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Rediscovering Korean Cinema by Sangjoon Lee
£49.84South Korean cinema is a striking example of non-Western contemporary cinematic success. Thanks to the increasing numbers of moviegoers and domestic films produced, South Korea has become one of the world's major film markets. In 2001, the South Korean... -
A Talent For Trouble: The Life Of Hollywood's Most Acclaimed Director, William Wyler by Jan Herman 9780306807985
£21.83The films of William Wyler (1902-1981) include some of the most memorable and honored motion pictures of all time Jezebel, The Letter, The Little Foxes, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Heiress, Detective Story, Roman Holiday, Ben-Hur, Funny Girl, and... -
Film Theory: An Introduction by Robert Stam
RRP: £30.95£27.85This book is a lively and provoking introduction to film theory. It is suitable for students from any discipline but is particularly aimed at students studying film and literature as it examines issues common to both subjects such as realism,... -
Death 24X A Second by Laura Mulvey 9781861892638
£26.26In "Death 24 x a Second", Laura Mulvey addresses some of the key questions of film theory, spectatorship and narrative. New media technologies, such as video and DVD, have transformed the way we experience film, and the viewers' relationship to film... -
Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling by David Bordwell
RRP: £26.00£25.25In the 1940s, American movies changed. Flashbacks began to be used in outrageous, unpredictable ways. Soundtracks flaunted voice-over commentary, and characters might pivot from a scene to address the viewer. Incidents were replayed from different... -
Blue Velvet by Michael Atkinson
RRP: £12.99£10.25For many, Blue Velvet is David Lynch's masterpiece. It represents a unique act of cinema: an 80s Hollywood studio film as radical, visionary and cabalistic as anything found in the avant-garde; a mysteriously symbolic and subterranean ... -
A Matter of Life and Death by Ian Christie
RRP: £12.99£9.54Produced in the aftermath of the Second World War, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death (1946) stars David Niven as an RAF pilot poised between life and death, his love for the American radio operator June (Kim Hunter)... -
Soldiers' Stories: Military Women in Cinema and Television since World War II by Yvonne Tasker
RRP: £24.99£21.23From Skirts Ahoy! to M*A*S*H, Private Benjamin, G.I. Jane, and JAG, films and television shows have grappled with the notion that military women are contradictory figures, unable to be both effective soldiers and appropriately feminine. In Soldiers'... -
The Apu Trilogy: Satyajit Ray and the Making of an Epic by Andrew Robinson 9781848855168
£21.29"I can never forget the excitement in my mind after seeing 'Pather Panchali'", noted Akira Kurosawa. Satyajit Ray's three films about the boyhood, adolescence and manhood of Apu, 'Pather Panchali' (1955), 'Aparajito' (1956) and 'The World of Apu' (1959)... -
Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino 9781474624237
RRP: £16.99£13.80A unique cocktail of personal memoir, cultural criticism and Hollywood history by the one and only Quentin Tarantino.The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the number one New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: a... -
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... -
L'Atalante by Marina Warner
£14.92L'Atalante is the work of French director Jean Vigo. It is a study of romantic love, told in a style influenced by surrealism, but still Vigo's own. This text is part of the 'BFI Film Classics' series. Each volume in the series presents a personal... -
London's Arts Labs and the 60s Avant-Garde by David Curtis
RRP: £27.99£24.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861967483Author David CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint John Libbey & Co LtdPublisher John Libbey & Co -
Theorising the Contemporary Zombie: Contextual Pasts, Presents, and Futures by Scott Hamilton
RRP: £30.00£25.27Zombies have become an increasingly popular object of research in academic studies and, of course, in popular media. Over the past decade, they have been employed to explain mathematical equations, vortex phenomena in astrophysics, the need for improved... -
Well Documented: 100 must-see documentaries that prove the truth is more fascinating than fiction by Ian Haydn Smith
RRP: £20.00£13.35This fascinating book from veteran film journalist Ian Haydn Smith, with a foreword from award-winning director Asif Kapadia, explores 100 of the most compelling documentaries, each with the power to radically change our perceptions and challenge the way... -
Fatih Akin's Cinema and the New Sound of Europe by Berna Gueneli
RRP: £29.99£25.99In Fatih Akin's Cinema and the New Sound of Europe, Berna Gueneli explores the transnational works of acclaimed Turkish-German filmmaker and auteur Fatih Akin. The first minority director in Germany to receive numerous national and international awards,... -
10,000 Ways To Die by Alex Cox 9780857303387
RRP: £16.99£11.54Forty years ago as a graduate student I wrote a book about Spaghetti Westerns, called 10,000 Ways to Die. It's an embarrassing tome: full of half-assed semiotics and other attenuated academic nonsense. Thirty years later I wrote an entirely new book with... -
Nosferatu (1922): eine Symphonie des Grauens by Kevin Jackson 9781844576500
RRP: £12.99£10.15F.W. Murnau's 1922 Nosferatu, the first (albeit unofficial) screen adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, starring Max Schreck as the hollow-eyed, cadaverous vampire, remains a potent and disturbing horror film. Kevin Jackson's study traces Nosferatu's... -
The Science of Harry Potter: The Spellbinding Science Behind the Magic, Gadgets, Potions, and More! by Mark Brake
RRP: £10.99£7.00How does magic in J. K. Rowling's universe work? Finally, the scientific secrets are revealed! The story of the boy who lived has brought the idea of magic and sorcery into mainstream fruition more than any other book series in history. Modern muggle... -
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum by Julian Preece
RRP: £12.99£10.25"Brisk [and] forceful." Sight & Sound "Lucidly argued." Total Film Margarethe von Trotta and Volker Schloendorff's The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975) was a pivotal film for the New German Cinema movement. Julian Preece considers what makes... -
