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Explores hieroglyphs as a metaphor for the relationship between new media and writing in British modernism In the British Museum, one object attracts more tourists than any other: the Rosetta Stone. …

More than 5, 000 film festivals take place globally and many of these have only been established in the last two decades. International Film Festivals collects the leading scholarship on this increas …

Aristocrat and Marxist, master equally of harsh realism and sublime melodrama, Luchino Visconti (1906-1976) was without question one of the greatest European film directors. His career as a film-make …

Watching Doctor Who explores fandom”s changing attitudes towards Doctor Who. Why do fans love an episode one year but deride it a decade later? How do fans” values of Doctor Who change over time? A …

Barbara Stanwyck”s illustrious career began in the 1920s and spanned sixty years. During that period she starred in major films of many genres and worked with some of the most distinguished Hollywoo …

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 …

This wide-ranging text is one of the first to look in detail at some of the principal genres, cycles and trends in Hollywood”s output during the last two decades. It includes analysis of such films …

This is an exploration of the representation of Ireland and the Irish in British and US cinemas, as well as Irish-made films. The book offers readings of a wide range of key films such as The Butcher …

An attempt to locate cinema alongside philosophy, painting, geography and travel in terms of a history of modernism. The book focuses on a collection of geographical and ethnographic films and photog …

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 …