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Kathryn Bigelow: Interviews by Peter Keough 9781617037740
RRP: £109.00£90.73With her gripping film The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow (b. 1951) made history in 2010 by becoming the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director. Since then she has also filmed history with her latest movie, Zero Dark Thirty, which is about the... -
David O. Russell: Interviews by Holly Willis 9781496818218
RRP: £29.95£24.98David O. Russell (b. 1958) boasts a diverse body of work as a writer and director, spanning multiple genres and featuring radically differing aesthetic styles. While his early work comically explored taboo subjects with unerring directness, he has also... -
Paul on Mazursky by Sam Wasson 9780819571434
RRP: £25.95£21.44Paul Mazursky's nearly twenty films as writer/director represent Hollywood's most sustained comic expression of the 1970s and 1980s. But they have not been given their due, perhaps because Mazursky's films-both sincere and ridiculous, realistic and... -
Atom Egoyan: Interviews by T. J. Morris 9781604734874
RRP: £29.95£24.13Four-time winner at the Cannes Film Festival, Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan (b. 1960) began his career while still an undergraduate at the University of Toronto. His first love was playwriting, but he began to see that he could investigate themes... -
Reframing Luchino Visconti: Film and Art by Ivo Blom 9789088905483
RRP: £50.00£46.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789088905483Author Ivo BlomFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Sidestone PressPublisher Sidestone Press -
Martin Scorsese: Interviews by Robert Ribera 9781496809230
RRP: £109.00£90.73Martin Scorsese (b. 1942) has long been considered one of America's greatest cinematic storytellers. Over the last fifty years he has created some of the most iconic moments in American film, never afraid to confront controversial issues with passion... -
Paul Verhoeven: Interviews by Margaret Barton-Fumo 9781496810151
RRP: £109.00£90.73After a robust career in the Netherlands as the country's most successful director, Paul Verhoeven (b. 1938) built an impressive career in the United States with such controversial blockbusters as RoboCop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers,... -
Albert Brooks: Interviews by Alexander Greenhough 9781496849984
RRP: £24.95£20.26Albert Brooks: Interviews brings together fourteen profiles of and conversations with Brooks (b. 1947), in which he contemplates, expounds upon, and hilariously jokes about the connections between his show business upbringing, an ambivalence about the... -
Christian Petzold: Interviews by Marco Abel 9781496846105
RRP: £98.00£81.76Christian Petzold (b. 1960) is the best-known filmmaker associated with the "Berlin School" of postunification German cinema. Identifying as an intellectual, Petzold self-consciously approaches his work for both the big and the small screen by weaving... -
The Cinema of Errol Morris by David Resha 9780819575333
RRP: £62.95£52.76The Cinema of Errol Morris offers close analyses of the director's films - from box office successes like The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War to Morris's early works like Vernon, Florida and controversial films like Standard Operating Procedure. Film... -
The Cinema of Errol Morris by David Resha 9780819575340
RRP: £21.95£18.62The Cinema of Errol Morris offers close analyses of the director's films - from box office successes like The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War to Morris's early works like Vernon, Florida and controversial films like Standard Operating Procedure. Film... -
William Friedkin: Interviews by Christopher Lane 9781496827098
RRP: £109.00£90.73Academy Award-winning director William Friedkin (b. 1935) is best known for his critically and commercially successful films The French Connection and The Exorcist. Unlike other film school-educated filmmakers of the directors' era, Friedkin got his... -
Hitchcock and Humor: Modes of Comedy in Twelve Defining Films by Wes D. Gehring 9781476673561
RRP: £28.99£23.38Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery has been described as "a kind of Rear Window for retirees." As this quote suggests, an analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's methodical use of comedy in his films is past due. One of Turner Classic Movies'... -
The Films of Reginald Leborg: Interviews, Essays, and Filmography by Wheeler Winston Dixon 9780810825505
RRP: £61.00£58.74This is the first in-depth look at Reginald LeBorg, the quintessential Hollywood contract director, who worked constantly during the 1940s and 50s at such studios as Universal, PRC, and Monogram, making a series of beautiful and resonant films under... -
Fassbinder: The Life And Work Of A Provocative Genius by Christian Braad Thomsen 9780816643646
RRP: £21.99£18.79In Fassbinder, Christian Thomsen, a close friend of the director, illuminates Fassbinder's body of work while revealing his insider views of a man who, despite a furious temper, manic working habits, and rampant drug addiction, supported an extended... -
Directing Your Debut: How to Hack Your Mindset to Direct a Badass First Film (Short, Feature, or Anything In Between) by Christopher Folkens 9780578612560
RRP: £9.99£8.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578612560Author Christopher FolkensFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Christopher FolkensPublisher Christopher FolkensWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm)... -
Refocus: The Films of Lawrence Kasdan by Brett Davies 9781399524070
£120.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399524070Author Brett DaviesFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)... -
Lucas: His Hollywood Legacy by Richard Ravalli 9780813199399
RRP: £32.00£26.44George 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... -
Mornings in the Dark: The Graham Greene Film Reader by Graham Greene 9781784109998
RRP: £25.00£17.72Few novelists have taken films as seriously, or been closely involved in so many aspects of the film business all their lives, as Graham Greene. Even at University he was touching on it. His long-term experience of the evolving art included producing,... -
Lone Scherfig's Italian for Beginners by Mette Hjort 9788763534833
RRP: £25.00£20.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788763534833Author Mette HjortFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams) 530g -
Poetics by Aristotle 9781854593337
