Guides & Reviews

This volume examines the gangster film in its historical context with an emphasis on the ways the image of the gangster has adapted and changed as a result of socio-cultural circumstances. From its origins in Progressive-era reforms to its use as an...

At the centre of Tarkovsky's oeuvre, _Mirror_ is his most complex and autobiographical film. It stretches the viewer by moving without apparent effort between past, present and imagined realities, in a series of episodes which observe neither plot nor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905674121Author Naomi GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 180gDimensions(mm) 217mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578749129Author Kevin SampsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Picture Lock Productions LLCPublisher Picture Lock Productions LLCWeight(grams)...

Few films have had the influence and impact of The Blair Witch Project (1999). Its arrival was a horror cinema palette cleanser after a decade of serial killers and postmodern intertextuality, a bare bones 'found footage' trend setter. In this Devil's...

G.W. Pabst's 1929 silent classic Pandora's Box (Die Buchse der Pandora), stars Hollywood icon Louise Brooks as the enigmatic heroine whose erotic charms lead to disaster for the men drawn into her web. Despite failing commercially upon release, it has...

The first James Bond film, Dr. No, was a gamble. In 1962, the 'Swinging Sixties' were about to begin and the aspirational lifestyle depicted by the Bond films were very much part of the art, music and fashion revolution that defined that decade. But...

The Pacific Northwest has a thriving, rich film culture, and it's finally celebrated in a guide as visually arresting and compelling as the films and television themselves. Author David Schmader put in a lot of screen time watching movies and TV shows,...

A loving ode to a universal genre of film. An entire subculture of end-of-the-world themes was spawned from films like The Road Warrior, Escape From New York, and The Terminator. While those films are still being emulated today, film makers all around...

Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia (1938) is one of the most controversial films ever made. Capitalising on the success of Triumph of the Will (1935), her propaganda film for the Nazi Party, Riefenstahl secured Hitler's approval for her grandiose plans to film...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996990875Author Kenneth AtchityFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Story Merchant BooksPublisher Story Merchant BooksWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm)...

If there was a moment during the sixties, seventies, or eighties that changed the history of the women's film movement, B. Ruby Rich was there. Part journalistic chronicle, part memoir, and 100% pure cultural historical odyssey, Chick Flicks-with its...

Contributes a genealogical approach to debates on critical transnationalism Demonstrates that representations of crime in cinema are part of an ongoing recognition and reordering of relations of power at the levels of individual, collective, and state...

A structured perspective on the crucial interface of director and screenplay, this book encompasses twenty-two seminal aspects of the approach to story and script that a director needs to understand before embarking on all other facets of the director's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951036195Author Bill AdcockFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Happy Cloud PublishingPublisher Happy Cloud PublishingWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm)...

The making of the Star Wars saga, as told by the cast and crew. In this third special collection celebrating the Star Wars phenomenon, the appeal of intergalactic supervillain Darth Vader, writer Lawrence Kasdan share secrets of the creative process on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902588216Author DK D K HolmFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Glitter BooksPublisher Creation BooksWeight(grams) 182g

Foreword by Michael J. Fox Preface by Christopher LloydGreat Scott! Go Back to the Future with Doc Brown and Marty McFly and celebrate the film's 35th anniversary with this visually stunning look at the creation of one of the most beloved movie trilogies...

From the author of the bestselling annual Movie Guide comes this ultimate guide for fans of classic films both familiar and obscure. The Classic Movie Guide covers thousands of films, from the silent era to the 1960s, including The Birth of a Nation, The...

The 2010s might be remembered as a time of increased polarization in American life. The decade contained both the Obama era and the Trump era, and as the nation's political fissures widened, so did the gap between the haves and have-nots. Hollywood...

Examining Monty Python's enduring status as an unconventional, anti-authoritarian comedy touchstone, this book reappraises Python's comedy output from the perspective of its fifty years of cultural circulation. Reconsidering the group's originality,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953656455Author Andy BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Noir PublishingPublisher Noir PublishingWeight(grams) 470g

Over the course of nearly thirty years, Hal Hartley has cultivated a reputation as one of America's most steadfastly independent film directors. From his breakthrough films - The Unbelievable Truth (1989), Trust (1990), and Simple Men (1992) - to his...

One 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629335148Author James StrattonFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 821gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629333144Author James L NeibaurFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737603405Author Daryn KirschtFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Daryn KirschtPublisher Daryn KirschtWeight(grams) 712gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm *...

Fargo - that bloody tale of greed, kidnapping and murder set in the freezing tundra of Minnesota - was the Coen brothers' break-out film, scooping two Oscars and a towering snowdrift of critical and commercial acclaim. On the 25th anniversary of its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629339955Author James L NeibaurFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629330587Author Michael A HoeyFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Prison Movies: Cinema Behind Bars traces the public fascination with incarceration from the silent era to the present. Often considered an offshoot of the gangster film, the prison film precedes the gangster film and is in many ways its opposite. Rather...

In 1935 Sidney Kingsley's play about streetwise urban kids, Dead End, opened on Broadway featuring 14 adolescent actors. For two years on Broadway and then on tour, Kingsley's play delivered its social commentary contrasting affluent neighborhoods and...

From ""Ma Perkins"" and ""One Man's Family"" in the 1930s to ""All My Children"" in the 1980s, the soap opera has capture the imagination of millions of American men and women of all ages. In Speaking of Soap Operas , Robert Allen undertakes a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995589742Author Colin M. BarronFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Extremis Publishing LimitedPublisher Extremis Publishing LimitedDimensions(mm) 198mm...

From romantic novelist Elinor Glyn in the 1920s to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle today, this collection examines some of the history, contemporary manifestations and enduring appeal of US-UK romance across popular culture.About the AuthorDeborah Jermyn,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992302108Author Simon StrongFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Ledatape OrganisationPublisher Ledatape OrganisationWeight(grams) 224gDimensions(mm)...

This filmography (including television and music video appearances) chronicles the career of Caroline Munro, a woman of humble beginnings whose chance entry in a "Face of the Year" photo competition propelled her to international fame as a model and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692964996Author Clark FairfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Good Question!Publisher Good Question!Weight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585420407Author Michael GurianFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam IncDimensions(mm) 191mm * 130mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820463339Author Matthew Wilhelm KapellFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 440g