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Film Censorship: Regulating America's Screen by Sheri Chinen Biesen
RRP: £18.99£15.94Film 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: £11.99£8.16Matchbox 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: £26.99£24.81In 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: £57.00£49.74With 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... -
The Budget Book for Film and Television by Robert Koster
RRP: £39.99£35.32This guidebook is intended to help both the novice and the experienced producer to create and fine-tune their budgets. Based on the top budgeting software packages, Movie Magic and EP Budgeting, this book takes the reader through each line item in the... -
Hawks on Hawks by Joseph McBride
RRP: £23.00£21.92"I read Hawks on Hawks with passion. I am very happy that this book exists." -- Francois TruffautHoward Hawks (1896--1977) is often credited as being the most versatile of all of the great American directors, having worked with equal ease in screwball... -
Ferocious Reality: Documentary according to Werner Herzog by Eric Ames
RRP: £21.99£20.44Over the course of his career Werner Herzog, known for such visionary masterpieces as Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) and The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), has directed almost sixty films, roughly half of which are documentaries. And yet, in a... -
Kuleshov on Film: Writings of Lev Kuleshov by Lev Kuleshov 9780520302280
RRP: £34.00£26.97Lev Kuleshov (1899-1970) was the first aesthetic theorist of the cinema. An outstanding figure in the "montage" school, he was a key influence on Eisenstein and Pudovkin. Kuleshov was the first to see clearly that montage-the assemblage and alternation... -
Midnight Marquee #81 by Jospeh Svehla 9781644301326
RRP: £13.00£8.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644301326Author Jospeh SvehlaFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.Publisher Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.Weight(grams)... -
From Caligari to California: Eric Pommer's Life in the International Film Wars by Ursula Hardt 9781571819307
RRP: £27.95£23.92Known as one of the great producers and promoters of the film industry, Eric Pommer had a life-long commitment to German film - despite his emigration in 1933 - and worked in France and Britian, as well as the United States. As German producer, studio... -
Professional Wrestling: Politics and Populism by Sharon Mazer
RRP: £35.00£34.17A wildly popular form of mass media and live entertainment, professional wrestling makes a spectacle of violent acts. With its long history of working contemporary events into storylines and commenting upon cultural and military conflicts, professional... -
The Child in Cinema by Professor Karen Lury
RRP: £23.99£22.02This book brings together a host of internationally recognised scholars to provide an interdisciplinary perspective on the representation of the child in cinema. Individual chapters examine how children appear across a broad range of films, including... -
Monty Python The Complete Guide by Steve Pilkington 9781789520477
RRP: £14.99£13.39Everyone has their favourite Monty Python sketches, often quoted almost verbatim, whether it is 'the Parrot Sketch', 'the Cheese Shop' or 'Blackmail' - amongst many. Likewise the Python films, the mere mention of which might solicit quotes like 'Tis but... -
Spectacular Suffering: Theatre, Fascism, and the Holocaust by Vivian M. Patraka
RRP: £11.99£10.94"This is the first extended study I know of what the author calls a "Holocaust performative," . . . .[The author] asks what a "holocaust performative" might look like and how such a study might illuminate "events of this particular genocide that are... -
Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance by Ntozake Shange
RRP: £17.99£13.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807091876Author Ntozake ShangeFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt by Lotte H. Eisner
RRP: £30.00£24.45The golden age of German cinema began at the end of the First World War and ended shortly after the coming of sound. From "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" onwards the principal films of this period were characterized by two influences: literary... -
Resisting James Bond: Power and Privilege in the Daniel Craig Era Christoph Lindner (University College London, UK) 9781501388309
RRP: £21.99£18.10Beginning with Casino Royale (2006) and ending with No Time to Die (2021), the Daniel Craig era of James Bond films coincides with the rise of various justice movements challenging deeply entrenched systems of inequality and oppression, ranging from... -
Romance and the Yellow Peril: Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction by Gina Marchetti
RRP: £27.00£22.12Hollywood films about Asians and interracial sexuality are the focus of Gina Marchetti's provocative new work. While miscegenation might seem an unlikely theme for Hollywood, Marchetti shows how fantasy-dramas of interracial rape, lynching, tragic love,... -
The Birth of a Nation by Paul McEwan
RRP: £12.99£11.04Portraying the Ku Klux Klan as heroic underdogs, silent epic The Birth of a Nation (1915) is widely considered to be the most controversial film of all time. At once one of US culture's greatest artistic achievements and one of its most abhorrently... -
Ageing, Dementia and Time in Film: Temporal Performances by Maohui Deng
£103.64Offers the first sustained analysis of films about ageing and dementia through a temporal framework Significantly broadens the field of work on ageing and cinema through a temporal perspective Interdisciplinary in focus, drawing from the fields of... -
Seeing by Electricity: The Emergence of Television, 1878-1939 by Doron Galili 9781478008224
RRP: £20.99£18.37Already in the late nineteenth century, electricians, physicists, and telegraph technicians dreamed of inventing televisual communication apparatuses that would "see" by electricity as a means of extending human perception. In Seeing by Electricity Doron... -
Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema by Scott MacDonald 9780199388714
