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Hollywood Wants to Kill You: The Peculiar Science of Death in the
Asteroids, killer sharks, nuclear bombs, viruses, deadly robots, climate change, the apocalypse - why is Hollywood so obsessed with death and the end of the world? And how seriously should...
The Coen Brothers: The Complete Unofficial Guide
Gangster movie, Western, film noir, rom com, screwball, musical, even the Biblical epic... There are few genres left untouched and untwisted by sibling visionaries Joel and Ethan Coen. Since 1984's...
Harry Potter: Hedwig Pop-Up Advent Calendar
Celebrate Christmas and discover 25 hidden surprises with Hedwig the owl, in this beautiful advent calendar and pop-up book inspired by the Harry Potter films!This must-have collectible designed by renowned...
Clown World: Four Years Inside Andrew Tate's Manosphere
'This gripping book is destined to become THE book about Andrew Tate' Jon Ronson'A fascinating and disturbing investigation' Ian HislopThe behind-the-scenes story of a four-year investigation into Andrew Tate, exploring...
The Queer Film Guide: 100 great movies that tell LGBTQIA+ stories
Beginning with early trailblazers like Different from the Others, Kyle Turner has selected 100 of cinema's greatest queer films to guide you through the eras. From Hitchcock's Rope and cult...
Retrospective
"One of the great novels to have been written in our language"Mario Vargas LlosaHe thought that memories were invisible like light, and just as smoke made light show, there must...
I Heart Jennifer Coolidge: A Celebration of Your Favorite Pop Culture
An adoring, celebratory tribute to the one, the only, Jennifer Coolidge, that all-at-once captures her unique personality, engaging life story, smart and sassy life lessons, and special brand of humour...
Ghibliotheque: The Unofficial Guide to the Movies of Studio Ghibli
A complete and essential guide to the magical movies of Studio Ghibli. Adapted from the acclaimed podcast, Ghibliotheque offers a well-balanced and highly informed critique of some of the greatest...
Out There: The Science Behind Sci-Fi Film and TV
Explore the science behind some of your favorite popular science fiction tropes--from escaping a black hole to riding a space elevator to the stars-in this illustrated guide from NASA advisor...
Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Price of a Vision
The director Michael Cimino (1939-2016) is famous for two films: the intense, powerful, and enduring Vietnam movie The Deer Hunter, which won Best Picture at the Academy Awards in 1979...
The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the
The Blues Brothers hit theatres on June 20, 1980. Their scripted mission was to save a local Chicago orphanage; but Aykroyd, who conceived and wrote much of the film, had...
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim Official Colouring Book
Experience the valiant spirit of Rohan's warriors defending their homeland against the forces of darkness as you colour these breathtaking scenes featuring all the characters, creatures and landscapes from the...
The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the
For the fiftieth anniversary of the film, W.K. Stratton's definitive history of the making of The Wild Bunch, named one of the greatest Westerns of all time by the American...
Horror Unmasked: A History of Terror from Nosferatu to Nope
Horror Unmasked offers a general introduction to the popular film genre, serves as a guidebook to its film highlights, and celebrates its practitioners, trends, and stories.The horror film's pop-culture importance...
The Legend of Mad Max
The Legend of Mad Max is the ultimate guide to the high octane post-apocalyptic film series, directed by visionary filmmaker George Miller. This comprehensive history delves into the making of...
After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
During the last two decades of the 20th century, the perception of Italian cinema's prominence within the film industry waned. This decline, in part due to the loss of its...
Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar
The history of postwar German cinema has most often been told as a story of failure, a failure paradoxically epitomized by the remarkable popularity of film throughout the late 1940s...
Postwall German Cinema: History, Film History and Cinephilia
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, there has been a proliferation of German historical films. These productions have earned prestigious awards and succeeded at box offices both at home...
Nationalism and the Cinema in France: Political Mythologies and Film
It is often taken for granted that French cinema is intimately connected to the nation's sense of identity and self-confidence. But what do we really know about that relationship? What...
The New Face of Political Cinema: Commitment in French Film since 1995
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...
Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and
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...
Collected Screenplays
Paul Auster's Collected Screenplays brings together the film work of Paul Auster. Paul Auster's novels have earned him the reputation as 'one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers.' He has...
Bertrand Tavernier: The Film-maker of Lyon
From film-maker Bertrand Tavernier's first feature Watchmaker of Saint-Paul to his acclaimed It All Starts Today, released in Britain in 1999, his work, for all its unique variety, has maintained...
Some Liked It Hot
Women have been involved with jazz since its inception, but all too often their achievements were not as well known as those of their male counterparts. Some Liked It Hot...
Harry Potter: Slytherin Magic - Artifacts from the Wizarding World:
Like founder Salazar Slytherin, the members of Hogwarts's Slytherin house, including Draco Malfoy and Severus Snape, are known as ambitious and cunning. Now you can capture the magic of Slytherin...
Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and
For generations, members of the LGBTQ+ community in Hollywood needed to be "discreet" about their lives but-make no mistake-they were everywhere, both in front of and behind the camera. On...
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: The First Novel By Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino's long-awaited first work of fiction - at once hilarious, delicious, and brutal - is the always surprising, sometimes shocking new novel based on his Academy Award-winning film.RICK DALTON...
Harry Potter - Wand Magic: Artifacts from the Wizarding World
Explore the magic of the beautiful and unique wands of the Harry Potter films, with more than a dozen collectible stickers, cards, patches, prints, and more!Every witch or wizard in...
Behind The Shoulder Pads - Tales I Tell My Friends: The captivating,
'I'm lucky to have an inexhaustible appetite for life. I've had many amazing adventures in Hollywood and beyond, but some stories I have only ever shared with my friends. After...
Rock on Film: The Movies That Rocked the Big Screen
When the use of Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" turned 1955's Blackboard Jungle into a teen sensation and a box-office smash, it proved the opening shot in a cinematic...
Quiz Actually: The Festive Family Film Quiz Book
Which Christmas film do you love the most? Which Christmas film do you hate the most? What even counts as a Christmas film?Argue out all these questions and more before...
Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Price of a Vision
The director Michael Cimino (1939-2016) is famous for two films: the intense, powerful, and enduring Vietnam movie The Deer Hunter, which won Best Picture at the Academy Awards in 1979...
Greenlights: Raucous stories and outlaw wisdom from the Academy Award-
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* - MILLIONS OF COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDEGloriously bonkers - Guardian, Best Autobiographies and Memoirs of 2020A rollicking, contemplative trip - Financial TimesFrom the Academy Award -winning actor, an...
Smaug: Unleashing the Dragon
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Come face to face with Smaug the Magnificent, the most realistic, breathtaking and destructive dragon ever to appear on screen, in this gallery of exclusive images that tell the story...
The Ghibliotheque Anime Movie Guide: The Essential Guide to Japanese
Explore the magical world of anime through 30 classic films in this new book from the authors of Ghibliotheque.From box office hits such as Akira, Ghost in the Shell and...
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie
In 2003, an independent film called THE ROOM - starring and written, produced, and directed by a mysteriously wealthy social misfit named Tommy Wiseau - made its disastrous debut in...
From Under the Truck: A Memoir
From Josh Brolin, a unique and decidedly un-celebrity memoir, by turns affecting, funny, uncanny, and unforgettable. A remarkable and an unforgettable read. Weaving a latticework of different strands, moving back...
Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, impossibly desirable. Liz supple and soft, in...
Hitchcock a la Carte
Alfred Hitchcock: cultural icon, master film director, storyteller, television host, foodie. And as Jan Olsson argues in Hitchcock a la Carte, he was also an expert marketer who built his...
Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!: A History of Exploitation Films,
Unashamed nudists, high-flying hopheads, brazen strippers, vicious vice lords, and high school girls who find themselves "in trouble" comprise the population of exploitation films. In the first full-scale history of...
The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930-1956
In The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930-1956, Noel Burch and Genevieve Sellier adopt a sociocultural approach to films made in France before, during, and after World War...
Becoming Forrest: One man's epic run across America
The remarkable true story of an unrivalled journey to recreate the greatest run in film history: 15,621 miles, five-times across the United States.'Rob Pope has made his name revelling in...
Harry Potter: Slytherin Magic - Artifacts from the Wizarding World:
Like founder Salazar Slytherin, the members of Hogwarts's Slytherin house, including Draco Malfoy and Severus Snape, are known as ambitious and cunning. Now you can capture the magic of Slytherin...
A Life Worth Living: Acting, Activism and Everything Else
'I can't recommend it highly enough' STEPHEN FRY | 'Everyone needs to hear his voice' MARK HADDONI'm a man on a mission to show that life with Down syndrome can...
Apparently There Were Complaints: A Memoir
Emmy Award-winning actress Sharon Gless tells all in this laugh-out-loud, juicy, "unforgettably memorable" (Lily Tomlin) memoir about her five decades in Hollywood, where she took on some of the most...
Love and Let Die: Bond, the Beatles and the British Psyche
'Smart, analytical and enormously good fun' Stuart Maconie, Mail on Sunday'Ingenious . . . conjures a whole cultural history of the past six decades' The Spectator'Strikingly insightful . . ....
From the Moment They Met It Was Murder: Double Indemnity and the Rise
The behind-the-scenes story of the quintessential film noir and cult classic, Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity-its true crime origins and crucial impact on film history-is told for the first time in...
My Word is My Bond: The Autobiography
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTOBIOGRAPHYThe quintessential suave hero, Roger Moore has had an extraordinary career that has spanned seven decades, from early television to the golden age of Hollywood and...