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Dead or Alive British Horror Films 1980-1989 by Darrell Buxton 9781644301265
RRP: $154.38$90.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644301265Author Darrell BuxtonFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.Publisher Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Hollywood's Last Golden Age: Politics, Society, and the Seventies Film in America by Jonathan Kirshner 9780801478161
$37.17Kirshner's commentary on these and other films is stimulating...Kirshner's book provides intriguing insights for anyone interested in the relation between film and wider culture. The Journal of American Culture Between 1967 and 1976 a number of... -
For His Eyes Only: The Women of James Bond by Lisa Funnell
$37.39The release of Skyfall in 2012 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the James Bond film franchise. It earned over one billion dollars in the worldwide box office and won two Academy Awards. Amid popular and critical acclaim, some have questioned the... -
Character Actors in Horror and Science Fiction Films, 1930-1960 by Laurence Raw 9780786444748
$77.07This work profiles a stellar lineup of talented, versatile character actors who regularly appeared in horror and science fiction films during Hollywood's golden age. Many are well known by genre buffs and casual fans, including Lionel Atwill, John... -
Making It Big in Shorts: Faster, Better, Cheaper: The Ultimate Filmmaker's Guide to Short Films by Kim Adelman 9781615932566
RRP: $32.50$25.08Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy by Paul Kane 9780786477173
RRP: $30.86$25.51Best-selling horror novelist Clive Barker had a rocky start with the first attempts to convert his stories into a visual medium. Directors and screenwriters turned the film adaptations of Underworld and Rawhead Rex into something barely recognisable -... -
Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film by Vivian Sobchack
$51.96This text attempts to shape definitions of the American science fiction film, studying the connection between the films and social preconceptions. It covers many classic films and discusses their import, seeking to rescue the genre from the neglect of... -
Contesting Tears: Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman by Stanley Cavell 9780226098166
RRP: $39.45$37.96Stanley Cavell identified a genre of classic American films that engaged these questions in his study of comedies of remarriage, "Pursuits of Happiness". With "Contesting Tears", Cavell demonstrates that a contrasting genre, which he calls "the melodrama... -
The Evil Dead by Kate Egan 9781906660345
$19.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906660345Author Kate EganFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 126gDimensions(mm) 173mm * 111mm *... -
Power of Film by Howard Suber 9781932907179
RRP: $47.94$34.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932907179Author Howard SuberFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese ProductionsWeight(grams) 522g -
Fighting without Fighting: Kung Fu Cinema's Journey to the West by Luke White
RRP: $42.88$30.22In the spring and summer of 1973, a wave of martial arts movies from Hong Kong - epitomized by Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon - smashed box-office records for foreign-language films in America, and ignited a 'kung fu craze' that swept the world. Fighting... -
Deleuze's Cinema Books: Three Introductions to the Taxonomy of Images by David Deamer
$35.18This 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... -
Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!: A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959 by Eric Schaefer
$44.15Unashamed nudists, high-flying hopheads, brazen strippers, vicious vice lords, and high school girls who find themselves "in trouble" comprise the population of exploitation films. In the first full-scale history of these low-budget movies of decades... -
When the World Laughs: Film Comedy East and West by William V. Costanzo
RRP: $72.03$39.88When the World Laughs is a book about the intersection of humor, history, and culture. It explores how film comedy, one of the world's most popular movie genres, reflects the values and beliefs of those who enjoy its many forms, its most enduring... -
Female Trouble by Chris Holmlund 9781551526836
RRP: $22.28$15.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551526836Author Chris HolmlundFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press -
Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War by Anton Kaes
$38.08Shell Shock Cinema explores how the classical German cinema of the Weimar Republic was haunted by the horrors of World War I and the the devastating effects of the nation's defeat. In this exciting new book, Anton Kaes argues that masterworks such as The... -
Spanish Popular Cinema by Antonio Lazaro-Reboll 9780719062834 [USED COPY]
RRP: $34.29$7.08Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Spanish Popular Cinema by Antonio Lazaro-Reboll
RRP: $34.29$26.14This is the first collection in English to focus exclusively on the various forms of popular film produced in Spain and to acknowledge the variety, range and depth of Spanish cinema.Contributors from across Hispanic, media and cultural studies explore a... -
Marvel Comics into Film: Essays on Adaptations Since the 1940s by Matthew J. McEniry 9780786443048
RRP: $37.72$32.30Marvel Studios' approach to its Cinematic Universe-beginning with the release of Iron Man (2008)-has become the template for successful management of blockbuster film properties. Yet films featuring Marvel characters can be traced back to the 1940s, when... -
War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception by Paul Virilio
RRP: $34.22$25.63Reveals the convergence of perception and destruction in the parallel technologies of warfare and cinema.A rich and suggestive analysis of military "ways of seeing"About the AuthorPaul Virilio trained as an artist in stained glass, working with Braque... -
Life-Destroying Diagrams by Eugenie Brinkema
