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Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity by Viola Shafik 9789774166907
RRP: £19.99£16.82Since it was first published in 1998, Viola Shafik's Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity has become an indispensable work for scholars of film and the contemporary Middle East. Combining detailed narrative history-economic, ideological, and... -
Orson Welles Portfolio by Simon Braund
RRP: £34.99£17.01A lavish hardback containing Orson Welles' Portfolio, much of which has never been seen before. Orson Welles, famous as an accomplished actor, writer, producer and visionary director, had originally aspired to become a musician or artist. Having studied... -
Contemporary British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre and Society by Johnny Walker 9781474429399
£16.65Combining industry analysis, interviews and detailed textual readings, this book examines the post-millennial revival of British horror cinema.About the AuthorDr Johnny Walker is Lecturer in Media at Northumbria University.Book InformationISBN... -
The Cinema of David Cronenberg by Ernest Mathijs 9781905674657
RRP: £22.00£18.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905674657Author Ernest MathijsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 596gDimensions(mm) 242mm *... -
Chinese Martial Arts Cinema: The Wuxia Tradition by Stephen Teo
RRP: £28.99£24.86This updated edition is a comprehensive, fully-researched account of the historical and contemporary development of the traditional martial arts genre in the Chinese cinema known as wuxia (literal translation: martial chivalry) - a genre which audiences... -
America on Film – Representing Race, Class, Gender ,and Sexuality at the Movies 3e by HM Benshoff
RRP: £41.95£37.73A comprehensive and insightful examination of the representation of diverse viewpoints and perspectives in American cinema throughout the 20th and 21st centuries America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies, now in its... -
Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film by Michael Boyce Gillespie
RRP: £22.99£18.37In Film Blackness Michael Boyce Gillespie shifts the ways we think about black film, treating it not as a category, a genre, or strictly a representation of the black experience but as a visual negotiation between film as art and the discursivity of race... -
Production Design by Jane Barnwell 9781903364550
RRP: £17.99£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903364550Author Jane BarnwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 220mm *... -
Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes by Annette Insdorf
RRP: £17.99£14.38A great movie's first few minutes are the key to the rest of the film. Like the opening paragraphs of a novel, they draw the viewer in and set up the thematic concerns and stylistic approach that will be developed over the course of the narrative. A... -
New British Cinema from 'Submarine' to '12 Years a Slave': The Resurgence of British Film-making by Jason Wood 9780571315161 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99£2.19Over the past year the success of British films at international film festivals - as well as the numerous awards bestowed on 12 Years a Slave - have demonstrated that British cinema has undergone a genuine renaissance that has caused new voices to emerge... -
New British Cinema from 'Submarine' to '12 Years a Slave': The Resurgence of British Film-making by Jason Wood 9780571315161
RRP: £17.99£12.20Over the past year the success of British films at international film festivals - as well as the numerous awards bestowed on 12 Years a Slave - have demonstrated that British cinema has undergone a genuine renaissance that has caused new voices to emerge... -
Cinema at the Periphery by Dina Iordanova 9780814333884
RRP: £31.95£30.37This title highlights the industries, markets, identities, and histories that distinguish cinema beyond the traditional hubs of mainstream Western cinema. From Iceland to Iran, from Singapore to Scotland, a growing intellectual and cultural wave of... -
Hollywood Screwball Comedy 1934-1945: Sex, Love, and Democratic Ideals by Grégoire Halbout 9781501389313
£29.35A 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Love at first sight, whirlwind marriages, break-ups, divorces, remarriage... What accounts for the enduring success of the Hollywood madcap comedies of the 1930s? Directed by masters of comedy (Hawks,... -
Welcome to the Cheap Seats: Silver Screen Portrayals of the British Working Class by Andrew Graves 9781910170625
RRP: £9.99£8.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170625Author Andrew GravesFormat PaperbackImprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
Grindhouse Purgatory #11 by Rhonda Baughman 9781984230812
RRP: £9.14£8.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984230812Author Rhonda BaughmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Cats on Film: In Black & White by Anne Billson 9781978038745
RRP: £12.99£11.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978038745Author Anne BillsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Performance by Colin MacCabe
RRP: £12.99£10.94Directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, and starring James Fox, Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg, Performance was filmed in 1968, but not released until 1970. When its studio backers saw the director's cut, they were so shocked by the film's sexual... -
Aim for the Heart: The Films of Clint Eastwood by Howard Hughes
£49.90Clint Eastwood is one of the world's most popular action stars, who has matured into a fine American producer-director. Entertaining, illuminating and packed with information, up to and including "The Changeling", this is the first book to cover his full... -
Hang 'em High: 110 Years of Western Movie Posters, 1911-2020 by Mark Fertig
RRP: £75.00£52.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683964728Author Mark FertigFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics -
Talking about Ken Russell (Expanded Edition) by Dr Paul Sutton 9780993177040