Kim Newman's Video Dungeon: The Collected Reviews by Kim Newman
RRP: £14.99£12.29Ripped from the pages of Empire magazine, the first collection of film critic, film historian and novelist Kim Newman's reviews of the best and worst B movies. Some of the cheapest, trashiest, goriest and, occasionally, unexpectedly good films from the... -
Hail to the Chin: Further Confessions of A B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell
RRP: £17.99£11.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250178190Author Bruce CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 599gDimensions(mm)... -
Everything I Learned in Life I Learned from Tom Hanks: From Boxes of Chocolate to Infinity and Beyond - Life Lessons from an Iconic Actor: An Unauthorized Biography by Editors of Cider Mill Press
RRP: £11.99£7.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646431922Author Editors of Cider Mill PressFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Cider Mill PressPublisher Cider Mill PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Installation and the Moving Image by Catherine Elwes
RRP: £22.00£17.64Film and video create an illusory world, a reality elsewhere, and a material presence that both dramatizes and demystifies the magic trick of moving pictures. Beginning in the 1960s, artists have explored filmic and televisual phenomena in the controlled... -
Troy: From Homer's Iliad to Hollywood Epic by Martin M. Winkler 9781405131834
RRP: £34.95£30.83This is the first book systematically to examine Wolfgang Petersen's epic film Troy from different archaeological, literary, cultural, and cinematic perspectives. The first book systematically to examine Wolfgang Petersen's epic film Troy from different... -
Escape Artist: The Life and Films of John Sturges by Glenn Lovell
RRP: £26.95£21.62Escape Artist - based on Glenn Lovell's extensive interviews with John Sturges, his wife and children, and numerous stars, including Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, and Jane Russell - is the first biography of the director of such acclaimed films as ""The... -
My Lunches with Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles by Peter Biskind
RRP: £19.00£11.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250051707Author Peter BiskindFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
More Sex, Better Zen, Faster Bullets: The Encyclopedia of Hong Kong Film by Stefan Hammond 9781909394643
RRP: £17.99£12.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909394643Author Stefan HammondFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress -
The Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the Twentieth Century by Geoffrey O'Brien 9780393312966
RRP: £20.00£17.32In 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... -
Say What Happened: A Story of Documentaries by Nick Fraser
RRP: £20.00£14.00Documentary films are the rock and roll of our times. Why are they made? Who are in the tribe of documentary film-makers? Do their films really change the world? Eighteen years ago, Nick Fraser created BBC Storyville, producing films that won Oscars,... -
The Westerns and War Films of John Ford by Sue Matheson 9781442261051
RRP: £43.00£39.89Responsible for some of the greatest films of the 20th century-The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, and The Quiet Man among others-John Ford was best known for motion pictures that defined the American West and the face of wartime military. A... -
At the Edges of Sleep: Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators by Jean Ma
RRP: £30.00£23.87A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Many recent works of contemporary art, performance, and film turn a spotlight on sleep, wresting it from the hidden, private spaces to which it is commonly relegated... -
The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro X by Rick Young 9781138050792
RRP: £43.99£40.29The newly revised third edition of Rick Young's The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro X is the ultimate mentor for getting up and running with Apple's professional editing software, regardless of your skill level. In this step-by-step, full-color guide,... -
Poetics of Cinema by David Bordwell 9780415977791
RRP: £56.99£51.51Bringing together twenty-five years of work on what he has called the "historical poetics of cinema," David Bordwell presents an extended analysis of a key question for film studies: how are films made, in particular historical contexts, in order to... -
Feminist Film Theory: A Reader by Sue Thornham
RRP: £31.00£28.55This anthology brings together the key statements from the main debates in feminist film theory in Britain and the United States since 1970. The book maps the impact of major theoretical developments - structuralist and semiotic theory; psychoanalysis;... -
The Fall of Buster Keaton: His Films for MGM, Educational Pictures, and Columbia by James L. Neibaur 9780810876828
RRP: £53.00£52.65Born into a family of vaudevillians, Buster Keaton made his first film appearance in 1917 at the age of 21. By the early 1920s, he had established himself as one of the geniuses of silent cinema with such films as Sherlock, Jr. and The Navigator and his... -
Cutting Rhythms: Intuitive Film Editing by Karen Pearlman
RRP: £47.99£41.09There are many books on the technical aspects of film and video editing. Much rarer are books on how editors think and make creative decisions.Filled with timeless principles and thought-provoking examples from a variety of international films, the... -
I Lost it at the Movies: Film Writings, 1954-65 by Pauline Kael 9780714529752
RRP: £14.95£12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714529752Author Pauline KaelFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd -
The Cinematic Connery: The Films of Sir Sean Connery by A. J. Black
RRP: £17.99£12.71Scotland's greatest export. The world's first super spy. Voted the sexiest man on the planet. Sir Sean Connery was a titanic figure on screen and off for over half a century. Behind the son of a factory worker, growing up in near-poverty on the harsh... -
Charlie Chaplin: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works by John W. Fawell 9781538146057
RRP: £100.00£92.40Charlie Chaplin was a skilled comedian, filmmaker and composer, and the mission of this book is to educate readers on the wide variety of Chaplin's artistry: the subtlety of his mimetic satire, the sophistication of his film direction, his prodigious...