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£12.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781901927917 | ISBN 10: 1901927911
The official book of the major motion picture, The Old Oak, the third in a trilogy of films set in the northeast of England that includes the Palme d’Or winning I, Daniel Blake and Sorry We Missed You.
The Old Oak is a special place. Not o ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780571339143 | ISBN 10: 057133914x
At last, the definitive book about perhaps the best cabin crew dramedy ever filmed: View From the Top starring Gwyneth Paltrow.
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In Ayoade on Top, Richard Ayoade, perhaps one of the most ‘insubstantial’ people of our age, takes us on a journe ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780857303561 | ISBN 10: 0857303562
The animations of Japan's Studio Ghibli are amongst the most respected in the movie industry. Their delightful films rank alongside the most popular non-English language films ever made, with each new eagerly anticipated release a guaranteed box offi ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781910170625 | ISBN 10: 1910170623
A fascinating trip around the side streets and back to backs of working class cinema, exploring the British New Wave kitchen sink dramas of the 50s and 60s, such as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Taste of Honey and This Sporting Life, to Kes, Q ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781474608992 | ISBN 10: 147460899x
The hilarious, self-deprecating, blissfully nostalgic memoir of adored film critic Mark Kermode's riotous attempts to become a popstar.
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Following a formative encounter with the British pop movie Slade in Flame in 1975, Mark Kermode decided that ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786492234 | ISBN 10: 1786492237
A Sunday Times Book of the Year
A New Scientist Gift Pick
"Bright, nerdy and funny! Of course I loved it."(Dara Ó Briain)
Can we resurrect dinosaurs? Is a Martian holiday good for your health? Can we build a time machine? (And more important ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781633536173 | ISBN 10: 1633536173
"...but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he (Fred Astaire) did, backwards and in high heels."(Bob Thaves)
Women in film: When it comes to early Hollywood and the women who worked in it, it can be tough to sort out the exact truth. ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781551526836 | ISBN 10: 1551526832
The first title in the Queer Film Classic series to focus on the work of legendary director and cinematic camp icon John Waters, best known for the underground classic Pink Flamingos and his later more commercial works such as Crybaby, starring Johnn ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782111085 | ISBN 10: 1782111085
Now is probably as good a time as any to make a full confession...
Telling his story for the first time, the director of Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781843447467 | ISBN 10: 1843447460
Picasso apparently said, "When critics get together, they talk about theory. When painters get together, they talk about turpentine.' That has been my experience, as far as film and film studies are concerned. Critics, academics, and theoreticians ta ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781509818211 | ISBN 10: 1509818219
On 29 September 1981, Peter Turner received a phone call that would change his life. His former lover, Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a Lancaster hotel and was refusing medical attention. He had no choice but to take her into his ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784533724 | ISBN 10: 1784533726
Feminist filmmakers are hitting the headlines. The last decade has witnessed: the first Best Director Academy Award won by a woman; female filmmakers reviving, or starting, careers via analogue and digital television; women filmmakers emerging from S ... more
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£21.99 hardback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780810997417 | ISBN 10: 081099741x
This New York Times bestselling overview of Wes Anderson's filmography features previously unpublished behind-the-scenes photos, artwork, and ephemera, with an introduction by Michael Chabon.
Writer/director Wes Anderson guides movie/television c ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780571316533 | ISBN 10: 0571316530
In this book Richard Ayoade -- actor, writer, director, and amateur dentist -- reflects on his cinematic legacy as only he can: in conversation with himself.
Over ten brilliantly insightful and often erotic interviews, Ayoade examines Ayoade ful ... more
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£20.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780253016522 | ISBN 10: 0253016525
Ten Arab Filmmakers provides an up-to-date overview of the best of Arab cinema, offering studies of leading directors and in-depth analyses of their most important films. The filmmakers profiled here represent principal national cinemas of the ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781623567538 | ISBN 10: 162356753x
The Subject of Film and Race is the first comprehensive intervention into how film critics and scholars have sought to understand cinema's relationship to racial ideology. In attempting to do more than merely identify harmful stereotypes, research on ... more
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£19.95 hardback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780500517321 | ISBN 10: 0500517320
A brilliantly edited selection of stills from Derek Jarman’s many short Super 8 films, curated and commented on by some of the biggest names in contemporary art and cinema.
