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Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film
'An enlightening page-turner, stacked with stories and stats that will have your jaw on the floor'Anna Smith, host of the Girls On Film podcast'This is the film history we need:...
The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film
"A marvelous bombshell of a book, by one of our most formidably knowledgeable and insightful writers on film, it is filled with surprises and witty asides. Though Thomson is quick...
Tashlinesque
Frank Tashlin (1913-1972) was a supremely gifted satirist and visual stylist who made an indelible mark on 1950s Hollywood and American popular culture-first as a talented animator working on Looney...
Twenty British Films: A Guided Tour
Anyone who has loved British films will want to read this book. In choosing twenty films, many of them of classics of their kind - think of Brief Encounter, The...
Genre, Myth, and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939
Genre, Myth, and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939 examines classic French film, exploring and analyzing the cinema as an institution, the textual system to which it gave rise, and...
Dropping the Mask: The long-awaited inspiring new memoir from the legendary Australian screen icon beloved by all
An icon. A household name. One of our best-loved actors. Noni Hazlehurst is finally telling a story of her own. A fourth-generation performer, Noni Hazlehurst has storytelling in her blood....
The Eisenstein Reader
Author: Sergei EizenshteinFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 272 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 1998For the first time in one volume, this book presents in concise, chronological form, Sergei Eisenstein's...
Ghosts on the Somme: Filming the Battle - June-July 1916
Author: Alastair FraserFormat: Paperback, 170mm x 235mm, 224 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2016Endorsements: ...'This book is the product of careful and painstaking historical detective work, and...
The Modern Amazons: Warrior Women On-Screen
Author: James UrsiniFormat: Paperback, 190mm x 228mm, 903g, 424 pagesPublished: Limelight Editions, United States, 2006"The Modern Amazon" is organised into chapters that group women warriors into sub-genres, e.g., classic Amazons...
The Eisenstein Reader
Author: Sergei EizenshteinFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 272 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 1998For the first time in one volume, this book presents in concise, chronological form, Sergei Eisenstein's...
Children of Marx and Coca-Cola: Chinese Avant-garde Art and Independent Cinema
Author: Xiaoping LinFormat: Hardback, 670g, 320 pagesPublished: University of Hawai'i Press, United States, 2009Children of Marx and Coca-Cola affords a deep study of Chinese avant-garde art and independent cinema from...
Natalie Wood
Author: Gavin LambertFormat: Paperback, 120mm x 200mm, 268g, 384 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2005She spent her life in the movies. Her childhood is still there to see in...
My Name is Barbra: The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography and Music Book of the Year
Author: Barbra StreisandFormat: Hardback, 165mm x 242mm, 1320g, 992 pagesPublished: Cornerstone, United Kingdom, 2023The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and...
Ike Ude Nollywood Portraits: A Radical Beauty
Format: Hardback, 320mm x 380mm, 2700g, 192 pagesPublished: Skira, Italy, 2016The cinema of Nigeria, often referred to as "Nollywood" is a term coined in the mid-1990s to describe Nigeria's vibrant,...
Alberto Venzago: Taking Pictures, Making Pictures
Author: Alberto VenzagoFormat: Hardback, 245mm x 320mm, 2120g, 264 pagesPublished: Steidl Publishers, Germany, 2021From portraits of Andy Warhol, Jean-Luc Godard and Penelope Cruz to a voodoo ceremony in Benin, from...
George Hurrell's Hollywood: Glamour Portraits, 1925-1992
Author: Mark A VieiraFormat: Paperback, 272mm x 201mm, 1800g, 416 pagesPublished: Running Press,U.S., United States, 2023George Hurrell was called the "Rembrandt of Hollywood." Before his arrival, movie star portraits were...
The Little White Lies Movie Memory Game
Author: Little White LiesFormat: Cards, 100mm x 144mm, 340g, 50 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2017Can you remember Dirty Harry's weapon of choice? Or the type of flower given...
Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination
Author: Glyn MorganFormat: Hardback, 210mm x 245mm, 1420g, 288 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022A compelling, fully illustrated account of the worldwide phenomenon of science fiction as depicted...
I'll Be You
'Absolutely delicious . . . Janelle Brown is a surgeon of the complex relationships between women. I gobbled this up'Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of All Adults Here...
Movie Emojis: 100 Cinematic Q&As
A mashup of emojis and movie trivia that keeps film buffs, trivia geeks, and everyone who emojis guessing.Featuring 100 movie titles or plotlines, each described through a series of emojis...