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Alien: Covenant is the long-awaited sequel to the Alien franchise, and Alien: Covenant Official Collector's Edition brings you everything you need to know about Ridley Scott's latest masterpiece!About the AuthorTitan Magazines has been creating...

For decades, Screen World has been the film professional's, as well as the film buff's, favorite and indispensable annual screen resource, full of all the necessary statistics and facts. Now Screen World editor Barry Monush has compiled another...

A classic study of physiology and the effect of psychological processes on movement that has a mind/body approach, which makes it a favorite of dancers.Reviews"Still ahead of much contemporary practice in movement education." --Martha Meyers, Dance...

No-one who has ever seen the original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) is ever likely to forget the experience. An intense fever dream (or nightmare), it is remarkable for its sense of sustained threat and depiction of an insane but nonetheless...

Gothic television is the first full length study of the Gothic released on British and US television. An historical account, the book combines detailed archival research with analyses of key programmes, from Mystery and Imagination and Dark Shadows, to...

Both experienced and aspiring animation professionals will find Directing Animation a comprehensive and entertaining guide to understanding the director's creative role in managing the entire animation process. An animation director doesn't simply direct...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995592780Author Angie LangleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Angie LangleyPublisher Angie LangleyWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 195mm * 130mm *...

Two hopeful, hapless romantics get drunk, get it on, and then get the hell away from each other. In her eyes, he's a mistake. A mistake who keeps turning up at parties. In his eyes, she's perfect. He's short-sighted. This achingly funny, romantic...

For well over a century, those who create motion pictures have touched our hearts and souls; they have transported and transformed our minds, intoxicated and entranced our senses. One artist's vision is the single most prominent force behind the scenes:...

Wes Anderson startled audiences with his stop-motion animated film of Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox.He now displays his unique wit and playful visual sense in an action-filled saga of Samurai dogs.Fantastic Mr Fox - but with dogs.About the AuthorWes...

The Collaborative Art of Filmmaking: From Script to Screen explores what goes into the making of Hollywood's greatest motion pictures. Join veteran script consultant Linda Seger as she examines contemporary and classic screenplays on their perilous...

The magazine world's monthly arbiter of culture, personality and world affairs, "Vanity Fair" has always offered the definitive insider's look at Hollywood power and glamour since its re-launch twenty-five years ago. Now, for the first time ever, "Vanity...

Ranging from the novels of James Fenimore Cooper to Louis L'Amour, and from classic films like Stagecoach to spaghetti Westerns like A Fistful of Dollars, Mitchell shows how Westerns helped assuage a series of crises in American culture. This landmark...

Hitchcock's best-loved romantic thriller is one of the most influential works ever made in the genre - an enticing cocktail of suspense, comedy, eroticism and danger.Roger Thornhill is a suave but stiff-necked Madison Avenue executive, who finds himself...

Part of a vanguard of Spanish talent claiming success at home and in Hollywood, Penelope Cruz is one of the best known European stars today. Focusing on Cruz's key films and their surrounding discourse, Ann Davies charts the development of Cruz's star...

Russian Cinema provides a lively and informative exploration of the film genres that developed during Russia's tumultuous history, with discussion of the work of Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Mikhalkov, Paradzhanov, Sokurov and others.The background section...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905674671Author Sophie MayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 239mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786411092Author David FuryFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint McFarland & CompanyPublisher McFarland & CompanyWeight(grams) 495g

Some critics in England and France have long maintained that British director Terence Fisher, whose films dominated world markets in the 1950s and 60s, was one of the greatest directors of fantasy films in history. Since his death in 1980, Fisher's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879101169Author Tom DardisFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 225mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062407313Author Patricia WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250105967Author Chris NashawatyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905674596Author Michael Chopra-gantFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 212gDimensions(mm) 199mm...

Seventies British Cinema provides a comprehensive re-evaluation of British film in the 1970s. The decade has long been written off in critical discussions as a 'doldrums' period in British cinema, perhaps because the industry, facing near economic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789078088523Author Rudi LaermansFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 140mm * 210mm * 36mm

This book investigates how telenovelas may be the key to the future of Brazilian television and how this content can survive in an interconnected media landscape. Recognised telenovela writer and scholar Rosane Svartman considers the particular...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780368887086Author The WondersmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 191g

Since the release of Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! in 2001, the film musical has returned to popularity as one of the most important cinematic genres, with box office hits that appeal to audiences of all ages. Yet the history of the musical on film goes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573701467Author Itamar MosesFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Since digital surround sound technology first appeared in cinemas 20 years ago, it has spread from theaters to homes and from movies to television, music, and video games. Yet even as 5.1 has become the standard for audiovisual media, its impact has gone...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140481532Author Michael SchulmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 371gDimensions(mm) 196mm *...

In the first fully illustrated work of his illustrious career, David Thomson re-examines a series of moments - which readers will experience in beautifully reproduced imagery - from seventy-two carefully selected films across a hundred-year time span...

Film noir is one of the most enduring and popular genres in cinema. But it did not spring up spontaneously fully formed. Rather its origins can be traced to sources as varied as Victorian literature German Expressionism and American art and...

A prolific film industry has flourished on the banks of the Nile since the earliest days of cinema, producing movies that have been hugely popular and immensely influential not only in Egypt but across the Arab world. Concentrating on productions written...

In 1963 Stanley Kubrick declared, "Dr. Strangelove came from my desire to do something about the nuclear nightmare." Thirty years later, he was preparing to film another story about the human impulse for self-destruction. Unfortunately, the director...

This title describes a new critical tradition in American filmmaking. American Smart Cinema examines a contemporary type of US filmmaking that exists at the intersection of mainstream, art and independent cinema and often gives rise to absurd, darkly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781775364207Author David JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint Karasu PressPublisher Karasu PressWeight(grams) 776gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 30mm

In The Image in Early Cinema, the contributors examine intersections between early cinematic form, technology, theory, practice, and broader modes of visual culture. They argue that early cinema emerged within a visual culture composed of a variety of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244601935Author Chris WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception and continuing history of this ground-breaking, aesthetically brilliant, and yet highly controversial movie. By going back to the original...