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You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News: Shocking But Utterly True Facts by Cracked Com 9780452296398 [USED COPY]
RRP: $46.80Booksplease Price: $3.71Some facts are too terrifying to teach in school. Unfortunately, Cracked.com is more than happy to fill you in with this hilarious tome of trivia. * A zombie apocalypse? It could happen. 50% of... -
World Film Locations: Chicago by Scott Jordan Harris 9781841507187
Booksplease Price: $48.24While some call it the Second City, Chicago is no stranger to the silver screen. Director Christopher Nolan transformed Chicago into the darkly foreboding Gotham City for The Dark Knight . Ferris... -
You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News: Shocking but Utterly True Facts! by The Editors of Cracked 9781782433200 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $5.17Alexander Fleming was not the first person to discover penicillin. The adorable-looking duck-billed platypus is actually a poisonous killer. We don't really swallow eight spiders a year in our sleep... -
Turning Point: 1997-2008 by Hayao Miyazaki
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $23.03The second volume of legendary animation director Hayao Miyazaki's career memoir continues with essays, interviews, and discussions about some of his most popular films, including Spirited Away and... -
Imaginary Games by Chris Bateman 9781846949418
Booksplease Price: $39.27Can games be art? When film critic Roger Ebert claimed in 2010 that videogames could never be art it was seen as a snub by many gamers. But from the perspective of philosophy of art this question was... -
Kim Newman's Video Dungeon: The Collected Reviews by Kim Newman
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $21.43Ripped from the pages of Empire magazine, the first collection of film critic, film historian and novelist Kim Newman's reviews of the best and worst B movies. Some of the cheapest, trashiest,... -
But Have You Read the Book?: 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films by Kristen Lopez
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.49For film buffs and literature lovers alike, Turner Classic Movies presents an essential guide to 52 cinema classics and the literary works that served as their inspiration. "I love that movie!""But... -
In Bruges by Martin McDonagh
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.52After a shooting in London goes hideously wrong, two hitmen, Ray and Ken, are sent to hide out in the strange, Gothic, medieval town of Bruges, Belgium, by their volatile and dangerous boss, Harry... -
A Convenient Parallel Dimension: How Ghostbusters Slimed Us Forever by James Greene, Jr.
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $44.69"Rarely has a movie this expensive provided so many quotable lines." So wrote Roger Ebert in his review of Ghostbusters, the 1984 blockbuster that combined our paranormal fears and fascination with... -
Pursuing Hollywood: Seduction, Obsession, Dread by Nathaniel Kohn 9780759109247
Booksplease Price: $196.81Before coming to the academy, Nathaniel Kohn was a screenwriter and producer in Hollywood, London, and South Africa. He produced the epic film Zulu Dawn (with Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole and 6,000... -
Pursuing Hollywood: Seduction, Obsession, Dread by Nathaniel Kohn 9780759109254
Booksplease Price: $76.30Before coming to the academy, Nathaniel Kohn was a screenwriter and producer in Hollywood, London, and South Africa. He produced the epic film Zulu Dawn (with Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole and 6,000... -
The Fast Runner: Filming the Legend of Atanarjuat by Michael Robert Evans 9780803222083
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.07One of the most important Native films of all time, Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner tells a powerful and moving story about honor, betrayal, vengeance, and redemption. Set in the vast, visually stunning... -
Harry Dean Stanton: Hollywood’s Zen Rebel by Joseph B. Atkins 9780813197722
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $46.90Harry Dean Stanton (1926-2017) got his start in Hollywood in TV productions such as Zane Grey Theater and Gunsmoke. After a series of minor parts in forgettable westerns, he gradually began to get... -
Movies That Mattered: More Reviews from a Transformative Decade by Dave Kehr 9780226495545
RRP: $126.75Booksplease Price: $123.32Dave Kehr's writing about film has garnered high praise from both readers and fellow critics. Among his admirers are some of his most influential contemporaries. Roger Ebert called Kehr "one of the... -
Movies That Mattered: More Reviews from a Transformative Decade by Dave Kehr 9780226495682
Booksplease Price: $42.88Dave Kehr's writing about film has garnered high praise from both readers and fellow critics. Among his admirers are some of his most influential contemporaries. Roger Ebert called Kehr "one of the... -
Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino 9781474624244
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $13.55A unique cocktail of personal memoir, cultural criticism and Hollywood history by the one and only Quentin Tarantino.The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the number one New... -
I.o.u.s.a: One Nation. Under Stress. In Debt by Addison Wiggin 9780470222775
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.43The United States has been spending its way deeper and deeper into the red, and saddling future generations with the mess-but who's paying attention? To answer that question, this companion book to... -
World Film Locations: New York by Scott Jordan Harris 9781841504827
Booksplease Price: $38.12Be they period films, cult classics or elaborate directorial love letters, New York City has played - and continues to play - a central role in the imaginations of filmmakers and moviegoers worldwide... -
God in the Movies Andrew M. Greeley 9780765805287
RRP: $99.43Booksplease Price: $93.05The religious imagination is alive and well in the movies. Contrary to those who criticize Hollywood, popular movies very often have metaphorically represented God on the screen. From Clint Eastwood... -
The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies by David Bordwell 9780520246225
