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Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players and Postcolonial Film Theory: Postcolonialism and Film Theory by Reena Dube 9781349523535
Booksplease Price: $94.38Indispensable for students of film studies, in this book Reena Dube explores Satyajit Ray's films, and The Chess Players in particular, in the context of discourses of labour in colonial and... -
The Biggest Film Biographer in the World: The Films of Ken Russell: The Films of Ken Russell by George Porcari 9798218777586
Booksplease Price: $78.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218777586Author George PorcariFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint -
American Film and Society since 1945 Leonard Quart 9781440833212
RRP: $136.50Booksplease Price: $84.88From Steven Spielberg's Lincoln to Clint Eastwood's American Sniper, this fifth edition of this classic film study text adds even more recent films and examines how these movies depict and represent... -
Doing Film Studies by Sarah Casey Benyahia 9780415602693
RRP: $224.25Booksplease Price: $223.67Doing Film Studies examines what it really means to study film, encouraging the reader to question the dominant theories as well as understanding the key approaches to cinema. This book provides an... -
'Film Europe' And 'Film America': Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange 1920-1939 Andrew Higson 9780859895460
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $48.18Winner of the 2000 Prix Jean Mitry. A volume of specially-commissioned essays dealing with the attempts to create a pan-European film production movement in the 1920s and 1930s, and the reactions of... -
Kinotopias: Film, Place and Belonging in a Bordered World Kevin Smets 9781399536653
Booksplease Price: $175.93Combining original research with insights from social sciences, philosophy and film theory, it argues that film can effectively capture both material and socio-cultural dimensions of borders and... -
Finnish Film Studios Kimmo Laine 9781474446815
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $37.11Global Film Studios is a series of books devoted to examining international film studios and their global influence. Each volume will address several studios representing an era (New Hollywood... -
The Maciste Films of Italian Silent Cinema by Jacqueline Reich
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70Italian film star Bartolomeo Pagano's "Maciste" played a key role in his nation's narratives of identity during World War I and after. Jacqueline Reich traces the racial, class, and national... -
Working Title Films: A Creative and Commercial History by Nathan Townsend
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $41.40Provides the first history of Working Title Films Offers a detailed history of Working Title's evolution as a film business over almost 40 years Provides a major reconsideration of the... -
The Hollywood War Film by Robert Eberwein
RRP: $60.35Booksplease Price: $57.45The Hollywood War Film offers readers a lively introduction to the theory, history, stars, and major films constituting this vital genre, from Hollywood's earliest days to the current moment ... -
Film Genre: The Basics by Barry Keith Grant 9781032271651
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $39.27Offering an accessible introduction to the study of film genres and genre films, this book examines the use of genre in cinema from its beginnings to the present day.This book explains the various... -
Film Genre: The Basics by Barry Keith Grant 9781032274140
RRP: $204.75Booksplease Price: $179.11Offering an accessible introduction to the study of film genres and genre films, this book examines the use of genre in cinema from its beginnings to the present day.This book explains the various... -
Thin Liquid Films: Dewetting and Polymer Flow by Ralf Blossey 9789400798861
Booksplease Price: $90.25This book is a treatise on the thermodynamic and dynamic properties of thin liquid films at solid surfaces and, in particular, their rupture instabilities. For the quantitative study of these... -
The Horror Film Peter Hutchings 9780582437944
Booksplease Price: $117.57The Horror Film is an in-depth exploration of one of the most consistently popular, but also most disreputable, of all the mainstream film genres. Since the early 1930s there has never been a time... -
Film Studies: An Introduction: Teach Yourself by Warren Buckland
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06An unpretentious guide for all those who want to learn to analyse, understand and evaluate films.Film Studies: An Introduction provides an overview of the key areas in film studies, including... -
The Birth of the American Horror Film by Gary D. Rhodes
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $50.97Although early cinema has long been a key area of research in film studies, the origin and development of the horror film has been a neglected subject for what is arguably one of the world's most... -
Film as Art, 50th Anniversary Printing by Rudolf Arnheim 9780520248373
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16In the fall of 1957 the University of California Press expanded Arnheim's 1933 book "Film" by four essays and brought that landmark work back into print as "Film as Art". Now nearly fifty years after... -
Studying Film with Andr Bazin by Blandine Joret
Booksplease Price: $101.21The impact of French film critic Andre Bazin (1918-1958) on the development of film studies, though generally acknowledged, remains contested. A passionate initiator of film culture during his... -
Finnish Film Studios Kimmo Laine 9781474446808
RRP: $185.25Booksplease Price: $144.18Provides the first scholarly examination of Finnish studio system Provides an approach that is both sensitive to the specific characteristics of Finnish studio system and applicable to small... -
The Story of Film by Mark Cousins
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $44.97An updated edition - with completely new chapters - of the most accessible and compelling history of the cinema yet published, and complements Mark Cousins' fascinating 15-hour film... -
Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780801889714
