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Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic by Glenn Frankel
RRP: $21.92$16.76"Much more than a page-turner. It's the first essential work of cultural history of the new decade." -Charles Kaiser, The Guardian The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author of the behind-the-scenes explorations of the... -
100 All-Time Favorite Movies of the 20th Century by Jurgen Muller
$27.40Take a journey through the makers and shapers of celluloid history. From horror to romance, noir to slapstick, adventure to tragedy, Western to new wave, this selection gathers the greats of 20th-century cinema into one indispensable guide to movie gold... -
100 Movies of the 2010s by Jurgen Muller
RRP: $51.60$39.72Cinema has likely never been written off so often. In the decade of the 2010s, it is true, much has changed - both in how we watch movies, and in how we see ourselves. Social media and the internet have shaped a new understanding of the self and the... -
What Is Japanese Cinema?: A History by Yomota Inuhiko 9780231191630
RRP: $28.38$22.39What might Godzilla and Kurosawa have in common? What, if anything, links Ozu's sparse portraits of domestic life and the colorful worlds of anime? In What Is Japanese Cinema? Yomota Inuhiko provides a concise and lively history of Japanese film that... -
The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Summer Sci-Fi Abducted Hollywood by Chris Nashawaty 9781250827050
RRP: $38.69$24.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250827050Author Chris NashawatyFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 155mm... -
The Hobbit Encyclopedia Damien Bador 9780711288980
RRP: $36.12$23.98Delve into Middle-earth, decipher the Dwarves’ alphabet and more, with this indispensable and comprehensive guide to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. This wide-ranging encyclopedia covers all the characters, places and objects included in the seminal book... -
QT Non-fiction by Quentin Tarantino 9781474624220
RRP: $32.25$18.91A 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... -
Lynch on Lynch by David Lynch
RRP: $24.50$16.16Now fully updated, Lynch on Lynch describes the career of a cinematic genius who has continued to astonish filmgoers with the lovely and life-affirming The Straight Story and the luxurious dread of the Academy Award-nominated Mulholland Drive.David Lynch... -
Masters of Make-Up Effects: A Century of Practical Magic by Howard Berger
RRP: $38.70$27.09Dive into the fascinating world of movie make-up effects with this stunning illustrated oral history of the art form. Masters of Make-Up Effects is a celebration of make-up artists and acclaimed make-up effects from the world of film and television... -
Star Wars Timelines: From the Time Before the High Republic to the Fall of the First Order by Kristin Baver
RRP: $45.15$30.39Chart the history of Star Wars in this stunning guide, from the time before the High Republic to the end of the First Order.An indispensable companion for all Star Wars fans, this premium quality book displays visual timelines that chronologically map... -
The Digital Banal: New Media and American Literature and Culture by Zara Dinnen 9780231184298
RRP: $32.25$25.27Contemporary culture is haunted by its media. Yet in their ubiquity, digital media have become increasingly banal, making it harder for us to register their novelty or the scope of the social changes they have wrought. What do we learn about our media... -
The Film That Changed My Life: 30 Directors on Their Epiphanies in the Dark by Robert K. Elder 9781556528255
RRP: $25.79$16.58The movie that inspired filmmakers to direct is like the atomic bomb that went off before their eyes. The Film That Changed My Life captures that epiphany. It explores 30 directors' love of a film they saw at a particularly formative moment, how it... -
A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune. An Oral History. by Max Evry 9781948221290
RRP: $27.08$20.55LIMITED FIRST EDITION contains red foil gilded page edges and a black satin ribbon marker.As featured in Pitchfork, Empire, MovieMaker, Nerdist, Mashable, Wired, IGN, SFX, The Wrap, Gizmodo and more!"I see many things. I see plans within plans."Following... -
Naming Names: With a New Afterword by the Author by Victor S Navasky
RRP: $46.44$30.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809001835Author Victor S NavaskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis by Barbara Creed 9780367209452
RRP: $47.72$41.96The Monstrous Feminine is one of the most influential books to emerge in the early 90sIn this new edition, Creed does it again, recontextualizing the conception of the monstrous-feminine to track many of the evolutions in the horror genre This updated... -
Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film - Updated Edition by Carol J. Clover 9780691166292 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92$18.80From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the popularity of the low-budget tradition, Carol Clover looks in... -
Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film - Updated Edition by Carol J. Clover 9780691166292
RRP: $21.92$16.03From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the popularity of the low-budget tradition, Carol Clover looks in... -
The Carry On Girls by Gemma Ross 9781803993409
RRP: $32.25$23.92Whether it is the seaside postcard bubbly blondes of Barbara Windsor, the hysterically historical leading ladies of Joan Sims, the coquettish authoritarians of Hattie Jacques, or the statuesque confidence of Valerie Leon, the Carry On girls are stoic,... -
The Cinema Hypothesis - Teaching Cinema in the Classroom and Beyond Alain Bergala 9783901644672
RRP: $25.80$22.12This is the first English translation of Alain Bergala's seminal text on the potentials, possibilities, and problems of bringing film to schools and other educational contexts. Based on the author's own experiences of writing about and teaching film as... -
How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, and Beyond by James Monaco
RRP: $41.27$35.86Richard Gilman referred to How to Read a Film as simply "the best single work of its kind." And Janet Maslin in The New York Times Book Review marveled at James Monaco's ability to collect "an enormous amount of useful information and assemble it in an... -
