David Thomson 
Light in the Dark [EPUB ebook] 

Aristocrat and Marxist, master equally of harsh realism and sublime melodrama, Luchino Visconti (1906-1976) was without question one of the greatest European film directors. His career as a film-make …

In the last decade lifestyle television has become one of the most dominant television genres, with certain shows now global brands with formats exploited by producers all over the world. What unites …

In Against Transmission Barker rethinks the history of audio-visual media as a history of analytical instruments. Rather than viewing media history as the commonly told story of synthetic media (medi …

It would be unthinkable now to omit early female pioneers from any survey of photography”s history in the Western world. Yet for many years the gendered language of American, British and French phot …

Along with my own personal story, I am going to write down a few things that may amuse you (or even take you down some other emotional path) and I”ll let you in on a few so-far-unrevealed aspects of …

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 …

Television presenters are key to the sociability of the medium, speaking directly to viewers as intermediaries between audiences and those who are interviewed, perform or compete on screen. As target …

WINNER OF A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE AWARD 2019 The political violence that erupted towards the end of the twentieth century between the Peruvian state and militant group `Shining Path” lef …

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 recipe book of great television from one of the best TV makers in the world ‘ Jamie Oliver Story structure is a huge weakness for many factual or reality filmmakers and TV producers, who often …