Films, cinema

Discovering your true self through fandom is a complicated journey.

Research shows that, while people around the world consistently nominate television as their most important news source, much of the content of news bulletins is lost to viewers within moments.

This book presents cosmopolitanism as a useful methodological approach to understand the transnational synergies present in contemporary cinema.

This two-volume reader is intended to accompany undergraduate courses in the history of Russian cinema and Russian culture through film.

The first life of the man who was Lord Peter Wimsey, Bertie Wooster and starred in Im Alright, Jack!

The musical scores of Stanley Kubrick's films are often praised as being innovative and forward-looking.

Though Luis Buuel, one of the most important filmmakers of the twentieth century, spent his most productive years as a director in Mexico, film histories and criticism invariably pay little attention to his work during this period.

Costume is an active agent for performance-making; it is a material object that embodies ideas shaped through collaborative creative work.

Everywhere you look in 1970s American cinema, you find white working-class men.

High-definition is now ubiquitous in video production and High Definition Cinematography, Third Edition provides the explanations, definitions, and workflows that today's cinematographers and camera operators need to make the transition.

With its rich political and literary history, Dublin is a sought after destination for cinematographers who have made use of the city's urban streetscapes and lush pastoral settings in many memorable films - among them Braveheart, The Italian Job and the 2006 musical drama Once.

Sex and Sexuality in Modern Screen Remakes examines how sexiness, sexuality and revisited sexual politics are used to modernize film and TV remakes.

This book is a pioneering study of Blaxploitation horror films, connecting them with both mainstream horror movies and classic Gothic texts.

Many critics have approached Terrence Malick's work from a philosophical perspective, arguing that his films express philosophy through cinema.

Before his death in 2016, Abbas Kiarostami wrote or directed more than thirty films in a career that mirrored Iranian cinema's rise as an international force.

Suspect Culture was Scotland s leading experimental theatre company between 1993 and 2009.

They made fans go crazy and censors apoplectic, spent fortunes faster than they made them, forged Rembrandts and hung them in major museums, went on trial for committing statutory rape with necrophiliac teenage girls, reinterpreted Hamlet as an incestuous mamas boy,and swilled immeasurable quantities of spirits during week-long parties on wobbly yachts.

The Internet is the most terrifying and most beautifully innovative invention of the twentieth century.

Immersive Sound Production is a handbook for the successful implementation of immersive sound for live sports and entertainment.

'A must read' JAMIE WINDUST'A beautifully honest book' JUNO ROCHE'A superb and necessary book' BEN PECHEYAs a young, queer, plus-size person, Essie Dennis has spent a lot of time feeling like they weren't enough - not queer enough, not feminine enough, not perfect enough.

This comprehensive study of the Western covers its history from the early silent era to recent spins on the genre in films such as No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, True Grit, and Cowboys & Aliens.

In a market long dominated by Hollywood, French films are consistently the most widely distributed non-English language works.

The Far Shore (1976), made under the direction of celebrated visual artist and experimental filmmaker Joyce Wieland, is one of Canada's most innovative contributions to cinema.

Screenwriting for micro-budget films can present its own challenges and this book takes the reader through all the considerations that need to be made to write an effective screenplay for a low-budget film.

Much of 20th century science fiction foretold technological and social developments beyond the year 2000.

Zombies have become an increasingly popular object of research in academic studies and, of course, in popular media.

For the first time EVER, global superstars One Direction are releasing their 100% official autobiography, offering a new, intimate insight into their lives as never before seen or heard!

Toys--those celebrated childhood cohorts and lead actors in children's imaginative play--have a fantastic history of heroism in fiction.

The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale in British Literature, 1790-1910explores the femme fatale's careerin nineteenth-century British literature.

The teaching profession has a long history in motion pictures.

For the first decade of her career Leigh appeared as the stereotypical "e;nice girl.

Der österreichische Regisseur und Drehbuchautor Michael Haneke wurde mit Filmen wie "Funny Games", "Die Klavierspielerin", "Caché", "Das weiße Band" und zuletzt "Liebe" bekannt.

In 2020-21, the classic HBO show The Sopranos (1999-2007) saw a rapid increase in viewership and was proclaimed to be one of the "e;hottest shows of lockdown"e; by outlets like The Guardian and GQ.

This edited collection of contributions from media scholars, film practitioners and film historians connects the vibrant fields of documentary and disability studies.

First published in 2012.

The Migration and Politics of Monsters in Latin America proposes a cinematic cartography of contemporary Latin American horror films that take up the idea of the American continent as a space of radical otherness, or monstrosity, and use it for political purposes.

The first full-length biography of the actor known for his roles in The Invisible Man, Casablanca, and other classics, based on newly released interviews.

Since 1997, the war in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has taken more than 6 million lives and shapes the daily existence of the nation's residents.

This collection of essays explores the link between comedy and animation in studio-era cartoons, from filmdom's earliest days through the twentieth century.

In the 1940s and 1950s, hundreds of art documentaries were produced, many of them being highly personal, poetic, reflexive and experimental films that offer a thrilling cinematic experience.

Production Design: Visual Design for Film and Television is a hands-on guide to the craft of Production Design and Art Direction.

Film blurs the line between myth and reality better than any other artistic medium, one could argue.

This book explores the history of wildlife television in post-war Britain.

The first decade of the 21st century has seen a proliferation of North American and European films that focus on African politics and society.

The horror genre mirrors the American queer experience, both positively and negatively, overtly and subtextually, from the lumbering, flower-picking monster of Frankenstein (1931) to the fearless intersectional protagonist of the Fear Street Trilogy (2021).

Informed by the theory of Julia Kristeva, Frances Restuccia analyzes a variety of contemporary films replete with psychoanalytic subject matter and styles.

From Samuel Huntington's highly controversial Who Are We?

A film that transcends time, Sally Potter's Orlando follows its titular character through nearly four hundred years of British history.

Master composer Ennio Morricone's scores go hand-in-hand with the idea of the Western film.

Motion picture production, distribution, exhibition and reception has always been a transnational phenomenon, yet East Germany, situated at the edge of the post-war Iron Curtain, separated by a boundary that became materialized in the Berlin Wall in 1961, resembles nothing if not an island, a protected space where film production developed under the protection of government subsidy and ideological purity.