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The Enchanting Kinora: Domesticating Moving Images in Edwardian Britain Elizabeth Evans 9781839026898
Booksplease Price: $192.19Marketed as more affordable and safer than film cameras, the Kinora system, launched in 1903, was one of the first amateur filmmaking devices and represents one of the earliest attempts to create a... -
Pulp Fiction Dana Polan 9781839027598
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $22.80Pulp Fiction was one of the films that defined American cinema of the 1990s, and remains one of the stand-out movies of its director Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino's style - violent, fast, funny and... -
In the Mood for Love Tony Rayns 9781839028281
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.52Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love (2000) is a film that luxuriates in the feeling of being in love - without ever turning into a love story. Its central characters, Mr Chow and Mrs Chan, are... -
100 American Horror Films by Barry Keith Grant 9781839021459
RRP: $146.25Booksplease Price: $112.36"[A] well-plotted survey." Total Film In 100 American Horror Films, Barry Keith Grant presents entries on 100 films from one of American cinema's longest-standing, most diverse and most popular... -
100 Bible Films by Matthew Page 9781839023538
RRP: $146.25Booksplease Price: $118.01"Exhaustively researched." Total Film From The Passion of the Christ to Life of Brian, and from The Ten Commandments to Last Temptation of Christ, filmmakers have been adapting the stories of the... -
George Clooney by Paul McDonald 9781911239925
Booksplease Price: $179.81Paul McDonald's study of the actor-filmmaker George Clooney traces the star's career, from his role in the hit television medical drama ER to his dual screen persona, allowing him to move seamlessly... -
Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of Television in Britain John Wyver 9781839028205
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $49.82On the evening of 26 January 1926, inventor John Logie Baird held a public demonstration in his workspace on London's Frith Street of a 'seeing by wireless' apparatus that he and many others had been... -
Screen Industries in East-Central Europe by Petr Szczepanik 9781839022739
Booksplease Price: $206.86This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.This book provides an alternative perspective into the audiovisual and... -
From Russia With Love by Llewella Chapman
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $22.80Often hailed as the 'best' James Bond film, From Russia With Love (1963) is celebrated for its direction by Terence Young, memorable performances from Sean Connery in his second outing as 007, Pedro... -
I Know Where I'm Going! by Pam Cook
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.90I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) is widely regarded as one of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's most remarkable achievements and a cinematic tour de force. A simple moral tale set in the wild... -
The Story of British Animation by Jez Stewart
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $47.56A Sight & Sound Book of the Year Jez Stewart charts the course of this extraordinarily fertile area of British film from early experiments with stop-motion and the flourishing of animated drawings... -
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles by Catherine Fowler
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.89"Lucid, lively and extremely knowledgeable." Sight & Sound Catherine Fowler's study positions Jeanne Dielman as a 'contrary' classic, its contrariness arising from director Chantal Akerman's... -
Trouble in Paradise by David Weir
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.89Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise (1932) was released at a critical moment in cinema history, just after the advent of synchronized sound technology and just before the full implementation of the... -
The Godfather by Jon Lewis
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.52Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972) marked a transition in American film-making, and its success - as a work of art, as a creative 'property' exploited by its studio, Paramount Pictures; and... -
The Man Who Knew Too Much by Murray Pomerance
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.52Eminent Hitchcock specialist Murray Pomerance offers an illuminating account of one of Hitchcock's most successful films, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), starring James Stewart and Doris Day... -
The Cloud-Capped Star (Meghe Dhaka Tara) by Manishita Dass
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.52Ritwik Ghatak's The Cloud-Capped Star (Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960) has been hailed as 'one of the great classics of world cinema' (Adrian Martin), and 'one of the five or six greatest melodramas in... -
Fear Eats the Soul (Angst Essen Seele Auf) by Laura Cottingham
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.52In Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Fear Eats the Soul (Angst Essen Seele Auf, 1974) Emma (Brigitte Mira), a working-class widow and former member of the Nazi party, marries Ali (El Hedi ben Salem), a much... -
The Red Shoes by Pamela Hutchinson 9781839026065
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $22.13Endlessly fascinating, dark and bright, The Red Shoes (1948) employs every branch of the cinematic arts to sweep the audience off its feet, invigorated by the transcendence of art itself, only to... -
On Kubrick: Revised Edition James Naremore 9781839024009
Booksplease Price: $190.79In a comprehensively revised and updated new edition, James Naremore provides an illuminating critical account of the films of Stanley Kubrick, from his earliest feature, Fear and Desire (1953), to... -
The New Screen Ecology in India: Digital Transformation of Media Smith Mehta (University of Groningen, Netherlands) 9781839025716
Booksplease Price: $60.84New Screen Ecology in India is an open access book that provides an in depth exploration of the digital transformation of the Indian media industry. Smith Mehta takes a deep dive into the world of... -