RRP: £8.99£6.40Part of the Nick Hern Books Dramatic Contexts series: important statements on the theatre by major figures in the theatre. One of the most influential tracts in world theatre, Aristotle's Poetics is crucial to an understanding of how drama works, and... -
The Bressonians: French Cinema and the Culture of Authorship by Codruţa Morari 9781805393108
RRP: £27.95£22.58How should we understand film authorship in an era when the idea of the solitary and sovereign auteur has come under attack, with critics proclaiming the death of the author and the end of cinema? The Bressonians provides an answer in the form of a... -
What Price Hollywood?: Gender and Sex in the Films of George Cukor by Elyce Rae Helford 9780813197029
RRP: £27.00£21.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813197029Author Elyce Rae HelfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint University Press of KentuckyPublisher University Press of Kentucky -
What Price Hollywood?: Gender and Sex in the Films of George Cukor by Elyce Rae Helford 9780813179292
RRP: £27.00£21.85During the early Hollywood sound era, studio director George Cukor produced nearly fifty films in as many years, famously winning theBest Director Oscar at the 1964 Academy Awards for My Fair Lady. His collaborations with so-called difficult actresses... -
The Cinema of John Boorman by Brian Hoyle 9780810883956
RRP: £75.00£71.84John Boorman has written and directed more than 25 television and feature films, including such classics as Deliverance, Point Blank, Hope and Glory, and Excalibur. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards, including twice for best Director... -
A Year of Hitchcock: 52 Weeks with the Master of Suspense by Jim McDevitt 9780810863880
£90.63Alfred Hitchcock's career spanned more than five decades, during which he directed more than 50 films, many of them indisputable classics: Notorious, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho, among others. In A Year of... -
Directors Close Up: Interviews with Directors Nominated for Best Film by the Directors Guild of America by Jeremy Kagan 9780810857124
RRP: £30.00£27.32Since 1992, The Directors Guild of America has hosted annual seminars featuring its nominees for outstanding feature film directing. Since its inception, film and television director Jeremy Kagan has moderated these sessions in which the finest... -
My Only Great Passion: The Life and Films of Carl Th. Dreyer by Jean Drum 9780810836792
RRP: £75.00£67.90In an industry that celebrates extravagance and showmanship, Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer was a rarity, a man who guarded his privacy fiercely and believed that film provided a way to understand human nature by focusing on the individual person... -
The First True Hitchcock: The Making of a Filmmaker by Henry K. Miller 9780520343559
RRP: £71.00£61.81This untold origin story of the filmmaker excavates the first true Hitchcock film and explores its transatlantic history. Alfred Hitchcock called The Lodger "the first true Hitchcock movie," one that anticipated all the others. And yet, the... -
Martial Law Melodrama: Lino Brocka's Cinema Politics by Jose B. Capino 9780520314634
RRP: £25.00£19.18Lino Brocka (1939-1991) was one of Asia and the Global South's most celebrated filmmakers. A versatile talent, he was at once a bankable director of genre movies, an internationally acclaimed auteur of social films, a pioneer of queer cinema, and an... -
Pleading the Blood: Bill Gunn's Ganja & Hess by Christopher Sieving 9780253059215
RRP: £76.00£65.41The definitive look at one of the most important Black art films and original filmmakers of the 1970s. Bill Gunn's Ganja & Hess (1973) has across the decades attained a sizable cult following among African American cinema devotees, art house... -
The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins: A Black Woman Filmmaker's Search for New Life by L. H. Stallings 9780253059031
RRP: £21.99£18.79An absorbing portrait of a groundbreaking Black woman filmmaker. Kathleen Collins (1942-88) was a visionary and influential Black filmmaker. Beginning with her short film The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy and her feature film Losing Ground, Collins... -
Orson Welles in Focus: Texts and Contexts by James N. Gilmore 9780253032942
RRP: £76.00£65.01Through his radio and film works, such as The War of the Worlds and Citizen Kane, Orson Welles became a household name in the United States. Yet Welles's multifaceted career went beyond these classic titles and included lesser-known but nonetheless... -
Lone Scherfig's Italian for Beginners by Mette Hjort 9780295990446
£22.92Lone Scherfig was the first of a number of women directors to take up the challenge of Dogme, the back-to-basics, manifesto-based, rule-governed, and now globalized film initiative introduced by Danish filmmakers Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg in... -
Marc Karlin: Look Again by Holly Aylett 9781781381656
£36.76This book provides almost the only published material on the work of Marc Karlin. On his death in 1999, Karlin was commemorated as one of the visionaries of independent British film culture, with its roots in the seventies and its expansion in the first... -
Refocus: The Films of Joao Pedro Rodrigues and Joao Rui Guerra Da Mata by José Duarte 9781474460811
RRP: £24.99£22.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474460811Author José DuarteFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Main Melody Films: Hong Kong Directors in Mainland China by Stephen Yiu-Wai Chu 9781474493871
RRP: £19.99£16.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474493871Author Stephen Yiu-Wai ChuFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Refocus: The Films of Lucrecia Martel by Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha 9781474485234
RRP: £19.99£17.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474485234Author Natalia Christofoletti BarrenhaFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese by Mark T. Conard 9780813124445
RRP: £27.00£21.85Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese is one of the most significant American filmmakers in the history of cinema. Although best known for his movies about gangsters and violence, such as Mean Streets, Goodfellas, Casino, and Taxi Driver,... -
The Films of Woody Allen: Critical Essays by Charles L. P. Silet 9780810857360
RRP: £90.00£81.62From What's Up, Tiger Lily? to Match Point, Woody Allen's work has generated substantial interest among scholars and professionals who have written extensively about the director. In The Films of Woody Allen: Critical Essays, Charles L.P. Silet brings...