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Reading Photographs is a clear and inspiring introduction to theories of representation and visual analysis and how they can be applied to photography. Introducing the development of photography and …

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 …

BRITISH TRASH CINEMA is the first overview of the wilder shores of British exploitation and cult paracinema from the 1950s onwards. From obscure horror, science fiction and sexploitation, to art-hous …

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 …

A guide to directors who have worked in the British and Irish film industries between 1895 and 2005. Each of its 980 entries on individuals directors gives a resume of the director”s career, evaluat …

The films of Michael Powell (1905-90) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-88), among them I Know Where I”m Going! (1945), A Matter of Life and Death (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948), are landmarks in Britis …

Modern Times was Charlie Chaplin”s last full-length silent film. The author situates ”Modern Times” within the context of Chaplin”s life work, exploring its history and influences. She explores h …

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 …

The book provides a detailed introduction to the essential themes, style, and aesthetics of Pedro Almodovar”s films, put in the context of Spain”s profound cultural transitions since 1980. With pre …

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 …