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The Film Book by Ronald Bergan
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.91Immerse yourself into the world of cinema and discover action-packed chases, epic journeys, and tear-jerking moments.Get the popcorn popping and keep the movies coming! From box office hits and cult... -
The Evolution of Film: Rethinking Film Studies by Janet Harbord 9780745634760
Booksplease Price: €21.63How is film changing? What does it do, and what do we do with it? This book examines the reasons why we should be studying film in the twenty-first century, connecting debates from philosophy,... -
Get Started in Film Making: The Definitive Film Maker's Handbook by Tom Holden
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50Get Started in Film Making is the essential guide for all budding film makers, empowering and inspiring anyone to unleash their creative side. Completely revised and updated, it is the perfect manual... -
Film and Its Techniques by Raymond Spottiswoode 9780520358058
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €89.46In a manner completely acceptable to the professional film maker, yet thoroughly understandable and of great value to the amateur cinematographer, Spottiswoode presents the essential, unwritten lore... -
Electric Pictures: A Guide to the Films, Film-Makers & Cinemas of Worthing & Shoreham by Ellen Cheshire
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.08Written as part of the Worthing WOW festival celebrations, Electric Pictures commemorates 120 years of film in the Sussex coastal towns of Worthing and Shoreham, capturing the region's rich cinematic... -
Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780801889714
Booksplease Price: €40.07In his astute and deeply informed film reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum regularly provides new and brilliant insights into the cinema as art, entertainment, and commerce. Guided by a personal... -
Film, Cinema, Genre: The Steve Neale Reader by Steve Neale 9781905816583
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €111.53This book brings together key works by pioneering film studies scholar Steve Neale. From the 1970s to the 2010s Neale's vital and unparalleled contribution to the subject has shaped many of the... -
Film Studies: An Introduction: Teach Yourself by Warren Buckland
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02An unpretentious guide for all those who want to learn to analyse, understand and evaluate films.Film Studies: An Introduction provides an overview of the key areas in film studies, including... -
Film As Product in Contemporary Hollywood by Great Britain: British Film Institute 9781903786000
Booksplease Price: €48.05This teaching pack, suitable for AS/A2 Media and Film Studies, offers a suitable case study for industry and institution and help students demonstrate an understanding of key concepts and... -
Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film by Susan Larson 9781789384895
Booksplease Price: €38.35This will be the first edited collection in English on urban space and architecture in Spanish popular film since 1898. Building on existing film and urban histories, this innovative volume will... -
Film Ecology: Defending the Biosphere - Doughnut Economics and Film Theory and Practice by Susan Hayward
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €28.01Using the Regenerative economic model - also known as Doughnut Economics - Susan Hayward offers a thought-provoking sketch for a renewed, tentatively revolutionary approach to both film theory and... -
Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman by Mari Ruti
Booksplease Price: €27.29In Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman, Mari Ruti traces the development of feminist film theory from its foundational concepts such as the male gaze, female spectatorship, and the masquerade of... -
Cinematic Vitalism: Film Theory and the Question of Life by Inga Pollmann
Booksplease Price: €91.96This book argues that there are constitutive links between early twentieth-century German and French film theory and practice, on the one hand, and vitalist conceptions of life in biology and... -
Refiguring American Film Genres: Theory and History by Nick Browne 9780520207318
RRP: €34.51Booksplease Price: €33.69This collection of essays by leading American film scholars charts a whole new territory in genre film criticism. Rather than assuming that genres are self-evident categories, the contributors offer... -
Michael Powell: International Perspectives on an English Film-maker by Ian Christie 9781844570942
Booksplease Price: €43.72The films of Michael Powell (1905-90) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-88), among them I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), A Matter of Life and Death (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948), are landmarks in British... -
Celluloid Ceiling: Women Film Directors Breaking Through by 9780956632906
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.48Now Kathryn Bigelow has made history as the first woman to win an Oscar for directing, is this a new era for women filmmakers? The figures suggest otherwise. Seeking to redress the imbalance between... -
Films that Work: Industrial Film and the Productivity of Media by Patrick Vonderau 9789089640123
Booksplease Price: €56.28The history of industrial films - an orphan genre of twentieth-century cinema composed of government-produced and industrially sponsored movies that sought to achieve the goals of their sponsors,... -
Electric Edwardians: The Films of Mitchell and Kenyon by Vanessa Toulmin 9781844571451
Booksplease Price: €45.48Electric Edwardians presents a stunning visual record of the films of Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon, combined with an illuminating discussion of the films and the social context of their production... -
Ozu: His Life and Films by Donald Richie
RRP: €34.51Booksplease Price: €29.10"Substantially the book that devotees of the director have been waiting for: a full-length critical work about Ozu's life, career and working methods, buttressed with reproductions of pages from his... -
The Short Story of Film: A Pocket Guide to Key Genres, Films, Techniques and Movements by Ian Haydn Smith
