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Queer Cinema, The Film Reader by Harry M. Benshoff
RRP: £42.99£39.33Queer Cinema, The Film Reader examines the relationship between cinematic representations of sexuality and their social, historical, and industrial contexts. Clearly divided into an introductory overview and four topic areas, the Reader explores how... -
A History of Horror by Wheeler Winston Dixon
RRP: £21.99£20.18Ever since horror leapt from popular fiction to the silver screen in the late 1890s, viewers have experienced fear and pleasure in exquisite combination. Wheeler Winston Dixon's fully revised and updated A History of Horror is still the only book to... -
Experimental Filmmaking and Punk: Feminist Audio Visual Culture in the 1970s and 1980s by Dr Rachel Garfield
RRP: £25.99£21.22Just as punk created a space for bands such as the Slits and Poly Styrene to challenge 1970s norms of femininity, through a transgressive, strident new female-ness, it also provoked experimental feminist film makers to initiate a parallel, lens-based... -
Towards a Third Theatre: Eugenio Barba and the Odin Teatret by Ian Watson 9780415127646
RRP: £46.99£40.97Eugenio Barba is one of Europe's leading theatre directors, at the forefront of experimental and group theatre for more than twenty years. Ian Watson provides the most comprehensive and systematic study of Barba's work, including his training methods,... -
Nazi Films in America, 1933-1942 by Harry Waldman 9781476680798
RRP: £28.99£24.75From 1933 until America's entry into World War II in 1941, nearly 500 Nazi films were shown in American theaters, accounting for nearly half of all foreign language film imports during the period. These poorly disguised propaganda films were produced... -
John Lasseter by Richard Neupert 9780252081644
RRP: £16.99£15.88Celebrated as Pixar's "Chief Creative Officer," John Lasseter is a revolutionary figure in animation history and one of today's most important filmmakers. Lasseter films from Luxo Jr. to Toy Story and Cars 2 highlighted his gift for creating emotionally... -
Green Documentary: Environmental Documentary Film in the 21st Century by Helen Hughes 9781783201839
£41.72During the first decade of the twenty-first century, a stunning array of documentary films focusing on environmental issues has been met with critical and popular acclaim. Green Documentary is the first book-length study of this phenomenon. It explores... -
The Shawshank Redemption Revealed: How One Story Keeps Hope Alive by Mark Dawidziak
RRP: £25.00£20.56A 25th anniversary history and celebration of The Shawshank Redemption, one of the most cherished American films of the late twentieth century and one of the finest movies made from a Stephen King story. The movie not only boasts a great story, it has a... -
Creative Producing: A Pitch-to-Picture Guide to Movie Development by Carol Baum 9781621538370
RRP: £14.99£10.28Go behind the scenes with the producer of Father of the Bride to learn all the skills necessary to be a top Hollywood producer. As former co-president of Dolly Parton's production company, Sandollar, and as a successful independent producer, Carol Baum... -
Grindhouse Purgatory Greatest Hits by Rhonda Baughman 9781951036140
£11.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951036140Author Rhonda BaughmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Happy Cloud PublishingPublisher Happy Cloud PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Turner Classic Movies: Must-See Sci-fi: 50 Movies That Are Out of This World by Sloan De Forest
£20.75Spanning nine decades and branded by the most trusted authority on film, Turner Classic Movies: Must-See Sci-Fi showcases 50 of the most shocking, weird, wonderful, and mind-bending movies ever made.From A Trip to the Moon (1902) to Arrival (2016),... -
Star Wars: Icons of the Galaxy by Titan Books
RRP: £21.99£16.89A Star Wars icon is an aspect of the Star Wars saga that you will never forget. It might be a person such as Princess Leia, a droid such as C-3P0, characters such as the stormtroopers or even a collectable such as Kenner's classic Millennium Falcon... -
Read or Die: R.O.D Official Archive by Hideyuki Kurata 9781926778624
RRP: £35.99£24.22The Read or Die anime features the story of Yomiko Readman and the British Library Special Operations Division, a secret group dedicated to the location and protection of rare books! The R.O.D Official Archive is your ultimate guide to the world of... -
