Films, Cinema
Subjects
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Robert Wise on His Films
Silman-James Press (US)£25.99| /Robert Wise's life in the film industry has spanned 6 decades and, before embarking on his directorial career, included editing such films as Citiz...
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Rocky Stories
Paul Dry Books (US)£23.99| /Pulitzer Prize-winners Michael Vitez and Tom Gralish of the Philadelphia Inquirer spent a year visiting the Philadelphia Museum of Art to capture t...
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Romy Schneider Story
Reel Publishing (UK)£10.00| /Determined to tread her own path, Austrian film sensation, Romy Schneider was talented, honest, prickly, loving and ultimately tragic. The star of ...
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Scary Movies
Ghost House Publishing (CA)£11.99| /Fans of the horror genre will enjoy this enthusiastic romp through the pantheon of great and not so great films of terror. A.S. Mott examines the m...
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Screenplay
Silman-James Press (US)£25.99| /This is a complete screenwriting course -- from initial idea through final script sale -- providing in-depth discussions of theme development; stor...
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Second Look
Edition Axel Menges (D)£44.90| /Text in English & German. Like literary texts, films often tell stories on multiple levels. Ridley Scott made an ironic reference to this when ...
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Shammi Kapoor
Wisdom Tree (IND)£6.95| /Shammi Kapoor continues to gather Lifetime Achievement Awards, but what is more important is that the country still dances to his songs and relishe...
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Sivaji Ganesan
Wisdom Tree (IND)£6.95| /A little boy leaves home to join a drama company to make his debut in the world of entertainment, spanning more than half a century.
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So You Wanna Be a Director?
Tomahawk Press (UK)£8.99| /Yorkshire-born Ken Annakin is one of the greatest international film directors. The last of the English directors to make it in the international a...
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Sohrab Modi
Wisdom Tree (IND)£6.95| /The persona of Sohrab Modi -- the producer, director and actor -- comprises many facts of Indian film history in a career spanning an eventful half...
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Spaghetti Nightmares
Fantasma Books (US)£26.99| /This is a forty year journey through Italian horror films. This book grants producers, directors, screenwriters, make-up artists, and actors an opp...
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Starring Edward Woodward
Reel Publishing (UK)£20.00| /"Starring Edward Woodward" is a star-image construction that benefits greatly from the inclusion of personal memories and photographs provided by t...
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Subtle Moments
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /Bruce Grant was raised in outback Western Australia but lived and worked at or near the centre of power in Australia for several decades, as journa...
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Taken by the Muse
Newest Press (CA)£16.99| /Laced with humour and revelation, Anne Wheelers creative non-fiction stories tell of her serendipitous journey in the seventies, when she broke wi...
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Terminus
Aalborg University Press£29.00| /In Roman religion, Terminus was an agrarian god who protected boundary markers. Stones were often used to provide an effective means for marking th...
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The 21st-Century Screenplay
Silman-James Press (US)£22.99| /The 21st-Century Screenplay is a comprehensive and highly practical screenwriting manual. An eagerly anticipated successor to the authors internat...
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The Biz
Silman-James Press (US)£30.99| /Todays film industry is a legal and financial obstacle course that all independent filmmakers must learn to master. The most comprehensive guide t...
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The Good, the Tough & the Deadly
Schiffer£40.99| /This massive study on action movies and stars from around the world, from the 1960s to the present, is filled with more than a thousand in-depth mo...
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The Holocaust in Czechoslovak and Czech Feature Films
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£26.00| /árka Sladovníková analyzes the depiction of the Holocaust in Czechoslovak and Czech Feature Films and the relevant literary pretexts. While she ch...
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The Myth of William Wallace
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£19.99| /This book examines literary examples concerning William Wallace against the background of various historical sources and evaluates the construction...
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The Screenwriter's Bible
Silman-James Press (US)£27.99| /The Screenwriters Bibles 7th edition marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most popular, authoritative, and useful books on screenwriting. A s...
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The Star Wars Super Collector's Wish Book
Schiffer£31.99| /Over 24,000 items with checklist-style listings, over 12,000 color photos, and accurate estimated values make this collector's guide a must-have fo...
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The Ultimate Guide to Strange Cinema
Schiffer£31.99| /It isn’t every film that features man-eating zombie sushi. But for those searching for just that and more strange things in their viewing queue, th...
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The Wizard of Oz Collector's Treasury
Schiffer£54.99| /All the excitement and enchantment of over ninety years' worth of wonderful Wizard of Oz memorabilia awaits you on every page of this deluxe, full-...
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Thomas Vinterberg's Festen
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£25.00| /Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg's searing film Festen ("The Celebration") was the first film from the Dogme 95 stable. Adhering to Dogme's cinem...
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Tod Browning's Dracula
Tomahawk Press (UK)£20.00| /Few movies in film history have resonated with audiences as deeply and for as many years as Universal's original 1931 version of Dracula, starring ...
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Total Directing
Silman-James Press (US)£30.99| /This is the first book to fully integrate the technical aspects of screen directing with practical methods for directing actors, deeply and careful...
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Treasures from the Misty Mountains
Collector's Guide Publishing (CA)£34.99| /It has been very difficult over the years for collectors to know just what has been produced from the works of Tolkien, and where it can be purchas...
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Two Frank Thrings
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /They shared a name, of course, and their physical resemblance was startling. And both Frank Thrings were huge figures in the landscape of twentieth...
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VHS: Video Cover Art
Schiffer£31.99| /Video cover art is a unique and largely lost artform representing a period of unabashed creativity during the video rental boom of the 1980s to ear...
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Violent Screen
Bancroft (US)£20.99| /One of today's premier movie critics takes aim at 13 years of violence on the big screen.
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Visual Authorship
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£32.99| /This is an annual publication dedicated to studies of film and media. Each yearbook is devoted to a specific theme. In addition, every volume may i...
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Visualizing Orientalness
Bohlau Verlag GmbH & Cie£75.99| /In the early twentieth century Hollywood was fascinated by the Far East. Chinese immigrants, however, were excluded since 1882 and racism pervaded ...
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Western Portraits of Great Character Actors
Edition Olms AG£39.95| /The American West, as we know it, is defined by the movies, and the Western is the oldest film genre. When the movies were born, it was not that lo...
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When Jolson Was King
Celebrity Profiles Publishing (US)£25.99| /Here is the quintessential Al Jolson tribute from the pen of author/music historian Richard Grudens, documenting the story of Al Jolson's colourful...
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Where Did They Film That? Italy
Linden Publishing (US)£19.99| /A charming and personal travel guide that invites readers to explore the beauty and cultural riches of Italy through the universal language of cine...
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World Gone Wild
Schiffer£31.99| /A loving ode to a universal genre of film. An entire subculture of end-of-the-world themes was spawned from films like The Road Warrior, Escape Fro...
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