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €18.40The Short Story of Film is a new and innovative introduction to the art of film-making. Simply constructed, the book explores 50 key movies, from superhero blockbusters to indie darlings. The design... -
Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film by Vivian Sobchack 9780813524924
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €30.15This text attempts to shape definitions of the American science fiction film, studying the connection between the films and social preconceptions. It covers many classic films and discusses their... -
Short Films: Writing The Screenplay by Patrick Nash 9781842435014
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €16.96Every award-winning short film begins life with a clever idea, a good story and a screenplay. Patrick Nash analyses the process of writing short film screenplays and gives advice on: Story and... -
50 Film Ideas You Really Need to Know by Helen O’Hara 9781529443967
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81Master the ideas that have shaped the world of film today.In a series of 50 accessible essays, Helen O'Hara introduces and explains the central ideas, eras and genres of film, beginning with the... -
On Film-making by Alexander Mackendrick
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €17.60An invaluable analysis of the director's art and craft, from one of the most revered of all film school directors. Alexander 'Sandy' Mackendrick directed classic Ealing comedies plus a Hollywood... -
A Short History of Film by Wheeler Winston Dixon 9780813595139
RRP: €142.80Booksplease Price: €125.32With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema-especially Polish, Chinese, Russian, Canadian, and Iranian filmmakers-an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated... -
Postmodernism and Film: Rethinking Hollywood's Aesthestics by Catherine Constable
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.37This volume focuses on postmodern film aesthetics and contemporary challenges to the aesthetic paradigms dominating analyses of Hollywood cinema. It explores conceptions of the classical, modernist,... -
The Art of Illusion: Production Design for Film and Television by Terry Ackland-Snow 9781785003431
Booksplease Price: €22.72Film production is a highly creative and collaborative industry, full of multi-skilled artists and craftsmen. The fast-moving pace of technology makes it hard to keep abreast of current practices in... -
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70'THE BOOK EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT.' ObserverOn a damp October night the body of beautiful Ashley Cordova is discovered in a Manhattan warehouse. Though her death is ruled a suicide, investigative... -
Rocliffe Notes - A Guide To Low Budget Film-making: Rocliffe Notes by Farah Abushwesha
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €17.72A second book in the ROCLIFFE NOTES series, formed from the questions of newer filmmakers. This is a practical compendium for screenwriters and filmmakers in the form of notes and opinions. These... -
Nino Rota: Music, Film and Feeling by Richard Dyer 9781844572106
Booksplease Price: €41.66Nino Rota is one of the most important composers in the history of cinema. Both popular and prolific, he wrote some of the most cherished and memorable of all film music - for The Godfather Parts I... -
The Hunger: Film Writing 2012–2024 by Melissa Anderson 9798986446387
RRP: €27.37Booksplease Price: €22.81The Hunger assembles the best of Melissa Anderson's film writing from, among other outlets, Bookforum, Artforum, the Village Voice, and 4Columns, where she has been the film editor and lead film... -
Vision: Color and Composition for Film by Hans P. Bacher
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €28.44Featuring hundreds of carefully hand-crafted illustrations as well as significant tuition on how to best compose and use images to create the most powerful frames, this book is potentially Hans P... -
Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa by Steve Ryfle 9780819500410
RRP: €22.02Booksplease Price: €19.60The first comprehensive biography of the director behind Godzilla and other Japanese sci-fi classics.Ishiro Honda was arguably the most internationally successful Japanese director of his generation,... -
Film Form by Sergei Eisenstein
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €15.45From Sergei Eisenstein, a legendary pioneer in filmmaking and director of Battleship Potemkin, Film Form collects twelve essays written between 1928 and 1945 that demonstrate key points in the... -
Film Noir and the Arts of Lighting by Patrick Keating 9781978810259
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €30.39More than any other set of films from the classical era, the Hollywood film noir is known for its lighting: the cast shadows, the blinking street signs, the eyes sparkling in the darkness. Each... -
Teaching Analysis of Film Language by David Wharton 9780851709819
Booksplease Price: €52.73Combining the creative perspectives of filmmakers with more analytic academic methods, this study invites film students to take an active approach in learning to understand how audiovisual language... -
Filming the Nation: Jung, Film, Neo-Realism and Italian National Identity by Donatella Spinelli Coleman 9780415555142
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €45.21Italian neo-realism has inspired film audiences and fascinated critics and film scholars for decades. This book offers an original analysis of the movement and its defining films from the perspective... -
Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780520086333
Booksplease Price: €34.91Jonathan Rosenbaum, longtime contributor to such publications as Film Quarterly, Sight and Sound, and The Village Voice, is arguably the most eloquent, insightful film critic writing in America today... -
Twenty First Century Horror Films Douglas Keesey 9781843449058
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.73From the vengeful ghosts of J-horror to the walking dead in 28 Days Later and World War Z, from the creepiness of Spain's haunted houses to the graphic gore of the New French Extremism, horror is... -
The Films That Made Me... by Peter Bradshaw
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.66'Like a pizza delivery driver who travels everywhere by moped, or a volcanologist who keeps turning the central heating up, I'm a film critic who loves going to the cinema.' - Peter Bradshaw. ...