Fotografie, Film, Video, TV

In Poetics of Deconstruction, Lynn Turner develops an intimate attention to independent films, art and the psychoanalyses by which they might make sense other than under continued license of the subj …

One of the most captivating and provocative artists of the Sensation generation, Richard Billingham (b. 1970) came to prominence in the late 1990s with his visceral photobook Ray”s a Laugh, a slice …

From A New Hope to The Rise of Skywalker and beyond, this book offers the first complete assessment and philosophical exploration of the Star Wars universe. Lucasfilm examines the ways in which these …

From the 1950s to the 1980s the Children”s Film Foundation made films for Saturday morning cinema clubs across the UK – entertaining and educating generations of British children. This first history …

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 …

In ”Meet Me in St Louis”, one of the most popular MGM musicals, Judy Garland stars as the classic American teenager. For this book, Gerald Kaufman interviewed many of the stars. This text captures …

No other silent film director has been as extensively studied as D. W. Griffith. However, only a small group of his more than five hundred films has been the subject of a systematic analysis, and the …

It would be unthinkable now to omit early female pioneers from any survey of photography”s history in the Western world. Yet for many years the gendered language of American, British and French phot …

Writer and film-maker Laura Mulvey is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and incisive contemporary cultural theorists, credited for incorporating film theory, psychoanalysis and feminism. …

The technical crafts of sound in classical Hollywood cinema have, until recently, remained largely ”unsung” by histories of the studio era. Yet film sound – voice, music and sound effects – is a cr …