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The Great Movies II by Robert Ebert
RRP: £19.99£15.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767919869Author Roger EbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
Edward Yang by John Anderson 9780252072369
RRP: £16.99£15.07Having largely given up on a career in film, Edward Yang had been working as a computer engineer for several years when he saw Herzog's Aguirre, Wrath of God. Inspired to return to film, Yang, along with a handful of other filmmakers, including the great... -
Dead of Night by Jez Conolly
RRP: £22.99£20.72Released a matter of days after the end of the Second World War and a dozen years ahead of the first full-blooded Hammer Horror, the Ealing Studios horror anthology film Dead of Night featured contributions from some of the finest directors, writers and... -
George's Run: A Writer's Journey through the Twilight Zone by Henry Chamberlain 9781978834200
RRP: £21.99£20.18George Clayton Johnson was an up-and-coming short story writer who broke into Hollywood in a big way when he co-wrote the screenplay for Ocean's Eleven. More legendary works followed, including Logan's Run and classic scripts for shows like The Twilight... -
Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome by Shawn Levy
RRP: £12.99£8.60SUNDAY TIMES FILM BOOK OF THE YEAR'Uproariously readable ... Levy is a master of the group biography' Sunday Times'Teeming with satisfying gossipy details' Guardian'Exalts the intoxicating, beguiling dreaminess of Rome in its celluloid heyday' TLS1950s... -
The Origins of Cool in Postwar America by Joel Dinerstein
RRP: £21.00£18.16Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define... -
Fellini On Fellini by Federico Fellini 9780306806735
£19.87One of the greatest Italian filmmakers, Federico Fellini (1920-1993) created such masterpieces as La Strada, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, Juliet of the Spirits, Satyricon , and Amarcord. His prodigious body of work evokes Pirandello, existentialism, "the... -
Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930--1934 by Thomas Doherty 9780231110952
RRP: £22.00£17.76Pre-Code Hollywood explores the fascinating period in American motion picture history from 1930 to 1934 when the commandments of the Production Code Administration were violated with impunity in a series of wildly unconventional films-a time when... -
Cinemaps: An Atlas of 35 Great Movies by Andrew DeGraff
RRP: £27.00£18.59Acclaimed artist Andrew DeGraff has created beautiful hand-painted maps of all your favorite films, from King Kong and North by Northwest to The Princess Bride, Fargo, Labyrinth, Pulp Fiction, even The Breakfast Club - with the routes of every major... -
Quatermass and the Pit by Kim Newman
RRP: £12.99£10.94While digging an extension to the London Underground Railway, workmen discover an object which might be an ancient Martian spaceship - and Professor Quatermass of the British Rocket Group investigates a mystery which prompts frightening revelations about... -
Douglas Sirk: Filmmaker and Philosopher by Robert B. Pippin
RRP: £22.99£20.11It would be easy to dismiss the films of Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) as brilliant examples of mid-century melodrama with little to say to the contemporary world. Yet Robert Pippin argues that, far from being marginal pieces of sentimentality, Sirk's films... -
Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever by Matt Singer 9780593540152
RRP: £29.00£19.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593540152Author Matt SingerFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm) 236mm *... -
A Chronology of Film: A Cultural Timeline from the Magic Lantern to the Digital Screen by Ian Haydn Smith
£23.61A Chronology of Film presents a fresh perspective on the medium by taking a purely chronological approach to its history, tracing the complex links between technical innovations, social changes and artistic interventions. Organized around a central... -
Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1980-1989 by Roberto Curti 9781476672434
RRP: £28.99£23.38The Italian Gothic horror genre underwent many changes in the 1980s, with masters such as Mario Bava and Riccardo Freda either dying or retiring and young filmmakers such as Lamberto Bava (Macabro, Demons) and Michele Soavi (The Church) surfacing. Horror... -
Everyday Crystal Rituals: Healing Practices for Love, Wealth, Career, and Home by Naha Armady 9781641521574
RRP: £22.99£14.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641521574Author Naha ArmadyFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Althea PressPublisher Althea PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 147mm * 18mm -
When The Shooting Stops ... The Cutting Begins: A Film Editor's Story by Ralph Rosenblum 9780306802720
£16.78The story of one of the most important and least-understood jobs in moviemaking,film editing,is here told by one of the wizards, Ralph Rosenblum, whose credentials include six Woody Allen films, as well as The Pawnbroker, The Producers , and Goodbye,... -
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations by Mike Figgis
RRP: £14.99£9.80All drama takes the form of one of 36 situations. That was Georges Polti's theory about theatre, which he put forward in his book 36 Dramatic Situations, published in French in the mid-19th century.A century and a half later, Mike Figgis was struggling... -
Lost Federations: The Unmade History of Star Trek by A. J. Black 9781915359117
RRP: £14.99£10.89SPACE. THE FINAL FRONTIER. THESE WERE ALMOST THE VOYAGES OF THE STARSHIP ENTERPRISE. We think we know the history of Star Trek. Born at the height of 1960s popular culture, the five-year mission of Captain James T. Kirk and his crew faced early... -
Film and Theory: An Anthology Robert Stam (New York University) 9780631206262
RRP: £37.95£34.36This anthology offers a collection of some of the most provocative and influential writings of film theory from the 1960s and 1970s, along with new directions from the last two decades. An introductory essay to the volume sums up developments in film... -
A Panorama of American Film Noir (1941-1953) by Raymond Borde 9780872864122
RRP: £16.99£11.67When it appeared in France in 1955, A Panorama of American Film Noir was the first book ever on the genre: this clairvoyant study of Hollywood film noir is at last available in English translation. A Panorama of American Film Noir addresses the... -
Cinema of the Dark Side: Atrocity and the Ethics of Film Spectatorship by Shohini Chaudhuri
