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Utopian Visions and Revisions [PDF ebook] 
Or the Uses of Ideal Worlds

How to Write a Horror Movie is a close look at an always-popular (but often disrespected) genre. It focuses on the screenplay and acts as a guide to bringing scary ideas to cinematic life using examp …

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 …

Humphrey Jennings was one of Britain”s greatest documentary film-makers, described by Lindsay Anderson in 1954 as ”the only real poet the British cinema has yet produced”. A member of the GPO Film …

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 …

This text ranges widely over key films and moments from stages of Luis Bunuel”s career. It locates and re-appraises Bunuel”s films with particular emphasis on the national cinemas and varied cultur …

This text presents the work of cultural theorists and philosophers of new media, together with the perspectives of artists experimenting with different interactive models critically examining their o …

Beneath the extreme, taboo-breaking surface of ”Salo” (a controversial and scandalous film made in 1975), Gary Indiana argues that there”s a deeply penetrating account of human behaviour which res …

Hugely impressive in its scope, with introductory chapters on social history, the film industry and theories of realism, this indispensable history of these vital years contains unusually fresh discu …

Martin Shingler presents the mother volume for Palgrave”s Film Stars series in three easily-navigable chapters in which he provides a summative and instructive account of star studies for today”s f …

This work maps the rich, varied cinema of Eastern Europe, Russia and the former USSR. Over 200 entries cover a variety of topics spanning a century of endeavour and turbulent history from Czech anima …