Steven Jay Schneider 
Horror Film and Psychoanalysis [PDF ebook] 
Freud’s Worst Nightmare

Until recently, the story of African film was marked by a series of truncated histories: many outstanding films from earlier decades were virtually inaccessible and thus often excluded from critical …

A climate of Islamophobia allows anxieties about Muslim men living in and migrating to Britain to endure. British Muslims men are often profiled in highly negative terms or regarded with suspicion ow …

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 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 …

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 …

This text ranges widely over key films and moments from stages of Luis Bunuel“s career. It locates and re-appraises Bunuel“s films with particular emphasis on the national cinemas and varied cultur …

This book is a major new study – dealing with notions of film music as a device that desires to control its audience, using a most powerful thing: emotion. The author emphasises the manipulative and …

A Dogme film, “The Idiots“ is quintessential Lars von Trier and perhaps his most powerful work. John Rockwell shows how it relates to the other two films in the “Good Woman“ trilogy, as well as v …

The cinema of Theo Angelopoulos is celebrated as challenging the status quo. From the political films of the 1970s through to the more existential works of his later career, Vrasidis Karalis argues f …

Teaching and learning through Hollywood, or commercial, film and television productions is anything but a new approach and has been something of a mainstay in the classroom for nearly a century. Howe …