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Audience-ology: How Moviegoers Shape the Films We Love by Kevin Goetz
RRP: $20.57$14.01Discover the fascinating and secretive process of audience testing of Hollywood movies through these firsthand stories from famous filmmakers, studio heads, and stars.Audience-ology takes you to one of the most unknown places in Hollywood-a place where... -
Metafilm Music in Jean-Luc Godardas Cinema by Michael Baumgartner
RRP: $59.16$54.15Hailed as a leading innovator of visual montage, unique storytelling style, and ground-breaking cinematography, Jean-Luc Godard is a prominent pioneer in sculpting complex soundtracks altering the familiar relationship between sound and image, but his... -
The Legacy of World War II in European Arthouse Cinema by Samm Deighan 9781476683522
RRP: $54.87$46.54World War II irrevocably shaped culture-and much of cinema-in the 20th century, thanks to its devastating, global impact that changed the way we think about and portray war. This book focuses on European war films made about the war between 1945 and 1985... -
Leatherface Vs. Tricky Dick: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre as Political Satire by Martin Harris
RRP: $30.86$20.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909394810Author Martin HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress -
Lesbian Cinema After Queer Theory by Clara Bradbury-Rance 9781474435390
RRP: $37.72$30.82The unprecedented increase in lesbian representation over the past two decades has, paradoxically, coincided with queer theory's radical transformation of the study of sexuality. In Lesbian Cinema after Queer Theory, Clara Bradbury-Rance argues that this... -
Inside the Hotel Rwanda: The Surprising True Story ... and Why It Matters Today by Edouard Kayihura
RRP: $27.43$18.75In 2004, the Academy Award-nominated movie Hotel Rwanda lionized hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina for single-handedly saving the lives of all who sought refuge in the Hotel des Milles Collines during Rwanda's genocide against the Tutsi in 1994. Because of... -
The City Symphony Phenomenon: Cinema, Art, and Urban Modernity Between the Wars by Steven Jacobs
RRP: $77.17$69.90The 1920s and 1930s saw the rise of the city symphony, an experimental film form that presented the city as protagonist instead of mere decor. Combining experimental, documentary, and narrative practices, these films were marked by a high level of... -
Literature and Film: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation by Robert Stam
RRP: $58.23$52.11Literature and Film is a cornucopia of vibrant essays that chart the history and confluence of literature and film. It explores in detail a wide and international spectrum of novels and adaptations, bringing together the very latest scholarship in the... -
James Dean Transfigured: The Many Faces of Rebel Iconography by Claudia Springer
RRP: $37.72$32.23After the death of James Dean in 1955, the figure of the teen rebel permeated the globe, and its presence is still felt in the twenty-first century. Rebel iconography-which does not have to resemble James Dean himself, but merely incorporates his... -
Robert GueDiguian by Joseph Mai 9781526163974
RRP: $34.31$31.08Intervening at the crossroads of philosophy, politics, and cinema, this book argues that the career of Robert Guediguian is the result of one of the most original and coherent projects in contemporary French cinema: to make a committed,... -
The Fixers: Eddie Mannix, Howard Strickling and the MGM Publicity Machine by E. J. Fleming 9780786420278
RRP: $30.86$26.78Eddie Mannix and Howard Strickling are virtually unknown outside of Hollywood and little-remembered even there, but as General Manager and Head of Publicity for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, they lorded over all the stars in Hollywood's golden age from... -
Jane Campion by Deb Verhoeven
RRP: $42.87$37.41Jane Campion is one of the most celebrated auteurs of modern cinema and was the first female director to be awarded the prestigious Palme d'Or. Throughout her relatively short career, Campion has received extraordinary attention from the media and... -
Keep Watching the Skies!: American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, The 21st Century Edition by Bill Warren 9781476666181
RRP: $61.73$57.14Long recognized as the definitive reference work on the hundreds of science fiction movies that from 1950 through 1962 terrified and fascinated a generation with zombified teenagers, robots, invading aliens and monsters of every kind, Bill Warren's Keep... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Hollywood Musical by Professor in Musicology Dominic Broomfield-McHugh
