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|title=Hollywood Frame by Frame: Behind the Scenes: Cinema's Unseen Contact Sheets
|author=Karina Longworth
|rating=4
|genre=Entertainment
|summary=If you ever think of Hollywood you think of it as the home of a certain kind of output. Superstars, big studio productions, and what they combined to produce – things you might call movies, or films. Once upon a time, of course, they were called moving pictures, without the abbreviation, but the artform – once called the greatest of the 20th Century – was just as recognisable through the still images it produced. This coffee table book is designed as a catalogue of those still images – whether they be formally posed portraits taken on set, re-enactments of the cinema's scenes shot separately on still camera for the purpose of publicity, or candid stills that formed a matter the star had a final say in, which would go some way to increasing the cult of their personality in the magazines that were then starting to focus on celebrity.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781579806</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Art of Neil Gaiman
|summary=In many ways, the cover of my edition of this book is perfectly appropriate. Huge, bold serif script, with nothing but the typeface; a declamatory instance of the art in the most common of fonts, and that perfect semi-colon at the end of the book's name - proving that that itself is not the be-all and end-all. Buy this book, as you can, in electronic form, and you might see this cover for ten seconds at most, but it is so much part and parcel of what's within.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552450</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Molly Carr
|title=A Sherlock Holmes Who's Who (With of Course Dr.Watson)
|rating=2.5
|genre=Entertainment
|summary=Given the amount written about Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, even the most dedicated of Sherlockians must sometimes require a refresher on the characters. As I'm certainly not the most dedicated of anything, although I love Holmes and have read the entire canon, I was eagerly anticipating the chance to remind myself of those within. Sadly, this book has done little to quench my anticipation.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920822</amazonuk>
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