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The Girl, The Crow, The Writer And The Fighter George Paterson 9781916311220
RRP: $21.43$16.61It's 1965 and provocative author Henry Miller is taken incognito to an infamous title fight. In the turbulent aftermath of the bout, Miller is forced to battle his way through the ensuing melee in order to make a vital connection with the keeper of a... -
The Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos: Films, Form, Philosophy by Eddie Falvey 9781501375491
RRP: $185.25$146.21From the critical and commercial fanfare his films generate, it is largely understood that Yorgos Lanthimos is one of the more interesting filmmakers to have emerged out of the new century. A markedly transnational filmmaker, between Dogtooth and The... -
The Moscow Art Theatre Letters by Jean Benedetti 9780413698704
$45.34The legendary Moscow Art theatre was born of a dream to reform and forge a new dramatic and production style which would revitalize the Russian stage. Its impact has enduringly changed acting and theatre around the world. The book contains the... -
Joe Dante Nil Baskar 9783901644528
RRP: $54.60$48.67In the often dreary landscape of Hollywood's blockbuster era, the cinema of Joe Dante has always stood out as a rare beacon of fearless originality. Blending humor with terror and trenchant political satire with sincere tributes to the moviegoing act... -
British Comedy Cinema I.Q. Hunter 9780415666671
RRP: $77.98$71.04British comedy cinema has been a mainstay of domestic production since the beginning of the last Century and arguably the most popular and important genre in British film history. This edited volume will offer the first comprehensive account of the rich... -
From Peepshow to Palace: The Birth of American Film by David Robinson 9780231103398
RRP: $58.50$47.68Film critic David Robinson chronicles the early use of film as vaudeville sideshow; as sheer spectacle of moving images precluding any notion of plot development or drama; and as a fledgling dramatic effort, ranging from prizefights to Passion plays. He... -
Five Screenplays by Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges
RRP: $78.00$67.08Here are five comic masterpieces by Preston Sturges, who has been called "Hollywood's greatest writer-director, with emphasis on the former." The scripts are drawn from the great period between 1939 and 1944, which Andrew Sarris called "one of the most... -
One Act Play by Matt Fox 9780993261961
RRP: $11.68$11.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993261961Author Matt FoxFormat PaperbackImprint Roister Doister Publishing Ltd.Publisher Roister Doister Publishing Ltd.Weight(grams) 50g -
Grammar of the Edit by Christopher J. Bowen
RRP: $70.18$64.80Tell more effective visual stories by learning the "grammar" of cinematic language with this elegant, accessible reference. The fourth edition of Grammar of the Edit gives you the answers to the all-important questions of when to cut and why, and teaches... -
Spoken Like a Woman: Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama by Laura K. McClure
RRP: $62.40$49.06In ancient Athens, where freedom of speech derived from the power of male citizenship, women's voices were seldom heard in public. Female speech was more often represented in theatrical productions through women characters written and enacted by men. In... -
The Methuen Drama Anthology of American Women Playwrights: 1970 - 2020: Gun, Spell #7, The Jacksonian, The Baltimore Waltz, In the Blood, Intimate Apparel by Wesley Brown 9781350068728
RRP: $52.63$50.88"In this exciting new anthology, Wesley Brown and Aimee K. Michel bring together six wonderfully teachable plays by some of the greatest American women dramatists of the past fifty years-- Ntozake Shange, Suzan-Lori Parks, Paula Vogel, Lynn Nottage, Beth... -
Bio/Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History by George F. Custen 9780813517551
RRP: $62.40$55.44"Helps us to understand how Hollywood films shaped public consciousness about the past by constructing a very specific, ideologically charged version of that past. . . . A fresh and important contribution to film history and cultural studies."--Daniel... -
Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott's ""Blade Runner"" and Philip K. Dick's ""Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep? by Judith Kerma 9780879725105
RRP: $54.50$35.53In this volume, almost two dozen essays consider political, moral and technological issues raised by the film.Book InformationISBN 9780879725105Author Judith KermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Bowling Green University Popular Press,USPublisher... -
