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When Ridley Scott envisioned Blade Runner's set as Hong Kong on a bad day, he nodded to the city's overcrowding as well as its widespread use of su...

Aretha was private. I respected this and she trusted me. Linda Solomon met Aretha Franklin in 1983 when she was just beginning her career as a phot...

Palmer, a long-time friend of Bruce Lee and one of his youngest martial arts students, recounts Lees early years, when he would train a multicultur...

This volume compares the cinemas of Iran and Turkey in terms of the presence and absence of women on both sides of the camera. From a critical poin...

The 1920s and 1930s saw the rise of the city symphony, an experimental film form that presented the city as protagonist instead of mere decor. Comb...

A cornerstone of the resurgence in Spanish horror cinema, [REC] (2007) is a propulsive single-location found-footage film in which a news reporter ...

István Szabó is one of the few Hungarian filmmakers to have earned a major international reputation over the past half century. This thoughtful and...

These are the highly controversial memoirs of Austin Mitchell, local TV star of the 1970s and MP for Great Grimsby. Austin was the poster boy for ...

The book is based on amateur films, shot by the architect Ernest Weissmann (19031985) with a Pathé Motocamera in the years 19291933 at, among othe...

With more than 180 films during a career spanning several decades, Jesús Franco (1930-2013) was an extraordinarily prolific and chameleon-like Span...

Marilyn Monroe has been gone for over sixty years, and yet people are still talking about her. What, exactly, is the spell she casts on so many? St...

Immerse yourself into the world of cinema and discover action-packed chases, epic journeys, and tear-jerking moments.Get the popcorn popping and ke...

Joining the emergent interdisciplinary investment in bridging the social sciences and the humanities, Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Ot...

The crack of thunder, a blood-curdling scream, creaking doors, or maybe complete silence. Sounds such as these have helped frighten and startle ...

The Homer Simpson-esque stereotype has been a persistent trope in cartoons since programming aimed directly at children and adolescents began. Y...

President Lincoln is the most frequently portrayed American historical figure in the history of the film and television arts, having been featured ...

Taking a postmodern critical approach, this collection of new essays explores The CW Network's popular television drama The Vampire Diaries, taking...

In 1965 producers Joseph E. Levine and Bill Sargent were racing to get their problem-laden biopics of Jean Harlow (both titled Harlow) into thea...

Italian Americans on Screen: Challenging the Past, Re-Theorizing the Future reconsiders Robert Casillos definition of Italian-American cinema as ap...

Why is reality television flourishing in today's expanding media market? Religion and Reality TV: Faith in Late Capitalism argues that the reality ...

Journalism, Power and Investigation presents a contemporary, trans-national analysis of investigative journalism. Beginning with a detailed introdu...

The Grand Budapest Hotel and Moonrise Kingdom have made Wes Anderson a prestige force. Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums have become quotable cult ...

The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas provides novel insight into the rapidly developing genre of science fiction. In contemporary fil...