Richard Dyer

"This new edition of Only Entertainment features a revised introduction and five new chapters on topics from serial killer movies to Elizabeth Taylor. In the final chapter Dyer asks whether entertainment as we know it is on the wane."--Jacket.

Nino Rota wrote some of the most beloved film music: for The Godfather, nearly all of Fellini, and more than 140 popular Italian movies. This book gives a detailed account of Rota's aesthetic, suggesting it as a new approach to how we understood both film music and feeling as well as film more broadly. In the process it also provides a first full account in English of his life and work.

Cinema's glamor has always been inseparable from star performances and star images. Through the intensive examination of films, magazines, and advertising, as well as critical texts, Richard Dyer analyzes the historical, ideological, and aesthetic significance of stars, changing the way we understand screen icons. He pays particular attention to Marlon Brando, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Jane Fonda, Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe, Robert Redford, and John Wayne.

This monograph spans Francis's entire career to date, from his early landscapes to his current abstractions as well as considering the varied influences and sources of inspiration throughout his practice. It also illustrates his habit of revisiting the ideas of his earlier works and taking them in new directions.

iv, 73 p. ; 21 cm

"Tina Keane's career spans from the 1970s to the present, with her work developing from early performances and video experimentation to her recent installations, neon sculptures and web based events. Electronic Shadows is the first book to comprehensively survey Keane's varied and innovative artistic practice and provides an essential history for the development of video, film and web technology in art."--Jacket.