RRP: £55.00£54.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993177040Author Dr Paul SuttonFormat HardbackPage Count 566Imprint Buffalo BooksPublisher Buffalo BooksWeight(grams) 2046g -
I Found it at the Movies: Reflections of a Cinephile by Philip French 9781847771292
£20.00For nearly half a century Philip French's writing on cinema has been essential reading for filmgoers, cinephiles and anyone who enjoys witty, intelligent engagement with the big screen. I Found It at the Movies collects some of the best of Philip... -
J. Lee Thompson by Steve Chibnall 9780719060120
RRP: £25.00£18.78First published on the fiftieth anniversary of his directorial debut, this book was the first to examine the work of a man once hailed as the finest film-maker to emerge from the British studio system after the Second World War. Before being recruited by... -
Personal Views: Explorations in Film by Robin Wood 9780814332788
RRP: £28.95£23.33Robin Wood, the renowned scholarly critic and writer on film, has prepared a new introduction and added three essays to his classic text ""Personal Views."" This important book contains essays on a wide range of films and filmmakers... -
The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood by Dennis McDougal 9780306810503
£21.83The reviewer of the Boston Globe said point blank: "Over the years, I've read hundreds of books on Hollywood and the movie business, and this one is right at the top." As the elusive, tyrannical head of the Music Corporation of America (MCA) until the... -
Metropolis - 75th Anniversary Edition by Thea von Harbou 9780918736352
RRP: £12.99£12.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918736352Author Thea von HarbouFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint James A. Rock & Company PublishersPublisher James A. Rock & Company... -
Nationalising Femininity: Culture, Sexuality and British Cinema in the Second World War by Christine Gledhill 9780719083501
RRP: £19.99£17.61Case studies examine competing definitions of feminism, contoured by The Second World War, circulating in cinema, women's magazines, social policies, government pamphlets, fashion, and broadcasting -- .Book InformationISBN 9780719083501Author Christine... -
Zombie Holocaust by David Flint
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859653978Author David FlintFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd -
Withnail and I by Kevin Jackson
RRP: £12.99£10.94Withnail and I sank almost without a trace when it was first released in 1987. Financed by HandMade Films, the late George Harrison's production company, and drawing heavily on first-time writer-director Bruce Robinson's experiences, this virtually... -
Hollywood's Cold War by Tony Shaw
RRP: £31.00£30.86Published at a point when American filmmakers are deeply involved in the War on Terror, this authoritative and timely book offers the first comprehensive account of Hollywood's propaganda role during the defining ideological conflict of the twentieth... -
The Hollywood Renaissance: Revisiting American Cinema's Most Celebrated Era by Yannis Tzioumakis
£32.30In December 1967, Time magazine put Bonnie and Clyde on its cover and proudly declared that Hollywood cinema was undergoing a 'renaissance'. For the next few years, a wide range of formally and thematically challenging films were produced at the very... -
On Kubrick: Revised Edition by James Naremore
RRP: £26.99£24.51In a comprehensively revised and updated new edition, James Naremore provides an illuminating critical account of the films of Stanley Kubrick, from his earliest feature, Fear and Desire (1953), to the posthumously-produced A.I. Artificial Intelligence... -
The Films of Jess Franco by Antonio Lazaro-Reboll 9780814343166
£30.37The Films of Jess Franco looks at the work of Jesus ""Jess"" Franco (1930-2013), one of the most prolific and madly inventive filmmakers in the history of cinema. He is best known as the director of jazzy, erotically charged horror movies featuring mad... -
Keep Watching the Skies!: American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, The 21st Century Edition by Bill Warren 9781476666181
RRP: £35.99£33.31Long 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... -
Cinema '62: The Greatest Year at the Movies by Stephen Farber
RRP: £38.00£29.05Lawrence of Arabia, The Miracle Worker, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Manchurian Candidate, Gypsy, Sweet Bird of Youth, The Longest Day, The Music Man, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, and more.Most conventional film histories dismiss the early 1960s as a... -
Masterpieces of Modernist Cinema by Ted Perry
RRP: £25.99£20.84In Masterpieces of Modernist Cinema, prominent scholars consider well-known films that seem to stand alone in the history of cinema, without obvious precursors, and without progeny: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, L'age d'or, and Last Year in Marienbad, to... -
Revolutionary Melodrama: Popular Film and Civic Identity in Nasser's Egypt by Joel Gordon
RRP: £52.50£47.95Revolutionary 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... -
Portraits from Hollywood's Golden Age of Glamour by Colin Slater and The Hollywood Photo Archive
RRP: £25.00£22.07In 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... -
Alfred Hitchcock: Filmmaker and Philosopher by Mark William Roche
RRP: £21.99£19.28Hitchcock was a masterful director, popular with audiences of all ages and critically acclaimed both during and after his unusually long career. What may have been sensed by many viewers but not fully articulated until now is the extent to which his... -
True to the Spirit: Film Adaptation and the Question of Fidelity by Colin MacCabe 9780195374674
RRP: £38.99£24.71Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Classical Mexican Cinema: The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films by Charles Ramirez Berg 9781477308059
RRP: £25.99£20.84From the mid-1930s to the late 1950s, Mexican cinema became the most successful Latin American cinema and the leading Spanish-language film industry in the world. Many Cine de Oro (Golden Age cinema) films adhered to the dominant Hollywood model, but a...