Auteur: Christie Ian Christie

Moving away from the recent prevalence of text-based analysis in the field of film studies, Audience tackles one of the most important issues in cinema how the audience engages with film. Ian Christi …

The early years of film were dominated by competition between inventors in America and France, especially Thomas Edison and the Lumiere brothers . But while these have generally been considered the f …

Stories are perceived as central to modern life. Not only in narrative entertainment media, such as television, cinema, theater, but also in social media. Telling/having "a story" is widely …

Over the decades since he was first hailed by critics and filmmakers around the world, Sergei Eisenstein has assumed many identities. Originally cast as a prophet of revolution and the maestro of mon …

Over the decades since he was first hailed by critics and filmmakers around the world, Sergei Eisenstein has assumed many identities. Originally cast as a prophet of revolution and the maestro of mon …

Produced in the aftermath of the Second World War, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s A Matter of Life and Death (1946) stars David Niven as an RAF pilot poised between life and death, his love …

Produced in the aftermath of the Second World War, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s A Matter of Life and Death (1946) stars David Niven as an RAF pilot poised between life and death, his love …

A dazzling fantasy produced in the aftermath of World War Two, A Matter of Life and Death (1946), directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starred David Niven as an RAF pilot poised between …

A dazzling fantasy produced in the aftermath of World War Two, A Matter of Life and Death (1946), directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starred David Niven as an RAF pilot poised between …

The multiple award-winning Doctor Zhivago (1965) is one of America’s finest films of all time. Ian Christie contextualizes the film as an epic Russian love story and a Cold War classic, charts its pr …

The films of Michael Powell (1905-90) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-88), among them I Know Where I »m Going! (1945), A Matter of Life and Death (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948), are landmarks in Britis …

The films of Michael Powell (1905-90) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-88), among them I Know Where I »m Going! (1945), A Matter of Life and Death (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948), are landmarks in Britis …