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New Books
 Theatre
David Mamet
In Theatre, the acclaimed author of Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-the-Plow calls for nothing less than the death of the director and the end of acting theatre. Have we got your attention? To students, teachers, and directors who crave a blast of fresh air in a world that can be insular and fearful of change, this bold treatise throws down a gauntlet that challenges everyone to do better, including Mamet himself. Hardcover, 157 pp. $26.50.
 Furious Love
Sam Kashner & Nancy Schoenberger
For nearly a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were Hollywood royalty, and their fiery romance -- often called "the marriage of the century" -- was the most notorious, publicized, and celebrated love affair of its day. Shocking and unsparing in its honesty, Furious Love is more than a celebrity biography; it's an honest yet sympathetic portrait of a man, a woman, and a passion that shocked and mesmerized the world. Hardcover, 500 pp. $29.99.
 Horror Movie Freak
Don Sumner
You'll scream with delight while reading this fun and engaging book that discusses all of the classics of the horror genre. The movies themselves have been divided into various categories including Asian horror, homicidal slashers, supernatural thrillers, and zombie invasion. Softcover, 255 pp. $23.99.
 The Pulitzer Prize Plays: The First Fifty Years: 1917 - 1967
Paul A. Firestone
From 1917-1967, forty-two plays were awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Though varied in style from satirical to tragic, from realistic to fantastic, they all masterfully reflect universal themes and explore the most important, ongoing, colossal human questions. This ambitious book examines the plays and playwrights of this period, illuminating the historical context in which the plays emerged, and their relevance on sociological, political, familial, psychological, and spiritual levels. Softcover, 341 pp. $19.95.
 Zygmunt Molik's Voice and Body Work: The Legacy of Jerzy Grotowski
Guiliano Campo & Zygmont Molik
Zygmunt Molik is one of the last living members of Jerzy Grotowski's original acting company and was a leading trainer at the Teatr Laboratorium. Softcover, 190 pp. $39.95.
 British Film Design: A History
Laurie N. Ede
British Film Design is about the things that you see when you close your eyes and think of British cinema. It's about Dr. No's hideaway, the ballet of The Red Shoes, the buffet of Brief Encounter, Vera Drake's parlour, Hogwarts School, and a thousand other visions of British films. Moreover, this book is about the people who have created these visions. But more than anything, British Film Design expresses the joy of looking at films from the inside out; seeing beyond the stars to recognise sets as silent players in the action. Softcover, 248 pp. $36.00.
 Declarations of Independence
John Berra
American independent cinema is a key cultural niche within the wider film industry and its success, since the early 1990s, proves that there is an audience for alternative media. This book offers an academic discussion of the genre and considers whether unique independent film can thrive or even survive in an industry of mass production and profit. Softcover, 224 pp. $35.95.
 The ABCs of Classic Hollywood
Robert B. Ray
Speaking about the kind of filmmaking now known as Classic Hollywood -- the most popular and influential period in the history of cinema -- Vincente Minnelli once gave away its secret: "I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things. They're things that the audience is not conscious of, but that accumulate." In The ABCs of Classic Hollywood, Robert Ray attempts to identify and classify these elusive characteristics. Softcover, 392 pp. $35.95.
 Into the Past: The Cinema of Guy Maddin
William Beard
This close reading of Guy Maddin's narrative and aesthetic strategies, themes, influences, and underlying issues also examines the orgins and production history of each film. The author's fascinating interpretations reveal, among other things, the ways in which Maddin's art is founded in the past -- both in the cultural past, and in his personal memory. Softcover, 471 pp. $37.95.
 Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray
Keya Ganguly
Although revered as one of the world's great filmmakers, the Indian director Satyajit Ray is often described in narrowly nationalistic terms and rarely as an influential modernist whose contributions to world cinema remain unsurpassed. In this benchmark study, Keya Ganguly situates Ray's work within the internationalist spirit of the twentieth century, arguing that his film experiments intimate the sense of a radical future and document the capacity of the image to conceptualize a different world glimpsed in the remnants of a disappearing past. Softcover, 258 pp. $29.95.
 Joyce Wieland's The Far Shore
Johanne Sloan
Johanne Sloan's examination of Joyce Wieland's 1976 film The Far Shore provides a smart, original, and readable introduction to the film itself, while situating it within the larger context of Wieland's extensive and varied artistic production. Softcover, 134 pp. $16.95.
 Film Production Management 101 Management and Coordination in a Digital Age
Second Edition
Deborah Patz
In effect, Film Production Management 101 is two books in one: a detailed insider's guide for production managers and another one for production coordinators. With an entertaining "nuts and bolts" approach, Deb Patz takes you on a journey from prep to post and even on to the audit with insider tips on budgets, cost reports, cash flows, interim financing, script revisions, location management, production insurance, completion bonds and much, much more! 36 in-depth chapters are complimented with more than 70 additional pages of essential forms. Softcover, $47.95. (www.debpatz.com/pm101.htm)
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