Cinema Industry

Why do most people know what an Ewok is, even if they haven''t seen Return of the Jedi? How have Star Wars action figures come to outnumber human b...

Baltimore has been home to hundreds of theaters since the first moving pictures flickered across muslin sheets. These monuments to popular culture,...

'Festers in glorious style' Telegraph'Magnificently spiky' Guardian'Utterly enthralling' Times Literary Supplement When Holly applies for a job at ...

Filmmaking is a businesssomeone has to pay the bills. For much of the industrys history, that role was shouldered by the studios. The rise of indep...

This edited collection focuses on the production cultures of successful small and medium-sized (SME) film and television companies in Norway, Denma...

In 1990s post-Reform China, a growing number of people armed with video cameras poured out upon the Chinese landscape to both observe and contribut...

A New York Times bestseller, now updated with an afterword and exclusive new material From the #1 bestselling author behind acclaimed oral histori...

For eighty years, Pinewood Studios has made dreams a reality. Billions of people across the globe, of all ages, from all walks of life have read si...

One of the Big Five studios of Hollywood's golden age, RKO is remembered today primarily for the famous films it produced, from King Kong and Citiz...

A New York Times bestseller An astonishing-and astonishingly entertaining-history of Hollywood's transformation over the past five decades as seen...

What do Canadian films say about crime and justice in Canada? What purpose do Canadian crime films serve politically and culturally? Screening Just...

In Hollywood 1938 , Catherine Jurca brings to light a tumultuous year of crisis that has been neglected in histories of the studio era. With atten...

In Hollywood 1938 , Catherine Jurca brings to light a tumultuous year of crisis that has been neglected in histories of the studio era. With atten...

To continue doing business in Germany after Hitler's ascent to power, Hollywood studios agreed not to make films that attacked the Nazis or condemn...

The history of Londons West End cinemas dates back more than one hundred years. This book details all of them, in chronological order, totalling we...

When Hammer Films broke box office records in 1957 with `The Curse of Frankenstein, the company not only resurrected the gothic horror film, but al...