This Is Orson Welles
8 best books like This Is Orson Welles (Orson Welles): The Medium is the Massage, Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul, Realityland: True-Life Adventures at Walt Disney World, Scorsese on Scorsese, Film as a Subversive Art: By Amos Vogel, Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate, the Film That Sank United Artists, Conversations with Wilder, You'll Never Eat Lunch in this Town Again
The Medium is the Massage
| Author | Marshall McLuhan |
| ISBN | 1584230703 |
The Medium is the Massage is Marshall McLuhan's most condensed, and perhaps most effective, presentation of his ideas. Using a layout style that was later copied by Wired, McLuhan and coauthor/designer Quentin Fiore combine word and image to illustrate and enact the ideas that were first put forward...
Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
| Author | Howard Schultz |
| ISBN | 1605292885 |
In 2008, Howard Schultz, the president and chairman of Starbucks, made the unprecedented decision to return as the CEO eight years after he stepped down from daily oversight of the company and became chairman. Concerned that Starbucks had lost its way, Schultz was determined to help it return to its...
Realityland: True-Life Adventures at Walt Disney World
| Author | David Koenig |
| ISBN | 0964060523 |
The first in-depth, unauthorized look at the creation and operation of the world's most popular vacation destination. The author of the best-selling Mouse Tales: A Behind-the-Ears Look at Disneyland reveals how Walt Disney's City of Tomorrow evolved into a sprawling resort where?despite extraordinary...
| Author | David Thompson |
| ISBN | 0571178278 |
This book is filled with insights on Marty's filmmaking process. When I started reading this book, I decided to watch his films along the way. It was a slow but very fulfilling experience! While one may not like all of his films, one would still gain certain appreciation for these films having read his...
| Author | Amos Vogel |
| ISBN | 1933045272 |
A classic returns! The original edition of Amos Vogel's seminal book, "Film as a Subversive Art" was first published in 1974, and has been out of print since 1987. According to Vogel--founder of Cinema 16, North America's legendary film society--the book details the "accelerating worldwide trend...
| Author | Steven Bach |
| ISBN | 1557043744 |
Heaven's Gate is probably the most discussed, least seen film in modern movie history. Its notoriety is so great that its title has become a generic term for disaster, for ego run rampant, for epic mismanagement, for wanton extravagance. It was also the film that brought down one of Hollywood’s major...
| Author | Cameron Crowe |
| ISBN | 0375709673 |
In Conversations with Wilder, Hollywood's legendary and famously elusive director Billy Wilder agrees for the first time to talk extensively about his life and work.
Here, in an extraordinary book with more than 650 black-and-white photographs -- including film posters, stills, grabs,...
| Author | Julia Phillips |
| ISBN | 0571216234 |
Julia Phillips became a Hollywood player in the freewheeling 1970s, the first woman to win the Best Picture Oscar as co-producer of The Sting. She went on to work with two of the hottest young directorial talents of the era: Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver) and Steven Spielberg (Close Encounters of the...
