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American Horror Film: The Genre at the Turn of the Millenium by Steffen Hantke 9781617038303
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Creatively spent and politically irrelevant, the American horror film is a mere ghost of its former self--or so goes the old saw from fans and scholars alike. Taking on this undeserved reputation,... -
Cape Fear by Rob Daniel
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.41Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991) opens with a shot of water and climaxes on a raging river. Despite, or perhaps because of, the film's great commercial success, critical analysis of the film... -
A Vision of the Orient: Texts, Intertexts, and Contexts of Madame Butterfly by Jonathan Wisenthal 9781442613287
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Best known as the story from the 1904 Puccini opera, the compelling modern myth of Madame Butterfly has been read, watched, and re-interpreted for over a century, from Pierre Loti's 1887 novel Madame... -
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Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now by Patrick McGrath 9780747574293 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.81A man is haunted by the memory of his mother standing under a gibbet with a rope round her neck. It is the American War of Independence, and having defied the British forces occupying New York she... -
Amputation: A Novel Bruce Wagner 9781648211614
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.52AMPUTATION is the first novel to be written about the inferno that obliterated two Los Angeles cities in January of 2025. Major characters are comedian Stephen Colbert; Karen Bass; a Timothee... -
The Place of Dead Roads by William Burroughs 9780007341931
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.01A controversial reworking of well-trodden American myth by the author of 'Naked Lunch'. This surreal fable, set in America's Old West, features a cast of notorious characters: The Crying Gun, who... -
Stephen King Films FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the King of Horror on Film by Scott Von Doviak 9781480355514
Booksplease Price: £21.25Over the past four decades the Stephen King movie has become a genre unto itself. The prolific writer's works have spawned well over 100 adaptations for both the big and small screen ranging from... -
The Last American by John Wagner
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.81WRITERS ALAN GRANT & JOHN WAGNERARTIST MIKE MCMAHONI pledged allegiance to the flag of the United Sates of America, and to the republic for which it stood, look where it got me.Over twenty years have... -
Cosmic Detective by Jeff Lemire 9781534399457
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.39New York Times-bestselling writers JEFF LEMIRE (GIDEON FALLS, DESCENDER), MATT KINDT (BANG!, MIND MGMT), and internationally acclaimed artist DAVID RUBIN (ETHER, BEOWULF) unite on this original... -
North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980 by William Beard 9780888643988
RRP: £42.99Booksplease Price: £34.03The essays in North of Everything examine the state of Canadian film during a period of critical change. Their focus ranges from the conventional cinema to the avant garde, NFB documentaries to DIY... -
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Cocaine Nights by J. G. Ballard 9780006550648 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.97'Snort up "Cocaine Nights". It's disorientating, deranging and knocks the work of other avant-garde writers into a hatted cock' Will Self 'One needs a great deal of idle time... -
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Millennium People by J. G. Ballard 9780006551614 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.97Violent rebellion comes to London's middle classes. Like every obedient professional, I arrived punctually for my appointment with a revolution. When a... -
Millennium People by J. G. Ballard
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Violent rebellion comes to London's middle classes. As he searches for the truth behind the Heathrow bomb that killed his ex-wife, psychologist David Markham infiltrates a shadowy protest... -
Persistence of Double Vision: Essays on Clint Eastwood by William Beard 9780888643568
Booksplease Price: £25.21Clint Eastwood represents probably the single strongest icon of heroic masculinity in popular cinema over the past quarter-century. But how odd that, through ironic allusion and gesture, this figure... -
High-Rise by J. G. Ballard 9780008134891
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.97Coming in March 2016 from acclaimed director Ben Wheatley, a major motion picture adaptation of J. G. Ballard's compelling and unnerving tale of what happens when life in a luxury apartment building... -
The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul by Gina Freitag 9781442628502
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48From the cheaply made "tax-shelter" films of the 1970s to the latest wave of contemporary "eco-horror," Canadian horror cinema has rarely received much critical attention. Gina Freitag and Andre... -
Kingdom Come by J. G. Ballard 9780007232475
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28With a new introduction by Deborah Levy and a striking new cover design by the artist Stanley Donwood, Ballard's final novel sees consumerism evolve into something even more sinister. A... -
Grotesque 2e Justin D. Edwards 9781032796789
Booksplease Price: £21.68The new edition of the bestselling Grotesque offers an accessible introduction to the use (and abuse) of this complex literary term. Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund explore the influence of the... -
Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls: Gender in Film at the End of the Twentieth Century by Murray Pomerance 9780791448861
Booksplease Price: £29.05Examines gender roles in contemporary foreign and Hollywood films amid changing social, political, cultural, and economic conditions.Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls examines the bizarre and... -
Grotesque 2e Justin D. Edwards 9781032796765
Booksplease Price: £89.86The new edition of the bestselling Grotesque offers an accessible introduction to the use (and abuse) of this complex literary term. Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund explore the influence of the... -
