Bacon Simon Bacon 
Becoming Vampire [PDF ebook] 
Difference and the Vampire in Popular Culture

The Actor”s Survival Guide: How to Make Your Way in Hollywood is a handbook and essential guide to the business of living and working as an actor in the Los Angeles area. Exploring the experience of …

Following the release of Ridley Scott”s Gladiator in 2000 the ancient world epic has experienced a revival in studio and audience interest. Building on existing scholarship on the Cold War epics of …

A spectacular and lavish photographic guide to the birds of Japan, Korea, north-east China and the Russian Far East. Eastern Asia is blessed with a rich and spectacular avifauna, and all 520 regularl …

Substantially revised and updated, this book highlights how Hollywood has transformed itself to attain ever global clout and reach and the material factors underlining Hollywood”s apparent artistic …

Boudu is one of Jean Renoir”s masterpieces and features Michel Simon”s performance as the disreputable tramp rescued from the river. It is discussed here by Richard Boston, video critic of the ”Gu …

This work examines major box office hits like ”The Full Monty” as well as critically acclaimed films like ”Under the Skin”. It explores the role of distribution and exhibition, the Americanisatio …

As blockbusters employ ever greater numbers of dazzling visual effects and digital illusions, this book explores the material roots and stylistic practices of special effects and their makers. Gather …

This work explores the way in which telenovelas (TV serial dramas) give voice to contemporary and historical Argentinian social and political issues. Telenovelas have multiple layers of socio-cultura …

The British Wildlife Photography Awards is a celebration of British natural history. This stunning collection of images documents nature across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.Curating …