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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre by James Rose
RRP: €27.36€24.66No-one who has ever seen the original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) is ever likely to forget the experience. An intense fever dream (or nightmare), it is remarkable for its sense of sustained threat and depiction of an insane but nonetheless... -
16mm and 8mm Filmmaking: An Essential Guide to Shooting on Celluloid by Jacob Dodd
RRP: €42.83€38.15This book is an essential guide to making traditional 16mm and 8mm films, from production to post, using both analog and digital tools. Focusing on low-budget equipment and innovative techniques, this text will provide you with the steps to begin your... -
Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film by Peter Hutchings 9781526151186
RRP: €29.75€26.95Peter Hutchings's Hammer and beyond remains a landmark work in British film criticism. This new, illustrated edition brings the book back into print for the first time in two decades. Featuring Hutchings's socially charged analyses of genre classics from... -
Different Bodies: Essays on Disability in Film and Television by Marja Evelyn Mogk 9780786465354
RRP: €29.74€25.28This is a collection of 19 new essays by 21 different authors from the United States, the UK, Canada, Australia and India. It focuses on contemporary film and television (1989 to the present) from those countries as well as from China, Korea, Thailand... -
The Monster Movies of Universal Studios by James L. Neibaur 9781442278165
RRP: €46.41€43.03In 1931 Universal Studios released Dracula starring Bela Lugosi. This box office success was followed by a string of films featuring macabre characters and chilling atmospherics, including Frankenstein, The Mummy, and The Invisible Man. With each new... -
An Introduction to Film Analysis: Technique and Meaning in Narrative Film by Michael Ryan
€46.43An Introduction to Film Analysis is designed to introduce students to filmmaking techniques while also providing an invaluable guide to film interpretation. It takes readers step by step through: -the basic technical terms -shot-by-shot analyses of... -
Global TV Horror by Stacey Abbott
RRP: €35.70€30.07It cannot have escaped anyone's attention that the horror genre has become one of the most popular genres of TV drama, with the global success and fandom surrounding The Walking Dead, Supernatural and Stranger Things. Horror has, of course, always had a... -
Alien in the Mirror: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Glazer and Under the Skin by Maureen Foster 9781476670423
RRP: €26.17€22.41Directed by Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast, Birth) and starring Scarlett Johansson, the 2013 film Under the Skin contains elements of science fiction and fantasy, horror, mystery, and thriller. In what is arguably the most compelling of Johansson's career,... -
The Art and Soul of Dune by Insight Editions
RRP: €47.59€46.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647221553Author Denis VilleneuveFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 1905gDimensions(mm) 264mm *... -
I Wanna Dance with Somebody: The Official Whitney Houston Film Companion by Weldon Owen
RRP: €35.70€24.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681889191Author Weldon OwenFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Weldon OwenPublisher Weldon Owen -
Scenes Issue 4: The Classic and Cult Movie Publication by Chris Wade 9781008994577
RRP: €11.90€10.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008994577Author Chris WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 122g -
Fright Night on Channel 9: Saturday Night Horror Films on New York's WOR-TV, 1973-1987 by James Arena 9780786466788
RRP: €26.17€21.38From 1973 to 1987, Fright Night was a fixture of the late Saturday evening schedule on independent New York television station WOR-TV. A genre fan's nightmare come true, the modestly produced showcase featured horror films both classic and obscure, from... -
Science Fiction Confidential: Interviews with 23 Monster Stars and Filmmakers by Tom Weaver 9780786445165
RRP: €34.50€27.82David Hedison, who plays a tiny human-headed insect menaced by a spider at the climax of The Fly (1958), says the moviemakers spoiled the scene by giving him a squeaky voice. "Imagine if, as the camera moved in closer, you actually heard me screeeeaming... -
Fathers and Sons in Cinema by Gershon Reiter 9780786437887 [USED COPY]
