Jonathan Murray 
Discomfort and Joy [PDF ebook] 
The Cinema of Bill Forsyth

Electric Edwardians presents a stunning visual record of the films of Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon, combined with an illuminating discussion of the films and the social context of their production …

Shyam Benegal is the best known and most prolific contemporary film-maker from India”s arthouse or ”New Cinema” tradition. This work traces a career with its beginnings in political cinema and a …

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 …

The fourth volume of ”The Griffith Project” looks at the films produced by D.W.Griffith at the Biograph Company in 1910. There were 86 films in all and they represent a period of creativity for the …

"The Film: Its Use in Popular Education" by M. Jackson-Wrigley explores innovative teaching methods through cinema, merging film studies with education pedagogy. This groundbreaking work …

Cinesexuality explores the queerness of cinema spectatorship, arguing that cinema spectatorship represents a unique encounter of desire, pleasure and perversion beyond dialectics of subject/object …

Chic, sophisticated, seductive and enigmatic, the Parisienne possesses a je ne sais quoi that makes her difficult to define. But who or what is the Parisienne, and how is she depicted in cinema? The …

Humphrey Jennings (1907-50) was perhaps the most gifted film-maker of the British documentary movement. Involved in the Mass Observation project of the 1930s, Jennings” talent lay in picturing …

In ”Meet Me in St Louis”, one of the most popular MGM musicals, Judy Garland stars as the classic American teenager. For this book, Gerald Kaufman interviewed many of the stars. This text captures …

This is the third book in the ”Understanding the Moving Image” series. Like other books in the series, it aims to provide a strong critical and theoretical base for the study of the media. It has …