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Schrader on Schrader by Paul Schrader
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.79Schrader on Schrader is an essential set of dialogues with one of the most genuinely fascinating and uncompromising writer-directors in American film.Raised as a Calvinist and hence forbidden to... -
Paul Schrader by George Kouvaros
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.90As the first full-length study on Paul Schrader's films, this book examines the different styles of his work and the multiple influences on which it draws. A defining feature of Schrader's career is... -
Taxi Driver by Paul Schrader 9780571144648
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47A loner, Travis Bickle takes up driving a taxi in search of an escape from his sleeplessness and his disgust with the corruption he finds around him. His pent-up rage, fuelled by his doomed... -
ReFocus: The Films of Paul Schrader by Michelle E. Moore
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £95.01Paul Schrader's unique relationship to the role of the author (as screenwriter, director and critic) has long informed his cinema, and raises complicated questions about the definition of the auteur... -
234mm x 156mm 272 pages 24 b&w illustration(s) ReFocus: The American Directors Series Published June 2020 ISBN Hardback: 9781474462037 Recommend to your Librarian Request a Review Copy ReFocus: The Films of Paul Schrader by Michelle E. Moore
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.32Paul Schrader's unique relationship to the role of the author (as screenwriter, director and critic) has long informed his cinema, and raises complicated questions about the definition of the auteur... -
Performing Ethics Through Film Style: Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader by Edward Lamberti
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.32Proposing a relationship between Levinasian ethics and film style, and bringing it into a productive dialogue with theories of performativity, this book explores this influence through three... -
Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer by Paul Schrader 9780520296817
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40With a new introduction, acclaimed director and screenwriter Paul Schrader revisits and updates his contemplation of slow cinema over the past fifty years. Unlike the style of psychological realism,... -
Performing Ethics Through Film Style: Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader by Edward Lamberti 9781474444002
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £99.49Emmanuel Levinas's ethical philosophy has had a significant influence on film theory in recent years. Proposing a relationship between Levinasian ethics and film style, and bringing it into a... -
Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction by Steven Swarbrick 9780810147195
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48How films help us understand the inevitable death of Earth and humanity Offering a bracing theoretical corrective to ecocriticism's emphasis on pedagogies of care and interconnection, Negative Life:... -
Beyond Method: Stella Adler and the Male Actor by Scott Balcerzak 9780814344897
Booksplease Price: £72.60Stella Adler (1901-92) trained many well-known American actors yet throughout much of her career, her influence was overshadowed by Lee Strasberg, director of the Actors Studio. In Beyond Method:... -
Beyond Method: Stella Adler and the Male Actor Scott Balcerzak 9780814342916
Booksplease Price: £22.66Stella Adler (1901-92) trained many well-known American actors yet throughout much of her career, her influence was overshadowed by Lee Strasberg, director of the Actors Studio. In Beyond Method:... -
Kubrick's Story, Spielberg's Film: A.I. Artificial Intelligence by Julian Rice 9781442278189
Booksplease Price: £49.43In 1963 Stanley Kubrick declared, "Dr. Strangelove came from my desire to do something about the nuclear nightmare." Thirty years later, he was preparing to film another story about the human impulse... -
Martin Scorsese Ian Nathan 9781836006435
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £20.60Discover the genius of Martin Scorsese - one of cinema's greatest storytellers.For over 50 years, Martin Scorsese has been one of cinema's most celebrated directors. From a Catholic kid in Manhattan... -
ReFocus: The Films of John Waters Michelle E. Moore 9781399543903
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £94.85The first collected volume of work on cult film director and icon John Waters, which offers a comprehensive study of his work as an important filmmaker and cultural force. Includes chapters covering... -
Film and Knowledge: Essays on the Integration of Images and Ideas by Kevin L. Stoehr 9780786413201
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59Essays written by both established and cutting-edge philosophers of film discuss the value of film in general and the value of certain films in particular. The essays explore such topics as the... -
Comparative Cinema: Late and Last Things in Literature and Film by Paul Coates 9783030690465
Booksplease Price: £61.04This book comprises what may be called exercises in 'comparative cinema'. Its focus on endings, near-endings and 'late style' is connected with the author's argument that comparative criticism itself... -
Comparative Cinema: Late and Last Things in Literature and Film by Paul Coates 9783030690434
Booksplease Price: £91.94This book comprises what may be called exercises in 'comparative cinema'. Its focus on endings, near-endings and 'late style' is connected with the author's argument that comparative criticism itself... -
The Searchers by Edward Buscombe
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.06John Ford's masterpiece The Searchers (1956) was voted the seventh greatest film of all time in Sight & Sound's most recent poll of critics. Its influence on many of America's most distinguished... -
