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Contesting Tears: Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman by Stanley Cavell 9780226098166
Booksplease Price: £23.12Stanley Cavell identified a genre of classic American films that engaged these questions in his study of comedies of remarriage, "Pursuits of Happiness". With "Contesting Tears", Cavell demonstrates that a contrasting genre, which he calls "the melodrama... -
Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces Alexandra Heller-Nicholas 9781786834966
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.63Why has the mask been such an enduring generic motif in horror cinema? This book explores its transformative potential historically across myriad cultures, particularly in relation to its ritual and mythmaking capacities, and its intersection with power,... -
Anime: A History by Jonathan Clements 9781839025129
Booksplease Price: £34.18Japanese 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... -
The Exam Skills Handbook: Achieving Peak Performance by Stella Cottrell 9780230358546 [USED COPY]
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £2.09Provides an easy-to-follow set of strategies and techniques that build to a plan for achieving your best possible exam performance. It gives practical step-by-step guidance in long-term planning for optimal performance through to last minute revision... -
The Exam Skills Handbook: Achieving Peak Performance by Stella Cottrell
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £21.55Provides an easy-to-follow set of strategies and techniques that build to a plan for achieving your best possible exam performance. It gives practical step-by-step guidance in long-term planning for optimal performance through to last minute revision... -
The Kindness Of Strangers Salka Viertel 9781681372747
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372747Author Salka ViertelFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder and the Movies by Paul Fischer
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.83A Radio 4 Book of the Week.'Fascinating . . . filled with lively historical digressions.' New York Times 'Best True Crime of 2022'In 1888 Louis Le Prince shot the world's first motion picture in Leeds, England. In 1890, weeks before the public unveiling... -
The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses by Laura U. Marks
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.05Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working between cultures use cinema, a visual medium, to transmit... -
The Tudors on Film and Television Sue Parrill 9780786458912
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.26With its mix of family drama, sex and violence, Britain's Tudor dynasty (1485-1603) has long excited the interest of filmmakers and moviegoers. Since the birth of movie-making technology, the lives and times of kings Henry VII, Henry VIII, and Edward... -
Star Trek: The Illustrated Oral History: The Original Cast Titan Magazines 9781787738645
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.31The story of Star Trek as told by the people who know it best: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley and the cast and crew! This lavishly illustrated oral history of the Star Trek phenomenon covers the exploits of the original crew across three... -
The Cinema of Powell and Pressburger by Nathalie Morris 9781838719173
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.06Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were true visionaries of British cinema, creating glorious Technicolor masterpieces including A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Black Narcissus (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948). Delving into their magical and... -
The Unforgettable Loretta, Darling by Katherine Blake 9780241640685
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.96Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Starstruck: Vintage Movie Posters from Classic Hollywood Ira M. Resnick 9780789210197
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £30.38For 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... -
Double Vision: The Cinema of Robert Beavers Rebekah Rutkoff 9780262048767
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £25.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048767Author Rebekah RutkoffFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 567g -
Notes Made While Falling Jenn Ashworth 9781912685738
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912685738Author Jenn AshworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London -
Hollywood Cinema by Richard Maltby
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £36.49This 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... -
Dear Evan Hansen: Through the Window by Steven Levenson
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.23The New York Times called it "a superb new musical with great art and humor." New York magazines lauded it as a "musical gem with the kind of surprising songs only found in the best musical theater." The Washington Post called it "musical storytelling of... -
Spirited Away by Andrew Osmond
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.70Spirited Away, directed by the veteran anime film-maker Hayao Miyazaki, is Japan's most successful film, and one of the top-grossing 'foreign language' films ever released. Set in modern Japan, the film is a wildly imaginative fantasy, at once personal... -
Vampires in Italian Cinema, 1956-1975 by Michael Guarneri 9781474458122
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.96Positioning itself at the intersection of Italian film history, horror studies and cultural studies, this fascinating book asks why, and how, was the protean, transnational and transmedial figure of the vampire appropriated by Italian cinema... -
Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief by Mark Feeney
Booksplease Price: £21.54Was it an omen? Richard Nixon and the film industry arrived in Southern California in the same year, 1913. As Mark Feeney relates in this unusual and unusually absorbing book, Nixon and the movies have shared a long and complex history. Some of that... -
Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters by Marilyn Monroe 9780374533786
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £24.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533786Author Marilyn MonroeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture: Reinventing Yesterday's Slave with Tomorrow's Robot by Gregory Jerome Hampton 9780739191453
