Christopher Beach 
Class, Language, and American Film Comedy [PDF 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Although new writing and research on British cinema has burgeoned over the last fifteen years, there has been a continued lack of single-authored books providing a coherent overview to this fascinati …

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 …

This volume addresses the content of television — both programs and advertisements — and the psychological effects of the content on the audience. The author not only reports new research, but expl …

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 …

Call The Midwife is the BBC’s most popular drama ever – that is what viewing figures tell us with over ten million viewers per episode. The Christmas edition is always reviewed as a ‘must see’ e …