Screenwriting Fundamentals: The Art and Craft of Visual Writing Irv Bauer 9781138666221
RRP: $70.18$64.29Screenwriting Fundamentals: The Art and Craft of Visual Writing takes a step-by-step approach to screenwriting, starting with a blank page and working through each element of the craft. Written in an approachable anecdote-infused style that's full of... -
Jaws Unmade: The Lost Sequels, Prequels, Remakes, and Rip-Offs by John Lemay 9781734473018
RRP: $52.63$40.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734473018Author John LemayFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint Bicep BooksPublisher Bicep BooksWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 22mm -
The Musical Theater of Stephen Schwartz: From Godspell to Wicked and Beyond by Paul R. Laird 9780810891913
RRP: $113.10$98.65As the composer/lyricist for Godspell, Pippin, Wicked, and other musicals, Stephen Schwartz has enjoyed one of the most significant careers in American musical theater for more than four decades. Schwartz has also achieved success on the big screen,... -
French Cinema in the 1990s: Continuity and Difference by Phil Powrie 9780198159575
$111.74Following on from Phil Powrie's French Cinema in the 1980s: Nostalgia and the Crisis of Masculinity (Clarendon Press, 1997), this collection of essays, which brings together scholars in the UK and the USA, is the first on French films in the 1990s. The... -
Grande Dame Guignol Cinema: A History of Hag Horror from Baby Jane to Mother Peter Shelley 9780786445691
RRP: $56.53$49.06This critically analytical filmography examines 45 movies featuring "grande dames" in horror settings. Following a history of women in horror before 1962's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, which launched the "Grande Dame Guignol" subgenre of older... -
One-Hour Shakespeare: The Comedies by Julie Fain Lawrence-Edsell
RRP: $72.13$63.43The One-Hour Shakespeare series is a collection of abridged versions of Shakespeare's plays, designed specifically to accommodate both small and large casts. This volume, The Comedies, includes the following plays: As You Like It Love's Labour's Lost ... -
Complicated Women Mick LaSalle 9780312284312
$27.09Between 1929 and 1934, women in American cinema took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality and led unapologetic careers. Before then, women on screen had come in two varieties - sweet ingenue or vamp... -
The Republic Pictures Checklist: Features, Serials, Cartoons, Short Subjects and Training Films of Republic Pictures Corporation, 1935-1959 Len D. Martin 9780786427406
RRP: $56.53$48.46Republic Pictures Corporation, began as a motion picture laboratory in 1915. By 1935, Republic had become a studio and released its first movie, Westward Ho! starring a young John Wayne, who would stay with Republic for the next 17 years. Republic... -
The Entrepreneurial Artist: Lessons from Highly Successful Creatives by Aaron P. Dworkin
RRP: $38.98$29.29In The Entrepreneurial Artist: Lessons from Highly Successful Creatives, Aaron Dworkin offers an engaging, practical guide to achieving artistic fulfillment, both personally and professionally. Based on the accomplishments of Shakespeare, Mozart, and... -
Annie Hall by Woody Allen
RRP: $19.48$14.27New York comedian Alvy Singer reflects ruefully upon a failed relationship. When he first met Annie Hall on a tennis date, she was an insecure wallflower in trousers, vest and tie. But they shared a self-deprecating sense of humour, plus certain... -
Provocation in Popular Culture Bim Mason (Circomedia, UK) 9781138852501
RRP: $77.98$71.58What role can provocation play in the process of renewal, both of individuals and of societies? Provocation in Popular Culture is an investigation into the practice of specific provocateurs and the wider nature of cultural provocation, examining, among... -
Australian Film by Saskia Vanderbent 9781904048589
$6.79From the world's first feature film in 1906 to the world's first feature documentaries shot between 1895 and 1901, Australia has always done great things in film. Not only did Australia give birth to film but also to some of the biggest stars of the... -
Sydney & the Old Girl by Eugene O'Hare
RRP: $23.38$23.30London is becoming an alien landscape to Sydney Stock; a man who has lived for over fifty years cooped with his mother Nell in her grubby East End home. Theirs is a relationship of mutually assured destruction where the ghosts of the past continue to... -
The Star Trek Book of Friendship: You Have Been, and Always Shall Be, My Friend by Robb Pearlman
