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  • THE JAMES BOND MOVIES OF THE 1980s
    Thomas A. Christie / Thomas AChristie
    THE JAMES BOND MOVIES OF THE 1980sBy Thomas A. Christie A survey of the series of James Bond films, which have long been considered among the most popular and successful of British movies, and have also come to be regarded as a useful barometer of Western geopolitical attitudes throughout the series’ long-running duration. This new book from Thomas A. Christie takes a look at ...
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    26,72 €

  • Seeking Perfection
    Jonathan Melville
    A behind the scenes look at the making of Tremors and its sequels in the 25th anniversary year 'This high-access tell-all...[is] an unexpected treat' - 4/5, Empire Welcome to Perfection, Nevada A throwback to the kind of sci-fi B movies that had long gone out of fashion, Tremors was a box office flop that became a home video phenomenon, spawning multiple sequels and a shor...
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    20,70 €

  • The Fans’ Love Story Encore
    Sue Tabashnik
    Just can’t get enough of Dirty Dancing?Want to pay homage to the movie and to Patrick Swayze? Want to feel the power of love and relive the magic of Dirty Dancing?Get behind-the-scenes information that you won’t find anywhere else. Rub elbows with Dirty Dancing producers, stars, singers, songwriters, and filmmakers as you enjoy stories and photos related to the movie; including...
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    16,70 €

  • Starry Starry Noir Rebels and Censors
    Bernie Dowling
    Bernie Dowling continues his award-winning series on film noir with exposés of its rebels and censors.Beautiful Hedy Lamarr left the studio system that devalued her talent. Censorship and perfectionism derailed her career as an independent producer.Anti-establishment content led to the infamous blacklisting of film noir artists, but it was sexual dalliance with a nephew of a st...
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    41,75 €

  • American Noir Film
    M. Keith Booker
    Publishers Weekly praises this deep dive into classic noir films, noting, "Cinephiles will be enthralled.' Booklist calls it a "riveting history of the film noir genre" in a starred review, saying, "This is one of the best, best written, most insightful analyses of film noir, and it demands to be read by fans of film history.' ...
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    60,04 €

  • British Horror Films That Time Forgot
    Thomas Baxter
    Have you ever watched Unmasked Part 25? Xtro II? How about Screamtime or Bloodstream? Have you ever sat through The House That Vanished or Persecution? What about Sleepwalker or The Shout? In this book we will shine a light on some of the lesser viewed or more forgotten films in the history of the British horror industry. Vampire motorcycles, devil dolls, killer chimps, escape...
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    13,74 €

  • Glowing in the Dark
    Orrin Grey
    Get ready for aliens, kaiju, monsters, and movie maniacs galore!From author, editor, amateur film scholar, and skeleton Orrin Grey comes Glowing in the Dark, collecting more than a decade of Grey’s best writing on film, from Saturday-matinee schlock to award-winning classics, as he explores the silver screen through insightful reviews and enlightening essays.Titles considered u...
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    27,56 €

  • Sex and desire in British films of the 2000s
    Nigel Mather
    This book explores how British filmmakers of the 2000s engaged with the themes of love, sex and desire. It ranges from powerful contemporary dramas such as Kidulthood, Closer and Disobedience to the lighter mood of the Bridget Jones series, as well as exploring dramatisations of the lives of Oscar Wilde, Sylvia Plath and Iris Murdoch. ...
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    39,18 €

  • Film Noir Fate Vs The Working Stiff
    Bernie Dowling
    In his film noir second volume, Bernie Dowling reviews films about ordinary jobs in a greedy crime-ridden society. Fate Vs The Working Stiff explores an ignored noir sub-genre in five pictorial essays and hundreds of photos.The 2023 extended Hollywood actors’ and writers’ strike challenged the invasion of AI into their workplace.Noir writer Philip Yordan used pattern recognitio...
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    38,40 €

  • Film Noir Fate Vs The Working Stiff
    Bernie Dowling
    In his film noir second volume, Bernie Dowling reviews films about ordinary jobs in a greedy crime-ridden society. Fate Vs The Working Stiff explores an ignored noir sub-genre in five pictorial essays and hundreds of photos.The 2023 extended Hollywood actors’ and writers’ strike challenged the invasion of AI into their workplace.Noir writer Philip Yordan used pattern recognitio...
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    49,38 €

