Film, TV & Radio books

The Scottish novelist Alistair MacLean didn't speak English until he was six, but he went on to become one of the...  Read More >>

Empathy Machines explores This American Life as a crucial cultural institution in the evolution of empathy as a...  Read More >>

A history of the formation of modern film studies in Britain, revealing how the collaborative work of Paddy Whannel...  Read More >>

From Dusk Till Dawn ist ein Film, der sein Publikum bewusst auf eine falsche Fährte setzt: erst knisternder Crime-Thriller,...  Read More >>

Leading international film scholars chart the changing critical reception of Alfred Hitchcock's film and TV works...  Read More >>

Legendary Hollywood composer Elmer Bernstein is the only person to be nominated for an Academy Award in every decade...  Read More >>

After the decline of the Spaghetti Western, crime films were the most popular, profitable and controversial genre...  Read More >>

The first book-length study of Australia’s rich history of LGBTQ+ film and television, covering histories, production,...  Read More >>

A new edition of Richard Schickel's study of Billy Wilder's 1944 noir masterpiece Double Indemnity in the BFI Film...  Read More >>

An expansive study of the first 100 years of film music, this book listens composer by composer, film by film, to...  Read More >>

Operafilm is a new word for an emerging, auteur-led gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art, in which music, film,...  Read More >>

Although Soviet propaganda films have been widely studied, much less attention has been given to the films the USSR...  Read More >>

The Historical Imaginary examines Quebec's French-language feature films through the lens of ""national cinema,""...  Read More >>

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This book delves into the groundbreaking career of Wendy Toye, a trailblazing director, choreographer and creative...  Read More >>

Fassbinder's cult classic offers a treatment of love over three generations of women. It's a modern tragedy about...  Read More >>

This book uniquely combines academic film analysis, biographical detail and personal interviews with the filmmaker,...  Read More >>

Examining cult film traditions from all across the world, Global Cult Cinemas asks how the predominant Western theoretical...  Read More >>

A history of the formation of modern film studies in Britain, revealing how the collaborative work of Paddy Whannel...  Read More >>

Empathy Machines explores This American Life as a crucial cultural institution in the evolution of empathy as a...  Read More >>

Explores the impact of portable video recording technology on the development of activism produced by different...  Read More >>

Kwasu D. Tembo unites approaches from disciplines as wide-ranging as physics, mathematics, cinema, philosophy, and...  Read More >>

The first book-length study of Australia’s rich history of LGBTQ+ film and television, covering histories, production,...  Read More >>

An in-depth exploration of how 20th century Indian art cinema shaped class identity and its often overlooked place...  Read More >>