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Video Camera Techniques by Gerald Millerson
RRP: £47.99£41.83Video Camera Techniques is an ideal starter guide for anyone owning a camcorder, newcomers to the field of broadcast or corporate video-making, or students who all wish to make videos to professional standards. Written in Gerald Millserson's easy to... -
Traditions in World Cinema by Linda Badley
RRP: £28.99£28.59The core volume in the Traditions in World Cinema series, this book brings together a colourful and wide-ranging collection of world cinematic traditions - national, regional and global - all of which are in need of introduction, investigation and, in... -
Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts by Matthew Reason 9780367695842
RRP: £42.99£38.59The Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts represents a truly multi-dimensional exploration of the inter-relationships between audiences and performance.This study considers audiences contextually and historically, through both... -
It Gives Me Great Pleasure by Michael Kilgarriff 9780573090363
£13.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573090363Author Michael KilgarriffFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality by Genevieve Yue
RRP: £27.99£24.52Girl Head shows how gender has had a surprising and persistent role in film production processes, well before the image ever appears onscreen. For decades, feminist film criticism has focused on issues of representation: images of women in film. But... -
Dark Places: The Haunted House in Film by Barry Curtis
£18.28Horror films revel in taking viewers into shadowy places where evil resides, whether it is a house, a graveyard or a dark forest. With "Dark Places", Barry Curtis leads us deep inside these haunted spaces to explore them and the monstrous antagonists who... -
The Transformation of Cinema, 1907-1915 by Eileen Bowser
RRP: £35.00£29.86Eileen Bowser chronicles the history of the American film business from the days of storefront nickelodeons to the premiere of D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation. The effect of the surroundings--the size of the hall; whether the film was shown alone... -
Zygmunt Molik's Voice and Body Work: The Legacy of Jerzy Grotowski Giuliano Campo 9780415568470
RRP: £36.99£32.53One of the original members of Jerzy Grotowski's acting company, Zygmunt Molik's Voice and Body Work explores the unique development of voice and body exercises throughout his career in actor training.This book, constructed from conversations between... -
Fast-Talking Dames by Maria DiBattista 9780300099034
£28.29"There is nothing like a dame," proclaims the song from South Pacific. Certainly there is nothing like the fast-talking dame of screen comedies in the 1930s and '40s. In this engaging book, film scholar and movie buff Maria DiBattista... -
Hitchcock and the Censors by John Billheimer 9780813177427
RRP: £45.00£43.14Throughout his career, Alfred Hitchcock had to deal with a wide variety of censors attuned to the slightest suggestion of sexual innuendo, undue violence, toilet humor, religious disrespect, and all forms of indecency, real or imagined. From 1934 to... -
Extraterritoriality: Locating Hong Kong Cinema and Media by Victor Fan
RRP: £27.99£27.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474440431Author Victor FanFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)... -
Celluloid Vampires: Life After Death in the Modern World by Stacey Abbott
RRP: £21.99£19.19In 1896, French magician and filmmaker George Melies brought forth the first celluloid vampire in his film Le manoir du diable. The vampire continues to be one of film's most popular gothic monsters and in fact, today more people become acquainted with... -
The Complete & Independent Guide to the Eurovision Song Contest: Lugano 1956 - Lisbon 2018 by Simon Barclay 9780244393267
RRP: £34.99£31.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244393267Author Simon BarclayFormat HardbackPage Count 338Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 152g -
The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense by Kara Keeling
RRP: £20.99£18.66Kara Keeling contends that cinema and cinematic processes had a profound significance for twentieth-century anticapitalist Black Liberation movements based in the United States. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's notion of "the cinematic"-not just as a... -
The Chaplin Machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the Communist Avant-Garde by Owen Hatherley
RRP: £25.00£3.90Could Buster Keaton have starred in Battleship Potemkin? Did Trotsky plan to write the great Soviet comedy? And why did Lenin love circus clowns? The Chaplin Machine reveals the lighter side of the Communist avant-garde and its unlikely passion... -
Time Lords and Star Cops: British Science Fiction Television in the 1970s–80s by Philip Braithwaite 9781526163370
RRP: £85.00£74.51British science fiction television of the 1970s and 1980s is full of Machiavellian protagonists and fatalistic endings. It presents a complex world of moral and ethical dilemmas, appropriate to the emerging political landscape of Thatcherite Britain... -
Theater and Film: A Comparative Anthology by Robert Knopf 9780300103366
£33.98This is the first book in more than twenty-five years to examine the complex historical, cultural, and aesthetic relationship between theater and film, and the effect that each has had on the other's development.Robert Knopf here assembles essays from... -
Natural Selection: Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music, and Books by Gary Giddins 9780195368505
£22.20Long recognized as America's most brilliant jazz writer, the winner of many major awards-including the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award-and author of a highly popular biography of Bing Crosby, Gary Giddins has also produced a wide range of... -
Top Girls: 60 Years of Modern Plays by Caryl Churchill
RRP: £15.00£14.69I believe in the individual. Look at me. Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a seminal play of the modern theatre, revealing a world of women's experience at a pivotal moment in British history. Told by an eclectic group of historical and... -
Three Plays by Howard Zinn 9780807073261
RRP: £16.99£16.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807073261Author Howard ZinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 346g -
