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The Essential Directors: The Art and Impact of Cinema's Most Influential Filmmakers by Sloan De Forest
RRP: $42.00$35.76For well over a century, those who create motion pictures have touched our hearts and souls; they have transported and transformed our minds, intoxicated and entranced our senses. One artist's vision is the single most prominent force behind the scenes:... -
Overshare: Love, Laughs, Sexuality and Secrets by Rose Ellen Dix
RRP: $18.88$12.41Rose and Rosie are known for their candid and hilarious YouTube videos... but now they are taking oversharing to a whole new level. Discussing sexuality, revealing secrets and empowering others, OVERSHARE is a book packed with Rose and Rosie's unique... -
Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
RRP: $58.78$50.53The films of Akira Kurosawa have had an immense effect on the way the Japanese have viewed themselves as a nation and on the way the West has viewed Japan. In this comprehensive and theoretically informed study of the influential director's cinema,... -
Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece by Raymond Foery 9781442241817
RRP: $52.50$45.76After an unparalleled string of artistic and commercial triumphs in the 1950s and 1960s, Alfred Hitchcock hit a career lull with the disappointing Torn Curtain and the disastrous Topaz. In 1971, the depressed director traveled to London, the city he had... -
The Man Who Leapt Through Film: The Art of Mamoru Hosoda by Charles Solomon
RRP: $60.88$45.68An illustrated overview of writer/director/animator Mamoru Hosoda's Academy Award-nominated movies and career, including previously unpublished storyboards, background paintings, character designs, and concept art Journey into the mind and creative... -
Hitchcock and the Spy Film by James Chapman
$102.94Film historian James Chapman has mined Hitchcock's own papers to investigate fully for the first time the spy thrillers of the world's most famous filmmaker. Hitchcock made his name as director of the spy movie. He returned repeatedly to the genre from... -
Hawks on Hawks by Joseph McBride
RRP: $48.30$46.28"I read Hawks on Hawks with passion. I am very happy that this book exists." -- Francois TruffautHoward Hawks (1896--1977) is often credited as being the most versatile of all of the great American directors, having worked with equal ease in screwball... -
John Waters: Indecent Exposure by Kristen Hileman 9780520300477
RRP: $88.20$71.46It has been more than fifty years since John Waters filmed his first short on the roof of his parents' Baltimore home. Over the following decades, Waters has developed a reputation as an uncompromising cultural force not only in cinema, but also in... -
The Theatre of the Oppressed in Practice Today by Ali Campbell
$48.72How has the work and legacy of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed been interpreted and practised around the world? What does it look like in different working contexts? This book provides an accessible introduction to the political and artistic... -
Luminous Presence: Derek Jarman's Life-Writing by Alexandra Parsons 9781526171573
RRP: $52.50$45.32Luminous presence: Derek Jarman's life-writing is the first book to analyse the prolific writing of queer icon Derek Jarman. Although he is well known for his avant-garde filmmaking, his garden, and his AIDS activism, he is also the author of over a... -
Telenovelas and Transformation: Saving Brazil's Television Industry by Rosane Svartman 9780367543686
RRP: $104.98$91.35This book investigates how telenovelas may be the key to the future of Brazilian television and how this content can survive in an interconnected media landscape. Recognised telenovela writer and scholar Rosane Svartman considers the particular... -
Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker by Barry Sonnenfeld 9780316415620
RRP: $46.18$35.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316415620Author Barry SonnenfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 204mm *... -
The World and its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger by Chris Fujiwara 9780571381241
RRP: $42.00$29.11Otto Preminger was one of Hollywood's first truly independent producer/directors. Blazing a trail in the examination of controversial issues such as drug addiction (The Man with the Golden Arm) and homosexuality (Advise and Consent), Preminger broke the... -
Scorsese on Scorsese by Ian Christie 9780571220021
RRP: $39.88$28.04Now fully updated, Scorsese on Scorsese is the definitive study of America's foremost film director, including new chapters on Kundun, Bringing Out the Dead, the documentary My Voyage to Italy, and the epic Gangs of New York.True to its title, this book... -
Danny Boyle: Authorised Edition by Amy Raphael
RRP: $27.28$19.40In this revelatory career-length biography, produced through many hours of interviews with Danny Boyle, he talks frankly about the secrets behind the opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games as well as the struggles, joys and incredible perseverance... -
Beyond the Epic: The Life and Films of David Lean by Gene D. Phillips 9780813124155
$89.17Two-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 Films of Martin Scorsese: Gangsters, Greed, and Guilt by Eric San Juan 9781538127650
$70.56Few mainstream filmmakers have as pronounced a disregard for the supposed rules of filmmaking as Martin Scorsese. His inventiveness displays a reaction against the "right" way to make a movie, frequently eschewing traditional cinematic language in favor... -
The Kubrickon: The Cult of Kubrick, Attention Capture, and the Inception of AI by Jasun Horsley
RRP: $41.98$39.98Stanley Kubrick was up to something. But neither his fiercest admirers nor his harshest critics ever suspected what it was. His movies were the means. So what was the end? In this experimental analysis of the work of Stanley Kubrick, Jasun Horsley... -
The Art of the Boss Baby by Ramin Zahed 9781785654909
RRP: $62.98$49.27Go behind the scenes of DreamWorks Animation's smart,hilarious comedy The Boss Baby. This beautifully illustratedbook includes a wide range of colorful development art,storyboards and character sketches, as well as in-depthinterviews with director Tom... -
Stephen Poliakoff on Stage and Screen by Robin Nelson
$51.77Over four decades, Stephen Poliakoff has proved himself to be a distinctive dramatist in the mediums of theatre, film and television. Moving from playwright to television and film director, he has been hailed as 'TV's foremost writer' (Independent) and... -
