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Psychedelic Celluloid by Simon Matthews 9781843444572
RRP: £20.00£14.69The definitive guide to the decade when swinging London was the film capital of the world After The Beatles stormed America, every Hollywood and European production company descended on London to be part of the new swinging scene... and they didn't leave... -
Cinema II: The Time-Image Gilles Deleuze (No current affiliation) 9781472512604
RRP: £22.99£21.48Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century philosophy, whose master-works, Difference and Repetition and - with Felix Guattari - A Thousand Plateaus and Anti-Oedipus have become one of the most widely-influential bodies... -
Lulu In Hollywood: Expanded Edition by Louise Brooks 9780816637317
RRP: £15.99£13.48Apologies 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)... -
The Cinema of Isolation: A History of Physical Disability in the Movies by Martin F. Norden 9780813521046
RRP: £33.00£24.69Filmmakers 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... -
The Heart of the Forest: Why Woods Matter John Miller 9780712354561
RRP: £25.00£16.78With a foreword by Kathleen Jamie. Trees can evoke powerful feelings. For Henry David Thoreau, the woods are places beyond civilisation; for Ursula Le Guin and J. R. R. Tolkien, they are loaded with otherworldly potential; and for those fleeing... -
The Pictures by Guy Bolton
RRP: £8.99£6.45*Shortlisted for the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award 2017* World-weary Jonathan Craine is a detective at the LAPD who has spent his entire career as a studio 'fixer', covering up crimes of the studio players to protect the billion-dollar... -
Moviemakers' Master Class by Laurent Tirard 9780571211029
RRP: £12.99£10.29From Scorsese and Lynch to Wenders and Godard: interviews with twenty of the world's greatest directors on how they make films - and why.Each great film-maker has a secret method to his moviemaking - and each is different. In Moviemakers' Masterclass,... -
Propaganda and the German Cinema, 1933-1945 David Welch 9781860645204
£26.30A comprehensive analysis of Nazi film propaganda in its political, social and economic contexts. It considers more than 100 films, identifying those aspects of Nazi ideology that were concealed in the framework of popular entertainment under the... -
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood by Maureen Ryan 9780063269279
RRP: £25.00£18.02NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERIn this spectacular, newsmaking exposé that has the entertainment industry abuzz and on its heels, Vanity Fair's Maureen Ryan blows the lid on patterns of harassment and bias in Hollywood, the... -
From Alien to the Matrix: Reading Science Fiction Film by Roz Kaveney 9781850438069
£25.15Written by a world expert in Science Fiction, From Alien to The Matrix is a hugely entertaining and enlightening read and a new critical approach to SF films that considers them as autonomous creations and contributions to the genre and to the broader... -
The Deer Hunter by Dr Brad Prager 9781839025419
RRP: £12.99£9.79Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter was met with both critical and commercial success upon its release in 1978. However, it was also highly controversial and came to be seen as a powerful statement on the human cost of America's longest war and as a... -
The Sewing Circle: Hollywood's Greatest Secret-Female Stars Who Loved Other Women by Axel Madsen 9781504008730
RRP: £11.99£10.30Greta 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... -
Studio Ghibli: The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata - Third Edition by Colin Odell 9780857303561
RRP: £16.99£11.54The animations of Japan's Studio Ghibli are amongst the most respected in the movie industry. Their delightful films rank alongside the most popular non-English language films ever made, with each new eagerly anticipated release a guaranteed box office... -
The Lives of Others: (Das Leben der Anderen) by Annie Ring
RRP: £12.99£10.94This study offers a fresh approach to the remarkable German film The Lives of Others (2006), known for its compelling representation of a Stasi surveillance officer and the moral and ethical turmoil that results when he begins spying on a playwright and... -
British Cinema in the 1980s: Issues and Themes by John Hill
£66.30In recent years, the role and identity of British cinema has been changing, and it is these changes with which British Cinema in the 1980s is concerned. It looks at the increasing domination of the world film industry by Hollywood and the response of... -
Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors by Ian Penman
RRP: £12.99£9.24Melodrama, 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... -
Corman / Poe: Interviews and Essays Exploring the Making of Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe Films, 1960-1964 by Chris Alexander
RRP: £22.99£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915316073Author Chris AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress -
The Ghastly One: The 42nd Street Netherworld of Director Andy Milligan by Jimmy McDonough
RRP: £24.99£16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913051150Author Jimmy McDonoughFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint FAB PressPublisher FAB Press -
Turner Classic Movies: The Essentials: 52 Must-See Movies and Why They Matter by Jeremy Arnold
RRP: £22.00£19.28Showcasing 52 Essential films from the golden age to the present, Turner Classic Movies invites you into a world filled with stirring performances, dazzling musical numbers, and bold directorial visions that mark the greatest moments in film history... -
The Art of Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki 9781569317778
RRP: £28.00£19.79The Art of Spirited Awaycollects colour illustrations of Spirited Awayfor the first time in an English edition. This book includes paintings and designs from the Academy Award winning animated film directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Features commentary, colour... -
