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Harry Potter: The Creature Vault: The Creatures and Plants of the Harry Potter Films by Jody Revenson
RRP: £50.00£35.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062374233Author Jody RevensonPage Count 208Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 1293gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 239mm * 25mm -
Burning Darkness: A Half Century of Spanish Cinema by Joan Ramon Resina
£32.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791475041Author Joan Ramon ResinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Flash Flaherty: Tales from a Film Seminar by Scott MacDonald
RRP: £40.00£32.97Flash Flaherty, the much-anticipated follow-up volume to The Flaherty: Decades in the Cause of Independent Cinema, offers a people's history of the world-renowned Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, an annual event where participants confront and reimagine the... -
Beyond Bias: Conservative Media, Documentary Form, and the Politics of Hysteria by Scott Krzych
RRP: £31.99£27.80Beyond Bias offers the first scholarly study of contemporary right-wing documentary film and video. Drawing from contemporary work in political theory and psychoanalytic theory, the book identifies what author Scott Krzych describes as the hysterical... -
Studying The Usual Suspects - Instructor`s Edition by Judith Gunn
RRP: £22.99£20.72The story of The Usual Suspects has the kind of "rags to riches" back story that makes not only the film itself, but the tale of its creation a tale worth telling. Inspired by a magazine headline, it was a poster before it was a screenplay, yet it stands... -
Cinematic Realism: Lukas, Kracauer and Theories of the Filmic Real by Ian Aitken
£119.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474441346Author Ian AitkenFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Stardom, Italian Style: Screen Performance and Personality in Italian Cinema by Marcia Landy
RRP: £25.99£21.89Marcia Landy examines the history of Italian celebrity culture and ponders the changing qualities of stardom in the 20th and 21st centuries. She considers the historical conditions for the rise of stardom in the context of various media, from the silent... -
Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922-1943 by Jacqueline Reich
RRP: £20.99£17.60When Benito Mussolini proclaimed that "Cinema is the strongest weapon," he was telling only half the story. In reality, very few feature films during the Fascist period can be labeled as propaganda. Re-viewing Fascism considers the many films that failed... -
Holocaust Intersections: Genocide and Visual Culture at the New Millennium by Axel Bangert
RRP: £75.00£74.25This book charts how visual culture at the new millennium has engaged with the Holocaust and provides insight into a number of significant trends in the production, distribution and reception of recent works about the Nazi genocide.About the AuthorAxel... -
Hollywood Dreams and Biblical Stories by Bernard Brandon Scott
RRP: £14.99£14.15An accomplished biblical scholar here juxtaposes movies and New Testament themes to uncover the mythic dimensions of each and to explore the primary conflicts in American society.Book InformationISBN 9780800627539Author Bernard Brandon ScottFormat... -
Australian Documentary: History, Practices and Genres by Trish FitzSimons
RRP: £40.99£38.32Drawing on interviews with leading industry sources and containing discussion of over 200 documentaries, Australian Documentary: History, Practices and Genres brings to life over a century of documentary making and connects it to international debates in... -
Politics of Documentary by Professor Michael Chanan
£108.25This wide-ranging study traces the history of the documentary from the first Lumiere films to Michael Moore's 'Fahrenheit 9/11'. Chanan argues that documentary makes a vital contribution to the public sphere - where ideas are debated, opinion formed and... -
The Blue Box: Kristevan/Lacanian Readings of Contemporary Cinema by Frances Restuccia
£37.07This title looks at films that map the spectator's private fantasy onto the one being played out on the screen, following Kristeva's sparse, but revolutionary, film theory. Informed by the theory of Julia Kristeva, Frances Restuccia analyzes a variety of... -
Sabu by Michael Lawrence
£86.55The first Indian to become an international film star, Sabu rose to fame as a child actor in Elephant Boy (1937), and subsequently appeared in a succession of British pictures before relocating to Hollywood, where he died in 1963. Repeatedly cast in... -
Hidden Universe Travel Guide - Star Trek: Vulcan by Dayton Ward 9781785654367
RRP: £14.99£11.54Explore all that Vulcan has to offer in an interactive guidebook. Drawing on 50 years of Star Trek TV shows, films, and novels to present a comprehensive guide to Spock's iconic home world, it covers every significant region, with historical,... -
The Insiders' Guide to Factual Filmmaking by Tony Stark 9780815369783
RRP: £36.99£32.90The Insiders' Guide to Factual Filmmaking is an accessible and comprehensive 'how to' guide about the craft of making documentaries for TV, online or social media. Filmmaker Tony Stark distils a long career at the BBC and as an independent producer to... -
Dangerous Rhythm: Why Movie Musicals Matter by Richard Barrios 9780199973842
RRP: £39.49£31.40Insightful, witty, as exuberant as its subject matter, Dangerous Rhythm offers a fresh, revolutionary take on a uniquely American institution: the movie musical. In a book that is at once history, analysis, investigation, and meditation, noted film... -
Complete Fawlty Towers by John Cleese
RRP: £14.99£13.20What did Basil Fawlty fail to avoid mentioning? Why did Sybil keep snagging her cardies? Where was Polly on the night of the Great Wedding Anniversary disaster? This book presents the scripts for the show's classic episodes.Book InformationISBN... -
Elvis Films FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the King of Rock 'n' Roll in Hollywood by Paul Simpson
£19.14If Elvis Presley had not wanted to be a movie star he would never have single-handedly revolutionized popular culture. Yet this aspect of his phenomenal career has been much maligned and misunderstood a partly because the King himself once referred to... -
Films of Fact - British Cinema and Thatcherism by Lester D. Friedman
