20th Century History

Delve into the glitz and glamour of Hollywood with this collection of obituaries from The Times . From the silent film era to Hollywood's golden age and beyond, this book...

The first book to tell the glamorous story of Hollywood in Rome and the women who made it legendary. Roman Holiday is the heady tale of Rome during the 1950s...

The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries,...

Dalton Trumbo was the central figure of the infamous ' Hollywood Ten ,' the screenwriters who, during the McCarthy era, were charged by the House Committee on Un-American Acitivities for...

Primarily a jazz critic, Gary Giddins is also keenly interested in cinema and modern American literature, and this book brings together over thirty of his most perceptive pieces. There are...

Hadley Freeman brings us her personalised guide to American movies from the 1980s - why they are brilliant, what they meant to her, and how they influenced movie-making forever. For...

The book titled Writers in Hollywood, 1915-51 by the author Ian Hamilton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Since 1995 there has been a widespread return of commitment to French cinema taking it to a level unmatched since the heady days following 1968. But this new wave of...

As Hitler's war looms, famous Australian artist Roland Griffin returns home from London with his family to live a simple life of shared plums and low-cut lawns in the suburbs....

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A proper literary belter' THE TIMES 'Affectionate and endlessly entertaining' RICHARD OSMAN A wildly ambitious story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero...

This account of Columbia starts in 1924 when the studio first opened; since then it has made over 3000 movies. Every feature-length film (running 50 minutes or longer) released by...

A celebration of the world's most cherished cinemas, from vintage movie houses to quirky start-ups. Grab your popcorn and settle in to the world of Silver Screens , where the...

New York Times "Editors Choice," Los Angeles Times "Must Read Book for Summer," and a New Yorker "Best Book of the Year So Far" "This is the biography of Clint...

A celebration of the world's most cherished cinemas, from vintage movie houses to quirky start-ups. Grab your popcorn and settle in to the world of Silver Screens , where the...

This work combines a history of Hollywood with an analysis of how and why the entertainment capital of the world has consistently survived its own limitations to meet changing public...

New York Times "Editors Choice," Los Angeles Times "Must Read Book for Summer," and a New Yorker "Best Book of the Year So Far" "This is the biography of Clint...

The book titled Letters by the author Francois Truffaut. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

For the first time in red spine, Werner Herzog's legendary document of his most infamous act- the filming of his masterpiece, Fitzcarraldo A fever-dream journal documenting the making of cinema's...

The inspiring and entertaining memoir from national treasure and star of Only Fools and Horses, Sir David Jason Sir David Jason's career, from the outside, might seem like one glorious...

An extremely funny scene-by-scene analysis of the Richard Burton/Clint Eastwood film Where Eagles Dare - published as the film approaches its 50th anniversary Where Eagles Dare is both a thrillingly...

Despite the massive influx of Hollywood movies and films from other European countries after World War II, Austrian film continued to be hugely popular with Austrian and German audiences. By...