Yvonne Tasker 
Fifty Contemporary Film Directors [EPUB ebook] 

An invaluable resource for photography educators, this volume is a survey of photographic education in the first decade of the 21st Century. Drawing upon her 25 years of teaching experience and her p …

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 …

Britain emerged from war a changed country, facing new social, industrial and cultural challenges. Its documentary film tradition – established in the 1930s and 1940s around legendary figures such as …

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 …

Civilized Violence provides a social and historical explanation for the popular appeal of cinema violence. There is a significant amount of research on the effects of media violence, but less work on …

Lynda Bellingham died in her husband Michael »s arms on 19th October 2014. Lynda touched many lives in her memoir, There »s Something I »ve Been Dying to Tell You, and in My Lynda, Michael tells his …

Hollywood Musicals offers an insightful account of a genre that was once a mainstay of twentieth-century film production and continues to draw audiences today. What is a film musical? How do musicals …

Featuring interviews with 27 award-winning and emerging filmmakers, this book is the first comprehensive look at independent filmmaking careers in South East Asia with never-before published insights …

David Fincher »s Mank recreates 1930s Hollywood through the eyes of scathing wit and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish Citizen Kane. Starring Gary Oldman as Mankiewicz …