Die Hard - Jon Lewis (BFI Film Classics) New Hollywood 'Rosie' Director: Paddy Breathnach (2018)

'Rosie' Director: Paddy Breathnach (2018) Written by Roddy Doyle

- Collector’s booklet featuring new writing by Japanese cinema expert Joe Hickinbottom

Subtly moving drama - beautifully made and played

this sensetive and entertaining love story traces the emotional and political growth of a young Black couple in Thatcher's London

- Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Jasper Sharp and an archival review of the film

Die Hard - Jon Lewis (BFI Film Classics) New Hollywood 'Rosie' Director: Paddy Breathnach (2018)'Die Hard' by Jon Lewis (BFI Film Classics 104 page paperback) In 1988, Die Hard provided the blueprint for a new, reactionary Hollywood cinema. In response to an emerging post Cold War global instability, the film provided fictional redress for a decline in American international prestige post Vietnam. Jon Lewis' study focuses on the film's late 1980s variation on a well worn movie action template, with Bruce Willis' John McClane tragically cast as a