Joanne Bernardi 
Writing in Light [EPUB ebook] 
The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement

This is the third book in the ”Understanding the Moving Image” series. Like other books in the series, it aims to provide a strong critical and theoretical base for the study of the media. It has b …

This book shines much-needed light on the history, structures and films of the Amharic film industry in Ethiopia. Focusing on the rise of the industry from 2002, until today, and embedded in archival …

During World War II, jazz embodied everything that was appealing about a democratic society as envisioned by the Western Allied powers. Labelled `degenerate” by Hitler”s cultural apparatus, jazz wa …

Sue Thornham”s study explores issues in feminist filmmaking through an examination of a wide range of films by women filmmakers, ranging from the avant-garde to mainstream Hollywood, and from the 19 …

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 …

Civilized Violence provides a social and historical explanation for the popular appeal of cinema violence. There is a significant amount of research on the effects of media violence, but less work on …

Along with my own personal story, I am going to write down a few things that may amuse you (or even take you down some other emotional path) and I”ll let you in on a few so-far-unrevealed aspects of …

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 …

Television directors remain an enigma to most students of the mass media; traditionally, their function has been little understood by scholars and the viewing public. In this book, John Ravage studie …

Hitherto classified as a form of genre fiction, or as a particular aesthetic quality of literature by H. P. Lovecraft, the weird has now come to refer to a broad spectrum of artistic practices and ex …