RRP: $166.38$152.37Since the release of Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! in 2001, the film musical has returned to popularity as one of the most important cinematic genres, with box office hits that appeal to audiences of all ages. Yet the history of the musical on film goes... -
Analog Nightmares: The Shot On Video Horror Films of 1982-1995 by Mark Polonia 9781999481704
RRP: $56.59$43.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999481704Author Richard MoggFormat PaperbackPage Count 510Imprint Rickmoe PublishingPublisher Rickmoe Publishing -
New Approaches to Cinematic Space by Filipa Rosário
RRP: $66.88$58.70New Approaches to Cinematic Space aims to discuss the process of creation of cinematic spaces through moving images and the subsequent interpretation of their purpose and meaning. Throughout seventeen chapters, this edited collection will attempt to... -
The MGM Effect: How a Hollywood Studio Changed the World by Steven Bingen
RRP: $60.04$45.83Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's emblem, which has opened thousands of movies since 1924, is the most recognized corporate symbol in the world. Not just in the entertainment industry, it should be noted, but of any industry, anywhere, in the history of human... -
Portraits from Hollywood's Golden Age of Glamour by Colin Slater and The Hollywood Photo Archive
RRP: $42.88$32.26In photographs only seen briefly as part of studio press kits distributed upon release of a new film, these long-lost stills of Hollywood's leading ladies have been reverently rendered into color portraits that not only evoke a treasured past of beauty... -
Film Form by Sergei Eisenstein
RRP: $36.00$24.51From Sergei Eisenstein, a legendary pioneer in filmmaking and director of Battleship Potemkin, Film Form collects twelve essays written between 1928 and 1945 that demonstrate key points in the development of his film theory and in particular his analysis... -
M by Anton Kaes
RRP: $22.28$16.36Fritz Lang's 'M' (1931) is an undisputed classic of world cinema. Lang considered it his most lasting work. Peter Lorre's extraordinary performance as the childlike misfit Hans Beckert was one of the most striking of film debuts, and it made him an... -
Revolutionary Melodrama: Popular Film and Civic Identity in Nasser's Egypt by Joel Gordon
RRP: $90.05$84.31Revolutionary Melodrama explores intersections between cinema and politics during the Nasser era, a period in which a military regime embarked upon the construction of a new civic identity for an independent Egypt. The way in which filmmakers... -
Riccardo Freda: The Life and Works of a Born Filmmaker by Roberto Curti 9781476669700
RRP: $49.73$42.64In an eclectic career spanning four decades, Italian director Riccardo Freda (1909-1999) produced films of remarkable technical skill and powerful visual style, including the swashbuckler Black Eagle (1946), an adaptation of Les Miserables (1947), the... -
The "Jew" in Cinema: From The Golem to Don't Touch My Holocaust by Omer Bartov
RRP: $41.15$37.34From cinema's beginnings, the film image of the "Jew" has closely followed the fortunes and misfortunes of Jews. Analyzing more than 70 films made in the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, East and West Germany, France,... -
Inventing Ruritania: The Imperialism of the Imagination by Vesna Goldsworthy 9781849042529
RRP: $42.88$37.02First published in 1998, 'Inventing Ruritania' achieved a rare combination of critical success, broad readership and enduring academic influence. It is now recognised as a key contribution to the study of Balkan and European identity. Offered by Hurst in... -
DEFA: East German Cinema 1946-1992 by Sean Allan 9781571817532
RRP: $47.94$40.52"...the lucid style of all contributions ...makes this volume an accessible read to students ...this volume has also the bonus of offering an excellent appendix on sources for future research ...this collection of essays illustrates precisely why... -
Cary Grant's Suit: Nine Movies That Made Me the Wreck I Am Today by Todd McEwen
RRP: $27.43$22.86'A hilarious and morose invocation of a lost world. Anyone who has ever been movie-mad will relish this irrepressibly digressive, surprise-filled, exquisitely written memoir (sort of). I certainly did.' Phillip Lopate Todd McEwen grew up in Southern... -
A History of Experimental Film and Video by A. L. Rees
