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  • THE CINEMA OF HAYAO MIYAZAKI
    Jeremy Mark Robinson
    THE CINEMA OF HAYAO MIYAZAKI By Jeremy Mark Robinson Born on January 5, 1941 in Tokyo, Hayao Miyazaki is known as the ’Japanese Disney’, a filmmaker as revered - and as popular - as Walt Disney or Steven Spielberg. Miyazaki, in short, is a true phenomenon in contemporary animation and in world cinema.  Hayao Miyazaki's movies include Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl&#...
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    37,48 €

  • 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 €

  • Bob Crane
    Carol M. Ford / Carol MFord / Dee Young / Linda J. Groundwater / Linda JGroundwater
    The Estate of Bob Crane and I both worked closely with Carol and Linda, and immeasurably appreciate all of the hard work and dedication they put into this book. The only truthful and accurate account of my dad’s life. -Scott CraneSince his untimely death on June 29, 1978, Bob Crane’s unofficial biography has become akin to a broken record. Like a skip in the acetate, his murder...
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    32,58 €

  • 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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    24,92 €

  • FAT, DRUNK, AND STUPID
    MATTY SIMMONS
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    20,21 €

  • On Location in Blairstown
    David Grove
    On location in Blairstown: The Making of Friday the 13th covers the creation, planning and filming of the iconic 1980 film, Friday the 13th in a way that no other film has been documented before. Through the memories of the cast and crew, many speak for the first (and last) time, as well as previously-undiscovered production information and materials, On location in Blairstown ...
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    35,50 €

  • Outlander and Scotland
    Gillebrìde MacMillan / Lisa Kelly / Willy Maley
    What is the ’Outlander Effect’?How does Outlander shape understanding of clan identity and Jacobite allegiance?How does the series balance modern feminist perspectives with historical realities?How does Diana Gabaldon answer ten key questions about her work?Inspired by Scotland’s tumultuous history of ’treachery, betrayal and murder’, the Outlander series has fired unprecedente...
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    25,48 €

  • Austrian Studies Vol. 33
    Twenty years after Dennis Lim labelled Austria the ’world capital of feel-bad cinema’, Austrian Studies 33 takes stock of films from and relating to Austria in the twenty-first century. In many ways Lim’s conjunction of nation and negative feeling remains pertinent, but as the contributions in this volume attest, the relationship between Austria and film is nuanced and multifac...
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    113,03 €

  • LYRA’S WORLD
    Jeremy Mark Robinson
    LYRA’S WORLDPHILIP PULLMAN AND HIS DARK MATERIALSA Critical StudyBy Jeremy Mark RobinsonPhilip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy comprises Northern Lights (a.k.a. The Golden Compass, 1995), The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000). The series is a wonderful adventure story and a witty rewriting of Judæo-Christian religion via John Milton and William Blake and t...
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    26,50 €

  • Love Story (1970), The Most Romantic Movie
    Steve Lane
    In the heart of Harvard’s ivy-covered world, privileged pre-law student Oliver Barrett IV meets sharp-tongued music major Jenny Cavilleri in a chance library encounter that sparks instant chemistry-and instant conflict. He’s old-money East Coast royalty; she’s a working-class scholarship kid with dreams of Paris and zero patience for entitlement. What begins as witty verbal spa...
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    15,54 €

  • STEVE JOBS MONOGRAPH
    B.C. Wallin
    To understand a film as greater than the sum of its parts, we must understand each part.In 2015, Universal Pictures released Steve Jobs, a tech biopic about the co-founder and CEO of Apple that met very little fanfare. To many, the story of its making was more interesting than the result - dueling biopics, a studio hack, changing stars, big tech feuds, and a follow-up by Aaron ...
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    7,29 €

  • The Monomyth Reboot
    Nadia Salem
    In this book, Nadia Salem examines and questions the enduring relevance of the monomyth, or the hero’s journey, for storytellers and their audiences.Created by Joseph Campbell and largely popularized by George Lucas, the hero’s journey has come to define mythic quests for all. However, in recent years, this genderless paradigm has lost its appeal as a repetitive Bildungsroman, ...
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    51,52 €

  • The Oneiric in the Films of David Lynch
    Raphael Morschett
    The Oneiric in the Films of David Lynchis the first systematic book-length study to explore the nature and function of dreams in David Lynch’s different phases and audio-visual formats.There is hardly a contemporary film director whose name is as closely linked to the dream(-like) as that of David Lynch. Both popular and academic discourse frequently identify Lynch’s films by t...
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    50,94 €

  • Bollypolitics
    Ajay Gehlawat
    Winner ofBest Monograph at the 2025 BAFTSS Awards.This bookprovides an in-depth exploration of the evolving landscape of Bollywood cinema in response to recent socio-political changes in India, including a surge in sectarian violence and the ascent of Hindutva, or Hindu nationalism, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership.Through a comprehensive analysis of prominent fi...
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    50,97 €

  • The Price of Fear
    Joel Eisner
    Prior to his death in 1993, Vincent Price was collaborating with Mr. Joel Eisner (author of the over 100,000 copy bestselling Official Batman Batbook concerning the ’60s Adam West Batman television series) to construct a definitive, official biography of his life and career in films. This is that book. Sanctioned by the Vincent Price Estate and daughter Victoria, THE PRICE OF F...
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    15,97 €

