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The Cinema of France by Phil Powrie 9781904764465
£19.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904764465Author Phil PowrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 622g -
Godard's Contempt: Essays From The London Consortium Colin MacCabe (University of Pittsburgh, USA) 9781444339314
RRP: £20.75£18.32Combining work from established film critics and the very freshest of voices, this collection brings to bear a wide range of cultural and disciplinary backgrounds on one of the most intriguing films of the twentieth century. Features contributions from... -
Grand-Guignolesque: Classic and Contemporary Horror Theatre by Prof. Richard J. Hand
RRP: £30.00£26.68While the infamous Theatre du Grand-Guignol in Paris closed its doors in 1962, the particular form of horror theatre it spawned lives on and has, moreover, witnessed something of a resurgence over the past twenty years. During its heyday it inspired many... -
Tragicomedy by Brean Hammond
RRP: £16.99£16.12This succinct authoritative book offers readers an overview of the origins, characteristics, and changing status of tragicomedy from the 17th century to the present. It explores the work of some of the key English and Irish playwrights associated with... -
Practices of Projection: Histories and Technologies by Gabriel Menotti
RRP: £35.49£27.80To many, the technological aspects of projection often go unnoticed, only brought to attention during moments of crisis or malfunction. For example, when a movie theater projector falters, the audience suddenly looks toward the back of the theater to see... -
Story Line: Finding Gold in your Life Story by Jen Grisanti 9781932907896
£18.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932907896Author Jen GrisantiFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese Productions -
Pink Lemonade by Mika Onyx Johnson
RRP: £11.99£11.95Was the juice worth the squeeze? Just when Mika was starting to feel at home in their own body, they find themselves caught between Simmi who's sweet like sugar but ain't a lesbian and Token Toni who loves a bitta bashment and only dates black and... -
Chronology of the Birth of Cinema 1833-1896 by Deac Rossell
RRP: £27.99£22.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861967162Author Deac RossellFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint John Libbey & Co LtdPublisher John Libbey & Co -
Histories of Performance Documentation: Museum, Artistic, and Scholarly Practices Gabriella Giannachi 9781138184145
RRP: £36.99£32.78Histories of Performance Documentation traces the many ways in which museums have approached performance works from the 1960s onwards, considering the unique challenges of documenting live events. From hybrid and interactive arts, to games and virtual... -
Production Sound Mixing: The Art and Craft of Sound Recording for the Moving Image by John J. Murphy
£34.59The latest hot camera is pretty irrelevant if one can't understand what's happening on screen. The key to any narrative is in the dialogue and voice over, but if this is unintelligible or difficult to hear, viewers will soon lose interest. With real... -
Snowpiercer: The Art and Making of the Film by Simon Ward
RRP: £29.99£23.57Before 2019's four-time Oscar (R)-winning Parasite came Bong Joon Ho's iconic English-language debut, Snowpiercer. The dystopian sci-fi thriller is set seventeen years after the world has frozen over and what's left of humanity lives on a train that... -
Tony Scott: A Filmmaker on Fire by Larry Taylor 9781476675664
RRP: £28.99£24.75Tony Scott was a thrill seeker who lived and loved life to the fullest... He was also one of the more cutting edge filmmakers of an entire generation.From the grey, industrial skies of Northern England, Tony followed in his brother, Ridley's, filmmaking... -
Alexandra Exter Paints by Patricia Railing 9780946311200
RRP: £35.00£29.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946311200Author Patricia RailingFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Artists BookworksPublisher Artists Bookworks -
Media Design and Technology for Live Entertainment: Essential Tools for Video Presentation Davin Gaddy 9781138216211
RRP: £36.99£32.26Media Design and Technology for Live Entertainment is a guide to understanding the concepts and equipment used in projection and video design for live performances. After an introduction in the principles of design elements as well as information on... -
