Professor Jon Lewis of Oregon State University on his BFI Film Classics book on The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972). See the 41 page sample from this book linked to below.
Once again, Film Studies For Free celebrates the fabulous, free, Film and Television Studies book samples available for perusal and download at the Palgrave Macmillan website.
These are not properly Open Access works, but this blog chooses not to be purist when there are some amazingly generous PDF excerpts -- from soon-to-be as well as recently published works -- available online by scholars of the renown of those listed below. Thanks to the British Film Institute and Palgrave Macmillan! For an earlier list of great, free Palgrave Macmillan/BFI excerpts linked to at FSFF, click here.
- Mark Aldridge, The Birth of British Television: A History and 27 sample pages
- Shakuntala Banaji, Reading 'Bollywood': The Young Audience and Hindi Films and 30 sample pages
- Craig Batty, Movies That Move Us: Screenwriting and the Power of the Protagonist's Journey and 27 sample pages
- Lucy Bolton, Film and Female Consciousness: Irigaray, Cinema and Thinking Women and 16 sample pages
- Matthew Boswell, Holocaust Impiety in Literature, Popular Music and Film and 41 sample pages
- Mark Thornton Burnett and Adrian Streete (eds), Filming and Performing Renaissance History and 29 sample pages
- Havi Carel and Greg Tuck (eds), New Takes in Film-Philosophy and 12 sample pages
- Bryony Dixon, 100 Silent Films and 71 sample pages
- Christine Etherington-Wright and Ruth Doughty, Understanding Film Theory and 32 sample pages
- Paul Frosh and Amit Pinchevski (eds), Media Witnessing: Testimony in the Age of Mass Communication and 44 sample pages
- Vincent M. Gaine, Existentialism and Social Engagement in the Films of Michael Mann and 19 sample pages
- Lee Grieveson and Colin MacCabe (eds), Empire and Film and 32 sample pages
- Lee Grieveson and Colin MacCabe (eds), Film and the End of Empire and 25 sample pages
- Asbjørn Grønstad, Screening the Unwatchable: Spaces of Negation in Post-Millennial Art Cinema and 25 sample pages
- Michael Hammond and Michael Williams (eds), British Silent Cinema and the Great War and 24 sample pages
- John Hill, Ken Loach: The Politics of Film and Television and 30 sample pages
- Jim Hillier and Doug Pye, 100 Film Musicals and 34 sample pages
- Matthew Kerry, The Holiday and British Film and 26 sample pages
- Elspeth Kydd, The Critical Practice of Film: An Introduction and 31 sample pages
- Neal King, The Passion of the Christ (Controversies series) and 30 sample pages
- Peter Krämer, A Clockwork Orange (Controversies series) and 34 sample pages
- Vivian P.Y. Lee (ed.), East Asian Cinemas: Regional Flows and Global Transformations and 19 sample pages
- Song Hwee Lim and Julian Ward (eds), The Chinese Cinema Book and 21 sample pages
- Fran Mason, Hollywood Detectives: Crime Series in the 1930s and 1940s from the Whodunnit to Hard-boiled Noir and 36 sample pages
- Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik, 100 Cult Films and 37 sample pages
- Ewa Mazierska, European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory and Politics and 34 sample pages
- Kristi McKim, Love in the Time of Cinema and 37 sample pages
- Steven Peacock, Hollywood and Intimacy and 28 sample pages
- Laura Rascaroli and John David Rhodes (eds), Antonioni: Centenary Essays and 27 sample pages
- Sue Short, Cyborg Cinema and 24 sample pages
- Stevie Simkin, Straw Dogs (Controversies series) and 58 sample pages
- Beverley Skeggs and Helen Wood (eds), Reality Television and Class and 37 sample pages
- J.E. Smyth (ed.), Hollywood and the American Historical Film and 19 sample pages
BFI Film Classics:
- Michael Berry, Jia Zhangke's 'Hometown Trilogy': Xiao Wu, Platform, Unknown Pleasures and 12 sample pages
- Will Brooker, Star Wars and 12 sample pages
- John Coldstream, Victim and 12 sample pages
- John Gill, Far From Heaven and 17 sample pages
- Barry Keith Grant, Invasion of the Bodysnatchers and 8 sample pages
- Amelie Hastie, The Bigamist and 6 sample pages
- Noah Isenberg, Detour and 14 sample pages
- Julian Jackson, La Grande Illusion and 7 sample pages
- Sarah Kozloff, The Best Years of Our Lives and 18 sample pages
- Peter Krämer, 2001: A Space Odyssey and 6 sample pages
- Jon Lewis, The Godfather and 41 sample pages
- James Naremore, Sweet Smell of Success and 11 sample pages
- John David Rhodes, Meshes of the Afternoon and 5 sample pages
- Amy Sargeant, The Servant and 10 sample pages
- Andrew Shail and Robin Stoate, Back to the Future and 18 sample pages
- Melvyn Stokes, Gilda and 10 sample pages
- Matthew Tinkcom, Grey Gardens and 22 sample pages
- Catherine Wheatley, Caché (Hidden) and 22 sample pages