Locates the origins of the mass audience and the emergence of everyday moviegoing in the culture of cities.

Can you find Edward Scissorhands, Steve Zissou, Mrs. Bates, and seven Gremlins? This deluxe seek-and-find for film buffs challenges viewers to locate iconic characters and elements from the work of 12 great directors within largeformat, sumptuously illustrated set-piece spreads (one for each director, with the Coen brothers as a pair). Featured here are Tim Burton, Stanley Kubrick, Wes Anderson, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, and more. With answer keys following the spreads, and visual discovery and delight on every page, Now Playing is a beautifully packaged treat for movie and visual puzzle fans.

Ji-Ho Kim, is not a fan of emotional attachment. With his family constantly moving from one place to another, he believes in packing light -- reeling from a heartbreaking past, for him, that means cutting ties to all the people he met. Until she bumped into Sam, because of their shared interest for books. Samantha Richards enjoys living inside her bubble. She has her priorities straight since she's eight: Study, get higher credits, graduate, go to her dream school and more than anything, be a playwright. Dating was never a part of her plan -- till she met Ji-Ho. Can fate shake their congealed philosophies in life? their priorities? Will their love for books bud into an unlikely friendship? Now Playing is a refreshing story of young love, friendship, breaking walls, and fate.

A group of interrelated tales that range from a ghost story to drag-racing, and above all, a gloriously readable narrative of people from all parts of the United States.

While flying home to New York after a business trip, Bryan Powers, Fractional Jet executive, is asked a simple question by his CEO: If you could relive one event in your life, what would you choose? Powers admits that replaying a football game the team lost his senior year in high school would be a wish he'd make. Moments later, a strange event occurs on the plane. Powers awakes to discover that he is on a wild and mysterious ride into his past life. He realizes the wish was not as simple as he'd thought. Seeing his best buddy-who would be killed in Vietnam in 1970-stuns Powers into shifting his original mission from merely changing the outcome of a football game into saving his best friend's life. Everything comes to a climax for Powers and his quest during the big game Saturday night in front of 20,000 screaming fans. Join them and experience his race against a ticking clock.

From Pulitzer Prize-Winning Movie Critic Stephen Hunter Comes A Brilliant, Freewheeling, And Witty Look At The Movies. Evanston, Illinois, was an idyllic 1950s paradise with stately homes, a beautiful lake, a world-class university, two premier movie houses, and one very seedy movie theater -- the Valencia. This was the site of Washington Post film critic Stephen Hunter's misspent youth. Instead of going to school, picking up girls, or tossing a football, Hunter could be found sitting in the fifteenth row, right-hand aisle seat of the Valencia, sating himself on one B-list movie after another. The Valencia had a sticky floor, smelly bathrooms, ancient popcorn, and a screen set in a hideously tacky papier-mache castle wall. It was also the only place in town to see westerns, sci-fi pictures, cops 'n' robbers flicks, slapstick comedy, and Godzilla. In Now Playing at the Valencia, the author of such bestselling novels as Havana and Pale Horse Coming has compiled his favorite movie reviews written between 1997 and 2003, bringing to the discussion the passionate feelings for cinema he discovered in the '50s, a time when genres were forming, mesmerizing stars played unforgettable characters, and enduring classics were made. While filmmaking has changed tremendously since Hunter first frequented the Valencia, the view from the fifteenth row, and the thrill of down and dirty entertainment, has remained the same.

Shinonome has to deal with the rigors of portraying the fight against something that doesn't have a correct answer. It is the actors themselves who exist on the fictitious stage. As such, he is asked to put on an act that he "can do because he's him," but he worries because he just doesn't have the confidence-!? Now begins the first and final tournament...so they can go to the national tournament and keep acting with their teammates-!! Now comes the awaited conclusion of the high school acting drama, for those who love the future or anyone who has ever gotten obsessed with something!!