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American Classic Screen Interviews by John C. Tibbetts 9780810876743
RRP: $126.00$114.62First appearing in 1976, American Classic Screen was the publishing arm of The National Film Society. Intended for scholars and general readers interested in films from the golden age of cinema and beyond, the magazine ran for a decade and included... -
Almost Hollywood: The Forgotten Story of Jacksonville, Florida by Blair Miller 9780761859956
RRP: $63.00$59.45Blair Miller tells the story of the motion picture industry as it developed in Jacksonville after the turn of the twentieth century. Almost Hollywood reveals the meteoric rise of Jacksonville in early silent films. Home to over thirty studios employing... -
The Digitization of Cinematic Visual Effects: Hollywood's Coming of Age by Rama Venkatasawmy 9780739176214
RRP: $231.00$209.79The Digitization of Cinematic Visual Effects: Hollywood's Coming of Age, by Rama Venkatasawmy, analyzes how the Hollywood cinema industry's visual effects applications have not only motivated the expansion of filmmaking praxis, they have also influenced... -
Waging ""The War of the Worlds: A History of the 1938 Radio Broadcast and Resulting Panic, Including the Original Script by John Gosling 9780786441051
RRP: $46.18$39.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786441051Author John GoslingFormat HardbackPage Count 247Imprint McFarland & CompanyPublisher McFarland & Company -
The Forrest J Ackerman Oeuvre: A Comprehensive Catalog of the Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Screenplays, Film Appearances, Speeches and Other W Christopher M. O'Brien 9780786449842
RRP: $60.88$52.19Although he is most remembered for his vast collection of science fiction memorabilia; his influential magazine, Famous Monsters of Filmland; and his frequent sci-fi convention appearances, Forrest J Ackerman (1916-2008) also left a sizeable body of work... -
Whoopi Goldberg on Stage and Screen by Lisa Pertillar Brevard 9780786468874
$74.59All at once, and without apology or shame, the name Whoopi Goldberg conjures images of laughter, sex, surprise, versatility, African heritage, and Jewish identity, to name a few. How did she become such a major player in Hollywood and the larger world?... -
Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies: The First Wave, 1959-1969 Thomas Lisanti 9780786472970
RRP: $46.18$40.40Surfers loathed them, teenagers flocked to them, critics dismissed them, producers banked on them--surf and beach movies. For a short time in the 1960s they were extremely popular with younger audiences--mainly because of the shirtless surfer boys and... -
From Hollywood to Disneyland: Walt Disney's Dream Park and the Influence of American Movies by Robert Neuman 9781476686257
RRP: $75.58$66.80From its beginnings, Disneyland was destined to be something entirely different from the standard mid-century amusement park. To sell his dream park to investors and the public, Walt Disney recruited Hollywood art directors and sketch artists to design... -
This Shark, Swallow You Whole: Essays on the Cultural Influence of Jaws by Kathy Merlock Jackson 9781476677453
RRP: $83.98$73.82One of the most influential thrillers in media history, Jaws first surfaced as a best-selling novel by first-time novelist Peter Benchley in 1974, followed by the 1975 feature film directed by Steven Spielberg at the beginning of his storied career... -
It Came from 1957: A Critical Guide to the Year's Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films Rob Craig 9780786477777
RRP: $46.18$39.54America in the 1950s was a cauldron of contradictions. Advances in technology chafed against a grimly conservative political landscape; the military-industrial complex ceaselessly promoted the ""Communist menace""; young marrieds fled crumbling cities... -
Academic Films for the Classroom: A History by Geoff Alexander 9780786458707
RRP: $60.88$51.98Exploring a realm of film often dismissed as campy or contrived, this book traces the history of classroom educational films from the silent era through the 1980s, when film finally began to lose ground to video-based and digital media. It profiles 35... -
Doris Day: Sentimental Journey Garry McGee 9780786461073
RRP: $46.18$40.64Doris Day, once called an Actors Studio unto herself, was one of the twentieth century's greatest entertainers, with a career spanning 39 films, more than 150 television shows, and more than 500 recordings. This work covers the life and career of the... -
Nelson's Navy in Fiction and Film: Depictions of British Sea Power in the Napoleonic Era Sue Parrill 9780786438556
