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A Life of Extremes - The Life and Times of a Polar Filmmaker by Max Quinn
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Max Quinn's filmmaking career has taken him to the ends of the earth; from his native New Zealand to Alaska; Antarctica to the Arctic. A Life of Extremes is a personal account of his travel and work in these remote locations. It focuses on Max's polar filmmaking experiences, which started in 1991 when h ...Show more
The Short Story of Film - A Pocket Guide to Key Genres, Films, Techniques and Movements by Ian Hayden Smith
$35.00 NZD
Category: Film, TV and Theatre | Series: The\Short Story Of Ser.
The Short Story of Film is a new and innovative introduction to the art of film-making. Simply constructed, the book explores 50 key movies, from superhero blockbusters to indie darlings. The design of the book allows the reader to navigate their way around key genres, movements, and techniques with eas ...Show more
Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors by David Thomson
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
In little more than a century of cinema - Birth of a Nation was one hundred years old in 2015 - our sense of what a film director is, or should be, has shifted in fascinating ways. A director was once a functionary; then an important but not decisive part of an industrial process; then accepted as the p ...Show more
Filming the Colonial Past - The New Zealand Wars on Screen by Annabel Cooper
$50.00 NZD
Category: Film, TV and Theatre | Reading Level: near fine
The New Zealand Wars were defining events in the nation's history. Filming the Colonial Past, an engaging new book from Annabel Cooper, tells a story of filmmakers' fascination with these conflicts over the past 90 years. From silent screen to smartphone, and from Pakeha adventurers to young Maori songw ...Show more
Steve Schapiro. the Godfather Family Album. 40th Anniversary Edition by Paul Duncan (Editor)
$58.00 NZD
Category: Film, TV and Theatre
"It's dangerous to be an honest man." -- Michael Corleone, Godfather IIIAs special photographer on the sets and locations of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather trilogy, Steve Schapiro had the remarkable experience of witnessing legendary actors giving some of their most memorable performances. Schapir ...Show more
Walt Disney Film Archives. The Animated Movies 1921-1968 – 40 by Daniel Kothenschulte
$58.00 NZD
Category: Film, TV and Theatre
One of the most creative minds of the 20th century, Walt Disney created a unique and unrivaled imaginative universe. Like scarcely any other classics of cinema, his astonishing collection of animated cartoons revolutionized storytelling on screen and enchant to this day across geographies and generation ...Show more
The Book of Horror - The Anatomy of Fear in Film by Matt Glasby; Barney Bodoano (Illustrator)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Film, TV and Theatre
The Book of Horror introduces the reader to the scariest movies ever made and examines the factors that make them so frightening. Horror movies have never been more critically or commercially successful, but there’s only one metric that matters: are they frightening? Back in the silent era, viewers thr ...Show more
Ridley Scott: A Retrospective by IAN. NATHAN
$65.00 NZD
Category: Film, TV and Theatre
Illustrated with images as iconic as they are stunning and including the author's first-hand experiences on set and interviews with the great director, this magnificent book charts the extraordinary journey of Britain's greatest living director. Telling the stories behind Alien and Blade Runner, Gladiat ...Show more
Star Wars Archives, 1977-1983 – 40 by Paul Duncan (Editor)
$58.00 NZD
Category: Film, TV and Theatre
Star Wars exploded onto our cinema screens in 1977, and the world has not been the same since. After watching depressing and cynical movies throughout the early 1970s, audiences enthusiastically embraced the positive energy of the Star Wars galaxy as they followed moisture farmer Luke Skywalker on his j ...Show more
Lord of the Rings Location Guidebook by Ian Brodie
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Guidebooks | Series: Lord of the Rings Film Tie-In
Since the first screening of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in 2001, New Zealand has become the embodiment of Middle-earth to millions of moviegoers and Tolkien readers the world over. This definitive full-colour guidebook, updated in 2011, showcases the principal movie-set locations ...Show more
Desktop Cinema: Feature Filmmaking On a Home Computer by Graham Robertson
$85.00 NZD
Category: Film, TV and Theatre
Although the number of budding filmmakers and the availability of digital video technology are growing, there are currently no books that encapsulate the process of creating a feature-length film using only a video camera and a home computer. Whether you are an amateur filmmaker or a computer enthusiast ...Show more
The Methuen Book of Modern Monologues for Men by Chrys Salt
$39.95 NZD
Category: Film, TV and Theatre
This is a selection of speeches drawn from the great landmark plays of the twentieth century. The most famous playwrights of the British, American and European theatre, from Shaw to Sartre and Williams to Fo - and the plays most constantly performed on stages around the world - are represented in this u ...Show more