Bio-pics: A Life in Pictures offers a series of case studies which throw light on this most unique of genres. Is the bio-pic a genre in its own right? Or are such films merely footnotes in other more traditional genres such as the western or costume drama, depending on the historical figure under scrutiny. Unlike other genre forms bio-pics seemingly share no familiar iconography, codes or conventions. They can be set anywhere and at any time. What links them is quite simply that the films ...

Jane Campion is one of the few women film-makers working today who has managed to create a unique body of work. A true independent film-maker, yet she has attracted A List Hollywood superstars to appear in her films.Who else but Jane Campion could have convinced a tattooed Harvey Keitel to run buck-naked through the New Zealand landscape in The Piano, or for the multi-award winning Kate Winslet to pee down her legs in the middle of the desert in Holy Smoke?Campion is an out...

Written as part of the Worthing WOW festival celebrations, Electric Pictures commemorates 120 years of film in the Sussex coastal towns of Worthing and Shoreham, capturing the region's rich cinematic legacy and its place in British film history. From film-making pioneers through to blockbuster films and key events in the film history of the coast, this volume draws on research from film archives and local history resources to tell the story of the south coast film...

Ang Lee came to the fore in the 1990s as one of the ‘second wave’ of Taiwanese directors. After studying at New York University, Lee returned to Taiwan where over the next three consecutive years he directed three comedy-dramas focusing on aspects of the East vs. West culture and its impact on the family – Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman. Considering Lee’s background it is surprising that he should be approached to direct the most British of novels, Jane Austen’s Se...

Written by experienced Film Studies authors and teachers, this Student Book is endorsed by WJEC Eduqas and has been revised and updated to match the latest WJEC Eduqas A Level Film Studies specification. It provides the core knowledge and exemplification you will need throughout your Film Studies course and will help to prepare you thoroughly for your exams.- Concepts are explored through in-depth case study chapters on on 17 films from the specification including: Casablanca, Bonn...

Secrets are secrets for only so long. . .In 1821, Mary Burnley returned home to Knowstone, Cheshire, a marcher village in northwestern England.Mary is treated with scorn and despised by those who once were family and friends.What is it about Mary Burnley that keeps people at a distance?Is it Mary herself, or is it the secret of St. Edmund Wood?ST. EDMUND WOOD is the first of a series of novellas set in the fictional village of Knows...