“…When it appeared in France in 1955, A Panorama of American Film Noir was the first book ever on the genre. Now this classic is at last available in English translation. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- From the portrait to the close-up -- The drama of light -- Organizing the image -- Inventing the observer -- Conventions and functions -- The art of balance -- The promises and problems of technicolor -- The flow of the river -- Film noir and the limits of classicism…”

“…Teaching film and media studies…”

“…1000 films to change your life…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…'Crime without punishment' : re-workings of nineteenth-century Russian literary sources in Evgenii Bauer's Child of the big city / Rachel Morley -- Educating Chapaev : from document to myth / Jeremy Hicks -- Ada/opting the son : war and the authentication of power in Soviet screen versions of children's literature / Stephen Hutchings -- Adapting foreign classics : Kozintsev's Shakespeare / David Gillespie -- The sound of silence : from Grossman's Berdichev to Askolʹdov's Commissar / Graham Roberts -- Film adaptations of Aksenov : the young prose and the cinema of the thaw / Julian Graffy -- Screening the short story : the films of Vasilii Shukshin / John Givens -- The Mikhalkov brothers' view of Russia / Birgit Beumers -- Adapting the landscape : Oblomov's vision in film / Russell Valentino -- 'Imperially, my dear Watson' : Sherlock Holmes and the decline of the Soviet empire / Catherine Nepomnyashchy -- 'I love you, dear captive' : gender and narrative in versions of the Prisoner of the Caucasus / Joe Andrew -- Post-Soviet adaptations of the Russian classics : tradition and innovation / Anat Vernitski…”

“…En la mayoría de casos imperceptibles y discretos, nada sería igual sin ellos, pues se configuran como pasajes que supuran las mismas sensaciones y texturas del film, cuando no nos traducen el trayecto de este a través de sus seductoras imágenes…”