The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story by Sam Wasson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Film & TV
A visionary who was ahead of his time, the book presents Francis Ford Coppola's great adventure in film-making.Say 'Coppola' and The Godfather immediately comes to mind. But Coppola isn't Corleone -- he's more than that. He's a visionary who predicted that digital cameras - no larger than one's hand - ...Show more
The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film by David Thomson
$70.00 AUD
Category: Film & TV
From one of the greatest living writers on film, a magisterial look at a century of battle depicted on screen, and a meditation on the twisted relationship between war and the movies. "Thomson's own genius is his ability to remain one of the leading authorities on cinematic history, without shying away ...Show more
God and the Devil - The Life and Work of Ingmar Bergman by Peter Cowie
$65.00 AUD
Category: Film & TV
Peter Cowie's book chronicles the life and the 60-year film and stage career of Bergman as he wrestles the themes of love, sex and betrayal with the figure of Death hovering overhead. Blending biographical information with critical comment, Cowie presents a man whose life and work were intimately fused ...Show more
Compound Cinematics Akira Kurosawa and I by Shinobu Hashimoto
$27.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV
Any list of Japan's greatest screenplay writers would feature Shinobu Hashimoto near or at the top. This memoir, focusing on his collaborations with Akira Kurosawa, a gifted scenarist in his own right, offers an indispensable insider account and invaluable insights into the unique process that is writin ...Show more
Running the Show by Jeff Melvoin
$51.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Running the Show takes you inside building a show from the ground up and what a showrunner's life looks like in Hollywood. This unique job covers aspects from the creative to the managerial and everything in between. Seasoned showrunner Jeffrey Melvoin shares his fascinating insider's perspective on how ...Show more
David Lynch - A Retrospective by IAN NATHAN
$75.00 AUD
Category: Film & TV
Stunningly illustrated, this biography of filmmaker David Lynch is published to coincide with the 45th anniversary of Eraserhead. From his experimental shorts of the 1960s to feature films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive - not forgetting the award-winning TV series T ...Show more
Anime Through the Looking Glass: Treasures of Japanese Animation by NATHALIE BITTINGER
$79.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV
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 ideas since its inception in the mid twentieth century. Th ...Show more
Anime - A History by Jonathan Clements
$59.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV
Japanese animation is at the nexus of an international multimedia industry worth over $23.6 billion a year, linked to everything from manga to computer games, Pokémon and plushies. In this comprehensive guide, Jonathan Clements chronicles the production and reception history of the entire medium, from a ...Show more
Derek Jarman by Derek Jarman ; Laetitia Chauvin (Editor); Clément Dirié (Editor); Claire Le Restif (Editor); Elisabeth Lebovici (Text by)
$85.00 AUD
Category: Film & TV
Writings on the pioneering, beloved experimental filmmaker and artist from critics, garden historians and Jarman collaborators Tilda Swinton and Simon Fisher Turner. Gathering newly commissioned essays devoted to specific - and sometimes lesser-known - aspects of the artist's life and work, and extensi ...Show more
The Cinema of Powell and Pressburger by Claire Smith (Editor); Nathalie Morris (Editor)
$60.00 AUD
Category: Film & TV
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were true visionaries of British cinema, creating glorious Technicolor masterpieces including A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Black Narcissus (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948). Delving into their magical and obsessive worlds, this lavishly-illustrated publication p ...Show more
The World and Its Double - The Life and Work of Otto Preminger by Chris Fujiwara
$49.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV
Otto Preminger was one of Hollywood's first truly independent producer/directors. He sought to address the major social, political and historical questions of his time in films designed to appeal to a wide public. Blazing a trail in the examination of controversial issues such as drug addiction (The M ...Show more
Bresson on Bresson: Interviews, 1943-1983 by Robert Bresson; Anna Moschovakis (Translator); Mylène Bresson (Editor); Pascal Mérigeau (Preface by)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV
Now in paperback, a collection of interviews with a French cinematic titan-covering subjects such as adaptation, the effects of capitalism on art, and the importance of intuition-selected from a period of four decades. Robert Bresson, the director of such cinematic masterpieces asPickpocket,A Man Escape ...Show more