Fotografia, Filme, Vídeo, TV

How do you sell British humour to a French audience? Could piracy actually be good for the film business? Why are The Hobbit”s revolutionary technologies not mentioned in some adverts? Exploring the …

Il Conformist has mesmerised audiences by Bertulocci”s mastery of the telling, the beauty of the images, the camera work, its soundtrack, and the intensity with which the characters convey powerful …

L.A. Confidential was released in 1997 to huge critical acclaim and it went on to be nominated for nine Academy Awards. Its reputation has since grown to the point that the film is now widely seen as …

For a majority of filmgoers, the names most usually associated with classic Japanese cinema are those of Kurosawa and Ozu. Yet during the early 1950s, at the same time that Kurosawa was becoming know …

Abel Gance”s film, restored through the efforts of Kevin Brownlow, is discussed here by Nelly Kaplan, who was Gance”s assistant and then, later, with such productions as ”The Pirate”s Fiancee”, …

Pam Cook”s study of the star persona of Nicole Kidman traces Kidman”s career trajectory through an examination of her (sometimes controversial) film choices and places her in the context of a globa …

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 …

In the conference Africa and the History of Cinematic Ideas held in London in 1995, film-makers, cultural theorists and critics gathered to debate a range of issues. Views were exchanged on such topi …

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 …

The cinema of Theo Angelopoulos is celebrated as challenging the status quo. From the political films of the 1970s through to the more existential works of his later career, Vrasidis Karalis argues f …