  • Déjà Viewed
    Gohar Siddiqui
    Situates the remake as one of the primary responses to Bollywood’s globalization and corporatization.Focused on post-1990 Bollywood remakes of Hollywood films, Déjà Viewed tells a larger story of the rapidly changing Indian film industry in the wake of globalization and corporatization. It situates the remake as a gendered response to these changes, drawing on approaches from f...
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    32,06 €

  • Haunting the World
    Dominic Lash
    Argues that the experience of the ordinary film viewer and the investigations of the film scholar or film philosopher are not necessarily so far apart.In Haunting the World, Dominic Lash tries to show that taking films seriously in no way interferes with the pleasure we get from watching them. The book draws its title from the philosopher Stanley Cavell, who saw 'haunting the w...
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    48,24 €

  • Newsies, Newsies--Read All About It!
    Emily Hamilton-Honey
    Newsies has been a self-perpetuating cultural phenomenon for over three decades. Initially a box office flop, the 1992 film musical became a cult classic and created a legendary fandom. Members of that same fandom were instrumental in making the 2012 Broadway show a smash hit; the stage production ran for over 1,000 performances and won two Tony awards, had a two-year North ...
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    95,18 €

  • Setups, Payoffs & Reversals
    Jake Jabbour
    Setups, Payoffs & Reversals is an adoring, obsessive and personal look at the films of Shane Black. From Lethal Weapon to Play Dirty, each chapter celebrates Black’s signature style of 'cheap tricks and cheesy one-liners' (Iron Man 3), male friendship (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), Christmas chaos (most of em), big personality henchmen (The Nice Guys) and the blood-soaked trail to rede...
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    8,62 €

  • Fast, Cheap & Under Control
    John Gaspard
    Twenty years later, the secrets are still gold.When Fast, Cheap & Under Control first hit shelves in 2006, it became the underground handbook for a generation of indie filmmakers. Now, two decades on, this 20th Anniversary Special Edition proves the lessons inside aren’t just timeless-they’re more essential than ever.What’s changed? Technology. Platforms. Distribution.What hasn...
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    21,23 €

  • Drawing Directors
    Randal Kleiser
    Fifty years. Countless sketches. One director’s illustrated love letter to the filmmakers who shaped cinema.From Grease to The Blue Lagoon, director Randal Kleiser has left his mark on the screen. But behind the camera, he’s been quietly sketching portraits of the legends he’s met along the way-Scorsese, Spielberg, Coppola, and many more.Now, in this charming and visually rich ...
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    18,83 €

  • The Housemaid (2025)
    Kate Cindel
    Behind the pristine walls of a beautiful home, something is deeply wrong-and The Housemaid (2025) refuses to let you look away.This gripping nonfiction deep dive pulls back the curtain on one of the most unsettling psychological thrillers of the decade, revealing the hidden mechanisms of control, manipulation, and power that drive the film long after its final scene. Far beyond...
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    13,42 €

  • Held Over
    John Gaspard
    TWO YEARS, ONE THEATER: THE CULT FILM THAT WOULDN’T DIE(SECOND EDITION - WITH A DOZEN NEW PHOTOS) The studio wanted it buried. Critics dismissed it. But when Harold and Maude arrived at Minneapolis’ Westgate Theater, something magical happened. The quirky dark comedy about a death-obsessed teen and an 80-year-old free spirit found its home. And stayed. And stayed. And stayed so...
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    47,91 €

  • The Ballets Russes (1908-1913) on Stage and Screen
    Mark Nicholls
    The Ballets Russes was one of the most influential performing arts companies of the twentieth century. In the years before the outbreak of World War I, the company produced works such as Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring, which still engage and inspire music, dance, performance and visual artists to this day. This book is an analysis of the inner workings of this gr...
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    95,05 €

  • Derek Jarman’s Visionary Arts
    Michael Charlesworth
    Derek Jarman’s place in the history of film is assured by virtue of his vibrant, defiant films that experiment with the very process of film-making and create new forms. His paintings, their excitements and their profundity, are less well known. Michael Charlesworth sheds light on the varied ramifications of Jarman’s artistic practice from his years at Prospect Cottage, Dungen...
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    45,57 €

  • Psychoanalytic Film Theory
    Ben Tyrer
    In Psychoanalytic Film Theory: A Contemporary Introduction, Ben Tyrer presents an overview of psychoanalytic approaches to screen media, offering a reconsideration of psychoanalytic film theory while making the case for new forms of psychoanalytic film thinking. ...
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    38,53 €

  • Cinema and Narrative Complexity
    Steffen Hven
    This book considers films that have experimented with new, increasingly complicated narrative approaches, including Stage Fright and Hiroshima, Mon Amour, to show how they reveal the limitations of most of our usual tools for analysing film. ...
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    82,70 €

  • Visions of Vienna
    Alexandra Seibel
    This book offers a close look at how directors such as Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Max Ophüls made use of the city of Vienna, and how the nostalgic glorification of the Habsburg era can be seen as directly tied to crucial issues of modernity. ...
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    82,70 €

  • Film Phenomenology and Adaptation
    David Evan Richard
    Film Phenomenology and Adaptation: Sensuous Elaboration argues that in order to make sense of film adaptation, we must first apprehend their sensual form. ...
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    82,71 €

  • Images of Occupation in Dutch Film
    Wendy Burke
    This book is the first to explore depictions of the Second World War in films made a generation later, between 1962 and 1986. ...
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    82,65 €