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Greed by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780851703589
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.56Greed was to have been Erich von Stroheim's masterwork, but his immense plans were his undoing. This volume, reconstructs the history of the film. Each volume in the BFI Film Classics series contains... -
The Adorable Beastling by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9781632295231
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.15The Ugly Duckling but in reverse. Beastlings are fierce and scare for food, and this young group of Beastlings have an oddball that just can't scare. She was too cute to scare anything. We wonder if... -
Movies as Politics by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780520206151
Booksplease Price: $38.09In this new collection of reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum focuses on the political and social dynamics of the contemporary movie scene. Rosenbaum, widely regarded as the most gifted... -
Dead Man by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780851708065
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.56When 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... -
This Is Orson Welles by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780306808340
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $27.34Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Itty Bitty Drum by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780985986353
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $17.23Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Discovering Orson Welles by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780520251236
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.52Of the dozens of books written about Orson Welles, most focus on the central enigma of Welles' career: why did someone so extravagantly talented neglect to finish so many projects? Film critic... -
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RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.55When 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... -
The ZomB and the VampR: a nocturnal fable by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780985986322
RRP: $15.42Booksplease Price: $13.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780801889714
Booksplease Price: $43.43In 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... -
Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780520086333
Booksplease Price: $41.07Jonathan 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... -
Movie Mutations: The Changing Face of World Cinephilia by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780851709833
Booksplease Price: $71.26The idea of cinephilia is a crucial one for students of the cinema, but it is often associated with a bygone arthouse era. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, corporatism, public relations... -
Abbas Kiarostami: Expanded Second Edition by Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa 9780252083518
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23Before his death in 2016, Abbas Kiarostami wrote or directed more than thirty films in a career that mirrored Iranian cinema's rise as an international force. His 1997 feature Taste of Cherry made... -
The Best Years of Our Lives by Sarah Kozloff 9781844573264
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.83William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) tells the story of three veterans returning from World War II and adjusting to civilian life in a manner unusual for classical Hollywood cinema,... -
Jacques Rivette by Mary M. Wiles
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.50As a pioneer of the French New Wave, Jacques Rivette was one of a group of directors who permanently altered the world's perception of cinema by taking the camera out of the studios and into the... -
The Cloud-Capped Star (Meghe Dhaka Tara) by Manishita Dass
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.56Ritwik Ghatak's The Cloud-Capped Star (Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960) has been hailed as 'one of the great classics of world cinema' (Adrian Martin), and 'one of the five or six greatest melodramas in... -
What Is Cinema? Volume I by Andre Bazin 9780520242272
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.61Andre Bazin's What Is Cinema? (volumes I and II) have been classics of film studies for as long as they've been available and are considered the gold standard in the field of film criticism. Although... -
Abel Ferrara by Nicole Brenez 9780252074110
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23Nicole Brenez argues for Abel Ferrara's place in a line of grand inventors who have blurred distinctions between industry and avant-garde film, including Orson Welles, Monte Hellman, and Nicholas Ray... -
Into the Past: The Cinema of Guy Maddin by William Beard
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $38.75Guy Maddin started making films in his back yard and on his kitchen table. Now his unique work, which relies heavily on such archaic means as black and white small-format cinematography and... -
On The Figure In General And The Body In Particular:: Figurative Invention In Cinema by Ted Fendt 9781839987809
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.45Films fill our imagination with figures, figurines, and talismans. They ceaselessly rework the same archetypes and invent troubling prototypes - especially when they establish a deeper relationship... -
Mise en Scene and Film Style: From Classical Hollywood to New Media Art by A. Martin 9781349444175
RRP: $141.89Booksplease Price: $62.36Styles of filmmaking have changed greatly from classical Hollywood through to our digital era. So, too, have the ways in which film critics and scholars have analysed these transformations in film... -
On The Figure In General And The Body In Particular:: Figurative Invention In Cinema Ted Fendt 9781839998867
Booksplease Price: $33.17Films fill our imagination with figures, figurines, and talismans. They ceaselessly rework the same archetypes and invent troubling prototypes - especially when they establish a deeper relationship...