The cinema of Pedro Almodóvar

The cinema of Pedro AlmodóvarA comprehensive, historically informed study of the art and politics of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodvar, showing how Almodvar's films draw on various national cinemas and film genres, including Spanish cinema of the dictatorship, European art cinema, Hollywood melodrama and film noir.

This new edition of Journeyman

Using a sociological model this title looks at how working-class people were portrayed in British feature films in the decade after the Second World War

This book provides a detailed analysis of the aims

This book is about the impact of European governance on the time of national policymakers and institutions

the combination of steam-powered factory industry and urban sprawl which says 'Industrial Revolution' to most people

This volume contains his two most celebrated plays for the first time in English-language translation: Business is Business and Charity

focusing on the “labour of socialisation and resistance” that Rego’s work evinces in relation to the Freudian model of the family romance

it contributes to our understanding of the role graphic design has played in the history of Italian visual culture

The surrealist object is an everyday item that takes on multiple associations by provoking the viewer’s imagination

This book is about the risk politics of food safety

”—Michelle Parsons

it deserves a place on your bookshelf