Dead Stars Bruce Wagner 9781648210471
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.80Bruce Wagner weaves together tales of desperation and depravity of the modern age in Dead Stars, his uproarious and sharply critical take on the obsessions of Hollywood. Telma, the world's youngest... -
Twins and Recursion in Digital, Literary and Visual Cultures by Dr Edward King 9781350323070
Booksplease Price: £31.86The tale of twins being reunited after a long separation is a trope that has been endlessly repeated and reworked across different cultures and throughout history, with each moment adapting the twin... -
The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture by Henry Jenkins 9780814742839
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82A spirited collection of essays that get to the heart of what gives popular culture its emotional impact Vaudevillians used the term "the wow climax" to refer to the emotional highpoint of their... -
Stephen King on the Small Screen by Mark Browning 9781841504124
Booksplease Price: £24.74This book is the first written by a film specialist to consider Stephen King's television work in its own right, and rejects previous attempts to make the films and books fit rigid thematic... -
The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture by Henry Jenkins 9780814742822
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £36.45A spirited collection of essays that get to the heart of what gives popular culture its emotional impact Vaudevillians used the term "the wow climax" to refer to the emotional highpoint of their... -
Hello America by J. G. Ballard 9780007287031
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28A terrifying vision of the future from one of the twentieth century's most renowned writers - J. G. Ballard, author of 'Empire of the Sun' and 'Crash'. Following the energy crisis of the... -
Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity, and Politics in the Contemporary Moment Douglas Kellner 9780367199340
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14In this thorough update of one of the classic texts of media and cultural studies, Douglas Kellner argues that media culture is now the dominant form of culture that socializes us and provides and... -
Libra by Don DeLillo 9780141188225
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81An unparalleled work of historical conjecture, ranging imaginatively over huge tracts of the American popular consciousness, Don DeLillo's Libra contains an introduction by the author in Penguin... -
Dark Dreams 2.0: A Psychological History of the Modern Horror Film from the 1950s to the 21st Century Charles Derry 9781476693385
RRP: £42.99Booksplease Price: £38.94Greatly expanded and updated from the 1977 original, this new edition explores the evolution of the modern horror film, particularly as it reflects anxieties associated with the atomic bomb, the Cold... -
Canadian Cinema Since the 1980s: At the Heart of the World by David L. Pike 9781442643994
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £50.14Award-winning author David L. Pike offers a unique focus on the crucial quarter-century in Canadian filmmaking when the industry became a viable force on the international stage. Pike provides a... -
Force Majeure Bruce Wagner 9781648210532
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Force Majeure was called a "smashing debut novel" by the Kirkus Reviews upon its original publication in 1991. A sardonic and absurdly dark, yet hilarious take on the "business as usual" of... -
Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.45The classic, heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Newly reissued with an introduction by John Lanchester. Based on... -
The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema by Ernest Mathijs
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.94The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema offers an overview of the field of cult cinema - films at the margin of popular culture and art that have received exceptional cultural visibility and status... -
Twins and Recursion in Digital, Literary and Visual Cultures by Dr Edward King 9781350169159
Booksplease Price: £95.49The tale of twins being reunited after a long separation is a trope that has been endlessly repeated and reworked across different cultures and throughout history, with each moment adapting the twin... -
Canadian Cinema Since the 1980s: At the Heart of the World by David L. Pike 9781442612402
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.12Award-winning author David L. Pike offers a unique focus on the crucial quarter-century in Canadian filmmaking when the industry became a viable force on the international stage. Pike provides a... -
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Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard 9780007221523 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.35The classic, heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Newly reissued with an introduction by John Lanchester. Based on... -
The Pleasure and Pain of Cult Horror Films: An Historical Survey Bartlomiej Paszylk 9781476681788
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.73The horror genre harbors a number of films too bold or bizarre to succeed with mainstream audiences, but offering unique, startling and often groundbreaking qualities that have won them an... -
Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s: Why Don't They Do It Like They Used To? by David Roche 9781496802545
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s author David Roche takes up the assumption shared by many fans and scholars that original horror movies are more ""disturbing,"" and thus better... -
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Super-Cannes by J. G. Ballard 9780006551607 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.41A high-tech business park on the Mediterranean is the setting for a most disturbing crime in this reissue featuring an introduction by Ali Smith. People are... -
Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s: Why Don't They Do It Like They Used To? by David Roche 9781617039621
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £75.14In Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s author David Roche takes up the assumption shared by many fans and scholars that original horror movies are more ""disturbing,"" and thus better...