Frederick C. Davis 
Making Your Camera Pay [PDF ebook] 

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 …

Cinema and Colour: The Saturated Image is a major new critical study of the use of colour in cinema. Using the dialectic of colour and monochrome as a starting point, Paul Coates explores the symboli …

Richard Roud»s Godard, first published in 1967 as »Number One» in the seminal Cinema One series, was the first monograph on the great film-maker to be published in English, and one that reveals a …

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 …

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 …

In Dusan Makavejev»s controversial and explicit WR — Mysteries of the Organism (1971), »WR» is Wilhelm Reich, the Marxist psychoanalyst who preached sexual enlightenment as a gateway to a better s …

This book shines much-needed light on the history, structures and films of the Amharic film industry in Ethiopia. Focusing on the rise of the industry from 2002, until today, and embedded in archival …

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 …

Andrew Utterson»s unique study charts the beginnings of digital cinema, addressing both how filmmakers used new digital technologies and how attitudes and anxieties about the rise of the computer we …

This book is a major new study — dealing with notions of film music as a device that desires to control its audience, using a most powerful thing: emotion. The author emphasises the manipulative and …