Stage & Screen

"Blue Velvet" is perhaps David Lynch's best film to date, and certainly his most well-known. Beneath its tranquil, small-town ambience lies violence and depravity on a hideous scale, with Dennis Hopper as Frank at its core. This work covers what one could possibly want to know about the film.

Details the different aspects of the "Alien" films - the different directors, the making of the films, the themes, the actors, and the tensions on the set.

This collection of essays from around the world examines how television influences, affects and reflects different cultures. This work aims to illuminate the colonizing effects of television, and looks closely at how indigenous groups in countries as various as Australia, Canada and Brazil use TV.

The National Film and Television Archive collection of Shakespeare productions ranges from the first Shakespearean film ever made (King John in 1899) to the most recent television recordings. This book presents a critique of these holdings - the conventional renditions of the plays, the operas, documentaries, ...

This text analyzes the director Pedro Almodovar's insights into gender, sexuality and subjectivity in his film "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown". It draws on a range of psychoanalytic and critical concepts, and sees the film as an account of the often tyrannical spell of sexual desire.