RRP: €34.50€27.18Popular American films are replete with story lines which involve the father-son relationship, often as the pivotal conflict or dragon which a hero must overcome to achieve success. Sometimes these conflicts are straightforward; other times they are... -
Graveyard Gothic by Eric Parisot 9781526166319
RRP: €101.15€71.60Graveyard Gothic is the first sustained consideration of the graveyard as a key Gothic locale. This volume examines various iterations of the Gothic graveyard (and other burial sites) from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, as expressed in... -
Conrad Veidt, Demon of the Silver Screen: His Life and Works in Context by Sabine Schwientek 9781476690810
RRP: €42.83€35.22This book depicts the life of Conrad Veidt (1893-1943), the defining German actor of Expressionist cinema in the 1920s. His legendary performance in Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1919/20) earned him the epithet "Demon of the Screen" and made Veidt an... -
Academy Award Winning Movies 1928-2020: How Movies Have Changed Through the Years by Diane Holloway Cheney 9781662918933
RRP: €25.53€24.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662918933Author Diane Holloway CheneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Gatekeeper PressPublisher Gatekeeper PressWeight(grams) 594g -
German Popular Cinema and the Rialto Krimi Phenomenon: Dark Eyes of London by Nicholas G. Schlegel 9781498570749
RRP: €35.70€33.69German Popular Cinema and the Rialto Krimi Phenomenon: Dark Eyes of London examines the Kriminalfilme-or Krimis-based on the novels of English author Edgar Wallace, released by Rialto Film between 1959 and 1972 as part of the post-World War II era of... -
The N*o*vo Nostalgia Movie Quiz and Information Book by Ph D David Cameron Dunn 9781480969162
RRP: €58.31€36.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480969162Author David Cameron DunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 554Imprint Rosedog BooksPublisher Rosedog BooksWeight(grams) 1266gDimensions(mm) 279mm *... -
The Ghost of One's Self: Doppelgangers in Mystery, Horror and Science Fiction Films by Paul Meehan 9781476665665
RRP: €34.50€27.82For millennia people have held folk beliefs about the existence of the doppelganger--"double walker" in German--a look-alike second self that is often the antithesis of one's identity and is usually considered an omen of misfortune or death. The theme... -
Film Genres in Hungarian and Romanian Cinema: History, Theory, and Reception by Andrea Virginas 9781793613431
RRP: €121.38€106.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793613431Author Andrea VirginasFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington BooksWeight(grams) 152g -
American Rivals of James Bond by Graham Andrews 9781476673684
RRP: €34.50€27.82This is a critical history of spy fiction, film and television in the United States, with a particular focus on the American fictional spies that rivaled (and were often influenced by) Ian Fleming's James Bond. James Fenimore Cooper's Harvey Birch, based... -
All Kinds of Scary: Diversity in Contemporary Horror by Jonina Anderson-Lopez 9781476688664
RRP: €42.83€35.22Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Horror Comes Home: Essays on Hauntings, Possessions and Other Domestic Terrors in Cinema by Cynthia J. Miller 9781476679679
RRP: €26.17€21.38Home, we are taught from childhood, is safe. Home is a refuge that keeps the monsters out-until it isn't.This collection of new essays focuses on genre horror movies in which the home is central to the narrative, whether as refuge, prison, menace or... -
Modernities and the Popular Melodrama: The Suchitra–Uttam Yug in Bengali Cinema by Smita Banerjee 9789354424526
€44.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354424526Author Smita BanerjeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdPublisher Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd -
Cinemas of the Global South: Towards a Southern Aesthetics by Dilip M Menon 9781032727479
RRP: €44.02€38.71This book engages with the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance; as a space of decolonialisation; and as an arena of virtuality, creativity and change. It opens up a dialogue amongst scholars and filmmakers from the Global... -
Cinemas of the Global South: Towards a Southern Aesthetics by Dilip M Menon 9781032159164
RRP: €160.65€140.04This book engages with the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance; as a space of decolonialisation; and as an arena of virtuality, creativity and change. It opens up a dialogue amongst scholars and filmmakers from the Global... -