RRP: $29.23$24.22Star Trek has energized friendships for over 50 years. Whether it's exploring a convention, beaming into a movie theater, or joining in on a landing party watch party, generations have been as united in their love of the franchise's bold storytelling and... -
Mirror by Natasha Synessios 9781860645211
$49.04At the centre of Tarkovsky's oeuvre, _Mirror_ is his most complex and autobiographical film. It stretches the viewer by moving without apparent effort between past, present and imagined realities, in a series of episodes which observe neither plot nor... -
Attack of the Monster Movie Makers: Interviews with 20 Genre Giants by Tom Weaver 9780786495740
RRP: $42.88$37.38Twenty horror and science fiction moviemakers--both in front of and behind the camera--reminisce about some of their great (and not so great!) films. Merry Anders, Charles Bennett, Ben Chapman, Herman Cohen, Robert Day, Val Guest, Susan Hart, Candace... -
Arnold Wesker: Fragments and Visions by Anne Etienne
RRP: $156.00$137.67This new collection will add significantly to the body of scholarship on this important dramatist. This is the first study of the whole body of Wesker's work, and will create new interest in this partly forgotten key figure in post-war British theatre. ... -
The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930 by Scott Eyman
RRP: $38.98$25.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501103834Author Scott EymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 150mm... -
John Ford: Interviews by Gerald Peary 9781578063987
$70.28This is the first collection of interviews with John Ford (1895--1973), whom many aficionados of fine films consider not only the major American filmmaker but also one of the most extraordinary American artists of the twentieth century. Among the... -
Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night by Jason Zinoman 9780062377227
RRP: $21.43$20.51New York Times comedy critic Jason Zinoman delivers the definitive story of the life and artistic legacy of David Letterman, the greatest television talk show host of all time and the signature comedic voice of a generation.In a career spanning more than... -
Beasts And Beauties: Cinema's Golden Age of Gorilla Men, Killer Apes & Missing Links An Illustrated Filmography 1908-1949 G. H. Janus 9781840686937
RRP: $38.90$28.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840686937Author G. H. JanusFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Creation BooksPublisher Creation Books -
Politics, Porn and Protest: Japanese Avant-Garde Cinema in the 1960s and 1970s by Isolde Standish 9780826439017
RRP: $68.23$68.11This is a superb new study of Japanese culture in the post-war period, focusing on a handful of filmmakers who created movies for a politically conscious audience. Out of a background of war, occupation and the legacies of Japan's post-defeat politics... -
You're Gonna Need a Bigger Story: The 21st Century Survival Guide To Not Just Telling Stories, But Building Super Stories by Steven Long Mitchell 9780692849002
RRP: $52.01$46.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692849002Author Steven Long MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint One 3 BooksPublisher One 3 BooksWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Film Censorship: Regulating America's Screen by Sheri Chinen Biesen
RRP: $37.03$31.08Film Censorship is a concise overview of Hollywood censorship and efforts to regulate American films. It provides a lean introductory survey of U.S. cinema censorship from the pre-Code years and classic studio system Golden Age-in which film censorship... -
Matchbox Theatre: Thirty Short Entertainments by Michael Frayn
RRP: $23.38$15.91Matchbox Theatre presents a sketch show in miniature: thirty short entertainments by Michael Frayn, author of Skios and Noises Off, 'the funniest farce ever written' (New York Times).These tiny plays are offered here for performance in the smallest... -
Concentrationary Imaginaries: Tracing Totalitarian Violence in Popular Culture Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds, UK) 9781350229556
RRP: $52.63$48.38In 1945, French political prisoners returning from the concentration camps of Germany coined the phrase 'the concentrationary universe' to describe the camps as a terrible political experiment in the destruction of the human. This book shows how the... -
La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven 9780810858701
RRP: $111.15$96.99With the exception of die-hard aficionados of European or Italian horror cinema, most people may not have heard of giallo cinema or have seen many films in this subgenre of horror. Most academic film studies tend to ignore horror cinema in general and...