Silver Screens: Spectacular cinemas from Hollywood to Hong Kong
A celebration of the world’s most cherished cinemas, from vintage movie houses to quirky start-ups.
Film history, theory or criticism
Silver Screens: Spectacular cinemas from Hollywood to Hong Kong
A celebration of the world’s most cherished cinemas, from vintage movie houses to quirky start-ups.
Silver Screens: Spectacular cinemas from Hollywood to Hong Kong
A celebration of the world’s most cherished cinemas, from vintage movie houses to quirky start-ups.
Silver Screens: Spectacular cinemas from Hollywood to Hong Kong
A celebration of the world’s most cherished cinemas, from vintage movie houses to quirky start-ups.
The Story of Film: Unabridged edition
An updated edition – with completely new chapters – of the most accessible and compelling history of the cinema yet published, and complements Mark Cousins’ fascinating 15-hour film documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey.
The Story of Film
An updated edition – with completely new chapters – of the most accessible and compelling history of the cinema yet published, and complements Mark Cousins’ fascinating 15-hour film documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey.
100 Posters That Changed The World
A collection of the world’s most memorable, provocative, best-selling and groundbreaking posters from Johannes Gutenberg to Barack Obama.
The Story of Film
An updated edition – with completely new chapters – of the most accessible and compelling history of the cinema yet published, and complements Mark Cousins’ fascinating 15-hour film documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey.
Cinema's Strangest Moments
How did Leonardo DiCaprio become a hero on The Beach?
Why would the Droids lode control in Star Wars?
What persuaded Mad Max to become Hamlet?
Who made Long John Silver’s parrot dread Treasure Island?
When was there a curse on The Exorcist?
Robert Downey Jr.
The Comeback Kid will be the first biography of Robert Downey Jr. A Detailed and authoritative account of the life,
The Hobbit Companion
Exploring the brilliant web of verbal hocus-pocus that J.R.R. Tolkien delightedly spun in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, master hobbit investigator David Day reveals the myriad crafty puns and riddles, hidden meanings, and mythical associations beneath the saga’s thrilling surface.
The Hobbit Companion
Exploring the brilliant web of verbal hocus-pocus that J.R.R. Tolkien delightedly spun in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, master hobbit investigator David Day reveals the myriad crafty puns and riddles, hidden meanings, and mythical associations beneath the saga’s thrilling surface.
The Four Dreams of Miss X
Contrary to popular belief, wooden shipbuilding did not remain static during its last two centuries, but developed in many quite fundamental respects. For the modelmaker and technical historian who have long sought the precise details of these changes, this book will answer most, if not all, of their questions.