$42.09In Life-Destroying Diagrams, Eugenie Brinkema brings the insights of her radical formalism to bear on supremely risky terrain: the ethical extremes of horror and love. Through close readings of works of film, literature, and philosophy, she explores how... -
Real Depravities: The Films of Klaus Kinski by Tony Strauss 9781537349275
RRP: $59.95$54.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781537349275Author Tony StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical by Steven Cohan
RRP: $46.30$41.36With their lavish costumes and sets, ebullient song and dance numbers, and iconic movie stars, the musicals that mgm produced in the 1940s seem today to epitomize camp. Yet they were originally made to appeal to broad, mainstream audiences. In this... -
Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys by Barbara Mennel
$24.67Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys illustrates queer cinematic aesthetics by highlighting key films that emerged at historical turning points throughout the twentieth century. Barbara Mennel traces the representation of gays and... -
Using Film as a Source by Sian Barber
RRP: $22.28$15.85This book is a hands-on study skills guide that explores how film and moving image can be used as sources. It is aimed at those who want to use film and moving image as the basis for research and offers advice on research methods, theory and methodology,... -
Hollywood and Israel: A History by Anthony Shaw
$33.60Winner, 2023 Shapiro Best Book Award, Association for Israel StudiesFrom Frank Sinatra's early pro-Zionist rallying to Steven Spielberg's present-day peacemaking, Hollywood has long enjoyed a "special relationship" with Israel. This book offers a... -
Maurice Pialat by Marja Warehime
RRP: $34.29$24.91One of the most gifted directors of the post New Wave, Maurice Pialat is frequently compared to such legendary filmmakers as Jean Renoir and Robert Bresson. A quintessentially realist filmmaker, who, like Bresson, was also trained as a painter, Pialat's... -
Heroes Never Die (B&W) The Italian Peplum Phenomenon 1950-1967 by Barry Atkinson 9781936168750
RRP: $54.89$33.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936168750Author Barry AtkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.Publisher Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.Weight(grams)... -
"One Man Crazy ... !" The Life and Death of Colin Clive; Hollywood's Dr. Frankenstein by Gregory W Mank 9781936168811
RRP: $42.88$30.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936168811Author Gregory W MankFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.Publisher Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Postcolonial African Cinema: Ten Directors by David Murphy 9780719072031
$30.57This is the first introduction of its kind to an important cross-section of postcolonial African filmmakers from the 1950s to the present. Building on previous critical work in the field, this volume will bring together ideas from a range of disciplines... -
New Waves In Cinema by Sean Martin 9781842432549
RRP: $29.14$19.79The term 'New Wave' conjures up images of Paris in the early 1960s: Jean Seberg and Jean Paul Belmondo, the young Jean-Pierre Leaud, the three protagonists of Jules and Jim capering across a bridge, all from the films of French filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard... -
Who's Afraid of the Song of the South? and Other Forbidden Disney Stories by Jim Korkis 9780984341559
RRP: $30.79$30.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984341559Author Jim KorkisFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Theme Park PressPublisher Theme Park PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
Fiasco: A History of Hollywood's Iconic Flops by James Robert Parish 9780471691594
RRP: $77.10$54.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471691594Author James Robert ParishFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
The Innocence of Memories by Orhan Pamuk
RRP: $25.71$16.81The Innocence of Memories is an important addition to the oeuvre of Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk. Comprised of the screenplay of the acclaimed film by Grant Gee from 2015 (by the same name), a transcript of the author and filmmaker in... -
Aesthetic Evaluation and Film by Andrew Klevan 9781784991258
$32.18This book provides an in-depth, holistic examination of evaluative aesthetics and criticism as they apply to film. Organised around the explanation of key concepts, it illuminates connections between the work of philosophers, theorists and critics, and... -
The New American Cinema by Jon Lewis 9780822321156
$41.22This collection of essays provides the first comprehensive survey of Hollywood and independent films from the mid-sixties to the present. Deliberately eclectic and panoramic, The New American Cinema brings together thirteen leading film scholars who... -
Six-Gun Law: he Westerns of Randolph Scott, Audie Murphy, Joel McCrea and George Montgomery by Barry Atkinson 9781936168545
RRP: $42.88$28.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936168545Author Barry AtkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.Publisher Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror by Cristina Massaccesi
RRP: $39.43$35.54Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, directed by German director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau in 1922, is not only regarded as one of the most intriguing and disquieting films to have been produced during the years of Weimar cinema but is also a key step in... -
Murder by Design: The Unsane Cinema of Dario Argento by Troy Howarth
RRP: $85.77$60.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644301159Author Troy HowarthFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.Publisher Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Candyman by Jon Towlson
RRP: $28.29$26.09When Candyman was released in 1992, Roger Ebert gave it his thumbs up, remarking that the film was "scaring him with ideas and gore, rather than just gore." Indeed, Candyman is almost unique in 1990s horror cinema in that it tackles its sociopolitical...