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Film Noir by Alain Silver
RRP: £20.00£15.29Whether it's Double Indemnity, Kiss Me Deadly, or The Big Sleep, roam a screen world of dark and brooding elegance with this essential handbook to Film Noir. From private eyes and perfect crimes to corrupt cops and doomed affairs, editors Paul Duncan and... -
Donnie Brasco by Joseph D. Pistone
RRP: £12.99£9.09In 1978, the US government waged a war against organised crime. One man was left behind the lines. From 1976 until 1981, Special Agent Pistone lived undercover with the Mafia. Only able to visit his young family once every few months, Pistone - under the... -
The Art of The Batman by James Field
RRP: £35.00£25.17The Art of The Batman is the official behind-the-scenes illustrated tie-in book to the highly-anticipated Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, War for the Planet of the Apes) film, coming to theaters March 4, 2022. Set during... -
The Official Peaky Blinders Cocktail Book: 40 Cocktails Selected by The Shelby Company Ltd by Sandrine Houdre-Gregoire 9780711258716
RRP: £12.99£9.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Being Bond by Mark Salisbury
RRP: £39.99£32.05A retrospective of Daniel Craig's five James Bond films as 007, Casino Royale, Quantum Of Solace, Skyfall, SPECTRE, No Time To Die. Daniel Craig began his tenure as James Bond in 2006 with Casino Royale, the long-awaited film adaptation of Ian... -
The Mousetrap: 70th Anniversary Edition by Agatha Christie
RRP: £25.00£16.38'Even more thrilling than the plot is the atmosphere of shuddering suspense . . . No one brews it better than Agatha Christie' Daily ExpressFor more than 70 years, Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap has kept millions of people, from every corner of the... -
James Bond Will Return: Critical Perspectives on the 007 Film Franchise by Claire Hines 9780231207416
RRP: £30.00£23.29For over six decades, James Bond has been a fixture of global culture, universally recognizable by the films' combination of action set pieces, sex, political intrigue, and outrageous gadgetry. But as the British Empire entered the final stages of... -
Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder by David Bordwell
RRP: £28.00£21.80Narrative innovation is typically seen as the domain of the avant-garde. However, techniques such as nonlinear timelines, multiple points of view, and unreliable narration have long been part of American popular culture. How did forms and styles once... -
Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir (Revised and Expanded Edition) by Eddie Muller
RRP: £25.00£17.38TCM host Eddie Muller's Dark City is a film noir lover's bible, taking readers on a tour of the urban landscape of the grim and gritty genre in an authoritative, highly illustrated volume.This narrative history is packed with stories about the stars and... -
The World of James Bond: The Lives and Times of 007 by Jeremy Black 9781538126363
RRP: £19.99£17.61The most current and insightful look at the politics and culture of the Bond world as the last Daniel Craig movie hits theaters.This book presents an insightful and thoroughly entertaining exploration of the political context of the Bond books and films... -
Behind Bars by Vince Pollard
RRP: £9.99£7.11It's been a century since the prohibition sent Americans scurrying to speakeasies. And decades since the movie industry turned mobsters into celebrities. Now the two worlds collide in this highly original pocket-sized collection that creates signature... -
From the Moment They Met It Was Murder: Double Indemnity and the Rise of Film Noir by Alain Silver 9780762484935
RRP: £25.00£17.53The behind-the-scenes story of the quintessential film noir and cult classic, Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity-its true crime origins and crucial impact on film history-is told for the first time in this riveting narrative published for the film's 80th... -
The Godfather: The Corleone Family Cookbook by Liliana Battle
RRP: £39.99£22.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683835424Author Liliana BattleFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions -
Michael Mann: A Contemporary Retrospective Jean-Baptiste Thoret 9780711294127