One of the most influential filmmakers of the late 20th century, Der ... more
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£22.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780292757684 | ISBN 10: 0292757689
The legendary figure who launched the careers of Spike Lee, Michael Moore, and Richard Linklater offers a no-holds-barred look at the deals and details that propel an indie film from a dream to distribution. ... more
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£15.50 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781783200269 | ISBN 10: 178320026x
Outside of the capital London, no other British city has attracted more film-makers than Liverpool. Sometimes standing in for London, New York, Chicago, Paris, Rome or Moscow, and sometimes playing itself – or a version of its own past in Beatles bio ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571301867 | ISBN 10: 057130186x
How did the director of acclaimed cult British films become an Oscar-winner and the driving force behind the defining cultural moment of 2012, the Opening Ceremony of the London Olympic Games?
In this revelatory career-length biography, prod ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781405385374 | ISBN 10: 1405385375
Celebrate the centurys’ finest movies in The Rough Guide to 21st Century Cinema, a lavishly illustrated homage to the world’s best movies of this new era of cinema.
The best 101 films: a run down of the finest films of the millenium from Hol ... more
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£26.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780745331294 | ISBN 10: 0745331297
Over the last five years, a cycle of films has emerged addressing the ongoing Iraq conflict. Some became well-known and one of them, The Hurt Locker, won a string of Oscars. But many others disappeared into obscurity. What is it about these films tha ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781901927474 | ISBN 10: 1901927474
Fergus met Frankie on his first day at school and they’ve been in each others’ shadow ever since. As teenagers they skipped school and drank cider on the ferry over the River Mersey, dreaming about travelling the world.
In September 2004 ... more
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£18.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844676217 | ISBN 10: 1844676218
Hitchcock gets onto the analyst’s couch in this extraordinary volume of case studies.
The contributors bring to bear an unrivaled enthusiasm and theoretical sweep on the entire Hitchcock oeuvre, analyzing movies such as Rear Window and Psycho. St ... more
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£21.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780745329826 | ISBN 10: 0745329829
Hollywood is often characterised as a stronghold of left-liberal ideals. In Reel Power, Matthew Alford shows that it is in fact deeply complicit in serving the interests of the most regressive US corporate and political forces.
Films like Transfo ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781936003099 | ISBN 10: 1936003090
As late as 1958, homosexuality couldn’t even be mentioned in a movie, as proven by the elaborate lengths the producers of Tennessee Williams's swampy Cat on a Hot Tin Roof took to evade the obvious fact that its hero, Paul Newman, was playing it gay. ... more
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£18.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781441180780 | ISBN 10: 1441180788
If you've never made a film before, this amazing book will tell you:
* How other young film makers made their first movie and found massive success
* How to take your great ideas and turn them into great films
* How to build a team to ma ... more
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£19.99 hardback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781845115661 | ISBN 10: 184511566x
Philip French has called Alex Cox, 'British Cinema's oldest enfant terrible'; it's a description that its recipient fully approves of. He is a radical, international, independent filmmaker, who is also an insightful commentator on cinema now, and exp ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781904048701 | ISBN 10: 1904048706
Just what is ‘independent’ cinema? D. K. Holm aims to define a term all too carelessly used both by media commentators and marketers, and distinguish it from categories such as avant-garde, underground, experimental or ‘art’ films, with which it is o ... more
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£37.50 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780786430444 | ISBN 10: 0786430443
This collection offers fifteen critical essays on Annie Proulx's short story Brokeback Mountain and its controversial film adaptation by screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana and director Ang Lee. Each essay explores the short story, th ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781551522203 | ISBN 10: 1551522209
The history of gay and lesbian cinema is a storied one, and one that became much larger with the recent success of Brokeback Mountain, Capote, and Transamerica. But the history of gay and lesbian filmmakers is its own story. In The View from Here, qu ... more
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£24.00 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781905674107 | ISBN 10: 1905674104
The Cinema of North Africa and the Middle East contains twenty-four essays, each concerning an individual film, with a geographical scope that runs from Morocco all the way to Iran. The volume explores not just established film cultures such as those ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781845111915 | ISBN 10: 1845111915
Today the world's media have a pressing need to understand and interpret the modern Middle East. In this timely book, Lina Khatib examines how contemporary American cinema and the cinemas of the arab world contribute to this global preoccupation in t ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780745324128 | ISBN 10: 0745324126
Filmmaking - at its best - has the capacity to transform the way people think, and create real social change. This book shows how activists and human right campaigners can harness the power of images and stories for their own purposes - it's a step-b ... more
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