"For film buffs and literature lovers alike, this is an essential guide to 52 great reads, and the cinema classics they inspired"--

Thirty years after defeating the Empire, the Alliance faces a new threat from Kylo Ren and his army of stormtroopers.

In the early eighties, the peaceful, reclusive life of poet and writer Alice Walker was interrupted by the appearance of three extraordinary gifts: a widely praised best-selling novel (The Color Purple), the Pulitzer Prize, and an offer from Steven Spielberg to make her novel into a film that would become a major international event. This last gift, which Walker identifies as "the knock at the door," led her into the labyrinth of a never-before-experienced...

Author Matt Love once heard a rumor that, during the filming of Sometimes a Great Notion in 1971, actor and director Paul Newman walked into a Toledo, Oregon bar and sawed the legs off a pool table with a chainsaw. That story was the genesis of this book, an exploration of Newman, Ken Kesey, and the filming of Sometimes a Great Notion

Presents the history of the legendary film, from its creation as a novel by L. Frank Baum and the production of the film to the legacy the cultural phenomenon has inspired.

"In celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death and fully endorsed by Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, this is the ultimate guide to the life and work of the world's greatest playwright. With full coverage of the thirty-nine Shakespearian plays (including a synopsis, full character list, stage history, and a critical essay for each), this comprehensive guide is both a quick reference and an in-depth background guide for theatre goers,...