Duncan J Petrie 
Creativity And Constraint In The British Film Industry [PDF ebook] 

First published in 1978. In this title, Alan Thomas examines the invention of photography in the early nineteenth century. How the members of this first ‘visual’ generation used photography and how i …

This book is a major new study – dealing with notions of film music as a device that desires to control its audience, using a most powerful thing: emotion. The author emphasises the manipulative and …

Create vibrant visual effects with Adobe After Effects. Gain the tips, tricks, and applied knowledge you need to carry out essential visual effects tasks and bring your digital compositing to the nex …

Richard Roud”s Godard, first published in 1967 as ”Number One” in the seminal Cinema One series, was the first monograph on the great film-maker to be published in English, and one that reveals a …

Most people are too busy to keep up with all the good movies they’d like to see, so why should anyone spend their precious time watching the bad ones? In Why It’s OK to Love Bad Movies, philosopher a …

Iran has undergone considerable social upheaval since the revolution and this has been reflected in its cinema. Drawing on first-hand interviews and detailed ethnographic research,  this book&#x …

Brian Viner”s children are finally leaving home. Exhausted and broken, and on average £200, 000 worse off per child, Brian felt it was time to look back on the adventure of being a father over …

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Catherine O”Brien draws on the structure of Dante Alighieri”s Divine Comedy to explore …

An authoritative photographic guide to the butterflies of Europe. Packed with beautiful photography and thoroughly updated throughout, this is the definitive guide to all 472 species of European butt …

Shortlisted for the BAFTSS ”Best Monograph” Award 2021 When watching the latest instalment of Batman, it is perfectly normal to say that we see Batman fighting Bane or that we see Bruce Wayne makin …