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A Chorus of Raspberries
British Film Comedy 1929-39 Literature
David Sutton
Exeter University Press 2000 294 pages Qty
Hardback Illustrated 085989603X
Published Price £45.00 Our Price £14.99
Low status and critical invisibility enabled British comedy film in
the
1930s to deviate from the aesthetic and ideological principles of
mainstream
cinema and explore issues around class, gender and sexuality in ways
forbidden to more critically acceptable texts. In this study of a
previously
neglected genre, Sutton traces the roots of British comedy film to
pre-cinematic entertainments such as music hall, variety and revue, to
situate it as part of a wider cross-media popular aesthetic.



Get Carter and Beyond: The Cinema of Mike Hodges
Literature
Steven Paul Davies
Batsford 2002 192 pages Qty
Paperback Illustrated 0713487909
Published Price £15.99 Our Price £6.99
Interviews recorded with Hodges over a period of two years form the
major
part of this authorized biography of one of Britain's finest
directors. The
book examines the whole of his career, discussing his work in both
art house
and mainstream cinema, with features as disparate as Get Carter, Flash
Gordon and his recent sleeper success, Croupier. Also included are
behind-the-scenes photographs supplied by Hodges himself, and a
filmography
of his work as director and scriptwriter



So You Wanna be a Director?
Ken Annakin
Tomahawk 2001 290 pages Qty
Paperback Illustrated 0953192652
Published Price £16.99 Our Price £4.99
Yorkshire-born Ken Annakin is one of the greatest international film
directors. The last of the English directors to make it in the
international
arena (others included Hitchcock and Lean), this autobiography traces
Annakin's career from his early British films through to Hollywood.
He has
directed, written and produced over 50 feature films in Africa, India,
Malaysia, Scandinavia, China, Europe and the United States. His films
include: Swiss Family Robinson, The Longest Day, Battle of the Bulge,
and
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines.




Greasepaint and Gore
The Hammer Monsters of Roy Ashton Literature
Bruce Sachs ; Russell Wall
Tomahawk 1998 167 pages Qty
Paperback Illustrated 0953192601 297x210mm
Published Price £16.99 Our Price £5.99
Roy Ashton was one of cinema's greatest and most influential make-up
artists. He designed most of Hammer's most famous monsters and became
the
inspiration for many later 'monster makers'. Based on Ashton's notes
for an
autobiography and interviews with the actors and stuntmen he
transformed,
this book traces Ashton's career and looks in turn at his most famous
creations, reproducing his sketches and photographs to go behind the
scenes
in films such as Kiss of the Vampire, The Mummy, Phantom of the Opera
and
The Plague of the Zombies



The Complete Kubrick
David Hughes
Virgin 2000 303 pages Qty
Paperback Illustrated 0753504529
Published Price £15.99 Our Price £7.99
This lively and discursive companion to the work of Stanley Kubrick
has
sections on each of his thirteen feature films and the early shorts,
providing plot summaries, credits, production information and details
of box
office success, as well as lists of trivia and apocrypha. Discussions
of the
controversies and critical reaction which greeted each film complement
Kubrick's own comments on such masterpieces as Dr Strangelove, 2001
and The
Shining.



A Retake Please!
Night Mail to Western Approaches Literature
Pat Jackson
Liverpool University Press 1999 316 pages Qty
Paperback 0853239533
Published Price £16.50 Our Price £5.99
Pat Jackson, ex-messenger boy of John Grierson's GPO film unit and
director
of his own documentary of the Battle of the Atlantic (Western
Approaches),
tells the story of his own ground- breaking film-making.




Lewis and Stempel's Ultimate TV Guide
Literature
Jon E Lewis ; Penny Stempel
Orion 2001 384 pages Qty
Paperback Illustrated 0752846175 245x185mm
Published Price £16.99 Our Price £5.99
This newly revised guide is a mine of useful information on over
1,300 of
the most memorable TV series of the last 48 years. From Muffin the
Mule,
Coronation Street, Star Trek, Colditz and Blake's 7, to the latest
classics
of the digital age, their book contains synopses, cast lists,
broadcasting
details, and critical appraisals of the entertainment form that has
decisively altered our common cultural experience.


Transatlantic Crossings
British Feature Films in the United States Literature
Sarah Street
Continuum 2002 280 pages Qty
Hardback Illustrated 0826413951
Published Price £55.00 Our Price £7.99
In this study of British films exported to America from the 1920s to
2000,
Sarah Street explores topics such as the 'roadshow' system of film
release
and censorship, and discusses the films themselves. No jacket.


Trevor Howard
A Personal Biography
Terence Pettigrew
Peter Owen 2001 279 pages Qty
Hardback Illustrated 0720611245
Published Price £18.95 Our Price £6.99
A biography Trevor Howard (1916-1988), whose theatre and film career
spanned
fifty incident-packed years, and included the incomparable Brief
Encounter


The Historical Film
History and Memory in Media Literature
Marcia Landy (Edited by)
Athlone 2001 350 pages Qty
Paperback 0485300966
Published Price £25.00 Our Price £5.99
Looking at the ways media critics and historians have written about
history
as portrayed in the cinema, this volume of essays focuses on what it
means
to 'read' films historically, with special emphasis on the colonial
experience as rendered in post-colonial films.


Jack Hylton Presents
Literature
Pamela W Logan
BFI 1995 116 pages Qty
Paperback Illustrated 0851705510
Published Price £12.99 Sale Price £2.99
A neglected aspect of television history - the variety shows of 1955-
60 and
Jack Hylton's part in them - revealed through Hylton's own archive of
recorded programmes and related paperwork.



Alec Guinness
A Celebration Literature
John Russell Taylor
Pavilion 2000 192 pages Qty
Paperback Illustrated 1862055017
Published Price £12.99 Our Price £4.99
A tribute to Alex Guinness's life, achievements and passions, this
book
chronicles his career in film, theatre and writing to an Indian
summer that
saw one of his most memorable roles: George Smiley

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