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"With this book, Philip Skerry makes an ambitious and largely successful effort to restore perspective to the debate that has swirled around Psycho since Hitchcock first ripped back the shower curta……続きを見る

Django Unchained is certainly Quentin Tarantino's most commercially-successful film and is arguably also his most controversial. Fellow director Spike Lee has denounced the representation of race an……続きを見る

Renowned for making films that are at once sly domestic satires and heartbreaking 'social realist' dramas, British writer-director Mike Leigh confronts his viewers with an un-romanticized dramatizat……続きを見る

This is the first study that employs a materialist framework to discuss the political implications of form in the films of Lars von Trier. Focusing mainly on early films, Politics as Form in Lars vo……続きを見る

This is a book about video art, and about sound art. The thesis is that sound first entered the gallery via the video art of the 1960s and in so doing, created an unexpected noise. The early part of……続きを見る

Alfred Hitchcock and the cinema grew up together. Born in 1899, four years after the first 'official' film showing in Paris, Hitchcock demonstrated an early fascination with the new art of the cinem……続きを見る

Write What You Don't Know is a friendly manual for aspiring screenwriters. It encourages you to move beyond your comfort zones in search of stories. We all write what we know - how could we not? Wri……続きを見る

Considered by critics to be Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, Barry Lyndon has suffered from scholarly and popular neglect. Maria Pramaggiore argues that one key reason that this film remains unappreci……続きを見る

Clint Eastwood has forged a remarkable career as a movie star, director, producer and composer. These newly discovered conversations with legendary journalist Paul Nelson return us to a point when, ……続きを見る

Biopics on artists influence the popular perception of artists' lives and work. Projected Art History highlights the narrative structure and images created in the film genre of biopics, in which an ……続きを見る

Vertov, Snow, Farocki: Machine Vision and the Posthuman begins with a comprehensive and original anthropological analysis of Vertov's film The Man With a Movie Camera. Tomas then explores the film's……続きを見る

The Psychology of Screenwriting is more than an interesting book on the theory and practice of screenwriting. It is also a philosophical analysis of predetermination and freewill in the context of w……続きを見る

A group of teenagers led by Chelsea and the half brothers; John and Mario, has to survive to the hardest years of their lives without any adult supervision. They must decipher the meaning of life, a……続きを見る

What happens if two people are also in love with each other in their telepathic non-gravity world created by their intense schizophrenic and telepathic condition? If you were the doctor responsible ……続きを見る

In 1842, Mamaw Molder, her husband, children and kin(and they was a lot of them) moved into the hills of Arkansas, each with a Choctaw Deed. They arrived in Mason County with three wagons, farm tool……続きを見る

Soul is our, but not our life. We breathe, but we don't act. We eat but we don't speak. It is the society that governs us. This book gives out instances when we are governed by our society. The matt……続きを見る

The year is twenty thirty three in Los Angeles. A police officer in a special crimes unit that hunts down the things that go bump in the night is obsessed with killing the vampires that murdered his……続きを見る

Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture examines the recent history of advanced technologies, including new media, virtual environments, weapons systems and medical innovation, and considers how ……続きを見る

“Mark's 101 snippets of sound advice are clearly written, touched with humor, offered in a common-sense, easily accessible format. This book is a quick yet worthwhile read, gleaned from Mark's own s……続きを見る

The purpose of this study is to report the reactions and criticism of those German, Swiss, and Austrian authors who commented on Les sing's Emilia Galotti from the time of its creation to the twenti……続きを見る

“Not a mirror but a magnifying glass”ーsuch, in the poet Mayakovsky’s words, was the theater of Vsevolod Meyerhold. The first to insist on the primacy of the director’s role, indeed the first to con……続きを見る

A unique contribution to film studies, Richard Gordon’s Cinema, Slavery, and Brazilian Nationalism is the first full-length book on Brazilian films about slavery. By studying Brazilian films release……続きを見る

Release the Kingdom through Dance!You can experience God’s presence and healing power through dance.Encountering God Through Dance equips believers to worship Jesus in wholehearted devotionーto expr……続きを見る

The need for students and young professionals to be effective communicators and media creators has never been so essential as it is today. Crafting multimedia messages across a variety of platforms ……続きを見る

Non-fiction in short story format can be entertaining too. These five contributions from members of Top Writers Block touch on a variety of subjects from 'Life After Death' to getting a ticket from ……続きを見る

Feature and Narrative Storytelling for Multimedia Journalists is the first text that truly focuses on the multimedia and documentary production techniques required by professional journalists. Video……続きを見る

An official and original short story to be read after watching episode two of Broadchurch: Series Two. Containing completely new material not available anywhere else, this is a must-read for all fan……続きを見る

From Weimar Germany to Hollywood to East Berlin, Brecht on Film and Radio gathers together a selection of Bertolt Brecht's own writings on the new film and broadcast media that revolutionised arts a……続きを見る

This book analyzes how and why Al Jazeera English (AJE) became thechannel of choice to understand the massive protests across the Arab world 2011. Aiming to explain the ‘Al Jazeera moment,’ it track……続きを見る

Artist imaginations continue to grow and stretch the boundaries of traditional animation. Successful animators adept and highly skilled in traditional animation mediums are branching out beyond trad……続きを見る