Fotografi, film, video, TV

Modern Times was Charlie Chaplin”s last full-length silent film. The author situates ”Modern Times” within the context of Chaplin”s life work, exploring its history and influences. She explores h …

New Vampire Cinema lifts the coffin lid on forty contemporary vampire films, from 1992 to the present day, charting the evolution of a genre that is, rather like its subject, at once exhausted and vi …

Tall, dark and handsome, with a manufactured name and a scrupulously designed professional image, Rock Hudson represented the Hollywood ideal of American masculinity during the 1950s and 60s; an idea …

This comprehensive study reconstructs the production history of The Blue Angel (1930), showing how director Josef von Sternberg”s virtuoso visual style was amply supported by an immensely talented t …

Raymond durgnat was a maverick voice during the golden age of film criticism. From the French new Wave and the rise of auteurism, through the late 1960s counter-culture, to the rejuvenated Hollywood …

ln this volume Tom Gunning examines the films of Fritz Lang not only as a stylistically coherent body of work, but as an attempt to portray the modern world through cinema. The world of modernity in …

Despite being one of the biggest industries in the United States, indeed the World, the internal workings of the ”dream factory” that is Hollywood is little understood outside the business. The Hol …

Though screenwriting is an essential part of the film production process, in Britain it is yet to be fully recognised as a form in itself. In this original study, Jill Nelmes brings the art of screen …

John Ford”s masterpiece The Searchers (1956) was rated fifth greatest film of all time in Sight and Sound”s most recent poll of critics. Its influence on many of America”s most distinguished conte …

In a world, in which camcorders and CCTV are witness to our every move and Big Brother and The Blair Witch Project are phenomenally popular and widely imitated, the divide between reality and liction …