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In recent decades historians and film scholars have intensified their study of colonial cinema in Africa. Yet the vastness of the continent, the nu...

Back in the era of black-and-white horror and sci-fi movies, we didn't have special effects, or the money for 'em, says Peter Graves, one of the...

As the popularity of film grew and audiences demanded longer stories, Hollywood began borrowing plots as well as actors and directors from Broad...

Horror films come in a wide variety of styles and subject matter. Three of the most intimate explorations of terror are examined in this study. ...

This companion volume to Mystery Movie Series of 1940s Hollywood (McFarland, 2010) focuses on 22 series and 167 individual films, primarily rele...

Here is the first comprehensive examination of the international film career of Iowa-born actress Jean Seberg (1938-1979). Bursting onto the sce...

Malevolence (and its causes) has been central to film since its inception; the birth of film coinciding with a fascination with crime, death, murde...

The Trouble with Love in the Movies is a painfully honest account of labouring in the fields of film production, of loving and losing, living and l...

Beginning with early Arab American playwright, poet and novelist Kahlil Gibran and concluding with contemporary playwright Yussef El Guindi, thi...

For more than a century the Western film has proven to be an enduring genre. At the dawn of the 20th century, in the same years that The Great T...

Most often remembered for her graceful hand gestures, expressive eyes, and body language on the silent screen, ZaSu Pitts was much more than a run-...

This comprehensive bibliography covers writings about vampires and related creatures from the 19th century to the present. More than 6,000 entri...

Africa and Beyond: Arts and Sustainable Development is a massive undertaking by thoughtful theorists and practitioners in the creative/cultural ind...

This volume will be of interest to everyone seeking to understand the relationship between war as an historical narrative and its representation in...

The apocalypse on the big screen has expanded beyond the familiar end-of-the-world movies. Romantic comedies, teen adventures and even children'...

Humorous yet spiritually rigorous in the tradition of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and The Taoof Pooh, drawing from pop culture and fr...

* 2018 marks the 60th anniversary of the start of the Carry On series. * The first book to examine each of the 31 films in detail. * Also covers ...

It's a cinematic image as familiar as John Wayne's face: a wagon train circling as a defensive maneuver against Indian attacks. This book examin...

A Star Is Born -- the classic Hollywood tale about a young talent rising to superstardom, and the downfall of her mentor/lover along the way -- has...

This book is a thorough quantitative and qualitative study of a typical phenomenon pertaining to the English spoken language; namely question tags ...

The 1980s was the decade when the action film as it's now known came into being. Nonstop, big-budget excitement became the standard as epic adve...

The first edition of John Woo: The Films (McFarland, 1999) was the earliest English-language volume to address the motion picture output of the ...

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

Femme fatale Pola Negri (1897-1987) was one of the great stars of the silent film era, an actress whose personal story of hardships and successe...

For more than 80 years, images of the Third Reich have appeared in newsreels, documentaries, and fictional stories--from comedies and musicals t...

The American crime film has recently enjoyed a surge in popularity and proliferation, making it the most pervasive genre in contemporary cinema....

At the heart of one of the most successful transmedia franchises of all time, Star Trek, lies an initially unsuccessful 1960s television production...