RRP: $75.58$67.22This book provides summaries and analyses of more than 250 novels and 25 films and examines the extent to which they accurately reflect the history, mores and manners of the period and the extent to which they reveal the ideas and attitudes of their... -
American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913-1929 John T. Soister 9780786435814
RRP: $142.78$125.79During the Silent Era, when most films dealt with dramatic or comedic takes on the "boy meets girl, boy loses girl" theme, other motion pictures dared to tackle such topics as rejuvenation, revivication, mesmerism, the supernatural and the grotesque... -
Serial Killer Cinema: An Analytical Filmography with an Introduction by Robert Cettl 9780786437313
RRP: $98.60$61.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786437313Author Robert CettlFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint McFarland & CompanyPublisher McFarland & CompanyWeight(grams) 1025g -
Andrew V. McLaglen: The Life and Hollywood Career by Stephen B. Armstrong 9780786449774
RRP: $60.88$51.98Here is a comprehensive survey of the film and television career of London-born director Andrew V. McLaglen. An opening biography considers the events and circumstances that contributed to his development as a filmmaker, including his relationships with... -
Home Front Heroes: The Rise of a New Hollywood Archetype, 1988-1999 Elizabeth Abele 9780786473335
RRP: $60.88$51.98This book traces the effects of the feminist and civil rights movements in the construction of Hollywood action heroes. Starting in the late 1980s, action blockbusters regularly have featured masculine figures who choose love and community over the path... -
Intimacy in Cinema: Critical Essays on English Language Films David Roche 9780786479245
RRP: $60.88$51.98Though intimacy has been a wide concern in the humanities, it has received little critical attention in film studies. This collection of new essays investigates both the potential intimacy of cinema as a medium and the possibility of a cinema of... -
Buster Crabbe: A Biofilmography Jerry Vermilye 9780786495702
RRP: $46.18$40.26Buster Crabbe's chief claim to fame, aside from his Olympic gold medal (for the 400-meter freestyle event in 1932), rests in the trio of movie serials in which he played the popular science-fiction hero Flash Gordon. Crabbe was the only actor to play... -
Fitzgerald and Hemingway on Film: A Critical Study of the Adaptations, 1924-2013 Candace Ursula Grissom 9780786478316
RRP: $46.18$40.26A comprehensive guide to all major film adaptations based on the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, this is an essential volume for scholars of American modernism and of film studies. The author takes the approach that all visual and... -
The Films of James Cameron: Critical Essays by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell 9780786462797
RRP: $46.18$40.26Among the most expensive--and most profitable--films of all time, the works of James Cameron have had a profound effect upon popular culture and the technology of moviemaking. Yet the very blockbuster nature of his films means that the political... -
Nabokov's Cinematic Afterlife by Ewa Mazierska 9780786445431
$98.39This book offers critical studies of films that adapted works by Vladimir Nabokov. One of the most screened twentieth century authors (with over ten books adapted for cinema), his works are full of quirky and forbidden romance, and his writing is... -
Pregnancy in Literature and Film Parley Ann Boswell 9780786473663
RRP: $46.18$40.26This exploration of the ways in which pregnancy affects narrative begins with two canonical American texts, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1848) and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861). Relying on such diverse... -
Australian Horror Films, 1973-2010 Peter Shelley 9780786461677
RRP: $60.88$53.07This pioneering work provides in-depth coverage of 76 horror films produced in Australia, where serial killers, carnivorous animals, mutants, zombies, vampires and evil spirits all receive the "antipodean" cinematic treatment unique to the Land Down... -
Fantasy of Modernity: Romantic Love in Bombay Cinema of the 1950s by Aarti Wani 9781107117211
RRP: $142.78$133.08Romantic love overwhelms 1950s Bombay cinema. Love and romance is evident in the themes, lyrics and visual aesthetics of films of the period, as it is in the publicity and gossip surrounding films and film stars. Love in cinema becomes significant when... -
Reframing Vivien Leigh: Stardom, Gender, and the Archive by Lecturer in Film Studies Lisa Stead 9780190906504
RRP: $231.00$208.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190906504Author Lecturer in Film Studies Lisa SteadFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA -
