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Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Narrative Technique by Kristin Thompson
RRP: $83.90$70.01In a book as entertaining as it is enlightening, Kristin Thompson offers the first in-depth analysis of Hollywood's storytelling techniques and how they are used to make complex, easily comprehensible, entertaining films. She also takes on the myth that... -
Sunset Boulevard by Steven Cohan
RRP: $27.28$23.12Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard was a critical and commercial success on its release in 1950 and remains a classic of film noir and one of the best-known Hollywood films about Hollywood. Both its opening, with William Holden as the screenwriter Joe... -
Film Noir Portraits by Tony Nourmand
RRP: $104.90$72.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909526815Author Tony NourmandFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Reel Art PressPublisher Reel Art Press -
Britain's Forgotten Film Factory: The Story of Isleworth Studios by Ed Harris
RRP: $20.98$15.10The story of Isleworth Studios is essentially that of the British film industry from 1914 to 1952. Beginning with the first British Sherlock Holmes screen adaptation and ending with its Oscar-winning swansong, The African Queen, in the intervening years... -
The Old Oak by Paul Laverty 9781901927917
RRP: $27.28$23.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901927917Author Paul LavertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Route PublishingPublisher Route PublishingDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 12mm -
Gus Van Sant: Icons by Matthieu Orlean
RRP: $82.95$42.84This reference work presents the full range of the filmmaker's artistry (photography, painting and music) through the optic of his films. It is an original work combining all facets of his creation for the first time, bringing a fresh vision of his... -
Cat People by Kim Newman
$20.03Novelist and critic Kim Newman assesses the horror noir Cat People (1943), produced by Val Lewton and directed by Jacques Tourneur. This important and influential film is considered in the light of its place in film history and as a work of ambitious... -
Aguirre, the Wrath of God by Eric Ames
$20.03Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes) is and perhaps always will be Werner Herzog's most important film. Appearing in 1972, Aguirre put Herzog on the map of world cinema. But the film's importance also derives from the young German... -
Scotland Film Locations by Phoebe Taplin
RRP: $12.60$10.04This beautifully illustrated guide reveals the cities, towns and windswept landscapes that have formed the backdrop to some of Scotland's most famous films. Colour photographs and detailed descriptions of each location allow you to follow in the... -
Zendaya: The Unauthorized Biography by Alison James 9781789295481
RRP: $31.48$21.69Discover how Zendaya conquered the worlds of film, TV and fashion to become the face of a generation. This is her life story, as never told before. Zendaya is a phenomenon. Beginning as a precocious child star on the Disney Channel, she has since... -
Hammer Films: An Exhaustive Filmography by Tom Johnson 9780786469222
RRP: $60.88$51.35Though best known for its horror films, Hammer produced a wide variety of movies in many genres. The British studio was famous for its exciting stories and expert action--all on very small budgets and short shooting schedules. From The Public Life of... -
French New Wave: A Revolution in Design by Tony Nourmand
RRP: $104.90$73.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957261044Author Tony NourmandFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Reel Art PressPublisher Reel Art Press -
The Art and Making of Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley: The Rise and Fall of Stanton Carlisle by Gina McIntyre 9781789098815
RRP: $73.48$36.10Comprehensive and insightful, , is the ultimate companion to the master director's latest work. Inspired by William Lindsay Gresham's cult 1947 novel, Nightmare Alley stars Bradley Cooper as Stanton "Stan" Carlisle, a talented but troubled drifter who... -
Porridge by Richard Weight
RRP: $39.88$36.94'Norman Stanley Fletcher, you have pleaded guilty to the charges brought by this court and it is now my duty to pass sentence.' Those words, spoken by a judge to the show's hero in the title sequence of every Porridge episode, are among the most famous... -
