Daniel Paisner 
Horizontal Hold [EPUB ebook] 
The Making and Breaking of a Network Television Pilot

This work examines major box office hits like  »The Full Monty » as well as critically acclaimed films like  »Under the Skin ». It explores the role of distribution and exhibition, the Americanisatio …

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 …

As blockbusters employ ever greater numbers of dazzling visual effects and digital illusions, this book explores the material roots and stylistic practices of special effects and their makers. Gather …

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 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 …

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 …

This work explores the way in which telenovelas (TV serial dramas) give voice to contemporary and historical Argentinian social and political issues. Telenovelas have multiple layers of socio-cultura …

This book shines much-needed light on the history, structures and films of the Amharic film industry in Ethiopia. Focusing on the rise of the industry from 2002, until today, and embedded in archival …

Taking Mary Shelley »s novel as its point of departure, this collection of essays considers how her creation has not only survived but thrived over 200 years of media history, in music, film, literat …