Screening Stephen King: Adaptation and the Horror Genre in Film and Television by Simon Brown
RRP: £23.99£20.84Since the 1970s, the name Stephen King has been synonymous with horror. His vast number of books has spawned a similar number of feature films and TV shows, and together they offer a rich opportunity to consider how one writer's work has been adapted... -
Screen Stories: Emotion and the Ethics of Engagement by Carl Plantinga 9780190867140
£51.71The way we communicate with each other is vital to preserving the cultural ecology, or wellbeing, of a place and time. Do we listen to each other? Do we ask the right questions? Do we speak about each other with respect or disdain? The stories that we... -
John Gilbert: The Last of the Silent Film Stars by Eve Golden 9780813196497
RRP: £23.00£21.14Charming and classically handsome, John Gilbert (1897-1936) was among the world's most recognisable actors during the silent era. He was a wild, swashbuckling figure on screen and off, and accounts of his life have focused on his high-profile romances... -
Colour by Steven Peacock
RRP: £19.99£15.46Colour remains one of the few uncharted territories in writing about film style. Colour is the first monograph to deal with the close criticism of film colour across decades and countries. Through detailed explorations of films such as Three Colours:... -
Italian Political Cinema: Figures of the Long ’68 by Mauro Resmini
RRP: £21.99£19.19An exploration of how film has made legible the Italian long '68 as a moment of crisis and transitionTraditionally, the definition of political cinema assumes a relationship between cinema and politics. In contrast to this view, author Mauro Resmini sees... -
The Golem, How He Came into the World Maya Barzilai (Royalty Account) 9781640140301
RRP: £19.99£17.95Provides an aesthetic and historical overview of and new critical insights into Paul Wegener's great 1920 film, recognized at the time as a breakthrough in German cinema. Actor and director Paul Wegener released his 1920 silent film The Golem, How... -
Queer Screen: A Screen Reader by Jackie Stacey
RRP: £36.99£33.84Queer Screen: A Screen Reader brings together a selection of key articles on queer cinema published over the past two decades in the internationally renowned journal, Screen, with new introductory editorial material from Jackie Stacey and Sarah Street... -
Refocus: the Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan G n l D nmez-Colin 9781399502979
RRP: £90.00£76.58Examines the work of Turkish director, Nuri Bilge Ceylan Provides thematical analysis of Ceylan's transnational cinema with intertextual and intermedial readings of individual films, the fluidity of the text creating and maintaining a dialogue between... -
Fashion on the Red Carpet: A History of the Oscars(r), Fashion and Globalisation by Elizabeth Castaldo Lundén
RRP: £37.00£35.94Offers the first scholarly study of the Oscars red carpet as a media phenomenon Unravels the political actions of institutions and individuals that put Hollywood Designers and stars under the limelight during the interwar years Establishes the... -
Postcolonial Plays: An Anthology Helen Gilbert 9780415164498
RRP: £48.99£43.06This collection of contemporary postcolonial plays demonstrates the extraordinary vitality of a body of work that is currently influencing the shape of contemporary world theatre. This anthology encompasses both internationally admired 'classics' and... -
Charlie Brown's Christmas Miracle: The Inspiring, Untold Story of the Making of a Holiday Classic by Michael Keane 9781546004905
RRP: £25.00£17.68Professor and cultural historian Michael Keane reveals much in this nostalgia-inducing book packed with original research and interviews. Keane compellingly shows that the ultimate broadcast of the Christmas special-given its incredibly tight five-month... -
Positioning Art Cinema: Film and Cultural Value by Geoff King
£28.85From films that claim the status of harsh realism to others which embody aspects of the tradition of modernism or the poetic, art cinema encompasses a variety of work from across the globe. But how is art cinema positioned in the film marketplace, or by... -
Thomas Holcroft's Revolutionary Drama: Reception and Afterlives by Amy Garnai
RRP: £31.00£27.15A key figure in British literary circles following the French Revolution, novelist and playwright Thomas Holcroft promoted ideas of reform and equality informed by the philosophy of his close friend William Godwin. Arrested for treason in 1794 and... -
