Karen Leeder 
Rereading East Germany [EPUB ebook] 
The Literature and Film of the GDR

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 …

Indigeneity in Latin American Cinema explores how contemporary films (2000-2020) participate in the evolution and circulation of images and sounds that in many ways define how indigenous communities …

From the bestselling author of The Darkness Within Him comes the Revealed series – a tale of dark secrets and the forbidden world of desires. When schoolteacher Allie Shaw takes an impromptu cleaning …

First published in 1978. In this title, Alan Thomas examines the invention of photography in the early nineteenth century. How the members of this first ‘visual’ generation used photography and how i …

How to Write a Horror Movie is a close look at an always-popular (but often disrespected) genre. It focuses on the screenplay and acts as a guide to bringing scary ideas to cinematic life using examp …

The Cinema of Sofia Coppola provides the first comprehensive analysis of Coppola”s oeuvre that situates her work broadly in relation to contemporary artistic, social and cultural currents. Suzanne F …

Drawing on unprecedented access to the video archives of B”Tselem, an Israeli NGO that distributes cameras to Palestinians living in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, Liat Berdugo l …

Richard Linklater’s celebrated Before trilogy chronicles the love of Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Céline (Julie Delpy) who first meet up in Before Sunrise, later reconnect in Before Sunset and finally exp …

It”s widely assumed that Britain in the 1950s experienced a return to traditional gender roles. Popular cinema has typically been seen to represent this era through the dominant image of the ”happy …

Stanley Kubrick”s version of Vladimir Nabokov”s novel was one of the most controversial films of the 1960s. This analysis is written by Richard Corliss, editor of ”Film Comment”. It features a br …