The Filmmaker's Guide to Digital Imaging: for Cinematographers, Digital Imaging Technicians, and Camera Assistants by Blain Brown
RRP: $100.78$86.29It's a whole new world for cinematographers, camera assistants, and postproduction artists. New equipment, new methods, and new technologies have to be learned and mastered. New roles such as that of the DIT (Digital Imaging Technician), Digital Loader,... -
Brief Encounter by Richard Dyer
$20.03Brief Encounter (1945), adapted from Noel Coward's play Still Life, is a classic of British cinema - a tale of impossible love between a married woman and a man she meets while waiting for a train. Though it's a film made by men, it is the woman's voice... -
All The Best Lines: An Informal History of the Movies in Quotes, Notes and Anecdotes by George Tiffin 9781781853061
$8.27 - $14.60Pithy put-downs, hard-boiled snarlings, words of love and regret... All the Best Lines presents 500 memorable movie quotes, embracing both one-liners ('My name is Pussy Galore') and slices of snappy dialogue from pictures as diverse as When Harry Met... -
Emeric Pressburger: Life and Death of a Screenwriter by Kevin Macdonald 9780571178292
RRP: $42.00$29.69A Hungarian Jew who lived and worked in half a dozen European countries before arriving in Britain in 1935, Pressburger's reputation rests on the series of strikingly original films he made in collaboration with Michael Powell under the banner of The... -
The Producer's Business Handbook: The Roadmap for the Balanced Film Producer by Anne Marie Gillen
RRP: $96.58$88.22Gain a comprehensive understanding of the business of entertainment and learn to successfully engage in all aspects of global production with the revised and updated 4th edition of The Producer's Business Handbook. Learn how to cultivate relationships... -
Moments that Made the Movies by David Thomson 9780500516416
$8.27 - $53.93In the first fully illustrated work of his illustrious career, David Thomson re-examines a series of moments - which readers will experience in beautifully reproduced imagery - from seventy-two carefully selected films across a hundred-year time span... -
The British Working Class in Postwar Film by Philip Gillett 9780719062582
RRP: $41.98$38.39An incidental pleasure of watching a film is what it tells us about the society in which it is made. Using a sociological model, The British working class in postwar film looks at how working-class people were portrayed in British feature films in the... -
Marvel Comics' Black Panther: Wakanda Cookbook by Nyanyika Banda 9781803360621
$20.33 - $27.11Wakanda forever! Celebrate the flavors of Africa with this cookbook inspired by over fifty years of Black Panther comics. Create meals fit for a king with this cookbook featuring over seventy delicious recipes from Wakanda and the African continent... -
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets: The Art of the Film by Mark Salisbury
RRP: $62.98$32.68Rooted in the classic graphic novel series, Valerian and Laureline- visionary writer/director Luc Besson advances this iconic source material into a contemporary, unique and epic science fiction saga. Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara... -
London Diaries by Lorenza MAzzetti
RRP: $18.88$13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956267856Author Lorenza MAzzettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Zidane PressPublisher Zidane Press -
Star Wars Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy by Pablo Hidalgo 9780062466822
RRP: $63.00$49.29A Star Wars authority deepens and extends our appreciation of the Star Wars galaxy with this imaginative "history" featuring striking full-color artwork-created exclusively for this entertaining volume-that examines the persuasive messages used to... -
A Talent For Trouble: The Life Of Hollywood's Most Acclaimed Director, William Wyler by Jan Herman 9780306807985
$42.38The films of William Wyler (1902-1981) include some of the most memorable and honored motion pictures of all time Jezebel, The Letter, The Little Foxes, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Heiress, Detective Story, Roman Holiday, Ben-Hur, Funny Girl, and... -
Asian Cinema and the Use of Space: Interdisciplinary Perspectives by Lilian Chee 9781138549043
