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The Films of Margaret Tait: Portraits, Poetry, Sound and Place

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 …

Cinema and Colour: The Saturated Image is a major new critical study of the use of colour in cinema. Using the dialectic of colour and monochrome as a starting point, Paul Coates explores the symboli …

Richard Roud »s Godard, first published in 1967 as  »Number One » in the seminal Cinema One series, was the first monograph on the great film-maker to be published in English, and one that reveals a …

During World War II, jazz embodied everything that was appealing about a democratic society as envisioned by the Western Allied powers. Labelled `degenerate » by Hitler »s cultural apparatus, jazz wa …

Sue Thornham »s study explores issues in feminist filmmaking through an examination of a wide range of films by women filmmakers, ranging from the avant-garde to mainstream Hollywood, and from the 19 …

In Dusan Makavejev »s controversial and explicit WR – Mysteries of the Organism (1971),  »WR » is Wilhelm Reich, the Marxist psychoanalyst who preached sexual enlightenment as a gateway to a better s …

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 …

In the film  »Seven Samurai » (1954) a whole society is on the verge of irrevocable change. Many people consider this film a major achievemnet in Japanese cinema, an epic that evokes the cultural uph …

Andrew Utterson »s unique study charts the beginnings of digital cinema, addressing both how filmmakers used new digital technologies and how attitudes and anxieties about the rise of the computer we …

This book is a major new study – dealing with notions of film music as a device that desires to control its audience, using a most powerful thing: emotion. The author emphasises the manipulative and …