$59.81Avant-garde film is almost indefinable. It is in a constant state of change and redefinition. In his highly-acclaimed history of experimental film, A.L. Rees tracks the movement of the film avant-garde between the cinema and modern art (with its... -
Paris Is Burning: A Queer Film Classic by Lucas Hilderbrand 9781551525198
RRP: $27.43$18.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551525198Author Lucas HilderbrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 182g -
Robin Wood on the Horror Film: Collected Essays and Reviews by Robin Wood
RRP: $63.38$56.64Robin Wood's writing on the horror film, published over five decades, collected in one volume.Robin Wood-one of the foremost critics of cinema-has laid the groundwork for anyone writing about the horror film in the last half-century. Wood's interest in... -
Deleuze's Cinema Books: Three Introductions to the Taxonomy of Images by David Deamer
RRP: $37.72$33.98This cineosis is like a Russian doll or a Chinese box - proliferating levels of regimes, domains, images and signs. This book is the first to fully explicate/unearth the taxonomies; explore every concept; and read a film for each cinematic sign. It maps... -
Dreams within a Dream: The Films of Peter Weir by Michael Bliss
RRP: $92.63$78.96What we see, and what we seem, are but a dream, a dream within a dream. Michael Bliss views Miranda's voice-over at the beginning of ""Picnic at Hanging Rock"" as so pivotal in explaining the films of Peter Weir that he borrows her words to create the... -
100 Ideas that Changed Film by David Parkinson
RRP: $25.71$17.55This inspiring book chronicles the most influential ideas that have shaped film since its inception. Entertaining and intelligent, it provides a concise history as well as being a fascinating resource to dip into. Arranged in a broadly chronological... -
The Oxford History of World Cinema by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
RRP: $106.33$67.81The Oxford History of World Cinema is the most authoritative, up-to-date history of the Cinema ever undertaken. It traces the history of the twentieth-century's most enduringly popular entertainment form, covering all aspects of its development, stars,... -
The Big Sleep by David Thomson
RRP: $22.28$17.58The Big Sleep: Marlowe and Vivian practising kissing; General Sternwood shivering in a hothouse full of orchids; a screenplay, co-written by Faulkner, famously mysterious and difficult to solve. Released in 1946, Howard Hawks' adaptation of Raymond... -
Nosferatu (1979): Phantom Der Nacht by S. S. Prawer 9781844576531
$16.36Werner Herzog's Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht (1979) is one of the masterpieces of the New German Cinema of the 1960s and 70s. Adapted from Bram Stoker's Dracula, and mindful too of F. W. Murnau's earlier German film version of that same novel, Herzog's... -
The Major Film Theories: An Introduction by J. Dudley Andrew 9780195019919
RRP: $46.30$42.04Dudley Andrew is a master at making the world of film theory accessible to a largely mystified public. Since the publication of his Major Film Theories, a classic in the field, the sophistication of the debate concerning the proper approach to film has... -
Making The Best Years of Our Lives: The Hollywood Classic That Inspired a Nation by Alison Macor 9781477328330
RRP: $44.58$38.492023 Wall Award Finalist, Theatre Library Association How a Hollywood gem transformed the national discourse on post-traumatic stress disorder. Released in 1946, The Best Years of Our Lives became an immediate success. Life magazine called it "the first... -
Trouble in Paradise by David Weir
RRP: $22.28$16.36Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise (1932) was released at a critical moment in cinema history, just after the advent of synchronized sound technology and just before the full implementation of the production code. By the time of its release, Lubitsch... -
Italian Cinema: Arthouse to Exploitation by Barry Forshaw 9781843449102
RRP: $29.14$19.79From the unbridled sensuality of silent Italian films, to the neorealist classic Bitter Rice, to the astonishing imagination of Fellini and the more cerebral and fascinating movies of Antonioni, Italy has a filmic legacy unlike that of any other nation... -
The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema by Linda Ruth Williams
RRP: $53.17$44.68A bold and original study, this is the first book to examine in detail a new genre which evolved since the 1980s in tandem with shifts in the culture of sexuality and the rise of video - the erotic thriller. The book traces the erotic thriller's...