  • The Hammer Horror Encyclopedia
    Brian Carver
    British film company Hammer Films produced a wide selection of popular films from 1937 to 1979. The studio is principally known for its horror films made from the 1950s-1970s. Hammer Horror films were extremely popular. They were - and still are - well regarded, and innovative with many new artistic elements and increasingly adult and violent content. Hammer Horror films had ma...
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    10,78 €

  • MARVELOUS NAMES IN LITERATURE AND CINEMA
    P. Adams Sitney
    MARVELOUS NAMESIN LITERATURE AND CINEMABy P. Adams SitneyA new collection of essays from P. Adams Sitney, author of Visionary Film, an important and influential early study of American experimental cinema. P. Adams Sitney explores topics such as Herman Melville and the novel Moby-Dick, Charlie Chaplin, the early cinema of Géorges Méliès, Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958), Wavele...
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    21,11 €

  • I’m the Honcho of the Hump! A Brit’s Take on Hookers, Misfits and Other Fun Movie Stuff
    Dave Franklin
    Kubrick’s operatic exploration of the cosmos. Popeye Doyle in a commandeered car speeding after an elevated train. Jamie Lee Curtis’ bare-breasted turn as a hooker. Alex DeLarge and his droogs on the rampage. The Man with No Name insisting a disbelieving gunslinger apologise to his mule. Sydney Pollack’s glorious cross-dressing tale. And an upside-down Concorde outmanoeuvring t...
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    16,17 €

  • The Cinephile Catalogue
    ANTONIO POLANCO
    Imagine the world’s greatest movies in the palm of your hands! The Cinephile Catalogue is the totally interactive movie book for movie lovers. This customizable film guide is your anytime movie buddy that will help you see films like you never have before!Both well researched and well crafted for cinephiles, this keepsake film journal guides you through the full spectrum of the...
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    65,97 €

  • Cult Sci-Fi Movies
    Ben Hudson
    Welcome to a world where reality and imagination collide, where robots roam freely alongside humans, and where spaceships travel through the vast expanse of the universe. In this book, we will explore the fascinating world of science fiction films, delving into the futuristic worlds, advanced technologies, and otherworldly creatures that have captivated audiences for generation...
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    14,73 €

  • The Magic Eye
    Neil Hornick
    In 1969, Stanley Kubrick suppressed a book about his films because it dared to touch on their flaws. Kubrick, fresh from the Oscar-winning success of 2001: A Space Odyssey, promised to fight 'tooth and nail' to prevent The Magic Eye: The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick going into print. More than five decades later, and a quarter-century after Kubrick’s death, Neil Hornick’s book is ...
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    19,76 €

  • The Magic Eye
    Neil Hornick
    In 1969, Stanley Kubrick suppressed a book about his films because it dared to touch on their flaws. Kubrick, fresh from the Oscar-winning success of 2001: A Space Odyssey, promised to fight 'tooth and nail' to prevent The Magic Eye: The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick going into print. More than five decades later, and a quarter-century after Kubrick’s death, Neil Hornick’s book is ...
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    26,83 €

  • C’era una volta in America di Sergio Leone
    Simone Malacrida
    'C’era una volta in America' è l’ultimo film di Sergio Leone, quello che lo stesso regista definì 'il mio cinema'.Con una gestazione molto travagliata, tanto da occupare quindici anni dalla prima idea alla definitiva realizzazione, e con una durata complessiva di molto superiore alla normale estensione di una pellicola cinematografica, questo film si tramuta in un discorso sul ...
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    8,74 €

  • HITCHOLOGY
    Neil Alcock
    Murder! Mothers! Men on the run!Film fans know these are just a few key ingredients of Alfred Hitchcock’s movies. When Hitchcock fused these elements with his innovative directorial approach, that blend of familiar themes and stylistic ingenuity became known as ’Hitchcockian’. In a refreshingly original way, HITCHOLOGY considers how Hitchcock used these narrative tropes and for...
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    11,48 €

  • Amicus - The Studio That Made Us Scream and Scream Again
    Thomas Baxter
    Amicus - The Studio That Made Us Scream and Scream Again offers an entertaining and affectionate overview of the legacy of this beloved studio and the films they produced. In the concluding chapter we shall also look at the work Milton Subotsky and Max Rosenberg did after Amicus folded. So, open that decanter of brandy, make sure there aren’t any voodoo dolls or disembodied han...
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    13,50 €

