Betty Garrett 
Betty Garrett and Other Songs [EPUB ebook] 
A Life on Stage and Screen

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 …

John Ford»s masterpiece The Searchers (1956) was rated fifth greatest film of all time in Sight and Sound»s most recent poll of critics. Its influence on many of America»s most distinguished conte …

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 …

During »the thaw» from Stalin»s death in 1953 to the late 1960s and Khrushchev»s rule, Soviet society experienced major transformations. So did films. In this first comprehensive account of the r …