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Location shooting has always been a vital counterpart to soundstage production, and at times, the primary form of Hollywood filmmaking. But until n...

The expert contributors together trace how the arts of editingand effects have evolved in tandem, starting with the 'trick films'of the early silen...

Hollywood Diplomacy contends that, rather than simply reflect the Wests cultural fantasies of an imagined Orient, images of Chinese, Japanese, and ...

Sexuality within mainstream Hollywood cinema features primarily in comedy or rom-com genres, where lightness of tone permits audience engagement wi...

The contradictions and complexities of the cyborg therefore hold particular appeal to programme makers of dramatic TV narratives. Bronwen Calvert e...

Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity explores the ways Hollywood represents race, gender, class, and nationality at the intersection ...

Film noir was a cycle in American cinema which first came into prominence during World War II, peaked in the 1950s, and began to taper off as a def...

Television is a massive industry in China, yet fewer people are watching television screens. This ground-breaking study explores how television con...

Television is a massive industry in China, yet fewer people are watching television screens. This ground-breaking study explores how television con...

Collaborative plays with diverse ensembles across the country address pressing issues of our times The plays in Volume 2 come from Roadsides interc...

Seminal plays and essays reveal the radical origins and approach of Appalachias Roadside Theater This two-volume anthology tells the story of Roads...

Horror is a universally popular, pervasive TV genre, with shows like True Blood, Being Human, The Walking Dead and American Horror Story making a b...

'Little Britain' arrived on British TV in 2003 - and was an instant hit. Matt Lucas and David Walliams wrote and performed, and their sharp satiric...

Fashioning Spain is a cultural history of Spanish fashion in the 20th and 21st centuries, a period of significant social, political, and economic u...

A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic TitleHaunted Laughter addresses whether it is appropriate to use comedy as a literary form to depict Ado...

Fashioning James Bond is the first book to study the costumes and fashions of the James Bond movie franchise, from Sean Connery in 1962's Dr No to ...

Can the criticism of literature and culture ever be completely professionalized? Does criticism retain an amateur impulse even after it evolves int...

David Fincher's Mank recreates 1930s Hollywood through the eyes of scathing wit and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to fini...

Shorlisted for the BAFTSS 2020 Award for Best Monograph Starting out as an independent filmmaker, and despite his films being subjected to censors...

Long before karaokes ubiquity and the rise of global brands such as Sony, Japan was a place where new audio technologies found eager users and cont...

This is the first volume of essays published on the television series Troy: Fall of a City (BBC One and Netflix, 2018). Covering a wide range of en...

The first of two official companion books for the Zack Snyder-directed Netflix films Rebel Moon taking an exclusive in-depth look at the worlds and...

Drawing especially on the encounters and relationships that defined her exceptional career, The Sustainable Legacy of Agnès Varda outlines a sustai...