Cinema Books
Authorship And The Films Of David Lynch
$39.00 – Paperback book / I B Tauris
This important new contribution to studies on authorship and film explores the ways in which shared and disputed opinions on aesthetic quality, originality, and authorial essence have shaped receptions of Lynch's films. ... Buy or find out more →
Zona: A Book About A Film About A Journey To A Room
$22.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Geoff Dyer, described by the Daily Telegraph as ‘possibly the best living writer in Britain’, takes on his biggest challenge yet: unlocking the film that has obsessed him all his adult life. Magnificently unpredictable a... Buy or find out more →
The Art Of Pixar - 25th Anniversary: The Complete Color Scripts and Select Art from 25 Years of Animation
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
Over the past 25 years, Pixar s team of artists, writers, and directors have shaped the world of contemporary animation with their feature films and shorts. From classics such as Toy Story and A Bug s Life to recent mast... Buy or find out more →
The Art of the Adventures of Tintin
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
Buy The Art of the Adventures of Tintin or The Adventures of Tintin Remastered DVD box set online or in-store at Readings during December and go in the draw to win an exhilarating trip for two through the vibrant lands... Buy or find out more →
Cannes Cinema: A Visual History Of The World's Greatest Film Festival
$49.95 – Paperback book /
Cannes Cinema is an extraordinary family photo album of the greatest international film gala: the Festival de Cannes.
From the very first Cannes Film Festival in 1939 right up to the present day, three generations of pho... Buy or find out more →
Tim Burton
$49.95 – Hardcover book /
Tim Burton is one of the most popular and innovative creative forces working in Hollywood today. From his first films as a cinema obsessed adolescent to his most recent Hollywood blockbusters like Sweeney Todd and Alice ... Buy or find out more →
That Movie Book: Awesome, Weird And Wonderful Flicks For Every Weekend of Your Year
$27.99 – Paperback book / Abc Books
SO MANY MOVIES ...
But which ones are worth watching? With Marc Fennell′s That Movie Book in your hand, you will never again be at a loss for what to pick up in the DVD store.
Movie critic and mischief-maker Marc Fenne... Buy or find out more →
Real And Reel: The Education Of A Film Obsessive Critic
$29.95 – Paperback book / Sid Harta Publishers
Real and Reel is a light-hearted, ironic account of a lifetime's addiction. It is one person's story, but it may strike familiar sparks among many others. Though there have been plenty of other interests to keep life liv... Buy or find out more →
The Sound Of Pictures: Listening To The Movies From Hitchcock To High Fidelity
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
The Sound of Pictures is an illuminating journey through the soundtracks of more than 400 films. How do filmmakers play with sound? And how does that affect the way we watch their movies? Whether pop or classical, sweepi... Buy or find out more →
Tim Burton: Masters Of Cinema
$12.95 – Paperback book /
Tim Burton (USA, b. 1958) is the youngest of Hollywood's most successful directors. He has the knack of making films with a very broad appeal, taking the silliness out of the representation of children, while remaining i... Buy or find out more →
Alfred Hitchcock Masters Of Cinema
$12.95 – Paperback book /
Cahiers du cinéma started with a monthly magazine of almost mythical status. Founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Lo Duca and Léonide Keigel, Cahiers du cinéma changed the course of cinema for ever wh... Buy or find out more →
David Lynch Masters Of Cinema
$12.95 – Paperback book /
David Lynch (USA, b. 1946) is perhaps the best known of all cult directors, whose Mulholland Drive marks cinema's arrival to the 21st century. His career began more than 30 years ago, with the groundbreaking, mystifying ... Buy or find out more →
Steven Spielberg Masters Of Cinema
$12.95 – Paperback book /
Steven Spielberg (USA, b. 1946) was the boy wonder of the new Hollywood of the 1970s. Taking Orson Welles as his model, he made Duel aged only 25, following it up with a string of successes that brought him the adulation... Buy or find out more →
Martin Scorsese Masters Of Cinema
$12.95 – Paperback book /
Martin Scorsese (USA, b. 1942) is among the most prolific of American directors, having made more than 25 features in a 40-year career that has seen him garner all the highest honours the film world can bestow. Since the... Buy or find out more →
Stanley Kubrick Masters Of Cinema
$12.95 – Paperback book /
Stanley Kubrick (USA, 1928–99) was a master who took the art of filmmaking further than any other contemporary director, a creative perfectionist whose work now fascinates new generations. He started out as a photographe... Buy or find out more →
Clint Eastwood Masters Of Cinema
$12.95 – Paperback book /
Clint Eastwood (USA, b. 1930) is a veteran among the grand masters of contemporary American cinema, whose rise through the system took a highly unusual form. After playing iconic roles in Sergio Leone's spaghetti western... Buy or find out more →
