Steven Watts 
Citizen Cowboy [EPUB ebook] 
Will Rogers and the American People

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 …

In the last decade lifestyle television has become one of the most dominant television genres, with certain shows now global brands with formats exploited by producers all over the world. What unites …

In Against Transmission Barker rethinks the history of audio-visual media as a history of analytical instruments. Rather than viewing media history as the commonly told story of synthetic media (medi …

Working for Paramount in the 1940s playwright and scriptwriter Preston Sturges directed a succession of exceptional comedies of which the ”Palm Beach Story” is perhaps the finest. Pym”s account re …

It would be unthinkable now to omit early female pioneers from any survey of photography”s history in the Western world. Yet for many years the gendered language of American, British and French phot …

Cinema and Colour: The Saturated Image is a major new critical study of the use of colour in cinema. Using the dialectic of colour and monochrome as a starting point, Paul Coates explores the symboli …

Pam Cook”s study of the star persona of Nicole Kidman traces Kidman”s career trajectory through an examination of her (sometimes controversial) film choices and places her in the context of a globa …

Along with my own personal story, I am going to write down a few things that may amuse you (or even take you down some other emotional path) and I”ll let you in on a few so-far-unrevealed aspects of …

This is the third book in the ”Understanding the Moving Image” series. Like other books in the series, it aims to provide a strong critical and theoretical base for the study of the media. It has b …

Documentary photography is undergoing an unprecedented transformation as it adapts to the impact of digital technology, social media and new distribution methods. In this book, photographer and educa …