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The Griffith Project, Volume 12: Essays on D.W. Griffith by Paulo Cherchi Usai
£102.53THE GRIFFITH PROJECT Paolo Cherchi Usai, General Editor Volume 12: Essays on D.W. Griffith Edited by Paolo Cherchi Usai and Cynthia Rowell With contributions by William M. Drew, Helmut Farber, Andre Gaudreault, Philippe Gauthier, Lea Jacobs, Joyce... -
Noel Carroll and Film by Mario Slugan
£119.46Noel Carroll is one of the most prolific, widely-cited and distinguished philosophers of art, but how, specifically, has cinema impacted his thought? This book, one of the first in the acclaimed 'Film Thinks' series, argues that Carroll's background in... -
The Femme Fatale by Julie Grossman
RRP: £24.95£15.75Ostensibly the villain, but also a model of female power, poise, and intelligence, the femme fatale embodies Hollywood's contradictory attitudes toward ambitious women. But how has the figure of the femme fatale evolved over time, and to what extent have... -
Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema by Kay Armatage
RRP: £32.00£30.48Since Nell Shipman wrote and starred in Back to God's Country (1919), Canadian women have been making films. The accolades given to film-makers such as Patricia Rozema (I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, When Night is Falling), Alanis Obomsawin... -
The Art of Taking a Walk: Flanerie, Literature, and Film in Weimar Culture by Anke Gleber
RRP: £45.00£41.90Anke Gleber examines one of the most intriguing and characteristic figures of European urban modernity: the observing city stroller, or flaneur. In an age transformed by industrialism, the flaneur drifted through city streets, inspired and repelled by... -
Pleasing Everyone: Mass Entertainment in Renaissance London and Golden-Age Hollywood by Jeffrey Knapp
£18.01Shakespeare's plays were immensely popular in their own day -- so why do we refuse to think of them as mass entertainment? In Pleasing Everyone, author Jeffrey Knapp opens our eyes to the uncanny resemblance between Renaissance drama and the... -
Movies, Modernism, and the Science Fiction Pulps by J. P. Telotte
RRP: £25.99£24.45What impact did the new art of film have on the development of another new art, the emerging science fiction genre, during the pre- and early post-World War II era? Focusing on such popular pulp magazines as Amazing Stories, Astounding Stories, and... -
On Desire: Positions of Time-Based and Immersive Arts by Bernd Kracke
RRP: £28.99£23.38Desire indicates phenomena that are implicated in a productive ambiguity. These phenomena associate basic elements of human coexistence while also referencing complex social processes and institutions. With today's new media we experience an assemblage... -
Hollywood Riots: Violent Crowds and Progressive Politics in American Film by Doug Dibbern
RRP: £120.00£119.52The large literature about the politics of Hollywood in the period of McCarthy and the blacklist has largely overlooked political filmmaking during those agitated years. "Hollywood Riots" examines the most vibrant cycle of independently... -
Le Jour se Leve: French Film Guide by Dr. Ben McCann
£19.04Le Jour se leve (1939) directed by Marcel Carne, is widely recognised as the classic French Poetic Realist film. Told in flashback, it recounts the story of a man who has committed a murder, and who awaits his fate as the police close in. Carne shuttles... -
Hollywood and the Invention of England: Projecting the English Past in American Cinema, 1930-2017 by Jonathan Stubbs
RRP: £110.00£109.56Drawing on new archival research into Hollywood production history and detailed analysis of individual films, Hollywood and the Invention of England examines the surprising affinity for the English past in Hollywood cinema. Stubbs asks why Hollywood... -
Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror by Jason Zinoman
RRP: £24.00£16.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143121367Author Jason ZinomanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 278g -
The Griffith Project, Volume 2: Films Produced January - June, 1909 by Paolo Cherchi Usai
£102.53Silent film director D.W. Griffith is the subject of this study. Only a small group of his more than 500 films are subject to analysis. The creative output of Griffiths from "Professional Jealousy" (1907) to "The Struggle" (1931) is explored.About the... -
So Close to the State/s: The Emergence of Canadian Feature Film Policy, 1952-1976 by Michael Dorland
RRP: £28.99£26.51This book examines in detail the formation of Canadian feature film policy from the 1950s to the present. It pays special attention to the role played by producers, filmmakers, and government agencies, in relation to the changing production practices... -
Another Steven Soderbergh Experience: Authorship and Contemporary Hollywood by Mark Gallagher
£25.33How do we determine authorship in film, and what happens when we look in-depth at the creative activity of living filmmakers rather than approach their work through the abstract prism of auteur theory? Mark Gallagher uses Steven Soderbergh's career as a... -
Romuald Karmakar by Olaf Moller
RRP: £28.00£26.80Romuald Karmakar's work in the fields of fiction and documentary holds a unique place in European film. It also stands in clear opposition to the dominant ways of the German film industry - both aesthetically and in its head-on treatment of several sore... -
The Multilingual Screen: New Reflections on Cinema and Linguistic Difference by Tijana Mamula
£37.58The Multilingual Screen is the first edited volume to offer a wide-ranging exploration of the place of multilingualism in cinema, investigating the ways in which linguistic difference and exchange have shaped, and continue to shape, the medium's history... -
The Making of Major League: A Juuuust a Bit Inside Look at the Classic Baseball Comedy by Jonathan Knight
RRP: £15.95£11.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938441646Author Jonathan KnightFormat PaperbackPage Count 255Imprint Gray & Company PublishersPublisher Gray & Company PublishersWeight(grams)... -
The Griffith Project, Volume 6: Films Produced in 1912 by Paolo Cherchi Usai
£102.931912 is the first "golden year" in the career of D.W. Griffith. There is still a wealth of treasures waiting to be uncovered in this year. Their reappraisal is one of the aims of this sixth installment in the multi-year research project... -
Post-beur Cinema: North African Emigre and Maghrebi-French Filmmaking in France since 2000 by Will Higbee
