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Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir (Revised and Expanded Edition) by Eddie Muller
RRP: £25.00£17.38TCM 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... -
Aline MacMahon: Hollywood, the Blacklist, and the Birth of Method Acting by John Stangeland
RRP: £36.00£33.12American actress Aline MacMahon's youth was spent honing her talents while performing at local events in New York City. After popular stage success on Broadway, she headlined a touring company in Los Angeles, where she was discovered by legendary... -
The Cutting Edge: Philosophy of the SAW Films by C J Patton
RRP: £14.99£12.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615751801Author C J PattonFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Cutting Edge: Philosophy of the Saw SeriesPublisher Cutting Edge: Philosophy of the Saw... -
The Art of Hammer: Posters from the Archive of Hammer Films by Marcus Hearn
RRP: £24.99£20.01Hammer Films were almost as well known for the way in which they sold their films, as for the films themselves. The Art of Hammer is the first ever collection of the company's iconic movie posters, and is a celebration of movie art at its best. This... -
A Bollywood State of Mind: A journey into the world's biggest cinema by Sunny Singh
RRP: £20.00£13.88'Prepare to laugh, sob and dance: this lively history of Indian cinema is imprinted with the memories of a life-long cinephile.' The Telegraph'A gem of a book and a must for film lovers everywhere' Abir Mukherjee'My biggest recommendation of the year... -
Hollywood Glamor Portraits: 145 Portraits of Stars, 1926-49 by John Kobal 9780486233529
RRP: £14.49£9.47Apologies 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)... -
Anime: A History by Jonathan Clements 9781839025129
RRP: £28.99£27.54Japanese animation is at the nexus of an international multimedia industry worth over $23.6 billion a year, linked to everything from manga to computer games, Pokemon and plushies. In this comprehensive guide, Jonathan Clements chronicles the production... -
Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears by Michael Schulman
RRP: £30.00£24.73The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes drama.America does not have royalty... -
The Art of the Tale of the Princess Kaguya by Isao Takahata
RRP: £27.99£19.41In a film eight years in making, Studio Ghibli's cofounder Isao Takahata tells the untold story of Princess Kaguya.An old bamboo cutter and his wife find a tiny girl inside a bamboo shoot and raise her. The mysterious little princess grows rapidly into a... -
The Secret Life of the Movies by Simon Brew
£9.27Get ready to spot hundreds of things you've never seen before across a wide range of films, in this brand new book from the creator of Den Of Geek. From the small references and inspirations, through to clues, hidden meanings and moments in frame that... -
Art of Kiki's Delivery Service by Hayao Miyazaki
RRP: £27.99£19.41Now 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... -
French Cinema: A Very Short Introduction by Dudley Andrew 9780198718611
RRP: £8.99£7.07It is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until World War 1, when they were supplanted by Hollywood, the French cinema industry encompassed all genres, from popular entertainment to... -
'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy': On Where Eagles Dare by Geoff Dyer
RRP: £7.99£5.79A 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... -
Defining Cult Movies: The Cultural Politics of Oppositional Taste by Mark Jancovich
RRP: £19.99£14.52Concentrates 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... -
Alien - The Archive: The Ultimate Guide to the Classic Movies by Mark Salisbury
RRP: £35.00£26.69Alien is a science fiction milestone and one of the most thrilling, terrifying, and beautiful film franchises of all time. Alien: The Archive is the first complete book of the stunning artwork and photography from all four films. TM & (c) 2014 Twentieth... -
A Chronology of Film: A Cultural Timeline from the Magic Lantern to the Digital Screen by Ian Haydn Smith
RRP: £19.99£18.61A Chronology of Film presents a fresh perspective on the medium by taking a purely chronological approach to its history, tracing the complex links between technical innovations, social changes and artistic interventions. Organized around a central... -
Halloween by Murray Leeder
RRP: £22.99£20.72The 1970s represented an unusually productive and innovative period for the horror film, and John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) is the film that capped that golden age - and some say ruined it, by ushering in the era of the slasher film. Considered a... -
David Lynch: A Retrospective by Ian Nathan 9781786751270
RRP: £30.00£21.00At 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... -
Best Pick: A Journey through Film History and the Academy Awards by John Dorney
RRP: £30.00£28.65A fascinating history of motion pictures through the lens of the Academy Awards, the Best Picture winners, and the box-office contenders.In Best Pick: A Journey through Film History and the Academy Awards, John Dorney, Jessica Regan, and Tom Salinsky... -
Farber On Film: The Complete Film Writings Of Manny Farber: A Library of America Special Publication by Manny Farber 9781598534696
RRP: £28.99£19.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598534696Author Manny FarberFormat PaperbackPage Count 824Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 1061g -
The Sewing Circle: Hollywood's Greatest Secret-Female Stars Who Loved Other Women by Axel Madsen 9781504008730
