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Seven by Richard Dyer 9781839027437
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.69David Fincher's Seven (1995) follows two detectives, David Mills (Brad Pitt) and William Somerset (Morgan Freeman), as they investigate a series of gruesome murders. One of the most acclaimed films... -
Midnight Cowboy James Kendrick 9781839025167
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.06John Schlesinger's 1969 drama, Midnight Cowboy, follows the story of naive would-be hustler Joe Buck (Jon Voight) and ailing con man Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman), set against the gritty backdrop of... -
Riddles of the Sphinx Kimberly Lamm 9781839026850
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.06Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's Riddles of the Sphinx (1977) follows the life of Louise (played by Dinah Stabb), a white middle-class woman living in London in the 1970s who is transforming her place... -
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Onna ga kaidan o agaru toki) Professor Catherine Russell 9781839026430
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.96Mikio Naruse's When A Woman Ascends The Stairs (1960) combines high melodrama with modernist film language, telling the story of Keiko, a bar hostess struggling to succeed in Tokyo's Ginza district. ... -
Supply Chain Cinema: Producing Global Film Workers Kay Dickinson 9781839024665
Booksplease Price: £31.92Why are big budget films typically made across an array of seemingly dissociated sites? Supply Chain Cinema shows how the production journeys of such films exemplify the principles of the supply... -
Hollywood: Politics and Society by M. Wheeler 9781844571352
Booksplease Price: £113.41At the beginning of the 21st century, the US film industry had overtaken aeronautics and car industries to become one of the highest exporters of American products. Mark Wheeler's important new book... -
Kaagaz Ke Phool (Paper Flowers) Lalitha Gopalan 9781839027062
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.06Guru Dutt's final film as a director, Kaagaz Ke Phool/Paper Flowers (1959), follows the successful film-maker Suresh Sinha (played by Dutt himself) as rumours of his affair with his actress Shanti... -
Shoah Professor Sue Vice 9781839029882
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72Sue Vice's study explores Claude Lanzmann's epic 1985 film Shoah both as cinema and as an example of Holocaust representation. Shoah, the distillation of more than 350 hours of footage gathered over... -
Groundhog Day Ryan Gilbey 9781839029806
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.14Groundhog Day (1993), directed by Harold Ramis and starring Bill Murray, is widely regarded as one of the most original and enduring films of 1990s Hollywood. What begins as a high-concept romantic... -
Trainspotting by Murray Smith
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72In 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72First 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.06Amy 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.06Alan 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.80Drawing 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: £106.76In 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... -
The Richard Dyer Reader by Glyn Davis 9781839023163
Booksplease Price: £35.76Richard Dyer is a foundational figure for the critical study of cinema and popular culture. Across a career spanning five decades, he has made path breaking contributions to our understanding of... -
The Deer Hunter by Dr Brad Prager 9781839025419
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.62Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter was met with both critical and commercial success upon its release in 1978. However, it was also highly controversial and came to be seen as a powerful statement on... -
100 Animated Feature Films: Revised Edition by Andrew Osmond 9781839024412
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £60.5220 years ago, animated features were widely perceived as cartoons for children. Today they encompass an astonishing range of films, styles and techniques. There is the powerful adult drama of Waltz... -
100 American Horror Films by Barry Keith Grant 9781839021466
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.21"[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... -
It's a Wonderful Life by Michael Newton 9781839023484
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.06Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is one of the best-loved films of Classical Hollywood cinema, a story of despair and redemption in the aftermath of war that is one of the central movies of the... -
3 Women Justin Wyatt 9781839026027
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.06Released after the large-scale frescos of Nashville (1975) and Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976), 3 Women (1977) was seen as an intimate drama from director Robert... -
Some Like It Hot Steven Cohan 9781839027314
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.69Billy Wilder's classic screwball comedy Some Like it Hot (1959), starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe, tells the story of two struggling Jazz musicians who accidentally witness a mob... -
Beyond Bagpuss: A History of Smallfilms Animation Studio by Chris Pallant 9781839022395
Booksplease Price: £103.45Ivor the Engine, Noggin the Nog, Pingwings, Pogles Wood, The Clangers, and Bagpuss - the iconic animations produced by the Canterbury-based Smallfilms studio between 1958 and 1984 - constitute a... -
Kitano Takeshi by Aaron Gerow 9781844571659
Booksplease Price: £102.21Combining a detailed account of the situation in Japanese film and criticism with unique close analyses of Kitano's films from Violent Cop to Takeshis, the author relates the director to issues of... -
Fellini Lexicon by Sam Rohdie 9780851709345
Booksplease Price: £36.44Federico Fellini (1920-93) was one of the most inventive of film-makers and he remains one of the best loved. Director of a whole series of celebrated films - among them La Strada (1954) The Nights... -
Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture and Politics by John Hill 9781844571338
Booksplease Price: £113.41Traces the history of film production in Northern Ireland from the beginnings of a local film industry in the 1920s and 1930s, when the first Northern Irish 'quota quickies' were made, through the... -
Terence Davies Screenplays, Volume 2: Adaptations Terence Davies 9781839029752
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.96This second volume of Terence Davies's screenplays brings together his adaptations of classic novels and plays, including his 1995 film of John Kennedy Toole's coming-of-age novel The Neon Bible; his... -
Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of Television in Britain John Wyver 9781839028199
Booksplease Price: £109.09On 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... -
From Russia With Love by Llewella Chapman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.04Often 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72I 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: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.39A 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.68"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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.20Ernst 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.06Francis 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72Eminent 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.06Ritwik 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.06In 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.35Endlessly 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: £97.84In 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: £31.20New 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...