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Indiewood is the place where Hollywood and the American independent sector meet, where lines blur and two very different kinds of cinema come together in a striking blend of creativity and commerce. This book analyses the relationship and interaction between Independent film and Hollywood.

Cinderella and Pygmalion stories provide inspiration for the plots of Hollywood romantic comedies, dramas, and even action films. This book examines a key aspect of film style: the costume.

Contemporary artists in Pakistan have revived and reinvented miniature painting: a traditional artform which had faded under the colonial influence of the British, and is gaining ground as a medium for a new generation of artists to challenge the world around them. This title offers a look at this contemporary art movement.

The pioneering film director and theorist Sergei Eisenstein is known for the unequalled impact his films have had on the development of cinema. Less is known about his writings, which present a continent of ideas about film. This book presents an introduction to a key area of Eisenstein's thought: his ideas about the audiovisual in cinema.

At the height of the Cold War, art produced in divided Germany contested the cultural demarcation of East and West. This title shows how a wide group of artists struggled to take visual art beyond the crude separations of the 'Iron Curtain', and to transcend the first global cultural divide of the twentieth century.