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $51.75Hollywood moviemaking is one of the constants of American life, but how much has it changed since the glory days of the big studios? David Bordwell argues that the principles of visual storytelling... -
Everything Is Perfect When You're a Liar by Kelly Oxford 9780062102225
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $32.47Well, she's bitingly funny, but everybody knows that. -Roger Ebert on Kelly Oxford. The beautiful - and hilarious - Kelly Oxford has been one of the most hysterical voices on the Internet since it... -
Ozu International: Essays on the Global Influences of a Japanese Auteur by Wayne Stein 9781501320040
Booksplease Price: $82.33In Japan and much of Europe, Ozu is widely considered to be one of the finest film directors who ever lived. While Ozu has a strong reputation in the West, his films are not as well-known or widely... -
World Film Locations: San Francisco by Scott Jordan Harris
Booksplease Price: $38.12An extraordinarily beautiful city that has been celebrated, criticised and studied in many films, San Francisco is both fragile and robust, at once a site of devastation caused by 1906 earthquake but... -
Citizen Sarris, American Film Critic: Essays in Honor of Andrew Sarris by Emanuel Levy 9780810838918
Booksplease Price: $147.83This collection of essays pays tribute to Andrew Sarris, the most influential film critic in American film history. A noted film personality, Sarris occupies a unique position, walking the line... -
Rosebud Sleds and Horses' Heads: 50 of Film's Most Evocative Objects - An Illustrated Journey Scott Jordan Harris (United Kingdom.) 9781783200405
Booksplease Price: $24.08Dorothy's ruby slippers. Michael Myers's mask. Marilyn Monroe's billowy white dress. Indiana Jones's trusty hat. These objects are icons of popular culture synonymous with the films they appear in,... -
My Life in 24 Frames per Second Rintaro 9781419784040
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $33.48An autobiography in manga form from legendary anime director Rintaro. Fully illustrated and with a foreword by director Katsuhiro Otomo, creator of Akira, this inspiring memoir is the unique journey... -
The Duke and Duchess's Kama Sutra: An Unofficial Bedroom Book for Fans of Bridgerton by Marisa Bennett
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48The talk of the town is behind closed doors. Have everything you burn for with The Duke and Duchess's Kama Sutra. In this companion guide to the Regency bedroom, you and your gentleman will be... -
Philip Kaufman by Annette Insdorf 9780252078460
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.07American director Philip Kaufman is hard to pin down: a visual stylist who is truly literate, a San Franciscan who often makes European films, he is an accessible storyteller with a sophisticated... -
Cinema of Outsiders: The Rise of American Independent Film by Emanuel Levy 9780814751244
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $46.37A deep dive into the emergence and success of independent filmmaking in America A Los Angeles Times Bestseller The most important development in American culture of the last two decades is the... -
Philip Kaufman by Annette Insdorf
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $138.72American director Philip Kaufman is hard to pin down: a visual stylist who is truly literate, a San Franciscan who often makes European films, he is an accessible storyteller with a sophisticated... -
When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade by Dave Kehr 9780226429403
Booksplease Price: $187.14If you have ever wanted to dig around in the archives for that perfect Sunday afternoon DVD and first turned to a witty weekly column in the "New York Times", then you are already familiar with one... -
Cinema of Outsiders: The Rise of American Independent Film by Emanuel Levy 9780814751237
Booksplease Price: $188.78A deep dive into the emergence and success of independent filmmaking in America A Los Angeles Times Bestseller The most important development in American culture of the last two decades is the... -
Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement by B. Ruby Rich 9780822321217
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.91If there was a moment during the sixties, seventies, or eighties that changed the history of the women's film movement, B. Ruby Rich was there. Part journalistic chronicle, part memoir, and 100% pure... -
Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir by Judith G. Coffin 9781501750540
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $40.93When Judith G. Coffin discovered a virtually unexplored treasure trove of letters to Simone de Beauvoir from Beauvoir's international readers, it inspired Coffin to explore the intimate bond between... -
The Beauty of the Real: What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses by Mick LaSalle 9780804768542
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $42.24Even as actresses become increasingly marginalized by Hollywood, French cinema is witnessing an explosion of female talent-a Golden Age unlike anything the world has seen since the days of Stanwyck,... -
The Film Buff's Bucket List: The 50 Movies of the 2000s to See Before You Die by Chris Stuckmann 9781633537620
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $33.72#1 Best Seller Film Buff Movie GuideBest movies, best films, best indies. Theaters around the world are dominated by comic book heroes, ice princesses, apocalyptic love-struck teens, and whatever... -
Those Who Made It: Speaking with the Legends of Hollywood by John C. Tibbetts 9781137541895
Booksplease Price: $186.77What was it like to work behind the scenes, away from the spotlight's glare, in Hollywood's so-called Golden Age? The interviews in this book provide eye-witness accounts from the likes of Steven... -
TV Writing On Demand: Creating Great Content in the Digital Era by Neil Landau 9781138705715
Booksplease Price: $80.63TV Writing On Demand: Creating Great Content in the Digital Era takes a deep dive into writing for today's audiences, against the backdrop of a rapidly evolving TV ecosystem. Amazon, Hulu and Netflix... -
Poetics of Cinema by David Bordwell 9780415977791
RRP: $122.83Booksplease Price: $115.36Bringing together twenty-five years of work on what he has called the "historical poetics of cinema," David Bordwell presents an extended analysis of a key question for film studies: how are films...