Jean Epstein Memoirs

Jean Epstein MemoirsThis is the first comprehensive study of Jean Epsteins fiction and documentary films, film theory, and writings on poetry and homosexuality. The book unfolds the intellectual trajectory of Epstein and restores him to the limelight of interwar world cinema, on a par with Renoir, Lang, Capra and Eisenstein.

Provoking the Field invites debate on

The secret life of romantic comedy offers a fresh approach to one of the most popular Hollywood genres in recent years and analyses the cultural impact of generic conventions in the construction of issues of intimacy and sexuality

Pictures of the Floating World (1919)

economic and social history of Northern Ireland in the Second World War

Aiming to help friends

Written from a theoretical perspective

in whatever form

this book will be informative and useful to arts researchers and educators

and from the unions

complicated work of cinema art

Spain and Italy – framed by an inclusive overview of the ‘noir phenomenon’

the edition is academically advanced to cater for specialised scholars