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Screen Acting by Peter Kramer
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.60While 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,... -
The General by Peter Kramer 9781844579150
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.49Offering 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... -
United Artists Peter Kramer 9780367179007
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $73.16Established 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: $56.32Drawing on new research in the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University of the Arts London, Kramer's study explores the production, marketing and reception as well as the themes and style of A... -
2001: A Space Odyssey by Peter Kramer
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.11Stanley 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 Honor of Peter Kramer by Augusto Ferrera 9780595089062
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $32.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595089062Author Augusto FerreraFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Backinprint.comPublisher... -
The New Hollywood - From Bonnie and Clyde to Star Wars by Peter Kramer
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $31.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904764588Author Peter KramerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher... -
Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by Peter Kramer
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.49Stanley 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
RRP: $99.43Booksplease Price: $89.86Combining 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: $178.82Discovery and Relative Importance of Continuous Arteriovenous HemofIltration Lee W. Henderson Continuous arteriovenous hemofiltration (CAVH) has seen a brisk upswing in popularity in Europe since its... -
American Graffiti: George Lucas, the New Hollywood and the Baby Boom Generation by Peter Krämer 9780367523060
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $36.99Combining 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: $115.03Booksplease Price: $106.98This 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: $77.98Booksplease Price: $72.07This 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... -
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The Action and Adventure Cinema by Yvonne Tasker 9780415235075 [USED COPY]
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $10.37This 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: $79.93Booksplease Price: $75.64Big-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: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.60This 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: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.97In 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... -
Spectacular Happiness: A Novel by Peter D. Kramer 9780743223249
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $28.72From Chekhov to Walker Percy, from William Carlos Williams to Ethan Canin, doctors have turned to fiction with a compelling acuteness of observation. Now Peter Kramer joins their ranks with a sly and... -
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Reconstructing Strangelove: Inside Stanley Kubrick's "Nightmare Comedy" by Michael Broderick
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $45.88During 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... -
The Beast: A Journey Through Depression by Tracy Thompson 9781626815209
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.79"Ms. Thompson takes a clear-eyed look at work as well as love, intertwining the success story of her journalistic career (she eventually becomes a reporter on The Washington Post) with her record of... -
Blood Money: A History of the First Teen Slasher Film Cycle by Richard Nowell 9781441124968
Booksplease Price: $76.30Scholars have consistently applied psychoanalytic models to representations of gender in early teen slasher films such as "Black Christmas (1974)," "Halloween (1978)" and "Friday the 13th (1980)" in... -
On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud by Andrew Blauner 9780691242453
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $28.08A collection of colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five leading writersWith original contributions by André Aciman • Sarah Boxer • Jennifer... -
Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body by Elizabeth A. Wilson
Booksplease Price: $53.61How 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... -
Star Studies: A Critical Guide by Martin Shingler
Booksplease Price: $54.80Martin Shingler presents the mother volume for Palgrave's Film Stars series in three easily-navigable chapters in which he provides a summative and instructive account of star studies for today's... -
On Air: Methods and Meanings of Radio by Martin Shingler 9780340652312
Booksplease Price: $87.28It reaches millions of people every minute of the day, it costs us virtually nothing and yet we take it entirely for granted. Superseded by television as the primary source of entertainment and... -
'Grease Is the Word': Exploring a Cultural Phenomenon by Oliver Gruner 9781785279751
Booksplease Price: $49.88Bringing 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... -
Interpreting Star Wars: Reading a Modern Film Franchise by Miles Booy
Booksplease Price: $63.84Upon 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... -
Using DSM-IV: A Clinician's Guide to Psychiatric Diagnosis by Anthony LaBruzza 9780765700537
Booksplease Price: $140.09DSM-IV is here, and mental health professionals-whether they applaud its rigor or decry its rigidity-will have to know how to use it. Like its predecessor, DSM-III, DSM-IV is empirically based and... -
Shadow Cinema: The Historical and Production Contexts of Unmade Films by James Fenwick 9781501370960
Booksplease Price: $68.27Filmmakers and cinema industries across the globe invest more time, money and creative energy in projects and ideas that never get produced than in the movies that actually make it to the screens. ... -
Interpreting Star Wars: Reading a Modern Film Franchise by Miles Booy 9781501364754
Booksplease Price: $166.69Upon 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... -
Stanley Kubrick Produces by James Fenwick 9781978814882
RRP: $128.70Booksplease Price: $105.81Stanley 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: $95.53Booksplease Price: $89.58The 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
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $93.21This 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... -
Screening the Sixties: Hollywood Cinema and the Politics of Memory by Oliver Gruner 9781137496324
Booksplease Price: $94.38This book provides a detailed and engaging account of how Hollywood cinema has represented and 'remembered' the Sixties. From late 1970s hippie musicals such as Hair and The Rose through to recent... -
Hollywood's Chosen People: The Jewish Experience in American Cinema by Daniel Bernardi 9780814334829
Booksplease Price: $57.88As studio bosses, directors, and actors, Jews have been heavily involved in film history and vitally involved in all aspects of film production. Yet Jewish characters have been represented onscreen... -
The Jaws Book: New Perspectives on the Classic Summer Blockbuster by I.Q. Hunter 9781501373862
Booksplease Price: $68.27After 45 years, Steven Spielberg's Jaws remains the definitive summer blockbuster, a cultural phenomenon with a fierce and dedicated fan base. The Jaws Book: New Perspectives on the Classic Summer... -
Stanley Kubrick Produces by James Fenwick
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.89Stanley 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... -
Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film by Robert P. Kolker 9780190678029
Booksplease Price: $190.79Twenty years since its release, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut remains a complex, visually arresting film about domesticity, sexual disturbance, and dreams. It was on the director's mind for some... -
Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs by Jonathan M. Metzl 9780822335245
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $35.57Pills 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... -
On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud by Andrew Blauner 9780691242439
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $33.15A 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...