"e;Hollywood 'happy ending' has long been considered among the most famous and standardised features in the whole of narrative filmmaking. Yet, while ceasel
Given the importance that spectators grant to the final moments of a motion picture, it is surprising to find so little written on how films end and how audienc
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This book offers a critical survey of film and media representations of black masculinity in the early twenty-first-century United States, between President Geo
Terry Gilliam has been making movies for more than forty years, and this volume analyses a selection of his thrilling directorial work, from his early films wit