The Golden Age of Cinema: Hollywood, 1929-1945 Richard Jewell 9781405163729
RRP: £91.95£82.35This comprehensive book illuminates the most fertile and exciting period in American film, a time when the studio system was at its peak and movies played a critical role in elevating the spirits of the public. Richard B. Jewell offers a highly readable... -
Explorations in New Cinema History: Approaches and Case Studies Richard Maltby (Flinders University of South Australia, Australia) 9781405199506
RRP: £32.95£29.32Explorations in New Cinema History brings together cutting-edge research by the leading scholars in the field to identify new approaches to writing and understanding the social and cultural history of cinema, focusing on cinema s audiences, the... -
Film Music: The Basics by Kenneth Lampl 9781032267456
RRP: £19.99£17.96A comprehensive introduction to film music, this book provides a concise and illuminating summary of the process of film scoring, as well as a succinct overview of the rich history of contemporary film music.Written in a non-technical style, this book... -
The Angry Filmmaker Survival Guide: Part One Making the Extreme No Budget Film by Kelley Baker 9781439232736
RRP: £12.95£12.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439232736Author Kelley BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm)... -
Moving Viewers: American Film and the Spectator's Experience by Carl Plantinga
RRP: £30.00£24.45Everyone knows the thrill of being transported by a film, but what is it that makes movie watching such a compelling emotional experience? In "Moving Viewers", Carl Plantinga explores this question and the implications of its answer for aesthetics, the... -
Poldark: The Complete Scripts - Series 1 by Debbie Horsfield
RRP: £18.99£18.53Cornwall, 1783. The American Revolutionary War is over. Cornishman Ross Poldark returns to his father's lands a battle-weary soul. Met by a homeland gripped in recession and the revelation of his father's death, Ross must contend with the disrepair of... -
Ghana's Concert Party Theatre by Catherine M. Cole
RRP: £16.99£15.07"... succeeds in conveying the exciting and fascinating character of the concert party genre, as well as showing clearly how this material can be used to rethink a number of contemporary theoretical themes and issues." -Karin BarberUnder colonial rule,... -
They Must be Represented: Gender and the Rhetoric of History in American Political Documentaries by Paula Rabinowitz 9781859840252
RRP: £19.99£19.56They Must Be Represented examines documentary in print, photography, television and film from the 1930s through the 1980s, using the lens of recent feminist film theory as well as scholarship on race, class and gender emerging from the new... -
Screenwriting Down to the Atoms: Digging Deeper into the Craft of Cinematic Storytelling by Michael Welles Schock 9780988848702
RRP: £16.59£15.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988848702Author Michael Welles SchockFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Scriptmonk IndustriesPublisher Scriptmonk IndustriesWeight(grams)... -
Directory of World Cinema: Germany: Volume 9 by Michelle Langford
RRP: £46.95£43.57From bleak Expressionist works to the edgy political cinema of the New German Cinema and the feel-good Heimat films of the postwar era, Directory of World Cinema: Germany aims to offer a wider film and cultural context for the films that have emerged... -
Hollywood Incoherent: Narration in Seventies Cinema by Todd Berliner
RRP: £22.99£21.04In the 1970s, Hollywood experienced a creative surge, opening a new era in American cinema with films that challenged traditional modes of storytelling. Inspired by European and Asian art cinema as well as Hollywood's own history of narrative ingenuity,... -
The Television Will Be Revolutionized, Second Edition by Amanda D. Lotz 9781479865253
RRP: £24.99£21.67Go behind the TV screen to explore what is changing, why it is changing, and why the changes matters Many proclaimed the "end of television" in the early years of the twenty-first century, as capabilities and features of the boxes that occupied a... -
Shakespeare, Performance and the Archive by Barbara Hodgdon
RRP: £36.99£32.53Shakespeare, Performance and the Archive is a ground-breaking and movingly written exploration of what remains when actors evacuate the space and time of performance. An analysis of 'leftovers', it moves between tracking the politics of what is...