Covering classic films such as 'The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari' and 'Nosferatu' as well as under-appreciated examples such as 'Asphalt', this volume forms an es

This uniquely engaging and lively textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to international film, from the golden age of European cinema to the contempora

Lighting and shadows are used within a range of art forms to create aesthetic effects. Piotr Sadowski's study of light and shadow in Weimar cinema and contempor

Between the advent of motion pictures in the 1890s and the close of the 'silent' era at the end of the 1920s, many of the longest, most expensive and most watch

Expressionism and Film, originally published in German in 1926, is not only a classic of film history, but also an important work from the early phase of modern