This examination of France's national cinema takes its primary artefact, the feature film and discusses both popular cinema and the `avant garde' cine ...
This revised and updated version of a successful and established text, French National Cinema offers a thorough and much-needed historical overview of ...
French Queer Cinema reads queer self-representation in contemporary auteur film and experimental video. While advances have been made in the research ...
Peter Jackson's film version of 'The Lord of the Rings' (2001-2003) is the grandest achievement of 21st century cinema so far. But it is also linked t ...
Traveling from Warsaw to Blackpool, Marseilles to Madrid, this book investigates the postmodern nature of contemporary Europe’s urban life and cinem ...
What does the portrayal of gender in film reveal about Spanish society? To what extent and in what ways does Spanish cinema contribute to construction ...
A very boring book that looks at films in the 80's and 90's. Basically, he descibes movies and what they apparently mean.
In recent years, the recognition of Gilles Deleuze as one of the major philosophers of the twentieth century has heightened attention to his brilliant ...
Intended as a guide to the filmmakers and films of the African cinema, this reference book also provides the framework for understanding the history a ...
The latest offering from the Reference Guides to the World's Cinema series, this critical survey of key films, actors, directors, and screenwriters du ...
Technology has spurred the growth of huge image and video libraries, many growing into the hundreds of terabytes. As a result there is a great demand ...
Everywhere you look in 1970s American cinema, you find white working-class men. They bring a violent conclusion to Easy Rider, murdering the film's re ...
High-definition is now ubiquitous in video production and High Definition Cinematography, Third Edition provides the explanations, definitions, and wo ...
High-definition is now ubiquitous in video production and High Definition Cinematography, Third Edition provides the explanations, definitions, and wo ...
Valentina Vitali presents the history of Bombay action films, posing new questions about the relationship between movies and their socioeconomic conte ...
In 1898, documentary footage of a yacht race was shot by Robert A. Mitchell, making him the first Irishman to shoot a film within Ireland. Despite ear ...
In Hollywood Bloodshed, James Kendrick presents a fascinating look into the political and ideological instabilities of the 1980s as studied through th ...
Movies expected to perform well can flop, whilst independent movies with low budgets can be wildly successful. In this superb new book, De Vany casts ...
