Hector J. Perez 
Opera and Video [PDF ebook] 
Technology and Spectatorship

The Actor“s Survival Guide: How to Make Your Way in Hollywood is a handbook and essential guide to the business of living and working as an actor in the Los Angeles area. Exploring the experience of …

Following the release of Ridley Scott“s Gladiator in 2000 the ancient world epic has experienced a revival in studio and audience interest. Building on existing scholarship on the Cold War epics of …

A spectacular and lavish photographic guide to the birds of Japan, Korea, north-east China and the Russian Far East. Eastern Asia is blessed with a rich and spectacular avifauna, and all 520 regularl …

The Basics of Filmmaking is an introductory textbook tailored to the needs of beginning and intermediate film students and independent filmmakers that expertly guides you through the entirety of the …

Substantially revised and updated, this book highlights how Hollywood has transformed itself to attain ever global clout and reach and the material factors underlining Hollywood“s apparent artistic …

Boudu is one of Jean Renoir“s masterpieces and features Michel Simon“s performance as the disreputable tramp rescued from the river. It is discussed here by Richard Boston, video critic of the “Gu …

This work examines major box office hits like “The Full Monty“ as well as critically acclaimed films like “Under the Skin“. It explores the role of distribution and exhibition, the Americanisatio …

Writer and film-maker Laura Mulvey is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and incisive contemporary cultural theorists, credited for incorporating film theory, psychoanalysis and feminism. …

This wide-ranging text is one of the first to look in detail at some of the principal genres, cycles and trends in Hollywood“s output during the last two decades. It includes analysis of such films …

Ivan The Terrible (1944/46) was envisaged by its director, Sergei Eisenstein as a trilogy. But, Eisenstein died before begining the third part. Part One had been a resounding success, winning a Stali …