Film & Cinema

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThis is a self-help book like no other. Because you are not helping yourself, James Acaster is helping you.In 2019, James quit all forms of social media...

Kaleb Cooper has strong views on lots of things - sheep, travel, vegetable growing competitions, pigs, New York, perms, Jeremy Clarkson... The World According to Kaleb collects the best of...

Welcome to Staying Relevant, a book written by two best friends . . . contains swearing, adult themes and outrageous stories from life in the spotlight.If you think you know...

Recreate the magical atmosphere of Wes Anderson's best-loved movies with stylish interiors in your own home.Each chapter in this unique interiors book partners a best-loved Wes Anderson movie with a...

This third volume of "The Great Movie Stars" series brings the reader up-to-date on the major movie stars of contemporary Hollywood and European film making. These include the greats whose...

''Early previews are juicer than [Gwyneth''s] viral-for-the-wrong-reasons bonebrothdiet...For someone who stands on business micromanaging herimage...this might be the first time we see behind Hollywood''s mostaspirational curtain'' theSkimm''The new Gwyneth Paltrow...

"For the person who gets a kick out of movies such as Shrek 2 and Finding Nemo, consider Animation Now!, a survey of 80 of the great cartoonists and animation...

Fans of Adventure Time's adorably weird and wonderful post-apocalyptic world will treasure the second volume of Adventure Time: The Original Cartoon Title Cards. This stunning book features the complete set...

You don't have to believe it. I always took the Matthew Passion with a pinch of salt.Ramsden, Yorkshire, 1916. The ambitious local Choral Society is depleted as men volunteer for...

Before Breakfast at Tiffany' s Audrey Hepburn was still a little-known actress with few film roles to speak of; after it - indeed, because of it - she was one...

'God put me on this earth to raise sheer hell.' Richard Burton'I was a sinner. I slugged some people. I hurt many people. And it's true, I never looked back...

#1 New York Times bestselling author and investigator Ian Halperin pulls back the curtain on America's notorious Kardashian family - exposing their shaky foundation for fame - one shocking revelation...

This is the definitive, the official, the most lavish, the completely-different-to-anything-done-before Pythons' autobiography, reissued to coincide with the eagerly-anticipated live shows.Over forty years ago, a group of five Englishmen -...

Written together with friend and journalist Boyd Hilton, Inside Little Britain follows a year in the lives of Matt Lucas and David Walliams - the good, the bad, the mundane...

"Do, or do not. There is no try." - Yoda"Whenever you gamble, my friend, eventually you lose.' - Qui-Gon JinnFrom the original films to the newest TV releases, Star Wars...

In the sequel to Russell's best-selling biography 'My Booky Wook' we follow the now sober but still scandalous, sex-fuelled star on his electrifying rise to international fame. A roller coaster...

Published against a big multimedia TV event, this book is a jargon-free idiot's guide to tracing your family history. Light in tone, sometimes funny, often moving, and aimed at absolutely...

At the heart of this book is a cry for change in attitude - to respect nature and all that it provides. Virginia McKenna has pushed aside the glamour of...

___________________They had a cunning plan.A few decades ago, three young grads from England's greatest universities - Oxford, Cambridge, and Hull (actually, Manchester) - came up with a historical comedy series....

Dive into the bizarre yet strangely familiar world of Mitchell and Webb - the wittiest men on television, or anywhere else. From the two finest comedians of their generation comes...

Historical film studies is a burgeoning field, with a large and ever growing number of publications from across the globe. The History on Film Reader distils this mass of work,...

Greta Garbo's uniquely photogenic beauty belies her great talent as an actress, as her performances in "Queen Christina" and "Camille" prove. A hint of a Garbo smile, touch, or glance...

Film teachers and students will welcome this new anthology, which makes available in one source a comprehensive selection of recent theoretical work on film, including many articles difficult to locate...

A key collection of essays that looks at the specific issues related to the documentary form. Questions addressed include `What is documentary?' and `How fictional is nonfiction?'

Poet, pirate, libertine - how do we even describe the alienated beauty of Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow, Donnie Brasco, Don Juan DeMarco, Captain Jack Sparrow...

James Dean died at the age of 24, yet half a century later his mystique is unfaded. Had luck favored him that fatal evening, he might still be with us,...

This book is a lively and provoking introduction to film theory. It is suitable for students from any discipline but is particularly aimed at students studying film and literature as...

Alicia Malone's Take on Influential Women in Film!"Once again Alicia Malone champions women filmmakers, opening the floodgates to a great new wave of female voices and creative vision." Maria Giese,...

The concern of film theorists to read films as texts has led them to neglect the equally pressing need to see films as drama. Roy Armes sets out to redress...

The film director or `auteur' has been central in film theory and criticism over the past thirty years. Theories of Authorship documents the major stages in the debate about film...

Erasing virtually all traces of 1960s and 70s 'New Wave' experimentation, American film in the 1980s has returned with a vengeance to a more linear, conventional style. In this newly...

A must-read collection for any film fan. Delve into the glitz and glamour of Hollywood with this collection of obituaries from The Times. From the silent film era to Hollywood's...

Get the kettle on, the biscuits out and settle in for a belting read.Let Paddy McGuinness take you back, far, far away from celebrity land, to a two-up, two-down terrace...

"Billy", the ground-breaking biography of the nation's favourite iconoclast, gave millions of readers a fascinating insight into the personal and professional life of the genius that is Billy Connolly. Now,...

A Ferrari F40 has it, a Lexus hasn't. Concorde's got it, but not an Airbus. And while Titanic had it in spades, the Queen Mary 2 must have been in...

Debbie Reynolds tells the story of her life as a film star, her turbulent marriages to Eddie Fisher, Harry Karl and finally happiness with real-estate developer Richard Hamlett. This is...