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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... -
Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: The Epic Story of the Making of the Godfather by Mark Seal
RRP: $25.80$17.98The behind-the-scenes story of the making of The Godfather, fifty years after the classic film's original release.The story of how The Godfather was made is as dramatic, operatic, and entertaining as the film itself. Over the years, many versions of... -
Representing the Woman: Cinema and Psychoanalysis by Elizabeth Cowie 9780333660133
RRP: $59.34$59.29Representing the Woman: Cinema and Psychoanalysis examines the theory and politics of representation in narrative film. Questioning current accounts of cinema's pleasures for men and women, Elizabeth Cowie draws on the psychoanalytic theory of Freud and... -
Cleopatra and the Undoing of Hollywood: How One Film Almost Sunk the Studios by Patrick Humphries
RRP: $25.80$20.45There had been stars before. There had been films prior to Cleopatra. But in all the cynical, greedy, magical, histrionic history of the movies, there had never been a combination like that of Elizabeth Taylor and Cleopatra.Other films may have taken... -
James Bond Will Return: Critical Perspectives on the 007 Film Franchise by Claire Hines 9780231207416
RRP: $38.70$30.04For over six decades, James Bond has been a fixture of global culture, universally recognizable by the films' combination of action set pieces, sex, political intrigue, and outrageous gadgetry. But as the British Empire entered the final stages of... -
The Story of Looking by Mark Cousins
RRP: $25.80$19.57In The Story of Looking, Mark Cousins takes us on a lightning-bright tour - in words and images - through how our looking selves develop over the course of a lifetime, and the ways that looking has changed over the centuries. From great works of art to... -
The Art of My Neighbor Totoro by Hayao Miyazaki 9781591166986
RRP: $36.11$24.36Eleven-year-old Satsuki and her sassy little sister Mei are overjoyed about moving into a historic country house with their dad - but the girls don't realise what a delightful adventure awaits them there. While exploring their sprawling home and the... -
Goddess: The Secret Lives Of Marilyn Monroe by Anthony Summers
RRP: $21.92$14.89The classic, definitive biography of Marilyn Monroe, now updated in the year of the 60th anniversary of the iconic star's death - now a major Netflix film, The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Untold Tapes'Gets as near to the heart of the mystery as anyone... -
The Jaws Log: Expanded Edition by Carl Gottlieb 9780062229281
RRP: $16.76$11.82Winner of 3 Oscars [registered] and the highest grossing film of its time, "Jaws" was a phenomenon, and this is the only book on how 26-year-old Steven Spielberg transformed Peter Benchley's best-selling novel into the classic film it became... -
Art of Princess Mononoke by Hayao Miyazaki 9781421565972
RRP: $36.11$25.53Another in the popular line of Studio Ghibli artbooks, which include interviews with and concept sketches by the director of classics such as Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro, as well as finished animation cels from the movie. Princess Mononoke was... -
Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir (Revised and Expanded Edition) by Eddie Muller
RRP: $32.25$22.42TCM host Eddie Muller's Dark City is a film noir lover's bible, taking readers on a tour of the urban landscape of the grim and gritty genre in an authoritative, highly illustrated volume.This narrative history is packed with stories about the stars and... -
Film: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Wood
RRP: $11.60$8.32Film is considered by some to be the most dominant art form of the twentieth century. It is many things, but it has become above all a means of telling stories through images and sounds. The stories are often offered to us as quite false, frankly and... -
Cinema I: The Movement-Image by Gilles Deleuze
RRP: $29.66$28.23Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century philosophy, well known for his works on the philosophy of art and for his master-works, Difference and Repetition and - with Felix Guattari - A Thousand Plateaus and Anti-Oedipus... -
Film Noir by Alain Silver
RRP: $25.80$19.72Whether it's Double Indemnity, Kiss Me Deadly, or The Big Sleep, roam a screen world of dark and brooding elegance with this essential handbook to Film Noir. From private eyes and perfect crimes to corrupt cops and doomed affairs, editors Paul Duncan and... -
Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide by Josiah Howard 9781903254370
RRP: $25.79$18.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903254370Author Josiah HowardFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint FAB PressPublisher FAB Press -
Warner Bros.: Hollywood's Ultimate Backlot by Steven Bingen 9781493035335
RRP: $25.79$23.18Movie studios are the wondrous, almost magical locales where not just films, but legends, are created. Unfortunately, these celebrity playgrounds are, and always have been, largely hidden from public view. Although some movie studios offer tours, few... -
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Lindsay Hallam 9781911325642
RRP: $21.27$19.62When David Lynch's film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, a prequel to the television series Twin Peaks, premiered at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival it was met with met with outright hostility. Subsequent reviews from critics were almost unanimously... -
Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder by David Bordwell
RRP: $36.12$28.12Narrative innovation is typically seen as the domain of the avant-garde. However, techniques such as nonlinear timelines, multiple points of view, and unreliable narration have long been part of American popular culture. How did forms and styles once... -
Scenes From A Revolution: The Birth of the New Hollywood Mark Harris 9781847671219
RRP: $19.34$12.64With behind-the-scenes gossip creating as much drama as the movies themselves, Hollywood in 1967 showcased the future of film in more ways than one. From the anti-heroes of Bonnie and Clyde and the illicit sex of The Graduate to the race relations of In... -
Double Solitaire: The Films of Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder by Donald Brackett
RRP: $25.79$19.38Before Herzog and Kinski, before Simon and Garfunkel, there was Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. Despite their shared nickname, writer-producer Charles Brackett and writer-director Billy Wilder were not, in fact, the "happiest couple in Hollywood."... -
