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Warner Bros.: Hollywood's Ultimate Backlot by Steven Bingen 9781493035335
RRP: $34.29$30.82Movie 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... -
Love and Let Die: Bond, The Beatles and the British Psyche by John Higgs
RRP: $37.74$27.48The 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 -... -
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me by Lindsay Hallam
RRP: $28.29$26.09When 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... -
Bresson on Bresson: Interviews, 1943-1983 by Robert Bresson 9781681377803
RRP: $30.86$20.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377803Author Robert BressonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
James Whale: A New World Of Gods And Monsters by James Curtis 9780816643868
RRP: $29.14$25.28Apologies 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)... -
A Rose for Mrs. Miniver: The Life of Greer Garson by Michael Troyan 9780813191508
$50.46In this first-ever biography of Greer Garson, Michael Troyan sweeps away the many myths that even today veil her life. The true origins of her birth, her fairy-tale discovery in Hollywood, and her career struggles at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer are revealed for... -
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
RRP: $18.85$12.44NOW 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 ... -
It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese 9781913393823
RRP: $25.71$16.81"Horror opened me up to new possibilities for survival ... I saw power in freakery and transgression and wondered if it could be mine." The relationship between horror films and the LGBTQ+ community? It's complicated. Haunted houses, forbidden desires... -
Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Price of a Vision by Charles Elton 9781419747120
RRP: $22.28$14.87The 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... -
Scenes From A Revolution: The Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris
RRP: $25.71$16.81With 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: $34.29$25.20Before 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."... -
Thunderbook: The World of Bond According to Smersh Pod by John Rain
RRP: $22.28$15.69This fully updated edition includes the 25th Bond film, No Time To Die, and also features a chapter covering Never Say Never Again, which starred Sean Connery as Bond but was not an official Eon film. The Bond films have entertained annoyed, excited,... -
Down and Dirty Pictures by Peter Biskind 9780747565710
RRP: $29.14$22.16In the late 1980s a generation of filmmakers began to flower outside the Hollywood studio system and in the following decade, the independent film movement bloomed. Dozens of lesser-known filmmakers such as Steven Soderbergh and Quentin Tarantino began... -
The Godfather Part II by Jon Lewis
RRP: $22.28$16.36Francis 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... -
George's Run: A Writer's Journey through the Twilight Zone by Henry Chamberlain 9781978834200
RRP: $41.15$31.68George Clayton Johnson was an up-and-coming short story writer who broke into Hollywood in a big way when he co-wrote the screenplay for Ocean's Eleven. More legendary works followed, including Logan's Run and classic scripts for shows like The Twilight... -
Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination by Annette Kuhn
RRP: $25.71$22.14Annette 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... -
Hollywood: The Oral History by Sam Wasson
RRP: $42.88$28.46Hollywood: 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... -
Cinemaps: An Atlas of 35 Great Movies by Andrew DeGraff
RRP: $46.31$31.89Acclaimed artist Andrew DeGraff has created beautiful hand-painted maps of all your favorite films, from King Kong and North by Northwest to The Princess Bride, Fargo, Labyrinth, Pulp Fiction, even The Breakfast Club - with the routes of every major... -
Quatermass and the Pit by Kim Newman
RRP: $22.28$17.58While digging an extension to the London Underground Railway, workmen discover an object which might be an ancient Martian spaceship - and Professor Quatermass of the British Rocket Group investigates a mystery which prompts frightening revelations about... -
Steven Spielberg All the Films: The Story Behind Every Movie, Episode, and Short by Arnaud Devillard 9780762483723
RRP: $85.77$60.34Just as BDL's bestselling All the Songs series-which has over 400,000 copies in print-presents a comprehensive, song-by-song view of major bands and music history, Steven Spielberg All the Films: The Stories Behind Every Movie, Episode, and Short... -
Act Naturally: The Beatles on Film by Steve Matteo 9781493059010
RRP: $32.57$23.35The 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... -
A Companion to the Horror Film by Harry M. Benshoff
RRP: $82.25$73.38This cutting-edge collection features original essays by eminent scholars on one of cinema's most dynamic and enduringly popular genres, covering everything from the history of horror movies to the latest critical approaches. Contributors include many of... -
Schrader on Schrader by Paul Schrader
RRP: $32.57$22.90Schrader on Schrader is an essential set of dialogues with one of the most genuinely fascinating and uncompromising writer-directors in American film.Raised as a Calvinist and hence forbidden to partake of 'worldly pleasures' such as movies, Paul... -