The Irish Dramatic Revival 1899-1939 by Anthony Roche
£29.92The Irish Dramatic Revival was to radically redefine Irish theatre and see the birth of Ireland's national theatre, the Abbey, in 1904. From a consideration of such influential precursors as Boucicault and Wilde, Anthony Roche goes on to examine the role... -
Latin American Cinema: A Comparative History by Paul A. Schroeder Rodriguez 9780520288638
RRP: £35.00£29.86This book charts a comparative history of Latin America's national cinemas through ten chapters that cover every major cinematic period in the region: silent cinema, studio cinema, neorealism and art cinema, the New Latin American Cinema, and... -
Infamous by April de Angelis 9780571387106
RRP: £10.99£7.54Famous and respectable? Can a woman be both?Emma Hamilton is the name on everyone's lips. Her attitudes are the latest dance craze sweeping Europe, inspiring a generation of artists from Romney to Goethe. But Emma doesn't want to be somebody's muse, she... -
Mathieu Kassovitz by Will Higbee
RRP: £14.99£11.12Mathieu Kassovitz is arguably the most important filmmaker to have emerged from French cinema in the past two decades. As a director, his work often engages with highly controversial socio-political issues whilst still managing to attract and connect... -
L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema by Allyson Field 9780520284685
RRP: £30.00£23.69L. A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema is the first book dedicated to the films and filmmakers of the L. A. Rebellion, a group of African, Caribbean, and African American independent film and video artists that formed at the University of... -
Women in Polish Cinema Ewa Mazierska 9781571819475
RRP: £99.00£84.05Polish film has long enjoyed an outstanding reputation but its best known protagonists tend to be male. This book points to the important role of women as key characters in Polish films, such as the enduring female figure in Polish culture, the... -
Academy of Theatrical Combat Basics Level 1 by Jan Bryant 9780988508903
RRP: £27.95£21.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988508903Author Jan BryantFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Academy of Theatrical CombatPublisher Academy of Theatrical CombatWeight(grams)... -
Filming the Fantastic with Virtual Technology: Filmmaking on the Digital Backlot by Mark Sawicki
RRP: £35.99£32.97This book brings fantasy storytelling to a whole new level by providing an in-depth insight into the tools used for virtual reality, augmented reality, 360 cinema and motion capture in order to repurpose them to create a virtual studio for filmmaking... -
Nonfiction Film: A Critical History Revised and Expanded by Richard Barsam
RRP: £27.99£25.74"Richard Barsam has given us as comprehensive a study of the origins and development of the nonfiction mode in motion pictures as we are ever likely to have in one volume. He draws on all the major written sources and many which are little known, and he... -
Movie Movements by James Clarke 9781842433058
RRP: £12.99£3.90Movie Movements: Films That Changed the World of Cinema is a one-stop guide to the major movements that have shaped our sense of what cinema is and can be. It introduces the reader to definitions of the founding concepts in Film Studies such as... -
Hollywood Behind the Wall: The Cinema of East Germany by Daniela Berghahn 9780719061721
RRP: £19.99£18.76This book is a representative history of East German film culture from 1946 to the present, examining both DEFA's celebrated classics and the most acclaimed post-unification feature films by East German directors.'Hollywood behind the wall' demonstrates... -
Choreography and Verbatim Theatre: Dancing Words by Jess McCormack 9783319920184
RRP: £59.99£54.73How might spoken words be translated into choreography? This book addresses the field of verbatim dance-theatre, around which there is currently limited existing scholarly writing. Grounded in extensive research, the project combines dance studies and... -
Violin Time by Ken Campbell 9780413709608
RRP: £11.99£11.42"I don't think there is a more hilariously anarchic talent on the loose in British theatre" (The Times) This monologue, premiered in 1996 at The National features a mysterious female French book thief, an oriental violinist and the Temple of... -
Film Awards: A Reference Guide to US & UK Film Awards Volume Two 1960-1979 by Brian Lindsay 9780980490954
