P. Taylor 
Britain and the Cinema in the Second World War [PDF ebook] 

Humphrey Jennings was one of Britain”s greatest documentary film-makers, described by Lindsay Anderson in 1954 as ”the only real poet the British cinema has yet produced”. A member of the GPO Film …

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 …

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 …

Why do we think of clusters of films as ”national cinema”? Why has the relationship between the nation and film become so widely and uncritically accepted? ”Theorising National Cinema” is a major …

Brings together an introduction to academic study of audiences as ”readers” of films and an investigation into how the film industry perceives audiences as part of its industrial practices. The app …

In a world, in which camcorders and CCTV are witness to our every move and Big Brother and The Blair Witch Project are phenomenally popular and widely imitated, the divide between reality and liction …

Sue Thornham”s study explores issues in feminist filmmaking through an examination of a wide range of films by women filmmakers, ranging from the avant-garde to mainstream Hollywood, and from the 19 …

The golden age of Mexican cinema, which spanned the 1930s through to the 1950s, saw Mexico”s film industry become one of the most productive in the world, exercising a decisive influence on national …

A discussion of the frequently controversial film maker Youssef Chahine. The book aims to illuminate Chahine”s work in the context of modern Egyptian culture and its tumultuous post-war history and …

This volume explores the philosophical and metaphysical manifestations of contemporary cinema. Starting with the hypothesis that movies provide an experience that is both a pathway into the thinking …