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Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise by Michel Chion
RRP: $42.87$36.42First published in French in 1998, revised in 2010, and appearing here in English for the first time, Michel Chion's Sound addresses the philosophical, interpretive, and practical questions that inform our encounters with sound. Chion considers how... -
The Last Bohemian: Brian Desmond Hurst, Irish Film, British Cinema by Lance Pettitt 9780815637295
$62.08The Last Bohemian offers the first extended, critical evaluation of all of Brian Desmond Hurst's films, reappraising the reputation of a director who was born in 1895 in Belfast and died in Belgravia, London, in 1986. Pettitt skillfully weaves together... -
Film Theory: An Introduction by Robert Lapsley 9780719073755
RRP: $34.29$29.91Film theory: an introduction offers a highly readable account of film theory and is an indispensable resource for students. The discussion ranges from the late 1960s to the present, a period in which a number of conceptual strands, notably politics,... -
The Quay Brothers: Into a Metaphysical Playroom by Suzanne Buchan
RRP: $41.15$37.15This work is the first thorough analysis of the creative oeuvre of the Quay Brothers. Known for their animation shorts that rely on puppetry, miniatures, and stop-motion techniques, their fiercely idiosyncratic films are fertile fields for Suzanne... -
Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood: Seventy-Five Profiles by Tom Lisanti 9781476672335
RRP: $37.72$32.30During the 1960s, many models, Playboy centerfolds, beauty queens, and Las Vegas showgirls went on to become "decorative actresses" appearing scantily clad on film and television. This well illustrated homage to 75 of these glamour girls reveals their... -
Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film by Erik Barnouw 9780195078985
$5.81 - $21.63This is the second major revision of a book universally acclaimed as the definitive history of the documentary film. The final section has been completely rewritten and expanded to take into account the major films and trends of the past nine years... -
Mouse Morality: The Rhetoric of Disney Animated Film by Annalee R. Ward
RRP: $29.14$26.552004 - Clifford G. Christians Ethics Research Award - The Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research Kids around the world love Disney animated films, and many of their parents trust the Disney corporation to provide wholesome, moral... -
Combined and Uneven Apocalypse: Luciferian Marxism by Evan Calder Williams 9781846944680
RRP: $25.71$22.35From the repurposed rubble of salvagepunk to undead hordes banging on shopping mall doors, from empty waste zones to teeming plagued cities, Combined and Uneven Apocalypse grapples with the apocalyptic fantasies of our collapsing era. Moving through the... -
Mapping Taiwanese Cinema, 2008-20: Environments, Poetics, Practice by Christopher Brown 9781474478274
RRP: $145.80$134.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474478274Author Christopher BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)... -
Film Editing - The Art of the Expressive by Valerie Orpen 9781903364536
RRP: $30.86$25.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903364536Author Valerie OrpenFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
An Introduction to Film Analysis: Technique and Meaning in Narrative Film by Michael Ryan
RRP: $56.59$48.71An 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... -
Danger on the Silver Screen: 50 Films Celebrating Cinema's Greatest Stunts by Scott McGee
RRP: $34.31$24.61Whether it's an exhilarating car chase, comedic pratfall, intense fight scene, or a dramatic leap from the top of a building, there is something about watching a well-executed stunt that leaves audiences in awe. When you think of stunts and stunt... -
Twenty British Films: A Guided Tour by Brian McFarlane 9780719087141
RRP: $34.29$20.72Anyone who has loved British films will want to read this book. In choosing twenty films, many of them classics of their kind - think of Brief Encounter, The third man, Genevieve - as well as some less well-known titles, the author communicates his... -
Christopher Lee: The Lonliness of Evil by Stephen Mosley
RRP: $51.46$35.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644301289Author Stephen MosleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.Publisher Midnight Marquee Press, Inc. -
Euro Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to European Crime Fiction, Film & TV by Barry Forshaw 9781843442455
RRP: $15.42$10.74Euro Noir by Britain's leading crime fiction expert Barry Forshaw (author of Nordic Noir) examines the astonishing success of European fiction and drama. This is often edgier, grittier and more compelling than some of its British or American equivalents,... -
Rebecca by Patricia White
RRP: $22.28$17.41The 1940 film adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's gothic romance Rebecca begins by echoing the novel's famous opening line, 'Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.' Patricia White takes the theme of return as her starting point for an exploration... -
Touch: Sensuous Theory And Multisensory Media by Laura U. Marks 9780816638895
RRP: $41.15$36.28Proposes a revolutionary approach to the interpretation of art, film, and the digital. In Touch, Laura U. Marks develops a critical approach more tactile than visual, an intensely physical and sensuous engagement with works of media art that enriches our... -
Jung and Film: Post-Jungian Takes on the Moving Image by Christopher Hauke
RRP: $63.45$55.80Jung and Film brings together some of the best new writing from both sides of the Atlantic, introducing the use of Jungian ideas in film analyis.Illustrated with examinations of seminal films including Pulp Fiction, Blade Runner, and 2001 - A Space... -
The Kaiju Film: A Critical Study of Cinema's Biggest Monsters by Jason Barr 9780786499632
RRP: $25.71$21.53The Kaiju (strange monster) film genre has a number of themes that go well beyond the ""big monsters stomping on cities"" motif. Since the seminal King Kong (1933) and the archetypal Godzilla (1954), kaiju has mined the subject matter of science run... -
The Golden Age of Cinema: Hollywood, 1929-1945 by Richard Jewell
RRP: $56.52$52.30This comprehensive book illuminates the most fertile and exciting period in American film, a time when the studio system was at its peak and movies played a critical role in elevating the spirits of the public. Richard B. Jewell offers a highly readable... -
Carole Lombard: Twentieth-Century Star by Michelle Morgan
