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Hawks on Hawks by Joseph McBride
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £21.32"I read Hawks on Hawks with passion. I am very happy that this book exists." -- Francois TruffautHoward Hawks (1896--1977) is often credited as being the most versatile of all of the great American... -
John Ford by Joseph McBride 9780813198378
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £16.63Orson Welles was once asked which directors he most admired. He replied: "The old masters. By which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford." A legend in his own time, John Ford (1894-1973)... -
Searching for John Ford by Joseph McBride
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.51'Joseph Mcbride's book has the sweep, passion, complexity and tragic grandeur of a great John Ford film - it should be compulsory reading.' Martin ScorseseJohn Ford's many classic movies - among them... -
John Ford by Joseph McBride 9780813198507
Booksplease Price: £32.30Orson Welles was once asked which directors he most admired. He replied: "The old masters. By which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford." A legend in his own time, John Ford (1894-1973)... -
Searching for John Ford by Joseph McBride 9781604734676
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £34.46John Ford's classic films--such as Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, The Quiet Man, and The Searchers--have earned him worldwide admiration as America's foremost filmmaker, a... -
How Did Lubitsch Do It? by Joseph McBride
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.60Orson Welles called Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947) "a giant" whose "talent and originality are stupefying." Jean Renoir said, "He invented the modern Hollywood." Celebrated for his distinct style and... -
Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge by Joseph McBride
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £98.48The director and cowriter of some of the world's most iconic films-including Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment-Billy Wilder earned acclaim as American cinema's... -
How Did Lubitsch Do It? by Joseph McBride 9780231186445
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £83.43Orson Welles called Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947) "a giant" whose "talent and originality are stupefying." Jean Renoir said, "He invented the modern Hollywood." Celebrated for his distinct style and... -
Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge by Joseph McBride 9780231216616
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.18The director and cowriter of some of the world's most iconic films-including Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment-Billy Wilder earned acclaim as American cinema's... -
Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success by Joseph McBride 9781604738384
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.88Moviegoers often assume Frank Capra's life resembled his beloved films (such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life). A man of the people faces tremendous odds and, by doing the... -
Steven Spielberg: A Biography, Second Edition by Joseph McBride 9781604738360
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.28Until the first edition of Steven Spielberg: A Biography was published in 1997, much about Spielberg's personality and the forces that shaped it had remained enigmatic, in large part because of his... -
Writing in Pictures: Screenwriting Made (Mostly) Painless by Joseph McBride 9780307742926
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307742926Author Joseph McBrideFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint -
George Cukor's People: Acting for a Master Director Joseph McBride 9780231210829
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.79The director of classic films such as Sylvia Scarlett, The Philadelphia Story, Gaslight, Adam's Rib, A Star Is Born, and My Fair Lady, George Cukor is widely admired but often misunderstood... -
What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career by Joseph McBride
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813152370Author Joseph McBrideFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint -
What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career by Joseph McBride 9780813124100
RRP: £64.95Booksplease Price: £29.80At twenty-five, Orson Welles (1915-1985) directed, co-wrote, and starred in ""Citizen Kane"", widely considered the best film ever made. But Welles was such a revolutionary filmmaker that he found... -
The Whole Durn Human Comedy: Life According to the Coen Brothers by Joseph McBride 9781839983313
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.65The Coen Bros. have attracted a wide following and been rewarded with Oscars and other honors. Some of their films are cult favorites and box office hits, such as Fargo, The Big Lebowski, and No... -
The Magic World of Orson Welles by James Naremore 9780252039775
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.82Prodigy. Iconoclast. Genius. Exile. Orson Welles remains one of the most discussed figures in cinematic history. In the centenary year of Welles's birth, James Naremore presents a revised third... -
Cinematic Encounters 2: Portraits and Polemics by Jonathan Rosenbaum
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.77Eschewing 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... -
The Films of James Bridges Peter Tonguette 9780786439492
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19Originally arriving in Hollywood to pursue an acting career, James Bridges went on to write and direct such popular films as The Paper Chase, The China Syndrome and Urban Cowboy. This book tells... -
Cinematic Encounters 2: Portraits and Polemics by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780252042553
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.44Eschewing 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... -
Some Versions of Cary Grant by James Naremore 9780197566374
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £100.10Cary Grant famously said, "Everyone wants to be Cary Grant--even I want to be Cary Grant." His development of that star image required serious work, but he also played a variety of characters... -
Warning Shadows: Home Alone with Classic Cinema by Gary Giddins 9780393337921
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £22.14In his illuminating new work, Gary Giddins explores the evolution of film, from the first moving pictures and peepshows to the digital era of DVDs and online video-streaming. New technologies have... -
Write What You Don't Know: An Accessible Manual for Screenwriters by Julian Hoxter 9781441102102
Booksplease Price: £29.86Write What You Don't Know is a friendly manual for aspiring screenwriters. It encourages you to move beyond your comfort zones in search of stories. We all write what we know - how could we not?... -
Darkness in the Bliss-Out: A Reconsideration of the Films of Steven Spielberg by James Kendrick 9781441146045
Booksplease Price: £32.95While there has been a significant outpouring of scholarship on Steven Spielberg over the past decade, his films are still frequently discussed as being paternalistic, escapist, and reliant on...