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Veteran character actor Basil Hoffman guides readers through his unique method of recognizing and understanding human behavior, so actors can discover and demonstrate the character's humanity. Hoffman’s broad prefessional experiences have given him unique insight to demystify and illustrate the acting experience, not in theory, but as practiced at the highest levels WITH 100 Q&As DIRECT FROM of the industry. Included are HOFFMAN’S ACTING CLASSES I anecdotes I detailed interactive experiences I sixteen production photographs Basil Hoffman was born in Houston and graduated from Tulane and the AADA. He is best known for his work with Peter Bogdanovich, Richard Benjamin, Alan J. Acting and How To Be Pakula, and Academy Award winners Blake Good At It Edwards, Steven Spielberg, Sydney Pollack, Ron Howard and Robert Redford. 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Here are Marilyn’s personal and professional worlds explored as never before. First-hand portraits, etched with the razor clarity familiar to Gilmore fans, track her tragic detour from happiness and self-fulfillment through the closed worlds of Hollywood and Beverly Hills, high and low. Gilmore’s revelations of fame in the fast lane paint an indelible picture of the real Marilyn, an emotionally tortured, unloved, lonely and desperate goddess, ricocheting in a make- believe realm fueled by alcohol and pills, PLANGENT MEMOIR OF HOLLYWOOD imprisoned by an industry that discounted INSIDER'S FRIENDSHIP WITH MARILYN her ambitions as she blossomed into the most important movie star in the world. I with rare photos of Marilyn John Gilmore, raised in Hollywood, has been an actor, director, journalist and novelist, and is internationally acclaimed for his hardboiled true crime, fiction, and Hollywood memoirs. 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Born in New York, 300 pages organizations she graduated from Harvard in 1964. She B&W Illustrations I reviews and features in film May media lives in Santa Cruz. I review copies available Filmmaking SHIRE PRESS 4 | SCB DISTRIBUTORS | SPRING 2007 Blaxploitation Cinema The Essential Reference Guide By Josiah Howard “Josiah Howard’s book is frankly the best guide on the subject that I have ever seen.”– Jack Hill, director of Blaxploitation classics Coffy and Foxy Brown The first appreciative look back at a distinctly American motion picture phenomenon. Dazzling, highly stylized, excessively violent and brimming with sex, Blaxploitation films enjoyed a brief and memorable moment in motion picture history. Today these films are enjoying a renaissance, and not just with film fans. The genre, with its bevy of colorful, contemporary characters, irresistible soundtracks and catchy titles, has taken its rightful place among the entertainment industry’s most influential films. This is the first truly comprehensive THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO reference of this important genre, and details its history, films, trends and far- THIS VIBRANT RETRO MOVIE GENRE reaching impact, covering more than 240 Blaxploitation films from 1970-1980. From Aaron Loves Angela to The Zebra Killer they’re all here in one indispensable volume, including many of the motion picture posters and ads promoting the films. Blaxploitation Cinema The Essential Reference Guide Josiah Howard is an avid film and 1970s pop culture enthusiast. A graduate of NYU, he ISBN-10: 1-903254-44-2 honed his skills at Parade. His work has also ISBN-13: 978-1-903254-44-8 appeared in the Village Voice, Archetype and $24.95 | paper Motion Picture Review. 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