Films, Cinema

The trade paperback reprint of James Francos thoughtful reflection on childhood through a series of personal snapshots, sketches, paintings, poems,...

The official behind-the-scenes guide to the hit new Star Trek television series! This essential guide to the 6th Star Trek television series takes...

Sue Thornham''s study explores issues in feminist filmmaking through an examination of a wide range of films by women filmmakers, ranging from the ...

A thrilling tale of anxiety and moral extremity, Marnie (1964) cemented Alfred Hitchcock''s reputation as a master of suspense and the visual form....

Places Taiwanese cinema from the 1980s onwards in both national and transnational contexts. In the Taiwanese film industry, the dichotomy between a...

Mike Nichols burst onto the American cultural scene in the late 1950s as one half of the comic cabaret team of Nichols and May. He became a Broadwa...

Americans have been almost constantly at war since 1917. In addition to two world wars, the United States has fought proxy wars, propaganda wars, a...

Broadway musicals are one of America''s most beloved art forms and play to millions of people each year. But what do these shows, which are often t...

This volume examines Brazilian films released between 1995 and 2010, with special attention to issues of race, ethnicity and national identity.

Alien is a science fiction milestone and one of the most thrilling, terrifying, and beautiful film franchises of all time. Alien: The Archive is th...

A powerful blend of psychological thriller, gothic horror, and romance, Crimson Peak sees del Toro return to the genre he helped define. Crimson Pe...

He's the outsider who rocked Hollywood with a string of powerful films, earning him plaudits, awards and an army of adoring fans. His chiselled ye...

It all started when Beatle George Harrison stepped in to fund Life of Brian when Monty Python''s original backers pulled out. His company, HandMade...

The Necronomicon the Book of the Dead what horrors lurk inside, whispering malevolently as the secrets try to creep out Master of weird horror H....

A is for...Acting. Read how Zac went from starring in High School Muscial to becoming one of Hollywood's hottest actors. B is for...Best Friends. ...

Over the past year the success of British films at international film festivals - as well as the numerous awards bestowed on 12 Years a Slave - hav...

Richard Burton: star. The roaring boy from the Welsh coal valleys who came to sport on the banks of the old Nile, playing great Antony to Elizabeth...

Brief Encounter (1945), adapted from Noel Coward''s play Still Life, is a classic of British cinema - a tale of impossible love between a married w...

John Knoll was 14 years old when the first Star Wars film (Episode IV) came out in 1977, and it changed his life. By the time the first prequel, Th...

One of the world's most erudite and entertaining film critics on the state of cinema in the post-digital-and post-9/11-age. This witty and allusi...

This is a study of the birth and development of a key movement in Italian film history. Surveying the major creative contributions to and critical ...

An over-the-top, beautifully designed book that commemorates the seventy-fifth anniversary of The Wizard of Oz. Officially licensed with Warner Bro...

Michael Klinger was the most successful indpendent producer in the British film industry over a 20 year period from 1960 to 1980, responsible for 3...

This enthralling look at the World of Warcraft film gives fans an immersive, behind-the-scenes account of the making of the most anticipated movie ...

To tie in with the DVD release of The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists, this exclusive, fully illustrated guide takes us behind the scenes ...

I heard the rustle again, too close and too real to ignore. I clutched the flashlight, stuck my head out of the mosquito net... and found myself f...

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the classic show, a fully authorized revision of the popular reference companion: a two-volume encycloped...

The New Iranian Cinema is considered by many to be the most fascinating cultural phenomenon produced within the Islamic Republic of Iran. Containin...

Winner of 3 Oscars [registered] and the highest grossing film of its time, Jaws was a phenomenon, and this is the only book on how 26-year-old Stev...

Discover the artwork of acclaimed comic, poster, and concept art illustrator Jock, from his work on DC Comics' Batman and Marvel's Wolverine to fil...

Who can forget the over-the-top, white-on-white, high gloss interiors through which Fred Astaire danced in Top Hat? The stark modernist high-rise a...

This book is about a story (Ousmane Sembene's Xala), about a time (the aftermath of Senegalese Independence), and about a place (Dakar, the capital...

From DreamWorks, the studio behind Shrek and Madagascar, comes a fun twist on the alien invasion story. Starring a friendly alien and a teenage gir...

Daniel Radcliffe went from shy schoolboy to the world's most famous boy wizard overnight. Aged just ten when he won the iconic role of Harry Potter...

In Shooting 007, beloved cameraman and director of photography Alec Mills, a veteran of seven James Bond movies, tells the inside story of his twen...

One of the central events of modern history, World War I has been poorly presented in English language films. Torn between the powerful isolatio...

From Ralph McQuarrie and Joe Johnston to Doug Chiang, Ryan Church, Iain McCaig, Erik Tiemens, and the next generation of animation and video-game a...

This book provides a succinct and comprehensive history of Latin American cinema from its origins in 1896 to the award-winning cinema of the presen...

In the first fully illustrated work of his illustrious career, David Thomson re-examines a series of moments which readers will experience in beau...

Over four decades, Stephen Poliakoff has proved himself to be a distinctive dramatist in the mediums of theatre, film and television. Moving from p...