Benjamin Franklin Award Finalist for Interior Design (3 or More Color)Bill Fischer Award Finalist for Best First Book (Nonfiction) The filming of the blockbuster film Jaws is regarded as a landmark event in both the history of motion pictures and the quaint New England island of Martha’s Vineyard, where the geographic isolation necessitated the hiring of hundreds of locals to work as actors and laborers. Among this virtual army of hometown participants were numerous professional and amateur photographers, each with full access to the production’s inner workings—for the first time ever this compiles their behind-the-scenes photographs and stories into a treasure trove of Jaws rarities. Included are a foreword by director Steven Spielberg, interviews with production designer Joe Alves, screenwriter Carl Gottlieb, location casting director Shari Rhodes, and more, providing an unprecedented all-access pass to the creation of some of the most memorable and terrifying scenes in film history. This unique compendium is the first to focus on the production’s local participants, telling their stories at last.

Product Description: Since its publication, the works of the Marquis de Sade have challenged the reading public with a philosophy of relentless physical transgression. This is the first book-length academic study by a single author that applies the philosophy of the Marquis de Sade to the analysis of a wide array of film texts...read more

Product Description: Alfred Hitchcock is arguably the most famous director to have ever made a film. Almost single-handedly he turned the suspense thriller into one of the most popular film genres of all time, while his Psycho updated the horror film and inspired two generations of directors to imitate and adapt this most Hitchcockian of movies...read more

'The introduction analyzes what makes a psycho thriller, and subsequent chapters are devoted to each of the archetypal psycho thriller characters and themes. The concluding chapter lists the top twenty psycho thrillers. Stills from classic films in the genre illustrate the text, which also includes filmography, bibliography, and index'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: In a radical new interpretation of the works of Alfred Hitchcock, Christopher Morris argues that suspense―the fundamental component of Hitchcock's cinema―is best understood through deconstruction of the very meaning of the word, which relates to dependence or hanging...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In the real world, people go out of their way to avoid unpleasant, nerve-wracking situations, yet turn in record droves to see thrillerst days of Hollywood. In Thrillers McCarty discuses top thrillers from Sparrows in 1926, to 1991's hit The Silence of the Lambs...read more