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Jurassic Park by Paul Bullock
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $27.79Jurassic Park (1993) is one of Steven Spielberg's most beloved films. Over twenty-five years on from its original release, it has accrued four sequels, a legion of worldwide fans, and a wide range of... -
12 Monkeys by Susanne Kord
RRP: $21.27Booksplease Price: $21.14Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys (1995) was a commercial and critical success, but it is Gilliam's least understood film, even on the basic plot level. Aside from recognizable debts to specific films such... -
Studying Pan`s Labyrinth by Tanya Jones
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $36.00Pan's Labyrinth (2006) is a film of extraordinary technical achievement and intense emotional impact, garnering acclaim from both critics and audiences alike. Such a rich cinematic text demands close... -
Studying Indian Cinema by Omar F. Ahmed
Booksplease Price: $122.60This book traces the historical evolution of Indian cinema through a number of key decades. The book is made up of 14 chapters with each chapter focusing on one key film, the chosen films analysed in... -
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Studying "The Devil's Backbone" by James Rose
RRP: $27.72Booksplease Price: $27.22The Devil's Backbone (2001) is a Gothic film written and directed by Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, 2006). The story centers on a ghost that haunts an isolated orphanage during the Spanish... -
Suspiria Alexandra Heller-Nicholas 9780993238475
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.91As one of the most globally recognisable instances of 20th century Eurohorror, Dario Argento's Suspiria (1976) is poetic, chaotic, and intriguing. The cult reputation of Argento's baroque nightmare... -
Daughters of Darkness Kat Ellinger 9781911325567
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.91Daughters of Darkness (1971) is a vampire film like no other. Heralded as psychological high-Gothic cinema, loved for its art-house and erotic flavors, Harry Kumel's 1971 cult classic is unwrapped in... -
Studying German cinema by Maggie Hoffgen 9781906733018
Booksplease Price: $121.67Adopting a textual, chronological approach, Studying German Cinema is for students of German and film studies and the general reader with an interest in German cinema. Each of the fourteen chapters... -
Studying German Cinema by Maggie Hoffgen 9781906733001
RRP: $41.93Booksplease Price: $41.37Adopting a textual, chronological approach, Studying German Cinema is for students of German and film studies and the general reader with an interest in German cinema. Each of the fourteen chapters... -
Brainstorm by Joseph Maddrey 9781916084223
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.91The makers of Brainstorm (1983) spent more than a decade transferring the revolutionary concept of an "empathy machine" from page to screen, only for the famously troubled production to be met with... -
Studying Indian Cinema by Omar Ahmed 9781906733674
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $47.88This book traces the historical evolution of Indian cinema through a number of key decades. The book is made up of 14 chapters with each chapter focusing on one key film, the chosen films analysed in... -
Black Sunday by Martyn Conterio 9781906733834
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.91Despite its reputation as one of the greatest and most influential of all horror films, there is surprisingly little literature dedicated to Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960), and this contribution to... -
Studying Early and Silent Cinema by Keith Withall 9781906733698
RRP: $41.93Booksplease Price: $41.37In this accessible introduction to early and silent cinema, which is currently enjoying a renaissance, both academically and in the popular imagination thanks to The Artist, Keith Withall provides... -
Carrie Neil Mitchell 9781906733728
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.91Brian De Palma's adaptation of Stephen King's debut novel, Carrie (1976), is one of the defining films of 1970s "New Hollywood" style and a horror classic. The story of a teenage social outcast who... -
SAW by Ben Poole
RRP: $21.27Booksplease Price: $20.86Like all game changers within the horror genre, SAW was an independent success, a low-budget champion that flourished without the patronage of a big studio. Not bad for the most successful horror... -
The Descent by James Marriott
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.91The story of an all-female caving expedition gone horribly wrong, The Descent (2005) is arguably the best of the mid-2000s horror entries to return verve and intensity to the genre. Unlike its peers... -
Studying Ealing Studios by Stephanie Muir
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $9.07Located in the West London suburb from which it takes its name, Ealing Studios is one of the best loved and best known institutions of British cinema. Ealing represents a particular kind of... -
Studying Early and Silent Cinema by Keith Withall 9781906733704
Booksplease Price: $121.67In this accessible introduction to early and silent cinema, which is currently enjoying a renaissance, both academically and in the popular imagination thanks to The Artist, Keith Withall provides... -
Studying British Cinema: 1999-2009 by John Fitzgerald 9781906733124
Booksplease Price: $121.67Studying British Cinema: 1999-2009 adopts a number of approaches to popularist, mainstream, and esoteric arthouse films. The book considers the institutional and financial factors that influence U.K... -
Studying Gladiator by Sandy Irvine 9781903663578
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $36.00Gladiator was one of the great commercial successes of the early twenty-first century, a fascinating example of how an old genre can be resuscitated for a new generation. The film's story is not... -
Studying The Lord of the Rings by Anna L. Dawson 9781906733827