Migration, Mobility, and Sojourning in Cross-cultural Films: Interculturing Cinema by Ishani Mukherjee 9781498587686
RRP: €101.15€88.67Migration, Mobility and Sojourning in Cross-cultural Films: Interculturing Cinema draws on existing scholarship on global movements and intercultural communication in cinema to analyze six cross-cultural films. Ishani Mukherjee and Maggie Griffith... -
Screening Divinity by Lisa Maurice 9781474425735
RRP: €113.05€102.88Lisa Maurice examines screen portrayals of gods - covering Greco-Roman mythology, the Judeo-Christian God and Jesus - from the beginning of cinema to the present day. Focussing on the golden age of the Hollywood epic in the fifties and the twenty-first... -
The Body in Jean-Luc Godard's New Wave Films by Francesca Minnie Hardy 9781032232034
RRP: €59.49€51.77Examines the representation of the body in French New Wave films through discussion of a series of films by Jean-Luc Godard.Explores the interrelation between bodies, books, and bathrooms that they facilitate.Aims to destabalise the French New Wave's... -
Melodrama, Self and Nation in Post-War British Popular Film by Johanna Laitila 9781138482753
RRP: €160.65€139.56This book investigates the portrayal of nationalities and sexualities in British post-Second World War crime film and melodrama. By focussing on these genres, and looking at the concept of melodrama as an analytical tool apt for the analysis of both... -
Spanish Horror Film and Television in the 21st Century by Vicente Rodríguez Ortega 9781032245669
RRP: €59.49€51.77This book provides an up-to-date, in-depth survey of 21st-century Spanish horror film and media, exploring both aesthetics and industrial dynamics. It offers detailed analysis of contemporary films and TV series as well as novel approaches to key works... -
Film Genre: The Basics by Barry Keith Grant 9781032274140
RRP: €113.04€98.47- Accessibly and expertly written for undergraduate students by the leading scholar on film genre, Barry Keith Grant, who has written and edited over forty books on film. - The book introduces students to genre conventions and iconography, incorporates... -
Film Genre: The Basics by Barry Keith Grant 9781032271651
RRP: €22.60€20.08- Accessibly and expertly written for undergraduate students by the leading scholar on film genre, Barry Keith Grant, who has written and edited over forty books on film. - The book introduces students to genre conventions and iconography, incorporates... -
Alan Rudolph's Trouble in Mind: Tampering with Myths by Caryl Flinn 9780472039395
€22.75Despite a career spanning over forty years, filmmaker Alan Rudolph has flown largely under the radar of independent film scholars and enthusiasts, often remembered as Robert Altman’s protege. Through a reading of his 1985 film Trouble in Mind, Caryl... -
The Figure of the Terrorist in Literature and Visual Culture by Maria Flood 9781474497589
RRP: €113.05€91.95Contains thirteen original essays and an expansive introduction, including contributions by some of the foremost scholars in the field Goes beyond the US-centrism of post-9/11 discourse and covers a broad geographical scope, including India, Sri Lanka,... -
Peyton Place Comes Home to Maine: The Making of the Iconic Film by Mac Smith
RRP: €17.84€15.51It is a well-known fact, perhaps legend now, that Peyton Place, the controversial, scandalous best-seller was filmed in Camden, Maine and the surrounding towns in 1957. But how did the movie come to be filmed in Maine, who was involved in getting it... -
Melodrama Unbound: Across History, Media, and National Cultures by Christine Gledhill
RRP: €134.47€104.57For too long melodrama has been associated with outdated and morally simplistic stereotypes of the Victorian stage; for too long film studies has construed it as a singular domestic genre of familial and emotional crises, either subversively excessive or... -
Screening Trafficking: Prudent or Perilous by Yana Hashamova
RRP: €66.64€61.02This book examines film and media representations of the social, political, and economic issue of human trafficking, one of the most dramatic challenges of today's globalized world. Hashamova productively combines fieldwork in NGOs in southeastern... -
Melodrama, Self and Nation in Post-War British Popular Film by Johanna Laitila
RRP: €46.40€40.72This book investigates the portrayal of nationalities and sexualities in British post-Second World War crime film and melodrama. By focussing on these genres, and looking at the concept of melodrama as an analytical tool apt for the analysis of both...