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The Corpse in the Kitchen: Enclosure, Extraction, and the Afterlives of the Black Hawk War by Adam John Waterman 9780823298778
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.66Reassessing the archive of the Black Hawk War, The Corpse in the Kitchen explores relationships between the enclosure of Indigenous land, histories of resource extraction, and the literary culture of... -
Human-Experiential Design of Presence in Everyday Blended Reality: Living in the Here and Now by John Waterworth 9783319303321
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book explores how our lives and social interactions have become split between two intertwined, but not integrated, realities: the physical and the digital. Our sense of presence in the here and... -
Human-Experiential Design of Presence in Everyday Blended Reality: Living in the Here and Now by John Waterworth 9783319807829
Booksplease Price: £46.91This book explores how our lives and social interactions have become split between two intertwined, but not integrated, realities: the physical and the digital. Our sense of presence in the here and... -
Directory of World Cinema: American Independent by John Berra
Booksplease Price: £49.58With high-profile Academy Award nominations and an increasing number of big-name actors eager to sign on to promising projects, independent films have been at the forefront in recent years like never... -
Exposed to Innumerable Delusions: Public Enterprise and State Power in Egypt, India, Mexico, and Turkey by John Waterbury 9780521434973
RRP: £84.99Booksplease Price: £81.13The states of Egypt, India, Mexico and Turkey have all developed extensive public enterprise sectors and have sought to regulate most economic activities outside the state sector. Their experiences... -
Gay Directors, Gay Films?: Pedro Almodovar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters by Emanuel Levy
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Through intimate encounters with the life and work of five contemporary gay male directors, this book develops a framework for interpreting what it means to make a gay film or adopt a gay point of... -
Exposed to Innumerable Delusions: Public Enterprise and State Power in Egypt, India, Mexico, and Turkey by John Waterbury 9780521435499
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £29.61The states of Egypt, India, Mexico and Turkey have all developed extensive public enterprise sectors and have sought to regulate most economic activities outside the state sector. Their experiences... -
Amos Badertscher Images and Stories Jonathan D. Katz 9781580936477
RRP: £54.95Booksplease Price: £37.41The long-awaited first career survey from photographer Amos Badertscher, who comprehensively documented a uniquely American queer underworld Across several decades, self-taught photographer Amos... -
Paul Bartel: The Life and Films by Stephen B. Armstrong 9780786499151
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59Director Paul Bartel enjoyed poking holes in the expectations of audiences and critics with amusing films about murder, greed and transgressive sex--among them Death Race 2000 (1975), Eating Raoul... -
Gay Directors, Gay Films?: Pedro Almodovar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters by Emanuel Levy 9780231152761
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £84.15Through intimate encounters with the life and work of five contemporary gay male directors, this book develops a framework for interpreting what it means to make a gay film or adopt a gay point of... -
Vanished!: Explorers Forever Lost by Evan L. Balkan 9780897329835
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22In the best adventures, the intrepid explorer returns home to banner headlines and a hero's welcome...but what of the men and women who don't return home? This collection proves their stories are... -
Collected Stories by Tennessee Williams
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Disturbing, moving, and funny; these stories help amplify Williams's tragic vision, for like the plays, they underline his preoccupation and insight into the conflicts of the human heart'New York... -
100 Greatest Cult Films by Christopher J. Olson 9781442208223
Booksplease Price: £49.94The term "cult film" may be difficult to define, but one thing is certain: A cult film is any movie that has developed a rabid following for one reason or another. From highly influential works of... -
Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author by Edward John Trelawny
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78In February 1822 the writer and adventurer Edward John Trelawny arrived in Pisa to make the acquaintance of his heroes Shelley and Byron, leaving a broken marriage and an exotic seafaring career... -
Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil... -
Bad Habit by Alana S Portero 9780063336124
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £15.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063336124Author Alana S PorteroFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint -
A Critical Cinema 1: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers by Scott MacDonald 9780520058019
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £30.89It is widely understood that writing can discuss writing, but we rarely consider that film can be used as a means of analyzing conventions of the commercial film industry, or of theorizing about... -
Curating Deviance: Programming the Queer Film Canon Marc Francis 9781478033080
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14In Curating Deviance, Marc Francis scavenges film history for signs of vibrant, wayward life in the film programming of US art house and repertory cinemas between 1968 and 1989. Francis examines how... -
Curating Deviance: Programming the Queer Film Canon Marc Francis 9781478029632
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.69In Curating Deviance, Marc Francis scavenges film history for signs of vibrant, wayward life in the film programming of US art house and repertory cinemas between 1968 and 1989. Francis examines how... -
My Happy Days In Hell by Gyorgy Faludy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23My Happy Days in Hell (1962) is Gyorgy Faludy's grimly beautiful autobiography of his battle to survive tyranny and oppression. Fleeing Hungary in 1938 as the German army approaches, acclaimed poet... -
