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Contemporary Directors’ Cinema Jacob Leigh 9798765121900
Booksplease Price: €36.34Contemporary Directors' Cinema refreshes the argument about the role of the director through the practice of evaluative criticism. The book identifies what makes nine recent films successful... -
Diary of a Detour by Lesley Stern 9781478008811
RRP: €152.32Booksplease Price: €122.21Diary of a Detour is film scholar and author Lesley Stern's memoir of living with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. She chronicles the fears and daily experience of coming to grips with an incurable form... -
Diary of a Detour by Lesley Stern
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.33Diary of a Detour is film scholar and author Lesley Stern's memoir of living with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. She chronicles the fears and daily experience of coming to grips with an incurable form... -
Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema by Meaghan Morris 9781932643015
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €22.63Since the 1960s, Hong Kong cinema has helped to shape one of the world's most popular cultural genres: action cinema. Hong Kong action films have proved popular over the decades with audiences... -
On The Figure In General And The Body In Particular:: Figurative Invention In Cinema by Ted Fendt 9781839987809
Booksplease Price: €97.48Films fill our imagination with figures, figurines, and talismans. They ceaselessly rework the same archetypes and invent troubling prototypes - especially when they establish a deeper relationship... -
Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema by Meaghan Morris 9781932643190
RRP: €109.48Booksplease Price: €88.74Since the 1960s, Hong Kong cinema has helped to shape one of the world's most popular cultural genres: action cinema. Hong Kong action films have proved popular over the decades with audiences... -
On The Figure In General And The Body In Particular:: Figurative Invention In Cinema Ted Fendt 9781839998867
Booksplease Price: €30.59Films fill our imagination with figures, figurines, and talismans. They ceaselessly rework the same archetypes and invent troubling prototypes - especially when they establish a deeper relationship... -
Robert Pippin and Film: Politics, Ethics, and Psychology after Modernism by Dr Dominic Lash 9781350290167
Booksplease Price: €39.21Robert Pippin (1948- ) is a major figure in contemporary philosophy, having published influential work on thinkers including Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche. He is also an original thinker about - and... -
Film as Philosophy by Bernd Herzogenrath 9781517900502
RRP: €114.24Booksplease Price: €92.09Film and philosophy have much in common, and books have been written on film and philosophy. But can films be, or do, philosophy? Can they "think"? Film as Philosophy is the first book to explore... -
Why It's OK to Love Bad Movies by Matthew Strohl
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €25.92Most people are too busy to keep up with all the good movies they'd like to see, so why should anyone spend their precious time watching the bad ones? In Why It's OK to Love Bad Movies, philosopher... -
Robert Pippin and Film: Politics, Ethics, and Psychology after Modernism by Dr Dominic Lash 9781350182899
RRP: €113.05Booksplease Price: €35.33Robert Pippin (1948- ) is a major figure in contemporary philosophy, having published influential work on thinkers including Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche. He is also an original thinker about - and... -
Film as Philosophy by Bernd Herzogenrath
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €23.94Film and philosophy have much in common, and books have been written on film and philosophy. But can films be, or do, philosophy? Can they "think"? Film as Philosophy is the first book to explore... -
The Orientation of Future Cinema: Technology, Aesthetics, Spectacle by Bruce Isaacs 9781628924312
Booksplease Price: €44.11What is the fate of cinema in an age of new technologies, new aesthetic styles, new modes of cultural production and consumption? What becomes of cinema and a century-long history of the moving image... -
Visions in the Frame: Mise-en-scène Between Film and Television by James Walters 9798855807721
Booksplease Price: €105.59Reveals how mise-en-scene has shaped the fields of film and television studies.Visions in the Frame provides a detailed evaluation of the journey and status of mise-en-scene-the organization of the... -
The Cinema of Raul Ruiz: Impossible Cartographies by Michael Goddard
RRP: €99.96Booksplease Price: €83.93Raul Ruiz, while considered one of the world's most significant filmmakers by several film critics, is yet to be the subject of any thorough engagement with his work in English. This volume sets out... -
The Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos: Films, Form, Philosophy by Eddie Falvey 9781501375507
Booksplease Price: €37.51From the critical and commercial fanfare his films generate, it is largely understood that Yorgos Lanthimos is one of the more interesting filmmakers to have emerged out of the new century. A... -
The Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos: Films, Form, Philosophy by Eddie Falvey 9781501375491
Booksplease Price: €121.63From the critical and commercial fanfare his films generate, it is largely understood that Yorgos Lanthimos is one of the more interesting filmmakers to have emerged out of the new century. A... -
The Face on Film by 9780199863167
Booksplease Price: €80.97The human face was said to have been rediscovered with the advent of motion pictures, in which it was often viewed as expressive locus, as figure, and even as essence of the cinema. But how has this... -
Music/Video: Histories, Aesthetics, Media by Gina Arnold 9781501313912
Booksplease Price: €39.21This book is a lively, comprehensive and timely reader on the music video, capitalising on cross-disciplinary research expertise, which represents a substantial academic engagement with the music... -
Hard to Watch: How to Fall in Love with Difficult Movies Matthew Strohl 9781493074341
Booksplease Price: €19.29We've never had better access to movies than we do today. Thanks to streaming services, video-on-demand, boutique physical media, repertory theaters, and the wild frontiers of the internet, we have... -
The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium by Gilberto Perez
Booksplease Price: €39.21In a recent international survey conducted by the online film journal Screening the Past, which invited film critics and scholars around the world to nominate the most important contributions to the... -
Un-American Psycho: Brian De Palma and the Political Invisible by Chris Dumas
Booksplease Price: €37.13Brian De Palma is perhaps best known as the director behind the gangster classic Scarface. Yet as ingrained as Scarface is in American popular culture, it is but one of a sizeable number of... -
Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity by Edward Dimendberg
RRP: €41.59Booksplease Price: €33.52Film noir remains one of the most enduring legacies of 1940s and '50s Hollywood. Populated by double-crossing, unsavory characters, this pioneering film style explored a shadow side of American life...