Karen Leeder 
Rereading East Germany [PDF ebook] 
The Literature and Film of the GDR

Ranging from the dawn of the silent era to today“s blockbusters and independent films, this revamped second edition chronicles the significant contributions by Chicago and Chicagoans to more than a …

This collection of new essays by leading film scholarsaddresses Michelangelo Antonionias apre-eminent figure in European art cinema, explores his continuing influence and legacy, and engages with his …

Michael Le Grice, a pioneer of “structural film“ in the 1970s and whose first video and computer works were exhibited in the late 1960s, provides a collection of his most notable essays. The essays …

Humphrey Jennings was one of Britain“s greatest documentary film-makers, described by Lindsay Anderson in 1954 as “the only real poet the British cinema has yet produced“. A member of the GPO Film …

Seventies British Cinema provides a comprehensive re-evaluation of British film in the 1970s. The decade has long been written off in critical discussions as a “doldrums“ period in British cinema, …

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 …

The past four decades have seen the Spanish film industry rise from isolation in the 1970s to international recognition within European and World Cinema today. Exploring the cultural and political im …

Martin Shingler presents the mother volume for Palgrave“s Film Stars series in three easily-navigable chapters in which he provides a summative and instructive account of star studies for today“s f …

Despite being one of the biggest industries in the United States, indeed the World, the internal workings of the “dream factory“ that is Hollywood is little understood outside the business. The Hol …

Traces the history and development of Channel 4, one of the UK“s best loved and most controversial TV channels. Identifies key figures and signature programmes such as “Brookside, “ “The Big Brea …