Movies from and about Ireland have attracted huge audiences, capturing top international prizes ("The Crying Game") and an Academy Award ("My Left Foot"). In this text, contributors take a variety of approaches to the treatment of films and film makers.

Why are people fascinated with Bollywood? What is the cultural significance of the films produced there? In recent years Bollywood - the popular Hindi cinema - has received widespread international attention in the global media. Bollywood examines the reasons for this interest and provides an unrivalled guide to the phenomenon.

A fresh, innovative interpretation of the life, work and lasting influence of the twentieth century's most iconic filmmaker.

The Oscar-winning film Boys Don't Cry (1999) offered the first mainstream access to transmasculine embodiment in North America. This book relocates the film within historical and conceptual contexts that influenced its ambivalent reception while emphasizing the importance of trans visibilities and representations in the mainstream.

The Academy Award (R)-winning actor, father of three, and bestselling author of Greenlights distils more than three decades of journaling experience to help you reflect, seek clarity, and forge your own path with this life-changing practice.

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Helps to learn the secrets of successfully marketing and selling your film at more than 1,000 film festivals around the world, including the best ones for indie, documentary, short, student, digital, animation and more. This title reveals how to get a film accepted and what to do after acceptance.

A unique and essential guide to Media Labs, spaces where new media, art and technology often come together. Gives advice on where they are, what they offer for digital media production and training and how to apply. Includes history and discussion of Media Labs and how they will play a key part in the digital world now and in the future.

Adam Mars-Jones guides us through his entire career as viewer and film critic.

The extraordinary (and typically unconventional) memoir from visionary filmmaker David Lynch, co-creator of Twin Peaks

Over ten insightful and often erotic interviews, the author examines himself fully and without mercy, leading a breathless investigation into this once-in-a-generation visionary.

Populated by familiar names and productions, You're Him, Aren't You? is Paul Darrow's own story of his life and career. It covers his association with Blake's 7 - how he was cast, his experiences of making the show, what has happened since and his memories of Terry Nation, the cast and the crew.

Taking us around the globe, through time and across multiple media, this book tracks the ways in which we were initially enchanted by this mesmerizing imitation of life and let movies - the stories, the stars, the look - show us how to live.

'The most revelatory and entertaining Hollywood book since Easy Riders, Raging Bulls.' Daily Telegraph

* 'A History of Hollywood, Its Money and Dreams - and what it did to us

What is behind the phenomenal success of entertainment businesses such as Warner Bros, Marvel Enterprises and Manchester United - along with such stars as Jay-Z and Lady Gaga? In this book, the author explains a powerful truth about the world of entertainment: building a business around blockbuster products is the surest path to long-term success.

With films such as "The Brood" and "Videodrome", David Cronenberg established himself as Canada's most provocative director. This title charts his development from maker of inexpensive exploitation cinema to internationally renowned director of million-dollar movies, and reveals the concerns and obsessions which continue to dominate his work.

Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to plot an exact imaginary route across Europe. So how did this fearful figure become the one of the most respected film directors of the twentieth century? This book answers this question.