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Fighting Stars provides a rich and diverse account of the emergence and legacies of Hong Kong martial arts cinema stars. Tracing the meanings and influence of stars such as Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh, Jet Li, Zhang Ziyi , and Donnie Yen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501399572Author Christiane ScheonfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 454g

Film, in Theory tells the story of Paddy Whannel and Peter Wollen's revolutionary work at the BFI’s Education Department and how this led to the establishment of film studies, theory and education in Britain during the 1960s and 1970s. Colm McAuliffe...

The script for The Lobster is accompanied by a poem by Emma Stone, an essay by Ottessa Moshfegh, and behind-the-scenes set photography by Yorgos Lanthimos.Book InformationISBN 9781735911717Author Yorgos LanthimosFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint A24...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorMichael D. Rinella is a high school special education teacher and lives in Marion, New York.Book InformationISBN 9781476694184Author Michael D. RinellaFormat...

Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) is a film very much of its cinematic moment, combining the gritty realism of entrapment in the everyday with furtive dreams of escape. Dana Polan's compelling study of the film examines its...

What distinguished the Soviet 'look'? How did Soviet thinkers and artists reimagine the relationship between observer and observed? Soviet Spectatorship answers these questions through an in depth exploration of Soviet physical culture and its on...

An in-depth exploration of the stardom and authorship of Stephen Chow Sing-chi, one of Hong Kong cinema's most enduringly popular stars and among its most commercially successful directors. In the West, Chow is renowned as the ground-breaking...

David Pirie's acclaimed history of British gothic film and television has long been regarded as a foundational study of the roots of British horror, identifying it as 'the only staple cinematic myth which Britain can properly claim as its own.' This...

Mike Mills's script is accompanied by a foreword by Greta Gerwig, an essay by documentary filmmaker Matt Wolf, a conversation between Mike Mills and Maggie Nelson, and an annotated selection of Mike Mills's handwritten notecards from the making of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915983022Author Karel DoingFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Goldsmiths PressPublisher Goldsmiths PressWeight(grams) 567g

What can ethnic differences tell us about the desiring gaze while addressing the motives that result from the power and desire in gay ethnic pornography in Europe? How do pornographic films authenticate their ethnic subject in different European...

A celebration of the world's most cherished cinemas, from vintage movie houses to quirky start-ups. There is an enduring love for old cinemas. It may have something to do with Maya Angelou's famous quote that '...people will never forget how you made...

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David Pirie's acclaimed history of British gothic film and television has long been regarded as a foundational study of the roots of British horror, identifying it as 'the only staple cinematic myth which Britain can properly claim as its own.' This...

'Prepare to laugh, sob and dance: this lively history of Indian cinema is imprinted with the memories of a life-long cinephile.' The Telegraph'A gem of a book and a must for film lovers everywhere' Abir Mukherjee'My biggest recommendation of the year...

Despite having been made into three TV movies, a radio drama, a stage play, a Broadway musical, a feature-film remake in color, and a book adaptation, the 1947 black-and-white film of Miracle on 34thStreet still remains the favorite version of this...

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The 1990s was a decade of significant turmoil in Hollywood cinema, which resulted in a watershed moment in the interplay of gender and genre. Patricia Di Risio argues that cinematic representations of unconventional women had an important effect on...

The changing nature of African landscapes, from rural to urbanized spaces, has been a pre-occupation of African media producers since the beginnings of the African film industry in the 1960s. The authors bring together several examples of African...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887440606Author Andrew NetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

From the early stages of script writing to the final cut, We Have Some Notes... provides a detailed overview of the script editing and development process, emphasising the impact of critical feedback, or 'notes', in the creation of successful films and...

Alan J. Pakula's The Parallax View (1974) is a renowned example of the paranoid conspiracy thriller, a genre that was a marker of the 1970s. The period was haunted by the murders of John F Kennedy (1963), Malcolm X (1965), Martin Luther King (1968), and...

Clown for President! reads Todd Phillips' blockbuster movie Joker (2019) as an economic and political allegory of our times. What could be more surprising than Joker as a solution to our present economic and political predicament? But in twelve riveting...

Pop stars have provided audiences with performative moments that have become ingrained in popular consciousness. They are a lens through which deeper understandings about race, gender, politics, history and the artistic process can be understood. When...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350302327Author Ellie TomsettFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805243673Author Richard BernsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken Books

John Schlesinger's 1969 drama, Midnight Cowboy, follows the story of naive would-be hustler Joe Buck (Jon Voight) and ailing con man Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman), set against the gritty backdrop of New York City in the late 1960s. The film received...

Released after the large-scale frescos of Nashville (1975) and Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976), 3 Women (1977) was seen as an intimate drama from director Robert Altman. Justin Wyatt's study of 3 Women explores...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorPeter Shelley is a playwright, screenwriter and author of several film books. He lives in Gosford, Australia.Book InformationISBN 9781476694528Author Peter...

Directly addressing how filmmakers can craft visually powerful films through practical skills that can be used throughout the filmmaking process, author Blain Brown explores how we use space, color, camera angles, composition, motion, POV and all the...

A rich and layered photographic exploration of the people and places that influenced Raven Jackson's directorial debut film, Stories From a Place Where All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, the companion book features lyrical writing, evocative photos, and...

The dual-language Minari Screenplay Book includes Lee Isaac Chung's never-before-published alternate ending, a foreword by Steven Yeun, an original essay by Ocean Vuong, a poem by Claude Wilkinson, and annotated photographs from Chung's own child-hood...

Before he directed Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler, Black Swan, Mother!, and The Whale, Darren Aronofsky was a 27-year-old would-be filmmaker struggling to make his first feature, Pi (1998). This is his diary of those years - alongside hundreds of...

Der Sammelband untersucht das Verhaltnis von Klasse - einer nicht nur oekonomischen, sondern auch kulturellen und politischen Kategorie - und dem Fernsehen in seinen gegenwartigen hybriden Formen vor allem aus vier Perspektiven: Erstens geht es um...

Do you know your ET from your AI? Do you know the year 2001: A Space Odyssey was released ? Put your knowledge to the test with over 1,000 questions about all things sci-fi!Whether you're breaking out of the Matrix or escaping the Terminator, there are...

Drawing from author Tim Palmer's twenty-seven years of experience working as a cinematographer for award-winning drama series including Killing Eve and Line of Duty, this book is the go-to guide on how to light just about any scene a cinematographer may...

This book focuses on the aural and musical sphere of fictional audio-visual reconstructions of the Holocaust, a defining event in the history of the 20th century. Musicology has seen an increasing number of works on the function of film music and the...

This book offers a historical, cultural, political and socio-economic analysis of the British media. It examines how facts and events are reported and interpreted, but also how ideas and opinions circulate and are recycled, with attention being paid to...