This new collection addresses the film musical, a central genre in the Hollywood studio system, which has also been important within British, Hindi and Chinese cinema. Leading internat
The new edition ofThe British Cinema Book has been thoroughly revised and updated to provide a comprehensive introduction to themajorperiods, genres, studios,film-makers and d
From IBM to MGM: Cinema at the Dawn of the Digital Age uncovers the early history of cinema and computers and looks at how filmmakers first encountered the defining technology of the digital age. In t
This unique book combines an overview of British documentary cinema from 1945 to the early 1980s with profiles of major filmmakers of the period, outlining their career histories
Legendary director Sergei Eisenstein has unquestionably emerged as cinema's most influential theorist and author of some of the most important aesthetic writings of the twentieth century. For the fir
Aristocrat and Marxist, master equally of harsh realism and sublime melodrama, Luchino Visconti (1906-1976) was without question one of the greatest European film directors. His career as a film-make
Why are some contemporary television shows so compelling? The Sopranos, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Friends, and ER are examples among many of a new era of the "must-see" program. These shows and other
Teen TV is the first anthology dedicated to a broad range of television programs produced for and watched by teenagers. With extensive coverage of shows such as Dawson's Creek, Roswell, Buffy the Vam
The French Cinema Book offers an innovative and accessible account of the richness and diversity of French film history from the 1890s to the 2010s. This revised, updated and expanded new edition cont
A comprehensive guide to the global communications revolution. The book is presented in the form of over 50 colour maps which graphically depict the global diffusion of old and new media. As well as p
Nineteen twelve is the first "golden year" in the career of D.W. Griffith. Titles such as The Female of the Species, The Massacre, The Sands of Dee, The Painted Lady, and The New York Hat are general
The Ultimate Film is the definitive list of the UK's all-time top 100 films based on cinema admissions. From the 1930s to today, the book charts the diverse tastes that make up Britain's film favouri
In January 1993 sectarian rioting left two thousand Hindus and Muslims dead in Bombay. Only two years later Mani Ratnam's audacious Tamil film Bombay (1995) used these events as a backdrop to a love
Years in the planning and months in production, Abel Gance's Napoleon astonished its audience with the boldness of its conception--not least at the moment when the screen expanded to reveal Gance's v
Michelangelo Antonioni's starkly beautiful L'avventura is one of the great masterpieces of European art cinema, though at Cannes in 1960 it baffled and enraged its first audience. The plot is simple:
Made in 1951, High Noon rapidly became one of the most celebrated and controversial Hollywood dramas of the postwar period. A grave, taut western about community and violence, High Noon collected a c
Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail is a landmark in British cinema. Released in June 1929, it was hailed as "the first British all-talkie film." Characteristically, Hitchcock makes flamboyant use of the ne
Hollywood has a complex relationship with local markets around the world. This critical yet accessible overview of Hollywood’s local presence investigates the dynamic between the studios’ film enterta
