David Thomson 
Light in the Dark [EPUB ebook] 

Soundies Jukebox Films and the Shift to Small-Screen Culture is the first and only book to position what are called “Soundies” within the broader cultural and technological milieu of the 1940s. F …

"The Film: Its Use in Popular Education" by M. Jackson-Wrigley explores innovative teaching methods through cinema, merging film studies with education pedagogy. This groundbreaking work …

By combining the study of films with the text-based primary sources, Screening America gives students clear guidance in studying, interpreting, and understanding the motion picture”s significance as …

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 …

Employing concepts from film theory, this much-needed study explores in-depth the ‘cinematic’ quality of James Joyce”s fiction from Dubliners to Finnegan”s Wake. …

In Fitting Memory, a critical survey of Holocaust memorials and monuments in Europe, Israel, and the United States, focuses on the archeological remains at the original sites of Nazi terror which con …

This book is a cultural history of the interplay between the Western genre and American gun rights and legal paradigms. From muskets in the hands of landed gentry opposing tyrannical government to …

What are the foundations of scriptwriting? Why do some scripts gain more prestige than others? How do you write a script and get it noticed? Scriptwriting for Film, Television and New Media answers t …