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The Forbidden Body: Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination by Douglas E Cowan
RRP: $58.78$45.51From creature features to indie horror flicks, find out what happens when sex, horror, and the religious imagination come together Throughout history, religion has attempted to control nothing so much as our bodies: what they are and what they mean;... -
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool: A True Story by Peter Turner 9781509860425
RRP: $16.78$13.82On 29 September 1981, Peter Turner received a phone call that would change his life. His former lover, Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a Lancaster hotel and was refusing medical attention. He had no choice but to take her into his... -
La Regle du jeu by V. F. Perkins
$20.56Renoir's famous and controversial comedy of manners has a troubled history. Victor Perkins presents here a sensitive socio-historical study of Renoir's revised edition of the film, released 20 years after its premiere; shaped by the profundity and... -
Directed by Dorothy Arzner by Judith Mayne
RRP: $54.58$45.97Dorothy Arzner was the exception in Hollywood film history-the one woman who succeeded as a director, in a career that spanned three decades. In Part One, Dorothy Arzner's film career-her work as a film editor to her directorial debut, to her departure... -
The Modern Weird Tale: A Critique of Horror Fiction by S. T. Joshi 9780786409860
RRP: $46.18$37.74This is a critical study of many of the leading writers of horror and supernatural fiction since World War II. The primary purpose is to establish a canon of weird literature, and to distinguish the genuinely meritorious writers of the past fifty... -
Matthau: A Life by Rob Edelman 9780878332748
RRP: $41.98$34.10Funny yet down-to-earth, honest yet full of exaggeration, actor Walter Matthau (1920-2000) will always occupy a place in America's heart as one of the great comic talents of his generation. Born Walter Matuschanskayasky into Jewish tenements on New... -
Lawrence of Arabia by Kevin Jackson
RRP: $27.28$22.97Lawrence of Arabia is widely considered one of the ten greatest films ever made - though more often by film-goers and film-makers than by critics. This monograph argues that popular wisdom is correct, and that Lean's film is a unique blend of visionary... -
The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro X by Rick Young 9781138050792
RRP: $94.48$86.44The newly revised third edition of Rick Young's The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro X is the ultimate mentor for getting up and running with Apple's professional editing software, regardless of your skill level. In this step-by-step, full-color guide,... -
Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making by Michael Caine
RRP: $37.78$31.67A master actor who's appeared in an enormous number of films starring with everyone from Nicholson to Kermit the Frog Michael Caine is uniquely qualified to provide his view of making movies. This new revised and expanded edition features great photos... -
The Faber Book of French Cinema by Charles Drazin
RRP: $37.78$27.83In The Faber Book of French Cinema, Charles Drazin explores the rich film culture and history of the country that first established the cinema as the most important mass medium of the twentieth century.Offering portraits of such key figures as the ... -
Poetics of Cinema by David Bordwell 9780415977791
RRP: $119.68$108.17Bringing together twenty-five years of work on what he has called the "historical poetics of cinema," David Bordwell presents an extended analysis of a key question for film studies: how are films made, in particular historical contexts, in order to... -
High Noon by Phillip Drummond 9780851704944
$20.56Made in 1951, "High Noon" rapidly became one of the most celebrated and controversial Hollywood dramas of the postwar period. A grave, taut western about community and violence, "High Noon "collected a clutch of Oscars, helped to re-establish the... -
Film Noir FAQ: All That's Left to Know About Hollywood's Golden Age of Dames, Detectives, and Danger by David J. Hogan 9781557838551
$29.48Illustrations throughoutBook InformationISBN 9781557838551Author David J. HoganFormat PaperbackPage Count 442Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm) 225mm * 148mm * 27mm -
Digital Film-making Revised Edition by Mike Figgis