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £71.80Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture: Reinventing Yesterday's Slave with Tomorrow's Robot is an interdisciplinary study that seeks to investigate and speculate about the relationship between technology and human nature. It... -
Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome by Shawn Levy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.25SUNDAY TIMES FILM BOOK OF THE YEAR'Uproariously readable ... Levy is a master of the group biography' Sunday Times'Teeming with satisfying gossipy details' Guardian'Exalts the intoxicating, beguiling dreaminess of Rome in its celluloid heyday' TLS1950s... -
Beyond the Epic: The Life and Films of David Lean by Gene D. Phillips 9780813124155
Booksplease Price: £42.75Two-time Academy Award winner Sir David Lean (1908-1991) was a prominent director in the world of twentieth-century cinema, responsible for such classics as The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago, and Lawrence of Arabia. British-born Lean asserted... -
The Science of Harry Potter: The Spellbinding Science Behind the Magic, Gadgets, Potions, and More! by Mark Brake
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.60How does magic in J. K. Rowling's universe work? Finally, the scientific secrets are revealed! The story of the boy who lived has brought the idea of magic and sorcery into mainstream fruition more than any other book series in history. Modern muggle... -
The Magic Box: Viewing Britain through the Rectangular Window by Rob Young
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.70A LOUDER THAN WAR BOOK OF THE YEARA riveting journey into the psyche of Britain through its golden age of television and film; a cross-genre feast of moving pictures, from classics to occult hidden gems, The Magic Box is the nation's visual self-portrait... -
Visual and Other Pleasures by L. Mulvey
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.36A new edition of Laura Mulvey's groundbreaking collection of essays, originally published in 1989. In an extensive introduction to this second edition, Mulvey looks back at the historical and personal contexts for her famous article Visual Pleasure and... -
Hollywood Celebrates the Holidays: 1920-1970 by Karie Bible 9780764349645
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £18.78Marvelously illustrated with more than 200 rare images from the silent era through the 1970s, this joyous treasure trove features film and television's most famous actors and actresses celebrating the holidays, big and small, in lavishly... -
Kubrick by Michael Herr 9780802138187
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802138187Author Michael HerrFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
Surrealism and Film After 1945: Absolutely Modern Mysteries Kristoffer Noheden 9781526179012
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.03This is the first volume to focus on the diverse permutations of international surrealist cinema after the canonical interwar period. The collection features eleven original contributions by prominent scholars such as Tom Gunning, Michael Löwy, Gavin... -
The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex by Mark Kermode 9780099543497 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.54If blockbusters make money no matter how bad they are, then why not make a good one for a change?How can 3-D be the future of cinema when it's been giving audiences a headache for over a hundred years? Why pay to watch films in cinemas that don't have a... -
The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex by Mark Kermode
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.40If blockbusters make money no matter how bad they are, then why not make a good one for a change?How can 3-D be the future of cinema when it's been giving audiences a headache for over a hundred years? Why pay to watch films in cinemas that don't have a... -
Culture on Two Wheels: The Bicycle in Literature and Film by Jeremy Withers 9780803269729
Booksplease Price: £48.49Bicycles have more cultural identities than many realize, functioning not only as literal vehicles in a text but also as "vehicles" for that text's themes, ideas, and critiques. In the late nineteenth century the bicycle was seen as a way for the wealthy... -
Lulu In Hollywood: Expanded Edition by Louise Brooks 9780816637317
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816637317Author Louise BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)... -
Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors by Ian Penman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.70Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery – Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman’s long awaited first original book, a kaleidoscopic study of the late West German filmmaker Rainer Werner... -
The Art of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £20.45An epic fantasy written and illustrated by the legendary director Hayao Miyazaki! An addition to the perennially popular line of Studio Ghibli art books-which include interviews, concept sketches, and finished animation cels-of classic animated films... -
The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa - Revised and Expanded Edition by Stephen Prince
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.00The Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, who died at the age of 88, has been internationally acclaimed as a giant of world cinema. Rashomon, which won both the Venice Film Festival's grand prize and an Academy Award for best foreign-language film,... -
Hollywood Remembered: An Oral History of Its Golden Age by Paul Zollo 9780815412397
Booksplease Price: £20.51In Hollywood Remembered, a wide array of Tinseltown veterans share their stories of life in the city of dreams from the days of silent pictures to the present. The 35 voices, many of whom have come to know Hollywood inside-out, range from film producers... -
The Cinema of Isolation: A History of Physical Disability in the Movies by Martin F. Norden 9780813521046
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £25.67Filmmakers have often encouraged us to regard people with physical disabilities in terms of pity, awe, humor, or fearas ""Others"" who somehow deserve to be isolated from the rest of society. In this first history of the portrayal of... -
Writing About Movies by Karen Gocsik 9780393664904
Booksplease Price: £20.55Two books in one: a handy guide to the process of academic writing and a brief but thorough introduction to the basics of film form, film theory and film analysis. Clear, accessible and surprisingly affordable, it's the only writing guide a student of...