RRP: £18.90£16.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980490954Author Brian LindsayFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Tranter Ward BooksPublisher Tranter Ward BooksWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Color, The Film Reader Angela Dalle Vacche (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA) 9780415324427
RRP: £39.99£36.43This is the first anthology devoted exclusively to the subject of colour in film and its history, production and technology.Set out in thematic sections, the book addresses key issues in the field including: the development of colour technologyhow... -
Rebel: My Life Outside the Lines by Nick Nolte
RRP: £20.00£5.92One day you're the sexiest man alive, and another day your face is like a flattened road-killed bird in the worst mug shot of all time. In a career spanning five decades, Nick Nolte has endured the rites of Hollywood celebrity. Rising from obscurity to... -
The Encyclopedia of Film Composers by Thomas S. Hischak 9781442245495
RRP: £105.00£97.84For more than a century, original music has been composed for the cinema. From the early days when live music accompanied silent films to the present in which a composer can draw upon a full orchestra or a lone synthesizer to embody a composition, music... -
Andre Bazin on Adaptation: Cinema's Literary Imagination by Andre Bazin
RRP: £30.00£24.45Adaptation was central to Andre Bazin's lifelong query: What is cinema? Placing films alongside literature allowed him to identify the aesthetic and sociological distinctiveness of each medium. More importantly, it helped him wage his campaign for a... -
The Autobiographical Documentary in America by Jim Lane 9780299176549
RRP: £29.95£27.80Since the late 1960s, American film and video makers of all stripes have been fascinated with themes of self and identity. Though the documentary form is most often used to capture the lives of others, Jim Lane turns his lens on those media makers who... -
Everything I know About Filmmaking I Learned Watching Seven Samurai by Richard D. Pepperman 9781615932115
£15.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615932115Author Richard D. PeppermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese Productions -
Purely & Simply Evil: Behind the Scenes of the Halloween Movies by Reid Graves 9780692302392
RRP: £15.24£13.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692302392Author Reid GravesFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint New Arcata BooksPublisher New Arcata BooksWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm... -
Carefully Taught: American History through Broadway Musicals by Cary Ginell
RRP: £25.00£18.54Carefully Taught looks at American history as depicted in thirty Broadway musicals. Presented chronologically according to the musical timeframe, award-winning theater critic and author Cary Ginell dissects the stories, characters, and songs to not only... -
Sideways: The Shooting Script by Alexander Payne 9781557046550
£15.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557046550Author Alexander PayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Newmarket Press,U.S.Publisher Newmarket Press,U.S. -
A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980-1989 Stephen Prince 9780520232662
RRP: £38.00£36.72Facing an economic crisis in the 1980s, the Hollywood industry moved boldly to control the ancillary markets of videotape, video disk, pay-cable and pay-per-view, and the major studios found themselves targeted for acquisition by global media and... -
Shooting Stars of the Small Screen: Encyclopedia of TV Western Actors, 1946-Present by Douglas Brode
RRP: £31.00£29.08Since the beginning of television, Westerns have been playing on the small screen. From the mid-1950s until the early 1960s, they were one of TV's most popular genres, with millions of viewers tuning in to such popular shows as Rawhide, Gunsmoke, and... -
International Politics and Film: Space, Vision, Power by Klaus Dodds
RRP: £17.99£15.17International Politics and Film introduces readers to the representational qualities of film but also draws attention to how the relationship between the visual and the spatial is constitutive of international politics. Using four themes-borders, the... -
The Dodo Experiment by Martin Travers
£11.05What money?! This ends when you end. This experiment is about the survival of the fittest. Nothing more - nothing less. Imprisoned in an abandoned warehouse, a desperate group of failing actors are trapped in a dark experiment. After months of...