Now in an all-new updated edition, a concise guide to the video and DVD market provides in the most recent year's edition more than four hundred new entries, a star-based rating system, cast and director indexes, an Academy Award winner list, and more than eighteen thousand reviews. Simultaneous. 35,000 first printing.

Rates thousands of movies and offers easy reference through genre categorization and title, star, and director indexes.

"[This book] helps you learn to think like a film-maker [and] takes you step-by-step through the process of making better films."--Back cover.

Des milliers de résumés avec pour chaque film : Une cote d'appréciation. Les commentaires critiques de Médiafilm. Le réalisateur, les principaux acteurs, le genre, l'année de production, les versions disponibles, etc. Le classement par catégorie d'âge de la Régie du cinéma. Des sélections pour tous les goûts : par genre : thriller, comédie musicale, science-fiction, western, film noir, film culte, film de guerre, etc. Par sujet : politique, médias, érotisme, biographie, bouffe, spiritualité, homosexualité, etc. Et aussi, entre autres : Les meilleures nouveautés de l'année. Les filmographies des acteurs, des réalisateurs et des directeurs photo. Les lauréats des grands festivals de cinéma, Oscars, Césars et Jutra.

Get the lowdown on the best fiction ever written. Over 230 of the world’s greatest novels are covered, from Quixote (1614) to Orhan Pamuk’s Snow (2002), with fascinating information about their plots and their authors – and suggestions for what to read next. The guide comes complete with recommendations of the best editions and translations for every genre from the most enticing crime and punishment to love, sex, heroes and anti-heroes, not to mention all the classics of comedy and satire, horror and mystery and many other literary genres. With feature boxes on experimental novels, female novelists, short reviews of interesting film and TV adaptations, and information on how the novel began, this guide will point you to all the classic literature you’ll ever need.

Fantasy and science fiction began in print, and from the first films to the latest blockbusters, print stories have provided the inspirations, the ideas, and in some cases the detailed blueprints. Adaption Studies has long been an area of intense debate in literature and film studies, but no single work has ever approached fantasy and science fiction texts as unique and important areas of inquiry by themselves. The Fantastic Made Visible with 16 fresh essays is the first book to do exactly that. From the earliest adaptations of Jules Verne, Robert A. Heinlein, and Shakespeare to recent films based on The Hobbit, Planet of the Apes, and The Hunger Games, this book offers a wide range of critical approaches and films from around the world.

For movie fans seeking a guide to intelligent, engaging films, this handbook by five "New York Times" film critics offers newly updated reviews of 500 movies, all available on DVD.

This invaluable reference combines shopping advice, setup guidance, and user tips for all things electronic.

More than an essential companion to the complete "Penguin Guide to Compact Discs" (1999), the "Yearbook 2000/1" reviews hundreds of brand new CDs and takes a closer look at some of the more unusual areas of the classical-music repertoire.

Carol Alabaster focuses on developing a collection with high-quality materials while saving time and money.