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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

The first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor. Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera personal life and magnetic screen presence, Elizabeth Taylor was the twentieth century's most famous film...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Featuring 50 of the most influential and essential Japanese animated series and films-from Akira to Cowboy Bebop to Sailor Moon-this expert guide is the must-have book for anime fans young...

'Niven Govinden's Diary of a Film, his sixth novel, is also his best yet. Smart, sexy and cinematic (in many senses), it is a love letter to Italy and to...

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...

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...

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...

Featuring 50 of the most influential and essential Japanese animated series and films-from Akira to Cowboy Bebop to Sailor Moon-this expert guide is the must-have book for anime fans young...

'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...

'The stories, the gossip, the glamour! Discover it all and more' Woman & Home'[A] hugely engaging and riveting memoir' The Lady'Unstoppable, a veritable living legend' Daily Mail'All you'd hope for...

Host a magical, sophisticated, and traditional tea party inspired by the Wizarding World with Harry Potter: Afternoon Tea Magic!Learn to prepare and enjoy this indulgent tradition with afternoon treats inspired...

Like founder Godric Gryffindor, the members of Hogwarts's Gryffindor house, including Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger, are known for their bravery, courage, and determination. Now you can capture...

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...

'The stories, the gossip, the glamour! Discover it all and more' Woman & Home'[A] hugely engaging and riveting memoir' The Lady'Unstoppable, a veritable living legend' Daily Mail'All you'd hope for...

From J. Kenner, the New York Times and No. 1 international bestselling author of the million-copy selling Stark series, comes WICKED DIRTY, a new novel set in the seductive Stark...

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'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:...

"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...

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...

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 examines classic French film, exploring and analyzing the cinema as an institution, the textual system to which it gave rise, and...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

'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...