Hollywood Under Siege: Martin Scorsese, the Religious Right, and the Culture Wars by Thomas R. Lindlof 9780813125176
Booksplease Price: £29.56In the late 1980s, the major conservative Christian groups suffered a series of public setbacks. In Hollywood Under Siege: Martin Scorsese, the Religious Right, and the Culture Wars, Thomas R... -
America First: Naming the Nation in US Film Mandy Merck 9780415374958
RRP: £96.99Booksplease Price: £96.51At a time when the expanded projection of US political, military, economic and cultural power draws intensified global concern, understanding how that country understands itself seems more important... -
America First: Naming the Nation in US Film Mandy Merck 9780415374965
Booksplease Price: £28.97At a time when the expanded projection of US political, military, economic and cultural power draws intensified global concern, understanding how that country understands itself seems more important... -
Taxi Driver by Amy Taubin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72Paul Schrader was in meltdown in 1972. Drinking heavily, living in his car, he was hospitalised with a gastric ulcer. There he read about Arthur Bremer's attempt to assassinate Alabama Governor... -
Post War Cinema & Modernity by John Orr 9780814762035
Booksplease Price: £96.81Post-war Cinema and Modernity explores the relationship between film and modernity in the second half of the twentieth century. It begins with essays analyzing new post-war forms of film narrative... -
Post-War Cinema and Modernity John Orr 9780814762028
Booksplease Price: £32.95Post-war Cinema and Modernity explores the relationship between film and modernity in the second half of the twentieth century. It begins with essays analyzing new post-war forms of film narrative... -
Quentin Tarantino Edward Gallafent 9780582473041
Booksplease Price: £43.55Quentin Tarantino is one of the best-known living American filmmakers in the world, and the story of his career has been the subject of a number of books and articles. But what do his films mean? In... -
Film Noir. 100 All-Time Favorites Jürgen Müller 9783754404089
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.80Enter a world populated by private eyes, gangsters, psychopaths, and femmes fatales, where deception, lust, and betrayal run rampant. This film-by-film photography book on film noir and neo-noir... -
Talking about Pauline Kael: Critics, Filmmakers, and Scholars Remember an Icon by Wayne Stengel 9781442254596
Booksplease Price: £91.39For nearly 25 years, Pauline Kael was one of America's most respected, controversial, and talked-about film reviewers. A contributor to the New Yorker from 1968 until 1991, Kael's reviews were... -
Quentin Tarantino Edward Gallafent 9781138147454
RRP: £96.99Booksplease Price: £95.79Quentin Tarantino is one of the best-known living American filmmakers in the world, and the story of his career has been the subject of a number of books and articles. But what do his films mean? In... -
Dear Orson Wells and Other Essays by Mark Cousins 9781739353728
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.12In this wide-ranging, stylish and iconoclastic book, the acclaimed Belfast filmmaker and BBC author Mark Cousins reflects on his prolific career in documentary-making, meditating on the philosophers,... -
Film Genre Reader IV by Barry Keith Grant 9780292742062
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.16From reviews of the third edition:"Film Genre Reader III lives up to the high expectations set by its predecessors, providing an accessible and relatively comprehensive look at genre studies. The... -
Film Genre Reader IV by Barry Keith Grant 9780292742055
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £43.40From reviews of the third edition:"Film Genre Reader III lives up to the high expectations set by its predecessors, providing an accessible and relatively comprehensive look at genre studies. The... -
Film Noir Compendium: Key Selections from the Film Noir Reader Series by Alain Silver 9781495058981
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.48In this essential study of film noir editors Alain Silver and James Ursini select the most significant and influential articles on the movement from their highly respected Film Noir Reader series... -
Call Me by Your Name: Perspectives on the Film Edward Lamberti 9781789389425
Booksplease Price: £111.53Adapted by James Ivory from Andre Aciman's novel and directed by Luca Guadagnino, the film Call Me by Your Name has been passionately received among audiences and critics ever since its 2017 release... -
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The "Last Days of Judas Iscariot" by Stephen Adly Guirgis 9781408108352
Booksplease Price: £14.24The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a hilarious and extraordinary courtroom drama where history's most infamous betrayal is dissected by the forces of good and evil. Published to coincide with the... -
Touch of Evil by Richard Deming
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72Orson Welles' classic 1958 noir movie Touch of Evil, the story of a corrupt police chief in a small town on the Mexican-American border, starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and Marlene Dietrich, is... -
Tales from the Script: 50 Hollywood Screenwriters Share Their Stories by Peter Hanson 9780061855924
Booksplease Price: £12.35Few modern art forms are as misunderstood as the craft of creating movie scripts, but "Tales from the Script" puts readers in the trenches of the Hollywood development process. Readers will revel in... -
The Space of Sex: The Porn Aesthetic in Contemporary Film and Television by Professor of English Shelton Waldrep 9781501377365
Booksplease Price: £32.95As film and television become ever more focused on the pornographic gaze of the camera, the human body undergoes a metamorphosis, becoming both landscape and building, part of an architectonic design...