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Otto Preminger: Interviews by Gary Bettinson
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £19.34Otto Preminger (1905-1986), whose Hollywood career spanned the 1930s through the 1970s, is popularly remembered for the acclaimed films he directed, among which are the classic film noir Laura, the... -
The Cinema of Stephen Chow Gary Bettinson 9781350362130
Booksplease Price: £104.17An in-depth exploration of the stardom and authorship of Stephen Chow Sing-chi, one of Hong Kong cinema's most enduringly popular stars and among its most commercially successful directors. In... -
The Cinema of Stephen Chow Gary Bettinson 9781350362178
Booksplease Price: £31.92In the West, Stephen Chow is renowned as the ground-breaking director and star of global blockbusters such as Kung Fu Hustle (2004) and Shaolin Soccer (2001). Among Hong Kong audiences, Chow is... -
The Poetics of Chinese Cinema by Gary Bettinson 9781137566089
Booksplease Price: £109.99Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Hong Kong Horror Cinema by Gary Bettinson
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.68Hong Kong Horror Cinemaoffers new insights into the history of Hong Kong horror through case studies of classic films and through a detailed consideration of their aesthetic power, economic... -
Otto Preminger: Interviews by Gary Bettinson 9781496835246
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £74.42Otto Preminger (1905-1986), whose Hollywood career spanned the 1930s through the 1970s, is popularly remembered for the acclaimed films he directed, among which are the classic film noir Laura, the... -
Hong Kong Horror Cinema by Gary Bettinson 9781474424592
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £94.85The first book-length English-language study of Hong Kong horror filmsDumplings stuffed with diabolical fillings. Sword-wielding zombies. Hopping cadavers. Big-head babies. For decades, Hong Kong... -
Directory of World Cinema: China 2 by Gary Bettinson
RRP: £46.95Booksplease Price: £45.30Since the publication of the first volume of Directory of World Cinema: China, the Chinese film industry has intensified its efforts to make inroads into the American market. The 2012 acquisition of... -
Superman: The Movie: The 40th-Anniversary Interviews by Gary Bettinson 9781783209590
Booksplease Price: £22.87At a moment when superheroes dominate pop culture, Gary Bettinson takes us back to the first comic book blockbuster. Superman: The Movie - The 40th Anniversary Interviews is a revealing... -
The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-Wai: Film Poetics and the Aesthetic of Disturbance by Gary Bettinson 9789888900824
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £19.72The widely acclaimed films of Wong Kar-wai are characterized by their sumptuous yet complex visual and sonic style. This study of Wong s filmmaking techniques uses a poetics approach to examine how... -
Chinese Cinemas: International Perspectives Felicia Chan (University of Manchester, UK) 9781138912472
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Chinese Cinemas: International Perspectives examines the impact the rapid expansion of Chinese filmmaking in mainland China has had on independent and popular Chinese cinemas both in and outside of... -
Film Style in Indonesian Cinema, 1998-2018: Lighting, Production Design and Camera Movement Ari Purnama 9781474496612
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £90.22Examines the use of cinematography and mise en sc ne in contemporary Indonesian cinema The first scholarly work that considers Indonesian cinema as an artistic field with significant aesthetic... -
Postcolonialism, Diaspora, and Alternative Histories – The Cinema of Evans Chan by Tony Williams 9789888208166
RRP: £59.20Booksplease Price: £45.70This volume offers the first comprehensive survey of the cinema of Evans Chan, a New York-based playwright, author, and filmmaker whose acclaimed films include To Liv(e), The Map of Sex and Love, and... -
Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film by Wickham Clayton 9781349573455
Booksplease Price: £43.25Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film fills a broad scholastic gap by analysing the elements of narrative and stylistic construction of films in the slasher subgenre of horror that have been... -
Remixing Wong Kar-wai: Music, Bricolage, and the Aesthetics of Oblivion Giorgio Biancorosso 9781478031178
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Like his fellow filmmakers Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, and Sofia Coppola, Wong Kar-wai crafts the soundtracks of his films by jettisoning original scores in favor of commercial recordings. In... -
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... -
Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film by Wickham Clayton 9781137496461
Booksplease Price: £98.14Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film fills a broad scholastic gap by analysing the elements of narrative and stylistic construction of films in the slasher subgenre of horror that have been... -
Deleuze and Lola Montès by Dr Richard Rushton 9781501345753
Booksplease Price: £19.71Gilles Deleuze represents the most widely referenced theorist of cinema today. And yet, even the most rudimentary pillars of his thought remain mysterious to most students (and even many scholars) of... -
The Politics of Hollywood Cinema: Popular Film and Contemporary Political Theory by Richard Rushton 9781349318957
Booksplease Price: £48.40The Politics of Hollywood Cinema radically transforms our understanding of cinema's potential to be politically engaging and challenging. Examining several films from Hollywood's classical era,... -
The Politics of Hollywood Cinema: Popular Film and Contemporary Political Theory R. Rushton 9780230244580
Booksplease Price: £48.40The Politics of Hollywood Cinema radically transforms our understanding of cinema's potential to be politically engaging and challenging. Examining several films from Hollywood's classical era,...