Robin Wood 
Howard Hawks [EPUB ebook] 

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 …

Combining a detailed account of the situation in Japanese film and criticism with unique close analyses of Kitano»s films from Violent Cop to Takeshis, the author relates the director to issues of c …

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 …

In the film »Seven Samurai» (1954) a whole society is on the verge of irrevocable change. Many people consider this film a major achievemnet in Japanese cinema, an epic that evokes the cultural uph …

Film/Genre revises our notions of film genre and connects the roles played by industry critics and audiences in making and re-making genre. Altman reveals the conflicting stakes for which the genre g …

Over the past decade, historians and sociologists have increasingly used visual materials, in particular photographs, in their work. This volume brings together historians, sociologists, anthropologi …

Call The Midwife is the BBC’s most popular drama ever – that is what viewing figures tell us with over ten million viewers per episode. The Christmas edition is always reviewed as a ‘must see’ e …

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 …