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A how-to book on the art, craft and practice of TV/video/streaming cinematography for multi-camera shooting. This book is written for anyone wanti...

A how-to book on the art, craft and practice of TV/video/streaming cinematography for multi-camera shooting. This book is written for anyone wanti...

Although a major star in the 1910s, Theda Bara--known as The Vamp--was largely neglected until the 1990s, when her fame began to resurface. Sinc...

How are the Crusades portrayed in popular culture today? Have the medieval images of chivalric and military heroes survived the eras of Oriental...

After training and studying for years, youve earned a degree: now what? How to get a job and have a career as an actor is the number one question f...

Offering new historical information coupled with refined close readings and an impressive amount of archival work, East German Film and the Holocau...

In the past decade, spanning from the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis to the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, rural poverty in the United...

In 1932, The Mummy, starring Boris Karloff, introduced another icon to the classic monster pantheon, beginning a journey down the cinematic Nile...

Recollecting Lotte Eisner provides the first in-depth examination of the remarkable transnational career of film journalist, archivist, and histori...

Greatly expanded and updated from the 1977 original, this new edition explores the evolution of the modern horror film, particularly as it reflects...

Mainstreaming Gays discusses a key transitional period linking the eras of legacy and streaming, analyzing how queer production and interaction tha...

Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok explores how hip hop culture -- principally music and dance -- is used to construct and p...

Before 2010, there were no Israeli horror films. Then distinctly Israeli serial killers, zombies, vampires, and ghosts invaded local screens. The n...

This book examines German feature films and television series centered around the figure of the computer hacker as a hero, introducing the German h...

What was cinema in modern China? It was, this book tells us, a dynamic entity, not strictly tied to one media technology, one mode of operation, or...

All is not well in the beautiful county of Midsomer. On the eve of its first Villages In Bloom competition, a man lies dead, smelling of damson jam...

A series of philosophical meditations on the nature of aesthetics across a wide array of filmmaking styles Images, whether filmic or not, cannot be...

What unleashed the forces of global capitalism which continue to shape the world that we live in? Economists and economic historians variously poin...

'There are prizes, normally named after PG Wodehouse, given to literary comic novels and non-fiction, and these books will have blurbs saying hilar...

Based on the novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, the Amazon Prime series, Good Omens, quickly gained a cult following after debuting in May o...

The Slumdog Phenomenon addresses multiple issues related to Slumdog Millionaire and, in the process, provides new ways of looking at this controver...