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"We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."

Since its short-lived appearance on TV in 2002, Joss Whedon's Firefly has indeed done the impossible. It's sold over a half a million copies on DVD, spawned the hit movie Serenity, and most remarkably, inspired a loyal fan following -- the Browncoats -- whose numbers are still growing to this day.

Still Flying is a brand new celebration of all aspects of the show, featuring a wealth of rare and previously unpublished images -- including storyboards, production design art and candid behind the scenes photos -- memories from the cast and crew, a tribute to the Browncoats, and, as a special bonus:

EXCLUSIVE NEW FIREFLY FICTION BY WRITERS OF THE ORIGINAL TV EPISODES

FUN WITH DICK AND JAYNE written and drawn by Ben Edlund

WHAT HOLDS US DOWN by Jane Espenson

CRYSTAL by Brett Matthews

TAKE THE SKY by Jose Molina

Called "an ecstatic, arc-bright wonder and terror" by The New Yorker, this major work of art now receives a first printing, featuring a brilliant introductory essay by Masha Tupitsyn.

Called "an ecstatic, arc-bright wonder and terror" by The New Yorker, this major work of art now receives a first printing, featuring a brilliant introductory essay by Masha Tupitsyn.

This Academy Award-nominated screenplay is one of the greatest and most urgent in Paul Schrader's long and decorated career. Called a "portrait of a soul in torment, all the more powerful for being so rigorously conceived and meticulously executed" in the New York Times, First Reformed follows the Rev. Ernst Toller as his crisis of faith coincides with a recognition of looming environmental catastrophe. It is an uncompromising work that seamlessly synthesizes a tribute to Bresson with a profound, existential meditation on the everexpanding devastation that humanity is spreading over the natural world. The crowning late period achievement for an undisputed legend of screenwriting, this is both a master class in concision, depth and emotional range, and a continually relevant work of activist import.

"This is not your grandma's fairy tale... Brilliant." --The Washington Post

"The Force of Such Beauty grips with the strength of an Olympian and holds it with the endurance of a marathoner ... [to] an ending that actually caught my breath, not once, but twice in quick succession."--The Associated Press

One sunny afternoon in an idyllic kingdom by the sea, a princess named Caroline pretends to sleep. When her keepers strike up a card game, Caroline sneaks into her maid's car, turns the key, and drives right out of the palace. Alone for the first time in years, she gets on the next flight--only to land in the waiting arms of her guards. As she's forcibly escorted back to her marble prison, something in Caroline breaks for good. It's not her first failed attempt, and it won't be her last. Caroline suspects that she'll never escape. But she might find a way to be free.

Barbara Bourland's stunning third novel, a phantasmagorical fable of love and marriage, is her most ambitious and inventive book to date. Inspired by the alleged escape attempts of real-life princesses, The Force of Such Beauty is both the story of an idealistic young woman trapped by a corrupt promise, and a deeply moving reminder that power structures around the world ultimately rest on the subjugation of women's bodies.

"A fascinating novel about bodies, the way we use them, and the way we break them. It's one of several works to come out this year concerned with the appropriation of female beauty by powerful men, and examines a harsh choice in the lives of women dubbed desirable by the patriarchal state: do you participate, or do you say no?...Bourland is skilled at finding the noir in the everyday, and illustrating the mechanisms of control that keep us in our place."--Crime Reads, Best Books of the Year (So Far)

The original Frankenstein film from 1931 - this book contains the complete original screenplay and a plethora of behind the scenes information and photos from Philip Riley.

The first in the Universal Filmscripts Series from MagicImage.

The Hollywood model of cinema as mass-market spectacle--as entertainment rather than an art--is more dominant than ever, its box-office power amounting to an effective monopoly. France has been one of the most active countries to challenge this hegemony. A key motivation has been its sense of a distinct film tradition that has always provided the most sustained alternative model to Hollywood.

The respected film critic Charles Drazin has written what will become the definitive history of French cinema. Drazin examines France's role as the inventor of cinema and its pivotal influence over the language of cinema across the past century. Along the way, he highlights the influence of Hollywood directors such as Hitchcock, Ford, and Hawks on Truffaut's generation, as well as the impact of British directors such as Ken Loach and Mike Leigh on current filmmakers.

"French Cinema "seeks to capture some essence of French cinema through the key personalities and episodes in its history, but it is also the story of a conflict between two traditions that continues to this day.

THE NEW FILM FROM WES ANDERSON

The French Dispatch brings to life a collection of stories from the final issue of an American magazine published in a fictional 20th-century French city. It stars Bill Murray, Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux, Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet, Lyna Khoudri, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Stephen Park, and Owen Wilson.

The long-awaited memoir from the Academy Award-winning director of such legendary films as The French Connection, The Exorcist, and To Live and Die in LA, The Friedkin Connection takes readers from the streets of Chicago to the suites of Hollywood and from the sixties to today, with autobiographical storytelling as fast-paced and intense as any of the auteur's films.

William Friedkin, maverick of American cinema, offers a candid look at Hollywood, when traditional storytelling gave way to the rebellious and alternative; when filmmakers like him captured the paranoia and fear of a nation undergoing a cultural nervous breakdown.

The Friedkin Connection includes 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.

Ever since humans started gathering around the campfire to tell tales, ghost stories have haunted our imagination. Accounts abound of shrouded apparitions in rattling chains and vengeful souls wailing in the night, from Roman manuscripts and Egyptian papyri to Indian traditions and Japanese folklore. Literary staples for centuries, peaking in Europe with the nineteenth century advent of the Gothic novel, spirits have appeared on film worldwide from the earliest days of cinema, coming back regularly over the following decades to in turn amuse, intrigue and terrorize audiences, from the late 1890s all the way to the contemporary boom of on-screen supernatural horrors. Like many, award-winning filmmaker Axelle Carolyn (Soulmate, Tales of Halloween - both of which feature spectres) has been obsessed with haunted houses and revenants for as long as she can remember. In this volume, she surveys the last 120 years of the genre and reviews the 200 most memorable titles from across the globe. From timeless classics to recent blockbusters, quirky indies to international sensations, hidden gems to oddities, each of these movies has in some way contributed to the development of the ghost movie as we know it, in all its incarnations and cultural variants. When hinges creak in doorless chambers, and frightening sounds echo through the halls... Welcome, foolish mortals, to The FrightFest Guide to Ghost Movies.