Julian Dutton 
Keeping Quiet [PDF ebook] 
Visual Comedy in the Age of Sound

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 …

Most people are too busy to keep up with all the good movies they’d like to see, so why should anyone spend their precious time watching the bad ones? In Why It’s OK to Love Bad Movies, philosopher a …

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Catherine O”Brien draws on the structure of Dante Alighieri”s Divine Comedy to explore …

Shortlisted for the BAFTSS ”Best Monograph” Award 2021 When watching the latest instalment of Batman, it is perfectly normal to say that we see Batman fighting Bane or that we see Bruce Wayne makin …

How can we read crime scenes through photography? Making use of micro-histories of domestic murder and crime scene photographs made available for the first time, Alexa Neale provides a highly origina …

This book covers a dramatic decade in the fortunes of Britain”s quirkiest broadcaster. It opens in 2009, with the realisation that Channel 4”s biggest money spinner, Big Brother, had become a toxic …

For nearly a century, members of the Dildilian family practiced the art of photography in Ottoman Turkey, Greece and the United States. This book contains over 300 photographs, most taken during the …

Shyam Benegal is the best known and most prolific contemporary film-maker from India”s arthouse or ”New Cinema” tradition. This work traces a career with its beginnings in political cinema and a r …

Martin Shingler presents the mother volume for Palgrave”s Film Stars series in three easily-navigable chapters in which he provides a summative and instructive account of star studies for today”s f …

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 …