Jack Goldstein 
101 Amazing Facts about the Movies – Volume 2 [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 …

This book shines much-needed light on the history, structures and films of the Amharic film industry in Ethiopia. Focusing on the rise of the industry from 2002, until today, and embedded in archival …

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 …

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 …

Richard Roud”s Godard, first published in 1967 as ”Number One” in the seminal Cinema One series, was the first monograph on the great film-maker to be published in English, and one that reveals a …

Hitherto classified as a form of genre fiction, or as a particular aesthetic quality of literature by H. P. Lovecraft, the weird has now come to refer to a broad spectrum of artistic practices and ex …

Television provides a unique account of the development of a homosexual identity across the western world, emerging as it did when ideas around sex and sexuality were themselves only just beginning t …

Most of the Directors I”ve worked with needed someone to talk to who is deep inside the heart of the movie. – Mick Audsley, Film Editor Film editing is understood by the industry to be one of the mo …

Cinema and Colour: The Saturated Image is a major new critical study of the use of colour in cinema. Using the dialectic of colour and monochrome as a starting point, Paul Coates explores the symboli …

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 …