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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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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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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Miyazakiworld
A Life in Art
ISBN: PB: 9780300248593,
Yale University Press,
January 2020
344 pp., 19,7x15,2 cm, 20 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.
344 pp., 19,7x15,2 cm, 20 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.
A thirtieth‑century toxic jungle, a bathhouse for tired gods, a red‑haired fish girl, and a furry woodland spirit – what do these have in common? They all spring from the mind of Hayao Miyazaki, one of the greatest living animators, known worldwide f...
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£15.99
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Groucho Marx
The Comedy of Existence
ISBN: PB: 9780300244540,
Yale University Press,
April 2019
184 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
184 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy team, the Marx Brothers, his broad slapstick portrayals elevated by ingenious wordplay and double entendre. In his spirite...
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£11.99
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Warner Bros
The Making of an American Movie Studio
ISBN: PB: 9780300244557,
Yale University Press,
April 2019
232 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 5 black&white illus.
232 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 5 black&white illus.
"Warner Bros" charts the rise of an unpromising film studio from its shaky beginnings in the early twentieth century through its ascent to the pinnacle of Hollywood influence and popularity. The Warner Brothers – Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack – arrive...
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£11.99
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Jennifer Steinkamp
Blind Eye
ISBN: PB: 9780300237054,
Yale University Press,
October 2018
80 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 50 colour illus.
80 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 50 colour illus.
Best known for immersive video projections that use digitally animated natural and abstract forms to investigate themes such as the passage of time and organic movement, Jennifer Steinkamp (b. 1958) is one of today's most innovative artists. Featurin...
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£18.99
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