Maria Grazia Sindoni 
Multimodality and Translanguaging in Video Interactions [EPUB ebook] 

Traces the history of film production in Northern Ireland from the beginnings of a local film industry in the 1920s and 1930s, when the first Northern Irish ”quota quickies” were made, through the …

Barbara Stanwyck”s illustrious career began in the 1920s and spanned sixty years. During that period she starred in major films of many genres and worked with some of the most distinguished Hollywoo …

Michael Le Grice, a pioneer of ”structural film” in the 1970s and whose first video and computer works were exhibited in the late 1960s, provides a collection of his most notable essays. The essays …

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 …

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 …

New Vampire Cinema lifts the coffin lid on forty contemporary vampire films, from 1992 to the present day, charting the evolution of a genre that is, rather like its subject, at once exhausted and vi …

In the conference Africa and the History of Cinematic Ideas held in London in 1995, film-makers, cultural theorists and critics gathered to debate a range of issues. Views were exchanged on such topi …

Raymond durgnat was a maverick voice during the golden age of film criticism. From the French new Wave and the rise of auteurism, through the late 1960s counter-culture, to the rejuvenated Hollywood …

Despite being one of the biggest industries in the United States, indeed the World, the internal workings of the ”dream factory” that is Hollywood is little understood outside the business. The Hol …

Examines the most successful literary adaption of a clutch of 1990s films based on Henry James” The Wings of the Dove (Ian Softley, 1997). The author is interested in the nature of cinema adaptation …