Akira by Michelle Le Blanc; Colin Odell
$26.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Successful in both Japan and the West, Akira had a huge impact on the international growth in popularity of manga and anime. Closely analysing the film and its key themes, Colin O'Dell and Michelle Le Blanc assess its historical importance, its impact on the Western perception of anime, and its influenc ...Show more
Nosferatu (1922): Eine Symphonie Des Grauens by Kevin Jackson
$26.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics
F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922), the first screen adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, remains a potent and disturbing horror film. One of the outstanding documents of Weimar culture's dark side, the film's prevailing themes of human destructiveness, insanity, and moral and physical pollution had a stin ...Show more
Ghibliotheque - The Unofficial Guide to the Movies of Studio Ghibli by Michael Leader; Jake Cunningham
$45.00 AUD
Category: Film & TV | Series: Ghibliotheque Guides
Based on the Ghibliotheque podcast, which leafs through the library of films from the world's greatest animation studio, Studio Ghibli, this fully illustrated book is now updated to include the new 2023 film release, The Boy and the Heron.It reviews each Studio Ghibli movie in turn, in the voice of expe ...Show more
Trainspotting by Murray Smith
$26.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
In 1996 Trainspotting was the biggest thing in British culture. Brilliantly and aggressively marketed, it crossed into the mainstream despite being a black comedy set against the backdrop of heroin addiction in Edinburgh. Produced by Andrew Macdonald, scripted by John Hodge and directed by Danny Boyle, ...Show more
Rocco and His Brothers (Rocco e I Suoi Fratelli) by Sam Rohdie
$24.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Sam Rohdie's insightful and compelling analysis of Luchino Visconti's 1960 epic of modern urban life provides reveals the film as one of the greatest masterpieces of Italian cinema. Rocco tells the story of a family of peasants uprooted from their village in southern Italy, and forced to battle for exis ...Show more
Eraserhead by Claire Henry
$24.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
A surreal and darkly humorous vision, David Lynch's Eraserhead (1977) has been recognised as a cult classic since its breakout success as a midnight movie in the late 1970s. Claire Henry's study of the film takes us into its netherworld, providing a detailed account of its production history, its exhibi ...Show more
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by Peter Kramer
$26.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics
Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) has long been recognised as one of the key artistic expressions of the nuclear age. Made at a time when nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union was a real possibility, the film is menacing, e ...Show more
Alien by Roger Luckhurst
$26.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
A legendary fusion of science fiction and horror, Alien (1979) is one of the most enduring modern myths of cinema - its famously visceral scenes acting like a traumatic wound we seem compelled to revisit. Tracing the constellation of talents that came together to produce the film, Roger Luckhurst ex ...Show more
BOOK OF THE BANNED: Devilish Movies, Dastardly Censors and the Scenes That Made Australia Sweat by Simon Miraudo
$29.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV
BLASPHEMY AND HORROR! SAUCY SWEDES! LUKE SKYWALKER'S CHARRED AUNT & UNCLE! Australia has censored it all. Did you know Aussie audiences were originally banned from watching bona fide classics The Night of the Hunter, Breathless and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (to name just a few out of literal hund ...Show more
The Art of Classic Sci-Fi Movies - An Illustrated History by Adam Newell; Kim Newman (Foreword by)
$79.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
From the dawn of silent cinema to today, sci-fi movies have been a constant presence in pop culture, with mad scientists, terrifying monsters (giant and otherwise), UFOs, and invading aliens all bursting out from some of the most brilliantly designed posters ever printed, featuring art that was sometime ...Show more
Kubrick - An Odyssey by Robert P. Kolker; Nathan Abrams
$65.00 AUD
Category: Film & TV
The most comprehensive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odessey, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange.
Zona On Andrei Tarkovsky'S 'Stalker' by Dyer Geoff
$32.00 AUD
Category: Film & TV
In this spellbinding book, the man 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. Like the film Stalker itself, it confronts the most mysterious and enduring questions of li ...Show more