RRP: £11.95£11.17Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and Barbara Stanwyck-to name a few-maintained their images as glamorous big-screen sex symbols complete with dashing escorts, handsome husbands, and scores of male admirers, thanks to studio publicity departments. But off... -
James Bond Will Return: Critical Perspectives on the 007 Film Franchise by Claire Hines 9780231207416
RRP: £30.00£22.82For 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... -
Driving Visions: Exploring the Road Movie by David Laderman
RRP: £27.99£24.49From the visionary rebellion of Easy Rider to the reinvention of home in The Straight Story, the road movie has emerged as a significant film genre since the late 1960s, able to cut across a wide variety of film styles and contexts. Yet, within the... -
The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by Greg Mitchell
RRP: £19.99£13.56The shocking and significant story of how the White House and Pentagon scuttled an epic Hollywood production. Soon after atomic bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, MGM set out to make a movie studio chief Louis B. Mayer called "the... -
The Cinema of Eisenstein by David Bordwell
RRP: £36.99£32.93The Cinema of Eisenstein is David Bordwell's comprehensive analysis of the films of Sergei Eisenstein, arguably the key figure in the entire history of film. The director of such classics as Potemkin,Ivan the Terrible, October, Strike, and Alexander... -
WKW: The Cinema of Wong Kar Wai by Kar-Wai Wong 9780847846177
RRP: £47.50£43.24Wong Kar Wai is known for his romantic and stylish films that explore-in saturated, cinematic scenes-themes of love, longing, and the burden of memory. His style reveals a fascination with mood and texture, and a sense of place figures prominently. In... -
How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, and Beyond by James Monaco
RRP: £31.99£21.07Richard 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... -
Imagining Reality by Kevin MacDonald
RRP: £14.99£9.80In Imaging Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary, Oscar-winning documentary-maker Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September, Touching the Void) and leading broadcaster/historian Mark Cousins (The Story of Film) offer an expanded, revised edition of their... -
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind: Watercolor Impressions by Hayao Miyazaki 9781421514994
RRP: £27.99£20.02In a long-ago war, humankind set off a devastating ecological disaster. Thriving industrial societies disappeared. The earth is slowly submerging beneath the expanding Sea of Corruption, an enormous toxic forest that creates mutant insects and releases a... -
The Great Movies by Roger Ebert
RRP: £18.99£14.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767910385Author Roger EbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
Goddess: The Secret Lives Of Marilyn Monroe by Anthony Summers
RRP: £16.99£11.54The 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 Films of Akira Kurosawa, Third Edition, Expanded and Updated by Donald Richie
RRP: £38.00£31.50In an epilogue provided for his incomparable study of Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), Donald Richie reflects on Kurosawa's life work of thirty feature films and describes his last, unfinished project, a film set in the Edo period to be called The Ocean Was... -
Starstruck: Vintage Movie Posters from Classic Hollywood by Ira M. Resnick 9780789210197
RRP: £46.99£31.14For 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... -
Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman by Sam Wasson
RRP: £11.99£8.45"So smart and entertaining it should come with its own popcorn"-PeopleCoinciding with the sixtieth anniversary of the film version of Truman Capote's Breakast at Tiffany's, the acclaimed, New York Times bestseller that is the definitive account of Audrey... -
The Philosophy of the Coen Brothers by Mark T. Conard 9780813125268
RRP: £32.00£26.13Many critics agree that Joel and Ethan Coen are one of the most visionary and idiosyncratic filmmaking teams of the last three decades. Combining thoughtful eccentricity, wry humor, irony, and often brutal violence, the Coen brothers have crafted a style... -
The Hammer Vault: Treasures from the Archive of Hammer Films by Marcus Hearn
RRP: £34.99£26.92This remarkable journey through the Hammer vault includes props, annotated script pages, unused poster artwork, production designs, rare promotional material and private correspondence. Hundreds of rare and previously unseen stills help to create a rich... -
Cinema I: The Movement-Image by Gilles Deleuze
RRP: £22.99£21.88Gilles 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... -
First Lady of Bond: the Autobiography of Eunice Gayson by Eunice Gayson 9780956653475
RRP: £19.99£12.05By the time Eunice Gayson played James Bond's girlfriend Sylvia Trench in "Dr No" and "From Russia With Love" she had already become one of the first reality TV stars. Her leading men included Sean Connery and Roger Moore, and at the height of her fame... -
<I>La Parisienne</i> in Cinema: Between Art and Life by Felicity Chaplin
RRP: £25.00£17.92Chic, sophisticated, seductive and enigmatic, the Parisienne possesses a je ne sais quoi that makes her difficult to define. But who or what is the Parisienne, and how is she depicted in cinema? The first book-length study on the subject combines... -
Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder by David Bordwell
RRP: £28.00£21.36Narrative 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...