The Proof Stage: How Theater Reveals the Human Truth of Mathematics by Stephen Abbott 9780691206080
RRP: £30.00£23.66How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon McBurney brought the power of abstract mathematics to the human stageThe discovery of alternate geometries, paradoxes of the infinite, incompleteness, and chaos theory... -
Directory of World Cinema: Britain by Emma Bell 9781841505572
£47.17Bringing to mind rockers and royals, Buckingham Palace and the Scottish Highlands, Britain holds a special interest for international audiences who have flocked in recent years to quality exports like Fish Tank, Trainspotting and The King's Speech. A... -
Bonnie and Clyde by Lester D. Friedman 9780851705705
RRP: £12.99£12.75Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967) scandalised mainstream popular opinion. Part of an emerging youth and protest movement, its graphic and balletic violence was highly subversive in the context of the war in Vietnam. It spoke directly to younger... -
Lucas: His Hollywood Legacy by Richard Ravalli 9780813198781
£68.03George Lucas is an innovative and talented director, producer, screenwriter, and filmmaker whose prolific career spans decades. While he is best known as the creative mind behind the Star Wars franchise, Lucas first gained notoriety with his 1973 film... -
The Films of Sergio Leone by Robert C. Cumbow 9780810860414
RRP: £60.00£52.30Sergio Leone's renown as a filmmaker rests upon a fistful of films, most notably the three Westerns he made with Clint Eastwood in the mid-1960s: A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). While... -
The History and Theory of Environmental Scenography: Second Edition by Arnold Aronson 9781474283960
£33.11A classic work of theatre history and criticism when first published, Arnold Aronson's formative study surveyed the phenomenon known as environmental theatre. Now updated in this richly illustrated second edition to reflect developments and practice... -
The Man Who Knew Hitchcock: A Hollywood Memoir by Herbert Coleman 9780810859128
RRP: £45.00£41.19As a script supervisor, second unit director, producer, and director, Herbert Coleman's film career spanned seven decades. Active in Hollywood from 1926 through 1988, he enjoyed a lengthy and illustrious career, highlighted by an impressive string of... -
Essential Effects: Water, Fire, Wind, and More Mauro Maressa 9781138101074
RRP: £42.99£39.74Animate the world around you! Follow along with veteran Disney effects artist Mauro Maressa as he teaches you how to create and animate natural phenomena like water, fire, smoke, lightning, lava, mud, and wind. Essential Effects will help you plan, draw,... -
The Senses in Performance by Sally Banes 9780415281867
RRP: £42.99£37.59This ground-breaking anthology is the first to be dedicated to assessing critically the role of the human sensorium in performance. Senses in Performance presents a multifaceted approach to the methodological, theoretical, practical and historical... -
The Feel-Bad Film by Nikolaj Lubecker
RRP: £26.99£24.83Presents an analysis of what contemporary directors seek to attain by putting their spectators in a position of strong discomfort. In recent years some of the best known European and American art film directors have made films that place the spectator in... -
French Cinema-A Critical Filmography: Volume 2, 1940-1958 by Colin Crisp
RRP: £27.99£25.33This invaluable resource by one of the world's leading experts in French cinema presents a coherent overview of French cinema in the 20th century and its place and function in French society. Each filmography includes 101 films listed chronologically... -
International Noir by Homer B. Pettey
RRP: £28.99£28.59This book suggests that the film noir style continues to appeal on such a global scale because no other cinematic form has merged style and genre to effect a vision of the disturbing consequences of modernity. International noir has, however, adapted and... -
Stranger Than Fiction by Zach Helm 9781557047502
RRP: £13.99£13.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557047502Author Zach HelmFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Newmarket Press,U.S.Publisher Newmarket Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 238mm *... -
Murder by Design: The Unsane Cinema of Dario Argento by Troy Howarth
RRP: £48.00£33.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644301159Author Troy HowarthFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.Publisher Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Ground on Which I Stand by August Wilson 9781559361873
£9.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559361873Author August WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S... -
Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema by Arnika Fuhrmann
RRP: £21.99£19.49Through an examination of post-1997 Thai cinema and video art Arnika Fuhrmann shows how vernacular Buddhist tenets, stories, and images combine with sexual politics in figuring current struggles over notions of personhood, sexuality, and collective life... -
First Man - The Annotated Screenplay by Josh Singer
RRP: £29.99£15.53On the heels of their six-time Academy Award (R)-winning smash, La La Land, Oscar (R)-winning director Damien Chazelle and star Ryan Gosling reteam for Universal Pictures' First Man, the riveting story of NASA's mission to land a man on the moon,... -
Supply Chain Cinema: Producing Global Film Workers by Kay Dickinson 9781839024627
£97.13Why are big budget films typically made across an array of seemingly dissociated sites? Supply Chain Cinema shows how the production journeys of such films exemplify the principles of the supply chain, whose core imperative is to nimbly and... -
Assassin's Creed: Into the Animus: Inside a Film Centuries in the Making by Ian Nathan
RRP: £35.00£17.73Become a part of history with this exploration of the art and creation of the Assassin's Creed film. Based on the highly popular game series, the fight between the Assassins and Templars comes to the big screen in Assassin's Creed, directed by Justin... -
The Spirit of Lagaan by Satyajit Bhatkal 9788179910030
£3.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788179910030Author Satyajit BhatkalFormat PaperbackPage Count 243Imprint Popular Prakashan LtdPublisher Popular Prakashan LtdWeight(grams)...