501 Movie Directors by Steven Jay Schneider (editor)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
This valuable book is a chronological compendium that profiles the 501 most important film directors of all time. Here is a comprehensive survey of the creative imaginations behind more than 100 years of filmmaking.
1001 Movies to See Before You Die (revised edition 2003) - out of print by Steven Jay Schneider (ed.)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
b>Welcome to the movies you must see before you die  simply the best of the best. 1001 Movies is the definitive guide to the movie greats, and celebrates the best of the best in nearly a century of film. It features all the movies one should see before itÂs too late, from the masterpieces th ...Show more
Black Sunset - Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal, and Raging Egos by Clancy Sigal
$14.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
For me it begins in such an ordinary way ... with a gorilla, a blonde and a gun ... Mid- 20th century Hollywood; 'Raymond Chandler's LA before Pilates and cell phones'. Clancy Sigal (who would later be the inspiration for Doris Lessing's 'Saul Green') is just back from fighting in the Second World War a ...Show more
Don Rickles - The Merchant of Venom by Michael Seth Starr
$25.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: near fine
The first comprehensive biography of Don Rickles, the king of insult comedy and honorary rat pack member whose career spanned decades and influenced generations of comedians, written by New York Post television editor and celebrity biographer Michael Starr. Riding a wave of success that lasted more tha ...Show more
Powerhouse - The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency by James Andrew Miller
$20.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
An astonishing-and astonishingly entertaining-history of Hollywood's transformation over the past five decades as seen through the agency at the heart of it all, from the #1 bestselling co-author of Live from New York and Those Guys Have All the Fun. The movies you watch, the TV shows you adore, the co ...Show more
Masters of Two Arts - Re-Creation of European Literatures in Italian Cinema by Carlo Testa
$20.00 NZD
Category: Film | Series: Toronto Italian Studies | Reading Level: very good
The movie screen has been the forum for many star pairings: Bogart and Bacall, Tracy and Hepburn, and Fellini and Kafka. While this latter combination might seem slightly unexpected or improbable at first sight, Carlo Testa's Masters of Two Arts demonstrates that pairings of famed directors and writers ...Show more
Contemporary New Zealand Cinema from New Wave to Blockbuster by Ian Conrich (ed.); Stuart Murray (ed.)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Film | Series: Tauris World Cinema Series | Reading Level: very good
Since New Zealand Cinema burst on to the global stage in the late 1970s, it has maintained a high-profile presence, capturing the imagination and enthusiasm of both national and international audiences, through such films as "Vigil", "Whale Rider" and "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. Contemporary New Ze ...Show more
Geoff Murphy - A Life on Film by Geoff Murphy
$14.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: good-very good
The majorly entertaining memoir from a major entertainer - Geoff 'Goodbye Pork Pie' Murphy tells it like it really was in this director's cut of his life and times. "I'm taking this bloody car to Invercargill!" It was the line that had cinema audiences cheering. Goodbye Pork Pie became an instant classi ...Show more
Narrative in Fiction and Film - An Introduction by Jakob Lothe
$16.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
This introductory book presents key concepts of narrative theory (or "narratology") and analyses five prose texts--the parable of the sower in St. Mark's Gospel, Franz Kafka's The Trial, James Joyce's 'The Dead', Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse--by applying the ...Show more
Home, Exile, Homeland - Film, Media, and the Politics of Place by Hamid Naficy (Editor)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Film | Series: AFI Film Readers | Reading Level: very good
Global changes in capital, power, technology and the media have caused massive shifts in how we define home and community, leaving redrawn territories and globalized contexts. This interdisciplinary study of the media brings together essays by accomplished critics to discuss the way film, television, mu ...Show more
The Return of the King Visual Companion by Jude Fisher
$10.00 NZD
Category: Film | Series: The "Lord of the Rings" | Reading Level: very good
The Return of The King Visual Companion takes the reader on their own journey into the world of Peter Jackson's epic movie trilogy.This large-format full-colour photographic encyclopedic guide to the characters, places, landscapes, artefacts, battles, and costumes as seen in the film. The only authorise ...Show more
Star Wars - The Force Awakens - The Visual Dictionary by Pablo Hidalgo
$12.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-fiction | Series: Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Reading Level: very good
The definitive guide to the characters, droids, aliens, and creatures of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Beautiful photography and clear, authoritative text by Lucasfilm insider Pablo Hidalgo names and explains all the details of costumes, weapons, and accessories. Includes three exclusive, specially comm ...Show more