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Focusing on early cinema''''s relationship with the pictorial arts, this pioneering study explores how cinema''''s emergence was grounded in theori...

Sue Thornham''''s study explores issues in feminist filmmaking through an examination of a wide range of films by women filmmakers, ranging from th...

From the Renaissance on, a new concept of the frame becomes crucial to a range of artistic media, which in turn are organized around and fascinated...

The Los Angeles area feels almost alive with movie history. It is impossible to walk down any neighborhood block that didn't play host to movie ...

From their heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, B movies declined in popularity through the 1970s. As the big Hollywood studios began to make genre fi...

One of the most original shows in the history of television, Mystery Science Theater 3000 is a beloved cult hit built on the back of another cult p...

Digital technology has transformed cinemas production, distribution, and consumption patterns and pushed contemporary cinema toward increasingly gl...

Surfers loathed them, teenagers flocked to them, critics dismissed them, producers banked on them--surf and beach movies. For a short time in th...

Civilization seems to move ever more toward the power of words over weapons. But many people, especially Americans, still believe wrongs in life...

Japanese film is enduringly fascinating, challenging and rewarding. This book provides a cultural, historical and philosophical study of Japanese f...

In examining the careers of communist and liberal actors, screenwriters, playwrights, and directors in Hollywood from the late 1920s to the pres...

I talked with a zombie--it DOES seem like an odd thing to say! But for more than 25 years, Tom Weaver has been chatting up zombies and many othe...

The XXX Filmography, 1968-1988 features more than 3,000 A to Z entries, covering the historic, artistic, and technical aspects of adult cinema f...

This book calls for a re-evaluation of the films of Robert Rossen. Over a 30-year period, he was the most accomplished writer and director who w...

Horror cinema flourishes in times of ideological crisis and national trauma - the Great Depression, the Cold War, the Vietnam era, post-9/11; this ...

King Baggot began in films in 1909, was a major star from 1910 to 1916, and gained renown as a director in the 1920s and as a character actor in...

After its publication in 1986, Stephen King's novel It sparked sequels, remakes, parodies and solidified an entire genre: clown horror. Decades ...

Joss Whedon's works, across all media including television, film, musicals, and comic books, are known for their commitment to gender and sexual eq...

Circuses and film are a natural pairing, and the new essays making up this volume begin the exploration of how these two forms of entertainment ...

Beat generation writers dismantled mainstream America. They wrote under the influence of psychedelic drugs; they crossed and navigated multicult...

Over the decades, Richard Mathesons 1954 novel I Am Legend has spawned a series of iconic horror and science-fiction films, including The Last Man ...

This is the first comprehensive, fully-researched account of the historical and contemporary development of the traditional martial arts genre in t...

Edinburgh Film Studies is a series of advanced textbooks which cover core aspects of film studies for undergraduate students while, at the same tim...

As cute as lace pants An alluring blonde with a uniquely seductive voice, Claire Trevor is chiefly remembered now for her many femme fatale roles i...

This collection of essays explores the many and varied ways in which composers have been depicted on the cinema screen. Beginning with some of the ...

How does cinema imagine our place in the world? Worldly Desires: Cosmopolitanism and Cinema in Hong Kong and Taiwan looks at the studios, films and...

In his classic sequence of films, Patrick Keiller retraces the hidden story of the places where we live, the cities and landscapes of our everyday ...

Revised and updated since its first publication in 1990, this acclaimed critical survey covers the classic chillers produced by Universal Studio...

From Faust (1926) to The Babadook (2014), books have been featured in horror films as warnings, gateways, prisons and manifestations of the mons...

The tools for independent filmmaking are more accessible today than ever. Yet there is much more to successfully creating a film than access to ...

Both brawls and elaborate martial arts have kept movie audiences on the edges of their seats since cinema began. But the filming of fight scenes ha...

This book is a biographical A to Z guide to several hundred unheralded stunt performers who created some of the cinema's greatest action scenes wit...

The story behind The Magnificent Seven could have been a movie in itself. It had everything--actors' strike, writers' strike, Mexican government...

Twenty horror and science fiction moviemakers--both in front of and behind the camera--reminisce about some of their great (and not so great!) f...

After Fox released In Old Arizona, the first feature length western with sound, in 1929, Universal president Carl Laemmle decided that Universal...

Bill Warren's Keep Watching the Skies! was originally published in two volumes, in 1982 and 1986. It was then greatly expanded in what we called...

Vampire characters are ubiquitous in popular culture, serving as metaphors for society's most sensitive subjects--sexuality, gender roles, race,...

A marvelous actress, Gloria Grahame (1923-1981) was also an iconic figure of film noir. Her talents are showcased in several classic motion pict...

These men and women saved the planet from aliens, behemoths, monsters, zombies, and other bloated, stumbling threats--in the movies, at least--a...

Individually and together, The Five Sedgwicks are among the unsung heroes of early filmmaking in Hollywood. Their work took them from vaudeville...

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 ...