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Are Snakes Necessary? by Brian de Palma
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.62"It's like having a new Brian De Palma picture." - Martin Scorsese, Academy Award-winning director FROM THE DIRECTOR OF SCARFACE AND DRESSED TO KILL... A FEMALE REVENGE STORY When the... -
Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma's Cinematic Education of the Senses by Eyal Peretz 9780804756853
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $33.17How is one to think the significance of the art of film for philosophy? What would it mean to introduce film as a question into the heart of the philosophical enterprise? How would this transform our... -
The De Palma Decade: Redefining Cinema With Doubles, Voyeurs, and Psychic Teens Laurent Bouzereau 9780762485574
RRP: $47.50Booksplease Price: $33.02Journey with award-winning filmmaker and author Laurent Bouzereau through acclaimed director Brian De Palma's renowned-and controversial-horror and thriller films that redefined cinema in the 1970s... -
The Feel-Bad Film by Nikolaj Lubecker 9780748697991
RRP: $55.08Booksplease Price: $49.12Presents an analysis of what contemporary directors seek to attain by putting their spectators in a position of strong discomfort. In recent years some of the best known European and American art... -
A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away: My Fifty Years Editing Hollywood HitsaStar Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Mission: Impossible, and More by Paul Hirsch
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $31.03"For its sheer excellence, diversity, and cultural impact, Paul Hirsch's filmography speaks for itself. They say a film is made in the editing room, and this book is easily the most comprehensive,... -
Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami by Roben Farzad 9780552171540
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $21.68Miami, December 31, 1979. Lock your doors. Watch your backs. Raise your glasses. Miami is about to blow, in a fiery explosion of cocaine, blood, bullets, torched cars, cash, immigrants, hustlers,... -
The Devil's Candy: The Anatomy Of A Hollywood Fiasco by Julie Salamon 9780306811234
RRP: $47.48Booksplease Price: $35.80When Brian De Palma agreed to allow Julie Salamon unlimited access to the film production of Tom Wolfe's best-selling book The Bonfire of the Vanities , both director and journalist must have felt... -
Literature, Disaster, and the Enigma of Power: A Reading of 'Moby-Dick' by Eyal Peretz 9780804787093
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $32.76This powerful new reading of Moby-Dick brings into play some of the most consequential theoretical developments of the last three decades in philosophy, cultural studies, and literary criticism. It... -
Jonathan Demme: Interviews by Robert E. Kapsis 9781604731187
Booksplease Price: $54.78The films of Jonathan Demme (b. 1944) reflect his ebullient personality and are often infused with his love for Caribbean culture, pop music, fashion, and characters who reveal offbeat tastes and... -
The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema by Linda Ruth Williams
RRP: $64.58Booksplease Price: $51.28A bold and original study, this is the first book to examine in detail a new genre which evolved since the 1980s in tandem with shifts in the culture of sexuality and the rise of video - the erotic... -
Monika: Masked Ball by Thilde Barboni
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.21Two sisters, two very different lives. Monika is an artist, desperately searching for the sister she lost as a child. When a lead takes her into a dark erotic underworld, she realises that her... -
Monika - Volume 2: Vanilla Dolls by Thilde Barboni
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.51At the behest of Theo, Monika takes to the erotic stage alongside the Vanilla Dolls, but this new masked charade troubles her and much as it exhausts her. The Crucis Brigade lie in wait, their... -
David Fincher: Interviews by Laurence F. Knapp 9781496802682
RRP: $43.68Booksplease Price: $38.68David Fincher (b. 1962) did not go to film school and hates being defined as an auteur. He prefers to see himself as a craftsman, dutifully going about the art and business of making film. Trouble... -
The Red Shoes by Pamela Hutchinson 9781839026065
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $21.57Endlessly fascinating, dark and bright, The Red Shoes (1948) employs every branch of the cinematic arts to sweep the audience off its feet, invigorated by the transcendence of art itself, only to... -
Wolf Boys: The extraordinary true story of two teenage assassins and Mexico's most dangerous drug cartel by Dan Slater
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11At first glance, Gabriel Cardona is an exemplary American teenager: athletic, bright, handsome and charismatic. But his Texas town is poor and dangerous, and it isn't long before Gabriel abandons his... -
The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America by Martin Amis 9780099461869
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $24.99At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America. As an adult he has approached that confusing country from many arresting angles,... -
Alfred Hitchcock and Film Noir: The Darker Side by R. Barton Palmer 9781399535182
RRP: $47.48Booksplease Price: $42.94Alfred Hitchcock was a major figure in the development and flourishing of film noir. His noir films became an inspirational foundation of the neo-noir movement beginning in the 1970s, from Brian de... -
Black Dahlia, Red Rose: A 'Times Book of the Year' by Piu Eatwell
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.59******* A TIMES 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' **********Shortlisted for the CWA Dagger for non-fiction***'A magnificent, meticulous and startling re-examination of a crime that haunts the world's imagination'...