Monika Bednarek 
Language and Television Series [PDF ebook] 
A Linguistic Approach to TV Dialogue

Hieroglyphic Modernisms explores this conjunction of hieroglyphs and modernist fiction and film, revealing how the challenge of new media spurred a fertile interplay among practitioners of old and ne …

For nearly a century, members of the Dildilian family practiced the art of photography in Ottoman Turkey, Greece and the United States. This book contains over 300 photographs, most taken during the …

BRITISH TRASH CINEMA is the first overview of the wilder shores of British exploitation and cult paracinema from the 1950s onwards. From obscure horror, science fiction and sexploitation, to art-hous …

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 …

Thinking in Images addresses the current crisis in film theory by offering a new methodology for interrelating theory and film texts. Drawing on the groundbreaking work of Michele Le Doeuff the autho …

 »Paris in the Cinema » offers a new approach to the representation of Paris on screen. Bringing together a wide range of renowned French and Anglophone specialists in film, television, history, arch …

It would be unthinkable now to omit early female pioneers from any survey of photography »s history in the Western world. Yet for many years the gendered language of American, British and French phot …

Since the earliest days of cinema the law has influenced the conditions in which Hollywood films are made, sold, circulated or presented – from the talent contracts that enable a film to go into prod …

The book provides a detailed introduction to the essential themes, style, and aesthetics of Pedro Almodovar »s films, put in the context of Spain »s profound cultural transitions since 1980. With pre …

Have you ever wondered what it is that professional photographers do day in and day out that enables them to take consistently compelling images? Or thought that unravelling the insider secrets of th …