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The painstakingly crafted world that J.R.R. Tolkien created for The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion is so vivid that its easy to briefly imagine Middle-earth as...

Published to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Erich Maria Remarque, author of "All Quiet on the Western Front", this is an account of the making of the Academy...

Animation can be used to illustrate, simplify and explain complicated subjects, as well as to transform stories into engaging, fantastical narratives. There are many types of animation, all of which...

This volume charts Variety's growth from a modest publication covering New York vaudeville to the powerhouse it is today. It's filled with personal essays and exclusive commentary from the brightest...

From the acclaimed film critic and New York Times bestselling biographer of Paul Newman, the definitive biography of Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood, the most prolific and versatile actor-director in the...

A hilarious yet informative companion guide to the supernatural, as seen in the new all-female Ghostbusters film. **As seen in the upcoming Sony Pictures film Ghostbusters** Years before they made...

John Buchan's name is known across the world for The Thirty-Nine Steps . In the past hundred years the classic thriller has never been out of print and has inspired...

A guide to over 1000 film comedies on video for movie fans, film scholars and pop culture enthusiasts.

A unique memoir featuring one of the most legendary Hollywood figures of all time. In late autumn 1968, callow youth Dorian Bond was charged with travelling to Yugoslavia to deliver...

The book titled Inside Warner Brothers, 1935-51 by the author Rudy Behlmer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The immediacy of the visual image, plus film and television's ostensible ability to take viewers back into the past, confers a sense of veracity on powerful historical films. This collection...

The book titled Caught in the Act by the author Richard Todd. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled World Cinema:Diary Of A Day by the author Unknown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Gathers unusual and little-known facts about motion picture history, actors, actresses, filmmaking, censorship, animation, documentaries, and awards.

From Blackboard Jungle to Quadrophenia, from 8 Mile to ABBA: The Movie, no one has seriously looked at the strange phenomenon that is the rock 'n' roll movie. Garry Mulholland...

Pop music 'stars' in many of the most successful of British films, such as 'Trainspotting' and 'Human Traffic'. Even pop artists themselves have been known to appear in British movies,...

The book titled Underfoot in Show Business by the author Helene Hanff. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

James Cameron's Avatar is the biggest movie of all time. Now the movie's legendary director has leant his support to an exploration of the world of Pandora with bestselling science-fiction...

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...

From New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix and film historian Chris Poggiali comes a revised and updated edition of their definitive look at how kung fu movie mania came...

THE HEART-WARMING AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY BARBARA WINDSOR CHRONICLING HER EARLY CHILDHOOD IN LONDON'S EAST END TO RECEIVING A DBE IN 2000 'A whopping, no-holds-barred rollercoaster of a book' Mail on Sunday...

An illustrated history of silent movies, capturing the ground-breaking works and icons of the genre - including Chaplin, Garbo, Clara Bow, and Valentino. Few people realize the extent to which...

Her Again is an intimate look at the artistic coming-of-age of the greatest actress of her generation, from the homecoming float at her suburban New Jersey high school to her...

As befits more than twenty years in Hollywood, Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman's sparkling memoir is as entertaining as many of the films he has helped to create. From the writer...

"One of the great novels to have been written in our language" MARIO VARGAS LLOSA "Beautifully written and gripping" Guardian He thought that memories were invisible like light, and just...

Explore an A-Z of everything you need to know about the masterful movies of Quentin Tarantino, from AK-47 to "Zed's dead, baby" and everything in between. With hundreds of entries...

Children of Marx and Coca-Cola affords a deep study of Chinese avant-garde art and independent cinema from the mid-1990s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Informed by the author's...

For the very first time the tense and drama-filled story of the making Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train is revealed as author Stephen Rebello takes readers deep into the...

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...

Expanded, revised edition! Airplanes and motion pictures were born within a year of one another. In 100 years they have both risen from uncertain infancy through growing adolescence to robust...

The book titled Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of Casablanca: Bogart, by the author Aljean Harmetz. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

My Name Escapes Me, the January 1995 to June 1996 diary of Alec Guinness, received wide critical acclaim and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year....

The book titled Backcloth by the author Dirk Bogarde. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Hollywood: The Oral History covers the history of Hollywood from the Silent era up to the 21st century. What makes this book unique from any other survey of Hollywood's history...

The success of John Coldstream's bestselling biography of Dirk Bogarde demonstrates that the interest in one of Britain's leading actors, memoirists and novelists does not diminish, even though it is...

"Remembering Charlie" is the life story of Charlie Chaplin, told by one of his friends and illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs from the private collections of the author and...

A classic collection of Alan Bennett screenplays. Often imitated but never equalled, Alan Bennett's work for the screen gives as much enjoyment in the reading as it did in the...

Fritz Lang, director of films such as "Metropolis", "M" and "The Big Heat", established his reputation in Germany during the silent era. When Hitler rose to power, Lang emigrated to...

The book titled Truffaut: a Biography by the author Antoine de Baecque. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Is there a shark movie that is scarier than Jaws? What is the sneaky secret hidden in the Loch Ness monster's name? How did the Gill-man in Creature from the...

In A Brief Guide to James Bond , author Nigel Cawthorne uncovers Bond's allure, the Bond Girls, Q, M, and the women who first inspired them, the cars, and the...

Peter Sellers's explosive talent made him a beloved figure in world cinema and continues to attract new audiences. With his darkly comic performances in Dr. Strangelove and Lolita and his...

' 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 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...