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Aesthetics of Film Production: A Hands-On Guide to Authorial Voice by James B. Joyce 9780367638320
RRP: £33.99£30.39Illustrates how filmmakers can implement aesthetic decision making by using the screenplay and translate this into a powerful film. Focuses on how films can be crafted stylistically from beat-to-beat and empowers filmmakers to do this. Covers all... -
Raoul Walsh: The True Adventures of Hollywood's Legendary Director by Marilyn Ann Moss 9780813144443
£36.04Raoul Walsh (1887--1980) was known as one of Hollywood's most adventurous, iconoclastic, and creative directors. He carved out an illustrious career and made films that transformed the Hollywood studio yarn into a thrilling art form. Walsh belonged to... -
Where Film Meets Philosophy: Godard, Resnais, and Experiments in Cinematic Thinking by Hunter Vaughan 9780231161336
RRP: £28.00£22.91Hunter Vaughan interweaves phenomenology and semiotics to analyze cinema's ability to challenge conventional modes of thought. Merging Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception with Gilles Deleuze's image-philosophy, Vaughan applies a rich... -
DreamWorks Animation: Intertextuality and Aesthetics in Shrek and Beyond by Sam Summers 9783030368531
RRP: £89.99£44.74DreamWorks is one of the biggest names in modern computer-animation: a studio whose commercial success and impact on the medium rivals that of Pixar, and yet has received far less critical attention.The book will historicise DreamWorks' contribution to... -
Ingmar Bergman's The Silence: Pictures in the Typewriter, Writings on the Screen by Maaret Koskinen 9788763531597
RRP: £25.00£21.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788763531597Author Maaret KoskinenFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams) 238g -
Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies by Michael Adams 9780061806292
RRP: £21.99£16.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061806292Author Michael AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Rob Roy (1995): Directed by Michael Caton-Jones by David Manderson 9780948877940
RRP: £6.95£5.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948877940Author David MandersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
Working Like a Homosexual: Camp, Capital, Cinema by Matthew Tinkcom 9780822328896
RRP: £20.99£19.32What does camp have to do with capitalism? How have queer men created a philosophy of commodity culture? Why is cinema central to camp? With chapters on the films of Vincente Minnelli, Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger, and John Waters, Working Like a... -
Prepping and Shooting Your Student Short Film: A Brief Guide to Film Production by Rory Kelly 9780367771201
RRP: £35.99£32.06* A concise and accessible guide written with the specific constraints of a student production in mind, this book will equip any filmmaker with the tools to produce an impactful short film.* Offers practical and effective solutions to the usual... -
Descended from Hercules: Biopolitics and the Muscled Male Body on Screen by Robert A. Rushing 9780253022462
RRP: £62.00£56.15Muscles, six-pack abs, skin, and sweat fill the screen in the tawdry and tantalizing peplum films associated with epic Italian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. Using techniques like slow motion and stopped time, these films instill the hero's vitality with... -
What Dreams Were Made Of: Movie Stars of the 1940s by Sean Griffin 9780813549644
RRP: £32.00£29.94Humphrey Bogart. Abbott and Costello. Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. John Wayne. Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable. Images of these film icons conjure up a unique moment in cinema and history, one of optimism and concern, patriotism and cynicism. What... -
Buster Keaton: Cut To The Chase by Marion Meade
£18.01Buster Keaton (1895-1966) was a brilliant comedian and filmmaker who conceived, wrote, directed, acted, and even edited most of his ten feature films and nineteen short comedies, which are perhaps the finest silent pictures ever made. With a face of... -
Headpress 27 by David Kerekes
RRP: £12.99£9.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900486583Author David KerekesFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint HeadpressPublisher HeadpressWeight(grams) 445g -
Lukas Moodysson's Show Me Love by Anna Westerstahl Stenport
RRP: £25.00£21.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788763538817Author Professor Anna Westerstahl StenportFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum... -
Fort Lee: The Film Town (1904-2004) by Richard Koszarski
£34.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861966523Author Richard KoszarskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint John Libbey & Co LtdPublisher John Libbey & Co -
Star Wars Dawn of Rebellion The Visual Guide by DK 9780744087345
RRP: £25.00£18.53Take a deep dive into a turbulent era of the Star Wars galaxy and chart the rise of the Rebellion from the prequel trilogy through Obi-Wan, Andor, and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story to the original trilogy.For many years, the state of the galaxy between... -
You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet: Interviews with Stars from Hollywood's Golden Era by James Bawden 9780813174211
RRP: £34.00£24.02Journalists James Bawden and Ron Miller spent their careers interviewing the greatest stars of Hollywood's golden age. They visited Lee Marvin at home and politely admired his fishing trophies, chatted with Janet Leigh while a young Jamie Lee Curtis... -
Cinema Today: A Conversation With Thirty-Nine Filmmakers From Around The World by Elena Oumano
RRP: £27.99£25.33Imagine attending a fascinating film forum among a distinguished and varied panel of cinema legends. An afternoon or evening where contemporary filmmakers from around the world--Kazakhstan, Turkey, Macedonia, Portugal, Chile, Argentina, Egypt, Cameroon,... -
Affective Sexual Pedagogies in Film and Television by Kyra Clarke
RRP: £38.99£35.58Popular film and television hold valuable potential for learning about sex and sexuality beyond the information-based model of sex education currently in schools. This book argues that the representation of complicated-or "messy"-relationships in these... -
Dekalog 5: On Dogville by Sara Fortuna
RRP: £17.99£15.17On Dogville is the result of the lively debates prompted by Lars von Trier's film amongst its wide and diverse public. The essays in the volume have been written by authors from across Europe interested in different theoretical approaches and... -
