Film - History & Criticism
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My Lunches with Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles
$19.99 Add to cartBased on long-lost recordings between Orson Welles and Henry Jaglom, My Lunches with Orson presents a set of riveting and revealing conversations with America’s great cultural provocateur.
There have- Author: Biskind, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 24 2014
- ISBN10: 1250051703
- Language: English
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Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930â “1934
$26.95 Add to cartPre-Code Hollywood explores the fascinating period in American motion picture history from 1930 to 1934 when the commandments of the Production Code Administration were violated with impunity in a ser
- Series: Film and Culture
- Author: Doherty, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 27 1999
- ISBN10: 0231110952
- Language: English
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Deathtripping: The Extreme Underground
$18.95 Add to cartThis exhaustive study focuses on the New York filmmakers that coalesced around the radical manifesto espoused by downtown filmmaker Nick Zedd: “none shall emerge unscathed”
Placing their work within- Author: Sargeant, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: December 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1933368950
- Language: English
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Every Time a Bell Rings: The Legacy of It’s a Wonderful Life, America’s Most Beloved Holiday Film
$32.00 Read moreA fond and nostalgic cultural history of It’s a Wonderful Life, celebrating the beloved holiday film’s actors and creators, its unexpected journey from public domain to holiday classic, and what its e… [more below]
- Author: Theisen, Lauren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 29 2026
- ISBN10: 133500064X
- Language: English
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Power Surge: Conglomerate Hollywood and the Studio System’s Last Hurrah
$32.95 Add to cartFrom the author of The Genius of the System, the classic tale of Hollywood’s first golden age, comes the story of its last.
Thomas Schatz returns us to an era when a newly enriched movie industry red- Author: Schatz, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: July 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0520415809
- Language: English
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King Kong: The History of a Movie Icon
$44.95 Add to cartThe 1933 KING KONG was not just a terrifying monster movie. It was also an epic fairy tale, a tragic love story, and a landmark piece of cinema that introduced one of the most beloved characters in mo
- Author: Morton, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 02 2026
- ISBN10: 149307637X
- Language: English
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Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
$17.95 Read moreA historian and Bram Stoker Award nominee traces the birth of modern horror movies and literature back to World War I, exploring how the conflict influenced H.P. Lovecraft, Franz Kafka, and other arti… [more below]
- Author: Poole, W. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1640092668
- Language: English
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Outlander and Scotland: Touchstones and Signposts
$28.95 Add to cartWhat 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 do
- Author: Maley, Willy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: February 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1804253340
- Language: English
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Tim Burton: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work
$38.00 Add to cartThis new and updated edition covers the full life’s work of iconic director Tim Burton, including the Netflix phenomenon Wednesday and the start of development on Beetlejuice 2.
Tim Burton is one of- Series: Iconic Filmmakers
- Author: Nathan, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0711292612
- Language: English
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A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies
$30.00 Add to cartFrom one of cinema’s wisest and most penetrating observers, an arresting new perspective on the sweep of film history.
David Thomson has been called “the greatest living writer on the movies.” Here is- Author: Thomson, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1668205734
- Language: English
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A Star Is Reborn: The Most Filmed Hollywood Story of Love Found and Lost
$29.00 Add to cartCoinciding with the 50th anniversary of the 1976 classic film version starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, a riveting, juicy exploration of the history and popularity of Hollywood’s favor… [more below]
- Author: Hofler, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0806544384
- Language: English
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The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael: A Library of America Special Publication
$29.95 Add to cartA master film critic is at her witty, exhilarating, and opinionated best in this career-spanning collection featuring pieces on Bonnie and Clyde, The Godfather, and other modern movie classics
“Film- Author: Kael, Pauline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 1598535080
- Language: English
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The Hollywood History of Art
$79.95 Add to cartHow Hollywood has portrayed the lives of artists, from Kirk Douglas’ Vincent van Gogh to Salma Hayek’s Frida Kahlo
Ever since the dawn of the sound era, Hollywood and friends have made a series of elab
- Author: Frayling, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0956648789
- Language: English
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100 Movies of the 1960s
$46.67 Add to cartPositioned precariously between the uptight ’50s and the freewheeling ’70s, the 1960s marked a transitional decade in the film industry. As art, mass market, and pop culture merged and collided in tru
- Author: Müller, Jürgen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 780
- Publish Date: February 25 2026
- ISBN10: 3836587238
- Language: English
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The ‘Before’ Trilogy
$17.95 Add to cartIn Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise (1995), two young lovers, the American Jesse (Ethan Hawke), and the Frenchwoman Celine (Julie Delphy), meet on a train travelling across Europe and spend a magica
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Hilderbrand, Lucas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1839028025
- Language: English
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Hitchcockian Thrillers: Must-See Films in the Style of the Suspense Master
$49.95 Add to cartDuring Alfred Hitchcock’s five-decade reign as the screen’s internationally celebrated Master of Suspense, he directed 53 motion pictures. In such Hitchcock gold standard classics as The 39 Steps, Rea
- Author: Rebello, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 19 2026
- ISBN10: 149307959X
- Language: English
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Rocky. the Complete Films
$116.67 Add to cartRocky Balboa is the Philadelphian icon who took on the world and won. The original “Italian Stallion,” the gutsy fighter who rose above the odds to boxing glory, and a rags-to-riches legend in the bus
- Author: Stallone, Sylvester
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 20 2025
- ISBN10: 3836599198
- Language: English
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Black Film: A History of Black Representation and Participation in the Movies
$24.99 Add to cartAn illustrated history that celebrates the legacy of Black actors, films, and filmmakers from the silent era through today and explores the deeply embedded racism of the film industry, from the award-… [more below]
- Author: Walker, David F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 198486016X
- Language: English
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The James Bond Archives. the Complete Films
$23.33 Add to cart“Bond, James Bond.” Since Sean Connery uttered those immortal words in 1962, the most dashing secret agent in the history of cinema has been charming and thrilling audiences worldwide. This impeccably
- Author: Duncan, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 18 2026
- ISBN10: 3754400657
- Language: English
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Nashville
$17.95 Add to cartRobert Altman’s Nashville (1975) is simultaneously an intimate film about interpersonal connection and disconnection, and a sprawling, meandering portrait of American societal exhaustion in the wake o
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Hendershot, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1839028947
- Language: English
