Roger Crittenden 
Film and Video Editing [PDF ebook] 

Explores hieroglyphs as a metaphor for the relationship between new media and writing in British modernism In the British Museum, one object attracts more tourists than any other: the Rosetta Stone. …

More than 5, 000 film festivals take place globally and many of these have only been established in the last two decades. International Film Festivals collects the leading scholarship on this increas …

Although ostensibly presented as “light entertainment, ” the work of writer-director-producer Joss Whedon takes much dark inspiration from the horror genre to create a unique aesthetic and perform a …

This collection of new essays by leading film scholarsaddresses Michelangelo Antonionias apre-eminent figure in European art cinema, explores his continuing influence and legacy, and engages with his …

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 …

A guide to directors who have worked in the British and Irish film industries between 1895 and 2005. Each of its 980 entries on individuals directors gives a resume of the director»s career, evaluat …

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 text presents the work of cultural theorists and philosophers of new media, together with the perspectives of artists experimenting with different interactive models critically examining their o …

Pam Cook»s study of the star persona of Nicole Kidman traces Kidman»s career trajectory through an examination of her (sometimes controversial) film choices and places her in the context of a globa …

This text looks at the film »Shane» (1983) directed by George Stevens, then one of Hollywood»s most successful film-makers. Alan Ladd plays the charismatic outsider who defends a community against …