Gary R. Edgerton 
Sopranos [EPUB ebook] 

In the last decade lifestyle television has become one of the most dominant television genres, with certain shows now global brands with formats exploited by producers all over the world. What unites …

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 …

Television presenters are key to the sociability of the medium, speaking directly to viewers as intermediaries between audiences and those who are interviewed, perform or compete on screen. As target …

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 …

It would be unthinkable now to omit early female pioneers from any survey of photography»s history in the Western world. Yet for many years the gendered language of American, British and French phot …

Horror is often dismissed as mass art or lowbrow entertainment that produces only short-term thrills. Horror films can be bloody, gory, and disturbing, so some people argue that they have bad moral e …

How does an actor embody a character? How do they use their body as an instrument of expression? Rethinking the Actor»s Body offers an accessible introduction to the fields of neurophysiology and em …

When first published in 1969, Horizons West was immediately recognised as the definitive critical account of the Western film and some of its key directors. This greatly expanded new edition is, like …

The quirky, strange and utterly sagacious meditations of David Caradine written during the making of Quentin Tarantino»s contemporary classic in which Carradine played the lead role. When Carradine …

Film Into Video, Second Edition offers comprehensive, practical information on the complex process of converting motion picture film into video. All of the tools of the trade are explained in clear, …