A hilarious time-capsule of 1970s television, Visions Before Midnight is the first collection of Clive James's much-loved, inimitable columns skewering the entertainment of the day.
Join Tumford the cat as he learns an important lesson about manners and learning to be polite, with a beautiful reminder that children are always loved.
Encompassing the thirty-five year span between the initial development of film technology in the mid-1890s and the adoption of synchronized sound in the late 1920s, the cinema's silent era is both one of the most important epochs of film history and one of the most misunderstood within the popular imagination.
In this engaging and readable book, Peter Decherney tells the story of Hollywood, from its nineteenth-century origins to the emergence of internet media empires.
In this engaging and readable book, Peter Decherney tells the story of Hollywood, from its nineteenth-century origins to the emergence of internet media empires.
Ausgehend von literarischen Texten Nikolaj Gogols, Fedor Dostojevskijs, Lev Tolstojs und Anton Cechovs werden Grundzüge einer Poetik des Sehens in der russischen Kultur rekonstruiert und bis in den Film, die Literatur und Kunst der sowjetischen und postsowjetischen Moderne weiterverfolgt.
Essays examining the effects of media innovations in cinema at the turn of the twentieth century affected performances on screen, as well as beside it.
For an entire generation, 'Annie Hall 'embodied the notion of a New York peopled by sophisticated intellectuals - all sent up by the deadpan comedy genius of Woody Allen, writer, director and of course star.
