This revised edition of a standard textbook combines an examination of the cinema and television industries with a detailed analysis of their aesthetic and semiotic characteristics. John Ellis draws on his experience as an independent television producer to provide a comprehensive and challenging overview of the place of film, television and video in our daily lives and their future prospects in a changing media landscape.
Biography
Now an independent TV producer, John Ellis has been a lecturer in film studies, an editor of and contributor to Screen magazine, and also co-wrote Language and Materialism (RKP 1978).