Fergus Mason 
Stranger Than Fiction: The Real Life Stories Behind Alfred Hitchcock’s Greatest Works (Box Set) [EPUB ebook] 

In the last decade lifestyle television has become one of the most dominant television genres, with certain shows now global brands with formats exploited by producers all over the world. What unites …

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 …

In Against Transmission Barker rethinks the history of audio-visual media as a history of analytical instruments. Rather than viewing media history as the commonly told story of synthetic media (medi …

How does an actor embody a character? How do they use their body as an instrument of expression? Rethinking the Actor »s Body offers an accessible introduction to the fields of neurophysiology and em …

When first published in 1969, Horizons West was immediately recognised as the definitive critical account of the Western film and some of its key directors. This greatly expanded new edition is, like …

The quirky, strange and utterly sagacious meditations of David Caradine written during the making of Quentin Tarantino »s contemporary classic in which Carradine played the lead role. When Carradine …

Severine (Catherine Deneuve) is a listless haute bourgeouise wife with a secret afternoon life of prostitution. Her life twists repression and guilt together with uninhibited behaviour, strangled lib …

In this illuminating insight into Denzel Washington »s multifaceted image and remarkable career, Cynthia Baron traces his star persona and impact on mainstream society – from his time as a skilled ac …

In the twenty years preceding the First World War, cinema rapidly developed from a fairground curiosity into a major industry and social institution, a source of information and entertainment for mil …

Ivan The Terrible (1944/46) was envisaged by its director, Sergei Eisenstein as a trilogy. But, Eisenstein died before begining the third part. Part One had been a resounding success, winning a Stali …