Movies & Entertainment

By turns, it is riotous, deeply serious, practical and sad. Reading it is like being at her kitchen table with a glass of wine to hand. ( Daily Telegraph )...

Faced with what many were calling a dying medium, US network television producers became much more aggressive in seeking out alternative business and artistic models in the beginning of this...

During his 20 year film career many things have changed for Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp, but two have remained constant - his taste for quirky, edgy roles...

From Top Gear to Brainiac, Richard Hammond is one of our most popular television presenters. But in September 2006, a high speed crash whilst filming for Top Gear left him...

"Young Oxford Books" are a series of authoritative reference books for readers aged 10 and over. Illustrated with photographs and specially commissioned artwork, this is a complete guide to the...

"A child's garden of vices, My Booky Wook is also a relentless ride with a comic mind clearly at the wheel.... The bloke can write. He rhapsodizes about heroin better...

What will prove to be the lasting impact of New Media on film and television? What kinds of transformations of moving image media are really already under way? The term...

Nowhere has such a fine collection of essays argued so forcefully on the power of film to shape and mediate human experiences of place and environment.-Kenneth E. Foote, The University...

In the last ten years, television has reinvented itself in numerous ways. The demise of the U.S. three network system, the rise of multi-channel cable and global satellite delivery, changes...

Digital culture is often characterized as radically breaking with past technologies, practices, and ideologies rather than as reflecting or incorporating them. Memory Bytes seeks to counter such ahistoricism, arguing for...

This book is unique in its critical inquiry into the new woman warrior's appropriation of violence and the Western war narrative. Informed by feminist theoretical debates regarding women's new roles,...

Cable television, on the brink of a boom in the 1970s, promised audiences a new media frontier-an expansive new variety of entertainment and information choices. Music video, 24-hour news, 24-hour...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008 Go behind the TV screen to explore what is changing, why it is changing, and why the changes matters. After occupying a central space...

Now if I just remembered where I put that original TV play device--the universal remote control . . . Television is a global industry, a medium of representation, an architectural...

Although he is an indubitably international superstar, Sir Sean Connery still knows the city of Edinburgh practically street by street from delivering the morning milk as a schoolboy. His round...

This volume opens with an examination of the relationship between humans and the universe around them. Each chapter is based on an individual programme from the "Equinox" television series. "Space...

This book is the first detailed study of Woody Allen's life and work, and an original attempt to locate Allen's work in the great tradition of American popular culture. It...

In this incisive defense of a much-maligned genre, Nochimson demonstrates how soap opera validates an essentially feminine perspective, and responds to complex issues of women's desire and power. Even though...

Genre and Television proposes a new understanding of television genres as cultural catagories, offering a set of in-depth historical and critical examinations to explore five key aspects of television genre:...

Television entertainment rules supreme, one of the world's most important disseminators of information, ideas, and amusement. More than a parade of little figures in a box, it is deeply embedded...

Moore has many hysterical things to say about deserving targets of all political persuasions from the anaemic left to the giddy right. Hailed as 'brilliant' and 'subversive' on both sides...

A stimulating, eclectic accountof new media that finds its origins in old media, particularly the cinema. In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new...

While critics have long disparaged commercial television as a vast wasteland, TV has surprising links to the urbane world of modern art that stretch back to the 1950s and '60s...

What precisely, W. J. T. Mitchell asks, are pictures (and theories of pictures) doing now, in the late twentieth century, when the power of the visual is said to be...

The rags-to-riches story of one of the world's greatest dancers, from his difficult childhoodm living in poverty in the backstreets of Cubam to his astronomical rise to international stardom. In...

"60 Minutes" is Australia's most successful current affairs programme, watched each week by millions. This insider's story by a producer with more than nine years direct working experience on the...

George Tallis arrived in Melbourne in 1886 as a seventeen-year-old Irish immigrant, and by the mid-1920s was one of the first 'media giants'. The Silent Showman is a biography of...

In a career that spans over seven decades, Roger Moore has been at the very heart of the show business scene. Of course, he's an actor and has starred in...

Explore the creation of Guillermo del Toro's early masterpiece through this visually stunning and insightful look at the spine-chilling classic. Released in 2001, Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone announced...

Build and customize a 3D model of Groot and read all about Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy film in this exciting new model set. In the far reaches of the...

Kids can build their own customizable Niffler with this thrilling booklet and 3D wood model set from IncrediBuilds. This Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them -themed wood model set...

Tori Spelling continues to share her unique and very public life adventures-good and bad-complete with four kids, daredevil husband Dean, a tight circle of friends, invasive cameras, and an infamous...

A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 Paused in Cosmic Reflection is the definitive story of The Chemical Brothers. Told in the voices of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons,...

Based on interviews with Jackie Chan from February 1998, this book features hundreds of never-before-seen photographs from the archives of Inside Kung Fu magazine and Curtis Wong''s private collection.'

Over forty years ago, a group of five Englishmen - and one wayward American - rewrote the rules of comedy. MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS, an unheralded, previously unseen half-hour show...

THE HILARIOUS AND HEARTWARMING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Ant and Dec hold a special place in the hearts of TV viewers everywhere. This is their epic story, with never-before-seen photography and...

Harry Potter Page to Screen: Revised and Expanded now has more pages devoted to the legacy of the Harry Potter films. In addition to the complete history of all eight...

Need your magical crime solved? Call the Witch Coven. Hester, Anadil, and Dot are legendary across the Endless Woods as vigilante detectives and protectors of the peace. The famed trio...

There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for the final episode of a TV show called...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'These rollicking gabfests ... bring together nearly everyone ... who made the series a creative and cultural landmark' New York Times 'Essential for fans, with...

Gary Barlow is one of the most successful British musicians and songwriters of all time, but fifteen years ago, as he himself admits, he hit rock bottom - he was...

Go behind the scenes of the Harry Potter film series with this compendium of stunning blueprints depicting spellbinding magical wizarding world locations from all eight films. Harry Potter: The Blueprints...

'Leon often said he'd like to write our story. Now, I'll do it for him.' As founding cast members of hit television show Gogglebox , Leon and June won the...

With the enchanting chords of his piano and his effortless charisma and charm, Ryan Gosling has swept back onto our screens and confirmed himself as one of Hollywood s greats.

America's food system is broken, harming family farmers, workers, the environment, and our health. But it doesn't have to be this way. Here, brilliant innovators, scientists, journalists and activists explain...

Tom Scharpling is good at being funny, which is a miracle, considering what he's survived. Like hitting a deer and narrowly escaping with his life on the night of the...

In this exhaustive celebration of the Python Phenomenon, Kim 'Howard' Johnson offers insights into their careers and working methods through outlines, plots, anecdotes, interviews and individual profiles, drawing on his...