  • Bunch of Snake Freaks! A Brit’s Take on Dead Pets, Sleazeballs and Other Fun Movie Stuff
    Dave Franklin
    'You like movies because you’re one of life’s great watchers.' So says Woody Allen’s irked, soon-to-be-ex-wife in Play It Again, Sam, obviously having had enough of his sedentary lifestyle. Hmm, I think she would have left me, too. But, hey, do a female’s myriad charms really stack up against the corny delights of Cocktail, the vicious cynicism of The Sweet Smell of Success, th...
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    17,26 €

  • Satan in the Celluloid
    P. J. Thorndyke
    Evil cults! Demonic possession! Black magic! The 1970s were gripped by an obsession with the devil and all his works. This book explores 100 devilish movies that blazed across the screens of the drive-ins and grindhouses of the decade.They were a product of their time. The counterculture of the 1960s had soured with the brutal actions of the Manson Family sparking fears of cult...
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    19,34 €

  • The 100 Best Superhero Movies
    Sam Pine
    Suffering from superhero fatigue? Superhero films are ten a penny these days and often disappoint with their cardboard characters and tiresome CGI destruction. Though this genre is increasingly the object of snooty disdain from film industry royalty there have been many great superhero films which are simply great films period - irrespective of genre. This book will hopefully ...
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    14,52 €

  • Bombs Away
    John Vetto
    To movie critics, a bomb is unequivocally bad-something that failed artistically, failed at the box office, or both. John Vetto, who describes himself as a cinephile but (most assuredly) NOT a professional movie critic, defines the term more broadly. To Vetto, a bomb may have bombed at the box office or become a cult classic. It may be genuinely terrible or merely silly. The on...
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    15,09 €

  • La trilogia dei colori di Krzysztof Kieślowski
    Simone Malacrida
    La trilogia dei colori, composta dai film ispirati agli ideali dell'Illuminismo e della bandiera francese (Blu, Bianco e Rosso), è di gran lunga l'opera più rinomata e apprezzata di Krzysztof Kieślowski, nonché la sua ultima testimonianza artistica.Oltre la prima apparenza, essa cela significati reconditi e palesi corrispondenze con quanto già messo in scena nei film pr...
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    8,73 €

  • La doppia vita di Veronica di Krzysztof Kieślowski
    Simone Malacrida
    Dopo decenni dalla sua uscita, "La doppia vita di Veronica" è considerato, a torto, un film di intermezzo tra le due opere più famose di Krzysztof Kieślowski. La raffinatezza artistica, lo stile delicato, la magnifica interpretazione di Irene Jacob e le prorompenti musiche di Zbigniew Preisner rendono, al contrario, quest'opera del tutto unica e irripetibile.Un piccolo gioi...
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    5,96 €

  • Decalogo di Krzysztof Kieślowski
    Simone Malacrida
    'Decalogo', andato in onda alla fine del 1988, è divenuto, fin da subito, una pietra miliare dell’opera artistica di Krzysztof Kieślowski e, più in generale, della cinematografia.In questo libro saranno presentati i significati e le tematiche esposte, i vari livelli di interpretazione e la simbologia, le connessioni e i richiami, le scelte stilistiche e la storia che hanno cond...
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    8,76 €

  • Aislados en el cine
    Javier Pérez Vico / Pepe Dana
    Aislados en el cine es un proyecto que surgió en tiempo de pandemia, como tantos otros. Eran momentos de desconcierto total y angustia generalizada.Ante esta circunstancia y después de barruntar diferentes opciones, tratar el aislamiento del ser humano en diversas situaciones fue el tema elegido por los autores.La obra rezuma nostalgia, indagando en los recuerdos y las experien...
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    33,80 €

  • Noir dirt cheap
    Bernie Dowling
    Noir Dirt Cheap takes the reader to a literary cinema where the committed and the curious will discover marvelous and eccentric insights into film noir.Noir Dirt Cheap is a series of picture essays on noir films in the public domain. That means the films have no copyright owner.In six pictorial essays, Bernie Dowling explores the rise of Hollywood film noir from the ashes of wa...
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    52,04 €

  • MARVELOUS NAMES IN LITERATURE AND CINEMA
    P. Adams Sitney
    MARVELOUS NAMESIN LITERATURE AND CINEMABy P. Adams SitneyA new collection of essays from P. Adams Sitney, author of Visionary Film, an important and influential early study of American experimental cinema. P. Adams Sitney explores topics such as Herman Melville and the novel Moby-Dick, Charlie Chaplin, the early cinema of Géorges Méliès, Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958), Wavele...
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    43,74 €