Booksplease Price: $65.66In his astute and deeply informed film reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum regularly provides new and brilliant insights into the cinema as art, entertainment, and commerce. Guided by a personal... -
Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780801878404
Booksplease Price: $107.07In his astute and deeply informed film reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum regularly provides new and brilliant insights into the cinema as art, entertainment, and commerce. Guided by a personal... -
Refocus: The Films of Pablo Larrain by Laura Hatry
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $41.40Pablo Larrain is among the most prominent filmmakers in contemporary Chilean cinema. Having created a highly original cinematic language and established a focused critical dialogue about Chile's... -
Overhearing Film Dialogue by Sarah Kozloff
RRP: $52.65Booksplease Price: $44.69Since the birth of cinema, film has been lauded as a visual rather than a verbal medium; this sentiment was epitomized by John Ford's assertion in 1964 that, 'When a motion picture is at its best, it... -
Introduction to Film by Nick Lacey 9781137463838
Booksplease Price: $86.33This core textbook offers a concise yet complete introduction to film, responding to shifts in the medium while addressing all of the main approaches that inform film studies. The rise of on demand... -
From Film Practice to Data Process: Production Aesthetics and Representational Practices of a Film Industry in Transition by Sarah Atkinson
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $184.96Examines the practices of independent digital feature-filmmaking in contemporary BritainTo what extent have digital innovations transformed the UK film industry? What new practices and processes are... -
Directory of African Film-Makers and Films Keith Shiri 9780313287565
Booksplease Price: $74.30The richness and color of African cinema have been neglected for too long and its many talented film-makers deserve full recognition. This new and unique book gives detailed information on over 300... -
Film, Cinema, Genre: The Steve Neale Reader by Steve Neale 9781905816583
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $182.75This book brings together key works by pioneering film studies scholar Steve Neale. From the 1970s to the 2010s Neale's vital and unparalleled contribution to the subject has shaped many of the... -
Secret Museums: The Films of Arthur Lipsett 9781771126878
RRP: $148.20Booksplease Price: $119.34When Arthur Lipsett's first film was nominated for an Academy Award in 1962, the event marked the arrival of an influential turn in cinema. The film's dark humour and dancing rhythms had captured the... -
Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures: A Critical Anthology by Scott MacKenzie
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $68.54Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures is the first book to collect manifestoes from the global history of cinema, providing the first historical and theoretical account of the role played by... -
Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality by Genevieve Yue
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $48.03Girl Head shows how gender has had a surprising and persistent role in film production processes, well before the image ever appears onscreen. For decades, feminist film criticism has focused on... -
Surveillance and Film by J. Macgregor Wise 9781628924855
Booksplease Price: $53.78Winner of the Surveillance Studies Network Book Award: 2017Surveillance is a common feature of everyday life. But how are we to make sense of or understand what surveillance is, how we should feel... -
Hong Kong Documentary Film by Ian Aitken
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $55.85Offers a comprehensive study of the lost genre of Hong Kong documentary film. Does Hong Kong have a significant tradition in documentary filmmaking? Until recently, many film scholars believed not... -
The Maciste Films of Italian Silent Cinema by Jacqueline Reich 9780253017406
RRP: $132.60Booksplease Price: $113.65Italian film star Bartolomeo Pagano's "Maciste" played a key role in his nation's narratives of identity during World War I and after. Jacqueline Reich traces the racial, class, and national... -
The Soul of Film Theory by S. Cooper 9780230365131
Booksplease Price: $91.14In this innovative book, Sarah Cooper revisits the history of film theory in order to bring to the fore the neglected concept of the soul and to trace its changing fortunes. The Soul of Film Theory... -
The Musicality of Narrative Film by Danijela Kulezic-Wilson 9781349504329
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $114.47The Musicality of Narrative Film is the first book to examine in depth the film/music analogy. Using comparative analysis, Kulezic-Wilson explores film's musical potential, arguing that film's... -
Directory of Indian Film-Makers and Films Sanjit Narwekar 9780313292842
Booksplease Price: $137.55India produces more films each year than any other country in the world. Yet, apart from the films of Sanjit Ray, the diverse and lavish output of Indian film-makers is largely unknown outside the... -
A Level Film Studies: The Essential Introduction by Sarah Casey Benyahia 9781032801933
Booksplease Price: $82.27Building confidence through a careful, step-by-step approach, this book is an essential companion for students undertaking A Level Film Studies.This book begins by establishing a basic understanding... -
Film and the Imagined Image by Sarah Cooper 9781474452786
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $184.96This book explores the extraordinary ways in which film can stimulate and direct the image-making capacity of the imagination.Book InformationISBN 9781474452786Author Sarah CooperFormat HardbackPage... -
Investor Financing of Independent Film: A Guide for Producers, Attorneys and Film School Lecturers John W. Cones 9781032520001
RRP: $74.08Booksplease Price: $73.89This book explains how to comply with the federal and states securities regulations when seeking to raise money from private investors for the development, production and/or distribution of a feature...