Lindsay Hallam 
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me [PDF ebook] 

This official history of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) draws on unprecedented access to the BBFC”s archives to trace 100 years of film classification, with cont …

Cinema is often perceived as a metropolitan medium – an entertainment product of the big city and for the big city. Yet film exhibitors have been bringing moving pictures to towns and villages since …

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 …

Seventies British Cinema provides a comprehensive re-evaluation of British film in the 1970s. The decade has long been written off in critical discussions as a ”doldrums” period in British cinema, …

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 …

The past four decades have seen the Spanish film industry rise from isolation in the 1970s to international recognition within European and World Cinema today. Exploring the cultural and political im …

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 …