Schmid Georg Schmid 
Mind Screen [PDF ebook] 
Identification Desire and Its Cinematic Arena

Substantially revised and updated, this book highlights how Hollywood has transformed itself to attain ever global clout and reach and the material factors underlining Hollywood”s apparent artistic …

Is it ever morally wrong to enjoy fantasizing about immoral things? Many video games allow players to commit numerous violent and immoral acts. But, should players worry about the morality of their v …

Upon its release in 1960, Alfred Hitchcock”s Psycho divided critical opinion, with several leading film critics condemning Hitchcock”s apparent encouragement of the audience”s identification with …

Boudu is one of Jean Renoir”s masterpieces and features Michel Simon”s performance as the disreputable tramp rescued from the river. It is discussed here by Richard Boston, video critic of the ”Gu …

Cinema and Colour: The Saturated Image is a major new critical study of the use of colour in cinema. Using the dialectic of colour and monochrome as a starting point, Paul Coates explores the symboli …

In ”Kind Hearts and Coronets” (1949), Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) schemes and murders his way to a dukedom. This title looks into the turbulent personalities that formed the complex style of this …

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 …

This intimate book draws extensively on research in the archives of Francois Truffaut”s company, Les Films du Carrosse, and on interviews with many of La Nuit américaine cast and crew. They bear wit …

This book shines much-needed light on the history, structures and films of the Amharic film industry in Ethiopia. Focusing on the rise of the industry from 2002, until today, and embedded in archival …

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 …