Wolfgang Riebe 
Sleightly Close-Up [EPUB ebook] 

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 …

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 …

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 …

Aristocrat and Marxist, master equally of harsh realism and sublime melodrama, Luchino Visconti (1906-1976) was without question one of the greatest European film directors. His career as a film-make …

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 …

Despite being one of the biggest industries in the United States, indeed the World, the internal workings of the ”dream factory” that is Hollywood is little understood outside the business. The Hol …

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 …

This volume explores the philosophical and metaphysical manifestations of contemporary cinema. Starting with the hypothesis that movies provide an experience that is both a pathway into the thinking …

Countering the dystopic and the apocalyptic, Star Trek”s Philosophy of Peace and Justice introduces political philosophical reflections on peace, justice, and non-violence through dramatic plots in …