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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 …

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 …

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 …

Writer and film-maker Laura Mulvey is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and incisive contemporary cultural theorists, credited for incorporating film theory, psychoanalysis and feminism. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …