Author: Bill Mesce

At his peak, from the late 1960s through the early 1970s, Sam Peckinpah was hailed as one of the new masters of the Western film, while simultaneou...

From across the spectrum of the arts—theater to music, painting to poetry, and everything in between—men and women from the creative front lines sh...

The work examines the evolution of the thriller from the heyday of the Hollywood mogul era in the 1930s when it was primarily bottom-of-the-bill...

There are two ages in the history of television: before HBO and after HBO. Before the launch of Home Box Office in 1972, the industry had change...

One of the most controversial films of its time, The Wild Bunch is the epitome of the no-holds-barred filmmaking of the 1960s and 1970s. Since its ...

A couple of generations ago, the movie industry ran on gut instinct--film schools, audience research departments and seminars on screenwriting w...