Hollywood Winners and Losers: From A to Z by Mark Thise 9780879103514
$25.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879103514Author Mark M. ThiseFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight Editions -
Studying Gladiator by Sandy Irvine 9781903663578
RRP: $48.28$44.96Gladiator was one of the great commercial successes of the early twenty-first century, a fascinating example of how an old genre can be resuscitated for a new generation. The film's story is not complex yet the ways in which it is told says much about... -
Studying The Wicker Man: Instructor's Edition by Andy Murray 9781903663103
RRP: $48.28$45.36Specially written for students of Fflm and media studies, Studying The Wicker Man explores the sophistication and ingenuity of this unique film by considering:The games it plays with notions of genre and narrativeIts representations of setting, gender... -
The Presence of the Past: Temporal Experience and the New Hollywood Soundtrack by Daniel J. Bishop 9780190932688
$223.55The Presence of the Past offers a new perspective on Hollywood's "New Wave" as engaged with the vitality of sensory experience and the affective imagination. As author Daniel Bishop shows, the soundtracks of several key films of the New Hollywood Cinema... -
Translating for (and From) the Italian Screen by Philip Balma 9781599541419
RRP: $29.40$24.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541419Author Philip BalmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
With Love, Mommie Dearest: The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic by A. Ashley Hoff 9781641607681
RRP: $37.70$31.16When she died in 1977, Joan Crawford was remembered as an icon of Hollywood's Golden Age-until publication the following year of her daughter's memoir, Mommie Dearest. Christina Crawford's book was an immediate bestseller, addressing the infrequently... -
Screening Ethnicity: Cinematographic Representations of Italian Americans in the United States by Dean Anthony Julian Tamburri 9781884419539
RRP: $42.00$34.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884419539Author Dean Anthony Julian TamburriFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams)... -
Starlight: 100 Years of Film Stills by Michael Juul Holm 9788791607318
RRP: $63.00$51.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788791607318Author Michael Juul HolmFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Louisiana Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Louisiana Museum of Modern Art -
A Hidden History of Film Style: Cinematographers, Directors, and the Collaborative Process by Christopher Beach 9780520284340
RRP: $168.00$137.07The image that appears on the movie screen is the direct and tangible result of the joint efforts of the director and the cinematographer. A Hidden History of Film Style is the first study to focus on the collaborations between directors and... -
Border Witness: Reimagining the US-Mexico Borderlands through Film by Michael Dear 9780520391932
RRP: $168.00$137.07What a century of border films teaches about the real and imagined worlds of the US-Mexico borderlands-and how this understanding helps build better relations across boundaries. Border Witness is an account of cultural collision and fusion between... -
Becoming AFI: 50 Years Inside the American Film Institute by Jean Picker Firstenberg 9781595800947
$44.27For over fifty years, the American Film Institute has flourished as one of America's great cultural entities. Its graduates, faculty, supporters, and trustees have included such acclaimed individuals as Steven Spielberg, Maya Angelou, Gregory Peck, Meryl... -
The Films of Leni Riefenstahl by David B. Hinton 9781578860098
RRP: $75.60$60.12After considerable controversy over the bold appraisal of Riefenstahl in his first two editions, Hinton continues to celebrate the life and films of this brilliant woman in the absence of the repetitious cliches that so often accompany a discussion of... -
A Decolonizing Ear: Documentary Film Disrupts the Archive by Olivia Landry 9781487544850
RRP: $102.90$94.04The recording of Indigenous voices is one of the most well-known methods of colonial ethnography. In A Decolonizing Ear, Olivia Landry offers a sceptical account of listening as a highly mediated and extractive act, influenced by technology and ideology... -
Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 9780823297894
$207.88Finalist, 2021 Bram Stoker Awards (Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction) The first collection of essays to address Satan's ubiquitous and popular appearances in film Lucifer and cinema have been intertwined since the origins of the medium. As...