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Fierce and Delicate: Essays on Dance and Illness by Renee K. Nicholson
RRP: £19.95£14.74Memoir about ballet and illness from a creative writing teacher whose career as a ballerina was stopped by rheumatoid arthritis.RenEe Nicholson's professional training in ballet had both moments of magnificence and moments of torment, from fittings of... -
Raymond Bellour: Between-the-Images by Raymond Bellour
£20.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037641446Author Raymond BellourFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier -
Do the Right Thing: Five Screenplays that Embrace Diversity Karla Rae Fuller 9781615933402
RRP: £22.50£15.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615933402Author Karla Rae FullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese Productions -
Modern Dance Terminology by Paul Love
RRP: £18.95£17.11This is the first and only book to define modern dance concepts, terms, principles and movements in the words of the great founders of modern dance. The manuscript was originally prepared through personal interviews with Doris Humphrey, Hanya Holm,... -
The Blaxploitation Horror Film: Adaptation, Appropriation and the Gothic Jamil Mustafa 9781786839978
RRP: £30.00£23.70This book is a pioneering study of Blaxploitation horror films, connecting them with both mainstream horror movies and classic Gothic texts. The author argues that conventional horror films adapt, while Blaxploitation horror films appropriate, the... -
Conversations with Classic Film Stars: Interviews from Hollywood's Golden Era by James Bawden 9780813167107
RRP: £48.50£44.00James Bawden: Seeing the way people behave when they're around you, is it still fun being Cary Grant?Cary Grant: I don't like to disappoint people. Because he's a completely made-up character and I'm playing a part. It's a part I've been playing a long... -
Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide: The Modern Era, Previously Published as Leonard Maltin's 2015 Movie Guide by Leonard Maltin 9780525536192
RRP: £30.00£21.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525536192Author Leonard MaltinFormat PaperbackPage Count 1648Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 896gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 133mm *... -
The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman by David LaRocca 9780813176215
£28.03From the Academy Award--winning Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and Academy Award--nominated Adaptation (2002) to the cult classic Being John Malkovich (1999), writer Charlie Kaufman is widely admired for his innovative, philosophically... -
My Lunches with Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles by Peter Biskind
RRP: £19.00£13.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250051707Author Peter BiskindFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
British National Cinema by Sarah Street 9780415067362
RRP: £24.99£21.81The first substantial overview of the British film industry with emphasis on its genres, stars, and socioeconomic context, British National Cinema by Sarah Street is an important title in Routledge's new National Cinemas series. British National Cinema... -
Let Me Play the Lion Too: How to be an Actor by Michael Pennington 9780571231065
RRP: £20.00£13.12How do you prepare for your first day on the set? Why might a bad audition lead to a good job offer? How should you research? What's the effect of a long tour on your love-life? Can you have a glass of wine before a matinee? What's the difference... -
DreamWork: A Training for Directors by David Zinder 9781032612454
RRP: £35.99£31.69DreamWork: A Training for Directors provides a theoretical basis and a highly detailed, practical, step-by-step blueprint for developing a directorial concept for a play.Directing is a complex, multi-staged artistic process which, for the most part, is a... -
The Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro: Histories of the Everyday by Woojeong Joo 9781474441001
RRP: £28.99£23.38This book offers a new interpretation of Ozu Yasujiro's career, from his earliest work in the 1920s up to his death in 1963, focusing on Ozu's depiction of the everyday life and experiences of ordinary Japanese people during a time of depression, war and... -
Dracula by Peter Hutchings 9781860647482
£28.85Hammer Horror's "Dracula" was released in 1958 to a mixture of shock, outrage and praise. Yet this version of the Dracula tale, directed by Terence Fisher, was a milestone both for British cinema and for the horror genre. It made an international star of... -
Irreversible by Tim Palmer 9780230336971
£26.43Gaspar Noe's Irreversible is uncompromising and visceral, an essential piece of modern cinema. Punctuated by dazzling avant-garde techniques, the film depicts, in reverse-chronological order, a woman's rape and her boyfriend and friend's subsequent hunt... -
Hollywood Shutdown: Production, Distribution, and Exhibition in the Time of COVID by Kate Fortmueller
RRP: £16.99£15.07By March 2020, the spread of COVID-19 had reached pandemic proportions, forcing widespread shutdowns across industries, including Hollywood. Studios, networks and production companies, and the thousands of workers who make film and television possible,... -
Arab Cinema Travels: Transnational Syria, Palestine, Dubai and Beyond by Kay Dickinson
£32.05Exploring the impact of travel on Arab cinema, Kay Dickinson reveals how the cinemas of Syria, Palestine and Dubai have been shaped by the history and politics of international circulation. This compelling book offers fresh insights into film, mobility... -
Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma's Cinematic Education of the Senses by Eyal Peretz 9780804756853
RRP: £20.99£18.66How is one to think the significance of the art of film for philosophy? What would it mean to introduce film as a question into the heart of the philosophical enterprise? How would this transform our understanding of film, on the one hand, and of... -
Engaging Cinema: An Introduction to Film Studies by Bill Nichols 9780393934915
£21.80In what ways do films influence and interact with society? What social forces determine the kinds of movies that get made? How do movies reinforce-and sometimes overturn-social norms? As societies evolve, do the films that were once considered 'great'... -
Transatlantic Cinephilia: Film Culture between Latin America and France, 1945–1965 by Rielle Navitski 9780520391437
RRP: £25.00£19.59In the two decades after World War II, a vibrant cultural infrastructure of cineclubs, archives, festivals, and film schools took shape in Latin America through the labor of film enthusiasts who often worked in concert with French and France-based... -
