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Greed by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780851703589
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.33Greed 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... -
Dead Man by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780851708065
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.33When 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... -
Movies as Politics by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780520206151
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $53.05In 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... -
This Is Orson Welles by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780306808340
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $39.98Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Adorable Beastling by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9781632295231
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $20.27The 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... -
Cinematic Encounters: Interviews and Dialogues by Jonathan Rosenbaum
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $149.39Godard. Fuller. Rivette. Endfield. Tarr. In his celebrated career as a film critic, Jonathan Rosenbaum has undertaken wide-ranging dialogues with many of the most daring and important auteurs of our... -
Discovering Orson Welles by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780520251236
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $61.61Of 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... -
Cinematic Encounters 2: Portraits and Polemics by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Booksplease Price: $42.88Eschewing the idea of film reviewer-as-solitary-expert, Jonathan Rosenbaum continues to advance his belief that a critic's ideal role is to mediate and facilitate our public discussion of cinema... -
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RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.80When 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... -
Cinematic Encounters: Interviews and Dialogues by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780252083884
Booksplease Price: $42.25Godard. Fuller. Rivette. Endfield. Tarr. In his celebrated career as a film critic, Jonathan Rosenbaum has undertaken wide-ranging dialogues with many of the most daring and important auteurs of our... -
Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780801889714
Booksplease Price: $70.71In 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... -
Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780801878404
Booksplease Price: $115.31In 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: $61.61Jonathan 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... -
Cinematic Encounters 2: Portraits and Polemics by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780252042553
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $150.02Eschewing the idea of film reviewer-as-solitary-expert, Jonathan Rosenbaum continues to advance his belief that a critic's ideal role is to mediate and facilitate our public discussion of cinema... -
Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Booksplease Price: $60.46The esteemed film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has brought global cinema to American audiences for the last four decades. His incisive writings on individual filmmakers define film culture as a diverse... -
Movie Mutations: The Changing Face of World Cinephilia by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780851709833
Booksplease Price: $99.29The 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... -
Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Movies We Can See by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9781556524547
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.88Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Abbas Kiarostami: Expanded Second Edition by Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa 9780252083518
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.31Before 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... -
Decades Never Start on Time: A Richard Roud Anthology by Karen Smolens 9781844576258
Booksplease Price: $86.46Richard Roud, film writer and co-founder and director of the New York Film Festival, was one of the most influential film critics of the twentieth century. Renowned for his close relationships with... -
Mr Freedom Tyler Sage 9781800856936
Booksplease Price: $199.19William Klein's Mr. Freedom (1969) is one of the most important American satirical films ever produced, the tale of an American superhero with disastrously misguided priorities. Although it was made... -
My Affair with Art House Cinema: Essays and Reviews by Phillip Lopate 9780231216401
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $188.58Phillip Lopate fell hard for the movies as an adolescent. As he matured into an acclaimed critic and essayist, his infatuation deepened into a lifelong passion. My Affair with Art House Cinema... -
Mr Freedom Tyler Sage 9781800856943
Booksplease Price: $52.56William Klein's Mr. Freedom (1969) is one of the most important American satirical films ever produced, the tale of an American superhero with disastrously misguided priorities. Although it was made... -
The Best Years of Our Lives by Sarah Kozloff 9781844573264
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.51William 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,... -
Screen Dynamics - Mapping the Borders of Cinema Gertrud Koch 9783901644399
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $50.78From moving images on the Internet to giant IMAX displays: The number of screens in the public and private sphere has increased significantly during the last two decades. While this is often taken to... -
The Cloud-Capped Star (Meghe Dhaka Tara) by Manishita Dass
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.33Ritwik 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... -
Film Unframed - A History of Austrian Avant-Garde Cinema by Peter Tscherkassky 9783901644429
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $65.31The unique contribution of Austrian avant-garde film to world cinema is widely acknowledged. This is the first book in English dedicated to its historical and aesthetic evolution. The expansive... -
Jacques Rivette by Mary M. Wiles
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.75As 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... -
What Is Cinema? Volume I by Andre Bazin 9780520242272
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $44.94Andre 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: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.31Nicole 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... -
At the End of the Street in the Shadow: Orson Welles and the City by Matthew Asprey Gear
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $49.75The films of Orson Welles inhabit the spaces of cities-from America's industrializing midland to its noirish borderlands, from Europe's medieval fortresses to its Kafkaesque labyrinths and postwar... -
At the End of the Street in the Shadow: Orson Welles and the City by Matthew Asprey Gear 9780231173407
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $146.33The films of Orson Welles inhabit the spaces of cities-from America's industrializing midland to its noirish borderlands, from Europe's medieval fortresses to its Kafkaesque labyrinths and postwar... -
Into the Past: The Cinema of Guy Maddin by William Beard
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $63.08Guy 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
Booksplease Price: $179.51Films 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: $230.98Booksplease Price: $90.83Styles 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: $55.88Films 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... -
The Cult Film Reader by Ernest Mathijs 9780335219230
Booksplease Price: $67.60"An invaluable collection for anyone researching or teaching cult cinema ... The Cult Film Reader is an authoritative text that should be of value to any student or researcher interested in... -
Camera Historica: The Century in Cinema by Antoine de Baecque
RRP: $281.40Booksplease Price: $234.32Antoine de Baecque proposes a new historiography of cinema, exploring film as a visual archive of the twentieth century, as well as history's imprint on the cinematic image. Whether portraying events... -
Camera Historica: The Century in Cinema Antoine de Baecque 9780231156516
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $66.17Antoine de Baecque proposes a new historiography of cinema, exploring film as a visual archive of the twentieth century, as well as history's imprint on the cinematic image. Whether portraying events... -
Play Time: Jacques Tati and Comedic Modernism by Malcolm Turvey
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $175.20Jacques Tati is widely regarded as one of the greatest postwar European filmmakers. He made innovative and challenging comedies while achieving international box office success and attaining a... -
My Affair with Art House Cinema: Essays and Reviews by Phillip Lopate 9780231216395
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $39.00Finalist, 2025 PEN / Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, PEN AmericaPhillip Lopate fell hard for the movies as an adolescent. As he matured into an acclaimed critic and essayist,...