Smiling in Slow Motion - Journals, 1991-1994 by Derek Jarman

$16.00 NZD

Category: Film | Reading Level: good

Derek Jarman'sSmiling in Slow Motionconcludes the journey started inModern Nature; these previously unpublished journals stretch from May 1991 until two weeks before his death in February 1994. Part diary, part observation, part memoir, Jarman writes with his familiar honesty, wry humour and acuity. Fri ends, collaborators and enemies are catalogued as he races through his last year painting, film-making, gardening, and annoying his targets through his involvement in radical politics. ...Show more

Art And The Moving Image - A Critical Reader by Tanya Leighton (ed.)

$35.00 NZD

Category: Film | Reading Level: very good

Presents an array of critical, theoretical, and historical responses that pertain to the arrival of the moving image in contemporary art: its cause, its motivation, and its aesthetic, social, and political significance. This collection also includes seminal historical articles, as well as criticism, inc luding translated and commissioned essays. ...Show more

Truth or Dare - Art and Documentary by Gail Pearce (Editor); Cahal McLaughlin (Editor)

$14.00 NZD

Category: Film | Reading Level: very good

The new wave of documentaries that prominently feature their filmmakers, such as the works of Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock, have attracted fresh, new audiences to the form?but they have also drawn criticism that documentaries now promote entertainment at the expense of truth. Truth or Dare examines the clash between the authenticity claimed by documentaries and their association with imagination and experimental contemporary art. An experienced group of practitioners, artists, and theorists here question this binary, and the idea of documentary itself, in a cross-disciplinary volume that will force us to reconsider how competing interests shape filmmaking.          ...Show more

Key Frames: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies by Matthew Tinkcom and Amy Villarejo (eds)

$15.00 NZD

Category: Film | Reading Level: very good

Casablanca - Script and Legend by Howard Koch

$20.00 NZD

Category: Film | Reading Level: very good

Italian Cinema by Mary P Wood

$15.00 NZD

Category: Film | Reading Level: good-very good

Italian Cinema presents an overview and analysis of one of the most prolific and influential of national cinemas.Italian film has always drawn on a wide range of popular themes - from ancient history to the mafia, the family, the Risorgimento, terrorism, corruption and immigration - and on an equally di verse range of film genres - from comedy to westerns, horror, soft-porn, epics and thrillers. Commercial constraints, state and European funding, international competition, as much as cultural and political trends, have all influenced the sorts of film that get made and exported.Outlining the artistic, cultural, technical and commercial context of film, Italian Cinema presents a history from silent to contemporary film. As well as illuminating the work of classic directors such as Visconti, Fellini, Rossellini, Antonioni and Rosi, the book explores the interaction between art and popular cinema, visual style and spectacle, space and architecture, gender representations and politics. ...Show more

501 Must-See Movies by Chris Darke et al

$20.00 NZD

Category: Film | Reading Level: very good

"501 Must See Movies" is essential reading for both the film buff and those who simply enjoy going to the movies. Many of the unrivalled classics are here, but perhaps seen from a new perspective by dynamic young critics, together with some unexpected and new discoveries.

2001 - Filming The Future by Piers Bizony

$16.00 NZD

Category: Film | Reading Level: very good

Ever, Dirk: The Bogarde Letters by John Coldstream

$14.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

Dirk Bogarde was known as the star of more than sixty films and a critically acclaimed author. To a privileged few, however, he was also a prolific, stimulating and treasured correspondent. Bogarde was a secretive man, who destroyed many of his own papers and diaries. Fortunately, the recipients of his letters treasured them, enabling John Coldstream to bring together this fascinating collection of hitherto unpublished material. Bogarde's letters were invariably frank, gossipy, funny and often malicious. The joy of writing, particularly as he grew older and chose to live in France, was never far away. The letters display the qualities familiar to those who knew the private Bogarde: acute observation, laser-like intelligence, impatience with the foolish, compassion for the needy, a relish for the witty metaphor, and a catastrophic disdain for correct spelling and punctuation. Above all, to read his letters is to hear him talk, and no conversation with Dirk Bogarde was dull. ...Show more

Ingmar Bergman Directs by John Simon

$25.00 NZD

Category: Film | Reading Level: very good

The Man Who Shot Garbo - The Hollywood Photographs of Clarence Sinclair Bull by Terence Pepper and John Kobal

$30.00 NZD

Category: Photography | Reading Level: very good

Cinema and Language by Stephen Heath; Patricia Mellencamp; University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, Center for Twentieth Century Studies Staff (Contribution by)

$12.00 NZD

Category: Film | Series: The American Film Institute Monograph Volume 1 | Reading Level: very good