RRP: £28.99£23.38This is a comparative analysis of Maghrebi-French and North African emigre cinema in France. Since the early 1980s, the arrival of Beur cinema filmmakers of Maghrebi origin have made a key contribution to French cinema's representation of issues such as... -
Cinema and Contact: The Withdrawal of Touch in Nancy, Bresson, Duras and Denis by Laura McMahon
RRP: £84.99£73.85This book, drawing on the work of contemporary French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, investigates the aesthetics and politics of touch in the cinema of three of the most prominent and distinctive filmmakers to have emerged in France: Robert Bresson,... -
British Film Design: A History by Laurie N. Ede
£119.46"British Film Design" is about the things that you see when you close your eyes and think of British cinema: "Dr. No's Hideaway", the buffet of "Brief Encounter", Vera Drake's parlour, "Hogwarts School"...and a... -
Alphaville: French Film Guide by Chris Darke
£113.92A striking black-and-white hybrid of film noir and science fiction, "Alphaville" (1965) is now one of the most enduringly popular of Jean-Luc Godard 's films of the 1960s. Working without sets, special effects, or even a script, Godard created a... -
Live from the Moon: Film, Television and the Space Race by Michael Allen
£119.46"We choose to go to the Moon, not because it is easy but because it is hard." President John F. Kennedy's words spoke of an American enterprise that rivalled, and echoed, that of the discovery and settling of his own country a century before... -
Bas Jan Ader: Death is Elsewhere by Alexander Dumbadze
RRP: £16.00£15.77On July 9, 1975, artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, for Palmouth, England, on the second leg of a three-part piece titled In Search of the Miraculous. His damaged boat was found south of the western tip of Ireland nearly a year... -
Fear Eats the Soul (Angst Essen Seele Auf) by Laura Cottingham
£10.94In Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Fear Eats the Soul (Angst Essen Seele Auf, 1974) Emma (Brigitte Mira), a working-class widow and former member of the Nazi party, marries Ali (El Hedi ben Salem), a much younger Moroccan migrant worker. Set in Munich during... -
History of Film by David Parkinson 9780500204108 [USED COPY]
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History of Film by David Parkinson 9780500204108
£19.89In this lively and up-to-date analysis of the history of film, David Parkinson traces the evolution of the moving image from the earliest shadow shows to the digital film-making of the 21st century. Engaging text is supplemented by 156 illustrations to... -
The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema by Daisuke Miyao 9780190937355
RRP: £40.99£39.64The reality of transnational innovation and dissemination of new technologies, including digital media, has yet to make a dent in the deep-seated culturalism that insists on reinscribing a divide between the West and Japan. The Oxford Handbook of... -
Spectatorship - The Power of Looking On by Michele Aaron
£15.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905674015Author Michele AaronFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 212mm *... -
Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age of Video by Catherine Russell
£23.72Experimental film and ethnographic film have long been considered separate, autonomous practices on the margins of mainstream cinema. By exploring the interplay between the two forms, Catherine Russell throws new light on both the avant-garde and visual... -
Tod Browning's Dracula by Gary Rhodes 9780956683458
RRP: £20.00£13.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956683458Author Gary RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Tomahawk PressPublisher Tomahawk PressWeight(grams) 500g -
Jacques Rivette and French New Wave Cinema: Interviews, Conversations, Chronologies by James R Russo
RRP: £32.50£29.57This first comprehensive English collection of the interviews of Jacques Rivette (19282016) documents his career through chronology, filmography, bibliography, and image stills. A comprehensive introduction places this work in the wider context of... -
Film After Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?) by J. Hoberman 9781781681435
RRP: £20.99£19.97One of the world's most erudite and entertaining film critics on the state of cinema in the post-digital-and post-9/11-age. This witty and allusive book, in the style of classic film theorists/critics like Andre Bazin and Siegfried Kracauer, includes... -
Frightmares - A History of British Horror Cinema by Ian Cooper
RRP: £24.99£22.41The horror film reveals as much, if not more, about the British psyche as the more respectable heritage film or the critically revered social realist drama. Yet, like a mad relative locked in the attic, British horror cinema has for too long been ignored... -
Narrative and Narration: Analyzing Cinematic Storytelling by Warren Buckland
£14.38From mainstream blockbusters to art house cinema, narrative and narration are the driving forces that organize a film. Yet attempts to explain these forces are often mired in notoriously complex terminology and dense theory. Warren Buckland provides a... -
Cinema and Painting: How Art Is Used in Film by Angela Dalle Vacche
£23.62The visual image is the common denominator of cinema and painting, and indeed many filmmakers have used the imagery of paintings to shape or enrich the meaning of their films. In this discerning new approach to cinema studies, Angela Dalle Vacche... -
Silent Cinema: A Research Guide by Paolo Cherchi Usai 9781844575282
£39.02Paolo Cherchi Usai provides a comprehensive introduction to the study, research and preservation of silent cinema from its heyday in the early 20th century to its present day flourishing. He traces the history of the moving image in its formative years,... -
Essays on the Essay Film by Nora M. Alter
£23.29The essay-with its emphasis on the provisional and explorative rather than on definitive statements-has evolved from its literary beginnings and is now found in all mediums, including film. Today, the essay film is, arguably, one of the most widely... -
Dziga Vertov - The Vertov Collection at the Austrian Film Museum by Thomas Tode
RRP: £22.00£20.29For the Russian filmmaker and film theorist Dziga Vertov (1896-1954), cinema was both a bold aesthetic experiment and a document of contemporary life. This English/German bilingual catalogue includes films, photographs, posters, letters and a large...