'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy': On Where Eagles Dare by Geoff Dyer
RRP: $10.31$7.47A Telegraph, Evening Standard and Daily Mail Book of the YearFrom the acclaimed writer and critic Geoff Dyer, an extremely funny scene-by-scene analysis of Where Eagles Dare - published as the film reaches its 50th anniversaryA thrilling Alpine adventure... -
Taking it All in by Pauline Kael 9780714528410
RRP: $19.29$16.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714528410Author Pauline KaelFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd -
Bette And Joan: THE DIVINE FEUD Shaun Considine 9780751541878
RRP: $16.76$11.09'An absolute must-read' VANITY FAIRBette Davis and Joan Crawford: two of the deadliest arch-rivals of all time. Born in the same year (though Davis swore 'Crawford is five years older than me if she's a day'), the two fought bitterly throughout their... -
Hammer Glamour by Marcus Hearn
RRP: $32.24$24.01The inspiration for Edgar Wright's Last Night in Soho. Over fifty years ago, with the release of "The Curse of Frankenstein" and Christopher Lee's iconic performance in "Dracula", Hammer ushered in a whole new era of blood and barely-restrained... -
Visual and Other Pleasures by L. Mulvey
RRP: $36.11$31.31A new edition of Laura Mulvey's groundbreaking collection of essays, originally published in 1989. In an extensive introduction to this second edition, Mulvey looks back at the historical and personal contexts for her famous article Visual Pleasure and... -
Hatchet Job: Love Movies, Hate Critics by Mark Kermode 9781447230533
RRP: $12.89$9.38The finest film critic in Britain at the absolute top of his form' Stephen Fry'Entertainingly incendiary stuff' EmpireA hatchet job isn't just a bad review, it's a total trashing. Mark Kermode is famous for them - Pirates of the Caribbean, Sex and the... -
Critical Race Theory and Jordan Peele's Get Out Kevin Wynter (Pomona College, USA) 9781501351297
RRP: $20.63$19.65This book provides a concise introduction to critical race theory and shows how this theory can be used to interpret Jordan Peele's Get Out. It surveys recent developments in critical race studies and introduces key concepts that have helped shape the... -
The Queer Art of Failure by Judith Halberstam 9780822350453
RRP: $27.08$23.43The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives-to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to... -
Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine: Authorship and Genre in Photojournalism and Film by Philippe D. Mather 9781841506111
RRP: $23.16$22.92From 1945 to 1950, during the formative years of his career, Stanley Kubrick worked as a photojournalist for Look magazine. Offering a comprehensive examination of the work he produced during this period - before going on to become one of America's most... -
1971: 100 Films from Cinema's Greatest Year by Robert Sellers 9780750999991
RRP: $25.80$19.401971 was a great year for cinema. Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Dario Argento, Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Kubrick, Sergio Leone, George Lucas, Sam Peckinpah, Roman Polanski, Nicolas Roeg and Steven Spielberg, among many others, were behind the camera, while... -
The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film by W. K. Stratton
RRP: $16.76$11.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632862136Author W. K. StrattonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 362g -
Offbeat: British Cinema's Curiosities, Obscurities and Forgotten Gems (Revised & Updated) by Julian Upton
RRP: $29.66$20.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909394933Author Julian UptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 604Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress -
Bogie & Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair by William J. Mann
RRP: $45.15$29.70From the noted Hollywood biographer and author of The Contender comes this celebration of the great American love story-the romance between Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart-capturing its complexity, contradictions, and challenges as never before.In... -
From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy by Scott Meslow
RRP: $25.80$17.21An in-depth celebration of the romantic comedy's modern golden era and its role in our culture, tracking the genre from its heyday in the '80s and the '90s, its unfortunate decline in the 2000s, and its explosive reemergence in the age of streaming,... -
Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci by Stephen Thrower 9781903254905
RRP: $51.59$36.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903254905Author Stephen ThrowerFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint FAB PressPublisher FAB Press -
Hollywood Glamor Portraits: 145 Portraits of Stars, 1926-49 by John Kobal 9780486233529
RRP: $18.69$12.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486233529Author John KobalFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 545gDimensions(mm)... -
Defining Cult Movies: The Cultural Politics of Oppositional Taste Mark Jancovich 9780719066313
RRP: $25.79$18.73Concentrates on the analysis of cult movies, how they are defined, who defines them and the cultural politics of these definitions. Raises issues about the perception of it as an oppositional form of cinema, and of its strained relationships to... -
50 Oscar Nights: Iconic Stars and Filmmakers on Their Career-Defining Wins by Dave Karger 9780762486328
RRP: $32.25$22.42For almost a century, movie fans have been riveted by the Academy Awards and the stars who have won Oscars. 50 Oscar Nights takes readers behind the scenes of Hollywood's most storied awards show through new and exclusive interviews with dozens of A-list... -
David Lynch: A Retrospective by Ian Nathan 9781786751270
RRP: $38.70$25.68At once a pop culture icon, cult figure and film industry outsider, master filmmaker David Lynch and his work defy easy definition. Dredged from his subconscious mind, Lynch’s work is primed to act on our own hidden desires and fears, combining... -
Hollywood: The Oral History by Sam Wasson
RRP: $32.25$21.40Hollywood: The Oral History covers the history of Hollywood from the Silent era up to the 21st century.What makes this book unique from any other survey of Hollywood's history is that it is the history of an art form through the words of those people who...