RRP: $31.48$22.87In this indispensable guide to digital film-making, leading film-maker Mike Figgis offers the reader a step-by-step tutorial in how to use digital technology so as to get the best from it. Mike Figgis, with experience from films such as Miss Julie and... -
Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing by Bethany Rooney 9781138948471
RRP: $75.58$66.36Move over, movies: the freshest storytelling today is on television, where the multi-episodic format is used for rich character development and innovative story arcs. Directors Tell the Story, Second Edition offers rare insight and advice straight from... -
James Mason by Sarah Thomas 9781844576357
RRP: $48.28$45.11This engaging critical study moves beyond the image of the brooding, destructive man at odds with employers and his own star status to explore the complexity of Mason's career with an analysis framed through three strands central to understanding... -
The Usual Suspects by Ernest Larson 9780851708690
$20.56A heist thriller with a dazzling twist in the tail, this film "The Usual Suspects" has seen its reputation grow until it is now a major cult movie. Ernest Larsen examines the film's sophistcated narrative structure and the new spin it puts on an old... -
Conclusions by John Boorman 9780571353804
RRP: $23.08$16.74Chosen as one of Sight & Sound's 'Best Film Books of the Year'John Boorman is one of the cinema's authentic visionaries, drawn to myths and dreams. The undisputed heir to David Lean, his films, such as Point Blank, Deliverance and Excalibur, exhibit a... -
John Ford, Revised and Enlarged edition by Peter Bogdanovich
RRP: $50.40$41.62This book provides an intimate and affectionate view of one of Hollywood's most admired directors. The fifty-year career of John Ford (1895-1973) included six Academy Awards, four New York Film Critics' Awards, and some of our most memorable films, among... -
The Fall of Buster Keaton: His Films for MGM, Educational Pictures, and Columbia by James L. Neibaur 9780810876828
RRP: $117.60$107.04Born into a family of vaudevillians, Buster Keaton made his first film appearance in 1917 at the age of 21. By the early 1920s, he had established himself as one of the geniuses of silent cinema with such films as Sherlock, Jr. and The Navigator and his... -
The Great Art Of Light And Shadow: Archaeology of the Cinema by Laurent Mannoni 9780859896658
RRP: $63.00$61.61Widely regarded by historians of the early moving picture as the best work yet published on pre-cinema, The Great Art of Light and Shadow: Archaeology of the Cinema throws light on a fascinating range of optical media from the twelfth century to the turn... -
Start To Finish: Woody Allen and the Art of Moviemaking by Eric Lax
RRP: $33.58$22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804170840Author Eric LaxFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The World of Shaft: A Complete Guide to the Novels, Comic Strip, Films and Television Series by Steve Aldous 9780786499236
RRP: $31.48$26.36Mention Shaft and most people think of Gordon Parks' seminal 1971 film starring Richard Roundtree in a leather coat, walking the streets of Manhattan to Isaac Hayes' iconic theme music. But the black private dick who inspired the blaxploitation film... -
Social History of Art, Volume 4: Naturalism, Impressionism, The Film Age by Arnold Hauser
RRP: $75.58$69.24First published in 1951 Arnold Hausers commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age through to the Film Age. Exploring the interaction between art and society, Hauser effectively details... -
Cutting Rhythms: Intuitive Film Editing by Karen Pearlman
RRP: $100.78$87.15There are many books on the technical aspects of film and video editing. Much rarer are books on how editors think and make creative decisions.Filled with timeless principles and thought-provoking examples from a variety of international films, the... -
Set Phasers to Stun: 50 Years of Star Trek by Marcus Berkmann
RRP: $20.98$15.04Forty-seven years after NBC killed it off, Star Trek celebrates its half-century in a state of rude health. Boldly going where several other people have been before, Marcus Berkmann tells the story of this sturdy science fiction vehicle from its first... -
American Smart Cinema by Claire Perkins
RRP: $50.38$48.22This title describes a new critical tradition in American filmmaking. American Smart Cinema examines a contemporary type of US filmmaking that exists at the intersection of mainstream, art and independent cinema and often gives rise to absurd, darkly... -
