Chaplin in pictures

This chapter examines C. Francis Jenkins' photographic inventions that he used to demonstrate motion pictures in a variety of applications. Despite losing in the early battle with ...

Journeys of Desire offers for the first time, a comprehensive critical guide to European actors in American film, bringing together 15 overview chapters with A-Z entries on over 90...

This chapter explores the relationship between music and physical gesture, drawing on recent research on the spontaneous gestures that accompany speech. Such gestures appear to be ...

The Austrian composer Hanns Eisler was Bertolt Brecht’s closest friend and most politically committed collaborator. In these conversations with Hans Bunge which took place over a p...