Alan Blackwell & David MacKay 
Power [PDF ebook] 

In the conference Africa and the History of Cinematic Ideas held in London in 1995, film-makers, cultural theorists and critics gathered to debate a range of issues. Views were exchanged on such topi …

This is an examination of the concepts of spectatorship in the light of historical accounts of audience reception. The book looks at how audiences have historically talked about Hollywood movies, and …

How can we read crime scenes through photography? Making use of micro-histories of domestic murder and crime scene photographs made available for the first time, Alexa Neale provides a highly origina …

Egypt »s film industry is the largest in the Middle East, with an output that spreads across the region and the world. In the run-up to and throughout the 2011 Revolution, a complex relationship form …

A Sig ht & Sound Book of the Year Jez Stewart charts the course of this extraordinarily fertile area of British film from early experiments with stop-motion and the flourishing of animated drawings d …

How do you sell British humour to a French audience? Could piracy actually be good for the film business? Why are The Hobbit »s revolutionary technologies not mentioned in some adverts? Exploring the …

Ginette Vincendeau discusses the artistic value of his films in their proper context and comments on Jean-Pierre Melville »s love of American culture and his controversial critical and political stan …

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 …

This comprehensive study reconstructs the production history of The Blue Angel (1930), showing how director Josef von Sternberg »s virtuoso visual style was amply supported by an immensely talented t …

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 …