A seminal 80s political thriller, The Edge of Darkness was broadcast in a time of high paranoia about the secret state and the hazards of nuclear energy. In addition to exploring key themes, Caughie paces the series in the context of the political and cultural climate, and as part of a history of political thrillers on film and TV.

Television Drama offers an account of British television drama from its origins in live studio drama in the prewar and immediate postwar years, through the Golden Age of the single play of the 1960s and 1970s, to its convergence with an emerging British art cinema in the 1990s.

The film director or auteur' has been central in film theory and criticism over the past thirty years. Theories of Authorship documents the major stages in the debate about film authorship, and introduces recent writing on film to suggest important ways in which the debate might be reconsidered.

Focusing on the social experience of cinema and cinema-going, this collection of essays provides a detailed context for the history of early cinema in Scotland, from its inception in 1896 until the arrival of sound in the early 1930s.