Film history, theory or criticism

This book offers a new approach to filmic point of view by combining close analyses informed by the tools of narratology and philosophy with concepts derived from communication studies.

Regarding the real develops an original approach to documentary film, focusing on its aesthetic relations to visual arts such as animation, assemblage, photography, painting and architecture.

Newly available in paperback, this book looks at how rap and metal have been highly engaged with America's role in the world, supercapitalism and their own role within it.

This is the first major study in English of cine quinqui, a cycle of popular Spanish films from the late 1970s and early 1980s that starred real-life juvenile delinquents.

Celine Sciamma's 2011 film Tomboy is the central work in the French filmmaker's coming-of-age trilogy.

Jason Statham has risen from street seller through championship diving and modelling to become arguably the biggest British male film star of the twenty-first century.

This book investigates the new language of vulnerability that has emerged in feminist, queer and antiracist debates on media, taking a particular interest in the historical legacies and contemporary forms and effects of this language.

With Hollywood's Celebrity Playground, Howard Johns picks up where his Palm Springs Confidential left off-this time covering the other fabled desert resort towns that stretch from Hollywood to Las Vegas.

Civilization seems to move ever more toward the power of words over weapons.

Over the last three decades, Scottish cinema has seen an unprecedented number of international successes.

This is about musicians' working lives in Britain from the late Victorian era to the present day.

British rural landscapes on film offers insights into how rural areas in Britain have been represented on film, from the silent era, through both world wars, and on into the twenty-first century.

British rural landscapes on film offers insights into how rural areas in Britain have been represented on film, from the silent era, through both world wars, and on into the twenty-first century.

Adapting Philosophy looks at the ways in which The Matrix Trilogy adapts Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation, and in doing so creates its own distinctive philosophical position.

Humphrey Jennings has been described as the only real poet that British cinema has produced.

This thorough account of the life and films of the Spanish-Basque filmmaker Julio Medem is the first book in English on the internationally renowned writer-director of Vacas, La ardilla roja (Red Squirrel), Tierra, Los amantes del Circulo Polar (Lovers of the Arctic Circle), Lucia y el sexo (Sex and Lucia), La pelota vasca: la piel contra la piedra (Basque Ball) and Caotica Ana (Chaotic Ana),Initial chapters explore Medem's childhood, adolescence and education and examine his earliest short films and critical writings against a background of a dramatically changing Spain.

Alex de la Iglesia, initially championed by Pedro Almodovar, and at one time the enfant terrible of Spanish film, still makes film critics nervous.

This book explores the changing representation of the couple, focusing on themes of marriage, equality and desire.

Despite his controversial reputation and international notoriety as a film-maker, no full-length study of Clouzot has ever been published in English.

This book offers an opportunity to reconsider the films of the British New Wave in the light of forty years of heated debate.

One of the most gifted directors of the post New Wave, Maurice Pialat is frequently compared to such legendary filmmakers as Jean Renoir and Robert Bresson.

This is the first full-length monograph in English about one of France's most important contemporary filmmakers, perhaps best known in the English speaking world for his award winning Les Roseaux sauvages/Wild Reeds of 1994.

This book is a hands-on study skills guide that explores how film and moving image can be used as sources.

One of the most gifted directors of the post New Wave, Maurice Pialat is frequently compared to such legendary filmmakers as Jean Renoir and Robert Bresson.

Humphrey Jennings has been described as the only real poet that British cinema has produced.

This book offers an opportunity to reconsider the films of the British New Wave in the light of forty years of heated debate.

This thorough account of the life and films of the Spanish-Basque filmmaker Julio Medem is the first book in English on the internationally renowned writer-director of Vacas, La ardilla roja (Red Squirrel), Tierra, Los amantes del Circulo Polar (Lovers of the Arctic Circle), Lucia y el sexo (Sex and Lucia), La pelota vasca: la piel contra la piedra (Basque Ball) and Caotica Ana (Chaotic Ana),Initial chapters explore Medem's childhood, adolescence and education and examine his earliest short films and critical writings against a background of a dramatically changing Spain.

This book undertakes a unique, coherent and comprehensive consideration of the depiction of naval warfare in the cinema.

This is the first full-length monograph in English about one of France's most important contemporary filmmakers, perhaps best known in the English speaking world for his award winning Les Roseaux sauvages/Wild Reeds of 1994.

Despite his controversial reputation and international notoriety as a film-maker, no full-length study of Clouzot has ever been published in English.

Alex de la Iglesia, initially championed by Pedro Almodovar, and at one time the enfant terrible of Spanish film, still makes film critics nervous.

Seeking to rebuild the Russian film industry after its post-Soviet collapse, directors and producers sparked a revival of nationalist and patriotic sentiment by applying Hollywood techniques to themes drawn from Russian history.

What happens when social and political processes such as globalization shape cultural production?

Want to grow more marijuana than you can smoke?

Electric Sounds brings to vivid life an era when innovations in the production, recording, and transmission of sound revolutionized a number of different media, especially the radio, the phonograph, and the cinema.

A Queer Film Classic on the 2005 film debut by French-Canadian director Jean-Marc Valle (best known for Dallas Buyers Club and Wild), about a young gay man who struggles to find his sense of self amidst a "e;crazy"e; family of four brothers and a homophobic father who seeks to cure him.

Beyond Buds is a handbook to the future of marijuana.

A wide range of pests, diseases, and nutrient deficiencies can zap the vitality of any cannabis garden.

All of our lives we have heard marijuana is bad for us, the first step to drug addiction and life as a slacker, but it just isn't true!

DANK is simply the very best marijuana, grown to perfection.

DJ Shorts essays on the craft of indoor cannabis cultivation show how any hobbyist can refine gardening technique and achieve mastery.

The Big Book of Buds Volume 2 continues in the tradition of its predecessor by combining stunning, full-color photography with fun and clear descriptions of the characteristics that any gardener or connoisseur wants to know.

This full-color guide showcases the diversity of cannabis varieties.

In the long-awaited sequel to his surprise bestseller, "e;Save the Cat!

In their bold experimentation and bracing engagement with culture and politics, the New Hollywood films of the late 1960s and early 1970s are justly celebrated contributions to American cinematic history.

For as long as people have been migrating to London, so has their music.

An eye-opening and essential tour of the vanishing worldWhat if Atlantis wasn t a myth, but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding?

Using C.

Against the idea that comedy offers us a relief from the horrors of the real world, the German-Jewish-American filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch defended his masterpiece To Be or Not to Be, a comedy from 1942 about the concurrent Nazi occupation of Poland, with the claim that he had made up his mind "e;to make a picture with no attempt to relieve anybody from anything at any time.

"e;The meaning of life is the most urgent of questions,"e; said Albert Camus.