Films, Cinema
-
Growing Up with Vampires: Essays on the Undead in Children''s Media
McFarland & Co IncCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Vampire narratives are generally thought of as adult or young adult fare, yet there is a long history of their appearance in books, film and ot...
View full detailsCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Save 15% -
Oxford Film Locations
Phoebe TaplinCurrent price €10.19Original price €11.99Harry Potter, A Fish Called Wanda, Inspector Morse, Downton Abbey and X Men are just a few of the films that have become synonymous with the world ...
View full detailsCurrent price €10.19Original price €11.99Save 15% -
Olive Borden: The Life and Films of Hollywood''s Joy Girl
McFarland & Co IncCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50The all too brief career of film star Olive Borden (1906-1947) is chronicled in this definitive biography. Apprenticing in short slapstick silent c...
View full detailsCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50Save 15% -
Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties
Axel NissenCurrent price €25.30Original price €27.50Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Auntie Em in The Wizard of Oz --all were unforgettable characters who played an int...
View full detailsCurrent price €25.30Original price €27.50Save 8% -
Frances Farmer: The Life and Films of a Troubled Star
Peter ShelleyCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Previous biographies of American actress Frances Farmer (1913-1970) have downplayed her professional achievements to emphasize her turbulent per...
View full detailsCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Save 15% -
The Dinosaur Films of Ray Harryhausen: Features, Early 16mm Experiments and Unrealized Projects
Roy P. WebberCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Ray Harryhausen's animated creatures sparkled with predatory alertness and subtle quirks of behavior that stamped each with a distinct and memorabl...
View full detailsCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Save 15% -
Hammer Films: An Exhaustive Filmography
Deborah Del VecchioCurrent price €33.58Original price €36.50Though best known for its horror films, Hammer produced a wide variety of movies in many genres. The British studio was famous for its exciting ...
View full detailsCurrent price €33.58Original price €36.50Save 8% -
Theda Bara: A Biography of the Silent Screen Vamp, with a Filmography
Ronald GeniniCurrent price €19.54Original price €22.99Despite being a mediocre actress with less than classic beauty, Theda Bara was one of Hollywood's leading performers in the early years of cinem...
View full detailsCurrent price €19.54Original price €22.99Save 15% -
Directed by Jack Arnold
Dana M. ReemesCurrent price €25.30Original price €27.50Arnold made some of the most enduring science fiction films of the 1950s--It Came from Outer Space, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and The Incredi...
View full detailsCurrent price €25.30Original price €27.50Save 8% -
How to Make Love to a Movie Star
Norman SniderCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50Illustrating the multifaceted art of screenwriting, this guide expertly navigates its vital aspectsdramatic structure, the creation of character, a...
View full detailsCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50Save 10% -
The American Newsreel: A Complete History, 1911-1967
Raymond FieldingCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99For fifty years, the newsreel was a fixture in American movie theaters. Released twice a week, less than ten minutes long, each had news footage...
View full detailsCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99Save 10% -
Documentary Filmmakers Handbook
Ned EckhardtCurrent price €41.39Original price €44.99A complete guide to all phases of documentary production, this is an essential handbook for student filmmakers and professional documentarians a...
View full detailsCurrent price €41.39Original price €44.99Save 8% -
The Films of Oliver Reed
Susan D. CowieCurrent price €29.43Original price €31.99From the obscure 1958 Sonja Henie vehicle Hello London to the 2000 Academy Award winner Gladiator, the screen career of dynamic British actor Ol...
View full detailsCurrent price €29.43Original price €31.99Save 8% -
Raised by the Stars: Interviews with 29 Children of Hollywood Actors
Nick ThomasCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50This collection of interviews, all conducted by the author, focuses on the children of Hollywood legends. Each child (and, in one case, grandchi...
View full detailsCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Save 10% -
George Burns: An American Life
Lawrence J. EpsteinCurrent price €25.30Original price €27.50Having entered the world in 1896 as a poverty-stricken child named Naftaly (Nathan) Birnbaum, George Burns rose from New York's Lower East Side ...
View full detailsCurrent price €25.30Original price €27.50Save 8% -
Grand National, Producers Releasing Corporation, and Screen Guild/Lippert: Complete Filmographies with Studio Histories
Ted OkudaCurrent price €25.30Original price €27.50Throughout the 1930s, 40s and 50s, several independent film production companies (referred to a poverty row studios) turned out hundreds of B movie...
View full detailsCurrent price €25.30Original price €27.50Save 8% -
Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films: Plot Synopses of Movies About Moonshining, Feuding and Other Mountain Topics, 1904-1929
J. W. WilliamsonCurrent price €21.15Original price €22.99This reference work provides production company-written plot synopses or, when a synopsis was not available, trade paper reviews of 476 films ab...
View full detailsCurrent price €21.15Original price €22.99Save 8% -
Extras of Early Hollywood: A History of the Crowd, 1913-1945
Kerry SegraveCurrent price €33.58Original price €36.50Pity the extras. Mostly overlooked and forgotten. Especially those in the major Hollywood films 1913 to 1945--right through the dream factory's ...
View full detailsCurrent price €33.58Original price €36.50Save 8% -
Cinema''s Sinister Psychiatrists: From Caligari to Hannibal
Sharon PackerCurrent price €33.58Original price €36.50Film history is merged with psychiatric history seamlessly, to show how and why bad depictions of mind doctors (especially hypnotists) occur in ...
View full detailsCurrent price €33.58Original price €36.50Save 8% -
The Films of Victor Mature
James McKayCurrent price €29.43Original price €31.99With his rugged features and earthy sex appeal, Victor Mature ushered in a new breed of postwar Hollywood actor, far removed from the debonair m...
View full detailsCurrent price €29.43Original price €31.99Save 8% -
Down from the Attic: Rare Thrillers of the Silent Era through the 1950s
Henry NicolellaCurrent price €33.58Original price €36.50Much has been written (and rewritten) about classic horror and science fiction films like Nosferatu and Metropolis, as well as not-so-classic pi...
View full detailsCurrent price €33.58Original price €36.50Save 8% -
Coppola''s Monster Film: The Making of Apocalypse Now
Steven TraversCurrent price €33.58Original price €36.50In 1975, after his two Godfather epics, Francis Ford Coppola went to the Philippines to film Apocalypse Now. He scrapped much of the original scrip...
View full detailsCurrent price €33.58Original price €36.50Save 8% -
Gwen Verdon: A Life on Stage and Screen
Peter ShelleyCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50American dancer, singer and actress Gwen Verdon (1925-2000) won four Tony awards for her work on Broadway and also appeared in films and on tele...
View full detailsCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Save 15%