Dark Matter: Independent Filmmaking in the 21st Century by Michael Winterbottom
RRP: $32.57$25.46A Sight & Sound Book of the Year "Eye-opening and addictively readable." Total Film Who and what decides if a film gets funded? How do those who control the purse strings also determine a film's content and even its message? Writing as the... -
From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture by Elizabeth Bell
RRP: $30.86$27.72From Mouse to Mermaid, an interdisciplinary collection of original essays, is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of Disney cinema. Addressing children's classics as well as the Disney affiliates' more recent attempts to capture adult audiences,... -
Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century by Dana Stevens 9781501134203
RRP: $18.85$12.01Named 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... -
Film Music: A Very Short Introduction by Kathryn Kalinak
RRP: $15.42$12.42The rich and deeply moving sounds of film music are as old as cinema itself. Even the very first projected moving images were accompanied by music in many places as a variety of performers - from single piano players to small orchestras - brought images... -
Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era by Noah Isenberg
RRP: $48.03$38.34Taken as a whole, the sixteen remarkable films discussed in this provocative new volume of essays represent the brilliant creativity that flourished in the name of German cinema between the wars. Encompassing early gangster pictures and science fiction,... -
Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents by Stephen Thrower 9781903254462
RRP: $85.75$59.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903254462Author Stephen ThrowerFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint FAB PressPublisher FAB PressWeight(grams) 3194g -
The Frightfest Guide To Exploitation Movies by Buddy Giovinazzo 9781903254875
RRP: $34.29$23.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903254875Author Buddy GiovinazzoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint FAB PressPublisher FAB Press -
Rocliffe Notes - A Guide To Low Budget Film-making: Rocliffe Notes by Farah Abushwesha
RRP: $32.57$21.87A second book in the ROCLIFFE NOTES series, formed from the questions of newer filmmakers. This is a practical compendium for screenwriters and filmmakers in the form of notes and opinions. These provide a step-by-step, common-sense guide, with... -
The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek: the First 25 Years by Edward Gross
$35.39This is the unauthorised, uncensored, and unbelievable true story behind the making of a pop culture phenomenon. The original Star Trek series debuted in 1966 and has spawned eight TV series spin-offs and a dozen feature films. The Fifty-Year Mission is... -
Hollywood Cinema by Richard Maltby
RRP: $65.10$62.64This extensively revised second edition offers a comprehensive introduction to Hollywood cinema, providing a fascinating account of the cultural and aesthetic significance of the world's most powerful film industry. Provides a fascinating account of... -
A Short History of Cahiers Du Cinema by Emilie Bickerton
$28.92Cahiers du Cinema was the single most influential project in the history of film. Founded in 1951, it was responsible for establishing film as the 'seventh art,' equal to literature, painting or music, and it revolutionized film-making and writing. Its... -
Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies: The Screenwriter's Guide to Every Story Ever Told by Blake Snyder
RRP: $27.43$18.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932907353Author Blake SnyderFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese ProductionsWeight(grams)... -
Alfred Hitchcock by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $25.71$19.59Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to plot an... -
Film Studies: An Introduction: Teach Yourself by Warren Buckland
RRP: $22.28$15.44An unpretentious guide for all those who want to learn to analyse, understand and evaluate films.Film Studies: An Introduction provides an overview of the key areas in film studies, including aesthetics, narrative, genre, documentary films and the... -
Spectacular Digital Effects: CGI and Contemporary Cinema by Kristen Whissel 9780822355885
RRP: $39.43$35.20By developing the concept of the "digital effects emblem," Kristen Whissel contributes a new analytic rubric to cinema studies. An "effects emblem" is a spectacular, computer-generated visual effect that gives stunning expression to a film's key themes... -
Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film by Helen O'Hara
RRP: $18.85$13.35'A fascinating polemic' Sunday Times 'A powerful, sobering and vital work' The Mail on Sunday 'A page-turning read, peppered with humour' Sight & Sound'A must read' Edgar WrightA call to arms from Empire magazine's 'geek queen', Helen O'Hara, that... -
The Short Story of Film: A Pocket Guide to Key Genres, Films, Techniques and Movements by Ian Haydn Smith
RRP: $25.71$19.59The Short Story of Film is a new and innovative introduction to the art of film-making. Simply constructed, the book explores 50 key movies, from superhero blockbusters to indie darlings. The design of the book allows the reader to navigate their way...