CCCU. Film Titles books

Long Hard look at 'Psycho'

Paperback, 01/03/2002, £22.99

£20.69

In this detailed analysis of "Psycho", the author explores all the elements that make up this film. In addition he develops various lines of argument about spectatorship, Hollywood narrative codes, psychoanalysis and editing and shot-composition, amongst other themes.

We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most Beloved Movie

Isenberg, Noah

Hardback, 02/11/2017, £25.00

£22.50

Casablanca is "not one movie," Umberto Eco once quipped, "it is 'movies'". Released in 1942, the film won 4 Oscars, including Best Picture and featured unforgettable performances by Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. This book offers a rich account of the film's origins, the myths and realities behind its production.

Inception

Carter, David

Paperback, 01/05/2017, £14.99

£13.49

David Carter examines Christopher Nolan's Inception (2010) in terms of its blurring the distinctions between genres and its explorations of the nature of the mind and how dreams are related to the conscious and unconscious mind. He also considers it in the context of the director's other work.

Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece

Benson, Michael

Paperback, 25/04/2019, £12.99

£11.69

Clockwork Orange

Kramer, Peter

Paperback, 12/09/2011, £21.99

£19.79

Drawing on new research in the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University of the Arts London, Kramer's study explores the production, marketing and reception as well as the themes and style of A Clockwork Orange against the backdrop of Kubrick's previous work and of wider developments in cinema, culture and society from the 1950s to the early 1970s.

Irreversible

Palmer, Tim

Paperback, 12/12/2014, £21.99

£19.79

A critical study of Gasper Noe's Irreversible (2002) in the context of cinema du corps, which seeks to scrutinise the controversies that surround the film and analyse its deliberately incoherent, confrontational style.

Taxi Driver

Schrader, Paul

Paperback, 17/09/1990, £9.99

£8.00

A loner, Travis Bickle, takes up driving a taxi in search of an escape from his sleeplessness and his disgust with the corruption he finds around him. His pent-up rage, fuelled by his doomed relationship with a political campaign worker, leads to an inevitable descent into psychosis and violence.

Game of Thrones: A Guide to Westeros and Beyond: The Only Official Guide to the Complete HBO TV Series

McNutt, Myles

Hardback, 31/10/2019, £20.00

£18.00

Babette's Feast

Baggini, Julian (Writer and philosopher,

Paperback, 28/05/2020, £11.99

£10.79

A Kind of Magic: Making the Original Highlander

Melville, Jonathan

Hardback, 17/09/2020, £16.99

£15.29

Sunrise - BFI Film Classics

FISCHER, L

Paperback, 01/07/1998, £11.99

£10.79

"Sunrise" was a lavish production, famous for its specially constructed sets and one of Hollywood's most ambitious undertakings. Fischer's book is a model of film analysis, locating "Sunrise" in a range of historical, aesthetic and philosophical contexts. In the BFI FILM CLASSICS series.

SHADOWS

RAY CARNEY

Paperback, 01/05/2001, £11.99

£10.79

This is a study of the film "Shadows", directed by John Cassavetes. The film tells the story of three beatnik siblings living together. The film deals with racial issues but the director wished it to be a human film concerned to rescue the "small feelings" of life.

Big Lebowski: Film Classics

TYREE

Paperback, 27/06/2007, £11.99

£10.79

A study that sets the film "The Big Lebowski" into the context of 1990s Hollywood cinema, anatomized for its witty relationship with the classics it satirizes, and discusses in terms of its key theme: the hopeless flailing of ridiculously unmanly men in the world of discombobulated, mixed-up, or put-on identities that is Los Angeles.

Blade Runner

REDMOND, SEAN

Paperback, 01/07/2016, £14.99

£13.49

Sean Redmond excavates the many significances of Blade Runner (1982): its breakthrough use of special effects as a narrative tool; its revolutionary representation of the future city; its treatment of racial and sexual politics; and its unique status as a text whose meaning was fundamentally altered in its re-released forms.

Withnail and the Romantic Imagination: A Eulogy

ROBSON, MAISIE

Paperback, 07/12/2010, £12.00

£10.80

Withnail and I

JACKSON KEVIN

Paperback, 01/04/2004, £11.99

£10.79

Financed by HandMade Films, 'Withnail and I' was Bruce Robinson's first outing as writer-director. The script draws heavily on Robinson's own experiences in the 1960s. Kevin Jackson recounts that experience in addition to giving a full account of the film's production.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Butler, Andrew

Paperback, 31/10/2014, £11.99

£10.79

An instant cult classic, Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was both a critical and commercial success. Andrew M. Butler delves into the film's central themes and production processes, including the intertwined careers of Gondry and Kaufman, the film's various genres, its psychoanalytic aspects, and its debt to Philip K. Dick.

Hunting The Dark Knight

BROOKER WILL

Paperback, 30/05/2012, £16.99

£15.29

Explores Batman's twenty-first century incarnations. This title features analysis of "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight" that offers an account of the complex relationship between popular films, audiences, and producers in our age of media convergence.

Withnail & I: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know But Were Too Drunk To Ask

HEWITT-MCMANUS

Paperback, 13/07/2006, £6.95

£6.26

Firefly Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon's Classic Series

Goodrum, Michael

Hardback, 30/01/2015, £73.00

£35.95

A short lived series created by Joss Whedon, Firefly nonetheless developed such a loyal following that Whedon was compelled to write and direct a big screen sequel in 2005. The show continues to generate a life of its own in books and comic books. This collection of twelve essays focuses on a number of themes including colonialism, race, gender, and politics.

