P. Taylor 
Britain and the Cinema in the Second World War [PDF ebook] 

Humphrey Jennings was one of Britain »s greatest documentary film-makers, described by Lindsay Anderson in 1954 as  »the only real poet the British cinema has yet produced ». A member of the GPO Film …

Despite being one of the biggest industries in the United States, indeed the World, the internal workings of the  »dream factory » that is Hollywood is little understood outside the business. The Hol …

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 …

Why do we think of clusters of films as  »national cinema »? Why has the relationship between the nation and film become so widely and uncritically accepted?  »Theorising National Cinema » is a major …

Brings together an introduction to academic study of audiences as  »readers » of films and an investigation into how the film industry perceives audiences as part of its industrial practices. The app …

In a world, in which camcorders and CCTV are witness to our every move and Big Brother and The Blair Witch Project are phenomenally popular and widely imitated, the divide between reality and liction …

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 …

The golden age of Mexican cinema, which spanned the 1930s through to the 1950s, saw Mexico »s film industry become one of the most productive in the world, exercising a decisive influence on national …

A discussion of the frequently controversial film maker Youssef Chahine. The book aims to illuminate Chahine »s work in the context of modern Egyptian culture and its tumultuous post-war history and …

This volume explores the philosophical and metaphysical manifestations of contemporary cinema. Starting with the hypothesis that movies provide an experience that is both a pathway into the thinking …