Pietari Kaeaepae 
The National and Beyond [PDF ebook] 
The Globalisation of Finnish Cinema in the Films of Aki and Mika Kaurismaeki

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 …

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 …

Combining a detailed account of the situation in Japanese film and criticism with unique close analyses of Kitano »s films from Violent Cop to Takeshis, the author relates the director to issues of c …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Film/Genre revises our notions of film genre and connects the roles played by industry critics and audiences in making and re-making genre. Altman reveals the conflicting stakes for which the genre g …

Historically, Indian cinema has positioned women at the intersection of tradition and a more evolving culture, portraying contradictory attitudes which affect women’s roles in public and private sphe …