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On Reddit we have r/dvdcollection, r/boutiquebluray, r/4kbluray, r/steelbook, r/vhs, etc but let's start simply with a community to cover all the forms of home video collecting.

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As well as booklets included in limited and deluxe editions, Arrow Films also release books usually written by the authors of the booklets.

This month in books, we have all eight of the titles that our good friends at Arrow Video have released. For the uninitiated, Arrow Video have been releasing the ultimate home video editions of some of our favorite films for many years now. More recently, they decided to put their extraordinary talents to use creating beautiful and incredibly informative books about films and filmmakers that have been largely ignored by mainstream film studies.

They are:

  • Unchained Melody: The Films of Meiko Kaji by Tom Mes
  • Ghost in the Shell by Andrew Osmond
  • The Hitcher by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
  • The Blair Witch Project by Russ Gomm
  • All the Colours of Sergio Martino by Kat Ellinger
  • The Man Who Fell To Earth: Novel to Film by Samuel J. Umland
  • Philip K. Dick On Film by Gregg Rickman
  • Father, Son, Sword: The Lone Wolf and Cub Saga by Tom Mes

I'll do a more general Books on Films post at some point.

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[–] Emperor 1 points 1 year ago

They have also published a kind of collection of a number of their booklets, Cult Cinema: An Arrow Video Companion:

Cult Cinema: An Arrow Video Companion collects twenty standout essays from Arrow's catalog along with ten new pieces, each penned by a seasoned film critic, cult cinema historian, or filmmaker.

Though nearly every chapter bears some connection to an Arrow release, this hardcover collection never loses sight of the fact that it's titled Cult Cinema first and foremost. This is particularly significant to readers outside of the UK. Not a single one of the seven films featured in the "Cult Movies" section has been released by Arrow in the United States, for instance. Its deep dive into seminal genre works and the filmographies of those who brought them to life are by no means limited to Arrow releases either. This sincerely is a companion, not a catalog masquerading as a coffee table book.

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