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Steve McQueen Clara Kim 9781849766784
RRP: $47.25SciFier: $33.94A landmark and vital survey of the work of Steve McQueen, one of the most important artists, film-makers and screenwriters working today. Over the last 25 years Steve McQueen has been hugely... -
Film and the Working Class: The Feature Film in British and American Society Peter Stead 9781138969759
SciFier: $85.92Taking the subject chronologically from the 1890s to when the book was initially published in 1989, this book analyses those films specifically concerned with working-class conditions and struggle,... -
Anthony Asquith by Tom Ryall
SciFier: $43.45This is the first comprehensive critical study of Anthony Asquith. Ryall sets the director's work in the context of British cinema from the silent period to the 1960s, examining the artistic and... -
David Lean by Melanie Williams
RRP: $160.65SciFier: $145.51'A rule of mine is this', said William Goldman in 1983, 'there are always three hot directors and one of them is always David Lean.' One of the best known and most admired of British film makers,... -
Sydney Box by Professor Andrew Spicer
SciFier: $43.45This is an authoritative account of the career of Sydney Box, one of British cinema's most successful and significant producers. Concentrating on the period 1940-65, it highlights the crucial but... -
Humphrey Jennings by Keith Beattie
RRP: $160.65SciFier: $118.60Humphrey Jennings has been described as the only real poet that British cinema has produced. His documentary films are remarkable records of Britain at peace and war, and his range of... -
Wendy Toye Iram Kamran Qureshi 9781526165794
RRP: $160.65SciFier: $145.51This groundbreaking book delves into the remarkable career of Wendy Toye, one of Britain's most prolific, versatile and pioneering directors. Spanning a fascinating journey through her work in... -
Terence Fisher by Peter Hutchings
SciFier: $43.45Terence Fisher is best known as the director who made most of the classic Hammer horrors - including The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula and The Devil Rides Out. But there is more to Terence Fisher... -
Roger Michell Brian McFarlane 9781526185297
RRP: $160.65SciFier: $145.51This book offers the first serious critical study of Roger Michell's career as a filmmaker. Best known for Notting Hill, Michell brought a distinctive sensitivity to his work in both the UK and the... -
Terence Davies by Wendy Everett
SciFier: $43.45Terence Davies has made some of the most innovative, harrowing, and hauntingly lyrical films of the contemporary era. This is the first ever book-length study of his work, combining detailed analysis... -
Carol Reed by Peter William Evans
RRP: $37.78SciFier: $34.64Carol Reed is one of the truly outstanding directors of British cinema, and one whose work is long overdue for reconsideration. This major study ranges over Reed's entire career, combining... -
Launder and Gilliat by Bruce Babington
SciFier: $43.45Bruce Babington analyses the achievement of one of the central partnerships in British film history, the screenwriters of famous films by Hitchcock and Carol Reed, who became the... -
Joseph Losey by Colin Gardner
RRP: $37.78SciFier: $34.64The career of Wisconsin-born Joseph Losey spanned over four decades and several countries. A self-proclaimed Marxist and veteran of the 1930s Soviet agit-prop theater, he collaborated with Bertholt... -
Mike Leigh Tony Whitehead 9780719072369
RRP: $160.65SciFier: $118.60Mike Leigh may well be Britain's greatest living film director; his worldview has permeated our national consciousness. This book gives detailed readings of the nine feature films he has made for... -
Derek Jarman by Rowland Wymer
RRP: $47.25SciFier: $43.45This book gives detailed and original critical readings of all eleven of Derek Jarman's feature-length films, arguing that he occupies a major and influential place in European and world cinema... -
Roy Ward Baker by Geoff Mayer
SciFier: $43.45This book traces the career of Roy Ward Baker, one of the great survivors of the British film and television industry. He directed the landmark British film Morning Departure (1949), worked at... -
Lance Comfort by Brian McFarlane
SciFier: $43.45In the years between 1941 and 1965, Lance Comfort made some of the most entertaining films in Britain. There was the striking success of his second feature as director, Hatter's Castle (1941) and... -
J. Lee Thompson by Steve Chibnall
RRP: $47.25SciFier: $43.45First published on the fiftieth anniversary of his directorial debut, this book was the first to examine the work of a man once hailed as the finest film-maker to emerge from the British studio... -
Mike Leigh Tony Whitehead 9780719072376
RRP: $37.78SciFier: $34.64Mike Leigh may well be Britain's greatest living film director; his worldview has permeated our national consciousness. This book gives detailed readings of the nine feature films he has made for... -
Jack Clayton by Neil Sinyard
SciFier: $43.45In Francois Truffaut's opinion The Innocents was 'the best English film after Hitchcock goes to America'. Tennessee Williams said of The Great Gatsby: 'a film whose artistry even surpassed the... -
Sydney Box by Andrew Spicer
RRP: $160.65SciFier: $118.60This is an authoritative account of the career of Sydney Box, one of British cinema's most successful and significant producers. Concentrating on the period 1940-65, it highlights the crucial but... -
Refocus: the Films of Steve Mcqueen Thomas Austin 9781399510936
RRP: $179.55SciFier: $166.66Explores British director Steve McQueen's diverse output, from video installations to independent cinema to Hollywood to the BBC The first full book-length study of McQueen to be published in... -
Lindsay Anderson Revisited by Erik Hedling
SciFier: $175.75This book is about the British film-maker Lindsay Anderson. Anderson was a highly influential personality within British cinema, mostly famous for landmark films like This Sporting Life (1963) and If... -
Richard Attenborough by Sally Dux
RRP: $160.65SciFier: $118.60Richard Attenborough's film career has stretched across seven decades; surprisingly, Sally Dux's book is the first detailed scholarly analysis of his work as a filmmaker. Concentrating on his work... -
Karel Reisz by Colin Gardner
SciFier: $43.45Czech-born refugee Karel Reisz (1926-2002) is widely regarded as one of the seminal figures in post-war British cinema. Along with Lindsay Anderson and Tony Richardson, Reisz was a founder member of... -
Lindsay Anderson by John Izod
RRP: $160.65SciFier: $145.51In a long and varied career, Lindsay Anderson made training films, documentaries, searing family dramas and blistering satires, including This Sporting Life, O Lucky Man! and Britannia Hospital... -
Michael Reeves by Benjamin Halligan
RRP: $37.78SciFier: $36.21Cine-literate and single-minded, Michael Reeves took on exploitative film production companies, the British censors, and even Vincent Price to create a unique vision of savage poetry and lacerating... -
Charles Crichton by Quentin Falk
RRP: $160.65SciFier: $145.51Charles Crichton is perhaps best remembered as the director of the unlikely blockbuster hit A Fish Called Wanda, made when he was seventy-seven years old. But the most significant part of his career... -
Four from the Forties by Brian McFarlane
RRP: $160.65SciFier: $118.60The 'Gainsborough melodramas' were a mainstay of 1940s British cinema, and helped make the careers of such stars as Margaret Lockwood, James Mason and Stewart Granger. But what was unique about these...