Maurice Stevens 
Troubling Beginnings [PDF ebook] 
Trans(per)forming African American History and Identity

The Actor”s Survival Guide: How to Make Your Way in Hollywood is a handbook and essential guide to the business of living and working as an actor in the Los Angeles area. Exploring the experience of …

Following the release of Ridley Scott”s Gladiator in 2000 the ancient world epic has experienced a revival in studio and audience interest. Building on existing scholarship on the Cold War epics of …

A spectacular and lavish photographic guide to the birds of Japan, Korea, north-east China and the Russian Far East. Eastern Asia is blessed with a rich and spectacular avifauna, and all 520 regularl …

Substantially revised and updated, this book highlights how Hollywood has transformed itself to attain ever global clout and reach and the material factors underlining Hollywood”s apparent artistic …

Boudu is one of Jean Renoir”s masterpieces and features Michel Simon”s performance as the disreputable tramp rescued from the river. It is discussed here by Richard Boston, video critic of the ”Gu …

This work examines major box office hits like ”The Full Monty” as well as critically acclaimed films like ”Under the Skin”. It explores the role of distribution and exhibition, the Americanisatio …

Ivan The Terrible (1944/46) was envisaged by its director, Sergei Eisenstein as a trilogy. But, Eisenstein died before begining the third part. Part One had been a resounding success, winning a Stali …

In ”Kind Hearts and Coronets” (1949), Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) schemes and murders his way to a dukedom. This title looks into the turbulent personalities that formed the complex style of this …

The idea of cinephilia is a crucial one for students of the cinema, but it is often associated with a bygone arthouse era. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, corporatism, public relations …

As blockbusters employ ever greater numbers of dazzling visual effects and digital illusions, this book explores the material roots and stylistic practices of special effects and their makers. Gather …