This book's consistent and comprehensive focus on writing allows the reader to master film vocabulary and concepts while learning to formulate rich interpretations.

By combining extensive research into the film's source novel, production and reception with systematic textual analysis and an engagement with several key issues in contemporary academic debate, this work promises not only to make a huge ...

Updated and expanded for a new edition, this is the perfect starter text for students of film studies.

Focusing on two film traditions not normally studied together, Maria Pramaggiore examines more than two dozen Irish and African American films, including Do the Right Thing, In the Name of the Father, The Crying Game, Boyz N the Hood, The ...

Best known for his enormously successful independent film The Crying Game, Irish director Neil Jordan has made sixteen feature films since 1982.

"Stanley Kubrick's formally rigorous, visually precise and profoundly satirical films offer an uncompromising view of the masculine obsessions that define Western culture, from phallic bombs, mammary milk bars, and classical music (Dr ...