In today`s jet-fuelled, caffeine-charged, celebrity-a-minute world, who actually has the time to watch a film from start to finish? Let`s face it, life`s too short. Now, Film in Five Seconds lets you fast-forward to the best bits so you can enjoy all your favourite movie moments in
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- moments. Design studio H-57 have taken over 150 iconic films & cut away all the useless details, boiling them down into ingenious pictograms & creating hilarious visual snapshots that are witty, provocative & to the point. From Batman to Bridget Jones, Grease to The Godfather, King Kong to The King`s Speech, via slapstick, sci-fi & superheroes, you`ll laugh out loud as you identify some of the greatest screen moments of all time. This is the perfect book for film buffs & anyone with a sense of humour or a short attention span.

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Many of the greatest film makers have used the legendary city of Paris as a backdrop for their work. This guide takes us to some of the most famous & also some lesser-known sets in the city, neighbourhood by neighbourhood to facilitate visits. This illustrated guide completed by QR (quick response) codes to see all the film trailers, takes the reader to bars, restaurants, hotels, boutiques, galleries & theatres that have been used in films. The text

Includes:: anecdotes & fun ideas to discover Paris as seen on the big screen.

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On 29 September 1981, Peter Turner received a phone call that would change his life. His former lover, Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a Lancaster hotel & was refusing medical attention. He had no choice but to take her into his chaotic & often eccentric family`s home in Liverpool. Liverpool born & bred, Turner had first set eyes on Grahame when he was a young actor, living in London. Best known for her portrayal of irresistible femme fatales in films such as The Big Heat, Oklahoma & The Bad & the Beautiful, for which she won an Oscar, Grahame electrified audiences with her steely expressions & heavy lidded eyes & the heroines she bought to life were often dark & dangerous. Turner & Grahame became firm friends & remained so ever after their love affair had ended. & it was to him she turned in her final hour of need. Film Stars Don`t Die in Liverpool is an affectionate, moving & wryly humorous memoir of friendship, love & stardom. ...

Edinburgh-based cartoonist Edward Ross uses comics to illuminate the ideas behind our favourite films. In Filmish, Ross`s cartoon alter-ego guides readers through the annals of cinematic history, introducing us to some of the strange & fascinating concepts at work in the movies. Each chapter focuses on a particular theme
- the body, architecture, language
- & explores an eclectic mix of cinematic triumphs, from A Trip to the Moon to Aliens. Sitting within the tradition of bestselling non-fiction graphic novels like Scott Mc Cloud`s Understanding Comics & the Introducing...series, Filmish tackles serious issues
- sexuality, race, censorship, propaganda
- with authority & wit, throwing new light on some of the greatest films ever made.



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An airfield was first established at Filton, just north of Bristol, in 1911 after the establishment of the British & Colonial Aeroplane Company. The company & its descendents have used the airfield ever since to develop aviation technology. Filton Airfield has also played host to a military presence, starting with the Royal Flying Corps in 1915, continuing with a Spitfire squadron during the Battle of Britain, & into the jet age with Vampire fighters. In Filton Airfield Through Time, Andrew Appleton uses a wonderful collection of old & new photographs to show us the intriguing past of this key site in British aviation history, from the manufacture of military aircraft during the First & Second World Wars through the servicing of BOAC airliners during the 1950s & the development of Concorde during the 1960s to the present day & the closure of the airfield by BAE Systems. ...

Finn Family Moomintroll is the second book in the cult classic Moomin series by Tove Jansson. A must-read for adults & children alike. This special edition, with six stunning full-page colour illustrations, is published to celebrate the Moomins 70th anniversary. Poor little chap! He had been turned into a very strange animal indeed... Although they`re small, fat & shy creatures, Moomins have the most amazing adventures. It all begins when Moominpappa tries on a magic hat that makes exciting & funny things happen...” They seem to grow in wisdom & delight every time I read them.” (Philip Pullman). ”A beautifully strange world, excquisitely illustrated.” (Lauren Child). ...

The Holocaust has never been so widely commemorated, but our understanding of the accepted narrative has rarely, if ever, been questioned. David Cesarani`s sweeping reappraisal challenges accepted explanations for the anti-Jewish politics of Nazi Germany & the inevitability of the ` Final Solution`. The persecution of the Jews was not always the Nazis` central preoccupation, nor was it an inevitable process. Cesarani also reveals that in German-occupied countries it unfolded erratically, often due to local initiatives. Ghettos were improvised while the mass shooting of Jews during the invasion of Russia owed as much to the security situation as to anti-semitism. In this new interpretation, war is critical to the Jewish fate. Military failure denied the Germans opportunities to expel Jews into a distant territory & created a crisis of resources that led to starvation of the ghettos & intensified anti-Jewish measures. It was global war that eventually triggered genocide in Europe. Cesarani disputes the iconic role of railways, deportation trains & even Auschwitz, & reveals that plunder was more a cause of anti-Jewish feeling than a consequence of it. Using diaries & reports written in ghettos & camps, he exposes the extent of sexual violence & abuse of Jewish women by the Germans, their collaborators &, shockingly, by Jews themselves. But Cesarani also reveals the courage & ingenuity of those who struggled to evade capture & fought back wherever they could. & unlike previous histories, he follows the Jews` journey to the ` Displaced Persons` camps; camps which have so often been merely a footnote in the story but where Jews languished behind barbed wire for years after `liberation`. This moving & dramatic account captures the fate of the Jews, the horror & the heroism, in their own words. Resting on decades of scholarship it is compelling, authoritative, & profoundly disturbing. ...

David Cesarani`s Final Solution is an intelligent & thought-provoking short history of the Holocaust. Not only does David Cesarani draw together & engage with the latest scholarly research, making extensive use of previously untapped resources such as diaries & letters from within the ghettos & camps (many of them in Polish or Yiddish & therefore previously largely inaccessible to Anglo-American scholars) but by adopting a rigorously Judeocentric approach the whole narrative of the march to genocide & its aftermath the book presents a subtly different timeline which casts afresh the horror of the period & engenders a significant re-evaluation of the how & why. Eschewing some of the more fevered theses about the guilt of the perpetrators (and indeed recasting how wide that net should be spread), David Cesarani`s measured & skilful negotiation of a crowded field is, as a result, all the more devastating. ...

When a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv violently disrupts his life, Mickey Simhoni abandons his plans to become an artist & instead allows himself to be recruited into the Mossad. Slowly, he learns the art of spycraft the & painstaking process of building a cover, becoming someone else whom he resembles, who is presumed dead. His cover story takes him to Toronto where he meets & earlier flame -- Niki, a girl he had hooked up with in Tokyo a decade earlier. Mickey is torn between loyalty to the Mossad & his intense feelings for Niki -- which the ever-resourceful Niki partially resolves with an unusual decision. But still Mickey`s dilemma persists, as he oscillates between duty & love, his complex operations in the Mossad threatening to kill their love. When his final operation in Algiers goes badly wrong, the rage & hatred engendered, & the utter humiliation visited on then, leads to a traumatic conclusion. ...