Songs take up space and time in films. Richard Dyer's In the Space of a Song takes off from
this perception, arguing that the way songs take up space indicates a great deal about the …

Across the academy, scholars are debating the question of what bearing scientific inquiry
has upon the humanities. The latest addition to the AFI Film Readers series, Cognitive …

When I began working on the thesis that would eventually become the book Engaging
Characters twenty years ago, 1 the subject of character seemed irredeemably unfashionable …

Global markets like the festival circuit affect the ways in which small cinemas represent the
nation. In the 2000s, new Uruguayan cinema has produced several films which background …

This book provides an introduction to the work of Irvine Welsh, placing his fiction in historical
and theoretical context. It explores Welsh's biography, his impact on contemporary Scottish …

In the first book-length consideration of the topic for sixty years, Kevin Donnelly examines
the importance of music in British film, concentrating both on musical scores, such as William …

For some, social realism in British cinema is a problematic tradition, one that is politically
limited and aesthetically conservative. Boring, pious, out of date.'Miserabilist'is the term often …

Zusammenfassung Die Beziehung von Filmen zur gesellschaftlichen Wirklichkeit hat in der
wissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Medium eine wichtige Rolle gespielt …

When considering the current 'map'of moving image culture in Britain, one is immediately
struck by the almost total domination of a Hollywood-defined sphere of consumption–the …

The 2000s were a decade that saw many important Scottish films make big splashes in
critical and commercial terms, the decade ending with Peter Mullan's acclaimed film Neds …