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Trainspotting by Murray Smith
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72In 1996 Trainspotting was the biggest thing in British culture. Brilliantly and aggressively marketed, it crossed into the mainstream despite being a black comedy set against the backdrop of heroin... -
Near Dark by Stacey Abbott
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72First released in 1987, Near Dark is a vampire film set in the contemporary American Midwest that tells the story of Caleb, a half-vampire trying to decide whether to embrace his vampire nature or... -
The Servant by Amy Sargeant
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.06Amy Sargeant's compelling and meticulous study of Joseph Losey's The Servant (1963) sets the film in the context of a long tradition of fictional depictions of the master-servant relationship, from... -
All the President’s Men by Robert B. Ray
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.06Alan J. Pakula's political thriller All the President's Men (1976) was met with immediate critical and commercial success upon its release, finishing second at the box office and earning seven... -
The Birds by Camille Paglia
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72Drawing on Daphne du Maurier's short story and contemporary newspaper reports of bird attacks in California, Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) featured Tippi Hedren in her first starring role. ... -
The Television Genre Book by Dr Glen Creeber 9781839022074
Booksplease Price: £106.76In this new edition of The Television Genre Book, leading international scholars have come together to offer an accessible and comprehensive update to the debates, issues and concerns of the field... -
The Richard Dyer Reader by Glyn Davis 9781839023163
Booksplease Price: £35.76Richard Dyer is a foundational figure for the critical study of cinema and popular culture. Across a career spanning five decades, he has made path breaking contributions to our understanding of... -
The Deer Hunter by Dr Brad Prager 9781839025419
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.62Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter was met with both critical and commercial success upon its release in 1978. However, it was also highly controversial and came to be seen as a powerful statement on... -
100 Animated Feature Films: Revised Edition by Andrew Osmond 9781839024412
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £60.5220 years ago, animated features were widely perceived as cartoons for children. Today they encompass an astonishing range of films, styles and techniques. There is the powerful adult drama of Waltz... -
100 American Horror Films by Barry Keith Grant 9781839021466
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.21"[A] well-plotted survey." Total Film In 100 American Horror Films, Barry Keith Grant presents entries on 100 films from one of American cinema's longest-standing, most diverse and most popular... -
It's a Wonderful Life by Michael Newton 9781839023484
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.06Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is one of the best-loved films of Classical Hollywood cinema, a story of despair and redemption in the aftermath of war that is one of the central movies of the... -
L.A. Confidential by Manohla Dargis 9780851709444
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72L.A. Confidential was released in 1997 to huge critical acclaim and it went on to be nominated for nine Academy Awards. Its reputation has since grown to the point that the film is now widely seen as... -
3 Women Justin Wyatt 9781839026027
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.06Released after the large-scale frescos of Nashville (1975) and Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976), 3 Women (1977) was seen as an intimate drama from director Robert... -
Some Like It Hot Steven Cohan 9781839027314
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.69Billy Wilder's classic screwball comedy Some Like it Hot (1959), starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe, tells the story of two struggling Jazz musicians who accidentally witness a mob... -
Beyond Bagpuss: A History of Smallfilms Animation Studio by Chris Pallant 9781839022395
Booksplease Price: £103.45Ivor the Engine, Noggin the Nog, Pingwings, Pogles Wood, The Clangers, and Bagpuss - the iconic animations produced by the Canterbury-based Smallfilms studio between 1958 and 1984 - constitute a... -
Kitano Takeshi by Aaron Gerow 9781844571659
Booksplease Price: £102.21Combining a detailed account of the situation in Japanese film and criticism with unique close analyses of Kitano's films from Violent Cop to Takeshis, the author relates the director to issues of... -
Fellini Lexicon by Sam Rohdie 9780851709345
Booksplease Price: £36.44Federico Fellini (1920-93) was one of the most inventive of film-makers and he remains one of the best loved. Director of a whole series of celebrated films - among them La Strada (1954) The Nights... -
Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture and Politics by John Hill 9781844571338
Booksplease Price: £113.41Traces the history of film production in Northern Ireland from the beginnings of a local film industry in the 1920s and 1930s, when the first Northern Irish 'quota quickies' were made, through the... -
Terence Davies Screenplays, Volume 2: Adaptations Terence Davies 9781839029752
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.96This second volume of Terence Davies's screenplays brings together his adaptations of classic novels and plays, including his 1995 film of John Kennedy Toole's coming-of-age novel The Neon Bible; his... -
Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of Television in Britain John Wyver 9781839028199
Booksplease Price: £109.09On the evening of 26 January 1926, inventor John Logie Baird held a public demonstration in his workspace on London's Frith Street of a 'seeing by wireless' apparatus that he and many others had been... -
Eraserhead by Claire Henry
