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Screened Stages: On Theatre in Film by Rachel Joseph 9780367498269
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $58.10This book is devoted to tracing the variety of ways that theatre, theatricality, and performance are embedded in Hollywood cinema as screened stages.A screened stage is the literal or metaphorical... -
International Politics and Film: Space, Vision, Power by Klaus Dodds
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.01International Politics and Film introduces readers to the representational qualities of film but also draws attention to how the relationship between the visual and the spatial is constitutive of... -
Short Films: Writing The Screenplay by Patrick Nash 9781842435014
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.38Every award-winning short film begins life with a clever idea, a good story and a screenplay. Patrick Nash analyses the process of writing short film screenplays and gives advice on: Story and... -
100 Cult Films: The Sequel Ernest Mathijs 9781839023026
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.39In this follow up to their original 100 Cult Films volume, Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik provide a guide to one hundred more incredible films, from the 1911 Italian silent Dante's Inferno to... -
Vision: Color and Composition for Film by Hans P. Bacher
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $30.83Featuring hundreds of carefully hand-crafted illustrations as well as significant tuition on how to best compose and use images to create the most powerful frames, this book is potentially Hans P... -
Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray by Keya Ganguly 9780520262164
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $96.98Although revered as one of the world's great filmmakers, the Indian director Satyajit Ray is described either in narrowly nationalistic terms or as an artist whose critique of modernity is largely... -
Producing for Film and Television by Sue Austen
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.67Producing for Film and Television offers a comprehensive overview of the different stages of film production, from development of an idea to delivery, distribution and festival entry. Written from... -
On Film-making by Alexander Mackendrick
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.08An invaluable analysis of the director's art and craft, from one of the most revered of all film school directors. Alexander 'Sandy' Mackendrick directed classic Ealing comedies plus a Hollywood... -
Danger on the Silver Screen: 50 Films Celebrating Cinema's Greatest Stunts by Scott McGee
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $21.03Whether it's an exhilarating car chase, comedic pratfall, intense fight scene, or a dramatic leap from the top of a building, there is something about watching a well-executed stunt that leaves... -
100 Animated Feature Films by Andrew Osmond 9781844573400
Booksplease Price: $59.15Twenty years ago, animated features were widely perceived as cartoons for children. Today, though, they encompass an astonishing range of films, styles and techniques. There is the powerful adult... -
Film Remakes and Franchises by Daniel Herbert 9780813579412
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $16.28Contemporary media seems incredibly unoriginal, as Hollywood produces an endless flood of remakes, sequels, reboots, and franchises. We watch as the same stories, characters, and images appear again... -
Roots of the New Arab Film by Roy Armes 9780253031723
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33Roots of the New Arab Film deals with the generation of filmmakers from across North Africa and the Middle East who created an international awareness of Arab film from the mid-1980s onwards. These... -
Teaching Film and TV Documentary by Sarah Casey Benyahia 9781844572236
Booksplease Price: $62.82The recent resurgence of interest in documentary is evident in its appearance at the multiplex, television's reliance on documentary formats and its appeal to the commercially important youth... -
Mise en Scene and Film Style: From Classical Hollywood to New Media Art by A. Martin 9781349444175
RRP: $141.89Booksplease Price: $55.79Styles of filmmaking have changed greatly from classical Hollywood through to our digital era. So, too, have the ways in which film critics and scholars have analysed these transformations in film... -
Refocus: the Films of Amy Heckerling Frances Smith 9781474425896
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $35.85Refocus: The Films of Amy Heckerling is the first book-length study of the work of Amy Heckerling, the phenomenally popular director and screenwriter of Clueless and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. As... -
Lawrence of Arabia: A Film's Anthropology by Steven C. Caton 9780520210837
RRP: $37.41Booksplease Price: $36.52Combining ethnography, film criticism, and his extensive knowledge of the Middle East, Steven C. Caton presents an innovative and fascinating examination of the classic film, Lawrence of Arabia... -
Double Solitaire: The Films of Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder by Donald Brackett
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $21.26Before Herzog and Kinski, before Simon and Garfunkel, there was Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. Despite their shared nickname, writer-producer Charles Brackett and writer-director Billy Wilder... -
The Films of Yvonne Rainer by Yvonne Rainer
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.50"To read Rainer's screenplays is to rediscover, even reinvent, the films all over again, but more importantly to realize that images and mise-en-scene are as key to how Rainer's films work as is... -
Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans: The Lure of the Local Film Economy by Vicki Mayer 9780520293816
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $37.85A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Early in the twenty-first... -
Teaching Analysis of Film Language by David Wharton 9780851709819
Booksplease Price: $57.16Combining the creative perspectives of filmmakers with more analytic academic methods, this study invites film students to take an active approach in learning to understand how audiovisual language... -
