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The Science of Writing Characters is a comprehensive handbook to help writers create compelling and psychologically-credible characters that come t...

This book brings together a host of internationally recognised scholars to provide an interdisciplinary perspective on the representation of the ch...

This comprehensively revised, updated and significantly extended edition introduces German film history from its beginnings to the present day, cov...

The great director John Ford (1894-1973) is best known for classic westerns, but his body of work encompasses much more than this single genre. Jef...

Black & white film, the cinema of shadows and light, is a filmgoer's pleasure and a film student's surprised delight. The greatest of films are...

Making movies is the most exciting way to earn a living and it is not surprising that media and film studies remain the most popular courses at col...

Striving to leave fidelity-criticism behind, this comparative analysis treats Henry James Portrait of a Lady and its cinematic counterpart by Jane ...

From cinemas silent beginnings, fashion and interior design have been vital to character development and narrative structure. Despite spectacular t...

The British Film Industry in 25 Careers tells the history of the British film industry from an unusual perspective - that of various mavericks, vis...

The British Film Industry in 25 Careers tells the history of the British film industry from an unusual perspective - that of various mavericks, vis...

The five films the Beatles worked on during their time together (A Hard Days Night, Help!, Magical Mystery Tour, Yellow Submarine, Let It Be) all r...

Monty Python's Life of Brian film is known for its brilliant satirical humour. Less well known is that the film contains references to what was, a...

For over a century, cinephiles and film scholars have had to grapple with an ugly artifact that sits at the beginnings of film history. D. W. Griff...

When wielded by the white majority, ethnic humor can be used to ridicule and demean marginalized groups. In the hands of ethnic minorities themselv...

In the summer of 2010, Ragan Fox was one of twelve people selected to participate in the twelfth season of CBS's reality program Big Brother. Offer...

In the thousand-channel universe, politicians must find innovative ways to reach citizens via television. Viewership for news and current affairs t...

The current political climate of confrontation between Islamistregimes and Western governments has resulted in the proliferation ofessentialist per...

In Push the Button, Elizabeth Rodwell follows a battle over what interactivity will mean for Japanese television, as major media conglomerates took...

Drawing on texts and theorists of Greek myth, psychoanalysis, and masculinities, Susan Mackey-Kallis and Brian Johnston develop and offer a model o...

Why are big budget films typically made across an array of seemingly dissociated sites? Supply Chain Cinema shows how the production journeys of ...

«La vieillesse, cest ce qui arrive aux gens qui deviennent vieux ; impossible denfermer cette pluralité dexpériences dans un concept ou même une no...

Over the past fifteen years, writer, producer and director Christopher Nolan has emerged from the margins of independent British cinema to become o...