Stylianos Papathanassopoulos 
Media Perspectives for the 21st Century [EPUB ebook] 

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 …

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 …

In a comprehensively revised and updated new edition, James Naremore provides an illuminating critical account of the films of Stanley Kubrick, from his earliest feature, Fear and Desire (1953), to t …

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 …

The Cinema of the Precariat is the first book to lay out the incredible range of the precariat (the social class suffering from precarity) as well as a detailed report on the cinematic record of thei …

Ever since John Grierson popularized the term  »documentary,  » British non-fiction film has been renowned, sometimes reviled, but seldom properly appreciated.  »100 British Documentaries  »provides …

Upon its release in 1960, Alfred Hitchcock »s Psycho divided critical opinion, with several leading film critics condemning Hitchcock »s apparent encouragement of the audience »s identification with …