Booksplease Price: $37.73Unquestionably the first cinematic phenomenon of the twenty-first century, Peter Jackson's trilogy was a project of enormous artistic vision and financial risk. It is also a rich text for those... -
Studying Talk to Her by Emily Hughes 9781906733438
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $36.00Talk to Her (2002) is a hugely rich and interesting though ambiguous film that met with both popular success and critical acclaim. The film won an Oscar for best original screenplay and has been... -
Halloween by Murray Leeder 9781906733797
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.91The 1970s represented an unusually productive and innovative period for the horror film, and John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) is the film that capped that golden age - and some say ruined it, by... -
Blade Runner by Sean Redmond 9781911325093
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.91Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner is now widely recognized as an undisputed masterwork of science fiction cinema and one of the most influential films released in the last forty years. Yet on its... -
Frightmares: A History of British Horror Cinema Ian Cooper 9780993071737
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $36.82The horror film reveals as much, if not more, about the British psyche as the more respectable heritage film or the critically revered social realist drama. Yet, like a mad relative locked in the... -
Studying Disaster Movies by John Sanders
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $36.00The disaster film taps into our fear of events beyond our control, ones that are often rooted in real-life experience, making the genre a particularly potent mixture of entertainment and grounded... -
Studying The Usual Suspects - Instructor`s Edition by Judith Gunn
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $36.00The story of The Usual Suspects has the kind of "rags to riches" back story that makes not only the film itself, but the tale of its creation a tale worth telling. Inspired by a magazine headline, it... -
Stalker by Jon Hoel
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.91Few filmmakers could even attempt the fearlessness of Andrei Tarkovsky's cinema and his most ambitious work, Stalker (1977), is arguably the most thoughtful science-fiction film ever made. Stalker... -
Studying Hammer Horror by Victoria Walden
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $34.80When Hammer Productions was formed in the 1920s, no one foresaw the impact this small, independent studio would have on the international film market. Christopher Lee's mesmerizing, animalistic, yet... -
Studying Shakespeare on Film by Rebekah Owens
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $34.80Aimed at newcomers to literature and film, this book is a guide for the analysis of Shakespeare on film. Starting with an introduction to the main challenge faced by any director-the early-modern... -
Dead of Night by Jez Conolly
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.91Released a matter of days after the end of the Second World War and a dozen years ahead of the first full-blooded Hammer Horror, the Ealing Studios horror anthology film Dead of Night featured... -
Studying TV Drama by Michael Massey 9781906733049
RRP: $41.93Booksplease Price: $10.51Graduate students of media studies have benefited from a variety of books on television genres, yet lower level students lack resources that focus specifically on TV drama. With this genre now... -
Studying Videogames by Julian McDougall 9781903663844
RRP: $41.93Booksplease Price: $41.37Studying Videogames is the first book to look at videogames as media texts. Written specifically for advanced level/undergraduate students it covers a broad range of games, industry contexts, and... -
Archwilio'r Cyfryngau: Testun, Diwydiant, Cynulleidfa by Barbara Connell 9781906733391
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $33.42Featuring the input of highly experienced teachers and examiners in Media Studies, this exciting new textbook explores key concepts and develops students' analytical, research and production... -
Studying the British Crime Film by Paul Elliott 9781906733742
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $47.88Ever since its inception, British cinema has been obsessed with crime and the criminal. One of the first narrative films to be produced in Britain, the Hepworth's 1905 short Rescued by Rover, was a... -
The Thing by Jez Conolly
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.91Consigned to the deep freeze of critical and commercial reception upon its release in 1982, The Thing has bounced back spectacularly to become one of the most highly regarded productions from the... -
Real to Reel - A New Approach to Understanding Realism in Film and TV Fiction by Martin Sohn-Rethel
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $45.86What happens when we watch feature films or television dramas? Many of our responses to moving-image fiction texts embody "realism" or "truth," but what are we responding to, exactly, and how is our... -
Candyman by Jon Towlson
RRP: $21.27Booksplease Price: $21.14When Candyman was released in 1992, Roger Ebert gave it his thumbs up, remarking that the film was "scaring him with ideas and gore, rather than just gore." Indeed, Candyman is almost unique in 1990s... -
Splice by John Atkinson
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $33.42The third issue of Splice Volume 6 is a 'Prison on film'-themed issue, which will include a long article on the film Bronson, which, in star Tom Hardy and director Nicolas Winding Refn, features two... -
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror by Cristina Massaccesi
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.91Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, directed by German director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau in 1922, is not only regarded as one of the most intriguing and disquieting films to have been produced during...