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Zurich Transit
ISBN: PB: 9780857428189, ISBN: HB: 9781906497637, Seagull Books, March 2021
88 pp., 25x15 cm
This screenplay by Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch was developed from an episode in his 1964 novel "Gantenbein", or "A Wilderness of Mirrors". At the center of both works is Theo Ehrismann, a man who cannot seem to change his life no matter...
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£7,99
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£11,50
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Color Mania The Material of Color in Photography and Film
ISBN: PB: 9783037786079, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2019
120 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 82 colour and black&white illus.
Since the earliest days of cinema, film has been a colourful medium and art form. More than 230 film colour processes have been devised in the course of film history, often in close connection with photography. In this regard, both media institutiona...
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£25,00
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Nixon at the Movies A Book about Belief
ISBN: PB: 9780226239699, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
436 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
Was it an omen? Richard Nixon and the film industry arrived in Southern California in the same year, 1913. As Mark Feeney relates in this unusual and unusually absorbing book, Nixon and the movies have shared a long and complex history. Some of that...
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£18,00
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Hollywood in Havana US Cinema and Revolutionary Nationalism in Cuba before 1959
ISBN: PB: 9780226593692, ISBN: HB: 9780226593555, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones
In the 1940s and '50s, Havana was a locus for American movie stars, with glamorous visitors including Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and Marlon Brando. In fact, Hollywood was seemingly everywhere in pre-Castro Havana, with movies theaters t...
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£27,00
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£79,00
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Cocktails of the Movies An Illustrated Guide to Cinematic Mixology
ISBN: HB: 9783791383484, Prestel Publishing, January 2017
160 pp., 18.7x15 cm, 160 colour illus.
Now available in a new pocket edition, "Cocktails of the Movies" serves up the 64 greatest cocktails to have featured on film. Take a journey through Hollywood's lifelong love affair with cocktails, celebrating the greatest characters and their icon...
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£9,99
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Place for Us "West Side Story"‌ and New York
ISBN: HB: 9780226301808, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 53 halftones
From its Broadway debut to the Oscar-winning film to countless amateur productions, "West Side Story" is nothing less than an American touchstone – an updating of Shakespeare vividly realized in a rapidly changing postwar New York. That vision of pos...
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£22,50
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Dressing Dangerously Dysfunctional Fashion in Film
ISBN: HB: 9780300184389, Yale University Press, November 2013
320 pp., 28x24 cm, 50 colour images, 200 black&white illus.
When Marlene Dietrich makes her entrance in Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright, the Dior dress she wears immediately draws the viewer's attention – not because of its designer label, but owing to the dramatic blood stains ruining its stylish surface. Fa...
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£45,00
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I Found it at the Movies Reflections of a Cinephile
ISBN: PB: 9781847771292, Carcanet, March 2011
220 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
For nearly half a century Philip French's writing on cinema has been essential reading for filmgoers, cinephiles and anyone who enjoys witty, intelligent engagement with the big screen. His vast knowledge of the medium is matched by his love for it....
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£19,95
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Westerns
ISBN: PB: 9781857547474, Carcanet, February 2005
240 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Westerns" is the classic account of the emergence, growth and flowering of one of the most perennially popular film genres. When it was first published thirty years ago it was welcomed by reviewers in Europe and the United States as a major work. In...
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£19,95
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