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Eraserhead by Claire Henry
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €13.10A 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.76Throne 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €13.04Y 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: €24.98Booksplease Price: €19.4020 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.35Tomas 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: €129.82Cinema 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.99The 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: €109.73This 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: €33.43This 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.35John 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: €23.79Booksplease Price: €20.52From 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: €117.29Marketed 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €13.91Pulp 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €13.91Wong 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: €89.25Booksplease Price: €68.57"[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: €89.25Booksplease Price: €72.02"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: €109.73Paul 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: €32.12Booksplease Price: €30.40On 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: €126.24This 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... -
Lost in Translation by Professor Suzanne Ferriss
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.98Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation (2003) brings two Americans together in Tokyo, each experiencing a personal crisis. Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), a recent graduate in philosophy, faces an... -
Character is Structure: The Insider’s Guide to Screenwriting by Ted Wilkes
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €23.90This book seeks to reshape the way that writers think about constructing their story, looking at the subject from the inside out. Often practitioners and theorists examine work through the separate... -
The Terminator by Sean French
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €13.04Made on a low budget, The Terminator was one of the most influential films of the 1980s. Combining explosive special effects and an intricate time-travel plot, it set Arnold Schwarzenegger on the... -
The Silence of the Lambs by Yvonne Tasker
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €13.91Released in 1990, The Silence of the Lambs is one of the defining films of late twentieth century American cinema. Adapted from the Thomas Harris novel and directed by the late Jonathan Demme, its... -
10 by Geoff Andrew
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.76The 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... -
Babette's Feast by Julian Baggini
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.76On the face of it, Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast (1989) is a film in which the eyes - and mouths - of religious zealots are opened to the glories of the sensual world. It is a critique of what... -
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Anna Backman Rogers
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.19Peter Weir's haunting and allusive Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), set in 1900, tells the story of the mysterious disappearance of three schoolgirls and their teacher on a trip to a local geological... -
Night of the Living Dead by Ben Hervey
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €13.10George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead is a cult classic that has resonated with audiences and independent filmmakers ever since its release in 1968. It redefined horror cinema and launched the... -
Star Wars by Will Brooker
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €13.11The release of Star Wars in 1977 marked the start of what would become a colossal global franchise. Star Wars remains the second highest-grossing film in the United States, and George Lucas's... -
100 Bible Films by Matthew Page
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.56From 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 Bible for over 120 years, from the first... -
Letter From An Unknown Woman by James Naremore
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €13.04James Naremore's study of Max Ophuls' classic 1948 melodrama, Letter from an Unknown Woman, not only pays tribute to Ophuls but also discusses the backgrounds and typical styles of the film's many... -
Caravaggio by Leo Bersani
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.14Caravaggio (1986), Derek Jarman's portrait of the Italian Baroque artist, shows the painter at work with models drawn from Rome's homeless and prostitutes, and his relationship with two very... -
Blue Velvet by Michael Atkinson
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €13.10For many, Blue Velvet is David Lynch's masterpiece. It represents a unique act of cinema: an 80s Hollywood studio film as radical, visionary and cabalistic as anything found in the ... -
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown by Peter William Evans
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.19Pedro Almodovar's 1988 black comedy-melodrama Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown established its director as one of the most exciting of European film-making talents. An often hilarious study... -
The Story of Victorian Film by Bryony Dixon
Booksplease Price: €34.33In this vivid and accessible new account of the dawn of film in Britain, internationally respected film historian and curator Bryony Dixon introduces us to Britain's first cinematic pioneers - an... -
Beyond Bagpuss: A History of Smallfilms Animation Studio by Chris Pallant 9781839022388
Booksplease Price: €41.11Ivor the Engine, Noggin the Nog, Pingwings, Pogles Wood, Clangers, and Bagpuss - the iconic animations produced by the Canterbury-based Smallfilms studio between 1958 and 1984 - constitute a... -
The Richard Dyer Reader by Glyn Davis 9781839023170
Booksplease Price: €128.00Richard 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... -
Silent Cinema: A Research Guide by Paolo Cherchi Usai 9781844575282
Booksplease Price: €48.61Paolo Cherchi Usai provides a comprehensive introduction to the study, research and preservation of silent cinema from its heyday in the early 20th century to its present day flourishing. He traces... -
Mädchen in Uniform by Barbara Mennel 9781839024177
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.35Leontine Sagan's Madchen in Uniform (1931) is a groundbreaking German film that showcases women's agency and desire behind and in front of the camera. Adapted from Christa Winsloe's lesbian play,... -
Dead Man by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780851708065
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.35When it was released, "Dead Man" puzzled many audiences and critics. Here, the author argues that the film is both a quantum leap and a logical step in the director's career, and it's a film that... -
Seven by Richard Dyer 9781839027437
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €13.91David Fincher's Seven (1995) follows two detectives, David Mills (Brad Pitt) and William Somerset (Morgan Freeman), as they investigate a series of gruesome murders. One of the most acclaimed films...