Film - History & Criticism
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Die Hard
$17.95 Add to cartUpon its release, John McTiernan’s Die Hard (1988) was met with immense commercial and critical success; breaking the $100 million mark at the box office in its first run, and resulting in four Academ
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Lewis, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1839026529
- Language: English
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Read Frame Type Film: Or, Written on the Screen
$55.00 Add to cartThis ambitious survey chronicles text and typography in 20th-century artists’ films and experimental cinema
From credits to subtitles to title cards and beyond, texts play a critical part in the struct
- Author: Camporesi, Enrico
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991658010
- Language: English
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Eternal Current Events: Early Writings
$19.95 Add to cartThe first English translation of Chris Marker’s early writings on film, religion, philosophy, politics, and art.
Before making his first films in the 1950s, Chris Marker was a regular contributor to t- Series: Inpatient Press / Mercurial Editions
- Author: Marker, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1965874002
- Language: English
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The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick
$52.50 Add to cart- Series: Screen Classics
- Author: Bleasdale, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1985901196
- Language: English
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Staying Gold: The Oral History of the Outsiders
$25.00 Add to cartThe definitive oral history of the 1967 novel for teens, turned blockbuster film turned Tony-winning musical, and commemorated with a newly opened museum. This groundbreaking story has managed to stay… [more below]
- Author: O’Connor, Danny Boy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593622987
- Language: English
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The Men Who Would Be King: An Almost Epic Tale of Moguls, Movies, and a Company Called DreamWorks
$24.99 Add to cartFormer Variety reporter Nicole LaPorte draws from years of inside-the-filmmakers-studio access to spin a smart, gritty tell-all about a clash of industry titans in The Men Who Would Be King.
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- Author: Laporte, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 516
- Publish Date: May 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0547520271
- Language: English
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Rear Window: The Making of a Hitchcock Masterpiece in the Hollywood Golden Age
$29.00 Add to cartThe definitive, in-depth look inside Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window–the all-time classic of voyeurism, paranoia, and murder that became one of Hollywood’s greatest achievements and turned generations… [more below]
- Author: O’Callaghan, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 0806543884
- Language: English
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Screaming and Conjuring: The Resurrection and Unstoppable Rise of the Modern Horror Movie
$28.99 Add to cartLIMITED DELUXE EDITION (first 5,000 copies worldwide) has black foil gilded page edges, textured cover spot varnish, and is printed on heavyweight paper stock. As featured in People, Variety, Entertai
- Author: Collis, Clark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1948221357
- Language: English
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Absolute Pleasure: Queer Perspectives on Rocky Horror
$25.95 Add to cartQueer writers reflect on the complicated legacy of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Since its earliest midnight showings at the Waverly Theater in New York City, The Rocky Horror Picture Show has been a
- Author: Atwell, Margot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1558613501
- Language: English
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Hollywood Haunts the World: An Investigation Into the Cinema of Occulted Taboos
$29.95 Add to cartThe secret history of the world can be decoded through film.
In Hollywood Haunts the World: An Investigation into the Cinema of Occulted Taboos, Robert Guffey deconstructs the most powerful taboos of … [more below]
- Author: Guffey, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1915316375
- Language: English
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After Hours: Scorsese, Grief and the Grammar of Cinema
$16.95 Add to cartSiskel and Ebert meet Joan Didion in Auteur, a unique series that combines in-depth film criticism with personal autobiography. Each book in the series examines a single movie through a critical and h
- Series: Auteur #1
- Author: Tanzer, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1632461714
- Language: English
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Scream with Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism (1968-1980)
$30.00 Add to cartA compelling, intelligent, and timely exploration of the horror genre from one of Columbia University’s most popular professors, shedding light on how classic horror films demonstrate larger cultural … [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Eleanor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1668087634
- Language: English
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Fever: The Complete History of Saturday Night Fever
$29.00 Add to cartThe music! The dancing! The clothes! The hair! (Watch the hair!) Celebrating almost 50 years of the iconic Saturday Night Fever, this first-ever complete history includes exclusive interviews, rare ph… [more below]
- Author: Donohue, Margo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0806543922
- Language: English
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That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film
$33.99 Add to cartThat Very Witch explores the cyclical rise and fall of the cinematic witch in American culture and her relationship to feminist movements over time.
Through historical analysis and dozens of case studi
- Author: McCarty-Simas, Payton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1915556600
- Language: English
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Lost in the Stream: How Algorithms Redefined the Way Movies Are Made and Watched (Gift for Movie Lovers, What to Watch)
$18.99 Add to cartExplore Cinema History, Stream Your Favorites
This engaging book by Jeff Rauseo blends film history with a modern guide to streaming, helping you navigate the complex history of movie making and ultima
- Author: Rauseo, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1684818192
- Language: English
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You Can’t Kill the Boogeyman: The Ongoing Halloween Saga–13 Movies and Counting
$32.95 Add to cartYou Can’t Kill the Boogeyman: The Ongoing Halloween Saga – 13 Movies and Counting is a cultural and critical examination of the legendary Halloween film franchise, considering the style, themes, and … [more below]
- Author: Byrne, Wayne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1493079786
- Language: English
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David Bowie. the Man Who Fell to Earth. 40th Ed.
$30.00 Read moreFirst advertised as a “mind-stretching experience,” Nicolas Roeg’s 1976 The Man Who Fell to Earth stunned the cinema world. A tour-de-force of science fiction as art form, the movie brought not only h
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: Duncan, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 21 2024
- ISBN10: 3836593165
- Language: Multiple Languages
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Moxie: The Daring Women of Classic Hollywood
$49.95 Add to cartLauren Bacall, Louise Brooks, Claudette Colbert, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Kay Francis, Lillian Gish, Gloria Grahame, Katharine Hepburn, Veronica Lake, Carole Lombard, Myrna Loy, Ida Lupino, Barb… [more below]
- Author: Resnick, Ira M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0789214938
- Language: English
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Chris Marker: Early Film Writings
$21.95 Add to cartFormative writings by French avant-garde filmmaker Chris Marker
It is hard to imagine French cinema without La Jet?e (1962), the time-travel short feature by the reclusive French filmmaker Christian
- Author: Marker, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1517913195
- Language: English
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Falling in Love at the Movies: Rom-Coms from the Screwball Era to Today
$24.00 Add to cartPrepare to swoon, ugly cry, laugh, and fall in love with this officially licensed exploration of the impact and legacy of one of film’s most beloved genres from Turner Classic Movies: the rom-com.
Ro- Series: Turner Classic Movies
- Author: Zuckerman, Esther
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0762484462
- Language: English