RRP: $22.28$16.07Carole Lombard was the very opposite of the typical 1930s starlet. A no-nonsense woman, she worked hard, took no prisoners and had a great passion for life. As a result, she became Hollywood's highest-paid star.From the outside, Carole's life was one of... -
The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons by Jerry Beck
RRP: $36.02$23.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647221379Author Jerry BeckFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions -
Dressing Dangerously: Dysfunctional Fashion in Film by Jonathan Faiers
RRP: $81.48$73.17A thought-provoking examination of the challenging and sometimes sinister roles that fashion has played in the history of cinema When Marlene Dietrich makes her entrance in Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright, the Dior dress she wears immediately draws the... -
The Music and Sound of Experimental Film by Holly Rogers 9780190469900
RRP: $76.31$68.41This book explores music/sound-image relationships in non-mainstream screen repertoire from the earliest examples of experimental audiovisuality to the most recent forms of expanded and digital technology. It challenges presumptions of visual primacy in... -
Bergson and the Art of Immanence: Painting, Photography, Film by John Mullarkey
RRP: $49.73$45.27This title takes an immanent turn in art history. Immanence is a theory of divine presence, in which the divine is found in the material world, not outside of it. This new collection brings the major 20th century French philosopher Henri Bergson's work... -
International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s by Tim Bergfelder 9781571815385
RRP: $169.81$143.04West German cinema of the 1960s is frequently associated with the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers, collectively known by the 1970s as the "New German Cinema." Yet for domestic and international audiences at the time, German cinema... -
Cinema Sex Sirens by Dave Worral 9781780389936
RRP: $34.22$27.12A celebration of the last great era of the cinematic sex siren - a time when the cultural revolution resulted in unprecedented liberation in the treatment of nudity on screen. The Sixties and Seventies was an era when actresses were not ashamed to be... -
Philosophers on Film from Bergson to Badiou: A Critical Reader by Christopher Kul-Want 9780231176033
RRP: $51.46$39.14Philosophers on Film from Bergson to Badiou is an anthology of writings on cinema and film by many of the major thinkers in continental philosophy. The book presents a selection of fundamental texts, each accompanied by an introduction and exposition by... -
Studying British Cinema: The 1960s by Danny Powell 9781903663882
RRP: $47.17$42.11Aimed explicitly at students and teachers coming to British cinema for the first time, the Studying British Cinema series considers key texts from the decade under discussion and accessibly considers them in their artistic and historical contexts... -
Gene Tierney: Star of Hollywood's Home Front by Will Scheibel
RRP: $51.37$41.39Gene Tierney may be one of the most recognizable faces of studio-era Hollywood: she starred in numerous classics, including Leave Her to Heaven, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, and Laura, with the latter featuring her most iconic role. While Tierney was... -
Good, the Tough and the Deadly: Action Movies and Stars 1960s-Present by David J. Moore 9780764349959
RRP: $70.31$48.83This massive study on action movies and stars from around the world, from the 1960s to the present, is filled with more than a thousand in-depth movie reviews that cover every action star who's crossed over from the world of martial arts, sports,... -
The Film Photonovel: A Cultural History of Forgotten Adaptations by Jan Baetens
RRP: $61.75$53.16Discarded by archivists and disregarded by scholars despite its cultural impact on post-World War II Europe, the film photonovel represents a unique crossroads. This hybrid medium presented popular films in a magazine format that joined film stills or... -
Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema by Hamid Dabashi 9781844670888
$37.79Over the last quarter-century, Palestinian cinema has emerged as a major artistic force on the global scene. Deeply rooted in the historic struggles for national self-determination, this cinema is the single most important artistic expression of a... -
Eric Rohmer: Realist and Moralist by Colin Crisp
RRP: $27.43$23.88Here, for the first time in English, is a comprehensive analysis of Eric Rohmer's work. Rohmer, an enormously influential figure in shaping postwar realist film theory, and later in the development of the French New Wave, has been largely ignored in film... -
Climate Trauma: Foreseeing the Future in Dystopian Film and Fiction by E. Ann Kaplan 9780813563992
RRP: $60.04$51.73Each month brings new scientific findings that demonstrate the ways in which human activities, from resource extraction to carbon emissions, are doing unprecedented, perhaps irreparable damage to our world. As we hear these climate change reports and... -
The Worlds of John Wick: The Year's Work at the Continental Hotel by Caitlin G. Watt
RRP: $51.44$46.76Each John Wick film has earned more money and recognition than its predecessor, defying the conventional wisdom about the box office's action movie landscape, normally dominated by superhero movies and science fiction epics.As The Worlds of John Wick... -
Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 by David E. James
RRP: $61.75$53.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861967155Author David E. JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint John Libbey & Co LtdPublisher John Libbey & Co -
Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out by Slavoj Zizek 9780415772594
RRP: $32.57$28.94The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst's couch. Zizek introduces the ideas of Jacques Lacan through the medium of American film, taking his examples... -
World Film Locations: London by Neil Mitchell 9781841504841
RRP: $41.08$39.73An exciting and visually focused tour of the diverse range of films shot on location in London, World Film Locations: London presents contributions spanning the Victorian era, the swinging '60s and the politically charged atmosphere following the 2005... -
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp by Kennedy
RRP: $22.28$16.36Winston Churchill hated The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, and tried to have it banned when it was released in 1943. But Martin Scorsese, a champion of directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, considers it a masterpiece. It's a film about...