Anna Dawson 
Studying The Lord of the Rings [PDF ebook] 

More than 5, 000 film festivals take place globally and many of these have only been established in the last two decades. International Film Festivals collects the leading scholarship on this increas …

Barbara Stanwyck“s illustrious career began in the 1920s and spanned sixty years. During that period she starred in major films of many genres and worked with some of the most distinguished Hollywoo …

New Vampire Cinema lifts the coffin lid on forty contemporary vampire films, from 1992 to the present day, charting the evolution of a genre that is, rather like its subject, at once exhausted and vi …

This landmark collection of essays considers the global legacy of John Grierson, the father of British documentary. Featuring the work of leading scholars from around the world, The Grierson Effect e …

In a world, in which camcorders and CCTV are witness to our every move and Big Brother and The Blair Witch Project are phenomenally popular and widely imitated, the divide between reality and liction …

Christopher Nolan is the writer and director of Hollywood blockbusters like The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, and also of arthouse films like Memento and Inception. Underlying his staggering …

Navigating through the challenging process of writing a comedy pilot, this book will help screenwriters to create an original script for television. Practical and accessible, the book presents a step …

During “the thaw“ from Stalin“s death in 1953 to the late 1960s and Khrushchev“s rule, Soviet society experienced major transformations. So did films. In this first comprehensive account of the r …

This revised second edition of the best-selling handbook provides practical, actionable insights on how to establish a successful photography business in the current climate. Written from the perspec …

This intimate book draws extensively on research in the archives of Francois Truffaut“s company, Les Films du Carrosse, and on interviews with many of La Nuit américaine cast and crew. They bear wit …