thoroughly updated to reflec...

Explore the profound impact and artistry of Martin Scorsese, one of America's greatest living directors.

Sergei Tretyakov is one of those artists and intellectuals from the first half of the twentieth century whose name is known, but whose achievements are barely recognized. He seems curiously elusive. Who exactly was he? What did he do? A victim of Stalin’s Great Terror, declared an ‘enemy of the people’, his works were ‘disappeared’ and his name forbidden to be mentioned.

But he was at the very heart of avant-garde modernism. He collaborated with Sergei Eisenstein both in the theatre...

Reframing Luchino Visconti: Film and Art gives new and unique insights into the roots of the visual vocabulary of one of Italy's most reputed film authors. It meticulously researches Visconti's appropriation of European art in his set and costume design, from pictorial citations and the archaeology of the set to the use of portraits and pictorial references in costume design. Yet it also investigates Visconti's cinematography in combination with his mise-en-scène in terms of staging, framing...