Films, cinema

Mikio Naruse's When A Woman Ascends The Stairs (1960) combines high melodrama with modernist film language, telling the story of Keiko, a bar hostess struggling to succeed in Tokyo's Ginza district.

The question that every supermodel gets asked repeatedly is 'how were you discovered?

Peake uses prevailing and emerging models of life-span development along with examples from Cinema to animate psychological understanding and application.

What can survive the end of the world?

This book illustrates how young people engage with pop culture-music, TV, films, fashion, dance, video games, memes, and digital content in its many forms-and outlines lessons that support them in engaging more actively, critically, and strategically.

This anthology of poems and short stories is an homage to Texas singer/song-writer Robert Earl Keen, who stands in the songwriter/storyteller tradition of Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, John Prine, and Keens contemporaries Lyle Lovett and James McMurtry.

How do we tell twenty-first-century war stories when the wars seem to go on forever?

How do we tell twenty-first-century war stories when the wars seem to go on forever?

Claire Denis is one of France's most acclaimed and original filmmakers.

This book explores the dynamics of caste in Bollywood and popular Hindi cinema through an examination of the representation of Dalits since the 1930s.

How are David Lynch's films as much in dialogue with literary and musical traditions as they are cinematic ones?

Mastering Screenplay Form and Style shows you how professional screenwriters actually write scripts.