Maurice Stevens 
Troubling Beginnings [PDF ebook] 
Trans(per)forming African American History and Identity

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 …

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 this unique study of the star, Sunny Singh examines Amitabh Bachchan“s film performances and his star persona, locating them in the context of cultural phenomena and global branding, and explores …

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 …

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 …

A guide to directors who have worked in the British and Irish film industries between 1895 and 2005. Each of its 980 entries on individuals directors gives a resume of the director“s career, evaluat …

This teaching pack, suitable for AS/A2 Media and Film Studies, offers a suitable case study for industry and institution and help students demonstrate an understanding of key concepts and contemporar …

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 …

In “Kind Hearts and Coronets“ (1949), Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) schemes and murders his way to a dukedom. This title looks into the turbulent personalities that formed the complex style of this …

This text presents the work of cultural theorists and philosophers of new media, together with the perspectives of artists experimenting with different interactive models critically examining their o …