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The Coen Brothers' Fargo by William G. Luhr 9780521005012
RRP: $20.63$17.79Fargo 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... -
Lucas: His Hollywood Legacy by Richard Ravalli 9780813198781
$85.62George 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... -
Refocus: The Films of John Hughes by Timothy Shary
RRP: $33.53$31.94A collection of critical essays about the noted filmmaker John Hughes Offers an examination of films from diverse academic perspectives Explores topics such as his depictions of youth and his assessment of gender, class, and race issues Provides an... -
Sergei Eisenstein: A Life in Conflict by Ronald Bergan
RRP: $21.92$20.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628725773Author Ronald BerganFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Grave of the Fireflies by Alex Dudok de Wit
RRP: $16.76$14.20On 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... -
Telenovelas and Transformation: Saving Brazil's Television Industry by Rosane Svartman 9780367543686
RRP: $64.49$56.12This 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... -
Elmo Williams: A Hollywood Memoir by Elmo Williams 9780786426218
RRP: $28.37$23.18"Fate has thrown me some interesting curves," says Elmo Williams, the farm boy turned film editor, director and producer. As a young boy, he traveled with his family in a covered wagon to a new life in a New Mexico homestead. After struggling to help... -
Refocus: The Films of Doris Wishman by Alicia Kozma
RRP: $27.08$26.11Offers 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... -
Vampire Movies (Close-Ups, Book 2) by Charles Bramesco
RRP: $12.89$9.37The indispensable, illustrated pocket guide to the world of vampire movies, from Nosferatu to A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night. ALSO AVAILABLE: Close-Ups: Wes... -
Pedro Almodovar by Marvin D'Lugo
RRP: $21.92$20.49Perhaps the best-known Spanish filmmaker to international audiences, Pedro Almodovar gained the widespread attention of English-speaking critics and fans with the Oscar-nominated Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and the celebrated dark comedy... -
Hawks on Hawks by Joseph McBride
RRP: $29.67$27.46"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... -
The Lost Worlds of John Ford: Beyond the Western by Jeffrey Richards
RRP: $129.00$69.17The great director John Ford (1894-1973) is best known for classic westerns, but his body of work encompasses much more than this single genre. Jeffrey Richards develops and broadens our understanding of Ford's film-making oeuvre by studying his... -
Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker by Barry Sonnenfeld 9780316415620
RRP: $28.37$21.38Apologies 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 Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz by R. Barton Palmer 9781477315552
RRP: $30.95$26.88Director Michael Curtiz was the mastermind behind some of the most iconic films of classical Hollywood-Casablanca, Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Sea Hawk, White Christmas, and Mildred Pierce, to name only a few. The most prolific and consistently successful... -
Abbas Kiarostami: Interviews by Monika Raesch 9781496844873
RRP: $32.19$21.81The cinephile community knows Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016) as one of the most important filmmakers of the previous decades. This volume illustrates why the Iranian filmmaker achieved critical acclaim around the globe and details his many contributions to... -
The Alfred Hitchcock Encyclopedia by Stephen Whitty 9781442251595
RRP: $109.65$100.97Several 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... -
Nichols and May: Interviews by Robert E. Kapsis 9781496831040
$39.18In the late 1950s, Mike Nichols (1931-2014) and Elaine May (b. 1932) soared to superstar status as a sketch comedy duo in live shows and television. After their 1962 breakup, both went on to long and distinguished careers in other areas of show business... -
James Cameron: Interviews by Brent Dunham 9781617031328
RRP: $38.64$37.19James Cameron (b. 1954) is lauded as one of the most successful and innovative filmmakers of the last thirty years. His films often break records, both in their massive budgets and in their box-office earnings. They include such hits as The Terminator,... -
Refocus: The Films of Barbara Kopple by Jeff Jaeckle
RRP: $28.37$25.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474439954Author Jeff JaeckleFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)... -
Bosco Bosco Bosco Bartolomeo Bosco His Career His Family His Impostors by Rowan Gibbs 9780987668455
RRP: $45.07$39.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987668455Author Rowan GibbsFormat PaperbackPage Count 552Imprint Rowan GibbsPublisher Rowan GibbsWeight(grams) 1261g -
Akira Kurosawa: A Viewer's Guide by Eric San Juan 9781538110898 [USED COPY]
RRP: $45.15$22.47The career of acclaimed filmmaker Akira Kurosawa spanned more than five decades, during which he directed more than thirty movies, many of them indisputable classics: Rashomon, Ikiru, Seven Samurai, The Hidden Fortress, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo,... -
