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Jane Campion on Jane Campion by Michel Ciment
RRP: £30.00£21.45A chronological overview of one of modern cinema's most celebrated directors, featuring interviews with Jane Campion herself Jane Campion on Jane Campion offers a unique perspective on the creative process of one of cinema's greatest contemporary film... -
The Quay Brothers: Into a Metaphysical Playroom by Suzanne Buchan
RRP: £23.99£21.66This work is the first thorough analysis of the creative oeuvre of the Quay Brothers. Known for their animation shorts that rely on puppetry, miniatures, and stop-motion techniques, their fiercely idiosyncratic films are fertile fields for Suzanne... -
Mamoulian: Life on Stage and Screen by David Luhrssen 9780813136769
RRP: £25.00£23.56An Armenian national raised in Russia, Rouben Mamoulian (1897--1987) studied in the influential Stanislavski studio, renowned as the source of the "method" acting technique. Shortly after immigrating to New York in 1926, he created a sensation with an... -
Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker by David Mikics
RRP: £18.99£16.94An engrossing biography of one of the most influential filmmakers in cinematic history"A cool, cerebral book about a cool, cerebral talent. . . . A brisk study of [Kubrick's] films, with enough of the life tucked in to add context as well as brightness... -
My Last Sigh: The Autobiography of Luis Bunuel by Luis Bunuel
RRP: £17.00£11.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345803702Author Luis BunuelFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Listening through the lens by Christopher Nupen 9780995757424
RRP: £35.00£33.52BAFTA-AWARD winning documentary-maker, Christopher Nupen has made more than 80 films on classical music and musicians. Here, he tells the story of his varied and often astonishing life and invites us to share his view of `Listening through the Lens'. The... -
The Hateful Eight by Quentin Tarantino
RRP: £17.99£11.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455537334Author Quentin TarantinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Stanley Kubrick: Interviews by Gene D. Phillips 9781578062973
RRP: £29.95£19.97From his first feature film, Fear and Desire (1953), to his final, posthumously released Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Stanley Kubrick excelled at probing the dark corners of human consciousness. In doing so, he adapted such popular novels as The Killing,... -
Grave of the Fireflies by Alex Dudok de Wit
RRP: £12.99£11.01On its release in 1988, Grave of the Fireflies riveted audiences with its uncompromising drama. Directed by Isao Takahata at Studio Ghibli and based on an autobiographical story by Akiyuki Nosaka, the story of two Japanese children struggling to survive... -
Refocus: The Films of Doris Wishman by Alicia Kozma
RRP: £20.99£19.72Offers the first book length contribution to Doris Wishman Covers Wishman's vast filmography inclusive of her less discussed later films, hardcore films and nudist films Situates Wishman within larger contexts and movements in American film history... -
The Alfred Hitchcock Encyclopedia by Stephen Whitty 9781442251595
RRP: £81.00£75.51Several decades after his last motion picture was produced, Alfred Hitchcock is still regarded by critics and fans alike as one of the masters of cinema. From silents of the 1920s to his final feature in 1976, the director's many films continue to... -
Michael Mann: Crime Auteur by Steven Rybin 9780810890831
RRP: £90.00£83.52Michael Mann first made his mark as a writer for such television programs as Starsky and Hutch, Police Story, and Vegas. In 1981 he made his feature film directing debut with the James Caan thriller Thief, and in the 1980s he served as a writer and... -
Werner Herzog: Ecstatic Truth and Other Useless Conquests by Kristoffer Hegnsvad
RRP: £30.00£29.87Werner Herzog came to fame in the 1970s as the European new wave explored new cinematic ideas. With films like Signs of Life (1968), Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) and Fitzcarraldo (1982), Herzog became the subject... -
Steven Spielberg and Duel: The Making of a Film Career by Steven Awalt 9780810892606
RRP: £55.00£50.99Since the early 1970s, Steven Spielberg has directed more than two dozen films, many of which have achieved classic status. In addition to critical and commercial successes that include E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan,... -
234mm x 156mm 272 pages 24 b&w illustration(s) ReFocus: The American Directors Series Published June 2020 ISBN Hardback: 9781474462037 Recommend to your Librarian Request a Review Copy ReFocus: The Films of Paul Schrader by Michelle E. Moore
RRP: £25.99£22.71Paul Schrader's unique relationship to the role of the author (as screenwriter, director and critic) has long informed his cinema, and raises complicated questions about the definition of the auteur. This volume of essays - one of the first collections... -
The First True Hitchcock: The Making of a Filmmaker by Henry K. Miller
RRP: £23.00£17.72Hitchcock's previously untold origin story.Alfred Hitchcock called The Lodger "the first true Hitchcock movie," the one that anticipated all the others. And yet the story of how The Lodger came to be made is shrouded in myth, often repeated and much... -
Refocus: The Films of François Ozon by Loïc Bourdeau
RRP: £20.99£19.72Examines Fran ois Ozon, one of France's most prolific and best known international (queer) directors Analyses films including Potiche, Frantz and By the Grace of God, and shows how Ozon's work is deeply influenced by literature, cinema and music ... -
Shakespeare's Lost Play: In Search of Cardenio by Gregory Doran
RRP: £14.99£10.86Gregory Doran's account of his quest to re-discover Cardenio, the lost play written by Shakespeare and John Fletcher. A thrilling act of literary detection that takes him from the Bodleian Library in Oxford, via Cervantes' Spain to the stage of the Royal... -
Almodovar on Almodovar by Frederic Strauss
RRP: £16.99£12.33Pedro Almodovar's influence on European popular culture has been immense. From a small village in rural Spain to international acclaim for his many wonderfully vivid and outrageous films, Almodovar On Almodovar tells the story of the man and his films... -
Altman on Altman by David Thompson