The Chinese Cinema Book by Song Hwee Lim 9781911239536
RRP: $68.23Booksplease Price: $25.94This revised and updated new edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of cinema in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as to disaporic and transnational Chinese... -
The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) by David Weir 9781839026157
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.52Luchino Visconti's The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, 1963) tells the story of an aristocratic Sicilian family adjusting to the realities of political and commercial modernity after the unification Italy... -
Xala by James S. Williams 9781839025983
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.52Xala (1974) by the pioneering Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene, was acclaimed on its release for its scorching critique of postcolonial African society, and it cemented Sembene's status as a... -
Music Films: Documentaries, Concert Films and Other Cinematic Representations of Popular Music by Neil Fox 9781839023446
Booksplease Price: $181.21In Music Films, Neil Fox considers a broad range of music documentaries, delving into their cinematic style, political undertones, racial dynamics, and gender representations, in order to assess... -
Cure Dr Dominic Lash 9781839025945
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.52Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 1997 psychological horror, Cure, follows a detective (played by Koji Yakusho) as he investigates a string of gruesome murders in Tokyo, where each victim has an 'X' carved into... -
Action Cinema Since 2000 Professor Emerita Chris Holmlund (University of Tennessee, USA) 9781839022777
Booksplease Price: $62.24Action Cinema Since 2000 addresses an increasingly lively and evolving field of scholarship, probing the definition and testing the potential of action cinema to reframe the mode for the 21st century... -
The Parallax View Mark Campbell 9781839026300
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.28Alan J. Pakula's The Parallax View (1974) is a renowned example of the paranoid conspiracy thriller, a genre that was a marker of the 1970s. The period was haunted by the murders of John F Kennedy... -
100 Queer Films Since Stonewall Chelsea McCracken 9781839025075
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $33.85100 Queer Films identifies 100 films that shaped the trajectory of queer cinema, connected with larger movements, and showcased the artistry of queer filmmaking. In addition to those films that... -
100 Queer Films Since Stonewall Chelsea McCracken 9781839025082
RRP: $126.75Booksplease Price: $104.42100 Queer Films identifies 100 films that shaped the trajectory of queer cinema, connected with larger movements, and showcased the artistry of queer filmmaking. In addition to those films that... -
People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag) Jon Hughes 9781839027550
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.52Directed by Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer, and with a script by Billy Wilder, People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag) (1930) is now widely recognised as a landmark of Weimar cinema, which... -
Global Hollywood 2 by Toby Miller 9781844570492
Booksplease Price: $219.24Substantially revised and updated, this book highlights how Hollywood has transformed itself to attain ever global clout and reach and the material factors underlining Hollywood's apparent artistic... -
Fashioning Film Stars: Dress, Culture, Identity by Rachel Moseley 9781844570683
Booksplease Price: $74.30Fashioning Film Stars brings together work by established and emerging scholars in the field of film costume and star studies, to address the significance of the relationships between fashion, dress... -
Politics of Documentary by Professor Michael Chanan 9781844572267
Booksplease Price: $76.30This wide-ranging study traces the history of the documentary from the first Lumiere films to Michael Moore's 'Fahrenheit 9/11'. Chanan argues that documentary makes a vital contribution to the... -
When Harry Met Sally... Tamar Jeffers McDonald 9781805750253
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.90Groundbreaking in its departure from its predecessors, When Harry Met Sally... (1989) established classic romantic comedy themes and tropes still being employed today. Following the relationship... -
Trainspotting by Murray Smith
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.90In 1996 Trainspotting was the biggest thing in British culture. Brilliantly and aggressively marketed, it crossed into the mainstream despite being a black comedy set against the backdrop of heroin... -
Near Dark by Stacey Abbott
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.90First released in 1987, Near Dark is a vampire film set in the contemporary American Midwest that tells the story of Caleb, a half-vampire trying to decide whether to embrace his vampire nature or... -
The Servant by Amy Sargeant
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $21.53Amy Sargeant's compelling and meticulous study of Joseph Losey's The Servant (1963) sets the film in the context of a long tradition of fictional depictions of the master-servant relationship, from... -
All the President’s Men by Robert B. Ray
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.52Alan J. Pakula's political thriller All the President's Men (1976) was met with immediate critical and commercial success upon its release, finishing second at the box office and earning seven... -
The Birds by Camille Paglia
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.90Drawing on Daphne du Maurier's short story and contemporary newspaper reports of bird attacks in California, Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) featured Tippi Hedren in her first starring role. ... -
The Television Genre Book by Dr Glen Creeber 9781839022074
Booksplease Price: $208.18In this new edition of The Television Genre Book, leading international scholars have come together to offer an accessible and comprehensive update to the debates, issues and concerns of the field...