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.35A surreal and darkly humorous vision, David Lynch's Eraserhead (1977) has been recognised as a cult classic since its breakout success as a midnight movie in the late 1970s. Claire Henry's study... -
Throne of Blood by Robert N. Watson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72Throne of Blood (1957), Akira Kurosawa's reworking of Macbeth, is widely considered the greatest film adaptation of Shakespeare ever made. In a detailed account of the film, Robert N. Watson... -
Y Tu Mama Tambien by Paul Julian Smith
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.06Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001), an intelligent and sensual road movie directed by Alfonso Cuaron and co-written by him and his brother Carlos, is both an acclaimed feature by a director who would go on to... -
100 Animated Feature Films: Revised Edition by Andrew Osmond
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.6420 years ago, animated features were widely perceived as cartoons for children. Today they encompass an astonishing range of films, styles and techniques. There is the powerful adult drama of Waltz... -
Memories of Underdevelopment: Memorias del Subdesarrollo by Darlene J. Sadlier
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.06Tomas Gutierrez Alea's Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) is a classic of Cuban revolutionary culture, and is hailed as a prime example of a radical style of 1960s political filmmaking that became... -
Cinema Memories: A People's History of Cinema-going in 1960s Britain by Melvyn Stokes
Booksplease Price: £109.09Cinema Memories brings together and analyses the memories of almost a thousand people of going to the cinema in Britain during the 1960s. It offers a fresh perspective on the social, cultural and... -
The Big Sleep by David Thomson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.96The Big Sleep: Marlowe and Vivian practising kissing; General Sternwood shivering in a hothouse full of orchids; a screenplay, co-written by Faulkner, famously mysterious and difficult to solve... -
The Films of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Scripts, Working Documents, Interpretation by Oliver Fuke 9781839025242
Booksplease Price: £92.21This collection of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's film scripts vividly evokes the close connection between their influential work as theorists and their work as filmmakers. It includes scripts for... -
Channel 4: The Story from Big Brother to The Great British Bake Off by Maggie Brown 9781911239840
Booksplease Price: £28.09This book covers a dramatic decade in the fortunes of Britain's quirkiest broadcaster. It opens in 2009, with the realisation that Channel 4's biggest money spinner, Big Brother, had become a toxic... -
Point Blank by Eric G. Wilson 9781839025761
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.69John Boorman's Point Blank (1967) has long been recognised as one of the seminal films of the sixties, with its revisionary mix of genres including neo-noir, New Wave, and spaghetti western. Its... -
We Have Some Notes…: The Insider’s Guide to Notes, Script Editing and Development Venetia Hawkes 9781839025495
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.84From the early stages of script writing to the final cut, We Have Some Notes... provides a detailed overview of the script editing and development process, emphasising the impact of critical... -
The Enchanting Kinora: Domesticating Moving Images in Edwardian Britain Elizabeth Evans 9781839026898
Booksplease Price: £98.56Marketed as more affordable and safer than film cameras, the Kinora system, launched in 1903, was one of the first amateur filmmaking devices and represents one of the earliest attempts to create a... -
Pulp Fiction Dana Polan 9781839027598
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.69Pulp Fiction was one of the films that defined American cinema of the 1990s, and remains one of the stand-out movies of its director Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino's style - violent, fast, funny and... -
In the Mood for Love Tony Rayns 9781839028281
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.06Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love (2000) is a film that luxuriates in the feeling of being in love - without ever turning into a love story. Its central characters, Mr Chow and Mrs Chan, are... -
100 American Horror Films by Barry Keith Grant 9781839021459
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £57.62"[A] well-plotted survey." Total Film In 100 American Horror Films, Barry Keith Grant presents entries on 100 films from one of American cinema's longest-standing, most diverse and most popular... -
100 Bible Films by Matthew Page 9781839023538
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £60.52"Exhaustively researched." Total Film From The Passion of the Christ to Life of Brian, and from The Ten Commandments to Last Temptation of Christ, filmmakers have been adapting the stories of the... -
George Clooney by Paul McDonald 9781911239925
Booksplease Price: £92.21Paul McDonald's study of the actor-filmmaker George Clooney traces the star's career, from his role in the hit television medical drama ER to his dual screen persona, allowing him to move seamlessly... -
Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of Television in Britain John Wyver 9781839028205
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.55On the evening of 26 January 1926, inventor John Logie Baird held a public demonstration in his workspace on London's Frith Street of a 'seeing by wireless' apparatus that he and many others had been... -
Screen Industries in East-Central Europe by Petr Szczepanik 9781839022739
Booksplease Price: £106.08This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.This book provides an alternative perspective into the audiovisual and... -
Withnail and I by Kevin Jackson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.06Withnail and I sank almost without a trace when it was first released in 1987. Financed by HandMade Films, the late George Harrison's production company, and drawing heavily on first-time...