Francis Ford Coppola Masters Of Cinema
$12.95 – Paperback book /
Francis Ford Coppola (USA, b. 1939) is the oldest of the generation of 'movie brats', including Scorsese and Spielberg, who breathed new life into the Hollywood of the 1970s. He revived the glory of the studio age with t... Buy or find out more →
Pedro Almodovar Masters Of Cinema
$12.95 – Paperback book /
Pedro Almodóvar (Spain, b. 1951) single-handedly represents the revival of Spanish cinema as part of the cultural flowering of the Movida Madrileña in the 1980s. New York was first to hail the unbridled imagination of th... Buy or find out more →
Woody Allen Masters Of Cinema
$12.95 – Paperback book /
Woody Allen (USA, b. 1935) has been a major comic director since the 1970s. Writer, director and actor, his self-portrayal as a neurotic, intellectual, sex-obsessed, Jewish New Yorker seeking comfort in psychoanalysis br... Buy or find out more →
The Making of Fantastic Mr Fox
$48.95 – Hardcover book / Rizzoli
Official companion to the new film of the Roald Dahl classic, full of storyboards, sketches, screen shots, behind-the-scenes photos and a commentary of how the story was developed. Buy or find out more →
Animal Kingdom (Film Tie-In)
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press
Everything sits in the order somewhere.
Things survive because they're strong and everything reaches an understanding.
But not everything survives because it's strong.
Some creatures are weak.
Armed robber Pope Cody is o... Buy or find out more →
Must-See Movies: An Essential Guide
$34.99 – Paperback book / Carlton Books
Sometimes a movie has such a strong pull that, after viewing it, you want everybody you know--and even strangers--to see it. In Must-See Movies, author Ward Calhoun shares an eclectic mix of motion pictures that he consi... Buy or find out more →
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (Updated Edition)
$45.00 – Paperback book / Abc Books
Editor Stephen Jay Schneider has brought together 1001 movies ranging from art house classics to westerns, written by leading film critics and journalists. Often witty, always informative, the reviews in this huge volume... Buy or find out more →
101 Sci-Fi Movies You Must See Before You Die
$24.99 – Paperback book / Abc Books
Can you tell your Dagobah from your Delos and your Ming from your Morlock? Do you need help understanding 2001: A Space Odyssey? From the classic low-budget Flash Gordon tales to the slick CGI-realised world of The Matri... Buy or find out more →
My First Movie Take Two
$27.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
A sequel to the critically acclaimed "My First Movie," Stephen Lowenstein once again talks to some of our most celebrated filmmakers about their debut films. Lowenstein interviews ten directors about their career-launchi... Buy or find out more →
Have You Seen A Personal Introduction To One Thousand Films
$49.95 – Trade paperback / Allen Lane
This is possibly the most entertaining, surprising and enjoyable film book ever written. Thomson set himself the near-foolhardy task of writing one page each on 1000 of the films that he has particularly liked - or in so... Buy or find out more →
The Invisible Cut
$42.95 – Paperback book / Michael Wiese
This definitive book about film editing pulls back the curtain and shows us how the mysterious art of editing is actually done. Using examples from the best editors in the world, author O’Steen explains to us what the ed... Buy or find out more →
Jane Campion
$48.00 – Paperback book / Routledge
This first detailed account of Jane Campion's career as a filmmaker introduces students to the key debates surrounding this controversial and experimental director - a great introduction to one of the most important dire... Buy or find out more →
Film: A World History
$19.95$8.95 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant
A detailed guide to film that is overflowing with information and over 500 colour and black & white photographs. Film: A World History takes the movie lover through all of the notable eras of filmmaking exploring the... Buy or find out more →
Behind A Velvet Light Trap
$30.00 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
As the editor of the classic films Wake in Fright, Age of Consent and Nureyev’s Don Quixote, and producer of such masterly films as Caddie, Bliss, The Oyster Farmer, The Night of the Prowler and The Killing of Angel St... Buy or find out more →
101 Gangster Movies You Must See Before You Die
$24.99 – Paperback book / Abc Books
From the Prohibition-era classics of Mervyn LeRoy and William A. Wellman to the mean streets and Mafiosi of Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, 101 Gangster Movies You Must See Before You Die explores the rise of t... Buy or find out more →
101 Horror Movies You Must See Before You Die
$24.99 – Paperback book / Abc Books
Vampires, monsters, sadistic psychopaths, serial killers, vengeful ghosts, and Satan himself have been frightening and entertaining filmgoers for generations. This comprehensive, chronological film guide summarizes the 1... Buy or find out more →