Matthew Evangelista 
Gender, Nationalism, and War [PDF ebook] 
Conflict on the Movie Screen

Explores hieroglyphs as a metaphor for the relationship between new media and writing in British modernism In the British Museum, one object attracts more tourists than any other: the Rosetta Stone. …

More than 5, 000 film festivals take place globally and many of these have only been established in the last two decades. International Film Festivals collects the leading scholarship on this increas …

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 …

This is an exploration of the representation of Ireland and the Irish in British and US cinemas, as well as Irish-made films. The book offers readings of a wide range of key films such as The Butcher …

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 …

Working for Paramount in the 1940s playwright and scriptwriter Preston Sturges directed a succession of exceptional comedies of which the ”Palm Beach Story” is perhaps the finest. Pym”s account re …

Christopher Nolan is the writer and director of Hollywood blockbusters like The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, and also of arthouse films like Memento and Inception. Underlying his staggering …

Navigating through the challenging process of writing a comedy pilot, this book will help screenwriters to create an original script for television. Practical and accessible, the book presents a step …

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 …

As a passenger on the first two legs of Titanic”s ill fated voyage, Father Francis Browne SJ”s photographs are an immensely important record. As well as taking a unique set of photos, Father Browne …