RRP: $94.48$85.58Asian cinemas are connected to global networks and participate in producing international film history while at the same time influenced and engaged by spatial, cultural, social and political transformations. This interdisciplinary study forwards a... -
Blue Velvet by Michael Atkinson
RRP: $27.28$21.53For many, Blue Velvet is David Lynch's masterpiece. It represents a unique act of cinema: an 80s Hollywood studio film as radical, visionary and cabalistic as anything found in the avant-garde; a mysteriously symbolic and subterranean ... -
Sushio Artworks by Sushio 9784756250612
RRP: $84.00$59.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756250612Author SushioFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd. -
Documentary Storytelling: Creative Nonfiction on Screen by Sheila Curran Bernard
RRP: $79.78$71.69-Offers a practical guide to using the tools of narrative cinema in nonfiction film, focusing on storytelling as it applies to every part of the filmmaking process. -5th edition is updated to include new examples, increased coverage of documentary ethics... -
The Apu Trilogy: Satyajit Ray and the Making of an Epic by Andrew Robinson 9781848855168
$44.71"I can never forget the excitement in my mind after seeing 'Pather Panchali'", noted Akira Kurosawa. Satyajit Ray's three films about the boyhood, adolescence and manhood of Apu, 'Pather Panchali' (1955), 'Aparajito' (1956) and 'The World of Apu' (1959)... -
On Marilyn Monroe: An Opinionated Guide by Richard Barrios 9780197636114
RRP: $48.28$43.03Marilyn Monroe has been gone for over sixty years, and yet people are still talking about her. What, exactly, is the spell she casts on so many? Stunning, exciting to watch, incredibly famous, Monroe lived a very public life and died young, with a sad... -
Doctor Strange and Philosophy: The Other Book of Forbidden Knowledge by William Irwin 9781119437949
RRP: $27.20$18.02Explore the mind and world of the brilliant neurosurgeon-turned-Sorcerer Supreme Doctor Stephen Strange Marvel Comics legends Stan Lee and Steve Ditko first introduced Doctor Stephen Strange to the world in 1963--and his spellbinding adventures have... -
L'Atalante by Marina Warner
$31.33L'Atalante is the work of French director Jean Vigo. It is a study of romantic love, told in a style influenced by surrealism, but still Vigo's own. This text is part of the 'BFI Film Classics' series. Each volume in the series presents a personal... -
Warren Oates: A Wild Life by Susan Compo
RRP: $67.20$63.82Though he never quite reached the lead actor status he worked so relentlessly to achieve, Warren Oates (1928-1982) is known today as one of the most memorable and skilled character actors of the 1960s and 1970s. With his rugged looks and measured... -
10,000 Ways To Die by Alex Cox 9780857303387
RRP: $35.68$24.23Forty years ago as a graduate student I wrote a book about Spaghetti Westerns, called 10,000 Ways to Die. It's an embarrassing tome: full of half-assed semiotics and other attenuated academic nonsense. Thirty years later I wrote an entirely new book with... -
Draw 50 Princesses: The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Many More . . . by Lee J. Ames 9780823085859
RRP: $18.88$14.85Targeted at young aspiring artists seeking to develop their technical skills and build a repertoire of fantasy female subjects, this title is suitable for children aged 5-11 years old. Acclaimed author Lee J. Ames shows readers how to draw dozens of... -
Nosferatu (1922): eine Symphonie des Grauens by Kevin Jackson 9781844576500
RRP: $27.28$21.32F.W. Murnau's 1922 Nosferatu, the first (albeit unofficial) screen adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, starring Max Schreck as the hollow-eyed, cadaverous vampire, remains a potent and disturbing horror film. Kevin Jackson's study traces Nosferatu's... -
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum by Julian Preece
RRP: $27.28$21.53"Brisk [and] forceful." Sight & Sound "Lucidly argued." Total Film Margarethe von Trotta and Volker Schloendorff's The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975) was a pivotal film for the New German Cinema movement. Julian Preece considers what makes... -
Digital Compositing for Film and Video: Production Workflows and Techniques by Steve Wright 9781138240377
$126.36Written by senior compositor, technical director and master trainer Steve Wright, this book condenses years of production experience into an easy-to-read and highly-informative guide suitable for both working and aspiring visual effects artists. This...