Mervyn Cooke 
History of Film Music [EPUB 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 …

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 …

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 …

In a comprehensively revised and updated new edition, James Naremore provides an illuminating critical account of the films of Stanley Kubrick, from his earliest feature, Fear and Desire (1953), to t …

Sue Thornham“s study explores issues in feminist filmmaking through an examination of a wide range of films by women filmmakers, ranging from the avant-garde to mainstream Hollywood, and from the 19 …

In Dusan Makavejev“s controversial and explicit WR – Mysteries of the Organism (1971), “WR“ is Wilhelm Reich, the Marxist psychoanalyst who preached sexual enlightenment as a gateway to a better s …

Navigating through the challenging process of writing a comedy pilot, this book will help screenwriters to create an original script for television. Practical and accessible, the book presents a step …

This book shines much-needed light on the history, structures and films of the Amharic film industry in Ethiopia. Focusing on the rise of the industry from 2002, until today, and embedded in archival …