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An Overview

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 b …

Combining a detailed account of the situation in Japanese film and criticism with unique close analyses of Kitano”s films from Violent Cop to Takeshis, the author relates the director to issues of c …

Film/Genre revises our notions of film genre and connects the roles played by industry critics and audiences in making and re-making genre. Altman reveals the conflicting stakes for which the genre g …

During World War II, jazz embodied everything that was appealing about a democratic society as envisioned by the Western Allied powers. Labelled `degenerate” by Hitler”s cultural apparatus, jazz wa …

In the film ”Seven Samurai” (1954) a whole society is on the verge of irrevocable change. Many people consider this film a major achievemnet in Japanese cinema, an epic that evokes the cultural uph …

Although new writing and research on British cinema has burgeoned over the last fifteen years, there has been a continued lack of single-authored books providing a coherent overview to this fascinati …

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 …

This volume addresses the content of television – both programs and advertisements – and the psychological effects of the content on the audience. The author not only reports new research, but expl …

In Against Transmission Barker rethinks the history of audio-visual media as a history of analytical instruments. Rather than viewing media history as the commonly told story of synthetic media (medi …

Lynda Bellingham died in her husband Michael”s arms on 19th October 2014. Lynda touched many lives in her memoir, There”s Something I”ve Been Dying to Tell You, and in My Lynda, Michael tells his …