Cinema Industry

This book presents the Cultural Transduction framework as a conceptual tool to understand the processes that media and cultural products undergo wh...

Word-of-Mouth in Contemporary Hollywood provides a unique insight into the potential for online communication to enable audiences to exert a greate...

This volume considers the different implications of the rise of streaming services and their particular acceleration during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

Cinema history might have been very different had the first James Bond film not been Dr. No starring Sean Connery in 1962, but Thunderball directed...

To what extent have digital innovations transformed the UK film industry? What new practices and processes are emerging within the contemporary UK ...

London as Screen Gateway explores how London features within screen narratives and as a location of screen industry activity. Reflecting the divers...

Based on extensive original research, including in studio archives, industrial surveys, official records, trade journals, and English and Chinese n...

When the 2016 Oscar acting nominations all went to whites for the second consecutive year, #OscarsSoWhite became a trending topic. Yet these enduri...

LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2024GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 A little girl throws up Gloria-Jean's teeth...

A Companion to Steven Spielberg provides an authoritative collection of essays exploring the achievements and legacy of one of the most influential...

Between 1931 and 2000, India's popular cinema steadily overcame Hollywood domination. Bollywood, the film industry centered in Mumbai, became nothi...

A unique and essential guide to Media Labs. Gives advice on where they are, what they offer and how to apply. Includes history and discussion of ...

The expert contributors together trace how the arts of editingand effects have evolved in tandem, starting with the 'trick films'of the early silen...

This study of South American cinema offers a new way of approaching the variety of films available in the region. It brings to light the interconne...

This collection of essays seeks to expand and refine the study of Sinophone and Franco-Japanese transnational cinema. Chapter by chapter, each auth...

Some films are remembered long after they are released; others are soon forgotten, but do they deserve oblivion? Are factors other than quality inv...

The complexities and paradoxes of the Bulgarian film industry during the era of Communist rule (19451989) are explored in The Conformists: Creativi...

For the first time ever, cutting-edge research about the Swedish Nobel Laureate Selma Lagerlöf and her work is made available to a world-wide audie...

Blumhouse Productions is the first book that systematically examines the corpus of Blumhouses cinematic output. Individual chapters written by emer...

Updated collections of recent interviews with filmmakers whose works represent trends in the film industries of Central Asia and the Middle East, t...

The Cinema Makers investigates how cinema spectators in southeastern and central European cities became cinema makers through such practices as squ...

This book sheds new light on the under-researched period of early British cinema through an in-depth history of the British and Colonial Kinematogr...

Flickering Empire tells the fascinating yet little-known story of how Chicago served as the unlikely capital of American film production in the yea...

Distribution Revolution is a collection of interviews with leading film and TV professionals concerning the many ways that digital delivery systems...

Distribution Revolution is a collection of interviews with leading film and TV professionals concerning the many ways that digital delivery systems...

Recent critically and commercially acclaimed Latin American films such as XXY, Contracorriente, and Plan B create an affective and bodily connectio...

When the Fox Film Corporation merged with Twentieth Century Pictures in 1935, the company posed little threat to industry juggernauts such as Param...

In 1978, George Harrison, the Monty Python team and American businessman Denis O'Brien formed HandMade films, which was responsible for such classi...

Visions of Development examines the Indian state's postcolonial development ideology between Independence in 1947 and the Emergency of 1975- 77. Su...

Film Distribution in the Digital Age critically examines the evolution of the landscape of film distribution in recent years. In doing so, it argue...

At the end of World War II, Hollywood basked in unprecedented prosperity. Since then, numerous challenges and crises have changed the American film...

This scholarly compendium offers a comprehensive analysis of King Hu's transformative impact on Chinese martial arts cinema. It begins with a found...

This book signposts Benin (Edo) cinema as one of the vibrant new frontiers in the performing arts of Nigeria, underscoring this with critical empir...