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Monster Planet: A Zombie Novel David Wellington 9781560258674
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.71Set twelve years after the shambling zombie masses have overrun Manhattan, America, and the world, Monster Planet is the mind-blowing conclusion to what must be the scariest trilogy ever. Oceans of... -
Movie Love In The Fifties by James Harvey
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £17.89"What I set out to do is to help you see movies better, to experience them more deeply and sharply and richly," says James Harvey. And his critical method-reading a movie moment by moment, scene by... -
The American Cinema by Andrew Sarris
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £12.74The auteur theory, of which film criticAndrew Sarris was the leading American proponent, holds that artistry in cinema can be largely attributed to film directors, who, while often working against... -
My Wonderful World Of Slapstick by Buster Keaton
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24Buster Keaton's autobiography is a view into the quirky mind behind the stoic face of the legendary film comedian.About the AuthorCharles Samuels, a New York newspaperman, wrote biographies of Jody... -
Fellini On Fellini by Federico Fellini
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.74One of the greatest Italian filmmakers, Federico Fellini (1920-1993) created such masterpieces as La Strada, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, Juliet of the Spirits, Satyricon , and Amarcord. His prodigious... -
An Illustrated History Of Horror And Science-fiction Films by Carlos Clarens
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.79In this book Carlos Clarens, author of Crime Movies (also available from Da Capo/Perseus), George Cukor, and many articles in film magazines, brings his encyclopaedic knowledge of films and... -
Buster Keaton by Marion Meade
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £17.69Buster Keaton (1895-1966) was a brilliant comedian and filmmaker who conceived, wrote, directed, acted, and even edited most of his ten feature films and nineteen short comedies, which are perhaps... -
The Apocalypse Now Book Peter Cowie 9780306810466
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £14.19The movie took years to be filmed and edited, and was the subject of endless stories, rumors, and speculation. At a screening at Cannes in May 1979, Francis Ford Coppola said simply, "There wasn't a... -
The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood Dennis McDougal 9780306810503
SciFier: £22.19The reviewer of the Boston Globe said point blank: "Over the years, I've read hundreds of books on Hollywood and the movie business, and this one is right at the top." As the elusive, tyrannical... -
Underground Film by Parker Tyler
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24Parker Tyler (1904-1974), one of the few great American film critics, was intimate with and enormously respected by many of the underground and experimental filmmakers of his time. In this book,... -
This Is Orson Welles by Jonathan Rosenbaum
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £19.24Innovative film and theatre director, radio producer, actor, writer, painter, narrator, and magician, Orson Welles (1915-1985) was the last true Renaissance man of the twentieth century. From such... -
Slaughtermatic by Steve Aylett
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.74Set in the blood-drenched chaos of Beerlight, "a blown circuit, where to kill a man was less a murder than a mannerism," Dante Cubit and his pill-popping sidekick, the Entropy Kid, waltz into First... -
The First Time I Got Paid For It by Laura Shapiro
SciFier: £17.79The First Time I Got Paid for It is a one-of-a-kind collection of essays by more than fifty leading film and television writers, with a foreword by screenwriting legend William Goldman. Linked by... -
Uncle Mame by Eric Myers
SciFier: £17.49Under his pseudonyms of Patrick Dennis and Virginia Rowans, Edward Everett (Pat) Tanner III was the author of sixteen novels,most of them best sellers,including the now-classic Little Me and ... -
Bram Stoker And The Man Who Was Dracula by Barbara Belford
SciFier: £20.59"What a splendid subject to sink one's teeth into," raved the Washington Post . Here was a six-foot-two Irishman with a red beard,a Victorian family man, a spirited debater, and the author of novels... -
The X List: The National Society of Film Critics' Guide to the Movies That Turn Us On Jami Bernard 9780306814457
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24National Society of Film Critics dares to go where few mainstream critics have gone before-to the heart of what gets the coloured lights going, as they say in A Streetcar Named Desire . Here is... -
Jean Renoir by Andre Bazin
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £17.49This classic in the literature of cinema represents the convergence of the three leading figures of French film: Jean Renoir, universally considered the greatest French director Andre Bazin, the... -
American Silent Film by William Everson
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £16.24Praised as the "best modern survey of the silent period" ( New Republic ), this indispensable history tells you everything you need to know about American silent film, from the nickelodeons in the... -
Shoah by Claude Lanzmann
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.59A nine-and-a-half-hour documentary on the Nazi extermination camps, Shoah (the Hebrew word for "Holocaust") was internationally hailed as a masterpiece upon its release in 1985. Shunning any... -
Burt Lancaster by Kate Buford
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £19.49Now in paperback, here is the critically acclaimed, best-selling biography of one of Hollywood's legendary stars. Burt Lancaster is known to audiences around the world as the electrifying performer... -