RRP: £47.99£34.39Over the past fifty years, a unique hybrid genre of nonfiction cinema called the "avant-doc" has emerged in the world of independent film. Combining the unconventional techniques of avant-garde auteurs like Stan Brakhage with the verisimilitude... -
Sitcom: A History in 24 Episodes from I Love Lucy to Community by Saul Austerlitz
RRP: £22.99£15.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613743843Author Saul AusterlitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm)... -
World Film Locations: Marseilles by Marcelline Block
£23.96As France's oldest city, Marseilles has a significant cinematic culture, dating back to the 1890s when the Lumiere brothers shot many films there. Due to its prolific film industry in the 1920s, Marseilles was referred to as 'the French Los Angeles'... -
Film Noir Light and Shadow by Alain Silver
RRP: £18.99£16.24Despite a glut of black and white filters the digital revolution in videography has all but abandoned the art science beauty and power of cinematic lighting that literally illuminated the Golden Age of motion pictures. EFilm Noir Light and ShadowE... -
Making Stereo Fit: The History of a Disquieting Film Technology by Eric Dienstfrey 9780520379558
RRP: £25.00£20.59Surround sound is often mistaken as a relatively new phenomenon in cinemas, one that emerged in the 1970s with the arrival of Dolby. Making Stereo Fit reveals that, in fact, filmmakers have been creating stereo and surround-sound effects for nearly a... -
Stage Combat Arts: An Integrated Approach to Acting, Voice and Text Work + Video by Christopher DuVal
£33.26The art of armed and unarmed stage combat thrills actors and audiences alike the world over. This book details many of the foundational techniques used by actors studying stage combat and actor-movement disciplines. A variety of specific training... -
Inside the Star Wars Empire: A Memoir by Bill Kimberlin
RRP: £14.99£12.21Bill Kimberlin may refer to himself as "one of those names on the endless list of credits at the close of blockbuster movies." In reality though, he's a true insider on some of the most celebrated and popular movies and franchises of the past century... -
Screening Strangers: Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary European Cinema by Yosefa Loshitzky
RRP: £19.99£18.47Yosefa Loshitzky challenges the utopian notion of a post-national "New Europe" by focusing on the waves of migrants and refugees that some view as a potential threat to European identity, a concern heightened by the rhetoric of the war on terror, the... -
Women in Horror Films: 1940s Gregory William Mank 9780786423354
RRP: £28.99£25.16They had more in common than just a scream, whether they faced Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Mummy, Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, King Kong, the Wolf Man, or any of the other legendary Hollywood monsters. Some were even monsters themselves, such as Elsa... -
Scene de Ballet, Op. 100: Violin and Piano by Charles-Auguste De Beriot 9781423474722
RRP: £8.99£7.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423474722Author Charles De BeriotPage Count 15Imprint G Schirmer, IncorporatedPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation -
Recording Voiceover: The Spoken Word in Media by Tom Blakemore
RRP: £37.99£33.26The only book on the market to specifically address its audience, Recording Voiceover is the comprehensive guide for engineers looking to understand the aspects of capturing the spoken word.Discussing all phases of the recording session, Recording... -
Animated Worlds by Suzanne Buchan
RRP: £25.99£21.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861966615Author Suzanne BuchanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint John Libbey & Co LtdPublisher John Libbey & CoWeight(grams) 526g -
The Feldenkrais Method in Creative Practice: Dance, Music and Theatre by Robert Sholl 9781350203495
RRP: £29.99£26.23Bringing together scholars and researchers in one volume, this study investigates how the thinking of the Ukrainian-Israeli somatic educationalist Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-84) can benefit and reflect upon the creative practices of dance, music and theatre... -
Syd Chaplin: A Biography Lisa K. Stein 9780786460359
RRP: £28.99£24.75This is the first study of the life and art of Sydney Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin's brother, a person notable not only for his importance in establishing his brother's career, but in several other early Hollywood enterprises, including the founding of... -
The Brighton School and the Birth of British Film by Frank Gray
RRP: £54.99£54.73This study is devoted to the work of two early British filmmakers, George Albert Smith and James Williamson, and the films that they made around 1900. Internationally, they are known collectively as the 'Brighton School' and are positioned as being at... -
The Illusion Of Life 2: More Essays on Animation Alan Cholodenko 9780909952341
RRP: £28.50£19.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780909952341Author Alan CholodenkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 580Imprint Power Institute of Fine ArtsPublisher Power Institute of Fine ArtsWeight(grams) 927g -
Andrey Tarkovsky: Life and Work: Film by Film, Stills, Polaroids & Writings by Andrey Tarkovsky 9783829608114
RRP: £45.00£31.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783829608114Author Andrey TarkovskyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)Publisher Distributed Art Publishers... -
The Road Movie: In Search of Meaning by Neil Archer
RRP: £18.99£15.12Though often seen as one of America's native cinematic genres, the road movie has lent itself to diverse international contexts and inspired a host of filmmakers. As analyzed in this study, from its most familiar origins in Hollywood the road movie has... -
The Films of Luc Besson: Master of Spectacle by Susan Hayward 9780719070297
RRP: £19.99£17.61This fascinating collection looks at the career and films of Luc Besson, one of the most acclaimed figures in international cinema. Contributions have been assembled from all over the world, and their different approaches reflect this geographical...