RRP: £23.99£21.85A ground-breaking comparative treatment of cinematic images of atrocity, combining critical perspectives on contemporary film and human rights. A few days after 9/11, US Vice-President Dick Cheney invoked the need for the USA to work 'the dark side' in... -
The Man Who Saved Britain by Simon Winder
RRP: £10.99£8.65Award-winning author Simon Winder takes us through the legacy of one of Britain's most influential and enduring cultural figures, James Bond. 'An entertaining romp through the literary and cinematic heartland of James Bond country' Sunday Times'A... -
Possession by Alison Taylor
RRP: £21.99£19.87Premiering at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, Andrzej Zulawski's Possession remains a distinct phenomenon. Though in competition for the illustrious Palme d'Or, its art cinema context did not rescue it from being banned as part of the United Kingdom's... -
The Wizard of Oz by Salman Rushdie
£9.79The Wizard of Oz 'was my very first literary influence,' writes Salman Rushdie in his account of the great MGM children's classic. At the age of ten he had written a story, 'Over the Rainbow', about a colourful fantasy world. But for Rushdie The Wizard... -
Dark Matter: Independent Filmmaking in the 21st Century by Michael Winterbottom
RRP: £18.99£15.39A Sight & Sound Book of the Year "Eye-opening and addictively readable." Total Film Who and what decides if a film gets funded? How do those who control the purse strings also determine a film's content and even its message? Writing as the... -
Theory of Film Practice by Noel Burch
RRP: £30.00£23.29This classic in film theory, presents a systematic study of the techniques of the film medium and of their potential uses for creating formal structures in individual films such as Dovzhenko's Earth, Antonioni's La Notte, Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar,... -
The New York Times Book of Movies: The Essential 1,000 Films To See by W. Schroeder
RRP: £38.00£33.53Written by acclaimed critics of the New York Times, the film reviews featured in this indispensable volume cover black-and-white classics, Technicolor musicals, wide-screen extravaganzas, genre favorites, art films, and foreign masterpieces with honest... -
Steven Spielberg All the Films: The Story Behind Every Movie, Episode, and Short by Arnaud Devillard 9780762483723
RRP: £50.00£30.41Just as BDL's bestselling All the Songs series-which has over 400,000 copies in print-presents a comprehensive, song-by-song view of major bands and music history, Steven Spielberg All the Films: The Stories Behind Every Movie, Episode, and Short... -
Never Apologise: The Collected Writings of Lindsay Anderson by Lindsay Anderson
RRP: £19.99£6.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859653176Author Lindsay AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd -
Ecogothic by Andrew Smith 9781526106896
RRP: £19.99£17.61This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. Ecocriticism has frequently explored images of environmental catastrophe, the wilderness, the idea of home, constructions of 'nature', and images of the... -
So Deadly, So Perverse: Giallo-Style Films From Around the World, Vol. 3 by Troy Howarth
RRP: £60.00£37.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644300572Author Troy HowarthFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.Publisher Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.Weight(grams)... -
More Sex, Better Zen, Faster Bullets: The Encyclopedia of Hong Kong Film by Stefan Hammond 9781909394643
RRP: £17.99£12.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909394643Author Stefan HammondFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress -
The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies and What They Did to Us by David Thomson
RRP: £14.99£11.54In this triumphant work David Thomson, one of film's greatest living experts and author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, tells the enthralling story of the movies and how they have shaped us.Sunday Times, New Statesman, The Times, Guardian,... -
Italian Sword and Sandal Films, 1908-1990 by Roy Kinnard 9781476662916
RRP: £28.99£23.38Produced in Italy from 1908 the sword and sandal (or peplum) films are one of the screen's most neglected and marginalized film genres. The sword and sandal films were present in Italian cinema from the silent era, but attained their greatest popularity... -
Rocliffe Notes - A Guide To Low Budget Film-making: Rocliffe Notes by Farah Abushwesha
RRP: £18.99£12.75A second book in the ROCLIFFE NOTES series, formed from the questions of newer filmmakers. This is a practical compendium for screenwriters and filmmakers in the form of notes and opinions. These provide a step-by-step, common-sense guide, with... -
This Was Hollywood: Forgotten Stars and Stories by Carla Valderrama
RRP: £25.00£18.95In this one-of-a-kind Hollywood history, the creator of Instagram's celebrated @ThisWasHollywood reveals the forgotten past of the film world in a dazzling visual package modeled on the classic fan magazines of yesteryear.From former screen legends who... -
The Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the Twentieth Century by Geoffrey O'Brien 9780393312966
RRP: £20.00£16.52In his intense and mysterious evocation of (seemingly) every kind of movie ever made, Geoffrey O'Brien erases the distinction between spectator and commentator and virtually reinvents film writing in our time.About the AuthorGeoffrey O'Brien is a... -
Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece by Raymond Foery 9781442241817
RRP: £25.00£21.79After an unparalleled string of artistic and commercial triumphs in the 1950s and 1960s, Alfred Hitchcock hit a career lull with the disappointing Torn Curtain and the disastrous Topaz. In 1971, the depressed director traveled to London, the city he had... -
Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art by Susan Napier
RRP: £15.99£13.43The story of filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's life and work, including his significant impact on Japan and the world-"an essential work in anime scholarship." (Angelica Frey, Hyperallergic) A thirtieth-century toxic jungle, a bathhouse for tired gods, a... -
The Story of Victorian Film by Bryony Dixon
RRP: £23.99£20.94In this vivid and accessible new account of the dawn of film in Britain, internationally respected film historian and curator Bryony Dixon introduces us to Britain's first cinematic pioneers - an eclectic mix of chemists, engineers, photography...