Author: Steven Cohan

Billy Wilder's classic screwball comedy Some Like it Hot (1959), starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe, tells the story of two strug...

Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard was a critical and commercial success on its release in 1950 and remains a classic of film noir and one of the best...

First Published in 2002. We are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. Modes and categories inherited from the past no longer seem to...

With their lavish costumes and sets, ebullient song and dance numbers, and iconic movie stars, the musicals that mgm produced in the 1940s seem tod...

With their lavish costumes and sets, ebullient song and dance numbers, and iconic movie stars, the musicals that mgm produced in the 1940s seem tod...

Telling Stories overturns traditional definitions of narrative by arguing that any story, whether a Bette Davis film, a jeans ad, a Jane Austen nov...

Telling Stories overturns traditional definitions of narrative by arguing that any story, whether a Bette Davis film, a jeans ad, a Jane Austen nov...

The backstudio picture, or the movie about movie-making, is a staple of Hollywood film production harking back to the silent era and extending to t...

First Published in 2002. We are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. Modes and categories inherited from the past no longer seem to...

Hollywood Musicals offers an insightful account of a genre that was once a mainstay of twentieth-century film production and continues to draw audi...

Why should Audrey Hepburn matter today? This lively and engaging book revises the contemporary view of Hepburn that sees her primarily as a fashion...

The backstudio picture, or the movie about movie-making, is a staple of Hollywood film production harking back to the silent era and extending to t...