Chelsea Horror Hotel: A Novel Dee Ramone 9780306825002
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £10.74Dee Dee Ramone doesn't quite know what he's getting himself into when he and his wife Barbara move into the Chelsea Hotel with their dog Banfield. The room he's staying in might be the very room... -
Reading Comics by Douglas Wolk
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £15.74Suddenly, comics are everywhere: a newly matured art form, filling bookshelves with brilliant, innovative work and shaping the ideas and images of the rest of contemporary culture. In Reading Comics... -
Godard On Godard by Jean-Luc Godard
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £11.61Jean-Luc Godard, like many of his European contemporaries, came to filmmaking through film criticism. This collection of essays and interviews, ranging from his early efforts for La Gazette du... -
A Cast Of Friends by Bill Hanna
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.74For more than sixty years, Bill Hanna has made entertaining children and the young at heart his "business." In A Cast of Friends , he offers an engaging look at his decades in animation and at the... -
Love, Sex, Death, And The Meaning Of Life by Foster Hirsch
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24Woody Allen has carved out a unique place for himself in American movies, becoming our national auteur as well as the most prolific director in the country, and creating a singular world with each... -
Hollywood Rat Race by Ed Wood
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.99In this never-before- published memoir of Hollywood, Ed Wood, Jr., reveals the down and dirty about the cutthroat world of movie-making.About the AuthorEd Wood was the subject of the 1994 Tim Burton... -
A Talent For Trouble by Jan Herman
SciFier: £22.59The films of William Wyler (1902-1981) include some of the most memorable and honored motion pictures of all time Jezebel, The Letter, The Little Foxes, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Heiress,... -
Stanley Kubrick: A Biography Vincent Lobrutto 9780306809064
SciFier: £22.59Stanley Kubrick, director of the acclaimed films Path of Glory, Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: Space Odyssey. A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket, is arguably one of... -
Through Parisian Eyes by Melinda Porter
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.74Melinda Camber Porter has interviewed the most prominent Parisian cultural figures of the '70s and '80s. The dominant trends in French artistic and political thought emerge vividly from an array of... -
Bullets Over Hollywood by John McCarty
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24From Scarface to White Heat , from The Godfather to The Usual Suspects , from Once Upon a Time in America to Road to Perdition , gangland on the screen remains as popular as ever.In Bullets... -
The A List by Jay Carr
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24People love movies. People love lists. So The A-List is a natural. While there are plenty of encyclopaedic lists of films, this compulsively readable book of 100 essays,most written expressly for... -
A Great, Silly Grin by Humphrey Carpenter
SciFier: £20.59A Great, Silly Grin opens at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival, where a staggeringly inspired satirical revue called Beyond the Fringe startled a public steeped in the polite, bland banality of the 1950s... -
Pappy by Dan Ford
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24Although he is best remembered for his classic westerns like Stagecoach, My Darling Clementine, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Irish-American director John Ford (1895-1973) made 136... -
An Open Book by John Huston
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £15.74In An Open Book , this veteran of five marriages, innumerable friendships, practical jokes, horses, love affairs, and intellectual obsessions tells his own story in his own way. It is direct,... -
M-G-M's Greatest Musicals by Hugh Fordin
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £16.99M-G-M's Greatest Musicals (originally published as The World of Entertainment! Hollywood's Greatest Musicals ) is not a biography of Arthur Freed (1894-1973), producer of the most outstanding... -
Monopoly: The World's Most Famous Game--And How It Got That Way Philip Orbanes 9780306815744
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24Philip Orbanes, master of all things Monopoliana, traces the remarkable story of the world's most famous board game, from its origins as a collegiate teaching tool in the early twentieth century... -
Film As Film: Understanding And Judging Movies V. Perkins 9780306805417
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.74Here at last is an introduction to film theory and its history without the jargon. Noted film scholar V. F. Perkins presents criteria for expanding our understanding and enjoyment of movies. He... -
Serious Business by Stefan Kanfer
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £16.49As Roger Rosenblatt put it, "What makes Serious Business a special treat is that it is like the best of the cartoons itself,funny, touching, and infused with thoughtful joy." This generously... -
Thinking In Pictures by John Sayles
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £16.89What choices- creative, practical, and technical- make a movie what it is? Here a gifted writer and filmmaker takes us behind the camera and provides a full description of the movie-making process... -
Everyone in Silico by Perseus
SciFier: £15.29In Vancouver in 2036, people are tired of the rain. They're willing to give up a lot for guaranteed sunshine, a life with no wasted hours. A life free of crime and disease. A life that ends when...