Anything You Can Imagine - Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-Earth by Ian Nathan; Andy Serkis (Foreword by)
6.74 USD
18.19 (62% off)
Category: Film
The definitive history of Peter Jackson's Middle-earth saga, Anything You Can Imagine takes us on a cinematic journey across all six films, featuring brand-new interviews with Peter, his cast & crew. From the early days of daring to dream it could be done, through the highs and lows of making the fi ...Show more
'Have You Seen...?' by David Thomson
12.25 USD
39.75 (69% off)
Category: Film
This is veteran film writer David Thomson's personal, irreverent, hilarious and utterly original take on the 1,000 films he has most loved - and hated - from esteemed classics to forgotten curiosities, guilty pleasures to noir treats, horror gems to kitsch disasters. The result is probably the most enjo ...Show more
Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film by Kolker, Robert P. (Professor Emeritus
13.74 USD
30.80 (55% off)
Category: Film
Twenty years since its release, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut remains a complex, visually arresting film about domesticity, sexual disturbance, and dreams. It was on the director's mind for some 50 years before he finally put it into production. Using the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University of ...Show more
Film Noir A Very Short Introduction by Naremore James
4.23 USD
11.95 (64% off)
Category: Film | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Film noir, one of the most intriguing yet difficult to define terms in cinema history, is usually associated with a series of darkly seductive Hollywood thrillers from the 1940s and 50s--shadowy, black-and-white pictures about private eyes, femme fatales, outlaw lovers, criminal heists, corrupt police, ...Show more
Hollywood Harmony: Musical Wonder and the Sound of Cinema by Frank Lehman
19.93 USD
44.80 (55% off)
Category: Film | Series: Oxford Music/Media Ser.
Film music often tells us how to feel, but it also guides us how to hear. Filmgoing is an intensely musical experience, one in which the soundtrack structures our interpretations and steers our emotions. Hollywood Harmony explores the inner workings of film music, bringing together tools from music theo ...Show more
The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies and What They Did to Us by David Thomson
9.19 USD
20.99 (56% off)
Category: Film
In this triumphant work David Thomson, one of film's greatest living experts and author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, tells the enthralling story of the movies and how they have shaped us. Sunday Times, New Statesman, The Times, Guardian, Observer and Independent books of the year. Taking ...Show more
Close-Ups #1: Wes Anderson by Sophie Monks Kaufman; Little White Lies Staff
6.93 USD
15.39 (54% off)
Category: Film | Series: Close-Ups Ser.
The indispensable, illustrated pocket guide to the films of Wes Anderson, from Bottle Rocket to Isle of Dogs. ALSO AVAILABLE: Close-Ups: Vampire Movies Close-Ups: New York Movies Wes Anderson has quickly become one of the auteurs of modern American cinema, creating his own distinctive world with pastel ...Show more
Hollywood (A Very Short Introduction) by Peter Decherney
3.74 USD
12.59 (70% off)
Category: Film | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
In this engaging and readable book, Peter Decherney tells the story of Hollywood, from its nineteenth-century origins to the emergence of internet media empires. He recounts how the studio system rose out of the ashes of Thomas Edison's trust to create the handful of companies that havedominated global ...Show more
I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum
31.51 USD
Category: Film
From The New Yorker's fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch. From her creation of the "Approval Matrix" in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize-winning columns for The New Yor ...Show more
Into the Woods - How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them by John Yorke
6.13 USD
13.99 (56% off)
Category: Film
The Revolutionary guide to dramatic writing, whether you're writing the next Chinatown, Breaking Bad, or Glengarry Glen Ross. The idea of Into the Woods is not to supplant works by Aristotle, Lajos Egri, Robert McKee, David Mamet, or any other writers of guides for screenwriters and playwrights, but to ...Show more
Marilyn: in the Flash by David Wills
35.01 USD
Category: Film
A stunning collection of hundreds of rare and unseen photographs, behind-the-scenes notes, and interviews chronicling the media's lifelong love affair with Marilyn, created by the acclaimed curator and author of Marilyn Monroe: Metamorphosis. Though Hollywood goddess Marilyn Monroe was married three ti ...Show more