American Political Movies: An Annotated Filmography of Feature Films by James E. Combs
£111.61Essays here explore the relationship between politics and explicitly political feature films from the beginning of the movie industry to World War I, and for each decade through to the 1980's. The included filmography is particularly useful. Originally... -
The New Soundtrack: Volume 6, Issue 1 by Mr Stephen Deutsch
RRP: £18.99£18.45The New Soundtrack brings together leading edge academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images. Former editors of The Soundtrack, Stephen Deutsch, Larry Sider and Dominic Power, bring their expertise... -
Visual Communication for Social Work Practice: Power, Culture, Analysis by Sonia M. Tascón
RRP: £38.99£35.58How are we to understand how the dominance of visual images and representations in late modernity affects Social Work practice, research and education? Social workers are increasingly using still and moving images to illustrate their work, to create new... -
Finnish Film Studios by Kimmo Laine
RRP: £85.00£71.16Provides the first scholarly examination of Finnish studio system Provides an approach that is both sensitive to the specific characteristics of Finnish studio system and applicable to small nation cinema industries in general Considers practically... -
American Political Movies: An Annotated Filmography of Feature Films by James Combs
RRP: £42.99£39.02Essays here explore the relationship between politics and explicitly political feature films from the beginning of the movie industry to World War I, and for each decade through to the 1980's. The included filmography is particularly useful. Originally... -
Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism: Depression and the Politics of Existence by Adam Szymanski
RRP: £96.00£95.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789463723121Author Adam SzymanskiFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Amsterdam University PressPublisher Amsterdam University PressWeight(grams) 155g -
Framing Empire: Postcolonial Adaptations of Victorian Literature in Hollywood by Jerod Hollyfield
RRP: £21.99£21.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474429955Author Jerod HollyfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Hollywood Reborn: Movie Stars of the 1970s by James Morrison
RRP: £32.00£29.94Weary from the turbulent sixties, America entered the 1970s hoping for calm. Instead, the war in Vietnam and its troubled aftermath persisted, the Watergate scandal unfolded, and continuing social unrest at home and abroad provided the backdrop for the... -
Australian International Pictures (1946 - 75) by Adrian Danks
RRP: £85.00£71.16Offers an important insight into the formative moments of transnational film culture in Australia Provides vibrant textual studies of under-evaluated Australian international pictures Develops an understanding of international film production in the... -
Contemporary Israeli Cinema: Trauma, Ethics and Temporality by Raz Yosef
RRP: £35.99£32.97A necessary examination of temporality, ethics, and trauma in Israeli film and television since the turn of the millennium.Original analysis of contemporary issues in Israeli media and culture, using feminist theory, queer theory, as well as critical... -
Australian Film Theory and Criticism: Volume 3: Documents by Constantine Verevis
£77.04The third part of a three-volume work devoted to mapping the transnational history of Australian film studies, Volume 3: Documents concludes the project by gathering together the documents that were produced during the rise of film studies in Australian... -
Resistance, Dissidence, Revolution: Documentary Film Esthetics in the Middle East and North Africa by Viola Shafik
RRP: £125.00£107.86Situated within an emerging academic interest in documentary film in the Middle East and North Africa, this book studies the development of diverse documentary forms in relation to revolutionary and emancipatory movements that took place across the... -
Glamour in a Golden Age: Movie Stars of the 1930s by Adrienne L. McLean
RRP: £33.00£30.81Shirley Temple, Clark Gable, Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo, William Powell and Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow, and Gary Cooper-Glamour in a... -
The Mouse Machine: Disney and Technology by J P. Telotte
RRP: £91.00£82.10Throughout Disney's phenomenally successful run in the entertainment industry, the company has negotiated the use of cutting-edge film and media technologies that, J. P. Telotte argues, have proven fundamental to the company's identity. Disney's... -
The Final Rewrite: How to View Your Screenplay with a Film Editor’s Eye by John Rosenberg
RRP: £125.00£104.74- Written by a celebrated screenwriter, editor and educator. - Offers a unique perspective on crafting the perfect screen play from the eye of an editor. - Includes before-and-after examples stemming from preproduction scripts to post production final... -
African Film Studies: An Introduction by Boukary Sawadogo
RRP: £27.99£24.28- An engaging pocket sized introduction to African cinema, suitable for students and film enthusiasts alike - There is no real competitor for this book, yet interest in black cinema is growing strongly - Case studies, suggestions for further reading, and... -
American Film Exhibition and an Analysis of the Motion Picture Industry's Market Structure 1963-1980 by Gary Edgerton
RRP: £44.99£40.75This study looks at how the movie industry organisation functioned between the late '40s and 1983 when it was originally published. It describes the changing role of domestic exhibition through this time and analyses the wider film industry to provide a... -
Peter Greenaway by Jorge Gorostiza
£16.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788437613628Author Jorge GorostizaFormat PaperbackImprint Ediciones Catedra S.A.Publisher Ediciones Catedra S.A. -
The Cinema of Me: The Self and Subjectivity in First Person Documentary by Alisa Lebow
RRP: £84.00£68.42When a filmmaker makes a film with herself as a subject, she is already divided as both the subject matter of the film and the subject making the film. The two senses of the word are immediately in play - the matter and the maker-thus the two ways of... -
Kollektion - Funfzig Objekte: Filmgeschichten aus Objekte: Filmgeschichten aus der SammlungA des (German-language Edition) by Alexander Horwath
RRP: £32.00£29.13The collections of the Austrian Film Museum feature a wide range of artworks, objects, apparatus and historical documents. Picturing and describing 50 artifacts from these collections, the book suggests a non-dogmatic reading of film history. The 50...