Anime Through the Looking Glass
Treasures of Japanese Animation
ISBN: HB: 9783791380148,
Prestel Publishing,
October 2023
192 pp., 27,0x22,0 cm, 175 colour illus.
192 pp., 27,0x22,0 cm, 175 colour illus.
The magic and mastery of anime springs to life in this gorgeous celebration of the genre that features more than one hundred and fifty full-color frames. A uniquely powerful form of artistic expression, anime has embraced complex and provocative idea...
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£29.99
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Alanis Obomsawin
Lifework
ISBN: HB: 9783791379234,
Prestel Publishing,
March 2022
272 pp., 31,0x25,0 cm, 250 colour illus.
272 pp., 31,0x25,0 cm, 250 colour illus.
One of today's most important documentary filmmakers, Alanis Obomsawin has dedicated her life's work to shining a light on the injustices experienced by Canada's Indigenous people. This retrospective monograph features an extensive interview with Obo...
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£45.00
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Disaster Mon Amour
ISBN: HB: 9780300246940,
Yale University Press,
February 2022
224 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm
224 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm
Audiences swell with the scale of disaster; humans have always been drawn to the rumors of our own demise. In this searching treatment, noted film historian David Thomson examines iconic disasters, both real and fictional, exposing the slippage betwe...
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£16.99
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Apocalypse Now
The Lost Photo Archive
ISBN: HB: 9783791388083,
Prestel Publishing,
February 2022
256 pp., 30,0x24,0 cm, 140 colour illus.
256 pp., 30,0x24,0 cm, 140 colour illus.
Hired in 1976 by Francis Ford Coppola as the still photographer for his masterpiece Apocalypse Now, Chas Gerretsen's private archive of hundreds of photographs propels readers immediately into the chaos and drama surrounding one of the most important...
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£35.00
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Jonas Mekas
The Camera Was Always Running
ISBN: HB: 9780300253078,
Yale University Press,
January 2022
256 pp., 27,9x21,0 cm, 950 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
256 pp., 27,9x21,0 cm, 950 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
Between 1950 and his death, the artist and impresario Jonas Mekas (1922-2019) made more than one hundred radically innovative, often diaristic films and video works. He also founded film festivals, cooperatives, archives, and magazines and wrote film...
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£35.00
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Stanley Kubrick
American Filmmaker
ISBN: HB: 9780300224405,
Yale University Press,
October 2020
248 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
248 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
Kubrick grew up in the Bronx, a doctor's son. From a young age he was consumed by photography, chess, and, above all else, movies. He was a self‑taught filmmaker and self‑proclaimed outsider, and his films exist in a unique world of their own outside...
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£18.99
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Murder and the Movies
ISBN: HB: 9780300220018,
Yale University Press,
September 2020
240 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm
240 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm
How many acts of murder have each of us followed on a screen? What does that say about us? Do we remain law-abiding citizens who wouldn't hurt a fly? Film historian David Thomson, known for wit and subversiveness, leads us into this very delicate sub...
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£18.99
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Behind Bars
High Class Cocktails Inspired by Low Life Gangsters
ISBN: HB: 9783791386843,
Prestel Publishing,
September 2020
144 pp., 18,7x15,0 cm, 60 colour illus.
144 pp., 18,7x15,0 cm, 60 colour illus.
It's been a century since the prohibition sent Americans scurrying to speakeasies. And decades since the movie industry turned mobsters into celebrities. Now the two worlds collide in this highly original pocket-sized collection that creates signatur...
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£9.99
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Ben Hecht
Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
ISBN: PB: 9780300251814,
Yale University Press,
April 2020
264 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm
264 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm
He was, according to Pauline Kael, "the greatest American screenwriter". Jean-Luc Godard called him "a genius" who "invented 80 percent of what is used in Hollywood movies today". Besides tossing off dozens of now-classic scripts – including "Scarfac...
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£11.99
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Child of the Century
ISBN: PB: 9780300251791,
Yale University Press,
April 2020
680 pp., 21,6x13,9 cm
680 pp., 21,6x13,9 cm
Ben Hecht's critically acclaimed autobiographical memoir, first published in 1954, offers incomparably pungent evocations of Chicago in the 1910s and 1920s, Hollywood in the 1930s, and New York during the Second World War and after.
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£17.99
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