British Films of the 1970s

Newland, Dr. Paul

Paperback, 08/06/2017, £15.99

£14.39

British Films of the 1970s offers highly detailed and insightful critical analysis of a range of individual films of the period. This analysis draws upon an innovative range of critical methodologies which place the film texts within a rich variety of historical contexts.

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Newton, Michael

Paperback, 13/08/2003, £11.99

£10.79

In "Kind Hearts and Coronets" (1949), Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) schemes and murders his way to a dukedom. This title looks into the turbulent personalities that formed the complex style of this film to unravel the fusion of cynicism, contempt, sparkling wit and philosophical curiosity.

Studying Hot Fuzz

Archer, Neil

Paperback, 01/09/2015, £14.99

£13.49

Neil Archer considers to what extent a modestly funded film such as this can be considered 'British' at all

Jacking in to The Matrix

Kapell, Matthew Wilhelm

Paperback, 05/10/2006, £14.99

£13.49

The Matrix films, along with the video games, anime and toys inspired by them, are rich with philosophical, religious and social references that cry out for interpretation. This work examines these ideas in the context of the history of thought and cinema.

"Fires Were Started"

WINSTON, BRIAN

7, 01/09/1999, £11.99

£10.79

This work suggests that Humphrey Jennings' re-enacted documentary about the London Blitz, "Fires Were Started", is an understated propaganda masterpiece. It provides an account of how Jennings recaptured the reality of the Blitz for his cumbersome camera through a process of meticulous research.

Inside Llewyn Davis

ETHAN COEN JOEL

Paperback, 16/01/2014, £12.99

£11.69

Chronicles a struggling young folk singer, played by Oscar Isaacs, who arrives in Manhattan in 1961 and tries to navigate the treacherous waters of the Greenwich Village coffeehouse scene, as well as having to deal with a disaffected girlfriend, his father's dementia, the suicide of his musical partner, and the loss of his friend's cat...

Shooting 007 and Other Celluloid Adventures

MILLS ALEC

Paperback, 01/07/2014, £16.99

£10.19

In Shooting 007, beloved cameraman and director of photography Alec Mills, a veteran of seven James Bond movies, tells the inside story of his twenty years of filming cinema's most famous secret agent.

Seventh Seal (BFI Film Classics)

BRAGG, MELVYN

7, 01/05/1993, £11.99

£10.79

A medieval allegory of faith and doubt, "The Seventh Seal" contains the horrors of witch-burnings and plague, yet also features flashes of peace and joy. Each volume in the "BFI Film Classics" series contains a personal commentary on the film, a brief production history and a detailed filmography.

Chinatown

EATON,MICHAEL

Paperback, 01/11/1997, £11.99

£10.79

This study analyzes "Chinatown" in the context of the figure of the detective in literature and film from Sophocles to Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Hitchcock.

Grand Budapest Hotel

ANDERSON WES

Paperback, 20/03/2014, £12.99

£11.69

Recounts the adventures of Gustave H (Ralph Fiennes), a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa (Tony Revolori), the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend.

Searchers, The

BUSCOMBE, EDWAR

Paperback, 01/09/2000, £11.99

£10.79

John Ford's masterpiece "The Searchers" (1956) was rated fifth greatest film of all time in "Sight and Sound's" poll of critics. Its influence on many of America's most distinguished contemporary filmmakers - among them Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, and John Milius - is enormous. This book provides a commentary on various aspects of the film.

"Nuit Americaine" (" Day for Night" )

CRITTENDEN, ROG

7, 01/07/1998, £11.99

£10.79

This intimate book draws extensively on research in the archives of Francois Truffaut's company, Les Films du Carrosse, and on interviews with many of "La Nuit americaine"'s cast and crew. They bear witness to Truffaut's passion for film.

Seven

DYER,RICHARD

Paperback, 01/04/1999, £11.99

£10.79

Gluttony, greed, sloth, lust, pride, envy, wrath. A serial killer on a warped moral mission who turns his victims' "sins" into the means of their murder. The movie "Seven" is analysed here covering topics such as sin, story, structure, seriality, sound, sight and salvation.

Film Wizardry of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Warner Bros.

Hardback, 18/11/2016, £30.00

£27.00

Take a front-row seat and witness the filmmaking magic that brought J.K. Rowling's script for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them to the screen.

Dark Knight Trilogy

NOLAN CHRISTOPH

Hardback, 26/07/2012, £20.00

£18.00

Physically and psychologically depleted by his encounter with The Joker, in The Dark Knight Rises, Batman must marshal all his forces to meet the threat to Gotham City posed by the masked villain Bane.

HUDSUCKER PROXY SCREENPLAY

COEN, COEN

Paperback, 09/05/1994, £8.99

£8.09

When the head of Hudsucker Industries jumps to his death, the Board of Directors devises a devilish scheme to keep control of the company - appoint as the new President someone who they can push around. Their choice is Norville Barnes - but Norville has a dream of power.

Karaoke and Cold Lazarus

POTTER, DENNIS

7, 15/04/1996, £9.99

£8.99

Two Dennis Potter television screenplays. In "Karaoke", a dying writer more than half-imagines that something he has written has escaped into the world outside. "Cold Lazarus" is set 400 years in the future, where a cryogenically preserved head is being commercially exploited.