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The General by Peter Kramer 9781844579150
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.06Offering a fresh perspective on The General, arguably one of the most successful American films of the silent era, this insightful text analyses its initial critical reception and the thematic and... -
Screen Acting by Peter Kramer
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £44.15While not everyone would agree with Alfred Hitchcock's notorious remark that 'actors are cattle', there is little understanding of the work film actors do. Yet audience enthusiasm for, or dislike of,... -
United Artists Peter Kramer 9780367179007
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Established in 1919 by Hollywood's top talent United Artists has had an illustrious history, from Hollywood minor to industry leader to a second-tier media company in the shadow of MGM. This edited... -
A Clockwork Orange by Peter Kramer 9780230302129
Booksplease Price: £26.99Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
2001: A Space Odyssey by Peter Kramer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.69Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is widely regarded as one of the best films ever made. It has been celebrated for its beauty and mystery, its realistic depiction of space travel and... -
The New Hollywood - From Bonnie and Clyde to Star Wars by Peter Kramer
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904764588Author Peter KramerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint < -
Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by Peter Kramer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) has long been recognised as one of the key artistic expressions of the nuclear age. Made at a time when... -
American Graffiti: George Lucas, the New Hollywood and the Baby Boom Generation by Peter Kramer
Booksplease Price: £60.08Combining a detailed film analysis with archival research and social science approaches, this book examines how American Graffiti (1973), a low-budget and star-less teen comedy by a filmmaker whose... -
Arteriovenous Hemofiltration: A Kidney Replacement Therapy for the Intensive Care Unit by Peter Kramer 9783540153177
Booksplease Price: £90.56Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
American Graffiti: George Lucas, the New Hollywood and the Baby Boom Generation by Peter Krämer 9780367523060
Booksplease Price: £20.14Combining a detailed film analysis with archival research and social science approaches, this book examines how American Graffiti (1973), a low-budget and star-less teen comedy by a filmmaker whose... -
Chinese Film Stars Mary Farquhar 9780415690270
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £57.54This volume of original essays fills a significant research gap in Chinese film studies by offering an interdisciplinary, comparative examination of ethnic Chinese film stars from the silent period... -
The Action and Adventure Cinema by Yvonne Tasker
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £38.29This exciting collection addresses action and adventure from the silent to the contemporary period exploring diverse questions of aesthetics, industry and ideology. Action has established itself as... -
Movie Blockbusters by Julian Stringer 9780415256094
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £40.57Big-budget, spectacular films designed to appeal to a mass audience: is this what - or all - blockbusters are? Movie Blockbusters brings together writings from key film scholars, including Douglas... -
Fantasy/Animation: Connections Between Media, Mediums and Genres Christopher Holliday 9780367590741
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £44.15This book examines the relationship that exists between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Animation has played a key role in defining our collective expectations and experiences of fantasy... -
Death of the Great Man: A Novel by Peter D. Kramer
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78In a novel that's part comic mystery, part political satire, and part case vignette, a psychiatrist reviews his involvement with a narcissistic national leader who has turned up dead on the... -
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Reconstructing Strangelove: Inside Stanley Kubrick's "Nightmare Comedy" by Michael Broderick
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69During his career Stanley Kubrick became renowned for undertaking lengthy and exhaustive research prior to the production of all his films. In the lead-up to what would eventually become Dr... -
Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body by Elizabeth A. Wilson
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.78How can scientific theories contribute to contemporary accounts of embodiment in the humanities and social sciences? In particular, how does neuroscientific research facilitate new approaches to... -
Interpreting Star Wars: Reading a Modern Film Franchise by Miles Booy
Booksplease Price: £32.90Upon its initial release in 1977, many critics regarded Star Wars as a childish retort to the mature American cinema of the seventies. Though full of sound and fury, some felt that it signified... -
'Grease Is the Word': Exploring a Cultural Phenomenon by Oliver Gruner 9781785279751
Booksplease Price: £25.71Bringing together a group of international scholars from diverse academic backgrounds, 'Grease Is the Word' analyses the cultural phenomenon Grease. With essays covering everything from the film's... -
Stanley Kubrick Produces by James Fenwick 9781978814882
RRP: £66.00Booksplease Price: £59.90Stanley Kubrick Produces provides the first comprehensive account of Stanley Kubrick's role as a producer, and of the role of the producers he worked with throughout his career. It considers how he... -
American Independent Cinema: indie, indiewood and beyond by Geoff King
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £47.72The American independent sector has attracted much attention in recent years, an upsurge of academic work on the subject being accompanied by wider public debate. But many questions remain about how... -
Big Wednesday: Lamenting Lost Youth in the New Hollywood Mark McKenna 9780367178925
Booksplease Price: £54.15This book provides an examination of Big Wednesday as an unconventional film that employs a mythic sensibility in its representation of the loss of youth and young manhood.Critically and commercially... -
Stanley Kubrick Produces by James Fenwick
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Stanley Kubrick Produces provides the first comprehensive account of Stanley Kubrick's role as a producer, and of the role of the producers he worked with throughout his career. It considers how he... -
On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud by Andrew Blauner 9780691242439
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.12A collection of colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five leading writersWith original contributions by Andre Aciman * Sarah Boxer * Jennifer... -
Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs by Jonathan M. Metzl 9780822335245
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Pills replaced the couch; neuroscience took the place of talk therapy; and as psychoanalysis faded from the scene, so did the castrating mothers and hysteric spinsters of Freudian theory. Or so the... -
Hollywood and the Baby Boom: A Social History by James Russell 9781501353901
Booksplease Price: £36.44Between 1946 and 1964 seventy-five million babies were born, dwarfing the generations that preceded and succeeded them. At each stage of its life-cycle, the baby boom's great size has dictated the... -
On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud by Andrew Blauner 9780691242453
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.51A collection of colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five leading writersWith original contributions by Andre Aciman * Sarah Boxer * Jennifer... -
Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America by Steven J. Ross
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.23This path-breaking book reveals how Hollywood became "Hollywood" and what that meant for the politics of America and American film. Working-Class Hollywood tells the story of filmmaking in the first... -
Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual by Dr Nathan Abrams
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.53Stanley Kubrick is generally acknowledged as one of the world's great directors. Yet few critics or scholars have considered how he emerged from a unique and vibrant cultural milieu: the New York...