The Films of Samuel Fuller by Lisa Dombrowski 9780819568663
RRP: $43.05$35.32A cigar-chomping storyteller who signaled "Action!" by shooting a gun, Samuel Fuller has been lionized as one of the most distinctive writer/directors ever to emerge from Hollywood. In such films as The Steel Helmet, Pickup on South Street, Shock... -
The Cinema of Ken Loach by Jacob Leigh 9781903364314
RRP: $37.78$30.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903364314Author Jacob LeighFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 364gDimensions(mm) 233mm * 155mm... -
Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Visual Pleasure by Anna Backman Rogers
RRP: $33.50$29.06All too often, the movies of Sofia Coppola have been dismissed as "all style, no substance." But such an easy caricature, as this engaging and accessible survey of Coppola's oeuvre demonstrates, fundamentally miscontrues what are rich,... -
Adventures of a Suburban Boy by John Boorman
RRP: $27.28$19.40In Adventures of a Suburban Boy, John Boorman, hailed by the Observer as 'arguably Britain's greatest living director', offers an enthralling memoir of a creative life spent turning dreams into celluloid, and money into light.One of cinema's authentic... -
The Coen Brothers' Fargo by William G. Luhr 9780521005012
RRP: $33.58$28.90Fargo is the most commercially and critically successful film of Ethan and Joel Coen. Immediately recognized as an important work, it was nominated for five Academy Awards and received two, an exceptional achievement for a low budget, independently... -
Nora Ephron: A Life by Kristin Marguerite Doidge
RRP: $56.60$42.25Nora Ephron was one of the most popular, accomplished, and beloved writers in American journalism and film.Nora Ephron: A Biography is the first comprehensive portrait of the Manhattan-born girl who forged a path of her own, earning accolades and... -
The Rules of Acting by Michael Simkins
RRP: $41.98$31.50Luvvies. Tyrannical directors. Useless agents. Less job security than an England football manager. Who'd be an actor?Michael Simkins isn't sure, even though he's been one himself for over thirty years. Join him backstage as he examines that business... -
Derek Jarman and Lyric Film: The Mirror and the Sea by Steven Dillon
RRP: $50.38$42.86Derek Jarman was the most important independent filmmaker in England during the 1980s. Using emblems and symbols in associative contexts, rather than conventional, cause-and-effect narrative, he created films noteworthy for their lyricism and poetic... -
Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene by Uli Jung 9781571811967
RRP: $58.70$49.12While the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari became an international film classic, its director, Robert Wiene, was disparaged and even forgotten. Wiene's oeuvre, however, exhibits a surprising versatility and quality, featuring Raskolnikov, an expressionist... -
Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodovar by Paul Julian Smith 9781781681770
RRP: $35.68$31.69In the last decade, Spanish film auteur Pedro Almodovar has grown from critical darling of the film circuit scene to mainstream success. Frequently comic, often deadly serious, always visually glorious, his recent films range from the Oscar award-winning... -
It Doesn't Suck: Showgirls: pop classics #1 by Adam Nayman
RRP: $29.38$20.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770414402Author Adam NaymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada -
Snowpiercer: The Art and Making of the Film by Simon Ward
RRP: $62.98$49.22Before 2019's four-time Oscar (R)-winning Parasite came Bong Joon Ho's iconic English-language debut, Snowpiercer. The dystopian sci-fi thriller is set seventeen years after the world has frozen over and what's left of humanity lives on a train that... -
The View From The Bridge: Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood by Nicholas Meyer 9780452296534
$28.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452296534Author Nicholas MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 251g -
Taking Stock: The Theatre of Max Stafford Clark by Max Stafford-Clark
RRP: $31.48$22.81Inside accounts of the making of some of the most influential theatre productions of the last four decades. Max Stafford-Clark has been at the cutting edge of theatre in Britain for more than thirty years. Taking Stock draws on diaries, photos and... -
The American Cinema: Directors And Directions 1929-1968 by Andrew Sarris
RRP: $29.38$27.59The auteur theory, of which film criticAndrew Sarris was the leading American proponent, holds that artistry in cinema can be largely attributed to film directors, who, while often working against the strictures of studios, producers, and scriptwriters,... -
A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day by Alexander Jacoby
RRP: $60.88$51.43This important work fills the need for a reasonably priced yet comprehensive volume on major directors in the history of Japanese film. With clear insight and without academic jargon, Jacoby examines the works of over 150 filmmakers to uncover what makes... -
The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense by Edward White
RRP: $31.48$26.54In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon-what defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals about the man at its core and how its legacy continues to shape our cultural world. The book's twelve chapters... -
Beside Myself: An Actor's Life by Antony Sher
$52.94A remarkably candid autobiography, utterly involving and often startlingly revelatory, Antony Sher's Beside Myself is an inspiration to young actors and a treat for seasoned theatregoers. 'I wish I'd read this book when I was starting out. Not only is... -
The Making of Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' by Piers Bizony 9783836584371
RRP: $126.00$122.03Get closer than ever to the movie that changed the movies. This behind-the-scenes spectacular of 2001: A Space Odyssey sheds light on the lead actors, senior production designers, special-effects experts and masterminds of Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C... -
A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting and Filmmaking by Samuel Fuller
RRP: $37.78$28.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557836274Author Samuel FullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...