Teen TV: Genre, Consumption and Identity by Dr. Glyn Davis
£37.96Teen TV is the first anthology dedicated to a broad range of television programs produced for and watched by teenagers. With extensive coverage of shows such as "Dawson's Creek, Roswell, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "and Australia's "Heartbreak High, "the... -
Twin Peaks FAQ: All That's Left to Know About a Place Both Wonderful and Strange by David Bushman
RRP: £14.99£14.89ETwin PeaksE the infamously strange seductive and confounding murder mystery that made network television safe for surrealism is returning to the small screen after 25 years. Created by David Lynch and Mark Frost the series enjoys a hallowed... -
Trigger: The Lives and Legend of Roy Rogers' Palomino Leo Pando 9781476671635
RRP: £28.99£23.78Among certain fans, Roy Rogers' golden Palomino Trigger was more popular than the King of the Cowboys himself. Some are still infatuated by the horse decades after his death in 1965-and no wonder. Trigger is the most famous movie horse of all time. But... -
Creating the Couple: Love, Marriage, and Hollywood Performance by Virginia Wright Wexman
RRP: £45.00£35.60Who decides how, when, and where Americans fall in love and get married? Virginia Wexman's acute observations about movie stars and acting techniques show that Hollywood has often had the most powerful voice in demonstrating socially sanctioned ways of... -
The Big Picture: Money and Power in Hollywood by Edward Jay Epstein 9780812973822
RRP: £21.00£16.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812973822Author Edward Jay EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm)... -
Death and the Moving Image: Ideology, Iconography and I by Michele Aaron
£25.02This book examines the representation of death and dying in mainstream cinema. Death and the Moving Image provides the first in depth study of the representation of death and dying in mainstream Western cinema from its earliest to its latest renditions... -
Film Flam by Larry McMurtry 9780743216241
£11.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743216241Author McmurtryFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 293gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Celluloid Symphonies: Texts and Contexts in Film Music History by Julie Hubbert 9780520241022
RRP: £36.00£30.64"Celluloid Symphonies" is a unique sourcebook of writings on music for film, bringing together fifty-three critical documents, many previously inaccessible. It includes essays by those who created the music - Max Steiner, Erich Korngold, Jerry Goldsmith,... -
French Cinema in the 1980s: Nostalgia and the Crisis of Masculinity by Phil Powrie 9780198711193
£30.47French Cinema in the 1980s is a set of critical essays on films which help to focus on a particular theme whose roots are in the 1970s, and which extends beyond the 1980s into the 1990s: the crisis of masculinity in contemporary French culture, and its... -
Russians in Britain: British Theatre and the Russian Tradition of Actor Training Jonathan Pitches (University of Leeds, UK) 9780415591003
RRP: £36.99£32.53From Komisarjevsky in the 1920s, to Cheek by Jowl's Russian 'sister company' almost a century later, Russian actor training has had a unique influence on modern British theatre. Russians in Britain, edited by Jonathan Pitches, is the first work of its... -
The Old West in Fact and Film: History Versus Hollywood Jeremy Agnew 9780786468881
RRP: £24.99£21.24For many years, movie audiences have carried on a love affair with the American West, believing Westerns are escapist entertainment of the best kind, harkening back to the days of the frontier. This work compares the reality of the Old West to its... -
What it Means: Based on On Being Different by Merle Miller by James Corley 9781350425163
£11.05They say they've broken into the offices of Harper's Magazine and are staging a sit-in. September 1970, Harper's Magazine publish the article Homo/Hetero: The Struggle for Sexual Identity in which Joseph Epstein states "If I had the power to do so, I... -
Performance Studies: Key Words, Concepts and Theories by Bryan Reynolds
£33.37The field of performance studies analyses the production and impact of on-stage performance, such as in a theatre or circus, and off-stage performance, such as cultural rituals and political protests. Performance Studies: Key Words, Concepts and Theories... -
Changing Direction: A Practical Approach to Directing Actors in Film and Theatre: Foreword by Ang Lee by Lenore DeKoven 9781138490826
RRP: £36.99£32.90The second edition of this elegant and accessible primer offers a helpful reference and resource for directing actors in film, television, and theatre, useful to directors, actors, and writers. Combining underlying theory with dozens of exercises... -
Boys Don't Cry by Chase Joynt
RRP: £15.99£14.24Hailed as groundbreaking upon its original release, the Oscar-winning film Boys Don't Cry offered the first mainstream access to transmasculine embodiment in North America, one that many simultaneously celebrated and rejected. More than two decades after... -
The Modern Amazons: Warrior Women On-Screen by James Ursini 9780879103279
£16.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879103279Author James UrsiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsWeight(grams) 903gDimensions(mm) 228mm *... -
Live Fast, Die Young: The Wild Ride of Making "Rebel Without a Cause" by Lawrence Frascella 9780743296182
£18.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743296182Author Lawrence FrascellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 588gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Urban Australia and Post-Punk: Exploring Dogs in Space by David Nichols 9789813297012
RRP: £24.99£18.02Richard Lowenstein's 1986 masterpiece Dogs in Space was and remains controversial, divisive, compelling and inspirational. Made less than a decade after the events it is based on, using many of the people involved in those events as actors, the film... -
From The Third Eye: The Evergreen Review Film Reader by Ed Halter
RRP: £23.99£15.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609806156Author Ed HalterFormat PaperbackPage Count 586Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
The After Effects Illusionist: All the Effects in One Complete Guide by Chad Perkins
RRP: £47.99£36.00Harness the full power of After Effects by mastering its native plug-in effects. Author Chad Perkins breaks down the creation and application of each native plug-in effect available in the After Effects toolset. He also shows you how each can be used...