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Seinfeld Ultimate Episode Guide is written by an authoritative expert who penned the most comprehensive reference book ever written about the show-Seinfeld Reference: The Complete Encyclopedia. The latest effort, Seinfeld Ultimate Episode Guide, is the best source for little-known facts, details and information about the sitcom voted The Greatest TV Series of All-Time by TV Guide. Each episode offers the original airing date and production code with...
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"Kenan is a master storyteller with extraordinary stories to tell. I wouldn't miss this for the world."—Leslie Jones
When I Was Your Age is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older and wiser, and luck, life, and learning from the school of hard knocks, from SNL's longest-serving actor, Kenan Thompson
Kenan Thompson is Saturday Night Live's longest-ever-serving
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"Forty years ago, viewers who wanted to watch the news could only choose from among the major broadcast networks, all of which presented the same news without any particular point of view. Today we have a much broader array of choices, including cable channels offering a partisan take. With partisan programs gaining in popularity, some argue that they are polarizing American politics, while others counter that only a tiny portion of the population...
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In the 1940s, American movies changed. Flashbacks began to be used in outrageous, unpredictable ways. Soundtracks flaunted voice-over commentary, and characters might pivot from a scene to address the viewer. Incidents were replayed from different characters' viewpoints, and sometimes those versions proved to be false. Films now plunged viewers into characters' memories, dreams, and hallucinations. Some films didn't have protagonists, while others...
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This witty and fascinating study reminds us that there was animation before Disney: about thirty years of creativity and experimentation flourishing in such extraordinary work as Girdie the Dinosaur and Felix the Cat. Before Mickey, the first and only in-depth history of animation from 1898-1928, includes accounts of mechanical ingenuity, marketing and art. Crafton is equally adept at explaining techniques of sketching and camera work, evoking characteristic...
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The success of movies like The Artist and Hugo recreated the wonder and magic of silent film for modern audiences, many of whom might never have experienced a movie without sound. But while the American silent movie was one of the most significant popular art forms of the modern age, it is also one that is largely lost to us, as more than eighty percent of silent films have disappeared, the victims of age, disaster, and neglect. We now know about...
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Seinfeld Trivia: Everything About Nothing is authored by a sitcom expert who penned the most comprehensive trivia book that has ever been written about the show. This literary gem starts with general questions about the making of the show, which was voted The Greatest TV Series of All-Time by TV Guide. The next section includes thorough questions into each significant character (Jerry Seinfeld, George Costanza, Cosmo Kramer, Elaine Benes, Newman,...
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Film has shaped modern society in part by changing its cultures of memory. Film, Music, Memory reveals that this change has rested in no small measure on the mnemonic powers of music. As films were consumed by growing American and European audiences, their soundtracks became an integral part of individual and collective memory. Berthold Hoeckner analyzes three critical processes through which music influenced this new culture of memory: storage, retrieval,...
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The Big Bang Theory Challenging Trivia is authored by a sitcom expert who penned the greatest trivia quiz books on the most popular television sitcoms (e.g., Seinfeld Trivia: Everything About Nothing, Friends Trivia: Channel Your Inner Unagi, Modern Family Challenging Trivia: Early Years, and Cheers Trivia: It's a Little Known Fact...). His latest effort, The Big Bang Theory Challenging Trivia, is the best source for accurate and well-written trivia...
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Seinfeld Trivia: Everything About Nothing, Multiple Choice is authored by a sitcom expert who penned the greatest trivia quiz books on the most popular television sitcoms (e.g., The Big Bang Theory Trivia: Casual Fan, Modern Family Trivia: Casual Fan, and Cheers Trivia: It's a Little Known Fact...). His latest effort, Seinfeld Trivia: Multiple Choice, is the best source for accurate and well-written trivia questions about the sitcom voted "The #1...
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New York Times, Spin, and Vanity Fair contributor Marc Spitz explores the first great cultural movement since Hip Hop: an old-fashioned and yet highly modern aesthetic that's embraced internationally by teens, twenty and thirty-somethings and even some Baby Boomers; creating hybrid generation known as Twee. Via exclusive interviews and years of research, Spitz traces Generation Twee's roots from the Post War 50s to its dominance in popular culture...
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Roger Ebert has been writing film reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times for over four decades now and his biweekly essays on great movies have been appearing there since 1996. As Ebert noted in the introduction to the first collection of those pieces, "They are not the greatest films of all time, because all lists of great movies are a foolish attempt to codify works which must stand alone. But it's fair to say: If you want to take a tour of the landmarks...
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"The Gang" from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia attempts their most ill-conceived, get-rich quick scheme yet: publishing a "self-help book" to hilarious, sometimes dangerous, and often revolting, results.
The Gang may have finally found their golden ticket. Left alone to close down Paddy's Pub one night, Charlie Kelly inadvertently scored himself, and his friends, the opportunity of a lifetime-a book deal with a real publishing company, real advance...
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In Killer Tech and the Drive to Save Humanity, Mark Stross presents a gripping exploration of our entanglement with technology in a world where digital platforms increasingly dictate our lives. With thought-provoking insights and real-life anecdotes, Mark unveils the hidden costs of our digital addiction and challenges readers to reconsider their relationship with technology.
The message is clear: "If you're not paying for the product, you are...
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