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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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
$40.00 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
$100.00 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
$20.00 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
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How to Watch a Movie
$24.00 Add to cartIn his most inventive exploration of the medium yet, David Thomson–one of our most provocative authorities on all things cinema–shows us how to get more out of watching any movie. Guiding us through
- Author: Thomson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1101910844
- Language: English
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Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
$19.99 Add to cart“Smart and entertaining . . . Gefter shows why Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? hit the ’60s like a torpedo.” –NPR, Fresh Air
“Delicious.” –New York Times Book Review The behind-the-scenes story of a p- Author: Gefter, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1639736670
- Language: English
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They Kill People: Bonnie and Clyde, a Hollywood Revolution, and America’s Obsession with Guns and Outlaws
$29.95 Add to cartA deep dive into the grit and glamor of America’s favorite criminal couple and the nation’s love affair with guns.
On May 23, 1934, two borderline inept but ruthless criminals named Clyde Barrow and B- Author: Ellis, Kirk
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0826369375
- Language: English
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Algorithm of the Night: Film Writing, 2019-2025
$23.00 Add to cart“A. S. Hamrah’s writing on film is a delight. . . . Like all the best criticism, his writing makes art and life feel less lonely.” –Elif Batuman
“Unerring” (Bookforum), “hilarious” (Dana Spiotta), “ou
- Author: Hamrah, A. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1953813186
- Language: English
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Last Week in End Times Cinema
$17.95 Add to cartAn almanac of every bad thing that happened in the film industry from March 2024 to March 2025.
From A. S. Hamrah, the film critic at n+1 and the author of The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2002- Series: Semiotext(e) / Active Agents
- Author: Hamrah, A. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1635902681
- Language: English
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Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema
$59.95 Add to cartBehind the Pink Curtain takes the reader on a wild joy ride deep into the hinterlands of Japanese culture, society and radical politics by way of the weird and wonderful world of the country’s distinc… [more below]
- Author: Sharp, Jasper
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1913051447
- Language: English
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Hannibal Lecter: A Life
$30.00 Add to cartDrawing from exclusive interviews and previously unseen archival materials, this one-of-its-kind biography of Hannibal Lecter documents the cannibal’s journey from terrifying villain to unexpectedly a… [more below]
- Author: Raftery, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1668070588
- Language: English