Inside Llewyn Davis by Joel Coen
RRP: $27.28$19.40Inside Llewyn Davis chronicles a struggling young folk singer, played by Oscar Isaacs, who arrives in Manhattan in 1961 and tries to navigate the treacherous waters of the the Greenwich Village coffeehouse scene, as well as having to deal with a... -
<I>La Parisienne</i> in Cinema: Between Art and Life by Felicity Chaplin
RRP: $52.50$37.63Chic, sophisticated, seductive and enigmatic, the Parisienne possesses a je ne sais quoi that makes her difficult to define. But who or what is the Parisienne, and how is she depicted in cinema? The first book-length study on the subject combines... -
The Cinematic Connery: The Films of Sir Sean Connery by A. J. Black
RRP: $37.78$26.94Scotland's greatest export. The world's first super spy. Voted the sexiest man on the planet. Sir Sean Connery was a titanic figure on screen and off for over half a century. Behind the son of a factory worker, growing up in near-poverty on the harsh... -
The Silence of the Lambs by Yvonne Tasker
RRP: $27.28$22.97Released in 1990, The Silence of the Lambs is one of the defining films of late twentieth century American cinema. Adapted from the Thomas Harris novel and directed by the late Jonathan Demme, its central characters are now iconic. Jodie Foster is... -
No Borders No Limits: Nikkatsu Action Cinema by Mark Schilling 9781903254431
RRP: $16.78$12.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903254431Author Mark SchillingFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint FAB PressPublisher FAB PressWeight(grams) 301g -
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Sestero
RRP: $23.08$16.34In 2003, an independent film called The Room - starring and written, produced, and directed by a mysteriously wealthy social misfit named Tommy Wiseau - made its disastrous debut in Los Angeles. Described by one reviewer as 'like getting stabbed in the... -
Lighting for TV and Film by Gerald Millerson 9780240515823 [USED COPY]
RRP: $151.18$8.11Skilful lighting involves a subtle blend of systematic mechanics and a sensitive visual imagination. It requires anticipation, perceptiveness, patience and know-how. But learning through practice alone can take a great deal of time. This book is a... -
Lighting for TV and Film by Gerald Millerson
RRP: $151.18$130.91Skilful lighting involves a subtle blend of systematic mechanics and a sensitive visual imagination. It requires anticipation, perceptiveness, patience and know-how. But learning through practice alone can take a great deal of time. This book is a... -
The Art of Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West: A Critical Appreciation by John Fawell 9780786420926
RRP: $46.18$39.54Few directors are characterized by both extraordinary film craft and the ironic reputation for lowbrow films. Despite his many achievements as a child of the Italian Cinecitta studios, however, Sergio Leone has been judged severely by writers who find... -
Studying Ealing Studios by Stephanie Muir
RRP: $48.28$43.51Located in the West London suburb from which it takes its name, Ealing Studios is one of the best loved and best known institutions of British cinema. Ealing represents a particular kind of institutional practice a community of filmmakers who collaborate... -
Women I've Undressed: The Fabulous Life and Times of a Legendary Hollywood Designer by Orry-Kelly
RRP: $52.50$39.77Orry-Kelly created magic on screen, from Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon to Some Like It Hot. He won three Oscars for costume design. He dressed all the biggest stars, from Bette Davis to Marilyn Monroe. Yet few know who Orry-Kelly really was - until... -
Werner Herzog: Ecstatic Truth and Other Useless Conquests by Kristoffer Hegnsvad
$65.65Werner Herzog came to fame in the 1970s as the European new wave explored new cinematic ideas. With films like Signs of Life (1968), Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) and Fitzcarraldo (1982), Herzog became the subject... -
Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone by Matt Zoller
RRP: $84.00$41.58Explore the creation of Guillermo del Toro's early masterpiece through this visually stunning and insightful look at the spine-chilling classic. Released in 2001, Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone marked out the director as a singular talent...