Offers a collection of essays that provides the comprehensive survey of Hollywood and independent films from the mid-60s the present. This title brings together thirteen leading film scholars who present a range of theoretical, critical, and historical perspectives on this rich and pivotal era in American cinema.

A study of the rape-revenge film. Jacinda Read suggests that the rape-revenge cycle can be read as one of the primary ways in which Hollywood has attempted to make sense of feminism and the changing shape of heterosexual femininity in the post-1970 period.

Beginning with an Introduction exploring some of the factors that have led to this fertile environment, this book symbolize the incredible breadth and diversity to be found in British cinema. It features interviews with the film-making voices.

A brand-new edition of the world's most widely used drawing instruction book, expanded and updated with more than 50 per cent new material.

Forty basic and new exercises to develop your drawing skills. Expanded subject matter. Exercises for all drawing mediums. Learning to draw, like mastering a sport or musical instrument, requires practice. This convenient workbook is designed to be portable so you can use it to practice your drawing anywhere, in the dentist's office or on your way t

This is the first book devoted to the history and prospects of the new modernist studies. It will be a key resource for readers seeking an authoritative account of the field's early years and for those seeking out new directions in modernist scholarship.

B. Ruby Rich has been involved with queer filmmaking-as a critic, film-festival curator, publicist, scholar, and champion-since it emerged in the 1980s. This volume collects the best of her writing on New Queer Cinema from its beginning to the present.

Two strangers, both reading the same novel, share a fleeting glance between passing subway cars. A bookstore owner locks eyes with a neighbor as she receives an Amazon package. Strangers are united by circumstance as they wait on the subway stairs for a summer storm to pass.

This is an examination of "The Night of the Hunter", Charles Laughton's only outing as a film director. It looks at the symbolism of the piece, at Willa, her throat cut sitting in the Model-T Ford, and the Preacher, a silhouetted threat on the horizon.

This new monograph, published in partnership with the Centre Pompidou, presents more than 80 of Foster's key projects, alongside essays by Frederic Migayrou and Philip Jodidio.

One of a hand-picked selection of some of the most popular and cult-worthy titles on Faber and Faber's extensive list of film scripts.

This selection offers a cross-section from the 6,000 surviving sheets that constitute Leonardo's notebooks, including his thoughts on landscape, optics, anatomy, architecture, sculpture, and painting. Fully updated, this new edition includes some 70 line drawings and a Preface by Leonardo expert Martin Kemp.

First published in 1957, this work of film theory analyses the process by which novels are transformed into films. Beginning with a discussion of the aesthetic limits of both the novel and the film, the author goes on to offer readings of six films based on novels of serious literary merit.

Oceanic art was important to the development of the modernist movement, influencing such artists as Gauguin. The tendency in the West has been to view Oceanic art as "primitive", but this book goes beyond this view to discover the meaning of art for the people of the Pacific.

The Oldie Annual will feature more articles and cartoons from `the most original magazine in the country' (Independent) This is the best of The Oldie's writers, columnists, cartoonists and artists from the archive in one book Writers include Auberon Waugh, Miles Kington, Giles Wood, Patricia Highsmith and Barry Cryer

Illustrator and artist Oliver Jeffers gives readers an unprecedented and intimate window into his creative process, weaving his popular works with never-before-seen art and illustrations, alongside his personal story of how he came to art, his love of books, and his bookmaking, fashioned from his personal sketchbooks.