Menus for Movieland: Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture, 1913-1916 by Richard Abel 9780520286788
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $36.30At the turn of the past century, the main function of a newspaper was to offer "menus" by which readers could make sense of modern life and imagine how to order their daily lives. Among those menus... -
How To Crowdfund Your Film by Stephen Follows 9780857301833
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.38Crowdfunding is a major source of funding for independent films and over $250 million has been raised for films just on Kickstarter alone. This book will guide you through every stage of planning,... -
Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780520086333
Booksplease Price: $37.85Jonathan Rosenbaum, longtime contributor to such publications as Film Quarterly, Sight and Sound, and The Village Voice, is arguably the most eloquent, insightful film critic writing in America today... -
Mark Lewis: Films 1995-2000 by Catherine Pavlovic 9780953863402
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $18.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953863402Author Catherine PavlovicFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint -
Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949 by Judith Weisenfeld 9780520251007
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $37.85From the earliest years of sound film in America, Hollywood studios and independent producers of "race films" for black audiences created stories featuring African American religious practices. In... -
Film Form by Sergei Eisenstein
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.74From Sergei Eisenstein, a legendary pioneer in filmmaking and director of Battleship Potemkin, Film Form collects twelve essays written between 1928 and 1945 that demonstrate key points in the... -
The American Film Musical by Rick Altman
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.97" . . . a model of genre criticism and probably the best overall analysis of the film musical to date." Journal of Popular Films and Television"The American Film Musical is a truly admirable book... -
Oh, Calamity!: The lost, damaged and surviving films of the Aldwych farces and farceurs by Mark Newell
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $20.03The first-ever complete study of the Aldwych farce films (1924-1954) and the plays they were based on. The thirteen Aldwych farces were phenomenally successful in the West End between 1922 and 1933... -
Film, Fashion, and the 1960s by Eugenia Paulicelli 9780253026101
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94A fascinating look at one of the most experimental, volatile, and influential decades, Film, Fashion, and the 1960s, examines the numerous ways in which film and fashion intersected and affected... -
Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency Stephen Lee Naish 9781643150956
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $19.17Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency offers a vibrant and accessible collection of essays that explore how films and changes in the media industries reflect and influence our political,... -
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Night Film by Marisha Pessl 9780099559245 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $6.18'THE BOOK EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT.' ObserverOn a damp October night the body of beautiful Ashley Cordova is discovered in a Manhattan warehouse. Though her death is ruled a suicide, investigative... -
Shakespeare on Film by Maurice Hindle 9781137286840
Booksplease Price: $36.86An approachable guide to Shakespeare on film, this book establishes the differences between stage and screen. It covers the history of Shakespeare on the screen since 1899, and discusses various... -
The James Bond Archives. The Complete Films Paul Duncan 9783754400654
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $16.74"Bond, James Bond." Since Sean Connery uttered those immortal words in 1962, the most dashing secret agent in the history of cinema has been charming and thrilling audiences worldwide. This... -
Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist: Reading the Hollywood Reds by Jeff Smith 9780520280670
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $97.64Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist examines the long-term reception of several key American films released during the postwar period, focusing on the two main critical lenses used in the... -
FilmQuake: The Most Disruptive Films in Cinema by Ian Haydn Smith
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.13Discover films that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when filmmakers take tradition and rip it up. FilmQuake introduces 50 movies that... -
The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis by Barbara Creed 9780367209452
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20The Monstrous Feminine is one of the most influential books to emerge in the early 90sIn this new edition, Creed does it again, recontextualizing the conception of the monstrous-feminine to track... -
Film Moments: Criticism, History, Theory by James Walters 9781844573356
Booksplease Price: $50.32Film is made of moments. In its earliest form, the cinema was a moment: mere seconds recorded and projected into the darkness. Even as film has developed into today's complex and intricate medium, it... -
The Contemporary Superhero Film: Projections of Power and Identity by Terence McSweeney
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.01Audiences around the globe continue to flock to see the latest releases from Marvel and DC studios, making it clear that superhero films resonate with the largest global audience that Hollywood has... -
It's Only a Movie: Reel Life Adventures of a Film Obsessive by Mark Kermode
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.18In It's Only a Movie, the incomparable Mark Kermode takes us into the weird world of a life lived in widescreen. Join him as he gets lost in Russia on the trail of a low-budget horror flick, gasp as... -
Diary of a Film by Niven Govinden
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55'Niven Govinden's Diary of a Film, his sixth novel, is also his best yet. Smart, sexy and cinematic (in many senses), it is a love letter to Italy and to film' Observer'Immersive . . . This is a wise...