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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Catherine O»Brien draws on the structure of Dante Alighieri»s Divine Comedy to explore …

Cinema and nationalism are two fundamentally modern phenomena, but how have films shaped our understanding of the creation -the »imagining» – of Central-Asian nations? Here, Rico Isaacs uses cinema …

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 …