The French Cinema Book by Michael Temple
RRP: £33.99£32.56This multi-authored survey offers an innovative and accessible account of the richness and diversity of French film history from the 1890s to the 2010s. In this fascinating volume, Michael Temple and Michael Witt propose new insights into familiar areas... -
Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema by Odie Henderson 9781419758416
RRP: £18.99£12.93A definitive account of Blaxploitation cinema-the freewheeling, often shameless, and wildly influential genre-from a distinctive voice in film history and criticism In 1971, two films grabbed the movie business, shook it up, and launched a genre that... -
The Art of Porco Rosso by Hayao Miyazaki 9781591167044
RRP: £28.00£18.62In early 1930's era Italy, bounty hunters and high flyers of all sorts rule the skies. The most cunning and skilled of these pilots is Porco Rosso, a man cursed with the head of a pig after watching the spirits of the pilots killed in the last air battle... -
Understanding Film Theory by Ruth Doughty
RRP: £32.99£29.84This essential core textbook provides an approachable and extensive introduction to film theory, written by two highly experienced senior lecturers. Bringing a fresh, contemporary and accessible approach to what is often perceived to be a challenging and... -
Dr. No: The First James Bond Film by James Chapman 9780231204934
RRP: £22.00£18.27When Dr. No premiered at the London Pavilion on October 5, 1962, no one predicted that it would launch the longest-running series in cinema history. It introduced the James Bond formula that has been a box-office fixture ever since: sensational plots,... -
Burton on Burton by Tim Burton
RRP: £16.99£12.18Tim Burton is one of the great modern-day visionaries of cinema, a director who has fabricated his own deliciously nightmarish universe in movies as extraordinary as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Mars Attacks! and The Nightmare before Christmas - not... -
Annotated Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
RRP: £23.00£16.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804168885Author Raymond ChandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Star Wars and Philosophy: More Powerful than You Can Possibly Imagine by Kevin S. Decker 9780812695830
RRP: £14.99£11.66The Star Wars films continue to revolutionize science fiction, creating new standards for cinematographic excellence, and permeating popular culture around the world. The films feature many complex themes ranging from good versus evil and moral... -
Planet of the Apes: A Celebration by Joe Fordham
£15.25In 1968 audiences around the world were transported to a world eerily similar to their own, but where apes ruled and mankind was subjugated. A terrifying, thrilling film, featuring one of the most famous twist endings in film history, Planet of the Apes... -
Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Price of a Vision by Charles Elton
RRP: £19.99£14.32The first biography of critically acclaimed then critically derided filmmaker Michael Cimino-and a reevaluation of the infamous film that destroyed his careerThe director Michael Cimino (1939-2016) is famous for two films: the intense, powerful, and... -
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles by Catherine Fowler
RRP: £12.99£9.79"Lucid, lively and extremely knowledgeable." Sight & Sound Catherine Fowler's study positions Jeanne Dielman as a 'contrary' classic, its contrariness arising from director Chantal Akerman's decision to frame an unliberated housewife through a kind... -
Studio Ghibli: The films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata Michelle Le Blanc 9780857305848
RRP: £16.99£11.54The animations of Japan's Studio Ghibli are among the most respected in the movie industry. Their films rank alongside the most popular non-English language films ever made, with each new release a guaranteed box office hit. Yet this highly profitable... -
Edward Yang by John Anderson 9780252072369
RRP: £16.99£15.07Having largely given up on a career in film, Edward Yang had been working as a computer engineer for several years when he saw Herzog's Aguirre, Wrath of God. Inspired to return to film, Yang, along with a handful of other filmmakers, including the great... -
The Great Movies II by Robert Ebert
RRP: £19.99£15.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767919869Author Roger EbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis by Barbara Creed
RRP: £35.99£32.97In almost all critical writings on the horror film, woman is conceptualised only as victim. In The Monstrous-Feminine Barbara Creed challenges this patriarchal view by arguing that the prototype of all definitions of the monstrous is the female... -
Throne of Blood by Robert N. Watson
RRP: £12.99£9.79Throne of Blood (1957), Akira Kurosawa's reworking of Macbeth, is widely considered the greatest film adaptation of Shakespeare ever made. In a detailed account of the film, Robert N. Watson explores how Kurosawa draws key philosophical and... -
It's Only a Movie: Reel Life Adventures of a Film Obsessive by Mark Kermode 9780099543480 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£1.86In It's Only a Movie, the incomparable Mark Kermode takes us into the weird world of a life lived in widescreen. Join him as he gets lost in Russia on the trail of a low-budget horror flick, gasp as he's shot at in Hollywood while interviewing Bavarian... -
It's Only a Movie: Reel Life Adventures of a Film Obsessive by Mark Kermode
RRP: £10.99£7.77In It's Only a Movie, the incomparable Mark Kermode takes us into the weird world of a life lived in widescreen. Join him as he gets lost in Russia on the trail of a low-budget horror flick, gasp as he's shot at in Hollywood while interviewing Bavarian... -
Imagining Reality by Kevin MacDonald
RRP: £16.99£11.58In 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... -
The Frightfest Guide To Exploitation Movies by Buddy Giovinazzo 9781903254875
RRP: £19.99£13.75Apologies 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