Cinema Industry

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...

Founded by Robert M. Savini in 1933, Astor Pictures Corporation distributed hundreds of films in its 32 years of operation. The company distribu...

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 attenda...

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

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...

Finally, a guide by a leading Hollywood insider who actually knows the answerand now she shows you how to do it yourself! Lane Shefter Bishop, CEO ...

Seventy years after Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City made its dazzling appearance, Neorealism continues to be the best-known and most beloved g...

This book offers an industrial, economic and aesthetic history of the early years of the British film industry from 18991911, through a case study...

Life of Action II is here and takes readers behind-the-scenes once again for a compelling series of conversations, shedding light on the overlooked...

In January 1949 on an otherwise unremarkable day in an unremarkable Barcelona neighbourhood cinema, a prostitute is murdered in cold blood in the p...

This book explores the unique phenomenon of pictorialism and its connection with other arts in film and media studies. Pictorialism is motivated by...

Are you an art-movie buff or a blockbuster enthusiast? Can you reel off a list of New Wave masterpieces, or are you more interested in classic West...

Paolo Cherchi Usai provides a comprehensive introduction to the study, research and preservation of silent cinema from its heyday in the early 20th...

Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl, born less than a year apart, lived so close to each other that Riefenstahl could see into Dietrichs Berlin f...

It all started when Beatle George Harrison stepped in to fund Life of Brian when Monty Python''s original backers pulled out. His company, HandMade...