Akira Kurosawa: A Viewer's Guide by Eric San Juan 9781538110898
RRP: $45.15$41.83The career of acclaimed filmmaker Akira Kurosawa spanned more than five decades, during which he directed more than thirty movies, many of them indisputable classics: Rashomon, Ikiru, Seven Samurai, The Hidden Fortress, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo,... -
J. Lee Thompson by Steve Chibnall 9780719060120
RRP: $32.25$24.23First published on the fiftieth anniversary of his directorial debut, this book was the first to examine the work of a man once hailed as the finest film-maker to emerge from the British studio system after the Second World War. Before being recruited by... -
Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene by Uli Jung 9781571811967
RRP: $36.06$30.47While 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... -
Leo McCarey: From Marx to McCarthy by Wes D. Gehring 9780810852631
RRP: $92.88$85.02Early in his Hollywood career, Leo McCarey honed his skills by working with some of the great names of comedy, including Laurel and Hardy, W.C. Fields, and The Marx Brothers, whose 1933 classic, Duck Soup, McCarey directed. Later, as a writer and/or... -
Charles Burnett: Interviews by Robert E. Kapsis
$39.18Charles Burnett (b. 1944) is a groundbreaking African American filmmaker and one of this country's finest directors, yet he remains largely unknown. His films, most notably Killer of Sheep (1977) and To Sleep with Anger (1990), are considered classics,... -
Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film by Alan K. Rode 9780813173917
$61.61Academy Award--winning director Michael Curtiz (1886--1962) -- whose best-known films include Casablanca (1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Mildred Pierce (1945) and White Christmas (1954) -- was in many ways the anti-auteur. During his... -
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: $33.53$30.42Paul 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... -
Pleading the Blood: Bill Gunn's Ganja & Hess by Christopher Sieving
RRP: $36.11$31.14The 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 aficionados,... -
Clarence Brown: Hollywood's Forgotten Master by Gwenda Young 9780813175959
RRP: $83.79$50.93Greta Garbo proclaimed him as her favorite director. Actors, actresses, and even child stars were so at ease under his direction that they were able to deliver inspired and powerful performances. Academy-Award-nominated director Clarence Brown... -
Michael Mann: Crime Auteur by Steven Rybin 9780810890831
RRP: $122.55$107.74Michael 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... -
A Lot Can Happen in the Middle of Nowhere: The Untold Story of the Making of Fargo by Todd Melby 9781681341880
RRP: $25.74$16.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681341880Author Todd MelbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society... -
This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia by Joan Neuberger
RRP: $59.34$51.64This Thing of Darkness, Joan Neuberger's engrossing production history of Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible, is a major contribution to the study of Eisenstein and thus informs the history and theory of cinema and the study of Soviet culture and... -
Straight from the Horse's Mouth: Ronald Neame, an Autobiography by Barbara Roisman Cooper 9780810848993
RRP: $49.02$45.82Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
David Fincher: Films That Scar by Mark Browning 9780313377723
$82.11Film scholar Mark Browning offers the first detailed analysis of the work of David Fincher, director of the critically acclaimed films Se7en, Fight Club, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. David Fincher is one of the most exciting filmmakers... -
The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov by Birgit Beumers 9781848853430
$36.11Alexander Sokurov's 'Russian Ark' is generally acclaimed as a milestone in cinematography. In this film Sokurov reversed the idea of montage, creating instead the sensation of an uninterrupted flow of time encompassing three centuries of Russia's... -
Herzog by Ebert by Robert Ebert 9780226500423
RRP: $28.38$23.94Roger Ebert was the most influential film critic in the United States, the first to win a Pulitzer Prize. For almost fifty years, he wrote with plainspoken eloquence about the films he loved for the Chicago Sun-Times, his vast cinematic knowledge matched... -
Welles, Orson by Paolo Mereghetti 9782866427016 [USED COPY]
RRP: $7.68$3.69Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Cinema of Francesco Rosi Gaetana Marrone (Professor of Italian, Professor of Italian, Princeton University) 9780190885649
RRP: $40.62$40.51Francesco 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... -
Charles Urban: Pioneering the Non-Fiction Film in Britain and America, 1897 - 1925 Luke McKernan 9780859898829
RRP: $96.75$81.70Charles Urban was a renowned figure in his time, and he has remained a name in film history chiefly for his development of Kinemacolor, the world's first successful natural colour moving picture system. He was also a pioneer in the filming of war,...