A Political Economy of the Middle East by Melani Cammett 9780813349381
Booksplease Price: £52.74A Political Economy of the Middle East is the most comprehensive analysis of developments in the political economy of the region over the past several decades, examining the interaction of economic... -
TCM Underground: 50 Must-See Films from the World of Classic Cult and Late-Night Cinema by Millie De Chirico
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.01Based on the Turner Classic Movies series, TCM Underground is the movie-lover's guide to 50 of the most campy, kitschy, shocking, and weirdly wonderful cult films you need to see.In the pages of this... -
The Dark Side of Camp Aesthetics: Queer Economies of Dirt, Dust and Patina by Ingrid Hotz-Davies
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24"Camp" is often associated with glamour, surfaces and an ostentatious display of chic, but as these authors argue, there is an underside to it that has often gone unnoticed: camp's simultaneous... -
The Egyptian Economy in the Twenty-first Century: The Hard Road to Inclusive Prosperity Dr. Khalid Ikram 9781649031778
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £66.71A multi-faceted account of Egyptian economic development by nineteen internationally recognized authorities and the critical challenges the economy is likely to face in the next twenty yearsThe... -
Refocus: the Films of William Castle by Murray Leeder
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £28.64With an influence felt on directors like Joe Dante, Robert Zemeckis and John Waters, this volume reappraises Castle's legacy as an innovator as much as a showman.Book InformationISBN... -
Calistoga by John Jr Waters 9781531635558
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781531635558Author John Waters, JrFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint -
Cruising the Deuce by Allen Windsor 9780557521470
RRP: £18.30Booksplease Price: £17.22Used as a prop in a John Waters movie; is sociological to some, pornographic to others; titillating to all; documented study of movie theaters and grinder houses in Times Square, New York City, 1940s... -
The South Never Plays Itself: A Film Buff’s Journey Through the South on Screen by Ben Beard 9781588384010
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £23.86Since The Birth of a Nation became the first Hollywood blockbuster in 1915, movies have struggled to reckon with the American South-as both a place and an idea, a reality and a romance, a lived... -
Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black: Collected Stories by Cookie Mueller
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black is the only story collection from the legendary writer, actress, ex-biker and columnist Cookie Mueller, published in the UK for the first time... -
The Camp 100: Glorious flamboyance, from Louis XIV to Lil Nas X Simon Doonan 9780711289963
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.83'Simon Doonan's CAMP 100 is majestic, life-enhancing, packed with info and bang up to date. And, yes, I am featured. Surprised?' - Alan CarrCelebrate the unapologetically, outrageously CAMP with this... -
No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture by Andrew Ross
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £45.04The intellectual and the popular: Irving Howe and John Waters, Susan Sontag and Ethel Rosenberg, Dwight MacDonald and Bill Cosby, Amiri Baraka and Mick Jagger, Andrea Dworkin and Grace Jones, Andy... -
Langston Hughes and the South African Drum Generation: The Correspondence by S. Graham 9780230102934
Booksplease Price: £46.74This collection combines previously unpublished letters between African-American poet Langston Hughes and South-African writers of the 1950s and 1960s with scholarly commentary and criticism. The... -
Down and Dirty: Hollywood's Exploitation Filmmakers and Their Movies by Mike Quarles 9780786411429
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59Taboo breakers and trendsetters, shameless hucksters and famous directors. Exploitation filmmaking has seen it all. Fred Olen Ray made his first movie for $298. In 1936 Marijuana-Weed with Roots in... -
It's Not About Me: A Retrospective Greg Gorman 9783961712755
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £53.13If Sir Elton John wrote the Foreword and director John Waters wrote the Afterword, then we're surely dealing with a major talent. In this 400-page retrospective, award-winning photographer Greg... -
Flaming Creatures and Other Secret-flix of Cinemaroc by Jack Smith 9781887123525
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £18.63Reviled, rioted over and banned as pornographic even as it was recognized by many as an unprecedented visionary masterpiece, Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures is one of the most important and... -
Pink Trance Notebooks by Wayne Koestenbaum 9781937658403
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The Pink Trance Notebooks is the product of the year Wayne Koestenbaum stopped keeping the traditional journal he had maintained for three decades and began a series of "trance notebooks" as a way to... -
Maverick Movies: New Line Cinema and the Transformation of American Film by Daniel Herbert 9780520382350
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21A 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.Maverick Movies tells the... -
The Complete Peanuts 1967-1968: Volume 9 by Charles M. Schulz
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.18As we rush toward the end of Peanuts' second full decade, Snoopy finds himself almost completely engrossed in his persona as the World War I Flying Ace.Still, Snoopy looms large, so this volume (a... -
He’s the Devil Tobi Coventry 9780008732868
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.79'MAGNETIC, CLAUSTROPHOBIC, WICKEDLY ALIVE' LUCY ROSE, AUTHOR OF THE LAMB 'IF STEPHEN KING, OTTESSA MOSHFEGH AND JOHN WATERS HAD A BABY - ITS THIS BRILLIANT BOOK' JODIE HARSH ... -
He’s the Devil by Tobi Coventry 9780008732875
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.43'MAGNETIC, CLAUSTROPHOBIC, WICKEDLY ALIVE' LUCY ROSE, AUTHOR OF THE LAMB 'IF STEPHEN KING, OTTESSA MOSHFEGH AND JOHN WATERS HAD A BABY - ITS THIS BRILLIANT BOOK' JODIE HARSH ...