RRP: £22.00£18.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904764717Author Lester FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 664gDimensions(mm) 238mm *... -
Documenting the World: Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record by Gregg Mitman
£31.84Imagine the twentieth century without photography and film. Its history would be absent of images that define historical moments and generations: the death camps of Auschwitz, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Apollo lunar landing. It would be a... -
Writing the Character-Centered Screenplay, Updated and Expanded edition by Andrew Horton
RRP: £25.00£20.59'We need good screenwriters who understand character'. Everywhere Andrew Horton traveled in researching this book - from Hollywood to Hungary - he heard the same refrain. Yet most of the standard how-to books on screenwriting follow the film industry's... -
Andrei Rublev by Robert Bird 9781844570386
£9.79Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) was one of the great poets of world cinema. A fiercely independent artist, Tarkovsky crafted poignantly beautiful films that have proven inscrutable and been bitterly disputed. These qualities are present in abundance in... -
A Certain Realism: Making Use of Pasolini's Film Theory and Practice by Maurizio Viano
RRP: £31.00£25.21Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was arguably the most complex director of postwar Italian cinema. His films--Accattone, The Canterbury Tales, Medea, Salo--continue to challenge and entertain new generations of moviegoers. A leftist, a homosexual, and a... -
The Ultimate Book of Movie Monsters by Carton, Christopher 9781399096829
RRP: £25.00£18.47Do you believe in monsters? We dare you to take a look inside this cursed tome containing some of the most iconic and obscure monsters from the history of cinema. Cower in fear of Count Dracula and his dreaded children of the night. Abandon hope as... -
Write to TV: Out of Your Head and onto the Screen by Martie Cook 9780367338138
RRP: £36.99£32.90In Write to TV (third edition) industry veteran Martie Cook offers practical advice on writing innovative television scripts that will allow you to finally get that big idea out of your head and onto the screen. With this book you'll learn to craft... -
Cult Cinema: An Introduction by Ernest Mathijs 9781405173735
RRP: £29.95£28.18Cult Cinema: an Introduction presents the first in-depth academic examination of all aspects of the field of cult cinema, including audiences, genres, and theoretical perspectives. Represents the first exhaustive introduction to cult cinemaOffers a... -
Film After Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?) by J. Hoberman 9781781681435
RRP: £20.99£19.56One of the world's most erudite and entertaining film critics on the state of cinema in the post-digital-and post-9/11-age. This witty and allusive book, in the style of classic film theorists/critics like Andre Bazin and Siegfried Kracauer, includes... -
Animals in Film by Jonathan Burt 9781861891310
£18.18From Salvador Dali to Walt Disney, animals have been a constant yet little-considered presence in film. Indeed, it may come as a surprise to learn that animals were a central inspiration to the development of moving pictures themselves. In "Animals in... -
New Blood: Critical Approaches to Contemporary Horror by Eddie Falvey
RRP: £30.00£25.27The taste for horror is arguably as great today as it has ever been. Since the turn of the millennium, the horror genre has seen various developments emerging out of a range of contexts, from new industry paradigms and distribution practices to the... -
The Art of Ready Player One by Gina McIntyre 9781785658563
RRP: £35.00£17.62Discover the captivating art of Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One. Our dystopian world lies on the brink of chaos and collapse, but the people have found their salvation in the OASIS, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and... -
The Tao of Bill Murray: Real-Life Stories of Joy, Enlightenment, and Party Crashing by Gavin Edwards
RRP: £22.00£12.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812988086Author Gavin EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
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 Art of Film Projection: A Beginner's Guide by Paolo Cherchi Usai 9780935398311
RRP: £27.00£21.83The Art of Film Projection: A Beginner's Guide is a beautifully produced, comprehensive outline of the materials, equipment and knowledge needed to present the magic of cinema to an enthralled audience. Part manual and part manifesto, The Art of Film... -
Elephant Bucks: The Inside Guide to Writing the TV Sitcom by Sheldon Bull
RRP: £13.99£9.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932907278Author Sheldon BullFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese ProductionsWeight(grams) 386g -
Timeless Adventures: The Unofficial Story of How Doctor Who Conquered Television by Brian J. Robb 9781915359070
RRP: £14.99£10.89This critical history of Doctor Who covers the series 60 years, from the creation of the show to its triumph as Britain's number one TV drama. Opening with an in-depth account of the creation of the series within the BBC of the early 1960s, each... -
Cinema Sewer Volume Seven by Robin Bougie 9781913051044
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913051044Author Robin BougieFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint FAB PressPublisher FAB Press -
Life at the Marmont: The Inside Story of Hollywood's Legendary Hotel of the Stars--Chateau Marmont by Raymond Sarlot
£15.18Raymond Sarlot bought the Chateau Marmont in 1975, but what was originally a business purchase became a love affair as he delved into the hotel's incredible history. From its perch overlooking the Sunset Strip, the glamorous Marmont reigned for decades... -
The Making of Gone With The Wind by Steve Wilson
RRP: £49.00£43.35Gone With The Wind is one of the most popular movies of all time. To commemorate its seventy-fifth anniversary in 2014, The Making of Gone With The Wind presents more than 600 items from the archives of David O. Selznick, the film's producer, and his... -
How to Make a Movie: Learn to Write, Shoot and Market Your First Film. by Rick Bennette 9781542598552
RRP: £9.97£9.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781542598552Author Rick BennetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...