Dan Bolt & Mark Harris 
Glass and Water 

Focusing on television media reporting of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and its aftermath, this book explores how African states directly involved in conflict, western states with geopolitical …

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 …

A guide to directors who have worked in the British and Irish film industries between 1895 and 2005. Each of its 980 entries on individuals directors gives a resume of the director“s career, …

Since the earliest days of cinema the law has influenced the conditions in which Hollywood films are made, sold, circulated or presented – from the talent contracts that enable a film to go into …

Ginette Vincendeau discusses the artistic value of his films in their proper context and comments on Jean-Pierre Melville“s love of American culture and his controversial critical and political …

The three films comprising director Jia Zhangke“s “Hometown Trilogy“ – Xiao Wu (1997), Platform (2000) and Unknown Pleasures(2002) – represent key contributions to the cinema of contemporary …

The book provides a detailed introduction to the essential themes, style, and aesthetics of Pedro Almodovar“s films, put in the context of Spain“s profound cultural transitions since 1980. With …

This comprehensive study reconstructs the production history of The Blue Angel (1930), showing how director Josef von Sternberg“s virtuoso visual style was amply supported by an immensely talented …

Provocative polemic on digital media; Features foreword by Martin Scorsese, extract overleaf; It is estimated that about one and a half billion hours of moving images were produced in 1999, twice as …

No other silent film director has been so extensively studied as D. W. Griffith. However, only a small group of his more than five hundred films had been the subject of a systematic analysis. Now, …