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The Cinema of the Precariat is the first book to lay out the incredible range of the precariat (the social class suffering from precarity) as well as a detailed report on the cinematic record of thei …

This official history of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) draws on unprecedented access to the BBFC»s archives to trace 100 years of film classification, with cont …

Cinema is often perceived as a metropolitan medium – an entertainment product of the big city and for the big city. Yet film exhibitors have been bringing moving pictures to towns and villages since …

This text looks at the star system under the Third Reich. Following the experiments of Weimar, much of cinema after 1933 became part of a wider Nazi backlash against modernism in all its forms. This …

Michael Le Grice, a pioneer of »structural film» in the 1970s and whose first video and computer works were exhibited in the late 1960s, provides a collection of his most notable essays. The essays …

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 …

This illuminating study charts the changing role of the Hollywood film sequel over the past century. Considering a range of sequels in their industrial, historical and aesthetic contexts, from The So …

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 …