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' Glamorous, compelling and completely addictive , this sparkling page-turner is a total joy to read ' B.P. Walter You know she has been murdered. Can you stop it happening...

Alfred Hitchcock remains the most famous of film-makers. Why was he so successful in enticing us to share his fears and desires? Cultural critic Peter Conrad can date the start...

The Carry On films were the brainchild of Peter Rogers, one of Britain's most admired and respected film producers. This biography charts his career and his marriage to Betty Box,...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The South of France in the Golden '50s. The sun is shining and palm trees cast jagged shadows on a polished motor purring up the drive to the Grand Hotel....

Quentin Tarantino is one of the most iconic and best loved movie directors of the last two decades. Whether he's shooting up the Deep South, slicing through the Japanese underworld,...

To define 'progress' is to lay claim to the future. Seminal thinker Slavoj Zizek turns essayist to interrogate the competing visions which form the horizons of human possibility and ask:...

Feminist thinking on cinema has been dominated for some time by approaches which emphasise how meanings are produced in films, and how this process both hinges on sexual difference and...

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...

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...

Now faced with the "zero hour" created by a new freedom of expression and the dramatic breakup of the Soviet Union, Soviet cinema has recently become one of the most...

This practical guide addresses how to write effective and perceptive essays about film - a fundamental requirement of any course involving film history or criticism. It first explains why writing...

Kenneth Turan brings to life the extraordinary partnership of Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg and their role in creating the film industry as we know it "Sharply observant."-Farran Smith...

Great Moments in Aviation is set in the 1950s and tells the story of five very different people whose lives collide for seven days. Bound for England, by boat from...

'Prepare to laugh, sob and dance: this lively history of Indian cinema is imprinted with the memories of a life-long cinephile.' The Telegraph 'A gem of a book and a...

Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner: read all about these two teen heartthrobs and how they have learned to stay grounded throughout their meteoric rise to fame, while the entire world...

This is a jointly-authored film treatment, found in one of Huxley's old trunks. The story is set in the 1920s and involves a ranch worker who has the power to...

The inspiration behind American Hustle - an astonishing true crime story for fans of Argo and Catch Me if You Can How did a Bronx hustler nearly bring down the...

UNION FOR THE HEADLINES, A TRIAL FOR THE TIME Celebrity romances have always captured the public's imagination, playing out like soap operas seized upon by fans and tabloids alike. By...

With another year drawing to close, film critic Michael Adams found himself making an unusual New Year's resolution: in the next 12 months, he would find the answer to the...

Celebrate legendary horror studio Blumhouse's legacy with this lavishly illustrated visual compendium that takes you behind the scenes of the films that have reshaped the horror genre, from The Exorcist...

'A commanding portrait.' Total Film 'Indispensable . . . rich, engaging, thorough.' Sight & Sound 'Bergman's films stand alone as beacons in film history.' Wim Wenders A chronicle of the...

"The most revealing, penetrating book on filmmaking I know of . . ."--King Vidor David O. Selznick was a unique figure in the golden Hollywood studio era. He produced some...

The book titled The Movie Book by the author Don Shiach. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Herzog was once hailed by Francois Truffaut as the most important director alive. Famous for his frequent collaborations with mercurial actor Klaus Kinski - including the epics Aguirre, the Wrath...

Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which Shakespeare's genius as a poetic dramatist found its fullest expression. Significantly,...

'Witty and well researched.' THE TIMES 'A scientific dose of reality.' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'A fun and comprehensive exploration.' LINDA McROBBIE 'Endlessly fascinating.' LIBRARY JOURNAL The science behind James Bond's...

Part tell-all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nicknamed 'Superhead' goes beyond the glamour of celebrity to reveal the inner workings of the hip-hop...

A unique cocktail of personal memoir, cultural criticism and Hollywood history by the one and only Quentin Tarantino. The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the number...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER This "wickedly pacey page-turner" ( Total Film ) unfurls the behind-the-scenes story of the making of The Godfather, fifty years after the classic film's original release. The story...

THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME: The story of a family and a family business. Benicio del Toro is Anatole 'Zsa-zsa' Korda, one of the richest men in Europe. As he scrambles to...

The French Dispatch brings to life a collection of stories from the final issue of a fictional American magazine published in a twentieth-century French city. The film is inspired, in...

Asteroid City (adapted from a "hypothetical" play) takes place in a fictional desert town, circa 1955. Synopsis: the itinerary of the annual Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention (organized to bring together...

Otto Preminger was one of Hollywood's first truly independent producer/directors. Blazing a trail in the examination of controversial issues such as drug addiction (The Man with the Golden Arm) and...

'So entertaining, smart and funny.' DAVID NICHOLLS 'Beautifully written. I really enjoyed it.' MARINA HYDE 'Fascinating.' EMPIRE 'Wildly enjoyable.' GUARDIAN 'Hugely entertaining.' PROSPECT 'Failure fascinates, for all the reasons that...

Rabble-rouser. Trouble-maker. Speaker of truth to power. Released to coincide with his 13th feature, The Greengrass Papers reveals how Greengrass came to be venerated as a game-changing director. In 2004,...

'Essential . . . thrilling . . . invaluable.' - Irish Times 'Absorbing . . . rippling with fun and atmosphere.' - Sight & Sound 'Hollywood's ultimate oral history.' -...

A fascinating portrait of a pivotal period in the life of Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel Bunuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles depicts a decisive moment in the life of...

Richard Ayoade edits and introduces this defining work of the great midcentury visionary of stage and screen -- rediscovered and republished by Faber & Faber. This volume of Harauld Hughes's...

Includes the screenplays for Warfare and Civil War , with an accompanying interview on screenwriting with Iraq War verteran Ray Mendoza, who co-wrote and co-directed Warfare with Alex Garland. Warfare...

A rare, intimate portrait of Hollywood's reigning 'blockbuster auteur' whose deeply personal billion-dollar movies have established him as the most successful director to come out of the British Isles since...

'So funny -- Nabokov meets Spinal Tap .' - Stephen Merchant 'Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.' - Tim Key 'Absolutely miraculous.' - Jesse Eisenberg 'A brain-swirlingly funny quest.' - Robert Popper Richard...