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Mamoulian by Geoff Andrew 9781844573530
Booksplease Price: £106.56The great Armenian-American director Rouben Mamoulian (1897-1987) remains a favourite among film-makers, his films combining great technical originality with a uniquely poetic visual style... -
Street with No Name: A History of the Classic American Film Noir by Andrew Dickos 9780813142050
Booksplease Price: £29.83A Choice Outstanding Academic TitleFlourishing in the United States during the 1940s and 50s, the bleak, violent genre of filmmaking known as film noir reflected the attitudes of writers and auteur... -
Filmed Thought: Cinema as Reflective Form Robert B Pippin 9780226671956
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £97.20With the rise of review sites and social media, films today, as soon as they are shown, immediately become the topic of debates on their merits not only as entertainment, but also as serious forms of... -
Filmed Thought: Cinema as Reflective Form Robert B Pippin 9780226672007
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £29.45With the rise of review sites and social media, films today, as soon as they are shown, immediately become the topic of debates on their merits not only as entertainment, but also as serious forms of... -
Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist by Bernard Gordon 9780292728332
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.58The Hollywood blacklist, which began in the late 1940s and ran well into the 1960s, ended or curtailed the careers of hundreds of people accused of having ties to the Communist Party. Bernard Gordon... -
Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography by Lawrence J. Quirk
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £16.22Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography explores the life and career of one of Hollywood's great dames. She was a leading film personality for more than fifty years, from her beginnings as a dancer in... -
Singin' in the Rain by Geoff Andrew
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.06Sixty years after its release, Singin' in the Rain (1951) remains one of the best loved films ever made. Yet despite dazzling success with the public, it never received its fair share of critical... -
Cahiers du Cinema: Interviews with Film Directors, 1953-1970 by James R Russo
Booksplease Price: £60.10Cahiers du Cinema: Interviews with Film Directors, 19531970 brings together eighteen directorsOtto Preminger, Roberto Rossellini, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Max Ophuls, Nicholas Ray, Orson Welles,... -
Real James Dean by Mr. Peter Winkler 9781613734728
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.30In the decades following his death, many of those who knew James Dean best--actors, directors, friends, lovers (both men and women), photographers, and Hollywood columnists--shared stories of their... -
10 by Geoff Andrew
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72The Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami burst onto the international film scene in the early 1990s and was widely regarded as one of the most distinctive and talented modern-day directors. His major... -
World Film Locations: Los Angeles by Gabriel Solomons
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £17.61The heart of Hollywood's star-studded film industry for more than a century, Los Angeles and its abundant and ever-changing locales - from the Santa Monica Pier to the infamous and now-defunct... -
Architecture and the Public Good Tom Spector 9781839993817
Booksplease Price: £25.71Why has explaining the value of the architecture profession proven so difficult? The architecture profession can be well-defended by demonstrating the public good which results from its protected... -
Film Noir the Directors by Alain Silver 9780879103941
Booksplease Price: £21.50Noted film noir historians Alain Silver and James Ursini, acting as editors, concentrate in this work on the thirty key directors of the classic noir period. These include well-known luminaries, such... -
Abel Ferrara by Nicole Brenez 9780252074110
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Nicole Brenez argues for Abel Ferrara's place in a line of grand inventors who have blurred distinctions between industry and avant-garde film, including Orson Welles, Monte Hellman, and Nicholas Ray... -
The Cinema of Hal Hartley: Flirting with Formalism by Steven Rybin
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57Over the course of nearly thirty years, Hal Hartley has cultivated a reputation as one of America's most steadfastly independent film directors. From his breakthrough films - The Unbelievable Truth... -
Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino 9781474624244
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A 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... -
Triumph Over Containment: American Film in the 1950s by Robert P. Kolker
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.22The long 1950s, which extend back to the early postwar period and forward into the early 1960s, were a period of "containment culture" in America, as the media worked to reinforce traditional family... -
Gestures of Love: Romancing Performance in Classical Hollywood Cinema by Steven Rybin 9781438465524
Booksplease Price: £26.07Examines movie romance in light of our emotional bond to the actors and characters on screen.Gestures of Love considers the viewer's enchantment with charismatic actors in film as the starting point... -
Marine Ecology: Processes, Systems, and Impacts by Michel J Kaiser 9780198717850
Booksplease Price: £58.15Striking full colour illustrations and photographs bring this integrated and stimulating survey of marine ecology to life. Through its unique structure, Marine Ecology: Processes, Systems, and... -
Seductions and Enigmas: Laplanche, Theory, Culture by John Fletcher 9781909831087
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.72In a career spanning more than five decades the distinguished French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche (1924 - 2012) elaborated a distinctive methodology for the reading of Freud's corpus and evolved, in... -
World Film Locations: Los Angeles: Volume 2 Gabriel Solomons 9781835950296
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £16.92World Film Locations: Los Angeles Volume 2 is an engaging and highly visual city-wide tour of both well known and slightly lesser known films shot on location in one of the birthplaces of cinema and... -
Cahiers du Cinema, The 1950s: Neo-Realism, Hollywood, New Wave by Jim Hillier 9780674090613
Booksplease Price: £34.94Cahiers du Cinema is the most prestigious and influential film journal ever published. An anthology devoted entirely to its writings, in English translation, is long overdue.The selections in this... -
Ecology in Action Fred D. Singer 9781108927222
Booksplease Price: £52.80Providing students with a solid understanding of core ecological concepts while explaining how ecologists raise and answer real-world questions, this second edition weaves together classic and... -
Funny Man: Mel Brooks by Patrick McGilligan
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.82A deeply textured and compelling biography of comedy giant Mel Brooks, covering his rags-to-riches life and triumphant career in television, films, and theater, from Patrick McGilligan, the acclaimed... -
The Architecture of Nothingness: An Explanation of the Objective Basis of Beauty in Architecture and the Arts by Frank Lyons
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***It is a common enough assumption that good buildings make us feel good just as poor ones can make us feel insecure, depressed or even... -
Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History by David E. Fastovsky
Booksplease Price: £56.75The ideal textbook for non-science majors, this lively and engaging introduction encourages students to ask questions, assess data critically and think like a scientist. Building on the success of...