Love and Let Die: Bond, The Beatles and the British Psyche by John Higgs
RRP: $28.38$20.67The Beatles are the biggest band there has ever been. James Bond is the single most successful movie character of all time. They are also twins. Dr No, the first Bond film, and 'Love Me Do', the first Beatles record, were both released on the same day -... -
Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge by Joseph McBride 9780231216616
RRP: $36.12$28.12The director and cowriter of some of the world's most iconic films-including Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment-Billy Wilder earned acclaim as American cinema's greatest social satirist. Though an influential fixture in... -
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
RRP: $14.18$9.35NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM, STARRING ANA DE ARMAS, ADRIEN BRODY, BOBBY CANNAVALE AND JULIANNE NICHOLSON, DIRECTED BY ANDREW DOMINIK 'A torrentially imaginative, compulsively readable tour de force' Sunday Telegraph ... -
Colour Films in Britain: The Eastmancolor Revolution by Sarah Street
RRP: $33.53$28.64The story of Eastmancolor's arrival on the British filmmaking scene is one of intermittent trial and error, intense debate and speculation before gradual acceptance. This book traces the journey of its adoption in British Film and considers its lasting... -
Art of Kiki's Delivery Service by Hayao Miyazaki
RRP: $36.11$25.16Now that she's 13 years old, it's time for young Kiki to start thinking about her future. So one night, under the light of a full moon, she grabs her black cat, Jiji, hops on her mother's broom and heads off into the night. The next day she alights upon... -
James Whale: A New World Of Gods And Monsters by James Curtis 9780816643868
RRP: $20.63$18.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816643868Author James CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)... -
Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Price of a Vision by Charles Elton 9781419747120
RRP: $16.76$11.49The first biography of the acclaimed and derided filmmaker Michael Cimino-and a reevaluation of the infamous film that destroyed his career-now in paperback! The director Michael Cimino (1939-2016) is famous for two films: the intense, powerful, and... -
The Godfather Part II by Jon Lewis
RRP: $16.76$12.63Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II (1974) is a magisterial cinematic work, a gorgeous, stylized, auteur epic, and one of the few sequels judged by many to be greater than its predecessor. This despite the fact that it consists largely of... -
Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination by Annette Kuhn
$21.78Annette Kuhn's work as a theorist of culture has won her a wide reputation for dissecting film and other images in books such as Women's Pictures and The Power of the Image. In Family Secrets, she turns her attention to the deconstruction of pictures... -
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood by Maureen Ryan 9780063269316
RRP: $19.34$12.51NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERAn NPR Best Book of the YearIn this spectacular, newsmaking exposé that has the entertainment industry abuzz and on its heels, Vanity Fair's Maureen Ryan blows the lid off patterns of harassment... -
The Frightfest Guide To Grindhouse Movies by Buddy Giovinazzo
RRP: $21.92$15.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913051112Author Buddy GiovinazzoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint FAB PressPublisher FAB Press -
Act Naturally: The Beatles on Film by Steve Matteo 9781493059010
RRP: $24.50$17.56The five films the Beatles worked on during their time together (A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Magical Mystery Tour, Yellow Submarine, Let It Be) all represent key phases in the group's career-some successful, some not. Subsequent reissues of the films have... -
National Trust on Screen: Discover the locations That Made Film and TV Magic by Harvey Edgington 9780008688288
RRP: $12.89$9.37A behind-the-scenes guide to the National Trust locations in some of the most iconic film and TV moments. Fully updated to include the latest dramas such as Bridgerton, The Pursuit of Love and Operation Mincemeat. Ranging from lavish costume... -
Signs and Meaning in the Cinema by Peter Wollen 9781844573608
$38.35First published in 1969, Signs and Meaning in the Cinema transformed the emerging discipline of film studies. Remarkably eclectic and informed, Peter Wollen's highly influential and groundbreaking work remains a brilliant and accessible theorisation of... -
Starstruck: Vintage Movie Posters from Classic Hollywood Ira M. Resnick 9780789210197
RRP: $60.62$40.17For four decades film historian Ira M. Resnick has been amassing a superb collection of 2,000 vintage movie posters and 1,500 stills, which has never before been published. Starstruck: Vintage Movie Posters from Classic Hollywood features the best of... -
Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century by Dana Stevens 9781501134203
RRP: $14.18$9.03Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and NPR In this genre-defying "new kind of history" (The New Yorker), the chief film critic of Slate places comedy legend and acclaimed filmmaker Buster Keaton's unique creative genius in... -
Law at the Movies: Turning Legal Doctrine into Art by Prof Stanley Fish 9780198898726
RRP: $32.25$27.34This book asks "How can legal doctrine be turned into filmic art?" By "legal doctrine" Stanley Fish does not mean the sonorous abstractions that usually accompany the self-presentation of law--Justice, Equity, Equality, Liberty, Autonomy, and the like... -
The Definitive Guide To Screenwriting by Syd Field
RRP: $25.79$18.42Published for the first time in the UK, Syd Field, acclaimed writer and director, tells you step-by-step how to identify and fix common screenwriting problems, providing the professional secrets that make films brilliant - secrets that can make your... -
James Dean by John Howlett 9780859655347
RRP: $19.34$12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859655347Author John HowlettFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd -
Hollywood Harmony: Musical Wonder and the Sound of Cinema by Frank Lehman 9780190606404
RRP: $38.04$32.92Film music often tells us how to feel, but it also guides us how to hear. Hollywood Harmony explores the inner workings of film music, bringing together tools from music theory, musicology, and music psychology. Harmony, and especially chromaticism, is...