Film, Cinema & Television (£5 or Less)

Hardcover | 15.6 x 1.7 x 23.39 cm | 152 pp Faber & Faber | 2023 | 9780571383207 The book of the screenplay of Asteroid City - Wes Anderson's 2023 theatrical ensemble character piece; a poetic meditation on the meaning of life. Also included...

Nick Fraser Softcover | 15.24 x 2.54 x 23.5 cm | 416 pp Faber & Faber | 2019 | 9780571329564 Documentary films are the rock and roll of our times. Why are they made? Who are in the tribe of documentary film-makers? Do their films really...

Joseph Maddrey Softcover | 13.72 x 0.56 x 19.15 cm | 96 pp Liverpool University Press | 2020 | 9781916084223 The makers of Brainstorm (1983) spent more than a decade transferring the revolutionary concept of an "empathy machine" from page to screen, only for the famously troubled...

Marcia Landy Softcover | 12.75 x 0.81 x 18.54 cm | 130 pp Wayne State University Press | 2005 | 9780814331033 One of the most innovative comedic programs to air on television, Monty Python’s Flying Circus was a mix of the carnivalesque and the critical....

J P Telotte Softcover | 12.8 x 0.86 x 18.14 cm | 136 pp Wayne State University Press | 2004 | 9780814330845 This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Walt Disney Company's network television series Disneyland/The Wonderful World of Color. The series, part of...

Walter Metz Softcover | 13.34 x 1.27 x 17.78 cm | 160 pp Wayne State University Press | 2007 | 9780814332313 The classic situation comedy Bewitched chronicled the everyday lives of Samantha, a witch, and Darrin Stephens, her mortal husband, dramatising the often humorous...

Maggie Hoffgen Softcover | 23.98 x 1.78 x 17.81 cm | 256 pp Auteur Publishing |  2017 | 9781906733001 Taking a text-led, chronological approach, Studying German Cinema is directed at non-specialists such as students of German, Film Studies, and the general reader with an...

Paul Fischer Softcover | 12.9 x 2.5 x 19.8 cm | 416 pp Faber & Faber | 2023 | 9780571348657 In 1888, Louis Le Prince shot the world's first motion picture in Leeds, England. In 1890, weeks before the planned public unveiling of his camera and...

Lenny Henry & Marcus Ryder Softcover | 11.1 x 1.3 x 17.8 cm | 192 pp Faber & Faber | 2021 | 9780571365128 Sir Lenny Henry rang up the Office for National Statistics to confirm something he'd been thinking about for a long time. They...

Dominic Dromgoole Softcover | 13.34 x 2.54 x 20.32 cm | 384 pp Profile Books | 2023 | 9781788166812 Astonish Me! is an adrenaline-charged rollercoaster through history's seismic first nights, exploring how individual artists can change and shape the story of culture - and allow...

Softcover | 17.78 x 1.27 x 23.5 cm | 96 pp Black Dog Publishing | 2017 | 9781911164128 Featuring four films by the young Irish filmmaker Kevin Gaffney, Unseen By My Open Eyes is the first publication on the artist's work, exploring the psychological landscapes he...