What Happens Next - A History of American Screenwriting by Marc Norman
$16.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
Screenwriters have always been viewed as Hollywood's stepchildren. Silent-film comedy pioneer Mack Sennett forbade his screenwriters from writing anything down, for fear they'd get inflated ideas about themselves as creative artists. The great midcentury director John Ford was known to answer studio exe ...Show more
A Decade of New Zealand Film - Sleeping Dogs to Came A Hot Friday by Nicholas Reid
$20.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
Dad Goes to the Movies (1941) by Les Tweedie; Jaq Tweedie
$10.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: near fine
When war was declared in 1939, Les Tweedie was at the movies with his sweetheart, Peg. He enlisted, married her, and went off to serve New Zealand as a soldier for the next six years. In 1941, he noted in his tiny personal soldier's diary every film he saw, and many other things that happened in that ve ...Show more
An Angel at My Table - The Screenplay from the Three Volume Autobiography of Janet Frame by Laura Jones
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
Adapted from the autobiographies of Janet Frame, this is the screenplay for the highly acclaimed film on the life of the New Zealand writer. It covers her childhood in the depression, her wasted years in mental hospitals, wrongly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, through to her success with her first nov ...Show more
Showman: The Life of David O. Selznick by David Thomson
$20.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
David O. Selznick, the legendary producer and maker of Gone With the Wind, is brilliantly portrayed in this full-scale biography by the first writer to be given complete access to Selznick's voluminous and revealing papers - everything from script notes, production reports, and contract memos, to letter ...Show more
Eighty Turbulent Years - The Paramount Theatre Wellington 1917-1997 by David Lascelles
$20.00 NZD
Category: Regional | Reading Level: near fine
Shadows on the Wall - A Study of Seven New Zealand Feature Films by Barbara Cairns; Helen Martin
$25.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
Reframing Women - A History of New Zealand Film by Deborah Shepard
$25.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
In this detailed and very readable book, Deborah Shepard paints a vivid picture of New Zealand film history, with frank interviews and first-hand stories from women who have worked behind the camera, and often behind the scenes, over the last 60 years. Their legacy is a vibrant array of films that have ...Show more
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - The Movie Storybook by Paddy Kempshall
$8.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: near fine
Relive the story of The Hobbit : An Unexpected Journey in this fantastic photo-filled book. Battling against Goblins, Wargs and other forces of evil, will Bilbo Baggins and the Company of Dwarves find the strength to help recapture the lost Kingdom of Erebor With this amazing re-telling, you too can vis ...Show more
Blade Runners, Deer Hunters, and Blowing the Bloody Doors Off - My life in cult movies by Michael Deeley
$15.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
One man links "The Deer Hunter", "Blade Runner", "The Italian Job", "Don't Look Now", "The Wicker Man" and "The Man Who Fell To Earth". Producer Michael Deeley, an urbane Englishman in Hollywood, had to fight wars to get these movies made, from defending the legendary sex scene of "Don't Look Now" from ...Show more
Cheer Up! - British Musical Films 1929-1945 by Adrian Wright
$25.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: near fine
Cheer Up! is the first book to deal exclusively with the British musical film from the very beginning of talking pictures in the late 1920s through the Depression of the 1930s up to the end of World War II. The upsurge in production at British studios from 1929 onwards marked the real birth of a genre w ...Show more