Fotografie, Film, Video, TV

First published in 2013. Have you written the script for the next box office blockbuster or hit TV show and just need the right agent to sell it? Not sure whether to accept an if-come deal or a scrip …

This is what happens when you put dogs in a photobooth: they smile – they yawn – they snarl – they snog – they frown – they sneeze – they stare – they make friends – they fall out – they strike a pos …

How does an actor embody a character? How do they use their body as an instrument of expression? Rethinking the Actor“s Body offers an accessible introduction to the fields of neurophysiology and em …

Reading Photographs is a clear and inspiring introduction to theories of representation and visual analysis and how they can be applied to photography. Introducing the development of photography and …

Stanley Kubrick“s version of Vladimir Nabokov“s novel was one of the most controversial films of the 1960s. This analysis is written by Richard Corliss, editor of “Film Comment“. It features a br …

In “Meet Me in St Louis“, one of the most popular MGM musicals, Judy Garland stars as the classic American teenager. For this book, Gerald Kaufman interviewed many of the stars. This text captures …

No other silent film director has been as extensively studied as D. W. Griffith. However, only a small group of his more than five hundred films has been the subject of a systematic analysis, and the …

Winner of the Golden Lion in Venice in 1989, A City of Sadness introduced Western audiences to the richness of New Taiwanese Cinema. Its director, Hou Hsiao-hsien is now recognised as one of the most …

This official history of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) draws on unprecedented access to the BBFC“s archives to trace 100 years of film classification, with cont …

Hugely impressive in its scope, with introductory chapters on social history, the film industry and theories of realism, this indispensable history of these vital years contains unusually fresh discu …