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Born in Oklahoma into the Chickasaw Nation, Wallace Fox directed films over the span of four decades. Known primarily for Westerns and mystery film...

This critical study traces the common origins of film noir and science fiction films, identifying the many instances in which the two have merge...

With fresh appraisals of popular Westerns, this book examines the history of the genre with a focus on definitional aspects of canon, adaptation...

Discover the craft of writing comics the Marvel way, with scripts and commentary from top writers and editors. The Marvel: Script To Page series...

Part memoir, part primer, part cautionary tale, this book takes the reader along on a filmmaker's 12-year journey through Hollywood Hell, culmin...

In October 1957, Screen Gems made numerous horror movies available to local television stations around the country as part of a package of films...

Over its five seasons on the air, the televised series Outlander has combined romance, adventure, history, and time travel into a classic saga o...

In a film eight years in making, Studio Ghiblis cofounder Isao Takahata tells the untold story of Princess Kaguya.An old bamboo cutter and his wife...

A world-famous ballerina's rise above a devastating illnessDancing Past the Light cinematically illuminates the glamorous and heartbreaking life of...

Maria Callas was, perhaps, the greatest opera singer of the 20th century. Hers was a life lived on the world stage, and her fame extended to the pu...

Rock n Roll Movies presents an eclectic look at the many manifestations of rock in motion pictures, from teen-oriented B-movies to Hollywood blockb...

The ongoing popularity of Leslie Stevens' 1960s television masterwork The Outer Limits, as well as later series creations Battlestar Galactica a...

There is an entire generation that grew up on Nickelodeon. The network started to get its footing in the '80s and in the '90s became the definin...

Epic battles, hideous monsters and a host of petty gods--the world of Classical mythology continues to fascinate and inspire. Heroes like Herakl...

An updated paperback version of the book heralded as a new benchmark in Marx scholarship by the Los Angeles Times   Before film made them internati...

Often considered the lowest depth to which cinema can plummet, the rape-revenge film is broadly dismissed as fundamentally exploitative and sens...

Renowned Korean American modern-dance choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess shares his deeply personal hyphenated world and how his multifaceted back...

Breaking box office records, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has achieved an unparalleled level of success with fans across the world, raising the...

Zombies, werewolves and chainsaw-wielding maniacs are tried-and-true staples of horror films. But none can match the visceral dread evoked by a ...

Have you ever watched a Marx Brothers film and wondered what 'habeas Irish rose' is? What is the trial of Mary Dugan with sound? What is a college ...

Elio Petri (1929-1982) was one of the most commercially successful and critically revered Italian directors ever. A cultured intellectual and a ...

Anna May Wong, born in Los Angeles in 1905 to a Chinese family that did not support her ambition, is the only Asian-American actress to have ach...

Woody Allens Manhattan Murder Mystery has been described as a kind of Rear Window for retirees. As this quote suggests, an analysis of Alfred Hitch...

In They Shouldnt Have Killed His Dog: The Complete Uncensored Ass-Kicking Oral History of John Wick, Gun-Fu and The New Age of Action, bestselling ...

During the Great Depression, pulp fiction writers created a new, distinctly American detective story, one that stressed the development of fasci...