Cinema Industry

A collection of essays on fifteen feature-length silent films and two silent serial features. The aims of the collection are threefold: to provide ...

Gloriously witty, keen and spirited J.J. Abrams, Director of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker The odds of me ever writing a book were approximate...

Despite increasing corporate mergers and bottom-line thinking, the entertainment business will never function like a bank or an insurance company b...

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...

From 1933 until America's entry into World War II in 1941, nearly 500 Nazi films were shown in American theaters, accounting for nearly half of ...

Crowdfunding is a major source of funding for independent films and over $250 million has been raised for films just on Kickstarter alone. This boo...

Two screenwriters once walked into a Hollywood producer's office and said three words 'Jaws in space.' Those three words won them the contract for ...

Conflicts among Hollywood studios and exhibitors have been going on for years. At their heart are questions about how films should be released--...

For me it begins in such an ordinary way ... with a gorilla, a blonde,and a gun ...Mid- 20th century Hollywood; 'RaymondChandler's LA before Pilate...

The most intriguing stories from the history of cinema are the tales of what might have been, those seemingly insignificant incidents that would ha...

NOMINATED FOR OSCAR, BAFTA AND GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS (BRYAN CRANSTON, BEST ACTOR)Dalton Trumbo was the central figure of the infamous 'Hollywood Ten,...

The story of Isleworth Studios is essentially that of the British film industry from 1914 to 1952. Beginning with the first British Sherlock Holmes...

The legacy of emigres in the British film industry, from the silent film era until after the Second World War, has been largely neglected in the...

New York Times Bestseller Edgar Award winner for Best Fact Crime The Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Gard...

Bringing to light an often-ignored aspect of Hollywood studio system history, this book focuses on female stars who broke the mold of a male-domina...

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...

New York Times Bestseller Edgar Award winner for Best Fact Crime The Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Gard...

In the mid-1990s Turkish cinema experienced a remarkable revival. However, what is particularly unusual about this revival is the emergence of a ne...

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...

Women stars in Hollywood were invariably in one of two categories, said director Otto Preminger. One group was made up of women who were exploited ...