Monika Bednarek 
Language and Television Series [PDF ebook] 
A Linguistic Approach to TV Dialogue

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Civilized Violence provides a social and historical explanation for the popular appeal of cinema violence. There is a significant amount of research on the effects of media violence, but less work on …

Along with my own personal story, I am going to write down a few things that may amuse you (or even take you down some other emotional path) and I“ll let you in on a few so-far-unrevealed aspects of …

Television directors remain an enigma to most students of the mass media; traditionally, their function has been little understood by scholars and the viewing public. In this book, John Ravage studie …

Hitherto classified as a form of genre fiction, or as a particular aesthetic quality of literature by H. P. Lovecraft, the weird has now come to refer to a broad spectrum of artistic practices and ex …

Television provides a unique account of the development of a homosexual identity across the western world, emerging as it did when ideas around sex and sexuality were themselves only just beginning t …