Neil Archer 
Studying Hot Fuzz [PDF ebook] 

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 …

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 …

This official history of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) draws on unprecedented access to the BBFC”s archives to trace 100 years of film classification, with cont …

This text presents the work of cultural theorists and philosophers of new media, together with the perspectives of artists experimenting with different interactive models critically examining their o …

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 …