Laura Mee 
Shining [PDF ebook] 

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 …

This is the first major book-length study of the work of Australian film-maker Baz Luhrmann, one of the most exciting and controversial personalities working in World Cinema today. Luhrmann“s reputa …

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 …

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. …

For the first time in one volume, this book presents in concise, chronological form, Sergei Eisenstein“s most significant work, including his famous theories of montage and articles on subjects as d …

During World War II, jazz embodied everything that was appealing about a democratic society as envisioned by the Western Allied powers. Labelled `degenerate“ by Hitler“s cultural apparatus, jazz wa …

Richard Roud“s Godard, first published in 1967 as “Number One“ in the seminal Cinema One series, was the first monograph on the great film-maker to be published in English, and one that reveals a …

This cinema history illuminates the role of southern Italian performance traditions on American movies from the silent era to contemporary film. In Napoli/New York/Hollywood, Italian cinema historian …

Leni Riefenstahl“s Olympia (1938) is one of the most controversial films ever made. Capitalising on the success of Triumph of the Will (1935), her propaganda film for the Nazi Party, Riefenstahl sec …

Detailing the genesis, production history and different versions of “Once Upon a Time in America“, this study considers the film within the context of Leone“s evolution as a grand cinema stylist. …