RRP: £16.99£12.07In Altman on Altman, one of American cinema's most incorrigible mavericks reflects on a brilliant career.Robert Altman served a long apprenticeship in movie-making before his great breakthrough, the Korean War comedy M*A*S*H (1969). It became a huge hit... -
Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh by Amy Raphael 9780571204694
RRP: £20.00£15.14Five-time Oscar nominee and BAFTA winner, the only British director to have won the top prize at both Cannes (for Secrets & Lies) and Venice (for Vera Drake), Mike Leigh is unquestionably one of world cinema's pre-eminent figures. Now, in this definitive... -
Wes Craven: Interviews by Shannon Blake Skelton
RRP: £29.95£11.35With a career spanning four decades, Wes Craven (1939-2015) bridged independent exploitation cinema and Hollywood big-budget horror. A pioneer of the modern horror cinema, Craven directed such landmark films as The Last House on the Left, The Hills Have... -
Refocus: The Films of Rakhshan Banietemad by Maryam Ghorbankarimi
RRP: £25.99£24.02Offers the first English language book on the films and the career of Iranian director Rakhshan Banietemad Devotes specific attention to Banietemad's long career in documentary filmmaking, which has been neglected in much of the scholarly works thus... -
Chantal Akerman Retrospective Handbook by Adam Roberts
RRP: £20.00£18.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916153707Author Adam RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 243Imprint A Nos AmoursPublisher A Nos AmoursWeight(grams) 493gDimensions(mm) 225mm * 150mm * 18mm -
Refocus: The Films of Xavier Dolan by Andree LaFontaine
RRP: £21.99£18.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474444583Author Andree LaFontaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)... -
Refocus: The Films of Wallace Fox by Gary D Rhodes 9781399505642
RRP: £24.99£23.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399505642Author Gary D RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Music in the Horror Films of Val Lewton by Michael Lee 9781474497039
RRP: £19.99£17.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474497039Author Michael LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Lucas: His Hollywood Legacy by Richard Ravalli 9780813198781
RRP: £63.00£51.02George Lucas is an innovative and talented director, producer, screenwriter, and filmmaker whose prolific career spans decades. While he is best known as the creative mind behind the Star Wars franchise, Lucas first gained notoriety with his 1973 film... -
Archive by Sofia Coppola 9781915743138
£55.16Archive is the first book by Sofia Coppola, covering the entirety of her singular and influential career in film. Constructed from Coppola’s personal collection of photographs and ephemera, including early development work, reference collages,... -
The Cinema of Rithy Panh: Everything Has a Soul by Leslie Barnes 9781978809802
£73.56Nominated for 2022 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Book award Born in 1964, Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh grew up in the midst of the Khmer Rouge's genocidal reign of terror, which claimed the lives of many of his relatives. After escaping to... -
The Cinema of Francesco Rosi by Gaetana Marrone 9780190885632
RRP: £102.50£93.12Francesco Rosi is one of the great realist artists of post-war Italian, indeed post-war world cinema. In this book, author Gaetana Marrone explores the rich visual language in which the Neapolitan filmmaker expresses the cultural icons that constitute... -
The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, or the Art of Speaking Differently by Olga V. Solovieva
RRP: £78.00£70.88The Russian Kurosawa offers a new historical perspective on the work of the renowned Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa. It uncovers Kurosawa's debt to the intellectual tradition of Japanese-Russian democratic dissent, reflected in the affinity for... -
Letters & Texts 1972-1984 by Joseph Chaikin
RRP: £18.99£8.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559360951Author Joseph ChaikinFormat PaperbackPage Count 255Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S... -
Bruce Baillie: Somewhere from Here to Heaven by Bruce Baillie
RRP: £30.00£19.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788418934452Author Bruce BaillieFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint La FabricaPublisher La FabricaWeight(grams) 621g -
Funny Frames: The Filmic Concepts of Michael Haneke by Oliver C. Speck
£33.65Taking its cues from the cinematic innovations of the controversial Austrian-born director Michael Haneke, Funny Frames explores how a political thinking manifests itself in his work. The book is divided into two parts. In the first, Oliver C. Speck... -
Princess Mononoke: The First Story by Hayao Miyazaki
£28.21An oversized, lavishly illustrated storybook featuring original watercolor art by legendary filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki! This is the original Princess Mononoke story, created by Hayao Miyazaki in 1980 while he was first conceptualizing the landmark animated... -
Norfolk Summer: Making the Go-Between by Christopher Hartop
RRP: £12.99£11.49Norfolk Summer presents the story about the making of a film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates Joseph Losey's award-winning movie The Go-Between was filmed entirely on location in Norfolk in 1970. The film charts the tragic story of a young boy's... -
Bertrand Tavernier: Interviews by Lynn A. Higgins
RRP: £29.95£19.52Bertrand Tavernier (b. 1941-2021) was widely considered to be the leading light in a generation of French filmmakers who launched their careers in the 1970s in the wake of the New Wave. In just over forty years, he directed twenty-two feature films in an... -
A Critical Companion to Tim Burton by Adam Barkman 9781498552721
RRP: £94.00£89.60Unlike anything currently available, A Critical Companion to Tim Burton is a comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of all the works of one of the world's most renowned directors and artists. Written by some of the top scholars working in fields as diverse... -
John Akomfrah by Dr James Harvey 9781839023217
£26.61The films of John Akomfrah represent one of the most significant bodies of artistic production in the post-war era in Britain, yet little attempt has been made to analyse the consistencies and divergences across them. James Harvey's John Akomfrah is...