Small Screens - Essays on Contemporary Australian Television by edited by Michelle Arrow, Jeannine Baker, Clare Monagle
24.95 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
There has been a lot happening on Australia’s small screens. Neighbours turned 30. Struggle Street was accused of poverty porn. Pete evangelised Paleo. Gina got litigious. Netflix muscled in. The Bachelor spawned The Bachelorette. Peter Allen’s maraccas were exhumed. The Labor Party ate itself. Anzac wa ...Show more
The Shining by Laura Mee
27.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre | Series: Devil's Advocates
Taking a fresh look at The Shining (1980), this book situates the film within the history of the horror genre and examines its rightful status as one of the greatest horror movies ever made. It explores how Stanley Kubrick's filmmaking style, use of dark humor, and ambiguous approach to supernatural sto ...Show more
The Ultimate Guide to Vintage Star Wars Action Figures, 1977-1985 by Mark Bellomo
52.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
A Galaxy...of Epic Toys! When Star Wars landed in movie theaters in 1977, it became a popular cultural phenomenon and introduced the world to heroes like Luke Skywalker, super villain Darth Vader, Wookies, Stormtroopers, robots, Jedi Knights, space vehicles and lightsabers. The adventures continued with ...Show more
Kevin Smith's Secret Stash: The Definitive Visual History (Classic Movies, Film History, Cinema Books) by Kevin Smith
85.00 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
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Five Hundred Summer Stories: A Life in IMAX® by Greg MacGillivray
75.00 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
The filmmaker of the surfing documentary Five Summer Stories and pioneer of the IMAX format tells stories from his wild life, and even wilder career, in Hollywood and beyond. Greg MacGillivray is a man with stories. Stories of being a surfer kid in California, and making his first movie at the age of ...Show more
They Shouldn't Have Killed His Dog - The Complete Uncensored Ass-Kicking Oral History of John Wick, Gun Fu, and the New Age of Action by Edward Gross; Mark A. Altman
49.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
There have been iconic moments in the action movie genre over the years, but nothing has come close to matching the kinetic, balletic gun-fu of the John Wick films. In They Shouldn't Have Killed His Dog: The Complete Uncensored Ass-Kicking Oral History of John Wick, Gun Fu, and the New Age of Action, be ...Show more
Tokyo Story - BFI Film Classics by Alastair Phillips
24.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Ozu Yasujiro's moving family drama, Tokyo monogatari/Tokyo Story (1953), is universally acknowledged as one of the most significant Japanese films ever made, and regularly cited as one of the greatest films of all time in polls of leading critics and filmmakers around the world.Telling the story of an e ...Show more
The Lives of Others - (das Leben der Anderen) - BFI Film Classics by Annie Ring
24.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
This study offers a fresh approach to the remarkable German film The Lives of Others (2006), known for its compelling representation of a Stasi surveillance officer and the moral and ethical turmoil that results when he begins spying on a playwright and his actress lover. Annie Ring analyses the film's ...Show more
Clint Eastwood: Master Filmmaker at Work by Michael R. Goldman
49.95 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
One of the most renowned and successful film directors in the world, Clint Eastwood grew up in the Depression era 1930s and was a television actor and then a Hollywood star before transforming himself into a filmmaker. Over time, he joined a very short, exclusive list of lifetime achievements in the wor ...Show more
100 Ideas That Changed Film by David Parkinson
34.95 AUD
Category: Film Theatre | Series: 100 Ideas That Changed...
This inspiring book chronicles the most influential ideas that have shaped film since its inception. Entertaining and intelligent, it provides a concise history as well as being a fascinating resource to dip into. Arranged in a broadly chronological order to show the development of film, the ideas inclu ...Show more
Tim: Vinyl Adventures from Istanbul to San Francisco: Book Two by Tim Burgess
32.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre
In 2012, Tim Burgess of the Charlatans published his hugely successful and critically acclaimed memoir, Telling Stories. Tim really enjoyed his new role as an author, and so here it is: Tim Book Two - a tale of Tim's lifelong passion for records, the shops that sell them, and the people who make them. I ...Show more
A History of Opera - The Last Four Hundred Years by Carolyn Abbate; Roger Parker
29.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre | Reading Level: very good
Abbate and Parker's A History of Opera is the first full new history of opera in sixty years - now in paperback in an updated second edition. "The best single volume ever written on the subject". (The Times Literary Supplement). Why has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries? Carolyn Ab ...Show more