Film, TV & Radio books

When Alistair Cooke retired in March 2004 and then died a few weeks later, he was acclaimed by many as one of the...  Read More >>

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Pawel Pawlikowski's 2013 Academy Award for the Best Foreign Film for his Holocaust drama Ida secured his place in...  Read More >>

Writing on the Edge analyzes texts that surround movies - so-called filmic paratexts. They include opening and closing...  Read More >>

Reframing the Past traces what historians have written about film and television from 1898 until the early 2000s....  Read More >>

This engaging and original work argues that modern Hollywood was forged in the fires of class struggle and economic...  Read More >>

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Presenting a proven technique for screenwriting centered on a character's flaws and strengths, an expert screenwriting...  Read More >>

A truly new strategy for teaching directing. There are no books out there with the same insightful and practical...  Read More >>

""Actor Burt Reynolds reflects on his personal victories and defeats as he focuses on his legacy as a father and...  Read More >>

The Network tells the story of one of the 20th century's greatest heists: the massive rip-off of the airwave, which...  Read More >>

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First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

This book offers the first specific application in film studies of what is generally known as ecology theory, shifting...  Read More >>

Despite the fractured media scape and ideological distortions, the voice from television offers important lessons...  Read More >>

An expansive and insightful collection of interviews with one of cinema's highly regarded filmmakers.  Read More >>

An argument appreciating and mapping the wide divergences in the director's interpretations of literature  Read More >>

The Joker stands out as one of the most recognizable comics characters in popular culture. While there has been...  Read More >>

Explores how Coen brothers’ films emerge as morality tales, set in a mythological American landscape, that critique...  Read More >>

Offers a compelling new vision of film theory. The volume conceives of ""theory"" not as a fixed body of canonical...  Read More >>

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Surveys all of Robert Altman's major films in their sociohistorical context to reposition the director as a trenchant...  Read More >>

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