RRP: £35.00£22.43During his career, Michael Mann has drawn a singular and innovative line within the Hollywood industry. The Last of the Mohicans, Heat, Revelations, Ali, Collateral, Miami Vice, and even Public Enemies, have reshuffled the cards of American cinema to the... -
Killers Caught: True Stories of Extraordinary Murder Hunts by Emily G. Thompson 9780241645581
RRP: £9.99£6.44They thought they had got away with murder. They were wrong.Discover the vital clues, the crucial evidence, the lucky breaks, the chases, the painstaking detective work, and the unlikely heroes that led to the capture of some of the world's most... -
Eddie Muller's Noir Bar: Cocktails Inspired by the World of Film Noir by Eddie Muller
RRP: £22.00£15.03Eddie Muller-host of TCM's Noir Alley, one of the world's leading authorities on film noir, and cocktail connoisseur-takes film buffs and drinks enthusiasts alike on a spirited tour through the "dark city" of film noir in this stylish book packed with... -
Murder and the Movies by David Thomson
RRP: £18.99£16.58A renowned movie critic on film's treatment of one of mankind's darkest behaviors: murder "[Thomson's] analysis of death in Hitchcock movies is gorgeous. His restlessness is palpable. There is an anxiety in this brief, hurried book that suits these... -
Say Hello To My Little Friend: A Century of Scarface by Nat Segaloff 9780806542966
RRP: £27.99£18.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806542966Author Nat SegaloffFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S. -
L.A. Private Eyes by Dahlia Schweitzer
RRP: £19.99£17.54L.A. Private Eyes examines the tradition of the private eye as it evolves in films, books, and television shows set in Los Angeles from the 1930's through the present day. It takes a closer look at narratives-both on screen and on the printed page-in... -
Stanley Kubrick and Me: Thirty Years at His Side by Emilio D'Alessandro 9781950691067
RRP: £19.99£14.30This intimate portrait by his former personal assistant and confidante reveals the man behind the legendary filmmaker - for the first time. Stanley Kubrick, the director of a string of timeless movies from Lolita and Dr. Strangelove to A Clockwork... -
Hoodlum Movies: Seriality and the Outlaw Biker Film Cycle, 1966-1972 by Peter Stanfield 9780813599014
RRP: £31.00£29.08From The Wild Angels in 1966 until its conclusion in 1972, the cycle of outlaw motorcycle films contained forty-odd formulaic examples. All but one were made by independent companies that specialized in producing exploitation movies for drive-ins,... -
Mafia Movies: A Reader, Second Edition Dana Renga 9781487520137
RRP: £34.00£30.29The mafia has always fascinated filmmakers and television producers. Al Capone, Salvatore Giuliano, Lucky Luciano, Ciro Di Marzio, Roberto Saviano, Don Vito and Michael Corleone, and Tony Soprano are some of the historical and fictional figures that... -
The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood by Sam Wasson
RRP: £18.99£12.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250266293Author Sam WassonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *... -
Corporate Wrongdoing on Film: The ‘Public Be Damned’ by Kenneth Dowler 9780367757540
RRP: £39.99£35.06Corporate Wrongdoing on Film: The ‘Public Be Damned’ provides a unique and ground-breaking analysis of corporate wrongdoing depictions, identifying, describing, and categorizing harms perpetrated by corporations. The book provides a history of corporate... -
L.A. Private Eyes by Dahlia Schweitzer 9780813596372
RRP: £59.00£51.01L.A. Private Eyes examines the tradition of the private eye as it evolves in films, books, and television shows set in Los Angeles from the 1930's through the present day. It takes a closer look at narratives-both on screen and on the printed page-in... -
Neo-Authoritarian Masculinity in Brazilian Crime Film by Jeremy Lehnen 9781683402541
£97.63An incisive analysis of contemporary crime film in Brazil, this book focuses on how movies in this genre represent masculinity and how their messages connect to twenty-first-century sociopolitical issues. Jeremy Lehnen argues that these films promote an... -
Hoodlum Movies: Seriality and the Outlaw Biker Film Cycle, 1966-1972 by Peter Stanfield
RRP: £124.00£111.17From The Wild Angels in 1966 until its conclusion in 1972, the cycle of outlaw motorcycle films contained forty-odd formulaic examples. All but one were made by independent companies that specialized in producing exploitation movies for drive-ins,...